Cross-posted from "Nina going off today" by @seahorse@midwest.social in !antifascism@midwest.social
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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I know this is an anarchy community, but peaceful protests have been successful before. And the thing is, if the authority literally fired and killed a civilian, the authority will immediately lose legitimacy. This is what protestors are railing on. They are like "what are you gonna do kill us?"
Civilians have been teargassed and kettled before while peacefully protesting - recently - and the public reaction to it was largely either 'meh' or 'oh no I feel sorry for the poor people who live near those violent riots'.
The tear gassing isn't new. What's new is deploying the national guards and marines. And what would be newer is if the national guards and the marines killed a civilian. Trump is escalating and trying to provoke Los Angelinos to justify the use of force.
It turns out you can just kill protestors.
Well, it did propel further the withdrawal of US from Vietnam. It further de-legitimised US involvement in Vietnam by the public.
This time is far more consequential and existential though. If the guardsmen and marines killed any of LA civilians, it could cause a civil war and perhaps the collapse of the United States as we know it. But you still would not want to be the one to fire the first shot and give Trump legitimacy.
Yeah. They don't care about legitimacy, they will literally kill everyone if they think they an replace you with robots.
You do realise that we are still far away from having robots to replace humans?
Okay, but are we talking about right now Americans being replaced at any second? And how efficient are the robots doing their jobs overall? Can they fix themselves if a small screw got stuck in small nooks and crannies in the conveyor belt? Can they verify that the alarm is genuine and not false alarm? Can this be rolled out en masse?
There is a reason that robots are still not as prevalent than one would expect, because they lack the human dexterity needed for most jobs. Also, this is a reason that the fascist American government at the moment still believe working in factories is the future.