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The solution is more left-wing protest groups. Especially now that their manpower is down. (Edit: they're their)
more left-wing protest groups
That can defend themselves. Not many will openly protest otherwise if the leaders get picked off like snacks at a buffet.
I don’t think that comes naturally to most USA leftists, most of whom only experienced how it used to be in the last 40 years.
It will take a while to learn again. Should look to see how the civil rights movements protected themselves and labor before that
We can look to the French for how crowds surrounded individuals who physically fought back, preventing their capture by authorities. That was a vid I saw on the old site. Dude walloped some cops and then people pulled him into their ranks and made a wall.
Then the cops found out who it was days later and charged him
Wear a mask and don't post videos from protests with recognizable faces.
Good advice. But wearing a mask in public (dissimulating your face in general) is actually illegal in France (because of Sarkozy iirc). Not saying people stopped doing it at protests but it gives an excuse to the police to arrest you even if you are not being violent.
Edit : I just checked, the fine increases 10 to 20 fold for doing it at a protest...
COVID's still going strong and your mask "is for health protection". Crowds of people like that make for fertile ground for disease to spread which is all the more reason for people to mask up and for fellow protestors to hand out surgical masks.
An even better solution is a full face covering respirator to avoid eye exposure. From disease ~or~ ~chemical~ ~weapons~ ~used~ ~by~ ~police~ ~against~ ~their~ ~own~ ~citizens~.
Some laws need to be broken. No government is going to allow you to legally overthrow them.
How long until something really bad happens because the FBI is busy prosecuting Trump's political rivals instead of doing their job?
I feel like Kent State is going to be a footnote by comparison.
Maybe longer than most expect.
There is a bunch of lead time for all sides to get up to speed, maybe more than a year?
Remember when Right wingers were calling leftists & liberals fascists.
Right-wingers project & shift the blames of their crimes onto the left
gaslighting, obstruct, project.
This is why we (europeans) should all fight more surveillance. Who knows when it's our turn to face fascism.
Again
I’m beginning to think the Constitution needs an ~~amendment~~ appendix that has definitions of terms, i.e. ‘peaceful protests’
The problem with the Constitution is that it doesn't have enough clauses for the executive branch to ignore.
those that make peaceful protest impossible...
New boss same as old bosses. The intelligence agencies have always been the servant of fascism.
This is not business as usual
That's a BS "both sides-ism" that can result in people shrugging off the absolute destruction of the operational norms. I wouldn't argue that the two primary parties are heading in the same direction of fascism. However, there's a significant difference between the gleeful sprinting towards it by the right as compared to the Dems dragging their feet and enjoying the scenery.
While the 100 year result might be the same if there isn't systemic change, one side (primarily by inaction) will provide more time to correct course before hitting the iceberg
Historically, the intelligence agencies have opposed leftism and equality movements, and played with kids gloves where right wing is concerned. This is because right wing policies tend to be backed by the elite, who butter the bread of the agencies.
Agree 100% and it has always been frustrating to see right wing groups get a pass for what boils down to "mild" terrorism. I just think that, given the current US political climate, it's detrimental to lump the parties together. I'm only a defender of the Dem Party when in contrast to the GOP. Otherwise there's a litany of grievances I'd aim at them.
Repeat after me… Kash Patel is a panchod fudu, and his mom is a third rate gandi randi.