As Trump mobilizes the marines to quell an “insurrection” in LA, it’s essential to be clear about how the protests started and what actually happened.
The penultimate paragraph sums it up well
The government has failed to protect us; the government is actively oppressing us; the government has rendered itself the enemy. Not all forms of resistance are advisable, but at this point they are understandable. The regime wants to shatter the social contract? Very well. But that decision cuts both ways.
Speaking of which, I strongly recommend this short watch for anyone seriously thinking about what they should do next. It’s not pushing any agenda, just providing food for thought.
If the police did their jobs protecting the public from kidnappers blatantly rolling down the streets, they would’ve earned so much community good will
Anyone who thinks this wasn’t the LAPD ramping things up with their gestapo tactics modeled after Trump, who most of them probably voted for, has not been paying attention for the last 50 years. The LAPD has a long long long history of this kind of behavior.
Quite frankly it boggles my mind why the entire force has not been fired and replaced by now.
YouTube is convinced that the only thing I want to watch is police bodycams, and because I click them I suppose I’m not disabusing it of that idea.
There’s a world of police bodycam videos and if I see one that indicates the LAPD is involved, I know, with absolute certainty, I’m about to witness some of the worst policing known to man.
And the thing is it’s not that they are super abusive of their police powers in these bodycams, at least not intentionally, it’s that they seem to lack any kind of competence. Their reactions to situations are astounding in the amount of resources they will use to run around in a chaotic mess. I have to imagine their training manual is attempting to get criminals to give up through sheer cringe of watching them flail around.
If I were to ever encounter the LAPD I would immediately comply, because I would worry that if I at all failed to follow their instructions, 20 trainees would show up shooting each other with 40mm foam rounds until someone gets injured and I’d be on the hook for attempted murder somehow.
I’m about to witness some of the worst policing known to man.
Police and sheriff departments all across Florida would like a moment of your time.
Like with Florida Man a lot of that is simply due to Florida’s more lax reporting standards. It’s less that Florida law enforcement are exceptionally worse and more that they’re the sample that is most transparently on display.
Which is worrisome.
The idiot governor of Florida just ok’d running people over with a car using the excuse “they were a protester”.
So, yeah. It’s not just the reporting, Florida is a fuck show.
They don’t even use rioter or terrorist anymore.
Wyoming thinks it’s cool to for armed citizens to oversee state senate votes.
It can be both.
Yeah Wyoming shouldn’t even be a fucking state. Let’s just call it what it is, southern Montana… Or northern Colorado, take your pick. There are towns in my state with a higher population than all of Wyoming.
Anyone alive and here to represent Chicago 1964?
Happy cake day
Why would they be fired? They’re doing exactly what they’ve been hired to do.
And yet, the anti-protester framing is relentless, even from otherwise balanced sources.
It’s not just anti-protestor framing. It’s nearly everything of importance.
Finally, Media framing it the way it should be.
Regarding the thumbnail, I figured procedure would be to remove your sidearms while on riot detail, being as you’re getting within melee distance with multiple people at once, thereby risking it being snatched. It’s more of a liability in that context, prison wardens do the same thing.
I guess asking a beat cop to give up his emotional support pistol is a nonstarter.
If they give up their sidearms they can’t use “he reached for my gun” as justification for their deadly response.
Especially since inside of 21 feet, I think the number is, between one person with a gun and one with a knife, the knife wins.
How does that work? I can shoot holes faster than I can poke them.
Laura Jadeed wrote this, and I gotta say, Laura Jadeed fucks.
Damn good article.
TBH we should be rioting in front of big news headquarters.
In front of Facebook. Twitter. Google. They’re not too far from LA. Employees should feel scared about enabling all this.
None of this shit matters if algos ignore it, deliberately. Trump can do whatever TF he wants because the media ecosystem built around him is so profitable and engaging, and covering it milquetoast (or worse) is so profitable, not because absolutely everyone obeys him for no reason.
We should make that unprofitable.
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Glad your wing of the party moved to the right and picked up zero votes for it?
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Thought terminating cliche! Amirite?
I didn’t fucking say “both sides.” Though it’s clear that’s centrists’ fucking goal: two nazi parties in a pretend democracy.
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centrists aren’t the entirety of the democratic party. Just the ones pulling it to the right, where they want it.
They’re not the same, but centrists want them to be. I hope they do nothing but fail for the rest of time.
It would, indeed, have been much worse had Trump (or worse—some other fascist) been elected in 2028 instead of 2024. He’d have had more time to prepare and soften up the government in preparation for the inevitable (and yes, it was inevitable) takeover.
Way to cope, buddy.
