• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    People are getting tear gassed, pepper sprayed, beaten, shot, etc., how is that a picnic exactly? You lose an eye picnicking? Pretty hardcore picnics over here in the states…

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      7 hours ago

      The comment was on the fecklessness of the ‘resistance’, not downplaying the brutality of the established order.

      Americans have been taught “the right way” to resist by their class enemies. At this rate they’ll frog-costume-dance all the way into the camps holding hands and chanting “this is the way”.