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[–] 83 points 2 weeks ago (46 children)

I wish No Kings protests in the US looked a little more like this. That's fucking awesome.

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  • [–] 72 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    If this was an american no kings protest, those cop cars would have been swerving to hit the protesters.

    The cops would later say that the protesters stepped in front of their car, and would get no punishment.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 weeks ago

    Don’t worry, French cops did it at least one time during the high schoolers protests we had the last few days/weeks. We are witnessing a very violent response from the police here in France (nothing close to what ICE is doing in the USA…yet)

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  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

    In the US they would open fire and kill hundreds of protestors.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Perhaps that's exactly what it would take for some people to snap out of it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    I think in the US you would see this if people felt like they were choosing between dying and dying. If it was die in a riot or starve to death or die of exposure for example. Right now it’s suicide by cop or pretend everything is fine. I think if the US didn’t have insane violent thugs in surplus military gear driving armored vehicles as law enforcement you would see a lot more “action”. The math just doesn’t add up if you know acting this way will likely end up with you dying.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    This is what the rest of the world doesn't understand. It's been demonstrated in history. Everyone thinks USA Mickey Mouse and Coka Cola! It's more like the saw movies.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Yeah it’s not my fault I’m a coward, the rest of the world never had to fight in the face of death for their rights so they wouldn’t understand.

    Huh actually they do understand seeing as most of them did have to do that.

    It is all Mickey Mouse and Coca-Cola. And by that I mean they have you fat and distracted.

    Speaking of Mickey Mouse go watch andor again and tell yourself how brave and righteous you were while you watched.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    You're not a coward. You probably never had a gun to your face or bled for six hours, talk about a roller coaster of thoughts.

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  • [+] -12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Go fuck yourself, those would be good people dying

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Good people dying for a good cause. The US is catatonicly lumbering towards self destruction. One death won’t snap anyone out of it. Alex Pretti proved that. It’ll take hundreds of people slaughtered for the people to wake up. If the government doesn’t bury it like China does with Tiananmen Square.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    It doesn’t show correlation. They’re probably making a point about priorities, because it shows more people attend furry conventions over the course of a year than ICE protests.

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  • [+] -20 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

    Oh I mean, If you wanna go back to BLM where Americans set fire and destroyed several businesses sure. People act like Americans have never destroyed property, the problem is that it wasn't properly coordinated and people were burning down random fucking businesses rather than actual places that deserve it. All it lead to was food deserts and small businesses shuttering.

    Never mind the fact that we could and would absolutely get shot for rolling up on a cop car like this but, sure man. I do love getting my daily reminder from non-US people that I should go outside and get myself killed today.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

    That's not what I meant and I'm pretty sure you knew that

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    You literally just said that you wished no kings protestors were breaking cop car windows, destroying property and setting fires in the street like the video but now you're pretending it's disingenuous to call you out on that?

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  • [–] -5 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

    No, not really, and I mean that genuinely.

    There are too many people on here that say shit like "You should firebomb a Walmart" and mean it with their whole heart. We already had that with the Kimberly-Clarke warehouse and we got diaper shortages. Firebombing a Walmart only hurts the locals in the area who won't get food.

    Even with bombing a police station, pray that locals actually care about each other and can respond to emergencies appropriately. I absolutely think police need reform but I'm not gonna sit here and go "I don't need to call the cops if someone breaks into my house"

    Firebombing a billionaires house? Absolutely, it hurts no one else but them (pray that no house workers are in there). Fireboming cop cars when they're attacking protesters? Sure.

    But people are fucking stupid. Luigi shot did nothing to that CEO and that's great and all, but it didn't change anything. Now we got a chucklefuck who shot a random pharmacist because "Big Pharma Bad."

    I just think that too many people on here are encouraging senless violence rather than actual, planned, and carefully considerated operations. And i do not want to see innocents get caught up in brash, half-baked bouts of insanity because a person thought they were "helping."

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I absolutely think police need reform but I’m not gonna sit here and go “I don’t need to call the cops if someone breaks into my house”

    There are entire communities, districts, and sometimes towns, where police on average poses bigger threat than any criminal ever would. Home invasion scenarios almost never happen, and on a rare occasion they do you can at least fight back. Meanwhile, police routinely enters homes, shoots nondiscriminatory, they destroy people's lives for nothing, and you can't even do shit about it.
    And that's before we talk about when police actually tries to do their job, the fuck they gonna do with your twenty scallywags entering your abode, outline your dead body?

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

    You should firebomb a Walmart

    I spend a lot of time on Lemmy and I haven't seen a single person say that.

    If I ever firebomb anything it will be a data center.

    In Minecraft.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Lol you must be fortunate. I've seen bloodthirtsty maniacs foaming at the mouth in a thread about kittens.

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    Just give it a few days, it will happen again. And again.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Are you talking about the bloodthirsty maniac in threads about kittens? I spend a lot of time in threads about kittens and I don't believe you.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Without seeing the post they're referencing:

    Someone probably said they let their cats outside tbh, and then someone chimed in with how they're "personally Holocausting every small bird and lizard within a 600mi radius and for this crime they should be thrown to a tiger and see how they like it."

    Yes I was being a little hyperbolic for comedic effect but it's absolutely a thing in the cat comms around here, not sure I've seen death threats specifically about it but people hate outside cats (more to the point, their owners) on lemmy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Americans prioritize the flow of treats over any action that might hurt the oligarchy. Even if a warehouse was burned down by an organized revolutionary militia that was actively trying to bring about change, y’all would complain that you can’t get your 10-ply toilet paper.

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