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[–] 36 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine what they would have done if she was also black.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago

    She should get a turn on piggy with a brick. It's only fair.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    I can't wait for people to start deleting these pigs in the street

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    Abusers from top to bottom.

    For a country that prides itself of being "brave", there's just too few of them fighting back.

    Like, look at these ladies being forced out for protesting for a valid reason and everyone else just thinks its just another day in the USA.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)
  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

    Nah, Americans are too chicken to put their life on line for betterment of society.

    They will gladly commit war crimes outside America though.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

    They're too cynical, I think.

    Yankees do not believe society can ever get better; they do believe they'll get free healthcare if they do war crimes.

    They'll put their lives on the line for their own self interest because that's the only thing they believe in.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    Absolutely yes with the self interest, my own journey unfortunately had to begin from there, with the realization that a better world for everyone meant a better world for me. As capitalism continues to decline, it's only going to get easier for us to appeal to people's self interest. We just gotta build something we can point to. Doesn't have to be huge, just any local structure we build to make life easier. It sucks that the level of consciousness here is generally so low, but it's also just true that people are more receptive to something when they see tangible benefit from it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

    Right, but that's when the cynicism comes in: they do not believe a better world is possible, so they just want to get their bag.

    It's why a bunch of Trots became neocons. They decided revolution was impossible.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    I think the cynicism, like any tendency, is both learned and dependent on circumstance to continually reinforce. Like what is cynicism if not a deep, fear-based belief that the person ia not capable of enacting meaningful change, and it's better to take actions that will be rewarded and not punished under whatever power structure they currently exist in? That tendency towards compliance-dressed-as-cleverness can be worked with, we're not gonna get them on board immediately but there will be a stage where even the cynical calculus will favor leaving a sinking ship.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I'm not sure they'll try to leave the sinking ship until they're already swimming, y'know? People who learned that resistance is futile over the course of US hegemony are not going to easily unlearn it. I think it's happening among young people because they don't have as many memories of the US being unstoppable. In fact, for people born after 9/11, the US has rarely won.

    But for people who remember the US winning the Cold War, it's going to take a lot more to make them unlearn their cynicism.

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

    Irving Kristol was never a communist. He was never genuine. He always worked for the CIA.

    Trots=neocons is not a real thing, never was. They just had a lot of infiltrators.

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

    Irving Kristol isn't the only one? Obviously not every single Trot became a neocon, but many did, and there's a reason for it: cynicism. Further, a Trot working for the CIA itself is actually just an extension of the same cynicism. It's all growing from the same learned helplessness and lack of revolutionary optimism: if revolution is impossible, all you can do is get your bag.

    This is not exclusive to Trots, of course. Plenty of young people with revolutionary optimism "grow up" to become cynical older adults, and that's not because they're chicken. They simply become convinced there's no hope.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    My statement remains the same.

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

    Okay, whatever.

    So. Were they chicken? Because that's the topic.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I don't think neocons were ever legit. This was an attempt to infiltrate the "New York Intellectuals" and their publications, just like they did later with Ramparts Magazine

    And I don't see the cynicism in Trotsky's writing, agree with him or not. Permanent Revolution is anything but cynical.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I didn't say Trotsky himself was a cynic.

    I said that Trots, and other people who formerly had revolutionary politics, became neocons out of cynicism.

    Not because they're chicken.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Piggy tripped on the railing and took it out on her

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

    I'm not an ACAB guy, but that man needs a few years in prison to work out his issues.

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

    And people just watched and did nothing as that officer committed felony assault.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    "Stop resisting!"

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  • [+] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    That guy will likely lose his job. It's possible charges will be brought against him, although that's less likely. That sheriff's office will definitely be sued and they will likely have either a hefty judgement against them or a settlement. And that's why this cop will likely lose his job. Not necessarily because they think what he did was wrong, but because he's too much of a financial liability.

    Edit: then again it is Utah, so we'll see. But regardless she should sue. She should send the video to the civil rights lawyer too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I had to watch it multiple times because it looked like he tripped and then just went with it as a takedown. It was just so out of nowhere. What a fucking psycho.

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