Men lusting after women is bad because women are territory that each man must protect.

Women lusting after women is good because that means larger harem for alpha man.

Men lusting after men is best, because we achieve peak masculinity and become Spartans and conquer the world.

it was not long ago

I mean, it was 40 years ago.

I would more point to the police violence during BLM protests and the terror tactics employed by ICE against Columbia student protesters just in the last six months.

Fox News Host: “We found a real live LA resident to tell us how they feel”

Real Live LA Guy: “Yo, hey, hello from Miami, I’m here to say Go Trump! Love MAGA! Based! Chad! Bitcoin $1M, you gotta buy my book The DJ Entrepreneur! Also, yeah, love my Cuban homies. Word up to everyone who came over here in a raft with no money, no documentation, no nothin! America land of the free home of the fat bags of change, amirite! Hey Ainsley, you fine as hell, want to bounce on my thang after this?”

Fox News Host: “As you can see, the residents of LA are terrified and cry out for a stronger police presence.”

It’s that or be killed.

Imagine a 1st grader in an El Salvadorian prison. Then remember that Trump’s staff is full of eugenicists.

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Live leaked video isn’t something you can just magic away

I’m opposed to citizens being the ones to escalate the situation.

“Stop resisting! Stop resisting!”

Don’t just hand him an excuse.

The excuse was the existence of Hispanic people in Paramount, California. Everything that followed was a consequence of Trump’s bigoted pogrom against Latinos.

Make them look like the bullies they are.

They already do. But slapping the “bully” bumper sticker on an ICE truck full of your neighbors does nothing to get them out of that truck.

What the people of LA are doing is so much more than optics. They are actively saving lives and guarding their friends and neighbors from police violence.

They are resisting in the most material and direct way anyone can ask.

Further protest and disruption of ICE raids by protesters.

A country split in half by a Russian military occupation is a direct result of a Russian military occupation

The goal of Maidan was to push Russian oligarchs out of Ukraine. You can’t call that a success, unless you just stop recording history after 2021.

The idea that Ukrainians just showed up with guns and poof they won, is blinkered.

We didn’t choose to get invaded.

Simply showing up with guns did not make a rival military force vanish.

The fact that that story even exists and wasn’t buried says more about Israels transparency

It occurred during a live filming and leaked before the Israelis could squelch it.

This wasn’t transparency, it was a PR fuck up by the IDF.

Or do you really compare Greta Thunberg with Hamas?

Greta is doing her best. I’m not going to rag on her.

They couldn’t tolerate the appearance of weakness or charity, because the Israeli settlers would be engaged as a result.

If anything, not simply killing the crew will likely be reported on as Woke and Soy.

The only people who truly care about Gaza are the ones who have endlessly deep pockets to fund a relief effort that would also get turned away.

No word on what this says about the IDF, of course.

The Israelis haven’t shot them while they were waving white flags, so in that sense it is very different.

Breaks down when you start seeing all the blueberries in the ketchup and you realize that’s where huge portions of the population actually live.

So much of that red state territory is vacant real estate. A big chunk more is functionally disenfranchised (Indian reservations, migrant labor communities, large prison populations).

This illustrates regions of political control. But it is in no way reflective of homogeneous popular opinion.

I’m not sure “women can’t leave dysfunction relationship because they won’t have income” is a problem unique to Islam.

There’s a marginal difference. “Less lethal” rounds are still lethal when they’re fired directly at people, particularly if the wounded are denied medical attention and are subjected to further police violence after they’ve been injured.

We had six months without protests. The administration seemed happy to escalate in their absence.

What if these protests aren’t what’s driving public policy? What if the problem is the administration itself and not the people reacting to the violence they’re inflicting on the locals?

And ask yourself this. If ICE came into your city, what kind of community would you want to live in? One where your neighbors took to the streets to shut down the police convoys and scare off these thugs? Or one where friendly neighbors locked their doors and hid, while reactionary neighbors singled you out for the police to grab?

Escalation to violence is exactly what they want.

Are you sure? It seems like the escalation is what they don’t want. And that’s why they’re having to call in the marines to try and scare people back into submission.

Passive acquiescence and blind obedience is what they want. That’s why the news media is so eager to label these protests as abnormal, intolerable, and anti-American. If the conservatives wanted protests, they wouldn’t be so eager to censor the protests’ advocates and so worried about valorizing these opposition efforts.

Jury nullification, baby. Just make sure you’re headed in front of your peers and not getting dumped into a concentration camp in El Salvador.

When they finally got sick of it and announced that they were going to come back tomorrow and do an armed march, the cops suddenly remembered that they all had dentist appointments in Belarus that day and skipped town.

Sure, but that was in lily-white Ukraine where the people doing the protests were aligned with Western European geopolitical interests and looking to overthrow an ally of the Putin Regime. So, of course the history we write about it is going to valorize the Ukrainians and paint the effort as trivial and the opposition as spineless.

What happened when Iraqis started showing up in armed protests outside of the US-occupied Green Zone? Or the Yemini Houthis began arming protesters against the Saudi-allied national government? Or the West Bank protesters began throwing rocks at Israeli tanks? Or the Ferguson BLM protesters or Hong Kong democracy protesters or Syrian Green Revolution protesters started showing up to tussle with police?

Hell, even taken in the best possible light, the Maidan revolution ended in… what? A country split in half by a Russian military occupation.

This isn’t to detract from the virtues of armed resistance. But people love to harp on the eventual, occasional victories and hate to reminisce on the far more prolific depressing failures. It’s easy to talk about Vietnamese insurgents triumphing in 1974 when you forget the revolution kicked off in earnest in 1940.

“Just show up with guns and the police will crawl away on their bellies and you’ll win” is as painfully naive as the “Just show up with flowers and the police will put down their riot gear and greet you with hugs and songs”.

Nothing about this is easy or guaranteed. Nobody is getting to the end of this without shedding blood. If you show up with a weapon to a protest, you better be prepared to have weapons used on you in turn. Don’t go in thinking you can bluff your way to a glorious revolution.