No, I was speaking generally. I’ve seen several calls for non-violence, though the only people I’ve seen get hurt so far are those who’ve been hurt by the police. I wanted to share that there is space between not being violent and being prepared or demonstrating the capacity for violence.
That’s fair
Regarding the calls for non-violence, I don’t want to put anyone down or say anyone’s doing anything wrong. Good job being out there and trying. I would also like to point out
Dr. King was NOT spoken of as a paragon of non-violence by conservative contemporaries. It was very common to refer to Dr. King’s protests as riots and in terms of inciting violence, even if the violence being invited, much as today, was police on protestor violence. If Dr. King had bowed to the cries that he was sparking violence, we never would have gone anywhere. There was a huge acceptance washing campaign by conservative America after the civil rights wins.
In the 2014 Maidan protests in Ukraine, protestors were getting cut down by police snipers during peaceful, unarmed marches. The police snipers were shooting people who were running out with stretchers to get the people who’d been shot. 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. Nobody got shot during the armed march. See: https://youtu.be/yzNxLzFfR5w . So, it’s not so much that you have to use violence, but the state is a lot more likely to hesitate about kicking your shit in if they know you can be violent back and believe that you’re willing to do so. Ask any conservative what an acceptable protest is, and it’s likely to be something like “shouting into your closet”; as far as they’re concerned, peaceful marches ARE ALREADY violent if anyone notices them or they disrupt anything at all. Our cops don’t give a shit if you’re peaceful, they shoot reporters with rubber bullets and force people to grab billy clubs so they can beat the fuck out of them. We’re past that. It’s time to remind the state that there is alternative to peaceful protest if they really want to go that route.
Talking a whole lot of shit for someone riding around in a machine that will find literally any excuse to break down. Helicopters are sketchy as fuck, and even if you manage to autorotate perfectly to try and recover from a stall, you’re still liable to suffer severe or fatal injuries. It’s super easy to crash due to human error or some kind of mechanical failure.
It’s a robotaxi or on-demand flammable barricade, depending on your particular use case
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Both by Tom Cardy. Holy shit.
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It was pretty funny, Quora actually used to be pretty interesting, and it was a pretty decent place to get some in-depth answers from knowledgeable people. Then, the people running the platform decided they wanted to use the content to train LLMs and they started paying people to produce slop and made the platform virtually unusable. They went from pretty good quality to worse than yahoo! Answers in like three months.
None, because the cops skipped town; I think it was said that they all left for Belarus, for the most part.
West coast checking in, sure would appreciate the assist.
There is no way Newsom has this much balls. There is no way he could possible be this based.
Right? Golly, I hope he proves me wrong.
Daily reminder that the media of the time did not hail King as the paragon of non-violence as we do today. The rhetoric were that his protests were violent and disruptive, and that they ought to be stopped. It was only after he was successful that all that rhetoric was blown away and retroactively painted with the brush of acceptance and approval.
Also worth noting that in the 2014 Maidan protests, one of the only times nobody got hurt was when the group announced an armed peaceful march and the cops made themselves scarce.
Yeah, nobody’s been hurt except by the cops. Some waymos and cop cars got burned; that’s what they call Monday in LA.
I think a really good lesson comes from the documentary “Winter on Fire” about the 2014 Maidan protests. The tl;Dr is that the protestors organized a peaceful march, and the police set up a sniper corridor and started mowing people down indiscriminately. They shot people who ran out with stretchers to carry the people who’d been shot. That night, the protestors regrouped and announced their plans to march again tomorrow, and to do so armed, all 90,000 of them. Like a Christmas fucking miracle, the cops found somewhere else to be the next day, and nobody got shot.
Well, shit. There’s a lot to not like about Newsom, but I can think of 100 democrat politicians that would have folded like wet Kleenex by now. He could be a lot more aggressive about this, but he’s clearly trying to exhaust all the normal channels. Critical support for Gavin.
Basically, the cold war was already starting to wind down in the 80s and late 70s. We were comfortable enough that we’d won the Cold war that Reagan embarked us on the 40 year project of strip-mining worker benefits and social welfare programs. The most culturally aggressive aspects of the cold war happened during the mid-60s.
It’s really incredible how easy HSR should be to build for most of the country and how completely hard it would fuck for so many people. Instead, we do unlimited airline shareholder subsidies and rebuild eight lane interstates every ten years
I’m just gonna leave this full upload of “Winter on Fire” here. Maybe people will see the part where protestors get sick of the cops’ shit and finally decide to do an explicitly armed march, which the police helpfully decide to not be present for. Spoiler: unlike the unarmed march, nobody got shot, because there were no cops to shoot anybody.
IIRC, that happened a few months ago, not now. A lot of schools are out for the summer already anyway. School staff did a great job of making the feds fuck off.