@TheDronetek@PierogiMountain@nbc4i They are worth it and @PierogiMountain did this of their own volition. any other uneducated arguments you’d like to toss out there ?
as a communist and member of antifa Id be happy to answer
The entire world order of the past half millennia has been organized around ideological white supremacy. We will be hard pressed to find a single action that in & of itself will defeat white supremacy. Judging anything by that standard is an impossibly high bar.
so eating and being served at a restaurant in a tent is okay, but living in one because you have nowhere else to go is not. taking up public space is okay, but only as a consumer.
There are 11 million human beings whose driver's licenses are suspended because they owe debts. They can't drive to work, doctor, school, church, or even take their kids to a park. It's the #1 police arrest in many places. This is structural violence.
Only 5% of all US police arrests are for what FBI calls serious "violent crime." 95% of what police do has nothing to do with why they say you need them. It's copaganda.
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After the murder of Breonna Taylor, Louisville city council has just voted 24-1 to INCREASE the police budget by $750,000 and to cut $775,000 from local libraries. This is structural violence.
This is so true. History is cumulative; it is not cyclical. Today's protests are much more intense and more generalized today than 2014 because of the political failures in substantively addressing the grievances then. Ferguson gave way to protests but nothing on this scale.