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  • I’m a liberal, I can field this one. The form of protest I find acceptable is destruction of government and corporate property, but not working-class peoples’ houses and mom-and-pop businesses. Is it really so much to ask to have rioting confined to productive activities, such as trashing city hall, looting Amazon DCs, destroying private jets and yachts, assaulting corrupt politicians, tarring and feathering billionaires, and burning down police stations? The establishment has successfully recuperated progressive protest by tricking people into associating it with low-level domestic terrorism, “we get what we want or maybe your houses burn down”; what we should be doing is repeatedly yanking the choke chain on the state and the 1% so hard their eyes pop out.





  • The extent of my American education on this matter, paraphrased:

    “During President Eisenhower’s farewell address, he warned the American people against increasing social polarization and the dominance of the military-industrial complex, and then it happened anyway. Ain’t that some shit? Write a paper comparing the ways we ignored the warnings in Eisenhower’s farewell address against the ways we also ignored the warnings in George Washington’s farewell address.”












  • sarsaparilyptus@discuss.onlinetoMemes@lemmy.mlI'm an anarchist btw
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    1 year ago

    I love the word communism, for me it expresses the desire for a free COMMUNITY perfectly. However for many people it does not, it just ignites some neural fury instigated by a century of propaganda, fear , and ignorance.

    I don’t think all the eastern europeans who hate communism do so out of ignorance, it’s the exact opposite actually.