/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
It wasn’t that long before you were born that the Black Panthers marched in the streets with guns to confront murderous cops.
Things look bad because people here have had it too good for too long. We won the Cold War, it was the end of history!
But the good times are coming to an end and America’s chickens are coming home to roost.
I wonder how many police stations will burn this time.
Do you think average people want that shit?
Do you think that the police need a pretext to become violent?
I’m skeptical of all “outside agitator” narratives that seek to frame uprisings as illegitimate. The fact is, even if he encouraged other people to take direct action, the uprisings were the result of people choosing to take matters into their own hands after that. He didn’t start those fires.
I don’t condone individualistic violence! It doesn’t help and just creates chaos. We should be organized and disciplined, not burning random shit down.
But let’s not pretend the uprising was fake. The purpose of blaming him for all the other protesters taking their own direct action is so people like you are reassured that good USAmericans will never do anything drastic. That’s the actual function of this article.
Things can only get so bad before we hit a breaking point. It will come. Have some revolutionary optimism.
USAmericans burned down a police station last time Trump was president. People got pretty close last time.
Every new little shitty thing only makes it inevitable.
Taking away people’s porn does, in fact, mean taking away some of those creature comforts.
And a lot of people are already pretty uncomfortable.
They’re going to overreach so hard during this Presidential term, holy shit. There’s also many unpopular things they’ve wanted to do for so long and now is their chance.
I wonder what the breaking point will be.
He could still pardon them all, it’s not like his hand would cramp from signing too many papers! Go through, one by one, and pardon them all.
And all the people on federal death row, that Trump is going to kill.
And all the people with federal marijuana charges.
And people like Leonard Peltier and Julian Assange while he’s at it.
What’s stopping him?
If everything else was legal, people would stop dying from drugs laced with fent.
I’m not saying it’s okay, but to give some historical context, literally every president of the past 80 years and the next 5 presidents would have and will do what Biden has done towards Israel.
Ronald fucking Reagan forced Israel into a ceasefire with Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestine Liberation Organization. And it was a real ceasefire, unlike the current joke of a ceasefire Israel has with Lebanon that it keeps violating, and it held for a long-ass time.
I care that he’s not pardoning people in immigration detention. Instead he just pardons his crackhead son and leaves.
Different flavors use different taste buds, and thus, different parts of your brain. You can lose some taste without losing everything.
Some people experience permanent loss of smell and taste from COVID.
butter them
Too spicy!
Hotter take: patents shouldn’t exist.
Trump is the most American president we’ve ever had.
Without tracking they don’t have metrics for their ads, which effects reports and pricing. They really want to know if someone looks at an ad.
People use Archive links to avoid giving sites traffic.
This is a problem for advertisers and media corps.
Not saying they’re the ones doing this, but they’d definitely benefit.
I don’t like change! 😣
“They” aren’t on Lemmy dude. Our underwater basket weaving forum is safe.