Did people just memory hole the 2020 riots? We had the police running scared and set fire to a pig station FFS.

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    8 days ago

    Or on the flip side people acting like this act of adventurism is productive. The 2020 revolt is instructive that huge masses of Americans can say they want something and then just not do shit to actually achieve that goal. Why anyone else thinks this is different now with huge masses of Americans laughing at the death of a CEO is beyond me. The new CEO of UHC, who they were able to hire in like two days, has already said that this will not change their operations in the slightest. The American government is already quite clear that this will not change anything. Does anyone really believe that this will spur the American public into revolt? Maybe anarchists I guess. Maybe "Marxists" so desperate for anything good that they've strayed into Narodism. Either way it's basically never worked because it circumvents the hard work of organizing people and fighting as a class and not petite bourgeois individuals.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      8 days ago

      I guess time will tell. I don't think it changed a lot, but I don't think it changed nothing either. We live in a very strange world where the smallest thing can have unexpected consequences. A whole lot of nothing can happen and then suddenly we have a week where everything happens. I have no idea why life can be simultaneously the most yet least predictable thing. It does my head in trying to deal with it sometimes.

      That probably makes me sound wishywashy lol.