I was just thinking about this today after I read for the third time in three months that the city bulldozed another homeless camp. How many people will this country make homeless and kill before anything changes?
truly housebroken
Daily I argue with myself over if we are or aren't.
Just clarifying for people, the shooting happened March 29. The video footage showing the police lied (like we need video to know that lol) came out today.
Nahhhhh as much as I want to be optimistic in the near term, this is still the phase where baby leftists get born and grow and gain experience. A hardened movement may emerge, but not any time soon.
This is the same country that saw the Sandy Hook shooting and literally decided to do nothing.
Most Americans are too busy with work and being entertained to care
I can't understand why nobody has started shooting back. Seems like the police do at least one execution per day (that makes the news), and yet nothing.
What's keeping you from shooting back? A lot of people probably have those same reasons.
I'd love to see it but I also understand why people don't. I really don't want to go to prison or get hunted down and summarily executed by jackbooted thugs.
The fact that we say "the cool zone" because we have no more concrete, immediate goal is all the answer you need. The problems here are (1) there's no agreement on what a solution to police violence would look like, which means (2) there's no consensus on an immediate plan of action, and even without a plan we can say (3) any possible solution to police violence would be incredibly difficult. Most people -- rationally -- aren't going to go do whatever "the cool zone" is under those conditions.
We have to fill in 1 and 2 before most people will even consider the effort and sacrifice it would take to overcome 3.
The only solution is mass, organized, armed resistance by the working class. Abolishing the police or even reforming the police is asking the American imperial bourgeoisie to backslide on their progress in placating and controlling the people.
The police are the first and last line of defense against the people, with maybe the exception of the military, but the volunteer force isn't tooled for urban warfare and is by no means large enough to put up much resistance to organized workers (ignoring the likelihood that in this situation, many would defect to the workers. Especially because you can't really do the "send them to not their home" with instant communication).
The fact that police shoot people as a reaction is something they want. It's means their lapdogs are trained well.
As the resident old, I had this same thought about bush v gore. Like won’t anyone stand up to this? Or about the war baiting with Iraq. But nope, Americans are housebroken
