One of my friends is very proud to have been arrested during a BLM riot. Flash bangs, tear gas, all that. Now he brings it up as some sort of arguing point: "YEA WELL WHERE WERE YOU?"
So they all got arrested and had to stay outside all night while being held. Today im talking to him and he claims they changed alot. He brought up "all those convictions" but only one cop was convicted last year while over 200 were killed. Then he mentioned Aubery who was murdered in Alabama, but they were private citizens not cops, and there was literally video of the murder. Naturally he didn't seem to take that fact well.
Defunding didnt happen much either. Is this just a liberal brain trying to convince themselves theyve done something useful? Because nothing really changed after they dragged Bernie away either.
if it helps, they also think only red fascism has existed and theres never been a successful communist country.
I got to throw a brick at a pig.
:brick-police:
In all seriousness:
People of color asked for our support and the rest of the left answered. I used my body as a shield multiple times to protect my black comrades and I will do it again.
It was a potentially revolutionary moment and had to be treated as such.
It radicalized a lot of progressives and turned them into leftists quick. The boot of the state come at you instinctually makes you bare your fangs in a very visceral way. The fight is real and a lot of people previously privileged enough to be sheltered saw it first hand.
The only way we win is if we fight. We will not win every time we fight, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't still try. "We only have to be lucky once, they have to be lucky every time."
Any concessions we got from the beast are icing in my opinion. I have zero faith in the government.
Even Castro didn't succeed on his first coup attempt