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.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I don't think this counts, but every conservative I know believes there was some kind of genuine civil war in 2020 between cops and BLM. Like a hot, shooty kind of war waged conventionally with stuff like occupying and defending territory that resulted in a lot of large cities losing their police forces entirely.

    A lot of my family members believe BLM set off bombs across the country and blew up a bunch of statues. They'll tell me wild stories about Seattle being under complete military lockdown and BLM enforcers roam the streets picking off white people. They think this is still occurring in some cities and there's a plot for BLM to infiltrate school boards with CRT in the red states.

    They also believe Kamala Harris is herself a high level operative in this spy novel version of BLM.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      My libertarian roommates believed:

      • Antifa had taken over an interstate highway specifically an elevated portion where the speed limit is 75mph. They were killing anyone driving a truck and setting horses on fire.

      • Antifa was storming the courthouse of a rural cattle town without a DSA chapter or SRA member

      • Antifa was going to storm a literal one stoplight town and destroy all of the small businesses, which mostly consist of terrible restaurants and crystalmom shit. No orgs and it's essentially an evangelical colony.

      • Antifa was stealing countless cars for some reason

      Their solution to this was Kyle Rittenhouse shit. One wanted to stand in front of small businesses and defend them from Antifa, crying while he said this. Those small businesses wouldn't hire him because he's a felon and functionally illiterate. The other wanted to drive around with guns waiting for Antifa to try to carjack him.

      Genuine children. We need a hunger games for libertarians where the winner is shot in the head. Right in the fucking head.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Thank you, I needed the term "crystalmom" to describe that particular species of gift shop which seems to be the 2010s pawn shop equivalent.

        • happybadger [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Some of them take it to the MD level and become crystalmomologists. They can cure every disease with the power of rocks.

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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          3 years ago

          both the far left and the far right talk about the coming civil war but honestly i don't see a lot of people seriously thinking about what that would require and how much work it would be

          • SaniFlush [any, any]
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            3 years ago

            because there's no convenient borders to draw anywhere. It would be another Cold War, and it kind of already is.

          • prismaTK
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            1 year ago

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    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      Wait, we aren't running for positions on school boards? Or is that just electoralism?

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        i think there's a qualitative difference in running for school boards to push a more progressive agenda and whatever harebrained conspiracy theories my cousins are cooking up