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.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Of course, the long term effects of this won't be visible only 18 months later

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I think the biggest thing is a bunch of people got alot more experience protesting. I think the real pop off will occur once the larger organizers and medics are released from jail in a couple of years here. Who knows though, I certainly didn't see this particular BLM movement coming after the local police took down the last one and killed the organizers in Ferguson.