• ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    To be fair, the real radical leaders of BLM who could have taken the protests to the next step were all found dead by suicide in cars that spontaneously combusted.

      • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        A good handful of mostly Black, leftist organizers have "mysteriously" died since Ferguson way back in 2014. Same as it ever was.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        there were some original ones under obama that got whacked shortly after and then the libs took over

      • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        No, not really. they are referencing like 2 ferguson organizers who died with extremely weird circumstances, nothing to do with 2020

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It's more than 2 https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-ferguson-activist-deaths-black-lives-matter-20190317-story.html

            • OgdenTO [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Ok, what is the number of organizers that can be killed that will or won't affect future protests? I suppose you know that 6 isn't enough, if 10 had been killed is that enough to be relevant? Maybe it's 15?

              • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                Whatever the number so that people even are aware about it. The protests dropped in multiple cities for a wide variety of reasons and i havent heard a single person quote ferguson activists as the reason. Where im from they ended due to strict crackdown and public opinion massively swayed by multiple shootings that happened where shit was centralized at. And that was for the hardcore people. Popular local support (like the actual mobilized people who are not as massively into politics as actual communists/anarchists, the locals who dont normally get involved) dwindled quite quickly after it was apparent that the police were willing to clash and not budge at all. That and i dont assume theybare going to show up day after day after day.

                We had our organizers and we didnt have the people, because quite frankly, it isnt the most populat stance to have in america.