I'm not a weatherman but if anything sparks a BLM protest this year it'll be a hot one.
You're taking "hot" literally. Last year was el nino so idk if this year will be hotter.
I doubt anything will. The George Floyd protests were as much an expression of bottled-up anger at Trump and the pandemic as they were anything else. It would take something astronomical, really on that scale, to do anything like that.
And we dont have bottled up anger against Biden over the genocide of Palestinians? In 2020 we had a crisis that our President was uniquely incapable of handling. And we have the same now. We might not get the same spark but the fuel is there. At best we lack the mass unemployment and sheer boredom that covid brought.
Who do you think we are, the French? The average American's reaction to the treatment of Palestinians is, "oh yeah, that's pretty bad." It's nothing like the way the masses felt about Trump.
expression of bottled-up anger at Trump
I don't this is true at all, I doubt many of largely whiten brunching class were out on the streets rioting
I know one of the Bungie executives got tear gassed at a protest and wrote a
facebook post about it.
Leftists have said this every summer after 2020 and nothing has ever happened.
Not saying it'll stay like that forever, but I don't think we'll see another 2020 for a while. The election is more likely to kick off some violence.
Idk why someone would say that in 2021 or 2022. Gaza is Biden's CoVID and he's handling it worse than Trump did IMO. Its not universal like covid was but it does affect the same factions that turned out for George Floyd.
Reminder that Covid is Biden's covid, with more deaths and a worse response under the democrats than, somehow, Trump
I really sort of doubt this. The left in 2020 was the most organized it has been in the US, in my lifetime at least, and probably for a number of years before I was born also. Since 2020 it seems there's a lot less energy and a lot less organization.
There's also been a pretty sharp rightward shift since 2020, probably as a response to the George Floyd protests. Those protests came at the tail end of 4 years of anti-Trump politics and a national conversation about race, police, white supremacy and socialism. But for these past 4 years our national conversation has been about crime rates, inflation and "wokeness" and the left has not been at the forefront of those conversations like it was from 2016-2020. The George Floyd protests also got a lot of support from liberals due to the anti-Trump angle, which may have led to the liberal dilution of those protests, but was also the reason they were so huge and widespread; any protests happening now I doubt will get that same support, being aimed at Biden and the Democrats in an election year.
2020 was also coming right off the extreme hope followed by the intense disappointment of the Bernie campaign. Bernie, despite his flaws, was an extremely important figure in that iteration of the left - he brought "socialism" back into US politics and gave a lot of people for the first time in their lives hope that things could maybe be different. Now Bernie has been neutered by the Democrats - him, the Squad, and also all those other DSA candidates that were supposed to change things are just upholding that old DNC system they had sought to overthrow. Bernie might have in the final analysis just been milquetoast social democracy, but he gave the left in this country direction for a few years there, and moved a ton of people left. Now all of that has been lost.
There's less organization and less direction on today's left, and more reaction in the general population. You also don't have large numbers of people sitting at home ready to commit large amounts of time to protests like you did in 2020.
Are the Palestine protests basically that for Europe? It seems to be the case with how much it scares he politicians.
hottest year on record
