The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, known by its opponents as "Cop City," has been at the center of escalating demonstrations and confrontations.
bbnh69420 is right. People are mostly checked out, it's far enough away from the city that there isn't a lot of visibility on the issue. Not once have I heard anyone talking about it out and about or much even on TV when I'm tormented by 24/7 news in public places. Online, it's a mixture of "I tHoUgHt YoU wAnTeD bEtTeR tRaInEd CoPs" and milquetoast libs saying I don't like it but the law is the law. Occasionally there are people who voice more radical opinions and those are either hotly contested or agreed with depending on how quickly the CIA bots find that thread
About what I thought then, and that's what worries me. It's the same thing with Chicago's Cop City or that fucking monument to himself that Obama's building. We can talk all we want about righteous defiance, but there's this fundamental disconnect between the minority of people whose activism is based on a sense of morality, and your average person on the street who can really only be reached by an appeal to selfish material interest.
We need a mass line, and I don't know how you build one in a country where 2/3 of adults are homeowners and everyone else is siloed off into their own atomized struggles to survive.
Yeah things are getting pretty bleak. Importing a bunch of tech bros for all the different hubs going in like Microsoft and then Hollywood libs as more movie studios get setup as well. The PSL and DSA are relatively active, but it's hard breaking through all the lib brained Hershel, MTG, and Kemp talk with anyone who is politically conscious and not cheering for more typical Republican ghoul stuff.
I forgot to mention that all this has brought out the "we tried defund/ending cash bail and there's too much crime now" crowd again
bbnh69420 is right. People are mostly checked out, it's far enough away from the city that there isn't a lot of visibility on the issue. Not once have I heard anyone talking about it out and about or much even on TV when I'm tormented by 24/7 news in public places. Online, it's a mixture of "I tHoUgHt YoU wAnTeD bEtTeR tRaInEd CoPs" and milquetoast libs saying I don't like it but the law is the law. Occasionally there are people who voice more radical opinions and those are either hotly contested or agreed with depending on how quickly the CIA bots find that thread
About what I thought then, and that's what worries me. It's the same thing with Chicago's Cop City or that fucking monument to himself that Obama's building. We can talk all we want about righteous defiance, but there's this fundamental disconnect between the minority of people whose activism is based on a sense of morality, and your average person on the street who can really only be reached by an appeal to selfish material interest.
We need a mass line, and I don't know how you build one in a country where 2/3 of adults are homeowners and everyone else is siloed off into their own atomized struggles to survive.
Yeah things are getting pretty bleak. Importing a bunch of tech bros for all the different hubs going in like Microsoft and then Hollywood libs as more movie studios get setup as well. The PSL and DSA are relatively active, but it's hard breaking through all the lib brained Hershel, MTG, and Kemp talk with anyone who is politically conscious and not cheering for more typical Republican ghoul stuff.
I forgot to mention that all this has brought out the "we tried defund/ending cash bail and there's too much crime now" crowd again
So, basically the same as all radical politics in the US.