Honestly, good on them for seeing your sources and admitting they were wrong and being cordial.
Yup -- like it or not, libs are probably the best recruiting ground for leftists. They're already engaged in politics, they already say they believe (mostly) good things. The big hurdles are (1) getting them to act like they actually believe those things, and (2) deprogramming them from capitalist propaganda. That's often easier than starting with someone who doesn't give a shit about politics either way, or who's a bigot or who doesn't even pretend to care about other people.
Lol that first dipshit. Yeah the cops may murder civilians with impunity but they never DARED to stand between me and my frosty.
It was literally the hell’s angels and boogaloo boys that escalated things in Minnesota too.
It's still ignoring the fact that MLK was a socialist who would be totally behind the BLM protests with zero hand wringing, but it does push people in the right direction
I wouldn't really say it ignores that; of course MLK would support both the peaceful protests and the riots but he would lead the former, no? That was my intention in this context at least.
"nobody disagrees that the looters and vandals were absolute pieces of shit"
i do 😔
Respond to any dipshit arguing "violent BLM rioters" contributed to this defeat by making the Democrats look bad by telling them that the spontaneous reaction of average, working people to events that are directly caused the systemic failure of bourgeois governance cannot be controlled or managed for electoral purposes. Electoral entities and candidates can only respond to this spontaneous anger, using it in whatever way for their own political purposes. The riots didn't "undermine" the Democrats, the Democrats undermined themselves by failing to either preemptively resolve the institutional problem of police brutality or by reacting to the backlash against that issue in a strategically poor fashion. Both are correct.
This is a symptom of the lib cope response to this cycle that boils down to "The Democrats didn't fail the American people, the American people failed the Democrats". The largest turnout in a century, against a party whose agenda overtly enshrines minority rule and suppresses turnout, and they STILL FUCKED IT UP
Biden might just clinch it and Dems will still act high and mighty, so I won't get my hopes up of them finally "getting it", after 60 years.
Once again, the only people for which history is real seems to be socialists
I like how chuds admit that only 7 percent of protests became violent but still have the audacity to act like that's damning, on behalf of the fucking cops, no less.
90% of those started with police firing teargas at peaceful protestors
I just can’t understand why these people don’t think violence solves shit. In fucking high-school they teach you about militant civil rights demonstrations, militant abolitionist movements, militant labor strikes and demonstrations. For how snobby libs are about being educated, they really seem to lack basic historical knowledge
Highschool talked about the non-violent protests of MLK & Ghandi and absolutely did not talk about militant civil rights demonstration. Also what's a labor strike?
Huh, we learned about Malcom X, John Brown, militant abolitionists, and even militant women’s suffrage movements. We also learned about the strikes in the 1900s and the lengths the government went to in order to stop them. And this was in my rural conservative town.
Actually, my history teacher had a big poster of Malcom X in the classroom now that I think about it. We also read Zinn’s “A People’s History” as required reading. Maybe I just went to the most based school?
Lotta times it just depends on how good the teacher is. I had quite a few that went out of their way to teach these kind of things.
They taught us that John Brown was a violent lunatic, instead the real hero was Henry Clay who kept compromising with the slave owners.
