A massacre at a protest just happened. Spread this.
...a single shot, (pause), turned into two shots, (pause), three-four-five straight to 3-round bursts, That with all the guns firing is tantamount to straight up automatic fire and indiscriminate murder. It just ramps up, seemingly in an organic way. The video is just... wow. Hooray for group think!
Finally something the dengists and the hardcore morenistas can agree on: The People's Police and how their brutality is justified when it's done by the govt they like.
Yeah, what a bunch of sheep, as we all know this is the only time this sort of brutality and repression has ever happened during AMLO's admin. #BlueLivesMatterButLeftWingCusAMLO
"progressive" Morenistas watching US riots and protests: Oh my god, this is completely wrong! the police are all bastards and this institution must be changed, if not abolished!
"progressive" Morenistas watching México's riots and protests: Well, if you think about it, it wasn't Tlatelolco. Guys, Cops are Pueblo too :'(
You are being pedantic to downplay police oppression on a leftist platform. I'm sorry, I can't stand that. You would absolutely kill Rosa.
it's not bullshit, the state repression under AMLO has mantained if you even do a cursory look anywhere in both mainstream and independent news sources and if all you can do is tell people you're siding with their oppressors for their own good, they'll leave you for the next demagogue who will cynically use the shit you want to pretend doesn't happen against you and bring everything everyone has worked on to get here down.
Be a leftist or toe the party line. I know which side I'm on.
I thought Mexico has a left wing government now? Can anyone give me a TLDR?
Guys have you considered that in the US protests of 2020, in some of those protests, no one died? That means whatever the police did in them was a-ok! They had to defend themselves! If those a c t i v i s t s just went through the proper channels instead of throwing things at #OurBoysInUniform and threatening them, then they wouldn't need to fight back! It's ok, only injuries, nothing to see here.
Also no one died. OP is claiming a massacre which is completely false.
It's still state oppression to civilians. Bodycount won't change the response that AMLO has mantained through all its presidency so far. Please eros, if all we have achieved through all this struggle to take power is to become a bunch of populist socdems putting all our hopes in the will and wiseness of a few bureaucrats, we are fucked.
I'll tell you if you tell me what happened, according to you :)
You literally are, just like I've seen morenistas defending the megaprojects, the austerity, the lack of change in cartel policy, everything. All this work just to defend the very same system we fucking voted to change.
Dude, I'm not supposed to agree with you or put up with socdemry to protect AMLO, I'm just a glorified community janitor.
But for real, feel free to do your post. I'll be free to check it out and comment on it. Looking forward to it!
AMLO is centerleft-ish in discourse but in actions he's been doing little to nothing particularly in some really-easy-to-score areas like feminist policies.
His coalition party had a great victory and majority, but there are deep cracks inside the coalition and he seems to not want to use the power he has.
Not a big change from what there was earlier.
He was never anti-capitalist.
Yes, I know, I was talking about AMLO because the user mentioned the central government and you already had tell them about
I get to interact with @czechvault and I always draw parallels with my own "left-wing-for-US-standards" latam government.
No no I meant my government acts kinda the same as AMLO.
much greater political autonomy
Eh, I wish. Our oligarchs spend their weekends in Miami, we really don't have much future particularly when they periodically get into power and enslave the whole country into more foreign debt and the money is immediately spent in an inverse Ponzi scheme that they are beneficiaries of.
Good thing AMLO kept us in the new one, maybe if we destroy all of our environment, kick out and repress enough marginalized peoples and finish off the neoliberalization of México, the big companies will be so happy here they'll just have to trickle down their wealth to us! God, I love post-neoliberalism, as useful as post-colonialism.
just like AMLO, you just say things, but when push comes to shove, you'll defend the oppression and tell us it was Good oppression.
liberal or anarchists
LMAO are originary peoples and environmental activists defending their territory from neoliberal megaprojects "liberal or anarchists"?!
Are the living normalistas who still get repressed by the cops, sometimes even under morenista governors while our govt pretends to give a shit about the more famous dead ones "liberals or anarchists"?!
Looking forward to that anti-"liberal-anarchist" effort post.
Eh, in my little experience, the english sources most often that not are the same old shit. "Did you know México is a country and AMLO is its president? He's doing lots of things but they seem scary to us :( now let's listen to Actually Important Global North people to tell us how they feel about it."
I mean, what eros said is mostly true (tho everyone always uses that line to cover their ass. Eros can attest to our conservative state govts also saying during the pandemic "We don't have a budget because of the federal govt! It's all out of our hands :(") but calling the 4T Govt left wing is funny. Out of respect to the seemingly ever-reducing number of actually progressive Morenistas actually trying to steer that mess of a party out of becoming PRI 2.0, I'll go with center-left and suggest reading on the larger Pink Tide movmts and history to understand how they mostly operate and how and what they achieved, so you can manage your expectations better. If you really thought you were going to see a left-wing México without being sieged the fuck out a la cuba-venezuela while the US Empire is still breathing, I'm sorry to dissapoint.
Also just laughing to myself at the thought of having a "left-wing" govt that the US Govt and Trump are happy with. Jesus christ morenistas, I understand wanting to celebrate our victories and work with what we got, but that cope would be insane.
I'm confused, did they only shoot in the air or directly at protesters?
In another video you can see a journalist call out a cop and he's firing his handgun into the air. Though that doesn't necessarily means the others were too, mind you. Also, bullets eventually fall off.
