I'm afraid the post 2020 crisis is more of a 1905 scenario. But there are worse places to be than 1905
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I mean, it's gonna suck for the protesters but this is just the sort of over-escalation we want to provoke. Outside of ICE being kicked out it's the best outcome.
Yeah, that reporter got shot from less than 10m away that might have shattered bone or severed arteries. For comparison the recommended minimum range for civillian variants is 18 meters.
We were all expecting this but it doesn't make it easier to hear. Heroes every one of them and another point of stress on the Israeli fascist occupation
The Vatican, which is deliberately a gerontocracy, won't even let you vote for the Pope if you're over 80, and actual positions of influence are generally much younger. The USA has 20 members over 80.
Also it's good to remember yet again that every single leader of the Soviet Union was younger than Trump when they died (excepting Gorby because he sucks and thus Satan protected him)
Never quit. Make them Fire you
US version of Guy Fawkes is gonna be peak kino.
It is harder from what I've heard, but mostly because you need to know who to ask to grease the gears (someone who went to Eton et al, probably)
Any int student blocked from Harvard is gonna just jump to another US top uni. Even if that's banned there's Oxbridge, EP, ANU, etc.
Behold good people, for my humour have become alike unto the aspects of a fool complete.
Different protests are for different things. Often several at once. Sometimes they are a petition (protests in China often are an appeal to the central government against corrupt local actions)
Some are for awareness as you said. Others to build a movement or test organisational capacity. Some are a threat, if you can get a million people to show up every day for a week you can get 10% to show with a rifle.
Finally some are deliberate attempts at escalation. To force the state to expend moral and physical energy against it, to push it to the point of having to show that it's ultimate justification for existing is violence against the working classes. These are the ones that Andor mentions as "breaking the banks" of the state.
And that's the primary purpose of these protest, to force the state to act against a wide swathe of those it nominally protects. LA will burn, but it will burn very brightly.