RockZombieMar 21, 2023
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Over on Twitter people are speculating as to why Americans don't fight back the way the French do.

They're all forgetting that in 2020, tens of thousands of people did fight back, many of whom are doing prison time.

Don't forget those people, supporting them plants the seeds of future revolts.

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Show threadDetritus BooksMar 21, 2023
If you take this as a reason not to fight back, you've already lost. Tens of thousands of people were never caught, living to fight another day.
Show threadDetritus BooksMar 21, 2023
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both.”
– Frederick Douglass
Show threadDetritus BooksMar 21, 2023
It’s depressing how many people have taken this post as an opportunity to list the reasons for their passivity in the face of oppression. I hope they’re all at least supporting those who refuse that passivity.
Show threadWe Can Be GyrosMar 21, 2023
@DetritusBooks joint task forces will steal your children get you locked up or dead for environmental community organizing in the new Haiti, America.
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 21, 2023
@DetritusBooks alsonote that people in the USA either have mostly given up, never had the means to actually protest as they can be legally fired on a whim and that the heavily militarized police basically makes protesting suicidal.
Show threadDetritus BooksMar 21, 2023
@kkarhan no no no please stop with this shit, people protest all the time without getting killed, this is how they win by you people acting like you’ll fucking die if you stand up and fight. Tens of thousands of us were in the streets all through 2020 and survived just fine.
Show threadno more strolls for empressesMar 21, 2023
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Let's remember all who fought and fight back against injustice and oppression in France, and in the so-called united states
Show threadStevenMar 21, 2023
@DetritusBooks also, the pigs in the US can murder you in broad daylight and get away with it.
Show threadDetritus BooksMar 21, 2023
@mindbend3r83 and yet, tens of thousands of people were in the streets in 2020 without getting killed by the cops. The point of this post was not to make excuses for Americans not being in the streets, it’s to point out that we have, and can be in the streets if we stop making excuses and *do it*