The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.

https://lemmy.world/post/31070616

The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. - Lemmy.World

The pig sees her, turns, aims, and shoots her almost point blank. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2ba080c4-baf5-403d-85ef-fd3871b2b2bd.jpeg]

I want to tell all the centrists who acted like leftists were radical, dangerous people for the last 30 years in the US while treating violent, rightwing conservative ideology as if it was innocent and defenseless… to personally eat shit you naive idiots, leftists were trying to warn you about this moment in the US for decades, fucking DECADES and y’all still chose to listen to fascists over learning some basic things about leftist ideology. Even after violent rightwing fascists attempted a literal coup on Jan 6 y’all still wanted to be afraid of leftists more than rightwing mobs actually assaulting the U.S. capitol.

Over the years I have wasted soo soo soooooo much breath talking to older boomer conservatives who believed themselves to be centrists or even democrats, and it was all a damn waste of time, these people have brainworms and admitting they have been living inside a bubble that popped late in their life interferes too much with their ego and sense of impending mortality (have I lived a life and learned worse than nothing about what the future will be???) for them to listen to kindness. Bypass these people and organize with people who understand, leave the naysayers I am criticizing behind and let them catch up once they realize how truly alone they are (with no younger people on their side from the conservative or leftist end of the spectrum).

spits on the authoritarian, rightwing dictatorship at my feet

Look, you don’t understand. Biden didn’t use all the leverage he could with Israel, and was old. Democrats tried to give everyone healthcare… So obviously, “Both sides are exactly the same!”

Biden used zero leverage with Israel to the point that Israeli figures would openly brag about the US letting them do whatever they want.

They aren’t the same, at all, one is the bad cop and the other plays good cop.