The logical fallacy that people who say things years apart are the same people.
This country (the us) is a shit show forum that no one knows how to navigate and there’s so many causes that are around that no one can pick the ones that mean the most and work their way down.
Also, too much shit goes down. It doesn’t take much to be a freakin’ martyr for a cause these days and to be a martyr for a cause these days is to be an influencer that got their account suspended, it doesn’t mean anything anymore.
Nothing has any actual meaning anymore.
BLM was planned as a peaceful protest— then the white supremacists showed up to break windows, set fires, and escalate the violence. As usual most of America fell for it because we fear black people more than we dislike fascism.
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/29/umbrella-man-white-supremacist-minneapolis/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremacists-rightwing-domestic-terror-2020
Which is odd.
America was a country literally founded on a protest, helped by, of all people, the French. They have such a wonderful protest heritage and then they collectively decided “nope, we are meek and love the billionaire boots on our necks and ruling class dicks in our asses”.
Founded on genocide and slavery mostly. And then wanting to break loose from the Brits.
Wanting to break loose because the Brits wanted to end slavery and reduce genocide.
The country that invented gorilla warfare has lost every major war to it in the last 80 years.
gorilla warfare
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That’s because our country was sold a long time ago. The Heritage assholes and Ronny Rayguns took their victory lap 45 years ago.
Obedience and tolerance to the intolerable were beaten into anyone younger than that, and all they had to do was give the 1980s Americans an ever revolving target of innocent minorities to be the vessel of their contempt.
Now there is nothing left to strip from the economy and the billionaires are now desperately looking for another place to loot, and there is nothing left. Thanks to globalism, they already ate the planet.
If we don’t find a new way forward, capitalism is going to eat itself and us along with it.
Goes back way further than that… The simple fact is that America has never been a progressive nation that ever cared about social equity or equality.
The reason Americans cannot protest like they do in france is because the American police system was molded off of the system the slave owning Confederates developed to fight against potential slave rebellions. A system that marries institutional violence from the state and extrajudicial violence from the populace with a ruling majority to maintain a strict social hierarchy.
I’ve been thinking about what comes after, and I think an energy based economy is the future.
Using watts as a currency, since any action in reality requires energy to change it’s state. Biological or otherwise.
Covering everyone’s basic needs and then distributing the surpluses of energy to people to engage in commerce, research, recreation, etc.
It removes the speculative nature of money, which is a side effect of the abstraction from reality that money is.
I mean… That’s kinda been a thing since the establishment of the petrodollar.
Except that isn’t the direct energy conversion of a unit of energy. I’m talking basing the economy off of an objective scientific standard.
The petrodollar isn’t a good example because it just mandates that oil be traded for in USD, meaning it forced the demand for USD, but the dollar isn’t a direct conversion for a unit of oil.
My basis is that electricity (or power in the physics sense) is the currency of reality. Energy states configures matter and govern how it behaves. On an economic level, the entire process of pulling ore from the ground, refining it, and turning it into a finished good requires equipment, which is another sub process requiring some material and energy cost, and energy to run the process. Since we have entered an age where information can be easily gathered via sensors, and processed so quickly, we can transfer to an economy that uses energy as currency directly. Especially as humans are further and further removed from the labor process via technology.
Why would rich people let money become obsolete?
I don’t think they are going to have a choice in the end.
Wouldn’t they just monpolize solar energy by hoarding the silicon resources? I feel like this wouldn’t solve exploitation or wealth disparities.
In my opinion, Marx was right about the abolition of private ownership. Ownership is a social contract, and social contracts can change. A lot of wealth disparities come from this system of land ownership that promotes inefficient use of prime real estate through perverse incentives. And an entrenched class of landed gentry will always push a country towards autocracy.
This seems like the goomba fallacy to me
Haven’t the US historically dropped bombs on their rioters?
My mind immediately went to the MOVE bombings in Philadelphia in the 80s, but that couldn’t really be called a riot.
I do think that was just somebody’s house.
Right? Like apparently ‘no kings’ is very against civil disobedience. What? Our little group walks and fun signs are going to change systemic and heavily class based issues? Get real…
Ok but I hope that you do more than complain on internet about people that are or could be on your side.
Things need to start somewhere and amplify from there.
Revolution is not made possible by one single riot that would appear magicly out of nowhere.
I’m not American, so I may be wrong, but I feel like the ‘Americans can’t protest’ people, and the ‘please protest peacefully’ people are two entirely separate groups.
Personally I would absolutely agree with the statement that Americans can’t protest. Not just like the French, but at all. They’ve been socially engineered to be obedient ever since their country was founded (literally).
And I would also not disagree with Americans burning down police stations. Others may, but I’m pretty sure they’d never agree with the statement in the first place.
Seems you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about, America had a rich history of striking and unions up until Reagan essentially, so much so that there are many examples of the military being used against protestors to break up strikes and such.
I’m not sure about a rich history. There was a period of protests post WW2, but it was pretty thoroughly squashed.
Don’t forget America has a militarized police force that will shoot us.
The conflict of that person’s username and display name is wild
Seems like a straw man argument: the squeamish people are likely not in the same group that are admiring French protests…
Pepperidge Farms remembers bunker bitch
He was checking on his covfefe supply before a CostCo run.
They get to worry less about getting shot by said police.
Everything got worse for black people afterwards, just like our financial system and income inequality which lead to fascism got worse after Occupy.
I don’t know the answer, but riots don’t work well in the US.
Yeah but they did that for black people so like…it was wrong.
