Political Memes

Liberals didn't lose their minds.

However, the media are owned and controlled by the billionaires. This allows them a lot of control of the narrative and your perception of events.

someone on another platform mentioned that thier french friends likened to american protests, if nothing is on fire, its not really a protest, its just virtue signalling.

"Safe" protests won't accomplish a damn thing.

I love the No Kings protests in Portland... congratulations, you're protesting for an audience who already 99% agrees with you.

But that's protests in Portland in general, BLM, Occupy Wall Street, etc. etc.

Want to make a real difference? Take that shit to D.C. and shut the city down for a month. That might move the needle.

Preaching to the pre-converted? Pointless.

I feel like the most effective form of protest will make life miserable for the people causing the problems, rather than making life miserable for the people affected by the problem.

I'm not really thinking about the protests in France, though. I'm thinking about all the times in my area when highways have been shut down by people wanting police reform, and it feels like nothing has changed. Granted, when this was happening on a nationwide basis, we got body cams for most police departments, and that's created a lot of accountability.

When the pearlclutching starts, that’s when you take it up a few notches. Not back down.

The BLM protests where unmarked vehicles dropped off pallets full of bricks repeatedly? The ones where mysterious masked men in body armor would show up and start breaking windows then leave? The protests where police would force the protestors onto bridges or into intersections then tell them to disperse while blocking all exits, then fired 'less than lethal' projectiles at them? Yeah the BLM protestors were not violent whatsoever, despite the efforts to make them so and the media narrative.

Yeah, all this talk of violent protests right before an important election will DEFINITELY not help the fascists declare martial law and stay in power. /s

I am not aware of a single "liberal" who got upset about that at all.

The problem might be that you either don't know what a liberal is, or that you don't know how people use the term in everyday life.

You saw a mildly critically post from a soccer mom. We get it, you think you're morally righteous and anyone with a slightly different opinion is an evil LiBeRaL

In my twenties I held this belief some what. I was a big peaceful protest guy. To be fair my justification back then was I didn't like how it seemed to be the reasoning why cops are militarizing. Many of the protests at the time just seemed to devolve once when alt right figures infiltrated and turned it into a riot, and many of these protests where set up on Facebook groups by people not even in our country. Many of them organized events right next to eachother at the same time. Just none of it seemed productive.

Either things have changed or my opinions matured because I feel like we should be in the streets over every little issue. And I wana see cop cars flipped over and on fire these days. The country feels slightly more unified then it used to, so I have slightly more faith that things would turn out more productive. There's core issues like flock that reach across the isle and people firmly established they don't like it, and has resulted in minor change.

There's a difference between burning corporate Chipotle and small businesses and personal home property.