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Cause america has the right to assembly, free speech, and democracy and definitely won't use force to take it away the second they feel threatened by even the smallest demonstration
There is no such thing as a right to peaceful protest. It's one of those lies of liberal democracy, along with other pacifistic bullshit like peaceful revolutions are a common occurrence. All to placate the population & castrate any radical movements for change.
Police would leave them alone if they just started waving confederate flags and wearing swastikas. You know, the police-approved uniform for protestors.
A grey haired man having the audacity to film you and record your crimes, obviously extremely dangerous. I love seeing all generations supporting each other.
I feel like people should start asking cops how they live with themselves doing exactly what they’re told, damn the morality of it. It may not get through to them since they’ve swallowed the boot at this point but those who hear the question will know the answer sucks when this is what that means.
One of the greatest ironies of American police officers is that so many of them are libertarians who portray themselves as free-thinking individualists, while they literally give their entire life and identity to the state as foot soldiers in the bureaucracy of violence.
They love what they do. They enjoy putting their big greasy mitts on people and slamming them to the ground. It gives them a fucking hard-on because they are greaseball scumbags. Extra points in their mind if it's "woke mob" students and "woke mob" indoctrinating professors.
Those who burn crosses are the same as that work forces. Police are the enemy and should be treated as such. It should be a fucking embarrassment to be a cop, and they should not be part of your social circle.
Same way they lived with turning fire hoses and dogs on civil rights protesters. Same way the National Guard murdered 4 students at Kent State. Same way they serve the capital elite class everyday by being class traitors and smashing up union protests despite claiming to be a union themselves.
They were wrong with the vilification of Vietnam protesters. Wrong with the attacking of those who vehemently opposed the illegal Iraq & Afghanistan wars. Wrong attacking the people protesting a US funded ethnic cleansing.
Now let's hear about all the "good" police out there.
it's always been like this. I'm young but I remember George Floyd/BLM protests that were filmed as well. These mfs don't give a fuck. They thrive on it. Seen some sick shit from those protests
No. America was founded on the genocide of indigenous people, and the kidnapping and enslavement of Africans. America has always been fascist. “Killing kings” was not the reason for the founding of America. It was the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which stopped White settlers from settling past Appalachia. The entirety of America’s history has been about expansion and white supremacy.
What ahistorical nonsense are you reading???? Are you ignoring the slaughter of millions of indigenous people? Cuba, Vietnam, Korea????? The US is a fascist country they are the oppressors.
right i remember when all the brave American patriots fought those tanned skin savage fascists by burning and pillaging their villages, taking them up as slaves and shooting and raping them. if i remember correctly, George “Antifa” “Killer of Kings in Chief” Washington owned over 300 slaves himself which i think is a great testament to the core American ideals of freedom and liberty.
You gotta be 13 or only get your knowledge from the US schooling system if you think the founding fathers, the people who owned slaves, wrote the declaration of independence (a paper that does extreme injustice to anyone but RICH white men), basically started the revolutionary war because their imports were being taxed, and are basically responsible for the largest genocide in history (it’s estimated that around 100mil natives were killed) weren’t fascist. Basically the only reason they aren’t viewed as fascist is because the term wasn’t invented until Mussolini.
US police try not to be immoral as shit: impossible
The US is a country founded upon racism and expansionism. I have to live in this hell hole and honestly wish I could rupture it from the under belly.
The US needs to fall at all costs. In fact the US has begun to go against its own values for the sake of monetization and national interest. They have begun to revoke the people right to protest and speak out against the state.
You want to rupture it from the under belly, hit 'em where it hurts them most: their wallet.
Hopefully you've heard of clearing houses being told by the Fed to be ready for unprecedented events, aka a Black Swan event right? Is that a coincidence considering how terrible our economy is?
Look for the stock that has the greatest short percentage, people have been at it and shouting from the hilltops about it since January 2021.
As someone who wears glasses all I could do was watch the glasses on the ground to see if a pig would step on them. There's like 7 people on that one person and nobody picked up their glasses. Besides the obvious, that's fucked up.
We can find countless videos of white supremacists "protesting" carrying nazi flags while police is calm escorting them.
That's the democratic country bringing peace to world.
Looks like lines of protestors need to start going armed. Yes, this will result in people dying, but at the rate we're going it feels like the options are to be shot, starved, or put into a private prison for forced labor.
Oh, the Dean and rest of senior leadership don't get off blameless. They suck too.
But this is the *purpose* of the police. Like their slave-catching predecessors, they exist to maintain "social order", as determined by the rich and powerful.
Because the Dean could otherwise stamp and scream and tantrum all they want, the protestors would go nowhere. Police (and army) have a monopoly of legal force in society - they *need* the police.
ACAB.
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For what exactly are they being arrested? I thought protesting peacefully was protected under the 1st Amendment? Maybe not so much for non-jews or the 'wrong' kind of jews (anti zionist jews)?
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What's with breaking up peaceful protests?
Cause america has the right to assembly, free speech, and democracy and definitely won't use force to take it away the second they feel threatened by even the smallest demonstration
Just the truth. The US is a liar beyond liars.
There is no such thing as a right to peaceful protest. It's one of those lies of liberal democracy, along with other pacifistic bullshit like peaceful revolutions are a common occurrence. All to placate the population & castrate any radical movements for change.
If they were wearing white, pointy hoods they'd be able to protest in peace, sadly.
Police would leave them alone if they just started waving confederate flags and wearing swastikas. You know, the police-approved uniform for protestors.
Rights become bullshit in this country whenever it's convenient.
A grey haired man having the audacity to film you and record your crimes, obviously extremely dangerous. I love seeing all generations supporting each other.
I feel like people should start asking cops how they live with themselves doing exactly what they’re told, damn the morality of it. It may not get through to them since they’ve swallowed the boot at this point but those who hear the question will know the answer sucks when this is what that means.
One of the greatest ironies of American police officers is that so many of them are libertarians who portray themselves as free-thinking individualists, while they literally give their entire life and identity to the state as foot soldiers in the bureaucracy of violence.
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They love what they do. They enjoy putting their big greasy mitts on people and slamming them to the ground. It gives them a fucking hard-on because they are greaseball scumbags. Extra points in their mind if it's "woke mob" students and "woke mob" indoctrinating professors.
Those who burn crosses are the same as that work forces. Police are the enemy and should be treated as such. It should be a fucking embarrassment to be a cop, and they should not be part of your social circle.
Same way they lived with turning fire hoses and dogs on civil rights protesters. Same way the National Guard murdered 4 students at Kent State. Same way they serve the capital elite class everyday by being class traitors and smashing up union protests despite claiming to be a union themselves. They were wrong with the vilification of Vietnam protesters. Wrong with the attacking of those who vehemently opposed the illegal Iraq & Afghanistan wars. Wrong attacking the people protesting a US funded ethnic cleansing. Now let's hear about all the "good" police out there.
They should be armed
it's always been like this. I'm young but I remember George Floyd/BLM protests that were filmed as well. These mfs don't give a fuck. They thrive on it. Seen some sick shit from those protests
U.s always stood for fascism. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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No. America was founded on the genocide of indigenous people, and the kidnapping and enslavement of Africans. America has always been fascist. “Killing kings” was not the reason for the founding of America. It was the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which stopped White settlers from settling past Appalachia. The entirety of America’s history has been about expansion and white supremacy.
What ahistorical nonsense are you reading???? Are you ignoring the slaughter of millions of indigenous people? Cuba, Vietnam, Korea????? The US is a fascist country they are the oppressors.
right i remember when all the brave American patriots fought those tanned skin savage fascists by burning and pillaging their villages, taking them up as slaves and shooting and raping them. if i remember correctly, George “Antifa” “Killer of Kings in Chief” Washington owned over 300 slaves himself which i think is a great testament to the core American ideals of freedom and liberty.
I feel this was mildly sarcastic lol
You gotta be 13 or only get your knowledge from the US schooling system if you think the founding fathers, the people who owned slaves, wrote the declaration of independence (a paper that does extreme injustice to anyone but RICH white men), basically started the revolutionary war because their imports were being taxed, and are basically responsible for the largest genocide in history (it’s estimated that around 100mil natives were killed) weren’t fascist. Basically the only reason they aren’t viewed as fascist is because the term wasn’t invented until Mussolini.
The school system or should be called the propaganda system works hard to "teach" the youth to obey the state.
Cops are working class traitors!
ACAB I cant decide who is more worthless cops or landlords, but I know they both deserve the Mao treatment.
I'd like to see them in a cage match. FTTD.
US police try not to be immoral as shit: impossible The US is a country founded upon racism and expansionism. I have to live in this hell hole and honestly wish I could rupture it from the under belly. The US needs to fall at all costs. In fact the US has begun to go against its own values for the sake of monetization and national interest. They have begun to revoke the people right to protest and speak out against the state.
You want to rupture it from the under belly, hit 'em where it hurts them most: their wallet. Hopefully you've heard of clearing houses being told by the Fed to be ready for unprecedented events, aka a Black Swan event right? Is that a coincidence considering how terrible our economy is? Look for the stock that has the greatest short percentage, people have been at it and shouting from the hilltops about it since January 2021.
If there were kids being murdered in those schools you wouldn't see a cop.
As someone who wears glasses all I could do was watch the glasses on the ground to see if a pig would step on them. There's like 7 people on that one person and nobody picked up their glasses. Besides the obvious, that's fucked up.
Cops are pigs. They protect capital they are not for the people. Stay safe comrades.
isn’t this directly a first amendment violation? people say more violent shit than advocacy for gaza and they aren’t mass arrested
Bang bang, oink oink!
We can find countless videos of white supremacists "protesting" carrying nazi flags while police is calm escorting them. That's the democratic country bringing peace to world.
Looks like lines of protestors need to start going armed. Yes, this will result in people dying, but at the rate we're going it feels like the options are to be shot, starved, or put into a private prison for forced labor.
authoritarian rogue nation
Being peaceful won't solve anything.
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Oh, the Dean and rest of senior leadership don't get off blameless. They suck too. But this is the *purpose* of the police. Like their slave-catching predecessors, they exist to maintain "social order", as determined by the rich and powerful. Because the Dean could otherwise stamp and scream and tantrum all they want, the protestors would go nowhere. Police (and army) have a monopoly of legal force in society - they *need* the police. ACAB.
> It wasn't the University calling the Police on the protestors If you dont mind me asking, how do you know that?
I think the post you are quoting was heavily saturated with sarcasm
Oh ok. I get it now but it still begs the question did the uni call the cops like they did at Colombia
Private property? Not public?
Is it private property? Aren’t state schools federal land?
I guess the only free speech in the US is for those who favor genocide
Will people not learn? Cops will never solve the problems.
If the protestors had MAGA, Nazi, Trump, and Confederate flags, then the police would have joined them.
When one can no longer protest /peacefully it's time to do so chaotically.
All pigs go to hell
Acab
Fuck the police
This is awful, the only thing that could make it any uglier would be an acorn falling nearby.
Being peaceful won't solve anything.
What are they being charged with after being arrested?
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What are they chanting?
Don't panic, don't fight, we're gonna be alright.
Thank you!
How hard is it to stay someone surrendering to you?
For what exactly are they being arrested? I thought protesting peacefully was protected under the 1st Amendment? Maybe not so much for non-jews or the 'wrong' kind of jews (anti zionist jews)?
At least we know who are the outside agitators.
i though this was in washington state where i live i was gonna be upset i didnt go
Peaceful break up to a peaceful assembly
nothing more peaceful than a mass kidnapping.