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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resignation was not about his health rather it seems people stopped seeing him as a wizard.
I was confused why they were protesting at the gas station until the narration started. I'm confused why the guy in the truck felt he had to go to that particular gas station, unless he was just looking for a reason to drive his truck through the protesters.
I was confused why they were protesting at the gas station until the narration started.
So... what is most important to you? To vent you rage, or to build a better future?
To have the second, you have to understand those who think differently from you and try to talk with them. Sometimes they'll just reject you, but those times they won't, both of you will understand something more and will build up somethign, and maybe that something will help both of you understanding eachother and other people even better.
Do you have a time stamp for the narration? I watched the video, but missed a narration.
I know *why* the protestors were there (a black suspect (yes, with a knife apparently) was walking away from police and was shot in the back 11 times). Not agreeing with their behavior or their perspective of what happened, but at least understand why they are there.
Fox made him a leading story as the un-American villain, Trump made him a villain, the entire GOP spoke out against his protest. Nothing changed.
You don't need violence in protest. The more you keep it non-violent, even in front of blatant provocations, the more the provocation appears for what it is and pushes people away from those who do it. The more the actions of Trump, the GOP or Fox appear excessive, the more people are pushed away from them. It is the same mechanism.
You don't need to convince the brainwashed, fanatic conservatives, you have to convince normal people, who on many topics already agree with you.
A strong majority will make change happen, not a weak minority threatening violence.
Except that's not happening. Despite Trumps numerous crime, lies, and coddling of actual, literal Nazis - he still has 40% of the vote and police continue to murder people.
To those protesting, this is the only way you can even get a murder-cop arrested. Quiet protest is inoffensive, but it's also ineffective.
You are confusing "peaceful" with "disruptive".
I'd bet if you look at all the documented acts of violence during these protests you will find more on the side of police and counter-protesters than you will among the protesters themselves
- this is certainly the case when you look at relative numbers of people.
Trump is pouring gasoline on the fire in front of your eyes and your response is, "Yeah, but I'm not so sure about Biden"?
It seems you're misunderstanding violent and "get the message across in a manner that means people pay attention that does not mean starting fires and breaking shit."
when you have news agencies who flourish on profit and knee jerk emotional responses with personal twists, what do you expect to see?
It sucks so much that we can't trust reporters to even share accurate responses, but that's another issue.
Have you ever asked yourself why? I'm serious, I don't know the answer, but it surely is not simple, it surely is not something like "because they are bad!". Things are complex.
I think this is compacting all the officers and making them stick together because they are all cops.
Again, -why- are cops acting the way they are? Particularly the nasty ones: what pushes them? Fear? (do they fear for their life?) Anger? (what generate it?) Spite? (Why?) Racism? (Do they behave differently to their black police partners?). And then, are the officers ALL bad? What do the black officers think of this?
The mindset counts more than anything. Moreover, to change things, you need political support; I say long-term political numbers are better than short-term local results.
The fact that you see the person standing still while someone drives a 2.5 ton truck into them as the person acting with "violence and aggression" says a lot more about you than it does the situation.You can't disrupt 2,5 tons of long-bed pick-up truck with a human chain without resorting to violence and aggression.
In any case, unless it is done by following the law and the rules (and even there... it depends), "disruptive" cannot be "peaceful", because it always involve thwarting some rule or force someone else to do something they don't want to do.
Absolutely I have. You're right, it's complex, but the main driving factors are poor education and low SES combined with blaming an identified "other" for one's hardships. The thing is that those hardships are systemic and there's a cognitive dissonance at work in which one believes that others' poor outcomes are due to some inherent trait, while their own poor outcomes are the fault of the identified "other"
- in this case it's typically immigrants and coastal elites. The ironic thing is that coastal elites tend to be liberal and the social programs they propose would greatly help the disenfranchised poor in both inner cities and in Rural America.
All of this is obfuscated by flag waving nationalism and a whole fuck-ton of Jesus; these people are being duped into voting for someone who doesn't care about them - even openly mocks and despises them - because they believe the Cult of Personality that they too can shit into a golden toilet if they work hard enough.
You are putting the cart before the horse with this one, but let's go with it. Why are cops acting this way? Because of a pervasive culture of power and a lack of accountability brought on by qualified immunity, lack of civilian oversight with any kind of power, and a culture that closely mirrors that of soldiers at war going into occupied hostile territory.
This is all fueled by generally low hiring standards and education requirements while providing access to lethal force the first day on the job with no experience. Every other civilized country I know of requires at least 2-4 years of college level education to become a police officer, and most require even more training and certification to carry a firearm.
I don't know what black officers think of this, or how they are treated within the various departments - what I do know is that officers who speak up about abuse of power are informally disciplined with shit duties, their calls for backup go unanswered, and they face hostile work environments. In the mean time the police who close ranks to protect abusers are similarly rewarded.
I don't disagree, but large movement start small. People said the same thing about sit-ins during the civil rights movement - it's just one lunch counter, what can it change? It's just one march in one town, what do they expect to accomplish?
The fact that you see the person standing still while someone drives a 2.5 ton truck into them as the person acting with "violence and aggression" says a lot more about you than it does the situation.
Unjust laws must be broken. Civil disobedience is a long standing part of US culture and it's built into our system of government, it's only through civil disobedience that cases can be brought to court and ruled unconstitutional. You are now conflating "order" and "obedience" with "peaceful" - they are not the same thing.
I can peacefully sit in a park after 11 PM - this is breaking the rules but I am not being disruptive.
Remember as you continue to advocate for quiet, orderly, non-rule-breaking protest -- these were all tried first and ignored. Now protests have become loud and disruptive because no one wanted to listen or change when they were quietly off to the side.
Even Kapernick taking a knee resulted in months of abuse and the end of his career; he was punished for doing what you now advocate. An individual alone is easily silenced, even one with as much wealth and fame as an NFL star; a group standing as one has a much louder voice, one that is harder to ignore. It wasn't the BLM movement that escalated to this, remember that BLM is just the most recent name for the Civil Rights Movement. Even as a name, BLM is over a decade old.
With individual as well as societies, when someone is unheard the volume gets turned up. As a nation we could have prevented this by showing that BLM was heard, that Black and Brown voices mattered, that we value their lives more than we value convenience or property. We didn't do any of those things. As a nation and an administration, we can put an end to these protests by showing that these people are heard. Until we do, we can expect the protests to continue to get louder.
Like I said before, we've trained the population to know that the only way a cop gets arrested for murder is if at least three cities riot - BLM and the protesters didn't set these unofficial rules, but they have chosen to play by them. We have to stop blaming the disenfranchised when this is the only voice they have left, the privileged have taken away their voice -- this isn't the cause, it's the effect.