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[–] 38 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This is precisely the problem, every generation after 60s stopped rioting. The FBI program worked: they assassinated the rioters, their families, stole their land, and enshrined the peaceful ones as “legitimate change.” Folks aren't rioting anymore, because the indoctrination works.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 week ago

    Yup. It took me a long time to realize that the "violence doesn't solve anything" mantra doesn't hold up. It's crazy that they taught us that at the same time they taught us about the revolutionary war, and we didn't question it. That's the power of repetition of propaganda at a very young age, I guess. Humanity learned how to domesticate humans, and the governments of the world used it to great success decades ago.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago*

    learned helplessness and a redirection of the general public's displeasure into the (now fractured and captured) digital spaces. sending a meme of a Guillotine isn't going to change anything either. Most people don't understand what it truly takes because most people were taught that all of the positive changes in their life happened with peaceful protest and a quiet resolve.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    The Chicano Moratorium Riots - 1970

    Attica Prison Uprising - 1971

    The Wounded Knee Occupation - 1973

    The White Night Riots - 1979

    New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots - 1980

    The 1990 Mercado Riots - 1990

    1991 Washington DC Riots - 1991

    Rodney King Riots - 1992

    The Battle of Seattle - 1999

    Cincinnati Riots - 2001

    Oscar Grant Riots - 2009

    Occupy Oakland - 2011

    Furgeson Riots - 2014

    Oakland Riots - 2014

    Baltimore Riots - 2015

    George Floyd Protests - 2020

    People definitely didn't stop rioting after the 60s. They kept rioting, and the people doing it have been black, queer, hispanic, indigenous, incarcerated, etc. People who are on the absolute margins of society, that have the least to lose and the most to gain.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    People who are on the absolute margins of society , that have the least to lose and the most to gain.

    Kinda hard to make change when you're the minority, huh. Now imagine if 70% of the population rioted all the way to D.C..

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