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[–] 7 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

I wish No Kings protests in the US looked a little more like this. That's fucking awesome.

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  • [–] 1 point 47 minutes ago (2 children)

    Oh I mean, If you wanna go back to BLM where Americans set fire and destroyed several businesses sure. People act like Americans have never destroyed property, the problem is that it wasn't properly coordinated and people were burning down random fucking businesses rather than actual places that deserve it. All it lead to was food deserts and small businesses shuttering.

    Never mind the fact that we could and would absolutely get shot for rolling up on a cop car like this but, sure man. I do love getting my daily reminder from non-US people that I should go outside and get myself killed today.

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  • [–] 0 points 28 minutes ago (1 child)

    That's not what I meant and I'm pretty sure you knew that

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  • No, not really, and I mean that genuinely.

    There are too many people on here that say shit like "You should firebomb a Walmart" and mean it with their whole heart. We already had that with the Kimberly-Clarke warehouse and we got diaper shortages. Firebombing a Walmart only hurts the locals in the area who won't get food.

    Even with bombing a police station, pray that locals actually care about each other and can respond to emergencies appropriately. I absolutely think police need reform but I'm not gonna sit here and go "I don't need to call the cops if someone breaks into my house"

    Firebombing a billionaires house? Absolutely, it hurts no one else but them (pray that no house workers are in there). Fireboming cop cars when they're attacking protesters? Sure.

    But people are fucking stupid. Luigi shot did nothing to that CEO and that's great and all, but it didn't change anything. Now we got a chucklefuck who shot a random pharmacist because "Big Pharma Bad."

    I just think that too many people on here are encouraging senless violence rather than actual, planned, and carefully considerated operations. And i do not want to see innocents get caught up in brash, half-baked bouts of insanity because a person thought they were "helping."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Allez les gars, n'oubliez pas 1789!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    Damn French pigs

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  • [–] 29 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 34 points 5 hours ago (9 children)

    So the police aren’t completely militarized yet, like here.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Him, his family, everyone who donated over 10k in the last election to Republicans, anyone who donated to his ballroom fund and anyone he appointed to any government position need to be executed outright.

    All this bullshit about reforming/expanding the supreme Court is entirely unnecessary. Nothing that Trump has done is legitimate. Just retcon all of his actions since 2016. His SC judges? Yeah they're gone, straight to a military tribunal. The next president will get to nominate at least 3 new SC judges, and every case since a Trump nominee hit the court will need to be re-done. Same with his cereal judge nominations. Fox News will lose it's broadcast license along with other foreign owned media companies that have conspired to subvert our democracy.

    If there's any pushback, open the net. People that donated 5k or more, federal prison. All Republicans house/Senate members? Fucking dead.

    If they bitch, open it up more, their kids will have all assets seized, etc.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 hours ago* (2 children)

    Our police have low end military equipment, that's about it. Being militarized means not having fat lazy 40-60 year olds on the force, and America sure as shit ain't there yet.

    Our police love the optics of having military gear, but quite frankly they aren't trained and versed on military tactics, discipline, or a number of other things that would make them effective. That's why when there's a real problem like a school shooting or hostage situation they just stand around sucking each other off while wearing body army and holding $1500 AR's. They're just security theater. They care about getting easy overtime. They want to go home at the end of the day. They don't want to die violently. They are paper tigers.

    The best part is that when one dies or quits, they have to hire a replacement. It would be fairly easy to create a scenario where a PD NEEDS to hire new officers ASAP, then you flood then with Manchurian applicants. Get your man inside, then you're golden.

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  • [–] 2 points 54 minutes ago

    Our police love the optics of having military gear, but quite frankly they aren't trained and versed on military tactics, discipline, or a number of other things that would make them effective. That's why when there's a real problem like a school shooting or hostage situation they just stand around sucking each other off while wearing body army and holding $1500 AR's. They're just security theater. They care about getting easy overtime. They want to go home at the end of the day. They don't want to die violently. They are paper tigers.

    Weird, that perfectly describes the cops in the US.

    Oh and militarized just means giving the cops military equipment, mostly armored vehicles and projectile launchers that wouldn't normally be used in civilian work. Police are civilians, and I think they understand that in France better than anywhere, because you don't allow them military vehicles and gear to fight the populace. Unfortunately, no other country got the message. We give MRAPS to our thugs with badges. It's hard to fight back, even when you have pistols, shotguns, and rifles, when the thugs with badges have crowd control weapons. Sonic inhibitors, UV dispersal units, and lethal options like their standard issue AR-15.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    I dunno where the fuck you’re from but American cops definitely aren’t fat 40-60 year old slobs. That’s one of the things that is so dangerous about them, they’re young dudes with a chip on their shoulder and shit to prove (and now let just ICE, they’re the bottom of the barrel but they’re hadly an exception)

    Now if you’re from a rich community where everyone has gates and private patrols then yeah maybe it’s all fat old cops collecting a check where nothing happens because they roll out the SWAT team when people from “those other neighborhoods” get near, yeah maybe I see where the idea comes from

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  • [–] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    The French are fucking legit. We need that energy in the US. I mean, it's much easier to organize and meet in city centers in France than in the US, but if you can get 2000 dedicated and coordinated people to split into groups of around 500 and cause chaos simultaneously in any large city you'll overwhelm the local police, national guard, whoever they decide to call in. Plus a group of organized patriots could easily disperse and blend back into the crowd if needed, then re-convene, regroup, and hit them where they ain't. I mean FFS there's a national guard armory a few miles from me with hummers, apc's, a few tanks, and all sorts of sweet military gear. At any given time there's probably 30 people or less on site guarding things, and they don't really wanna die. There's a single chain link fence with some cantina wire keeping people out. A car or a pair of bolt cutters will take care of that. You show up with a few hundred armed civilians, smoke the hell out of the place, cut power lines to the armory, and let them know they can either hand over the keys, disarm, and leave, or they'll be burned down with the building they're in.

    Most military vehicles don't even have keys. If you get thru the fence and can open the door/hatch, it's yours.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago (17 children)

    This doesn't seem very safe. I hope they're protesting for something good this time, and not against environmental protections like last time.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

    Oh fuck off. They were protesting environmental legislation that hurt regular working class people that contribute less than 1% to global warming. While the same government fucks were giving tax breaks to corporations and billionaires that contribute 99%. "THIS DOESN'T SEEM SAFE" 😂😂😂😀 Are you an American? I wouldn't be surprised you pro-pedophiles would be put off by revolutionary action.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (4 children)

    Huh? I was being funny with the "safe" comment. Also, they weren't protesting tax breaks for billionaires, we're they? They were protesting environmental legislation.

    I do sympathize with this moment, however.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    They were protesting environmental legislation targeting the working class. It wasn't targeting the true polluters and it sure as hell wasn't going to curb climate change. The government tried to use the excuse of climate change as a way to tax the working class more. Let's be clear the neoliberal French government would never pass true environmental legislation because it would threaten business and elite interests!

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  • [–] 32 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Rising and unaffordable cost of living, education and underfunding thereof, amongst other things.

    From what I heard, it’s multiple things coalescing into a singular movement at this point

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  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

    Yeah the GJ are not good guys in my book.

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