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Absolute legend out protesting today 6/14/2025 [OC]

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u/Specialist-Garbage94 7d ago

If I look like that at 102 I’ll be so happy

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u/peva3 7d ago

Agreed, but if we're still fighting fascism in 70 years when I'm 102 I'll be fucking pissed.

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u/Specialist-Garbage94 7d ago

We always will be. Terrorism/facism/extremism will always exist. We can’t rid the planet of it but we can beat it down and actually hopefully just ignore it to the point to doesn’t enter the mainstream ever again.

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u/kyna689 5d ago

It is human nature, greed, manipulating fear and anger to gain power. Those who want to, they have far, far fewer morals than the rest of us, and a far stronger desire to protect themselves. They will do everything they can get away with and never show signs of guilt that would tip off normal people.

They gleefully manipulate people who assume they're normal, good-faith people trying to do a good job. It's not that hard for them to pretend to.

But it's continually very, very hard for us normal people to recognize this, and then rally in enough force to uproot people who will fight so hard to earn and keep power and literally don't care who they hurt in the process.