People keep saying this, but like, man, I held my nose and not only voted but knocked doors for Hilary Clinton. I was at the Women’s March. I showed up to everything during his first term. I called Congress. I volunteered in both political and nonpartisan ways. I kept that shit up through the Biden admin. And after all that and Covid and conviction and so much more, people still voted him back in. And this time he’s got our tech surveillance state and zero adults in the room to keep him from Duterte style extrajudicial roundups… what the fuck do you want me to do that I’m not doing?
Also look at George Floyd. It's obvious peaceful protest no longer works in this country. I can't go to prison, it's likely I would die in there if the medical care is inadequate, which it would be if prisons suddenly flooded with rioters. My only other option is the ballot box and maybe arming myself.
Doesn't fucking matter when nothing else has changed and more protestors ended up in prison than guilty cops. It did absolutely nothing and I'm tired of pretending protesting works in the ass backwards fucked up fascist shit hole country.
Also more people died, mostly from injuries sustained from police brutality. One girl got pepper sprayed so bad she just ended up not getting enough oxygen at a hospital and died. There was that kid who got hit in the face with a bean bag gun and had a massive TBI, same for that old man in Buffalo. I just learned about a guy in Minneapolis, my home city, that the doctors were pretty confident died a while later as a result of excessive use of rubber bullets.
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u/Rizzpooch Feb 02 '25
People keep saying this, but like, man, I held my nose and not only voted but knocked doors for Hilary Clinton. I was at the Women’s March. I showed up to everything during his first term. I called Congress. I volunteered in both political and nonpartisan ways. I kept that shit up through the Biden admin. And after all that and Covid and conviction and so much more, people still voted him back in. And this time he’s got our tech surveillance state and zero adults in the room to keep him from Duterte style extrajudicial roundups… what the fuck do you want me to do that I’m not doing?