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  • stembolts@programming.dev
    361·
    6 months ago

    Surely not. We have the right to assemble and protest right?

    Not like there are examples of police beating the fuck out of unarmed students, or watching armed citizens attack other citizens and doing nothing about it. That would be a fascist police state, now wouldn’t it?

    Remember, rights you feel uneasy exercising are rights you don’t have. Flip-off a cop, tell them to go fuck themselves, call them a pig, it’s every American citizen’s right to do so.

    So now that you’ve thought about that, do you have those rights? Or no?

    • Jimmybander@champserver.net
      7·
      6 months ago

      There simply weren’t enough protestors. We let the students take the fall for the rest of us. The law is never gonna change itself.

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
      36·
      6 months ago

      I feel like I could, but I’m not an asshole and normally don’t shout obscenities to people doing their job. Maybe it’s a Canadian thing?

      • stembolts@programming.dev
        4·
        6 months ago

        It’s not about being an asshole.
        It’s about verifying that those rights exist.

        When we first think, “I would be able to exercise that right in theory, but it would be rude,” that tells me that as the oppessor all I need to do is convince people that being rude is worse than being free.

        Not everyone is suited to challenge authority, but if no one feels safe doing so then the dominoes of fascism have already begun to fall.

        The least we can do is film, document, report, and support those who make the challenge.

  • Maeve@kbin.social
    262·
    6 months ago

    Of course not. We are already there with the illusion of liberties, if privileged enough.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      It’s like a slow moving tide. People keep asking if there’s going to be a flood while walking around in waist deep water.

  • Pollux@leminal.space
    222·
    6 months ago

    Implying that it’s not fascist already with the state cracking down on protesters against genocide

    • gentooer@programming.dev
      8·
      6 months ago

      The term fascism stems from that period, from the Italian Fascist Party. It just was a slow roll during the Weimar Republic, in which violence and politics became more and more entangled until they were indistinguishable from each other.

      There of course were a lot of people standing up against fascism and nazism, but it wasn’t unilaterally seen as something really bad until after the second world war.

      • Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        93·
        6 months ago

        The party currently in power who are funding a genocide right now and cracking down on protesters are leading the way to fascism just the same. Them pinkwashing it with rhetoric doesn’t change that.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 months ago

    You’re in the pot, the water is rapidly boiling. You’re not headed towards, you’re in it.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    42·
    6 months ago

    Before jumping into a new (to me) YouTube creator’s videos, I need a few people to please describe them and any b.s. in their presentation of information one should be aware of when watching their videos?

    • Shyfer
      4·
      6 months ago

      This guy’s videos are usually pretty good. They got a quick pace, good editing, and explain things really well. They are a socialist so they have a bias in that way, but they’d be the first to admit it and to say that every creator has a bias of some sort or another.

        • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          I’d agree, I’m apparently subscribed lol. I only subscribe after seeing multiple videos that I like.

          Second Thought is the channel name (for the people who were searching for it in the comments like I was)