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Fuck yeah! More violence! Let the blood run through the streets, may your children grow up without fathers, and your daughters carry your replacement for the front.
didn't realize trying to deter people from committing violence by showing that you can defend yourself was itself committing violence
Congrats on getting the most downvotes I think I've seen someone get on Lemmy in a long time.
Thanks, I'm hoping the advertisers will notice.
We didn’t start the bloodshed, the Republicans are attacking us and we are merely defending our safety.
"Rather live oppressed than die free".
Idiot, truly.
At the current rate you, your wife and your children will die in a concentration camp or get executed for looking at a fed the wrong way. Better to die resisting than while licking boot.
There is a whole universe of difference between Black Panthers present as an armed deterrent to defend protesters peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights, and agents provocateurs there to start shit and raise hell to light the match for the real violence against all of us to begin.
Or, to put it more simply, do you see these guys shooting? No. You do not. You see them walking calmly in open carry. That is not violent protest; it is a very strong preventive of violent protest.
And frankly you sound angrier about that than you do the reason the Black Panthers are there in the first place. Maybe go read something about the Black Panthers, starting with the above article. You might learn something. They are on the side of the community, first and foremost. That may not be your side, but it sure as fuck is mine.
They have committed no acts of violence. Arguably they are the most effective deterrent
I'd hate to see them shoot anyone in the face, like some kind of ICE agent, that sure would be terrible. Expect that they don't. They are defensive, they are heroes, take your rhetoric of imagined violence and shove it up your ass where the real brutalization and murder of innocence lives.
Maybe you shouldn't have voted for this then. Weird how the one not wanting bloodshed is the one perfectly fine with what's going on.