wonderingwanderer

"Bro, I'll deport your wife if you deport mine"

Like when they played "Born in the USA" at a "patriot" rally...

Have you been keeping tabs on everyone who has a problem with what's going on, so that you can so confidently say that they didn't give a shit about it before? Or do you just get off on feeling superior, and you're prioritizing that over the need to contribute to the momentum that's happening now?

Are you forgetting 2020, and the months-long nationwide protests that erupted in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis? Or do you think the people who are outraged today aren't for the most part the same people who were outraged then?

Even back then I remember folks like you complaining about how the rest of the movement supposedly didn't care before. How far back does one have to go? Cause I guarantee you no one alive today was around to support abolition, if that's what's required for you to be satisfied.

You seem to be projecting though, because despite eveyone who did care when the victims were black, you seem to not care now that the victim is white. You seem more upset that people care about this than you are about the fact that someone was murdered.

"No one would care if the victim was black." Bitch, please. There's a recurring pattern of chasing away everyone who cares, only to complain next time that no one cared last time. You're shooting yourself in the foot over and over again and blaming anyone who tries to help.

Thank fuck not everyone is as smug as you, otherwise no one would ever join a progressive cause. You realize in order to effect change in this system you need to convince a sizable portion of voters that you actually have their best interests in mind, right?

Well you're not them. And I never claimed my opinion matters, noticed I haven't even expressed my personal opinion

Yup, they deliberately try to provoke anxiety because if you have a panic attack they can book you for disorderly conduct. It's really cruel, especially for people with PTSD like you pointed out. A lot of veterans get arrested that way.

So the news site "LGBTQ Nation" was supposed to ignore the fact that the woman murdered happened to be queer?

And it's not erasure for you to say her queerness shouldn't be in the reporting?

This comment thread is literally on an article about people in Iran rallying to his call for a mass demonstration. Read the room.

Are you in Iran right now, participating in their protests? Cause if not, you have no right to tell them who they should or shouldn't follow. That's your own unexamined colonizer mindset showing.

“The lack of a viable alternative has undermined past protests in Iran,” wrote Nate Swanson of the Washington-based Atlantic Council, who studies Iran.

“There may be a thousand Iranian dissident activists who, given a chance, could emerge as respected statesmen, as labor leader Lech Wałęsa did in Poland at the end of the Cold War. But so far, the Iranian security apparatus has arrested, persecuted and exiled all of the country’s potential transformational leaders.”

Keep waiting for your perfect leader, but the Iranian people are moving on without you.

They were probably trying to provoke him so they would have a reason to arrest him.

Cops shouldn't be allowed to touch civilians unless they have a reason to make an arrest.

Like if the only charge is "resisting arrest"... Why the fuck were they trying to make an arrest in the first place?

But they're professionals at making up bs charges. "Trespassing" in public... "Disorderly conduct" is somewhat of a catch-all...

I wasn't sure what you were getting at, I thought it was kind of ironic but now I see the self-deprecation was intentional. Carry on.

Is there any credible reason to believe the US had anything to do with toppling Assad?

Or do you simply not believe an Islamic rebel group would be capable of a successful lightning offensive otherwise? Cause that's pretty demeaning if so...

If there were an option who has "done leadership in Iran," that person would be part of the current regime. Any potential grassroots leaders have been exiled.

This rhetoric that "surely there's a better [hypothetical] option" is the sort of perfectionism and ideological purism that dooms so many movements. Keep waiting for a hypothetical "better option," you might as well be waiting for a messiah.

The practical reality is that the crown prince is a figurehead that the liberation movement can rally around, and indeed they are rallying to his call. That alone makes him the best available option, as the momentum being generated is what's critical. To say "wait, why don't we wait for someone better to come along" only helps the ayatollah.