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Nipped from a friend: Oh, I see.
You think the demonstrations are for just that one guy?
And in your head, thousands of people marching and destroying (stuff) isn't worth just that one man.
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Nipped from a friend: Oh, I see.
You think the demonstrations are for just that one guy?
And in your head, thousands of people marching and destroying (stuff) isn't worth just that one man.
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You think, for some reason, that this is about one man killing one man and that's the math you're trying to make sense of in your head.
They're not demonstrating for George alone.
They're not even demonstrating for Breonna and Ahmaud.
You think, for some reason, that this is about one man killing one man and that's the math you're trying to make sense of in your head.
They're not demonstrating for George alone.
They're not even demonstrating for Breonna and Ahmaud.
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They're fighting an entire social system that makes them less.
They have a novel virus that is killing, mostly, their people.
They have a tanking economy that recently lost, mostly, their jobs.
They're fighting an entire social system that makes them less.
They have a novel virus that is killing, mostly, their people.
They have a tanking economy that recently lost, mostly, their jobs.
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They have a healthcare system that doesn't aid them, a society that doesn't see them and have been told for years "Hey, we get that you're upset, but can you be quieter? We don't like when you make a fuss."
They have a healthcare system that doesn't aid them, a society that doesn't see them and have been told for years "Hey, we get that you're upset, but can you be quieter? We don't like when you make a fuss."
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When they kneel, they're fired.
When they write a letter to the Vice President, they get chided.
They aren't TRYING to make you comfortable.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO HURT.
That's what rebellions do.
And rebellions are patriotic.
When they kneel, they're fired.
When they write a letter to the Vice President, they get chided.
They aren't TRYING to make you comfortable.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO HURT.
That's what rebellions do.
And rebellions are patriotic.
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Every right we have in this country was bought with blood.
Your weekend?
Your 40 hour work week?
Your 15 minute breaks?
People rioted for that. There was blood shed. There's a death toll.
Your right to vote?
Every right we have in this country was bought with blood.
Your weekend?
Your 40 hour work week?
Your 15 minute breaks?
People rioted for that. There was blood shed. There's a death toll.
Your right to vote?
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Women and POC were beaten, tortured, hung, force fed with tubes. There was rioting. And a death toll.
Every little comfort in your modern life, someone else died for.
Women and POC were beaten, tortured, hung, force fed with tubes. There was rioting. And a death toll.
Every little comfort in your modern life, someone else died for.
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And it sounds AWFULLY judgmental, and rather Aristocratic, to sit on your cushioned couch in your air conditioning with coffee cup in hand, sipping and typing "well, violence isn't the way".
Yes it is.
It's always been the way.
You're just too pampered to see it.
And it sounds AWFULLY judgmental, and rather Aristocratic, to sit on your cushioned couch in your air conditioning with coffee cup in hand, sipping and typing "well, violence isn't the way".
Yes it is.
It's always been the way.
You're just too pampered to see it.
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Look back at your history. The history you benefit from every day.
Go read about the child labor laws.
The Suffragettes.
The civil rights movement.
The union riots.
Go read about what you were given on someone else's back.
Then sit back and watch.
Look back at your history. The history you benefit from every day.
Go read about the child labor laws.
The Suffragettes.
The civil rights movement.
The union riots.
Go read about what you were given on someone else's back.
Then sit back and watch.
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The people are hungry.
Angry.
And scared.
That's when history is made.
The people are hungry.
Angry.
And scared.
That's when history is made.
