As US President Donald Trump gears up for the first major military parade in the US in decades, protesters are planning "No Kings" events all over the country on Saturday.
I hear the spirit of what you’re saying, and don’t oppose it with any venom, but I also think that it would take a smaller number of privileged liberals getting shot with rubber bullets to create massive outrage than revolutionary leftists. It will be cool if things can work with just a warning dire warning of numbers, but it will also be incredibly useful to the cause if the cops fuck this one up.
I don’t say this lightly, my own mother will be there and I would never want her to be hurt, but I also know how much it would motivate her bourgeois friends if she experienced even a waft of teargas. Much like republicans, centrists are most strongly motivated when circumstances hit them directly.
I hear the spirit of what you’re saying, and don’t oppose it with any venom, but I also think that it would take a smaller number of privileged liberals getting shot with rubber bullets to create massive outrage than revolutionary leftists. It will be cool if things can work with just a warning dire warning of numbers, but it will also be incredibly useful to the cause if the cops fuck this one up.
I don’t say this lightly, my own mother will be there and I would never want her to be hurt, but I also know how much it would motivate her bourgeois friends if she experienced even a waft of teargas. Much like republicans, centrists are most strongly motivated when circumstances hit them directly.