Tldr: it’s teal, but super saturated.

IDK, my standards are pretty fucking low as long as we’ve got Trump acting as the contrast against ‘the other guy’.

At this point I’d settle for a magic 8 ball as president.

IDK if they were really peaceful but at the time they were certainly called violent.

They worked because the Black Panthers were standing by with rifles, making it pretty clear what the next step would be if the peaceful protests were ignored as they are today. Today’s protests are all bark with no teeth to back to up in case barking doesn’t do the trick.

…and barking isn’t doing the trick.

Stupid fantasy, but hear me out: Trump’s bullshit successfully kills the two term limit: Obama jumps on the opportunity to run again, and the two compete for a 3rd term. We then get to enjoy watching Trump lose to a black man.

taps the sign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

But why didn’t anyone warn me that they were going to eat -my- face?! I’m a good <person with face>!!

“Man says ‘ow!’ after shooting self in liver - more at 11.”

Can you not recognize patterns?

The on-paper sales pitch you’re giving sounds great, but we’ve tried it. It hasn’t worked. When nonviolent protest isn’t effective, violent protest becomes inevitable. Even MLK Jr acknowledged that - literally in the middle of lengthy statement encouraging nonviolence.

The system we live in loves to ignore peaceful protests. We love looking at a crowd of people holding angry signs and saying “that’ll show em!” …and nothing changes, so we do it again. “Mission accomplished!” …and nothing changes, so we do it again. We get headlines like "Protesters have Republicans trembling in fear! or ‘fuming’! or ‘slammed!’ …and nothing changes, so we do it again. And we go back home learning about boycotts, sabotage, and feeling connected and inspired by others who feel just like they do. …and nothing changes, so we do it again some dude shoots a CEO dead for denying critical healthcare to millions of people: and claims approval rates skyrocket, controversial policies get rescinded, and the unethical nature of insurers takes the global spotlight for months.

Don’t get me wrong - I’d fucking love if we could just yell and angry-carboard all our problems away, but that is pure fantasy. It may well be a therapeutic outlet for the people protesting, but it’s not going to change shit. One dude with 3 bullets got more done for humanity than peaceful protests have in the almost 4 decades I’ve been stuck on this fucking planet.

So, if screaming into the void makes you feel better, by all means do it. I’ll even tap my horn and give you a thumbs-up as I’m driving passed you. But again, a hefty chunk of what would be my pay check goes to institutions and individuals whose function revolves around keeping our country intact and destroying our country’s enemies. Those institutions and individuals are asleep at the wheel right now while cartoonishly evil motherfuckers rip our country apart from the top, so I’ll say again to those people: do your fucking job!

I want teamspeak and vent

xFire. God I miss xFire. It was better 10 years ago than any service before or since.

Iirc Yahoo frivolous-lawsuit’ed them out of existence. Q_Q

It’s morally wrong to advocate for a status quo that’s wrought with carefully engineered suffering- that includes pretending to advocate against it by pushing methods that have proven ineffective over, and over, and over, and over again.

As far as calling on others to inflict violence, I’m actually paying them quite a lot of money to do exactly that. You are too if you happen to be a US tax payer. So I don’t have any issue at all with asking them to stop fucking around and do your job!!

https://www.army.mil/values/oath.html

Every single member of our military is oathbound to engage figures like Donald Trump the same way they do any other enemy of the US… so yeah, if they could maybe take a break from turning brown kids into skeletons and focus on an actual and growing threat to our country, that’d be greeaaat.

Will it happen? Probably not… If it was going to, it would have by now - apparently our military is as stuffed with traitors as our government. But that’s not going to stop me from bitching about it: that’s about all I have the power to do.

…and when you get home, what are you going to do with your uniform?

Peaceful protests invite the community and nurtures rapport.

…alright. So the community shows up and we’ve all establish rapport. A Nazi is still running the place and rights are dropping like flies.

They’re not mutually exclusive - we can do both - but the people in power will continue to ignore anything other than violence.

It all comes down to what the goal is. Different tools for different jobs.

Many yes but to the Elon goal is can deepen kill yourself with plus one messages.

So follow your nazi-rolemodel’s example and self-administer some antidepressants.

Piece of shit.

Peaceful protests across the nation haven’t accomplished jack.

Burn a few Teslas to the ground and one of the US’s most damaging enemies decides to back off from government.

Shoot a CEO that puts his own greed over human life, and we see other insurers loosen their grip a tad.

…and it goes both ways: carry out an insurrection, claim the presidency.

The system we live in responds exclusively to violence.

We’ve accomplished a lot, but at the end of the day we’re still a bunch of dumb fucking cavemen.

Hey a dopamine hit is a dopamine hit. Someone liking your post enough to upvote it is basically getting an internet first-bump. It’s not much, but getting that approval from people does feel good.

…we all have the super-power of literally administering a tiny dose of dopamine to nearly anyone in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz9J0OAr-xA

Edit- BRUH WTF THIS IS LITERALLY PROPHETIC!

As the saying goes, a republican would enthusiastically let you shit in their mouth if it meant a liberal had to smell it.

So… post screenshots of your reports against staff failing to feed the poor, hang out with prostitutes, comfort foreigners, fuck their father, murder their brother, or nail the chaplain to a couple planks?