Better to be on your own than live under the thumb.

Ok, dad.

It’s a hole in the theories. The universe is fine.

The only thing better is to be a giant, unkillable sex wizard and not be remembered.

Not good. Just a form of power, and they work sometimes, and not others.

Good to know you’re not armed.

It should have had /s, apologies. I’m indirecly saying you have a very reasonable viewpoint.

I get your perspective. I just don’t agree. The response has depended on good documentation, and clear innocence. Even Good didn’t inspire this kind of response. Pretti is someone who clearly had the capacity to do harm, being armed, and yet didn’t even draw. He couldn’t even vaguely be conceive of as “armed”, unlike Good (regardless of how much of a stretch that was). And Pretti was filmed from multiple angles by people who were, by the way, organized and galvanized due to events involving Floyd, Garcia, and Martinez.

Aside from that - I knew where this was going when dubya hit office. But I understand people trying their best to make things work, and knew it would take a lot to get the ball rolling, particularly with the naive bent on the “left”. …and I understand that people of any color will believe whatever fits their world view. If they’re wrong (and we all are, to some degree), some are lucky enough to have a willingness to grow, or to have that world view break. The rest live in their assumptions and pay the psychological and physical price for their views until they’re dust.

Good luck out there.

Calling people you imagine to be enemies fragile doesn’t make them fragile, and may not even make them your enemies. Case in point.

Glad it found a home.

Blockchain game ownership.

You’re seeing the effectiveness of community organisation efforts to impact larger groups of people. That community was largely established in response to events like Floyd, González and Garcia.

The event with Pretti was filmed from multiple angles by community members. The evidence is unequivocal.

• he was carrying, and didn’t attempt to draw, which establishes ultimately peaceful intent
• the gun was completely removed from him before shooting began
• he was shot while under control of four other men

There was zero justification, and it’s documented. That is why there’s such a major uptick in response. …and that documentation was in direct response to the prior wrongdoing which was not in response to white people being threatened.

This is a lot of people, from different backgrounds, looking out for each other. What more do you want?

They’re probaby a propagandist, just like OP - and if they aren’t, they’re just free labor for ICE, since they’re acting like it. Slavery, and the wounds caused by that, have many layers. Don’t let 'em get you down, just live your principles.

I’ve seen a lot of respect for the Black Panthers showing up to open carry from 2A folks.

I’ve been saying this for fucking ages. Thanks for posting it, it’s nice to see.

You’re not on “the right side of history” if you’re just driving people to the fascist right with your rhetoric.

…but… …what about infighting? How are we supposed to do that if we think like this?

propagandist.

Absofuckinglutely.

If action is your goal, then when you see action, you support it. Address the inaction of those who are not acting, and support those who are. Bitching about the way it was is not helpful.

There was also no absolute systemic instability at that point. the seeds of it were there, but there was still hope to change the system.