I had a friend in an urban area in the US with a small shop. There were two or three nights during festivals and Saturday nights in the summertime where I would bring my shotgun and just hang out. Just in case. Fortunately we never came close to needing it, but the risk was real.
What a piece of shit. This is not speaking truth to power, this is playing right into their hands and is hurting the legitimate protestor’s cause.
Burn the banks, smash the Starbucks, loot the Dior Store. But leave the small shops in peace.
If dissent is not heard, it must be felt.
These are the people who are endlessly blasting my country on lemmy. XD Fucking clowns
As Jello Biafra sang: “Trash a bank If you’ve got real balls”
I find it amusing that there’s a lot of sympathetic comments on this post putting a face on the consequences of these riots but on the other post showing a police car in a crowd all the comments were proud of the rioters.
I’m all for showing numbers and voicing our concerns but we’re just punching sideways when there’s a riot. I find it sad that people here on Lemmy side with the rioters
So you’re the type that thinks dancing at No Kings is an effective protest?
I’m the type that doesn’t consider burning down the city I live in and destroying public property is the path to progress. France’s economy is already strained and guess who’ll have to pay to rebuild everything? Hint: It’s not the elites
It might be cathartic to burn down your house because you don’t like your landlord but it doesn’t solve anything
I side with the rioters because rioting creates a capital cost that can not be ignored. Peaceful protests can be ignored and are ignored. Smash windows and burn buildings. After the riot capital has to respond. It’s juvenile to suggest political change can happen with none of the advocates harmed. That’s a fantasy. Revolutions are messy–that is the reality. I’d rather advocate and be in a messy revolution than peacefully protest as capital subjugates labour into a poverty state. Assassinate your landlord and every real-estate agent.
Yes, peaceful protests are easy to ignore. But surely there is a balance between “don’t break anything” and “destroy a working class business”.
Maybe destroy public property (the property of those that need to make the change) or the property of the ultra rich (the property of those that made the change necessary).
It’s like arguing that a kid who gets bullied is justified in responding violently, but instead of lashing out at a staff member or the bully, they’re beating up band kids
Go be a riot manager then. Good luck.
absolute fucking trash, jump kicking a retreating man from behind
attempted murder, lock 'em up
Then they will wonder why stores never open back up and others will wonder why nothing changed. If you want to protest, sit on your ass at home and don’t spend money or go to work for a week.
Grid lock the highway. Bring a tracktor or 20 friends in their own cars
I don’t like this idea because you end up blocking emergency services and people in emergency situations. Essentially you would be killing someone indirectly.
You can arrange to leave emergency vehicles through.
Could people take out their anger on the people causing rather than their peers? What kind of piece of shit do you need to be to not just ruin your peers life but also a whole movement by giving it a bad rep…
I forget the exact details but in Milwaukee the cops shot a black kid and in response the community… burned down a gas station and hair salon in their own neighborhood.
There was a clip of a woman being interviewed begging people to stop destroying their own neighborhood. Something like “go to the suburbs and burn their shit down!! We need our weaves!”
Idk. A lot of unfocused rage and anger will take itself out on the first thing it can find.
opportunistic assholes, the same sort of asshole that loot homes after flooding etc
Welcome to crab mentality. Humans are scared, dumb, fucking creatures, man.
The people responsible for this are just there for the violence, destruction and looting. They use the legit protests as a cover. They don’t care about the people or the movement
Stop oppressing us or we will steal video games from an easy target!
… At least we got a bad ass straight out of an anime photo out of this?
Bro was summoning the power of kakarot
As, so this is the shining example of protest so many of you have been insisting that Americans must replicate over the last couple years?
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “you need to protest like the French” on here. How righteous they are indeed.
Oh come on, you are kidding, right?
Amongst all the minions of protesters there are a few assholes that just want to riot and fight and you call that
shining example of protests
Of course its not, atop pretending it is
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Of course its not, stop pretending it is
Yeah, that’s literally my point.
The protests stem from underfunded schools. The US tried to sell ad space on a public execution. The countries are not comparable.
Its disgraceful to see the French doing this. The US should have done something ages ago.
Maybe they should be attacking government buildings.
They did that too.
Move in to the residences is the problem makers
Anarchism in lemmy posts is some utopia while praxis looks a lil bit different
Pray tell how this has anything to do with self-determined decentralized communal organizations, or did you just ask ChatGPT “what is anarchism” before this post
Thanks for sharing your conservative reactionary take…
Ok. Then this is what happens during the glorious revolution. After the revolution, contrary to the last X times, we will have:
self-determined decentralized communal organizations
That’s just tribes with extra steps.
Funny how cops are there to smash some high schooler but not to protect poeple from looters. It’s almost like they are not here to protect /s
Fastidious looters.
