when this happened in france riots set the city on fire https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66038227
americans are too placid
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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We had sustained national protests for months just a few years ago. The problem isn't that we're placid, but that the barriers we face to organizing mass movements are close to insurmountable and there's no available and responsive avenue to successfully lobby for change in our so-called democracy.
It's the state and all of its carceral powers against a politically uneducated population that's one arrest away from getting fired and then one missed paycheck away from homelessness, or one injury at the hands of a too-excited cop away from medical bankruptcy.
Judge, jury and executioners.
What did she think was going to happen when she rammed a cop with her 4000 lbs car?