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Yup that's the one!

On a long term quest to make more "shareable with a wider public" versions of some smug ideology classics.

Major capitalist countries are extremely authoritarian, the issue is not inherent to any ideology or mode of production.

Capitalism has the need for a strong privately owned military-industrial complex to protect the assets of its ruling class. This complex needs to sell weapons to sustain itself financially, so violence, war, repression, imperialism, colonialism are natural consequences of capitalism and don't even need any "personality disorders" to happen.

"But authoritarian communism happened" gets an "eh ok sure whatever" from me given the state of the capitalist world, only a few elites within the imperial core are living a life free of authoritarianism right now (and that's only because they don't really notice it).

Thanks for correctly understanding the plight of orangites.

Good catch, I do draw in MSPaint :)

Lemmy users thinking they're better than redditors but upvoting this

Well if it's strictly about guns, then the american left has a point to prove about the second amendment.

Is it only there to help school shooters, or is it about well regulated militias opposing tyranny?

Waiting and watching.

I have breathing issues due to being tear gassed too often, my left shoulder suffers from very painful tendinitis that will probably never go away due to being tossed on the ground / beat up, got an acquaintance who lost an eye to a rubber bullet, that's the life of a regular french demonstrator.

You are severely underestimating the violence of french anti-riot policing methods. Those weapons might sound chill due to being labeled "non-lethal", but they're actually quite lethal (people die regularly) and violate the Geneva protocol (tear gas usage is theoretically banned on civilians).

If you believe it's that relaxed, come demonstrate in France, see what it's like to be charged at by 100 dudes in full body armor swinging at you trying to do maximum damage while you're caught in a cloud of toxic gas with nowhere to run. You thought the press could cover your ass by filming the police violence, or that the government would do something about police brutality? Guess what, they target journalists too, and our govt encourages police brutality.

If you're looking for excuses, don't drag us into it. Protesting in France isn't an easy affair, we genuinely put our lives on the line every time we go out there. It's the police that decides how violent protests are, the reason you hear so much about french "riots" is because our police keeps escalating the violence. We have a peaceful nature.

Americans need to shut the fuck up about the rest of the world I swear. You're not that special. 

Rubber bullets banned in many countries, people lose eyes to them in France

Tear gas long term health effects

Casualties from the yellow vest protests

Police violence on journalists

This documentary's trailer should tell you enough about our riot police situation

If you want to reuse it instead of the antisemitic one, I've uploaded a blank and more neutral version on my templates page ;)

Would be the case if they were able to read/understand.

They seem to just be stubborn and dumb.

I was referring to MLK's thoughts on white moderates' tendency to hijack/coopt civil rights activism and neuter it, not to anything he might have said about open borders (which he opposed afaik).

First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."