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  • 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

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  • Top of the world, ma

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  • Top of the world, ma

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    Unbiased sources

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    The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel

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  • The unfair society we live in

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  • The unfair society we live in

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

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    The unfair society we live in

  • No one is illegal

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

    They seem to just be stubborn and dumb.

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  • 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."

  • Idealism

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  • Truth bomb tbh

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  • People will stop calling you a racist when you stop acting like one by repeating racist talking points. It's in your hands.

    We have the means to feed everyone on the planet. We decided not to. You are this close to understanding imperialism and capitalism, but I'm afraid that from what we've witnessed so far, you don't have the ability to work both of your neurons hard enough to understand it.

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  • Ellis Island opens in 1892, over a century after the USA were created. There were no federal immigration controls before that. States handled arrivals loosely, if it all. Most migrants simply got off their boat and stayed.

    During its first decades, Ellis Island was not a modern border control but rather a filter for contagious disease and extreme incapacity (eg. they didn't want sick or handicapped people, only able bodied workers). Admission rate was 98%, it was triage motivated by stopping the recurring pandemics in the dense urban environment of NYC.

    US border control starts in 1921-1924 with the quota acts, although you could arguably say the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act is the real birth of it (that act did not come with the means to enforce it though).

    Aristide Zolberg's "A Nation by Design" goes through all of this. Read it and educate yourself instead of making a fool of yourself on the Internet. I must once again insist that you stop discussing history online. You will get clowned for it.

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  • You don't have to reply twice to the same comment.

    You already made it clear that you do not understand the difference between military and civilian structures, and have a negative understanding of political history. Don't need to clarify, we all saw it and understood.

    That fetish of yours for public humiliation is not my kink, sorry. You'll have to find someone else to continue the roleplay with.

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  • The Great Wall and Hadrian's Wall both served the same purposes:

    • Deterring raids and armed incursions, a purely military role
    • Marking the end of military control (eg. on the other side of this line you're on your own)
    • Signaling than anything within those walls would be subject to taxation (the price of military protection)
    • Enabling signaling (chains of beacons/towers to warn in case of military invasions)

    They were not designed to stop individual peasants or merchants. Those walls all had gates to let them in and out. In Frontiers of the Roman Empire, CR Whittaker goes through archaeological records to better understand Hadrian's Wall and its role, and did not find any form of deterrence against migrants or any historical record showing any individual border control.

    I am being condescending because you are being stubborn. I see no reason to be nice when you are speaking confidently about a topic you very clearly know nothing about, which happens to be one of my fields of expertise. You'd probably do the same if you were in my shoes, it is very frustrating to see misinformation spread on something you have academic knowledge of. If you are unwilling to learn and want to cling to your modern preconceptions of what a border is, then I must ask you to get the fuck out off radical leftist spaces and stop spreading your racist propaganda. You will never be welcome there as long as you hold those views.

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  • You're talking about power and territory, not borders.

    Roman, persian, egyptian frontiers were zones of influence, not fixed borders. Some of their frontiers contained fortifications ( like the Roman limes), but they were aimed at stopping armies of invaders, not individual migrants. A peasant or merchant could move across countries without having to go through border control or anything resembling a border. They were not able to join the local ruling class in most cases, due to being an outsider, but were still welcomed for their labor or money in the territory they had entered.

    Ages ago, for some political history courses, I had to read CR Whittaker's book called "Frontiers of the Roman Empire". As the title implies it touches on this very topic. I wouldn't recommend reading it, it's quite dull. Anyway, one of the first things it touches on is that trying to understand history requires shedding modern concepts. Borders are the first one he asks the reader to shed.

    Once again, you have a very poor understanding of geopolitical history. I don't think you should be talking so confidently about a topic you are completely out of your depth in. It makes you look like a dunce.

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  • Borders are a recent enough invention that two of my grandparents migrated before passports were a requirement when they were young newlyweds (showing my age lol). They traveled from Austria-Hungary to France though Germany, it was a normal migrant journey, you were casually welcomed and given citizenship by your new country as long as you had money to spend and/or could provide labor. Another one of my grandparents was a vagabond (vagrant) who just walked from place to place, changed countries often, he stopped when most countries adopted anti-vagrancy laws. This happened a century ago. It's recent history.

    WWI, colonialism, and the rise of nationalism and fascism in early XXth century europe are what caused borders to become strictly enforced. You have a very poor understanding of geopolitical history, and likely have been brainwashed by modern heinous discourses on immigration, like too many people sadly.

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  • You're talking shit about people who have been fighting fascism on the streets for years if not decades and asking how they benefit the fight that you just joined once it started targeting people like you.

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  • White moderates always asking "but what about me and my immediate priorities?" when people want to continue their long ongoing fight for minority rights, the instant they feel threatened by the same fascist state that had been targeting minorities for decades.

    Every time without fail.

    MLK was right.

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    Idealism

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    I have a tweet

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    When is the right time?

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    Vanilla Ice

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    The vibes defense

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    Imperialisms

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    Self-consciousness

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    Very normal beliefs

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    You choose who you platform

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    New empires, same old methods

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    Neutral news

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    All for one, one for all

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    Reality updated

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    Burger too juicy

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    Human casualties

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    Compromise culture

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    Average ideological debate