Okay, three days since this warning. Closing topic now.
Real question: if we just parked our cars in the streets during these events and blocked the road, what could they do about it?
Yes I get that my license plate is on there and that maybe I'll get a ticket. But think about how many of those people actually have options beyond recording on their phones that is also nonviolent.
Don't drive aggressively into their cars or whatever but it shouldn't be too hard to organize a blockade down the road a bit.
One car is a hassle and needs a towing. 20 cars would be very difficult to remove. Of course it depends on territory (they might just drive off road and around) but consider your local geography and with some planning surely there's a bottleneck that can be a real headache to them.
It has been multiple days since this topic was created. The original poster has seen my moderator-tagged message on the top of this post by now, and has even responded to other posters in this topic.
I'll give it a few more days before locking. As a new rule, I'd like to say that the original topic creator should be able to adequately explain why their topic deserves a "Best Of Lemmy" if pressed by the moderators or community. Upon failure to discuss or otherwise uphold the spirit of this subcommunity, the topic can be locked, deleted or otherwise killed.
This doesn't feel like a BestOfLemmy to me. But it's not bad enough for me to delete it.
I know everyone has different opinions on various matters. But the argument here isn't even good in its original context.
That being said, I'm thinking of locking this topic as I doubt any good can come from it. I would like to highlight good discussions across Lemmy (including political ones) but this just isn't very good on any objective basis.
This is kinda bad 'I don't care that you care' in too many words.
That's all well and good.
But if enough of people voted for Kamala, we would have been out of this mess. And that's the honest truth.
And now I see a topic about people making fun of Chuck and Jeffries. Okay, lets go see where that goes in a few years. Yall are fucked and can't even build your own political coalitions or support your own fucking guys.
You guys ain't my team. I consider myself conservative.
This entire fucking exercise is me coming over to liberal heaven in a mild hope that y'all can learn how to fucking realpolitik enough to beat Trump. Because y'all fucking suck at it.
I'd rather have reasonable conservatives in charge. But that's not an option. The goal now is to give Democrats / Liberals a bit of an idea of what fucking works and how to grab onto the reins of power for yourself, and so to remove it from Trump.
But yes. Please tell me how I'm an Ideologue.
Yes yes yes. And there's no difference between Trump and Kamala. I've had this discussion before.
If you don't like it, then either get a different server or get more creative and less predictable. .ml users all sound the same to me. I know where this discussion is going and I'm just shortcutting it to the end to save us some time.
Glory to China, death to America, Imperialism, NATO expansion and all that jazz. Yes I know I know.
Tankie: a liberal more interested in fucking up other liberals than actually going after Trump or conservatives.
denies a currently active genocide and tries to equate it to the USA.
Ah, a typical .ml post. Yes.
I feel like there isn’t an assertion that the police would act out from ignorance of the law, but just how they operate. If anything the enhanced legal awareness may embolden them to know how far they can push the line and get away with it.
More importantly, their enhanced legal training means that in say, 80% of cases, I'd expect an Officer to win in most legal fights vs a typical layperson (ex: typical protesters).
Yes we have some incredible abuses out there and it's important to bring up Police Abuse to raise awareness. But there's also the pragmatic truth that we cannot expect for protesters to truly match up well in a legal fight vs Officers.
There's some dumbass advice out there about knowing your rights and asking the officers badge number and stuff. I think for most laypeople, this is bad advice because the typical protesters or layperson will mess up in the interaction. The proper recommendation when dealing with officers is to remain quiet and call your lawyer, and then have your lawyer always speak for you.
This NEEDS to be saved. People will forget if we don't save this.
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Hopefully next time Democrats can give a better strategy than pretending that immigrants stand together.
Ex: Kamala is Indian and Black. Guess who is coming from a deeply segregated country where they believe certain castes to be racially superior to other castes?
You ain't gonna get kumbaya togetherness as a message and get the Indian vote. You'll be seen as naive.
Democrats are shit at understanding politics or how groups think. Republicans have outplayed you on this political point and it's why the racial politics are more 50/50 than you expect.