Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book,” filled with grotesque and fawning tributes to the late pedophile and trafficker of women, exposes the real social physiognomy of the US ruling class.
I always tell this to people calling me to go to protests now: “Call me when you guys actually intend to burn shit down and drag some necks into the guillotine. If you’re just gonna pretend to be angry, I’m not interested.” No change will ever come from playing their game, Dr King showed everybody that even if you’re playing with their rules, you’ll still end up with a bullet if you become too big of a threat. The real game is all about violence, one side is more than willing to use it, why aren’t we?
I’ve been to lots of protests, even crossing half my country to go to some (huge country btw), for decades. I just got tired of everybody pretending to be angry and then celebrate pyrrhic victories, if we even managed to get one. I was politically involved and pissed since my early teens, but nothing has ever truly changed due to protests. Only shallow changes, promptly reversed a few months or years later and nobody cared, because nobody was willing to even cause destruction of property at the very least. I got pepper-sprayed too many times to bother with fake outrages. If nobody is going to really care, neither will I.
Well, the simple answer is that the other side has military hardware. Most people don’t want to be martyrs, so it won’t happen until someone steps up and crowd mentality kicks in.
I always tell this to people calling me to go to protests now: “Call me when you guys actually intend to burn shit down and drag some necks into the guillotine. If you’re just gonna pretend to be angry, I’m not interested.” No change will ever come from playing their game, Dr King showed everybody that even if you’re playing with their rules, you’ll still end up with a bullet if you become too big of a threat. The real game is all about violence, one side is more than willing to use it, why aren’t we?
King’s protests held weight because the movement could potentially turn violent if he wasn’t listened to. It’s what happened with Gandhi.
If you’re not willing to go to even simple protests, I have terrible believing you’d be up for anything violent.
Plus protests have more users than their immediate effects.
I’ve been to lots of protests, even crossing half my country to go to some (huge country btw), for decades. I just got tired of everybody pretending to be angry and then celebrate pyrrhic victories, if we even managed to get one. I was politically involved and pissed since my early teens, but nothing has ever truly changed due to protests. Only shallow changes, promptly reversed a few months or years later and nobody cared, because nobody was willing to even cause destruction of property at the very least. I got pepper-sprayed too many times to bother with fake outrages. If nobody is going to really care, neither will I.
Well, the simple answer is that the other side has military hardware. Most people don’t want to be martyrs, so it won’t happen until someone steps up and crowd mentality kicks in.