• Endymion_Mallorn
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        27 days ago

        They’re the ones who have the guns and the badges. I can’t bring overwhelming force that would allow me to tell them anything.

        • @[email protected]
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          67 days ago

          The people outnumber the cops by orders of magnitude.

          They are the problem, too. Not the solution.

      • Endymion_Mallorn
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        17 days ago

        An area designated by an armed force that is intended to have zero non-uniformed individuals, which is held by force, and which will be defended by escalating levels of violence if violated.

      • Endymion_Mallorn
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        17 days ago

        Yup, it certainly is. Best place to be when there’s cops out there and a crowd of people determined to be where the cops tell them not to be. I’m not disagreeing with you, and frankly I don’t see it as an insult. I’m not where the police are, and I encourage everyone else to take steps to be where the police aren’t.

    • FiveOP
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      549 days ago

      Your ignorance in this context is really gross.

      • Endymion_Mallorn
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        39 days ago

        I’m not really concerned about my ignorance on the details. My feeling has been and continues to be that if people with guns tell you not to be in a place, you should not be in that place

        • @[email protected]
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          39 days ago

          Yeah, I agree with you fully.

          Downvote me if you want, but if I am being ordered to leave the area by people with guns, I will leave.

          That does not mean I won’t help in other ways… if I knew where a confrontation was likely to happen and had the equipment, I’d try and set up cameras so there was evidence recorded.

            • @[email protected]
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              27 days ago

              So not going to a public protest against fascism makes me a bootlicker?

              If the appearance is all that matters, perhaps, but I’d rather skip the appearances and work in the shadows if fascism comes.

              By participating in a public protest, the government will sooner or later find out who you are, I’d rather stay off their radar as that would allow me to act with less oversight

          • FiveOP
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            189 days ago

            It’s one thing to be happy to concede your constitutional right to assemble and protections for the press to bullies with guns.

            It’s another to distance yourself from the brave injured journalists and blame the people with cameras for the actions of tyrants.

              • FiveOP
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                9 days ago

                What does “Don’t be in a zero zone, that’s all there is to it.” and “I agree with you fully.” mean, if you’re not endorsing someone who blames the journalists for being harmed while *checks notes* doing their job reporting on civil unrest with cameras in proximity to armed police?

                • @[email protected]
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                  28 days ago

                  That was not the comment I replied to, and to be fair, I should have said something like “This is something absolutely agree with” to clarify that I spoke about that specific comment.

                  I’ll also take this time to ask a question, are public protests the only way to fight oppression?

                  I ask because, while I stand by that if someone with a gun tells me to leave, I will leave, there is plenty of other things someone can do to fight for freedom that does not involve mass protests.

        • Doom
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          139 days ago

          this is straight loser cuck shit to say.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness
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          209 days ago

          You think you can stop fascists without going against the orders of people with guns? Yeah that’s not how that works.