When the people’s concerns are ignored, you get peaceful protests. When peaceful protests are ignored, you get civil disobedience. When civil disobedience is ignored…
This ain’t your Millennial’s Occupy. Gen Z is skipping straight to the real shit.
Only if they’re in a career that got some pay rises that sorta kept up with inflation in the last couple of decades such as software development or… Finance?
I’m an old millennial and many of the millennials that I know (around 70:30 split) have started a family. Usually when you have a child your perspective starts to shift.
Please enlighten us, how is this criminal conspiracy? What horribly illegal act did these protesters commit that justifies RICO charges? They’ve already arrested several and killed one for bullshit reasons. How are the RICO charges any different?
The fact that the cops put her in the men's detainment facility tells you everything you need to know about why they arrested her, the victim of the unprovoked attack. This is a hate crime from the men that attacked her and then from the police that are obviously and intentionally trying to humiliate her.
The Hamas charter contains a whole bunch of explicit antisemitism taken straight from the Nazis. My guess is that the Nazis think that people will somehow ignore their long history of hating Muslims too.
This is an egregious abuse of power. The US is built on protest, it’s often the only recourse available. If your policy ideas don’t hold up to public scrutiny and can’t survive a little peaceful demostration, then sorry, those ideas are shit.
One of the individuals charged in the RICO conspiracy is Thomas Jurgens, who was acting as a legal observer at a music festival March 5. Jurgens was arrested while wearing a bright yellow hat marking him as a legal observer.
This surely can only go well. The article doesn’t state much about the protestors angle at all. It just sounds like an authoritarian play using a draconian interpretation of long-standing laws to fuck with people you don’t like. Has nothing to do with actual racketeering or organized criminal activity, just some right-wing thought experiment trying to turn wording against their enemies. Never works in court though, so I don’t get why they keep trying this noise.
Did Trump pass out fliers? Organize a protest? Offend murders by calling them murderers? Was he arrested for wearing a yellow hat? Does he own a curious monkey named George?
Well that’s just idiotic grandstanding if true, because Trump’s plays out the steps EXACTLY on how to catch a RICO charge. It’s like a ‘Criminal Racketeering and Conspiracy to commit 100 Kinds of Fraud: For Dummies’ book.
It's not 'just' idiotic grandstanding, it's also how Republicans are intentionally eroding the power of our institutions.
Any tool that is brought to bear against them, they'll try to undermine and abuse so it's less effective for anything. They want it to look like RICO is just a partisan tool to go after your enemies. That makes democrats look as petty as them - if you ignore reality.
One of the ways you can tell Republicans are actively trying to destroy our democracy is the way the prefer political strategies that do as much institutional damage as possible.
And the governor praised the charges. That mother fucker needs to be removed from office. Republicans and conservatives need to be all removed from society.
Would that be the same Georgia governor who, as Georgia Secretary of State, oversaw his own election as governor, whose win against Stacey Abrams was (and will ALWAYS be) suspicious as hell, and who is even now doing everything in his power to make it harder for the people of Georgia to vote, especially people of color? That governor?
“Needs to be removed from office” is a great start. But if actual justice were applied under the law, that shithead would have a lot more to fear than a simple removal and retirement into mild disgrace.
If you don’t think dragging someone in to court and having to pay for and deal with all that BS isn’t undue punishment enough, then you’re either heartless all the same or not thinking it through.
Yeah the hassle/hardship that a lot of these people will endure due to these trumped up (no pun intended) charges is the real point; that and trying to deter others from using their rights to protest. I seriously doubt the prosecutors think they will actually win in court.
Both Trump and the Libertarian Party try and brand themselves as an alternative to the status-quo, in the hopes of attracting dissatisfied voters angry at the growing cost of living, the current war, and the immiseration of everyday life for working-class people.
my hot take on the booing is that it was staged to splash the libertarian brand across all major media sites to scoop up these very votes the article is talking about; at such a crucial time before the election, we’re seeing Biden fail to inspire the masses—and, frankly, his age—and Trump continuously failing as a the successful, antiestablishment businessman he convinced many he was in 2016. isn’t the alt-right’s strategy for this election to sway votes away from Biden; no consideration for where they land, left or right, just as long as Biden doesn’t land them?
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