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    “We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice”
    -Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  • §ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ@lemmy.ml
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    Remember when Biden condemned the brutal police response against the BlackLivesMatter protest? That’s when Trump was in office and Biden was running against him. He stated there must be a right to assembly and freedom of speech. Yet when he’s put in a similar situation, it’s no different. The US is accelerating their decline to further line the pockets of the ruling class. It’s legitimately horrendous!

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    In moments like this, there are always those who rush in to score political points. But this isn’t a moment for politics.

    Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden

    i-voted

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    Pro Palestinian protests

    The president stressed that violent protests are not protected under the law

    Still won’t admit these are anti genocide protests, and obviously does not care about the “counter protestors” who attacked UCLA students.

    The beatings will continue until moral improves.

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    What i figure from this is that the only reasons the Democrat party doesn’t win more often in the US, is that they’re really, really, really bad at their jobs.

    Like take Hillary for instance. She only lost because she managed to look more incompetent than Trump. Now Trump is doing his darnest that no one will be more incompetent than him, but by all the starts in the universe, genocide Joe will give him a run for his money

    Stay tuned for the election with the worst presidential candidates that the US could produce. It’s so embarrassing, i fear my face might freeze in the cringe.

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          Ripping a comment word for word:

          Especially when subject to leftist criticism will they suddenly swing hard right. Progressive liberals will take all sorts of quasi-socialist positions, as long as they are arguing with a reactionary under an overarching reactionary climate.

          But as we saw with Obama and Clinton, they will easily swing right when offered the most tepid social democratic criticism, let alone fully Marxist ones, if they fall for the propaganda that claims neoliberalism is “adult politics,” “reasonable,” “centrist.” The same people who protested Bush’s wars and called for UHC in 2007 were defending Libya and Honduras and attacking UHC in 2016.

          Liberals, progressive or reactionary, are consummate opportunists. They have to be, by necessity. If your average worker maintained a consistent set of values and historical vision, we would all be revolutionaries by now. Turning on a dime to talk out both sides your mouth is the only way to uphold a liberal political party’s line. “Respectability politics” can only work if people disrespect historical continuity and their own good moral/class sense.

          The same day they tell a white supremacist that the police are racist and corrupt and that we need strong social programs, they will tell a leftist that community self policing/armed self defense and serve the people campaigns are ridiculous. To them this hypocrisy is nuance, but to anyone with clear historical vision and class consciousness it’s just hypocrisy and a clear sign of how a protofascist develops

          https://np.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/69fohm/what_is_meant_by_scratch_a_liberal_and_a_fascist/

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          Liberals always passively let capitalism decay into fascism, because fascism doesn’t harm the capitalist class. When forced to make a choice between organizing to overthrow the capitalist state and letting it decay into fascism, they will always choose fascism.

          The Freikorps in Germany for example that hunted down communists, socialists, and trade unionists were already being trained and funded by the government even before the Nazis had ever come into power.

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      Hilary has negative charisma and being a Democrat woman for her was also a negative. The woman part was the worst.

      These are not my feelings about her (well, the negative charisma is) but just my view on why she had little chance versus Don Cheetos.

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    Let’s highlight the actual points in this article instead of taking Hexbear at their word:

    emphasizing that violent protest is not protected under the law.

    Biden emphasized that “peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues”

    “Whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans, it’s simply wrong… In America, we respect the right and protect the rights for them to express that, but it doesn’t mean anything goes. It needs to be done without violence, without distraction, without hating and within the law.”

    The president also said “no” to a separate shouted question asking whether he thinks the National Guard should intervene in the campus protests.

    To summarize, he respects their right to protest and called for nonviolence without citing any side in particular. Notable that there have been violent counter-protestors.

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    “Violent protest is not protected — peaceful protest is," the president said. “It’s against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest.”

    The president also said “no” to a separate shouted question asking whether he thinks the National Guard should intervene in the campus protests.

    The President is condemning violent protest and destruction of property here. It is still disheartening that this hasn’t changed his stance on Israel/Palestine.

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      Do note the Violent protesters" and “destructors of property” are the zionist infiltrators, not the antigenocide protesters. But Biden is so old, apparently everyone look the same to him.

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        You people always make the same excuses.

        “No! It’s not the people I align with who are violent! It’s the paid actors! No, it’s the Feds!”

        You have absolutely no evidence that all of the violence is being committed by “zionist infiltrators”.

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    President condemns illegal activity and antisemitism, supports protests. I’d be surprised by anything else.