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I've been arguing with people the last few days who claim these protests are being staged/controlled by powerful elites, and not one of them has been able to provide a lucid argument using solid facts for why that's true. Not one. Yet it's a common belief in conspiracy circles.
There's good conspiracy theory and there's bad conspiracy theory. Believing a brutalized and economically oppressed population is protesting police brutality and racism due to an elite conspiracy to forcibly remove Trump, in a f*cking election year, is bad conspiracy theory.
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Friendly reminder that in today's inverted totalitarian oligarchic empire, maneuvers designed to nullify and neuter the legitimate grievances of the populace are always preceded by the words "I hear you."
Ignore words and photogenic gestures of solidarity and watch what actual, tangible changes are being put into effect instead. You'll see two very, very different pictures. This applies to the official response to the protests, but it applies to politics generally and to manipulative people in your life as well.
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One thing all these videos are making clear is that there's a pervasive belief in police culture from coast to coast that it is okay to physically assault a stranger who has made you feel emotionally upset. An attack on the officer's ego is treated as an attack on the officer.
Police should definitely be made to feel ashamed of having this attitude. It's not okay to assault someone who hurt your feewings, you f*cking infant. You're a taxpayer-funded employee. You get to retire after 25 years. Get the absolute f*ck over yourself.
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Every time a libertarian on the internet paternalistically tells me he's "disappointed" in me for saying something he disagrees with, an angel gets its wings.
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Whenever you're worried about a major development in 2020, just relax and remember that it will soon be eclipsed by something much, much bigger.
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Just because there are powerful people conspiring to do terrible things does not mean they will succeed. They are not wise, they are not particularly smart, and they fail frequently. Don't make gods of these a**holes.
A lot of people think of the oligarchs like Greek deities moving chess pieces from Mount Olympus with total control over the affairs of man. In reality they're just sociopaths who don't understand normal humans all that well, and their agendas often face-plant. Don't fall into the trap of believing every minute detail of everything that happens is controlled by high-omnipotent manipulators. They're just clever primates who know a few tricks; they don't really understand healthy humans, and we constantly move in ways they didn't predict.
Humanity has so very, very much more potential than even most healthy humans understand, let alone sociopaths with no deep insight into human nature. Things are shifting, and the sociopaths will be the very last ones to know it. They'll have no idea what's going on.
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