Peaceful… until the cops show up and get violent with the protestors.
Bingo. Cops excel in escalation.
They’re thoroughly trained in deescalation tactics, then use inverse language to justify self defense and charges.
Honestly that’s kinda optimistic compared to reality.
Warrior cop training needs to fucking stop.
Absolutely. The “identify and neutralize threats” approach is a huge problem, but that’s not the strategy they use for escalation. They don’t flex overt authority to incite a reaction. They use manipulative tactics and false representation of the victim’s language or behavior to frustrate and confuse them into overreaction. I’ve been through enough deescalation training to recognize the inverse tactics they frequently use in altercations.
We see the same escalation tactics in some European countries, where Police gets a 2-3 years training plus regular on the job training. They know exactly what and how they are doing it.
this is what always makes me insane. police presence inherently increases tension because oh now here’s a gang of jackbooted thugs with guns and tasers and the power to ruin your life and/or murder you and get away with it, just hangin out. just tryna keep people safe.
i mean that shit must only work on the boomeriest boomers, right? that would only help at a particularly rowdy Kenny Chesney concert
It kind of sucks that having literal video proof of how it all went down doesn’t actually matter. They just say whatever they want, and so many people will never look into it, just take their word.
Too bad Biden and other “moderates” Dems care about as much about facts and logics as trump does.
Their donors want them to shit on protestors, so that’s what they’ll do.
Biden’s going to fuck around and let trump win because he can’t stand up to Israel.
[serious] why are there so many ‘moderate’ biden stans on this site (not you, but generally)? i thought lemmy was the sort of leftist reddit alternative
Because it’s a misrepresentation of people defending Biden and leftist in general.
Just because someone defends Biden doesn’t mean they support him. There’s a lot of hyperbolic invective being directed at him. And he definitely has himself to blame for some of it. Expediting CONGRESS’S shipment of arms to Israel. And trying to stay as neutral and diplomatic as possible in the face of the horrors Israel is unleashing.
It seems suspicious how narrow the focus is on him however. With literally no one pestering their Congress critters who could actually do something about all of this. Sure we should pressure Biden to lead better. But if people actually wanted to get things done and not just virtue signal, they’d be yelling at Congress more.
And finally leftist != accelerationist. Some, like ML know their ideology isn’t an actual improvement over capitalism. That the only way they could convince people to switch to their ideology is to destroy and degrade things much like capitalists do to other countries. But plenty of us lefties think both of them are wrong and pragmatically try to work to make things better.
Biden is the face of the Democrats. He is the president of the country and the supposedly strongest leader in the world.
Of course the focus is on him. In the same way when you talk about the French government the focus is on Macron, or talking about Ukraine it is Zelensky, talking about Germany it is Scholz and talking about China it is Xi.
All of these have different levels of formal power, all of them have different political systems, but all of them are expected to lead, to organize their political power and to take responsibility for the work of their administrations.
I can’t stand biden or the dems, and I would rather have lobster’s chew on my balls than vote repub. But at the end of the day, trump would hand the keys to gaza and the west bank over to Israel and gladly sweep the blood under the welcome mat… he’d do the exact same with Ukraine and russia…so while I can’t stand the blue team, we’re going to get the world on fire if trump and repubs are elected. Anyone who thinks that trump is worth the gamble is full on delusional.
Anyone who thinks that trump is worth the gamble is full on delusional.
these Anyone are primarily the Biden administration, the DNC and the Israel supporters in the party. They’d rather want Trump to take over the country, than stand up to Israel and uphold international and US law.
Anyone who thinks that trump is worth the gamble is full on delusional.
Exactly.
So please try to help me convince the DNC that Biden isnt popular enough to feel safe in the election.
Especially when he won’t stop funding a genocide.
Biden needs to stop fucking around and listen to his voters so he doesn’t pull a Hillary.
He can’t just do whatever the fuck he wants and tell voters they have to actively vote for him or trump wins
It’s literally the opposite of how to run a campaign.
The fucking convention hasn’t even happened yet, but we’ve been told for like 5 months it’s too late anyways
Biden has supported the protests and only condemned breaking the law and antisemitism along with Islamophobia. Which as president, he should. Specifically he spoke out when protesters took over Hamilton Hall.
condemned breaking the law
really novel stuff here. thank god we have a competent president there to say breaking the law is bad
also
We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. But I am sure that if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal. If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.
What support did he provide to the protests?
Too bad Biden and other “moderates” Dems care about as much about facts and logics as trump does.
Liberals on lemmy seeing any criticism asking Biden be held accountable for decisions Biden makes:
Accurate post
if Biden were running against Sanders or… like, potentially anybody at all
Yeah the whole point of me saying that was to lightening rod the downvotes from the op so that the comment didn’t get downvoted into oblivion (it was on its way).
Beware the white moderate. They are not your friend.
Repubes are comparing campus protests to Jan 6th
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“nearly 100%” is probably as close as you can get without actually observing every protest from beginning to end including all behaviors of everyone present
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ive been to many protests and violence in my experience has always (exactly 100%) been perpetrated by counter protestors or the police
I suppose hurling racial slurs at Jewish students doesn’t constitute violence.
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You actually couldn’t, since it wasn’t peaceful and it wasn’t counter-protestors causing the violence and destruction.
The police literally caused more damage to people and the property at Columbia University while removing the students than the students ever did.
Could you?
One thousand people where charged out of twenty-five thousand, that’s only 4% of the people.
That means 96% were being peaceful and that’s damn near 100%
Sorry… you think that the only people who were violent were the ones who got charged?
That’s weird, because that’s not how it usually works.
I’m just using verifiable numbers here.
And trying to conflate a percentage of protests with a percentage of people at one particular protest. The two are not comparable.
This article say there was north of 100,000 people there which makes the number ultimately charged under one percent.
A percentage is a ratio of two numbers, in this case you are trying to compare
^People who engaged in violence and were convicted at one protest^/~People who were at that protest~
with
^Number of protest events that became violent^/~Number of protest events for this cause~
To compare that you will have to wait a few years for all of the court cases to wind down. Hope that helps.
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That’s a little homophobic, no?
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Thousands of videos exist of that too. We don’t have to guess what happened, we know how many of them were not peaceful. We also know what their goals were and how close they got to achieving them.
Just like all the video analysis and the physical evidence at these scenes tell us how peaceful they indeed were.
Speaking of video footage, have you recently rewatched footage of the jan 6 riots, even stuff they released themselves that they thought was showing themselves in a positive light at the time…
