don't tell the tankies!
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2024
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Beat me to it! For the record, i only discovered these news subs hosted on beehaw recently and its been very good for my mental health to see things other than endless Gaza and "heres why the US is the worstest" spam.
Yesterday I have been arguing way too long with someone that was convinced the snipers on Ohio protests are here to shoot protesters. I still failed to talk some sense into them and stopped eventually but it was exhausting.
I don’t think they were alone in this as the post had thousands of likes and some wanted to throw pipebombs and this kinda stuff
I feel u. This is all fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) which is actively disseminated by bad faith actors trying to weaken the country from within. A culture which fears itself is ineffective. Keeping in mind that we are all apart of the same culture whether we like it or not, it is important that the energy u project back into the culture at large be one of love, kindness, good-nature, and trust.
A lot of the youth saying these things u bring up are convinced that this it, the revolution theyve been hearing about and that there is no other way but to feed into the bull. Good on u to push back, and do ur best to not give into the negative emotions projected but to put back in something more constructive.
If the revolution were to truly happen, it will not be fought with guns, but by holding our surplus value hostage. We cannot defeat a militarized police or surveillance state govt via violence, but we can via economic warfare- and in that sort of conflict, love, kindness, good-nature, trust- solidarity- will be indisposable and key to not only winning, but surviving out right as well.
Is not the argument that they usually are there to shoot the protestors?
Ethnocentrism must be maintained in order for a single-party state to be sustained.
That seems statistically unlikely. I wonder what Chinese officials have to say about it?
Probably five different contradictory excuses.
Why does it seem statistically unlikely? If the assumption is that minorities are somehow being targeted, wouldn't statistics like this be exactly what one would see?
That's exactly the point. The only likely reasons something like this would happen is targeting or systemic issues.
Ahh right yes, gotcha. I misunderstood you and thought you didn't think the statistics were believable because they're so skewed