You can’t win against the kind of force Trump can bring. You get your ass kicked and get blamed for it too. Nonviolence is the way.
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a very possible early out here is a completely disproportionate tiannemen square-like govt reaction spreading widescale outrage that dwarfs BLM, and him getting slaughtered in midterms enough to buy time before the stranglehold has fully set in, or time for states with enough autonomy like CA to brace themselves against a hostile and aggressive federal government.
if you believe its already too late for that and democracy is over, then nonviolence doesn’t do anything either except preserve your own possible safety (I wouldn’t fault many for taking this choice, if I was truly honest with myself).
Enough people feel their back is to the wall, something will happen. I dont know whether that something is better or worse than now or some wild future where edems take back power.
The american revolution was started over less, and wasn’t peaceful.
I’m not being dramatic when I say I view federal troops invading my homeland to harass, intimidate, injure, imprison the people that also call this home as an act of aggression. I don’t think I’m alone and I dont intend on doing much or anything about it other than continuing to write and report, because I am just a maladjusted cripple and cant do much else. But I think people here are underestimating the level of anger a bit in LA and this incident, at least from my POV
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politically its pretty interesting. I live in a district that’s known to be “deep purple” if such a thing is possible. This is uniting types of people id never expect to agree on much. The thing is most of the wealthy people around here depend on the businesses to give them wealth and inevitably it uses a lot of immigrant labor. If these types are republican, yea there are still the boomer deplorables that would light their own houses on fire for the godking, but mostly, they’re kind of in shock, if I’m interpreting the public discourse correctly (I have a massive feed of community pages). It’s super weird.
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Reportedly Home Depot parking lots all over the country are not having day laborers show up. So, lots of jobs just won’t get done. The day laborers do not really compete with contractors. Some people won’t get what they want done. Other people won’t be able to find any productive work to do.
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Nonviolence doesn’t imply safety for protestors or those engaging in other forms of direct action. It requires some level of confrontation so there is risk. However far Trumpism goes, the people have the real power. Maybe that sounds corny or whatever, but the rich and the corporations have always understood this and been anxious to control the level of discontent. A lot of progress has happened because they have have been pressured to make concessions by social movements. The successes have been mostly nonviolent. Violence usually loses.
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Cops shot a woman reporter and a woman who was just trying to get to her apartment with rubber bullets in Los Angeles. No one is really safe around the police, and a lot of people don’t really care when cops assault people who weren’t doing anything violent.
I think most people, including many who would care, never see those images. Like, did FOX show that reporter video? Even if they did it would have been presented in a way that the victim could be blamed or that what the cop did could be excused. What happens on the streets is just part of the battle. A lot of it is over people’s attention and the narrative they are fed.
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I only have one data point, but the video of the woman who got shot asking if she could go to her apartment was posted on 2p2 and a Trumpkin said
“What she needs to learn is to follow instructions. Obviously they shouldn’t have shot her but here we are. Anybody out protesting/rioting is just looking for trouble.”
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I saw that reporter video twice on tiktok it had about ten million views.
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if I didn’t know better i’d think he’s doing a bit, what in the actual fuck
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Home Despot is A+. My family has called it that for a long time but now we have a real reason.
haha
I had to read this multiple times to actually have the words make sense in the order they’re written because the idea expressed is so insanely ludicrous.
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Can someone explain the Home Depot parking lot economy to me? Lets say i want someone to paint my house. Can i go down to the parking lot at 7am and find a guy or what are we talking about here?
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you wont find one guy you’ll find 20 and they’ll give quotes and have work trucks lol. 7am? whenever it opens minus an hour. daylight, theyve been there already for hours
contractors rely on them and also ironically LA needs a lot of labor to rebuild half the city that was already in shortage
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the taco and tamale carts have disappeared. you know, of course, that this means war
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My late mother, who posters here would’ve considered a shitlib, began having sympathy for the Vietnam anti-war movement while watching the nightly news footage from the 1968 Democratic Convention.
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Most of the people hired in the HD parking lot are for very small one-time jobs. Most would not be doing that to paint a whole house. If contractors are picking them up, it’s probably for something unusual that requires little training. Like, a drywaller who needed people to hang drywall would not be getting people in the parking lot. But, a plumber who this one time needed to hang a sheet of drywall and needed a hand? Maybe.
And you’ll find a fair amount of guys who do hauling/cleanup and have a truck.
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