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   Indigenous Commie (indigenous_commentator@stranger.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 07:56:46 JST Indigenous Commie

   It's time we stand together and #Strike! #RaiseTheWage #EatTheRich

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 07:56:44 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @crashglasshouses @indigenous_commentator
     Zeynep Tufekci once made a remark that’s really stuck with me about how the primary purpose of protests is to •demonstrate capacity• — and the question is then “capacity to do what?“ Maybe strike. Maybe change public perception. Maybe swing an election. But it’s got to be capacity to do •something•; protest alone has no intrinsic power.

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     Inken Paper 🇵🇸 (crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 07:56:45 JST Inken Paper 🇵🇸

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     @indigenous_commentator if workers had struck harder ten years ago, maybe we'd have $50/hr instead of still fighting for $15 when the minimum now needs to be double that, because social democrats decided street protests are how this is accomplished, completely ignoring history as usual.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 11:40:53 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @crashglasshouses
     I live in earshot of the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis, and…I’m not sure •what• changes it. I would say folks “threw down” here, to put it mildly — and our police force is just as violent, racist, and rotten as ever, and just as entrenched.

     My conclusion from the last 3 years here: Riots do not in fact work. Democracy doesn’t work either. When it comes to police abolition, I don’t know what •does• work.

     I am bitter and tired.

     @indigenous_commentator

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     Inken Paper 🇵🇸 (crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 11:40:54 JST Inken Paper 🇵🇸

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     @inthehands @indigenous_commentator also, the street isn't a winnable space. the cops already own it. "peaceful protest" won't change it. throwing down like they do in France, will.