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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 01:11:36 JST StillIRise1963

   If you’re NOT talking about how peaceful the protests were yesterday in all of their whiteness and glory, then YOU are part of the problem around here.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 01:11:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

     All of the above.

     People forget now, but after the cops murdered George Floyd, the first days of protests were almost completely peaceful. It was only when they brought charges against the officers who murdered Floyd that the police decided they had to make an example of the people of Minneapolis by turning the protests violent. It was the police who made the situation violent, and it was purposeful. And the first step of that was the police making it really clear to all the middle-aged / senior white people — exactly the people who were out in force for Hands Off — that they needed to go home because it was about to become unsafe.

     I don’t know exactly how we white people effectively counter that police strategy at scale. When so many white people were afraid to show up even for the oatmeal-level danger of yesterday’s Hands Off rallies (and yes, a •lot• of people were), how do we hold the numbers and maintain white participation when police start threatening? I don’t know. But I do think that “solidarity” and “shield” are both important thoughts here.

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 01:11:34 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

     You know, white people need to show up because solidarity rather than a shield. taking the lesson that harm to one is a harm to all.

     Just listen to these billionaire fuckheads. Only a person who presumes he’s entitled to hundreds of billions of dollars every year entitled to it can say something like GFY to his company’s customers.

     His attitude is shared amongst the wealthy. This is the culture.

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     Misuse Case (misusecase@twit.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 01:11:35 JST Misuse Case

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     @StillIRise1963 @GhostOnTheHalfShell This means we white people need to show up to more protests as cop repellent

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     samiamsam (samiamsam@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 01:17:15 JST samiamsam

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     @inthehands @GhostOnTheHalfShell @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

     the only people rioting at the Black Lives Matter protests were

     THE COPS

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 01:19:04 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

     Maybe it really is just personal skin in the game that’s the only thing that can work here. Morally troubling, but I’ll embrace it for practical reasons if that’s the thing that works. We need to figure out how to harness that and amplify it.

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 01:19:05 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     @inthehands @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

     When people understand that there’s no escape. Losing Social Security and Medicare might just suffice.

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 03:21:30 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     @inthehands @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

     In an atmosphere that lacks a sense of solidarity, personal skin in the game will have to carry protest over that hurdle. The demographics of people showing up people who paid into a pay-as-you-go system losing it to the contempt of billionaires face economic ruin. It’s the opportunity to build solidarity.

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     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 03:21:30 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     @inthehands @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

     America’s racism was still there after World War II, even though women and people of color worked the factories to supply the war effort.

     It’s why I think the movie “don’t be a sucker” is so interesting. Two years after the war ended the Department of war thought it was necessary to remind people not to let fascist sentiment be emerge in the United States. They had to fight the Cold War… so peace and love