There's a violent group that literally burned down police stations and forcibly took over an area of an American city for weeks and applied their own, extra-judicial authoritarian system ostensibly by force of some kind of 'morality' but it was ultimately backed by the threat of violence.
This is violent, political extremism by any obvious measure, why are we treating these groups any differently than weirdos showing up with AR's and flowery shirts?
Here's my (unpopular) take on it. Due to centralization and monopolization of the economy, the economic leverage of average rank-and-file middle-class people plummeted in the last 10 years. Plummeted to the point where most salaried employees won't ever afford property ownership, let alone retirement. Most of the people are priced out of raising kids in the environment they were themselves raised in. People feel this and are becoming more depressed and irritated every year.
The corporations that now control most of our economy aren't dumb. They learned from Occupy Wall Street. They don't want people to unite and vote for some drastic anti-corporate measures. So they are employing divisive tactics. Making people focus on their identity and be offended by words, instead of unaffordable mortgage affordability and impossibility of retirement. Dividing middle class by race, gender and a bunch of other parameters, and supporting movements that call for redistribution of wealth between thees groups, rather than going after the corporate structures. Making the majority feel guilty for wanting the same life quality their parents had, by focusing on minorities that never had that lifestyle (but not helping these minorities achieve it either).
Everyone is miserable, everyone hates everyone else. Wages are stuck, real estate is unaffordable, corporate stocks shoot for the stars.
MyMilitia sounds like a great idea which can unite both democrats who believe the police unfairly target black people, conservatives who want to self protect from mobs and rioting and libertarian who want to reduce the government's monopoly on violence.
Kyle Rittenhouse's case showed us that cooperation is not that easy in practice, but I don't see why anyone but the government (any branch looking to grab some tax money for citizen protection) would have something against it.
This ex sex offender posting threat on it is, at best, something that should just be better moderated and reported to the authorities.
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[ 7.2 ms ] story [ 49.0 ms ] threadThis is violent, political extremism by any obvious measure, why are we treating these groups any differently than weirdos showing up with AR's and flowery shirts?
The corporations that now control most of our economy aren't dumb. They learned from Occupy Wall Street. They don't want people to unite and vote for some drastic anti-corporate measures. So they are employing divisive tactics. Making people focus on their identity and be offended by words, instead of unaffordable mortgage affordability and impossibility of retirement. Dividing middle class by race, gender and a bunch of other parameters, and supporting movements that call for redistribution of wealth between thees groups, rather than going after the corporate structures. Making the majority feel guilty for wanting the same life quality their parents had, by focusing on minorities that never had that lifestyle (but not helping these minorities achieve it either).
Everyone is miserable, everyone hates everyone else. Wages are stuck, real estate is unaffordable, corporate stocks shoot for the stars.
Militias. let's debate!!
Kyle Rittenhouse's case showed us that cooperation is not that easy in practice, but I don't see why anyone but the government (any branch looking to grab some tax money for citizen protection) would have something against it.
This ex sex offender posting threat on it is, at best, something that should just be better moderated and reported to the authorities.
http://nhne-pulse.org/nick-hanauers-message-to-fellow-zillio...