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Violence not Votes
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This is precisely the problem, every generation after 60s stopped rioting. The FBI program worked: they assassinated the rioters, their families, stole their land, and enshrined the peaceful ones as “legitimate change.” Folks aren't rioting anymore, because the indoctrination works.
Yup. It took me a long time to realize that the "violence doesn't solve anything" mantra doesn't hold up. It's crazy that they taught us that at the same time they taught us about the revolutionary war, and we didn't question it. That's the power of repetition of propaganda at a very young age, I guess. Humanity learned how to domesticate humans, and the governments of the world used it to great success decades ago.
learned helplessness and a redirection of the general public's displeasure into the (now fractured and captured) digital spaces. sending a meme of a Guillotine isn't going to change anything either. Most people don't understand what it truly takes because most people were taught that all of the positive changes in their life happened with peaceful protest and a quiet resolve.
The Chicano Moratorium Riots - 1970
Attica Prison Uprising - 1971
The Wounded Knee Occupation - 1973
The White Night Riots - 1979
New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots - 1980
The 1990 Mercado Riots - 1990
1991 Washington DC Riots - 1991
Rodney King Riots - 1992
The Battle of Seattle - 1999
Cincinnati Riots - 2001
Oscar Grant Riots - 2009
Occupy Oakland - 2011
Furgeson Riots - 2014
Oakland Riots - 2014
Baltimore Riots - 2015
George Floyd Protests - 2020
People definitely didn't stop rioting after the 60s. They kept rioting, and the people doing it have been black, queer, hispanic, indigenous, incarcerated, etc. People who are on the absolute margins of society, that have the least to lose and the most to gain.
Kinda hard to make change when you're the minority, huh. Now imagine if 70% of the population rioted all the way to D.C..
the system works fine for the majority and extremely well for those with enough capital to be comfortable.
Maybe in the 60s, but the dissatisfaction at the wealth gap is astronomical rn.