• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      While pigs were cracking skulls (stick), Democrats were pulling that “we see you, we hear you” bullshit (carrot). The problem is that the “we see you, we hear you” bullshit actually worked. This is how you get “protest police” and people watering down “abolish the police” into “reform the police” in the futile attempt at trying to appease “sympathetic” Democrats who will only support you if you start thinking pragmaticallyTM. The split between the libs who fell for the carrot and radicals who didn’t allowed the pigs to more easily mop up the radicals because they’re isolated. This is COIN in action. If the entire federal government was just a one party state ruled by the GOP, the protest would’ve only intensified since the enemy is crystal clear without a backstabbing and sabotaging “friend.”

      • D3FNC [any]@hexbear.net
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        This is why if you want to abolish police you have to start with an even more extreme position of [redacted] police, but nobody in mayonnaise world has ever had to haggle over the price of anything so democrats fuck themselves over by moving their initial bargaining position to where they’re meeting Republicans half-way. Every time. Every fucking time.

        At this point even normal people are beginning to realize they’re a deeply unserious organization.