We made a silent agreement to be peaceful, so long as we were properly governed…

That’s absolutely not what it showed. It was a show of force to parade a suspect down the street in an orange jumpsuit sorounded by heavily armed police officers in riot gear. “This is what will happen to you if you try this too.”

Actual violent criminals, child molesters, serial killers, people that have scammed little old ladies out of millions of dollars, get hidden away from the public eye and escorted out the back or into tinted SUVs to make sure the public can’t see them.

This was a PR stunt through and through.

you might find it easier to fight oppression in the future if your name’s not on a list. considering the way tech companies appear to be very friendly to Trump people should be careful about what they say on the internet going forward.

There’s an old Chinese adage 殺一儆百 Literally: “kill one, warn hundred”.

The ruling class wants to go back to monarchic feudalism

This is such a gross misuse of this meme that it’s making me irrationally annoyed.

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/historical/Declaration_of_Independence.htm

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —

#That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

#But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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[Healthcare CEOs aren’t the only bad guys](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2024-in-review/the-gilded-age-of-medicine-is-here)

Lol as he proudly wipes the Cheeto dust from his stubby fingers, satisfied with his valiant contribution, in the safety of his mother’s basement

The plebes aren’t supposed to kill the oligarchs. It confuses the constabulary.

Mario’s everywhere, buying Pitch-Forks for Christmas!

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.” – Declaration of Independance

It’s a whole movement. I made some designs to have some shirts and stickers printed for myself and anyone else that wants them.

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