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Police Clear Seattle’s Protest ‘Autonomous Zone’

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15 pointslegerdemain12 comments

I guess it took CHOP's security shooting two black teenagers for the challenges of police work to really sink in.

What happened to the "summer of love"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwrZKbJNxM

I'm really curious what American left movements are going to remain after this. People finally realized #MeToo was mostly a partisan talking point thanks to Biden and BLM, yet again, became an anti-safety movement. Not a great state of affairs for an election year.

Less than 1 percent of Americans are participating in the protests, mostly bored college students getting out of their parents' house. But their actions are going to be the best get out the vote campaign for the silent majority in history.

Last I checked, the polling data was showing that a strong majority of Americans supported BLM and the protests. If a "silent majority" backlash is happening, it must be a recent development.

Don't forget about the many now unemployed youths (due to the pandemic) still dissatisfied with the system since Occupy.

Every group belonging to the managerial class (both republicans and democrats) worked hard to make sure this experiment failed, just like they did during Occupy.There were calls for right-wing groups to come in and stop this before it spread. Many hostile people came to CHOP to try inciting violence to give the police an excuse to take it away. It looks like they won. They got what they needed.

Violence within CHOP is expected because CHOP had many violent and hostile enemies.

The irony here is that Seattle disbanded CHOP for violence, which is exactly the argument CHOP made to disband the police. Will Seattle send in and take over a police station the next time there is a police murder?

Yes. Reminiscent of the 1999 WTO protests. During which groups of black-garbed squatters from out-of-state trashed storefronts yet somehow evaded authorities. For days.

The worst thing people can do is show their government they don't need them. This was Occupy's mistake and this is CHOP's mistake.

People were confused with Occupy. They asked "Why don't they create a political party, why don't they make demands". Well, the whole point is to show you don't need that government.

And of course in both cases, the police come in and violently suppress it.

Nah sorry I don't buy what you're saying. These movements are usually operated by grifters.

In the case of BLM, a small group of self-proclaimed "trained marxists" are lining their pockets to the tune of millions from human misery and seemingly funneling it into democrat PACs.

Yes, Marxists want to funnel money into a capitalist political party. Makes perfect sense.... /s

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