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We are all cowards. A dozen people watched their friend murdered and all they did was shout 'murderers' and then back off from helping the corpse when instructed by the people in masks and unmarked cars claiming to be police.

I surely wouldn't have been braver, we all saw the consequences of even the meakest assertiveness. Those people are the bravest we have to offer, we are fucked.

That's exactly my point.

Your point is apathy and fatalism. Someone who points to that doesn't believe in building infrastructure. They don't believe in building political power. They don't believe in building local community power.

They don't really believe in anything, and it's due to an inability in their own self to bring about real change in themselves and others.

Apathy and fatalism sounds like me, yes. I can't comment on the rest, because I don't know anything about building infrastructure or political power.

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