• tmyakal@infosec.pub
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    Americans used to understand it, too. The 1960s Civil Rights movement was driven by some of the poorest people in the country, organizing together and developing mutual aid networks. And they didn’t get ignored like these bullshit No Kings protests because they actually inconvenienced the ownership class by cutting into their bottom line.

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        In America money is literally lifeblood: even the homeless still have jobs, but are too poor to afford housing/safety/medical care

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      The civil rights movement was violent.

      Today, they pretend it was peaceful, they taught that it was peaceful for decades and the people believed their “lesson”

      … and here we are