“What do you mean ‘started’?”

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I want to clarify that I’m talking about open mass-killings in the vein of Sharpeville or Bloody Sunday.

Reading and seeing the public’s reactions to things like the gassings and beatings at pro-Palestine encampments, BLM protestors getting run over, Kyle Rittenhouse’s victims, etc. it seems like the American people take an open and ghoulish delight in protestors getting brutalized, maimed, and killed. Go to any video or article about these things happening, and the comments section is an endless parade of the worst people imaginable cheering and hollering for it with extremely little or no pushback. It’s depressingly consistent.

It just gives me this horrible feeling that one day the police are going to unload into a crowd of protestors and leave a mass of bodies in their wake, the American people will hoot and clap and cheer about how the victims got what they deserved, and that’ll become the new MO. The only reason they aren’t already doing this is fear it might make them look bad, and if it doesn’t end up making them look bad in the eyes of the public, then there isn’t a single thing stopping them.

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Live fire on protestors is basically the one thing guaranteed to break the illusion for liberals. Many would be radicalized, even the most centrist would be pissed. Obviously many conservatives would go mask off. The question is who outnumbers who.

    There is a real reason why police everywhere use “less than lethal” weapons these days. Mass violence against protestors in the streets has almost always resulted in more protestors.

    That said, its all about optics. They could gun down the migrant caravan and nothing would happen. And if a dem was the president at the time, they might ignore it.