Surely not. We have the right to assemble and protest right?
Not like there are examples of police beating the fuck out of unarmed students, or watching armed citizens attack other citizens and doing nothing about it. That would be a fascist police state, now wouldn't it?
Remember, rights you feel uneasy exercising are rights you don't have. Flip-off a cop, tell them to go fuck themselves, call them a pig, it's every American citizen's right to do so.
So now that you've thought about that, do you have those rights? Or no?
It's not about being an asshole.
It's about verifying that those rights exist.
When we first think, "I would be able to exercise that right in theory, but it would be rude," that tells me that as the oppessor all I need to do is convince people that being rude is worse than being free.
Not everyone is suited to challenge authority, but if no one feels safe doing so then the dominoes of fascism have already begun to fall.
The least we can do is film, document, report, and support those who make the challenge.
The term fascism stems from that period, from the Italian Fascist Party. It just was a slow roll during the Weimar Republic, in which violence and politics became more and more entangled until they were indistinguishable from each other.
There of course were a lot of people standing up against fascism and nazism, but it wasn't unilaterally seen as something really bad until after the second world war.
The party currently in power who are funding a genocide right now and cracking down on protesters are leading the way to fascism just the same. Them pinkwashing it with rhetoric doesn't change that.
USA exported too much freedom, democracy and weapons. Now it is caught naked. USA has nothing left, not even enough to defend from itself. USA is like a wretched monster, it will even eat itself and think it is sustaining itself. Funny, because that is what superimperialist capitalism also is.
Before jumping into a new (to me) YouTube creator's videos, I need a few people to please describe them and any b.s. in their presentation of information one should be aware of when watching their videos?
This guy's videos are usually pretty good. They got a quick pace, good editing, and explain things really well. They are a socialist so they have a bias in that way, but they'd be the first to admit it and to say that every creator has a bias of some sort or another.
Wasn't this guy caught grifting his fans for donos? Oh and he likes reviewing supercars with his buddy on their other channel. And none of his vids are substantiated with anything