fuck the united states but tiananmen square and {gestures broadly at the totalitarian cruelty of north korea} proves that your take is quite absurd

what i'm saying is we can oppose the fascism in the usa without letting the fascism in other countries off the hook

a principled stand would be to oppose china, north korea, and the usa, all at the same time

@benroyce I wasn't agreeing with or siding with China or North Korea.The point of the comment was that even in countries like those the people are willing and actually try to oust a Dictator leader.
I never said if they win or not.
I didn't say anything about my even caring about those countries.

The comment was pointing out that the American people are doing little to save their democracy and, "any other country, "even" North Korea and China, would fight for their rights.

"The point of the comment was that even in countries like those the people are willing and actually try to oust a Dictator leader."

North Korea?!

"The comment was pointing out that the American people are doing little to save their democracy"

they absolutely can do more. 100% agreed

some of these entitled assholes you can't even get to vote, nevermind strike or protest

my personal feeing is that trigger warning the abuse of fascists only serves as censorship of fascist abuse and therefore only benefits fascism

as long as it is not gore, i don't think your instincts here are helping our struggle

i disagree because then that would be carte blanche in the minds of these hysterical pigs to empty 20 rounds into the kicker

don't get me wrong we need to confront these shitbags, even physically

but we need to be smart about it

@LukefromDC
i agree. you have the moral and logical stand

however, there's plenty of people in the cemetery who had the moral and logical stand

all i am saying is that we need to fight back smart. and certainly in the heat of the situation we can't magically think up the ideal response. so a kick in the head is appropriate, according to me, and you

just be aware what that means in the minds of the brownshirts

no it should not

this is anodyne content that anyone on social media sees all the time

your instinct here is to censor police brutality, which only allows police brutality to occur unseen. your instinct is helping police brutality, unintentionally

if this were gore? i would 100% agree with you

but i disagree with you here on *this particular* content because people need to see

@benroyce
I don't need or want to see this. I'm also not American, so seeing it doesn't empower me to help the situation. It's just traumatic.

It's not censorship. It's respect.

@TheZorse
well then respect us in the usa who are going through this trauma, who need examples of police brutality broadcast as far as can be seen to help fight it

if you don't want to see it you can block or unfollow

but what you can't do is gatekeep on our abuse for the sake of your need for an antiseptic timeline

if it was gore or pornography, you could. but it isn't, so you can't

all you are doing is helping police brutality by hiding it. you are in the wrong here

@benroyce the hash tags should be a bit more accurate though, for proper filtering. some folks will have trauma re-triggered by that picture.

@TheZorse @LibertyOverGov

@draNgNon @TheZorse
i would like to believe that anyone who has suffered police brutality would like us to fight police brutality. which you do by broadcasting it

but i have no problem with your request for a hashtag

Another account...

mcall.com/2026/02/21/quakertow…

"Although it’s unclear from public videos whether there were one or multiple men in tan shirts clashing with teens, the student said McElree was the only one he saw wearing tan, and that he was the one photographed putting a freshman girl in a chokehold."