From DWT:
"A now-deleted Facebook page that appears to belong to Rittenhouse featured almost exclusively pro-police imagery and photos of the suspect carrying guns. At some point, he changed his profile image to a “Blue Lives Matter” sign and held a fundraiser for a police nonprofit called “Humanizing The Badge."
Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha (source)
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Heard with my own ears on the scanner in Kenosha last night: "I can't tell if those are protestors or our guys" - says a cop as a group of 100 or so people was moving from one area to another. He was referring to the armed vigilantes "our guys" of course. #DefundThePolice— The Bern Report (@TheBernReport) August 26, 2020
Even Rashida Tlaib understands what happened:
Look at him roaming freely while protestors are met with military war like equipment and tear gas. https://t.co/Va7wkf9X8l— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 26, 2020
There are more reports like these, which, of course, will either go viral, or go unreported by the media most people read and listen to.
Systemic Change by Non-Systemic Means
It's more than obvious by now that cops are siding with right-wing thugs, using them even, against whoever stands with the protesters. When will this end?
It will never end by ordinary, electoral means...
...until those elections are backed by the kind of organized, 1960s-style movement...
Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, speaks to assembled students on December 7, 1964. (AP Photo / Robert W. Klein)
...that adds the critical mass of the people, chaotic and unruly, to the orderly exercise of power by elected officials who, frankly, with cops, also want the real left to lose.
The nation may not be to that point yet, but it's not far away. That's why big-media outlets like the New York Times want to paint these protests, all of them, as either "chaotic" or left-wing-violent only, and why they hide the state violence that incites and encourages those violent responses. A real left-wing movement — a 1960s-style revolt, a real rising of the people — is the stuff of nightmares for editors at the Times, and many of its readers as well.
We need a general strike, or the gumption of the Yellow Vests. Race is a sub-issue. We need a constant focus that a class defense is what's needed against the ruling class being what it always is, was, and will be. They are in an ongoing class warfare which they started back before Teddy Roosevelt, and propaganda repetition is their key weapon. Be smart.
NEVER, NEVER EVER forget that smarmy smart-ass Clinton "video thank you" hat tip to Clyburn, for sabotage of Bernie. Not Clyburn alone, but Clyburn in concert with the likes of Michael Bloomberg. Across race lines, the servants of Mammon keep their boat afloat, where we should be rocking it to sink it. Their ship of fools. Right now steaming to the iceberg. Or worse, just steaming along as always, cognizant of who they are and loving it. Without consequences. For them. The suffering left to fall on US.
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Racism is not the aim of the rich. It is a tool they callously but effectively use. Divide and conquer is the aim. Never forget, racism has identity politics as its handmaiden divide and conquer tool. Identify with how you are economically exploited, not by your assigned bloc, much as grade school assigned seats - there is your assigned identity bloc, for indoctrination, so sit down, listen and recite it back.
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As to how a general strike might function, Strib, local reporting not a carried feed, sports reporter writing:
On Tuesday, two days after the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wis., Cheryl Reeve was asked if she was conflicted about holding games in Florida while larger issues raged around the country.
“I know it’s crossed all our minds,” the Lynx coach and general manager said. “We’re going, ‘What are we doing here?’ ”
Reeve woke up Wednesday thinking her team might not be playing that night even though there was a game against Los Angeles on the schedule. It turns out she was right — and the Lynx were hardly alone.
Reeve’s inkling grew as she heard NBA teams were considering not playing in protest of Blake’s shooting — and that if such a thing happened, the WNBA was likely to follow suit. That’s exactly what happened Wednesday in a historic display of athletes making their voices heard and actions felt.
The Milwaukee Bucks started the chain when they went on strike and decided not to take the floor for their afternoon playoff game against Orlando. By the end of the night, 14 games across four U.S. leagues were postponed — all three apiece in the NBA and WNBA, three in MLB and five in MLS.“Now maybe white owners that have a hard time with a player kneeling, maybe if you don’t have us at all, maybe if it really hits you where it hurts you will listen,” Reeve said. “But isn’t that sad? That might be the only way you make progress is if the billionaires don’t make their billions off of Black athletes? These are all things that are on our minds. It’s heavy. It’s really heavy. I don’t know how we could have played a game.”
This is a basketball coach talking, a part of a professional team's management, endorsing and in sympathy with - a strike. Strikes might help open dialog.
Right now, mammon is in the cat bird's seat, loving it and per that Clinton segment, being assholeishly smug in the process. Smug about things falling rote into place, their way. A boat needing some rocking.
As a guess, it will subside. It should not, but will.
With Kenosha vigilante excess shown in an undeniably stark and direct fashion; what's next?