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From what I’ve seen over various parts of the Internet, BLM’s pretty complicated. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s a combination of actual people fed up wi
by lasagnaphil 6y ago
From what I’ve seen over various parts of the Internet, BLM’s pretty complicated. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s a combination of actual people fed up with their neighborhood’s policing and wrecking shit up, along with some progressives who wanted the protest to be peaceful and instead hoped for policy-wide changes (through electorialism) from this, along with neoliberal shills (corporations and mainstream politicians) who wanted to co-opt it as a peaceful liberal protest and gain social prestige/status/clout without doing anything substantial. And maybe some Russians thought this was quite hilarious and tried to make the tensions a bit higher (by the way, can you provide a reliable link/source for the BLM Russian involvement thing, since it seems a bit dubious and the liberal establishment has developed a bad habit of blaming everything at Russia?)
- Dma54rhs 6y agoI'm on mobile right now but when you open the Mueller investigations pdf control+F finds it easy.
- lasagnaphil 6y agoYeah, Ctrl+F shows that there were some investigations of IRA creating activist accounts among the left/rights spectrum, although the details are still censored. But my point is, the Russians are just the cherry on top of the cake for this event, and aren't nearly as substantial as the internal politics going on in the US.