A 15-year-old student has had their hand blown off after picking up a stun grenade being used by police as mass school protests continue across France, local authorities said.
The incident comes as nearly 500 schools are expected to be completely or partially closed following student protests across the country over dilapidated schools and classrooms, overcrowding and teacher shortages preceding a nationwide day of demonstrations on Tuesday.
Almost melted my skin off picking up tear gas at Occupy Oakland. There were flash bangs. I hadn’t even considered what if I didn’t realize what I was grabbing.
Edit: same night I watch a decorated military officer in full regalia get shot point blank with non lethal shotgun. Right near the center of his chest iirc
Oh yeah Occupy NYC is how I know what it’s like to get pepper sprayed. I was in a crowd they were trying to kettle and a sergeant just let loose on the whole group around me.
I felt so optimistic during the Occupy protests. For a second it felt like we were going to make meaningful change.
To be fair, those who took part in Occupy are also part of many modern movements. It didn’t solve the problems but it started a lot of movements that are still alive today that, hopefully, will make some real changes.
God damn, me too. In my lifetime, that was the movement that resonated with me the most. They beat the shit out of those people.
They seized power by violent means and they aren’t going to cede power peacefully.
please read the book If We Burn.
We need to learn from Occupy and why it failed, so the next time (which is likely coming soon) it won’t.
Can you provide a few key points?
Leaderless horizontal movements, while historically understandable, are unable to move forward as needed to effect change and hold power.
How do you avoid the problem of leaders with concentrated power in such upheavals historically getting pretty murder-happy or at least very corrupt though? Horizontal organisation isn’t an affectation but a response to a real problem historically speaking.
Name one societal change brought by protests that did not require being
For it to happen.
I can’t.
People who salivate at the thought of another Terror scare me on a human level frankly. Some people are far too keen to play the hangman, unaware of what that does to your humanity.
“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
That’s why they’re supposed to call it “less lethal” now. It gives them a loophole
Based cop moment
If you’re a Marxist-Leninist, you probably already know that soldiers in the Tsar’s imperialist army switching sides and becoming revolutionaries was an important part of the Bolshevik victory. Just something to think about, idk
True actually imperialist mass murdering troops are based because of an unrelated event 100 years earlier.
The Tsar’s troops deserted because they weren’t getting food and they were getting treated badly by the Tsar. Meaning you should be even more thankful for the cop shooting the mass murderer because that encourages other militant war criminals to desert their imperialist regime.
The fuck is wrong with you
They’re a known character - classic fedora-controversial bad-faith shock reaction shtick. If your client has user tags, it’s worth dropping one on them so you don’t get drawn in.
You misspelled mass murdering terrorist
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