BLM had a huge amount of public goodwill following the public's horror at the murder of George Floyd, and it chose to squander that goodwill on mindless destruction, useless and unpopular demands, and incoherent messaging. Yet another in a long line of opportunities thrown away.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur
This isn’t very fair. BLM was never a cohesive movement. It was a hashtag that became a slogan that became an umbrella of various (c)3s with a lot of different folks claiming to represent the people on whose behalf the slogan was for: “underclass” blacks. It never had a chance.
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Replying to @___as_a_jew___ @anti_minotaur
I propose that BLM was two cohesive movements, one for gun control in 2012-2014, which went nowhere, and one against police as of 2014, which has been, on its own terms, brilliantly successful (not least in defeating Bernie Sanders)
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Effective gun control is all but untouchable via politics. You have to get SCOTUS to rethink its views on concealment. Fucking around with long gun regs gets you nowhere, but women hate seeing rifles and don't really have to worry about CCWs.
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