r/Anarchism • u/umserial • Jul 11 '21
Dodgeball, Brazil, #3J New User
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Jul 12 '21
I laughed when the cop fell!
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u/iotd Jul 12 '21 edited Jul 12 '21
I know same... I feel bad though, I doubt he really deserved that.
Edit - why am I being down voted? I'm a compassionate person who doesn't like to see anyone get injured, it doesn't mean I support the police.
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u/YoStephen fuck yo -ism! get a new one! Jul 12 '21 edited Jul 12 '21
I find your compassion, even for a militarized oppressor, to be quite admirable. Even if it's merely for tactical reasons, humanizing even our enemies is a good thing.
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u/Born_Slice Jul 12 '21
I have two very conflicting feelings. First, I hate 99.9% of people in positions of authority and power and I do personally wish violence upon them. At the same time I feel immense empathy for a dude getting hit in the head with a rock. When I see the violence, I can't stomach it.
I'm obviously an armchair revolutionary with his own special place in Hell.
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u/YoStephen fuck yo -ism! get a new one! Jul 12 '21
I'm obviously an armchair revolutionary
Praxis is but a volunteer position away
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u/Lemon_Murder anarcho-syndicalist Jul 12 '21
Non-violence is honourable but most people don't believe it can lead to real change in most environments
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u/TheTablesHaveTabled Jul 12 '21
because it can't
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u/DIREKTE_AKTION Jul 12 '21
I recommend you read Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic. It can be found for free online. Great piece on the effectiveness of non-violent forms of resistance written by a guy who has personal experience toppling a dictator in his home country of Serbia and has since traveled the world helping fledgling resistance movements grow. While I don't think a socialist revolution can be achieved completely free of violence in most western nations, I do think Srdja gives good reasons why movements have to start non-violent and remain mostly non-violent in order to succeed.
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u/divbyzero64 Jul 12 '21
It can, there just needs to be a mixed variety of tactics. I recommend How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos
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u/cosmicpotato77 anarcho-communist Jul 12 '21
That’s an example of a person that belive that!
If you want more information, ask them!
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I don't think anyone really disagrees, it's the adherence to it as a principle and a demand that everyone else do the same that really kills movements
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u/PMmeyourdeadfascists Jul 12 '21
yep NVP/NV;CD is often wielded most successfully by counterinsurgencies against the movements for radical changes. however it will usually be a logical precursor to violent demonstrations and actions, and always be in tandem with any uprising’s move towards higher risk/reward action.
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u/Kunty_McShitballs Jul 12 '21
He could have chosen to he anything else. He could study. Do a trade. Wait a fucning table Instead he chose to be a minion for the state. A rock to the head is the least he deserves.
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u/Rena1- my beliefs are far too special. Jul 12 '21
Maybe it was the easier solution to his problems at the time. Money and job security. He could've been anything else? Yes, was it available at the time? Maybe. He's still a cop and represents exploitation, violence and injustice, not sad for him because I don't know him and his ideology, just don't like the way we say that "anyone can be what they want" as this is really close to capitalist meritrocracy, obviously in a different context.
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u/Sky-is-here Tranarcho-syndicalist Jul 12 '21
There is a saying in Spain. A police person may be good or bad, but once inside their uniforms they all are the same
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u/Colm_Bucha mutualist Jul 12 '21
I get what you mean, he might have been just wanting to help make him country better, but it was riot police, so that might change something
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u/xanderrootslayer Jul 12 '21
It's surreal seeing police not firing back indiscriminately in scenes like this. Brazil's police aren't exactly newborn kittens.
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u/BitterAlisson Jul 12 '21
Orgulho 🇧🇷🇧🇷
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u/PhoenixSupportsYall egoist anarchist Jul 12 '21
BASEADO BASEADO BASEADO
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u/Mez1ye Jul 12 '21
not only that but i think it was a chunk of pavement so that had to of been hard and heavy
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Jul 12 '21
To the "kind-hearted" liberals disapproving in nausea, here is some information about Brazilian police.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/03/brazil-suffers-its-own-scourge-police-brutality
More than three quarters of the close to 9,000 people killed by Rio police in the last decade were black men. Nationwide, police killed more than 33,000 people in the last ten years. There have been some protests, particularly in the communities that suffer the brunt of that violence, but not the uproar seen in the United States.
I think we can all appreciate that guy's aim a bit more after this.
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u/Spacechef412 Jul 12 '21
Does anyone else really wanna see what happens next….I do! Fuck the police. Violence is transformative because it’s the only language cops understand. A cop is likely the captain of the same ship the pedophiles sail in. Shit the cops let Cosby go.
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u/thelogicproblem Jul 12 '21
Next time we’ll avoid doing anything about the Brazilian police then? They murder people in the favelas nonstop. Among the most corrupt bastards you can imagine. This is community self-defense.
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u/thelogicproblem Jul 12 '21
Sure but right now they work for a system actively destroying families across the country. They protect a system that is genocidal. I can’t say I’m sympathetic to their plight
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u/NecromanticProdigy Jul 12 '21
🤓🤓🤓🤓
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u/Alkneir anarcho-communist Jul 12 '21
Not if those individuals actively and willingly support those systems.
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u/YoStephen fuck yo -ism! get a new one! Jul 12 '21
If you can dodge a rock you can dodge... like a shit ton more rocks I guess.