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This part is really starting to get to me too. They were not murdered at a protest. The background picture here was the protest on Friday. There are smaller organized protests happening around here every day of course. But when Renee and Alex were executed in the street they were not at a protest.

This is just what life is like in Minneapolis and St. Paul right now. You're just driving down the street or maybe trying to go for a walk and get some coffee and then some losers on a monumental power trip pull up with weapons trying to abduct your neighbors. We are not protesting all the time. We are resisting a violent occupation. We are just trying to help our people survive and not get kidnapped.

predictablesloth

People misunderstand the difference between an unsalvageable system and a broken system.

When people say the system is broken, 99.9% of the time, they don't mean it's unsalvageable.

Our system is broken. It doesn't serve the people as a whole and can't keep itself in check, ergo, its very foundations are cracked. Broken. Immensely damaged.

Saying it's broken doesn't mean you want total anarchy. It doesn't mean the entire government is useless. We need ways to not have murder etc, and governments are the best solution we have. It's a widely held belief.

Saying the system is broken means you think there's problems with its foundations, and that we need to change those foundations to move forward. It means you want unprecedented, radical, necessary changes.