• Camarada ForteA
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    322 years ago

    “Hey man, don’t react to those policemen killing black children with rage and violence, it’s what the system wants bro”

  • @comradecarti
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    242 years ago

    I mean John Lennon also marched in favour of and publicly supported the IRA and their use of armed struggle

  • CaptainCrushing
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    232 years ago

    Violence is only good if you use it against your spouse - John Lennon

  • Star Wars Enjoyer A
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    182 years ago

    with the power of hindsight, we know that the “man” used the hippie counter-culture to pacify actual counter-culture, I wouldn’t be surprised if they used Lennon for that too.

    • @invent_the_future
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      92 years ago

      on the other hand the FBI kept tabs on him, his somewhat erratic world-view could swing to either useful idiot to the feds or an actual liability to the western status quo

  • @TarkovSurvivor
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    132 years ago

    Lenin Moreno took Ecuador to the right after being elected as part of a pink tide government. In the same week he let Assange get arrested he signed a massive deal with the imf that led to removal of fuel subsidies and massive social unrest, protest and at least seven deaths.