Thread by @Hail__To_You

The International Finance Corporation says:

"#EndRacism!"

Reminder: When a "protest movement" is endorsed by EVERY part of the regime, it's not a protest movement.

Choose your side:

Are you with BLM, corporations, celebrities, all the politicians, the US State Department, and.....International Finance ✊? Or against them?🤨 #Choices

Meanwhile, not far away from the enormous "International Finance says END RACISM!" banners, another white male statue was attacked, toppled, burned --

(pro-riot @MayorBowser ordered police stand down again; no one arrested, no interventions at all):

Do the statue attackers know that International Finance backs them to the hilt? How do they feel about it?

Does it cause any cognitive dissonance?

As in @stone_toss classic:

Or -- the statue attackers might see things like Starbucks, AFL-CIO, and International Finance Corporation all singing "#EndRacismNow!" in unison as weakness, banners showing their own humiliation.

"Our bold actions against White Racism are bringing the racists to their knees!"

The real lesson is the protests were never protests at all. They were the regime celebrating itself by rallying against the eternal phantom enemy, that which keeps the ruling coalition going, "White Racism" (backed up by unfalsifiable conspiracy theories and magical thinking).

The laughably minor trigger (Floyd) shows what a charade it all was if viewed on its own terms... (and those observing from a great distance of time or place, too far to inhale the kool-aid fumes will certainly be puzzled.)

The Coronavirus-Lockdown allowed for it, but the regime, across all its arms (obviously incl. the media) pushed/encouraged it, created conditions to incentivize rioting, demanded police stand down, demonized National Guard for using tear gas to disperse an illegal violent mob.

BLM and the statue-attackers (and the celebrities and corporate etc. virtue-signalers enabling them) were/are therefore doing the opposite of protesting. They were *celebrating* the regime, and themselves as members of the ruling (narrative-shaping) coalition...

As for the role of Blacks: In some ways, I feel sorry for them here. Blacks have long been effectively "pets" of the regime (as we've known it our entire lives, for those of us on the younger side). Conned into thinking they are part of a Black Revolution...

Black radicals of a now-long-past era said "The Revolution will not be televised."

As I've observed some of the protests (or whatever term is best for them), I came to reflect on that slogan. The "revolution" here is not only "relevised," it is literally sponsored by Amazon...

The "protests" -- sponsored by every major corporation and institution, academics, churches, seemingly almost all politicians, seemingly almost everyone in the media except @TuckerCarlson (with even @OANN ceding the moral claims even if pushing back against the rioting)...

Where does that leave Black Nationalists?

(and almost all US Blacks are at least a soft-ethnonationalists, which again the regime supports for its own reasons)

The more thoughtful among them realize something's "off" about it all. I've seen it and some protests. It ebbs/flows.

To return to the up-thread point on AFL-CIO. Their HQ building was vandalized on May 31, all windows on the first floor destroyed, fires set inside, graffiti everywhere.

They boarded up, and soon rolled out BLACK LIVES MANNER posters of their own.

Then a huge, expensive banner:

More views of the AFL-CIO banner:

(people milling around are part of defacto BLM street-party; BLM and allies transitioned from protest to street party after @MayorBowser endorsed the revolution/riots and painted BLACK LIVES MATTER on the street in front of the White House)