Thread by @caitoz

Remember when Americans shook the earth with massive protests demanding an end to the police state and the entire liberal establishment just kept saying "I hear you, I agree with you" and then did absolutely nothing to end police brutality? It's important to remember that lesson.

Dumbasses kept showing up in my mentions all "Why are you supporting BLM Caitlin?? Don't you see all the corporations and corporate Dems support it? Why would they do that if it didn't serve them?"

This is why. Empty words of support can defuse people far easier than opposition.

Imagine if all the plutocrats, pundits and politicians had just yelled at the BLM protesters and admonished them to stop? It would have been pouring gasoline on the fire, and it would have exposed them. Much easier to say "I hear you, I agree with you" and take no real action.

Manipulators are good at manipulation. The people who make their way to the top in a corrupt system are manipulators. You can't take their words at face value. Mustn't mistake vapid placation for victory. They'll happily give you a mountain of words in exchange for real treasure.

And really this is all institutions like the Democratic Party exist to do: defuse left populism and crush grassroots activism not with opposition, but with empty words of agreement and no intention to ever back them up with action. Just a bottomless pit to suck up your energy.

A kid who doesn't want to clean their room will tell their parents "No! I don't wanna!"

A very clever kid who doesn't want to clean their room will say "Yes! I'll get on that right away" and then enjoy hours of peace and relaxation without parental nagging, and without cleaning.

It's the exact same way with the powerful. Much easier for them to pretend to be on your side than expose the fact that they're not. In the end the result is the same: the kid doesn't clean their room. But they don't get the kind of pushback they'd get if they said no.

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