i-need-to-vent-the-stress-away:
Those that destroy property at protests do it because they recognize that the only language capitalism speaks is profit. Protest songs or banners mean nothing to the leaders of capitalism, only the price tag of suppressing protests and fixing the damage registers on their radar. Only when public resistance to their policies becomes so expense that it isn’t worth it do they change their deadly policies. That is what activists mean when they say capitalism values property more than people and that is why activists target property.
The cost of fixing a local resident’s car does not register on the pricetag for the state, only for the local resident who will blame the protesters.
Merkel has already confirmed that all the yuppies whose posh cars* got burned will get their money back. Which was always expected because there is no way the current government could do anything else this close to the German elections.
* The media keeps ignoring that activists specifically targetted expensive cars in working class neighbourhoods threatened with gentrification. Curious that.
I thought it was obvious that these protesters would focus on expensive cars, if you know anything about the ideology of the antifacist movement, or any leftist movement.
Yet I see so many so called leftists just believing the mainstream media without any critical thought.
Yes! So many people keep speaking about ‘random destruction’ and it shows just how little they understand about these sort of actions. Every destructive act is intentional. It takes a lot of effort to get into Hamburg and locations like this and the actions people do involve a lot of personal risk to themselves. So of course it’s thought out. The location, the object, none of it is random.
But every time the media is going to ignore that and focus on some small local store that got trashed, even if it was a gentrification hub, the owner was a snitch or undercover cops had to trash the place themselves to get a good story.
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