{"id":1329,"date":"2020-06-02T19:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jack-donovan.com\/sowilo\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2020-06-02T19:39:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:39:34","slug":"it-would-be-cooler-if-we-all-stood-together-against-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jack-donovan.com\/sowilo\/2020\/06\/02\/it-would-be-cooler-if-we-all-stood-together-against-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"It Would Be Cooler If We All Stood Together Against Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 170px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 10px; overflow:hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 170px;\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/4b335b95-aae8-48f5-84d6-f42e501273ed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few years, I\u2019ve talked to a lot of guys privately about race. I think it\u2019s a 20th Century discussion, especially in America, that\u2019s being continued by people who benefit from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been around for awhile and traveled in a lot of different circles. I\u2019ve been around all sides and I\u2019ve heard what everyone has to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I voted for John Kerry in San Francisco with a Mexican guy who is the most important person in my life. And I\u2019ve spoken to the far right about violence in a beer hall in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few months, legislators and governors ran out of toilet paper, panicked, and wiped their asses with the constitution and all of our so-called \u201crights.\u201d They want you to forget about that. As soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the numbers and the rationale they used to close down businesses, put people out of work, and confine them to their homes \u2014 given the amount of people who just gathered together in major hotspots \u2014 in a few weeks, hundreds of thousands of people should die. But they won\u2019t. Because\u2026mistakes were made. Or maybe they weren\u2019t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the police brutality that occurred was disgusting and I\u2019m glad that the man responsible is in jail. I hope he is severely punished for it and they make an example of him. That\u2019s justice. If you give men power, a percentage of them will always abuse it. You can\u2019t change that with hashtags and blank screens. That will go on until the end of time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve hung out with actual racists. All of the stars of that world. And I have a lot of guys who are starting to go down that road reach out to me. I block the ones that are already far gone, but I\u2019ve tried to tell a bunch of them personally that where they are going is a dead end and a distraction from bigger threats to liberty. I\u2019ve already heard everything they desperately want to tell me a thousand times, and I try to get them to look at the bigger picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People virtue signaling to all of their liberal friends are making meaningless gestures. There\u2019s no danger in it. Just, \u201cLook at me, I\u2019m a good person too,\u201d for all of their friends who believe the same things to see. The actual impact is zero. And most of it is motivated by fear. They don\u2019t want to become targets of what is happening right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been pulling guys aside for two years, saying, \u201cman, look beyond race.\u201d Guys who would have gone hard in that direction. These riots are making that a hard sell. Because they aren\u2019t about justice. They\u2019re about chaos and destruction for the sake of chaos and destruction. While many Americans kneeled and posted socially safe, easily applauded gestures, many are also sitting around saying, \u201cI told you so.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t want to have a civil war with blacks. I don\u2019t hate blacks. I hate tyranny. The media and the people playing games want us to hate each other. That\u2019s the story they want to sell. And it\u2019s the story the government wants. Because before this all happened, America was getting real close to Civil War. Not against blacks, but against&nbsp; the totalitarian and corrupt state that pushed a lie and destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people. Black, white, brown \u2014 everyone. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It would be cooler if we all stood together against THAT.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does anyone remember the Occupy movement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Months of violent, destructive protests against the \u201c1%\u201d that in the end, accomplished absolutely nothing. While America has been locked down and middle class businesses are being burned and looted, the 1% has been buying up the economy, becoming more powerful, and creating more distance between people who have unimaginable wealth and people who have very little.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to rise up out of poverty, there has to be a middle class left for you to rise up into. These riots aren\u2019t helping blacks or whites, many of whom are poorer now than they were 6 months ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These riots are helping the 1%, who sit in gated mansions behind armed security guards. They\u2019re not worried. They\u2019re not scared. 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