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The radical-looking people in the photo—the dirty-hippy types and the scary black-masked folks—most of them weren’t screaming for the downfall of the State or the overthrow of capitalism. They were shouting things like “fund healthcare and education” and “reduce the deficit.” I live in a country where people are putting on masks and writing a defense attorney’s phone number on their arm so they can say things like “rich people should pay more taxes.”
Maybe the crystallizing moment came when some doofus yelled “get a job” at us, and the crowd yelled back—not “fuck the system,” but “we want jobs.”
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