Black Lives Matter

Tef · January 5

Black Lives Matter.

Read up on some key BLM objectives here: https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
https://blackfutureslab.org/

Protests and the struggle are ongoing. We all know that trying to keep something in the news in this day and age is nigh impossible. This is particularly when we are trying to dismantle systems of oppression, racism, imperialism, and inequality in the USA and beyond. The revolution will not be televised etc.

A change of government won’t change shit unless we shout for it.

Gough Whitlam, after being ousted from power for daring to attempt stymieing American and British interests in Australia, told us we must maintain our rage and enthusiasm. As Dr Cornel West said, You’re going to have to take a risk, you have to pay a cost, you’re going to have to cut against the grain. It’s not going to be fun, but there’ll be joy in that kind of struggle, joy in your intellectual courage exercise, joy in your moral and spiritual witness enacted even as you fall on your face.

Shit is hard out there. Look after yourselves, your friends, and your family. Assume positive internet in your fellow posters. Be solution focused.

https://medium.com/s/confessions-of-a-left-wing-prepper/progressive-prepping-101-online-resources-2a724e70f28e

Do what you can to help the movement. Send money, take to the street, volunteer your time, amplify black voices and/or change the minds of your friends and family.

This thread is for broadcasting BLM news, sharing praxis, as well commiserating and laughing with comrades.

Spoiler violent images and videos please, be careful about doxxing comrades; this is a public forum

RoyceSraphim · January 5

Counting down until.....

Tef · January 5

Doesn’t deserve to be left on the last page of the old thread:

Pooro wrote:

There are more than 500 federally recognized tribes (and even more without recognition), so there's a lot of folks from a lot of places. It's sort of like sayin, "I'd be keen to hear about other influential people from North America who should be household names." It's so broad, so huge, that where to even start is difficult.

For some Cherokee folks that I think should be better known:
-Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee syllabary. Whole-ass written language, one dude. Incredible.
-John Ross, Cherokee chief who successfully argued before the Supreme Court that the Cherokee people should not be removed. (Which led to Andrew Jackson's infamous, "Let me see the Supreme Court's army" bullshit, because he sucked complete ass)
-Wilma Mankiller, first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation. Tireless advocate for the marginalized, within and without the tribe. Passionate community organizer, incredible badass.
-Will Rogers. Complicated dude. Helped popularized the film western, for better or (mostly) ill. But I think it's worth examining how one can be complicit in an art/industry that harms their own people.
-Jimi Hendrix. Okay, I mean, of COURSE people know him, but most don't know he was Cherokee.

The Cow King · January 5

Some one asked ages ago what a non capitalist society would be and I dunno but here's a dog with a book on one take

Styrofoam Sammich · January 5

https://twitter.com/GarbageApe/status/1346241013384425473

Typhoid Manny · January 5

that is violence

turtleant · January 5

Typhoid Manny wrote: »

that is viowence

Typhoid Manny · January 5

BRING ON THE COMETS

this world is a bust

Typhoid Manny · January 5

https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1346209249312055297

cool! i'm looking forward to this shit going federal, it's been too long since piecework was the normal way of doing things

Styrofoam Sammich · January 5

Typhoid Manny wrote: »

https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1346209249312055297

cool! i'm looking forward to this shit going federal, it's been too long since piecework was the normal way of doing things

Kamala Harris's brother in law is an Uber exec and so are multiple people from Obama's orbit.

Get ready for feudalism with woke characteristics

Olivaw · January 5

Y’know at some point people are going to start breaking things, and I mean a lot of things

I’m guessing it’ll start when they stop extending eviction deadlines

Metzger Meister · January 5

We're about six months out I reckon.

Bhow · January 5

"

https://twitter.com/NBCBLK/status/1346567875658731520

facetious · January 5

That's fucked!

Ranlin · January 5

Of course no charges, he wasn't shot, he was merely struck by 7 bullets.

Ubik · January 5

"If you don’t believe you can prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt, you have an ethical obligation not to issue charges,"

but when the defendant is not a cop:

"even if you don't believe you can prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt, you have an ethical obligation to put the facts before the jury to make the determination"

Kadith · January 5

The handling of Breonna Taylor's killers proved they could get away with this even in highly public scenarios

so of fucking course they did it again

Kelor · January 5

There was a really stellar episode of Citations Needed a few weeks back on the democratic party as much of the police messaging as possible. Both the last few years and in a historical context with their record on civil rights in general.

"Sen. Mark Warner said progressives' calls to 'defund the police' were in part to blame for Democratic losses in the House in a cycle when the party was expected to gain seats," The Hill tells us. "How ’defund the police' sabotaged Democrats on Election Day," Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune writes."'Defund the police’ is killing our party, and we’ve got to stop it," said South Carolina Representative Jim Clyburn. In the wake of the Democrats’ disappointing Congressional showing in last month’s elections, centrist Democrats and their media mouthpieces were quick to blame Black Lives Matter and the "defund the police" movement for their subpar results.

There’s only one problem: there is no empirical basis for this claim in any of the above comments or reports. No studies, no evidence––not even anecdotally––is provided. Before the printer ink was dry on the ballots, centrist Democrats who lost or underperformed––or made a career out of defending those that do––rushed to blame the so-called "defund the police" movement, highlighting rightwing attack ads featuring the label. After some initial goodwill immediately following the global outpouring of protests after the horrific police murder of George Floyd, mainstream democratic party line has reverted back to it’s old playbook of blaming the Left and Black activists for offending or alienating a nebulous cohort of moderate white voters.

As the economy crashed and the world was turned upside down in the Spring of 2020, Democratic leaders had a chance to lobby for robust social welfare programs, guaranteed income, mortgage and rent cancellation and single payer healthcare to get us through this ongoing crisis, whose disastrous implications will extend well beyond the introduction of a vaccine. Instead, however, they lowered expectations, blamed Trump for their own unforced ideological limitations and almost never publicly took credit for the extension of unemployment benefits––the one good thing Democrats actually did achieve, albeit fleeting.

The result was a once in a generation opportunity blown, a possible leftwing shock doctrine that was crippled by unmovable austerity ideology. So when the elections came around and the Democrats underperformed, who was to blame? It can’t be party leadership blowing the COVID-19 response and it can’t be the security state-curated centrist tofu candidates who lost or barely won. It has to––once again––be those pesky far left activists. Because Democratic party leadership cannot fail they can only be failed, a scapegoat was needed.

On this week’s episode we discuss why "defund the police" and the broader abolitionist movement was that scapegoat, the long history of concern trolling Black activism and perennially blaming movements for justice for right-wing, white backlash from bad faith actors. We also detail how activists are now on the defensive as Democrats, having successfully exploited the broad sentiment of the George Floyd protests for Get Out The Vote fodder, now seek to lower expectations, purge Black Lives Matter of its truly radical elements, and go back to business as usual.

Our guest is human rights lawyer and abolitionist Derecka Purnell.

Der Waffle Mous · January 5

https://twitter.com/jaredlholt/status/1346575085369520132

Styrofoam Sammich · January 6

This might acrually be good?

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1346615467243417600

Undead Scottsman · January 6

Wait, I thought the Dems totally snubbed the Squad on committee asignments?

Styrofoam Sammich · January 6

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

Wait, I thought the Dems totally snubbed the Squad on committee asignments?

The one thats a highlight was energy and climate. The committee assignment process is a long....process

tynic · January 6

I don't want to 6D chess the internal negotiations here because I guarantee I will put more thought into it than the dem leadership ever have, but I'm let's say keenly interested in the motivations behind keeping progressives out of energy/climate discussions.

Styrofoam Sammich · January 6

tynic wrote: »

I don't want to 6D chess the internal negotiations here because I guarantee I will put more thought into it than the dem leadership ever have, but I'm let's say keenly interested in the motivations behind keeping progressives out of energy/climate discussions.

Well remember it wasnt leadership who pulled that, they just stood by and watched. The actually maneuvering was by Hakeem Jeffries, who hates the left, and major recipients of energy sector donations.

Javen · January 6

tynic wrote: »

I don't want to 6D chess the internal negotiations here because I guarantee I will put more thought into it than the dem leadership ever have, but I'm let's say keenly interested in the motivations behind keeping progressives out of energy/climate discussions.

The committees main abilities are investigatory on nature, and can compel people to attend hearings to this end. The simplest answer is that there are those that more progressive members would wield this at people the larger party leadership does not want to see testify

Lanz · January 6

Ranlin wrote: »

Of course no charges, he wasn't shot, he was merely struck by 7 bullets.

“It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret, my friend
You get killed just for livin’
In your American Skin”

Garlic Bread · January 6

Lanz wrote: »

Ranlin wrote: »

Of course no charges, he wasn't shot, he was merely struck by 7 bullets.

“It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret, my friend
You get killed just for livin’
In your American Skin”

it's sad and infuriating how relevant lots of pop culture still is because shit hasn't changed

Tef · January 6

Garlic Bread wrote: »

Lanz wrote: »

Ranlin wrote: »

Of course no charges, he wasn't shot, he was merely struck by 7 bullets.

“It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret, my friend
You get killed just for livin’
In your American Skin”

it's sad and infuriating how relevant lots of pop culture still is because shit hasn't changed

Ain’t a damn thing changed!

In other news, I don’t like the idea that the centrists have ‘wasted’ the opportunity for change. Yeah, they’ve slowed things down but we can collectively keep pushing

DJ Eebs · January 6

on the bright side it's looking like kelly loeffler is probably going to lose her senate seat, which is objectively funny

Poorochondriac · January 6

Not convinced that the Dems will do much of note with Senate control (especially with Manchin poised to throw various spanners in various works), but it would be satisfying to see a few absolute scumfucks get embarrassed

Undead Scottsman · January 6

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Not convinced that the Dems will do much of note with Senate control (especially with Manchin poised to throw various spanners in various works), but it would be satisfying to see a few absolute scumfucks get embarrassed

Honestly, it'd almost be worth it just for McConnel no longer being majority leader.

RoyceSraphim · January 6

Huh, only 4 posts until complaining about politics.

Anyway, here's polics complaining about history.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-eighteenth-century-custard-recipe-that-enraged-trump-supporters

Need to look up the episode where his guest explains the influences of slaves on early American cuisine. Because when you have a system that large, its mass will change the path of everything around it.

Coinage · January 6

It's not impossible that, dark pact fulfilled, McConnell will simply turn to dust

Styrofoam Sammich · January 6

Ok, so you have the presidency, the House, and the Senate.

No more fucking excuses.

PiptheFair · January 6

Styrofoam Sammich wrote: »

Ok, so you have the presidency, the House, and the Senate.

No more fucking excuses.

gotta wait for the right time though

we gotta compromise

PiptheFair · January 6

gotta work together to coexist

PiptheFair · January 6

please destroy my pathetic life

turtleant · January 6

The PA State Senate is having an extremely normal one (thread)

https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1346519659005284353

The Rs just straight up refused to swear in a Dem senator who won his election.

Also 8 of PA's 9 Republican Congress seats are refusing to ratify Bidens election win. The 9th says he will if a national voter ID law is passed.

Fucking buckle up for tomorrow folks its gonna be a doozy.

PiptheFair · January 6

people continue to purposefully forget that part of checks and balances is that the final balance is violence at the hands of the people who are disenfranchised by their elected officials

just

ya know

thinking out lout

Undead Scottsman · January 6

Styrofoam Sammich wrote: »

Ok, so you have the presidency, the House, and the Senate.

No more fucking excuses.

They can still hide behind the Republicans filibustering everything and shits like Manchin and Feinstein refusing to do away with it.

PiptheFair · January 6

reminder that Let's Lynch the Landlord is about Dianne Feinstein

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