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Black Lives Matter Thread 7
Tef
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Black Lives Matter.
Read up on some key BLM objectives here: https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
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.
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.
Small point of housekeeping, let's not drown out the intent of this thread with talk about the GOP's coronavirus infection and the delicious schadenfreude therein. Feel free to make up your own thread to talk about that stuff and the looming USA election genreally.
https://medium.com/s/confessions-of-a-left-wing-prepper/progressive-prepping-101-online-resources-2a724e70f28e
https://youtu.be/8Y0FsCtqibc
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
https://youtu.be/llci8MVh8J4
https://youtu.be/wVzbSvWaMkc
https://youtu.be/q5QHj0T4q3I
https://youtu.be/800Jpjb5zWo
Read up on some key BLM objectives here: https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
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.
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.
Small point of housekeeping, let's not drown out the intent of this thread with talk about the GOP's coronavirus infection and the delicious schadenfreude therein. Feel free to make up your own thread to talk about that stuff and the looming USA election genreally.
https://medium.com/s/confessions-of-a-left-wing-prepper/progressive-prepping-101-online-resources-2a724e70f28e
https://youtu.be/8Y0FsCtqibcDo 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
https://youtu.be/llci8MVh8J4https://youtu.be/wVzbSvWaMkchttps://youtu.be/q5QHj0T4q3Ihttps://youtu.be/800Jpjb5zWo help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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"In a statement Monday, Cameron revealed that the only charge he recommended to the grand jury was wanton endangerment. But the motion filed by the juror noted that the attorney general had previously made public comments stating that his team walked the grand jury 'through every homicide offense, and also presented all of the information that was available to the grand jury.'"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/grand-jury-recordings-released-breonna-taylor-case-n1241803
Gist of it is they only asked the grand jury to consider the reckless endangerment charge, didn't ask the grand jury to consider other charges, implying the grand jury was entirely a smokescreen to hide the fact that the state AG wanted to bury the case against the officers by exercising their prosecutorial discretion anyway.
That motherfucker, I hope he develops ibd and shits himself in front of cameras.
hitting hot metal with hammers
????
*watches video*
Ooooooh.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
The "justice" system in the USA is so goddamned fucked and incremental improvements are so... incremental
Yes the phrasing on that Tweet is extremely misleading.
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https://ktxs.com/amp/news/local/report-former-hsu-football-player-killed-by-police-while-intervening-in-domestic-fight
the headline said he was shot and I just mentally filled in "by the police" because that's where we're at
As though it weren't infuriating and tragic enough, there's also this thread:
You can publicly go to bat for police, to the point that you vocally oppose protest and those fighting for protections from police, and the cops will still fucking murder you.
Tragic irony
land of the "free", home to "liberty"
on the other hand,
hitting hot metal with hammers
You can make a pretty strong argument for every permanent member of the UN security council.
And honestly if any one of us is gone the others are just going to pick up the slack
Come Overwatch with meeeee
I laid it out for a subordinate with a thin blue line sticker about cops. Yes, there are some "good ones" but to not count on their help barring someone already being shot, or maybe stabbed.
Based on work experiences After a certain point I stopped seeing police as anothing other than triage for the wounded and scribes to record such and such happened.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Oh boy, been a while since I've been this angry. I was pretty sure no depth of depravity those assholes sunk to could phase me anymore. Guess I was wrong!
the truly fucked thing is that it isn't
Oh good, the murder-enabling bootlickers are back. Remember that time they let cops murder one of their sound guys and said "please sir, may we have another?". I certainly do.
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18 indictments against "several" Richmond PD officers have been presented to a grand jury for conduct during this summers protests.
i know that people just like playing these games as a fun shooty time
but it's really getting to the point where if you still enjoy them i kind of don't trust you
http://www.audioentropy.com/
shrug
stuff like the thing above or the highway of death shit pushes it past just being "problematic" to me
http://www.audioentropy.com/
edit: just gonna back down and apologize. The Oklahoma thing's got me in a real fucking rotten mood especially irt actions that make me want to trust people.
Call of Duty has been "problematic" forever.
That shit goes over the bar to utterly gross.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
also have they elaborated on exactly what events are the subject of this grand jury?
Yeah, sorry, sorry. I've calmed down now. Was just a intense thought of "Wait *THIS* is what you're choosing to sever over?" with maybe a little leftover feelings from the Mass Effect thread.
That said no it's super bad and is gonna get worse in the new blops. Thing is a majority of the playerbase never actually clicks the "single player" button and never actually sees a lot of that stuff.
Its similar to 40k in that the who I know IRL who play it are mostly native anarchist types and thinking about it maybe you *shouldn't* trust us.
Can't remember where I read this but the first draft of Blops2 was supposedly way more subversive before Ollie North got brought onboard and we got what we got.