The most illustrative thing rn is who on here is writing stuff like "it's hard to feel safe today. take care of yourselves" and who has the luxury to instead spend time speculating about whether or not he'll get a book deal.
HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
We have always been there but for a few scant cases of consequences for the "unlucky ones" that stepped too far out of line (and with ample, undeniable evidence to back it up). We are now likely looking at a situation where the fascist leg-humper fan club is going to be not only emboldened by this decision, but also willing to go out and act on it the next time there's another big civil rights protest. Expect more bullets, cars, and knives.
I feel like it’s one of those things that’s been happening and not getting talked about much outside of flare ups that are quickly forgotten.
Like the time the proud boys beat someone up the night that McInnis got invited to the Republican Club by the NYC GOP, performed a yellow face reinactment at said club of the assassination of Japanese Socialist Party leader Inejirou Asanuma by the ultranationalist right winger Otoya Yamaguchi, then went out and waved a katana out in the street as he left the club at the end of hte night
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facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
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..... WHAT?
Somehow I had not heard of that one. (the McInnis shit)
facetious on
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It’s another example, in a long string of examples, of why the state will not save us.
I have always been a firm proponent in prevention rather than cure. To that end, the only way I was able to find peace in a violent system was to do good in the community around me. I urge you to track down non-state affiliated local action groups in your community groups and get involved. Ways to find these groups:
- look at who your local protest organisers are, who is speaking at protests/gatherings and see what groups they affiliate with
- Go to state affiliated events like soup kitchens, blanket handouts etc and quite often there will be reps for the non state groups there as well
- Libraries and other community places will often have noticeboards with info on them
- I have personally had little success with Twitter/Facebook, but you might find there are groups, particularly in bigger centres, that have a good online presence.
- Don’t be disheartened that they don’t welcome you with open arms! A lot of folks are (rightly and wrongly) paranoid about security. It takes time and consistency of action to find your place a lot of the time. I am the most cop looking motherfucker, and it took me some time, but I got there eventually.
- if you have some like minded people you know in your town, get together with them and start doing some good work yourselves!
Also like, I take medication for anxiety. I understand it can be virtually impossible to get the help you need. Please reach out to me privately if you need some funding to get access to appropriate mental health help; we’ve got a fund of sorts together to help forumers who need help
So with all the efforts American police and military have implemented to prevent blue on blue incidents, efforts that fail due to glorious human error, we now have a verdict that appears to give sanction for every fuckwit that thinks they are a cowboy and can "bring order to chaos," that about right?
Somehow I had not heard of that one. (the McInnis shit)
On stage he portrayed a different ultranationalist. Wearing glasses with caricatured Asian eyes drawn on the front, McInnes played Otoya Yamaguchi, a young far-right extremist who assassinated the leader of the Japanese Socialist Party on live television exactly 58 years ago on October 12, 1960. Images of the historical event have recently become a popular meme among the right.
When McInnes/Yamaguchi was all done assassinating, McInnes casually cracked open a cold one and, amid crass jokes about Japanese (or generally just Asian) accents and names, delivered a serious line: “Never let evil take root.” The audience of roughly 100 people erupted in cheers and hoots of approval.
The evil McInnes mentioned is, in his perspective, America’s rising socialist movement. “The DNC now believes socialism is better than the free market!” he said incredulously. “Well that’s new!”
My dad occasionally blames "socialists" or "socialism" for one of or multiple of society's woes. Every time, I ask him what socialism is and how socialists could be responsible, and he hasn't been able to answer either question a single time, yet still does it.
I am convinced, utterly convinced, most boomers don't even have a fucking clue what socialism is. And McCarthyism is so entrenched in their mind that they are deaf to actually finding out.
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TonkkaSome one in the club tonightHas stolen my ideas.Registered Userregular
Oh yeah my father constantly states the the US is already a socialist country. All I have been able to respond with is "What are you talking about?"
Any time I bring up Medicare or Social Security as examples of socialism the only response I get from conservatives is "That's not welfare I earned those benefits!"
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
Any time I bring up Medicare or Social Security as examples of socialism the only response I get from conservatives is "That's not welfare I earned those benefits!"
point out that you too are funding them, but will never benefit from them because they will be defaulted by the time you're retirement age, and then watch as they try and mental gymnastics that shit
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
also like, public roads and hospitals and the fire department and
this country is dogshit I hate it here so goddamn much
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I bring up the fact that medicare is socialized medicine whenever my parents say something nice about it.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Any time I bring up Medicare or Social Security as examples of socialism the only response I get from conservatives is "That's not welfare I earned those benefits!"
point out that you too are funding them, but will never benefit from them because they will be defaulted by the time you're retirement age, and then watch as they try and mental gymnastics that shit
that's not necessarily true- but by conditioning us to think they won't be there it will make it easier to take them away
also like, public roads and hospitals and the fire department and
this country is dogshit I hate it here so goddamn much
None of that is socialism. There's a reason that "socialism is when the government does things" has become a mocking retort to so many right wing talking points. Something being socialism and something being socialized is not necessarily the same thing.
Anybody have any idea what's going on with this whole Kyle Rittenhouse thing? For those unaware after being acquitted he is now getting attacked by the far right for saying things like "I support BLM" and "I was railroaded and it would have been so much worse if I were a PoC".
Anybody have any idea what's going on with this whole Kyle Rittenhouse thing? For those unaware after being acquitted he is now getting attacked by the far right for saying things like "I support BLM" and "I was railroaded and it would have been so much worse if I were a PoC".
This is a grift I haven't seen.
He's off the hook at this point so now he's going to milk his murders for his whole life like Zimmerman. He's probably getting media coaching. He'll temporarily sacrifice a small portion of chud supporters to pick up more lib supporters (and do not doubt that he has lib supporters), it's easy to win the chuds back later by repeating their talking points. Expect to hear his name an annoying amount over the coming years, and do not be surprised if he wanders into politics
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You'll have white supremacists crossing state lines with assault rifles to murder protestors, possibly at the protests for this very trial
There was already an asshole somewhere around the courthouse with an AR15 yesterday
https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/national/fired-former-missouri-cop-is-vocal-demonstrator-outside-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-reports-say/article_077e22e5-5cc5-5a85-8fe3-98d0213d2389.html
he's a fired cop from Ferguson
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Moved to? We already have cops. Right now we're in the "Brown Shirts pick fights and kill people in the street with impunity" stage of Fascism Rising.
I feel like it’s one of those things that’s been happening and not getting talked about much outside of flare ups that are quickly forgotten.
Like the time the proud boys beat someone up the night that McInnis got invited to the Republican Club by the NYC GOP, performed a yellow face reinactment at said club of the assassination of Japanese Socialist Party leader Inejirou Asanuma by the ultranationalist right winger Otoya Yamaguchi, then went out and waved a katana out in the street as he left the club at the end of hte night
Somehow I had not heard of that one. (the McInnis shit)
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I have always been a firm proponent in prevention rather than cure. To that end, the only way I was able to find peace in a violent system was to do good in the community around me. I urge you to track down non-state affiliated local action groups in your community groups and get involved. Ways to find these groups:
- look at who your local protest organisers are, who is speaking at protests/gatherings and see what groups they affiliate with
- Go to state affiliated events like soup kitchens, blanket handouts etc and quite often there will be reps for the non state groups there as well
- Libraries and other community places will often have noticeboards with info on them
- I have personally had little success with Twitter/Facebook, but you might find there are groups, particularly in bigger centres, that have a good online presence.
- Don’t be disheartened that they don’t welcome you with open arms! A lot of folks are (rightly and wrongly) paranoid about security. It takes time and consistency of action to find your place a lot of the time. I am the most cop looking motherfucker, and it took me some time, but I got there eventually.
- if you have some like minded people you know in your town, get together with them and start doing some good work yourselves!
Also like, I take medication for anxiety. I understand it can be virtually impossible to get the help you need. Please reach out to me privately if you need some funding to get access to appropriate mental health help; we’ve got a fund of sorts together to help forumers who need help
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Edit
https://youtu.be/poL7l-Uk3I8
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
https://bedfordandbowery.com/2018/10/inside-the-proud-boy-event-that-sparked-violence-outside-of-uptown-gop-club/amp/
edit: not directed at you jars, obvi
I am convinced, utterly convinced, most boomers don't even have a fucking clue what socialism is. And McCarthyism is so entrenched in their mind that they are deaf to actually finding out.
I never get a good answer.
we have plenty of socialism
it just tends to benefit people who need it least
point out that you too are funding them, but will never benefit from them because they will be defaulted by the time you're retirement age, and then watch as they try and mental gymnastics that shit
this country is dogshit I hate it here so goddamn much
So ya that term is just a meaningless stand-in for "politician I don't like" and nobody who throws it around knows wtf they are talking about.
that's not necessarily true- but by conditioning us to think they won't be there it will make it easier to take them away
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None of that is socialism. There's a reason that "socialism is when the government does things" has become a mocking retort to so many right wing talking points. Something being socialism and something being socialized is not necessarily the same thing.
Somehow extremely poignant
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A, and I cannot emphasize the A enough, CAB
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Be the stranger you wish you had had in your childhood
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
And to heck with the government that employs them, too!
god I wish
Guilty verdict
https://weartv.com/news/local/florida-man-acquitted-of-shooting-at-deputies-in-raid-that-led-to-death-of-girlfriend
Noy guilty for murder but still convicted for felony possession of firearm
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
This is a grift I haven't seen.
He's off the hook at this point so now he's going to milk his murders for his whole life like Zimmerman. He's probably getting media coaching. He'll temporarily sacrifice a small portion of chud supporters to pick up more lib supporters (and do not doubt that he has lib supporters), it's easy to win the chuds back later by repeating their talking points. Expect to hear his name an annoying amount over the coming years, and do not be surprised if he wanders into politics
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I dont have a full breakdown of the counts but that seems good, hopefully they wont get off on appeal or something
I remember last year my dad asked me if I thought Joe Biden was a socialist, and seemed honestly surprised when I laughed in response.
I know its propaganda and it means whatever they want it to mean but I want to sit each of them down and ask them to explain it to me.