Today in "Weird shit happened but the details are sketchy and unclear"

  • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "org" is really not the right word for Black Hammer, the whole thing is essentially a 60s style New-Age cult with updated language.

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        2 years ago

        I would not call them organized. More like driven by uncontrollable megalomania. They were losing members and having other chapters disaffiliate with them for months to the point they were having to trick homeless people into fundraising for them by the end. There was no long term strategy.

        • 18558355324 [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Fair. Still dissatisfied with the state of the left in terms of organization when compared to cults like this. My city doesn’t even have a DSA chapter.

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    2 years ago

    Not that Black Hammer is any kind of civil rights org, cops and FBI have a documented history of murdering leaders and blaming other orgs or claiming it was suicide.

    We can't really make any appraisals if we've only got the cops word to go off of.

    They also have a history of amplifying voices that compete with other voices on the left but don't threaten anything, eg, leftcoms.

    It'd be kinda funny if local police murdered a FBI agent and blamed it on an informant.

    • Azarova [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      It’d be kinda funny if local police murdered a FBI agent and blamed it on an informant.

      :inshallah-script: Please it would be so funny

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It’d be kinda funny if local police murdered a FBI agent and blamed it on an informant.

      I'm remembering that video from 2020 when a bunch of local cops arrested a black FBI agent.

      Also the raid on Warchild's house in Point Break.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    2 years ago

    These people suck and they aren't allies in the struggle by any means, but remain highly critical of any reporting on them, especially if it's from local news repeating statements from law enforcement.

    • Venusta [any]
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      2 years ago

      It was something about the holocaust being a distraction from colonization / slavery iirc

    • Soap_Owl [any]
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      2 years ago

      The people that constantly elevate the stories of white people to that extent that almost none of the nearly infinite black stories like this are told.

      It is pooly phrased but a decent point and a great shitpost.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        A great shitpost is provocative without sounding unhinged. "America deserved 9/11," for example.

        "Anne Frank was a colonizer" is deep in unhinged territory, to the point where only an extremely generous reading gets you kind of near something that might make sense.

      • 18558355324 [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        It may be a shitpost, but It is “pooly” thought out and “pooly ” gets the point across. Listen to the true snob episode. Zero chance they aren’t an op :pigmask-off:

    • Pikapi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      You know the dirty I”””’ian and honkey jokes we make. They double down on that stuff for real.