Armed activists blocked Dallas workers from cleaning a homeless camp. That’s unacceptable
www.dallasnews.com
Last week, a group of about 40 activists used their bodies and cars to block city officials from cleaning the site of a homeless encampment under Interstate...

"This is not how we do things in this country."

Uhh, clearly it is. Did you not see the part where this happened in this country?

  • GoebbelsDeezNuts [any]
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    2 years ago

    I also really like this bit:

    Then, on Monday, activists showed up again even though there weren’t city officials around. At least one man with a long gun could be seen from the street.

    It subtly says a lot. I guarantee the John Brown Gun Club didn't self report that they were still there protecting the camp. I am am also certain that nobody bothered interviewing the homeless for their perspectives. This means that city officials were in fact around, probably police in plain clothes monitoring the situation.

    This really makes you wonder who wrote this opinion piece in the first place. It almost seems like maybe, possibly perhaps, someone from a police department wrote it. Who could say?

    I will say however, if anyone from the JBGC is reading this. Watch your back.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Spot on. Also, the language of the article (and certainly in the section you show here) makes it sound scary and ominous that they're armed. This is Texas, where guns are supposed to be a proud part of the culture to the point that people fetishize them.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        This is Texas, where guns are supposed to be a proud part of the culture

        Isn't it an unspoken part of US gun culture that it was always meant to be practiced exclusively by white reactionaries so they could protect the existing order against non-whites, poors and "radicals" who were never supposed to have guns?

        • star_wraith [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yes, 100,000% correct. Some of the first modern gun control legislation came from Ronald Reagan and California Republicans, who started to shit their pants once black folks in Oakland (the Black Panther Party in particular) started arming up.

        • Tapirs10 [undecided,she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Also the militia mentioned in second amendment is slave patrollers. That's who :amerikkka: wants guns for

          • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            Not just used for slave patrols but also genociding native americans. Just literally large scale state sanctioned lynch mobs

      • primrosepathspeedrun [she/her,des/pair]
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        2 years ago

        yes but comminists and anarchists are NOT part of texas culture, the guns are supposed to go with our lord and savior, supply side jesus, and his divine father, ludwig von misis.

        • PasswordRememberer [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          silence, fed. brand new account account posting about violence and inviting people into off-site chats.

          lol as if labor law is real. burn down a family dollar near you!

          https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2675199

          honestly this is the reason i am now okay with political violence. why I just cannot give a shit about random lib lives anymore.

          https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2674754

          so does anyone have an not-super-tracked resources on 3d printing guns?

          https://hexbear.net/post/211276/comment/2675528

          so i guess im in favor of burning down tim hortons now.

          https://hexbear.net/post/211293/comment/2675400

          gotta kill all the racists if you want your reconstruction to have sticking power.

          https://hexbear.net/post/211219/comment/2674682

          does this have groups/private threads, or are we going to matrix or signal or something?

          https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2675473

          Death to America

    • JamesGoblin [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It doesn't really matter which member of the fascist regime wrote it, anyway there is no chance it was a journalist since these are extinct.