https://bsky.app/profile/cara.city/post/3kou63hlgke2c

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Blatant rainbow imperialism. I won't be happy about the state of the US until every government building is turned to a gender neutral bathroom, see how they like pinkwashing then.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Waving a rainblow flag while doing war crimes is just IOF operational procedure, they're just fulfilling a jurisdictional mandate.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    Wikipedia says it's a John Lewis-class ship. Fucking liberals man.

    USNS Harvey Milk

    USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) is the second of the John Lewis-class of underway replenishment oilers, operated by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) to support ships of the United States Navy.

    From the Bluesky thread

    spoiler: one of them is Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Haha. Of fucking course.

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    Edit

    It's even worse. Because of course it is. Is the Harriet Tubman next for Gaza?

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    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      I never heard about Harvey Milk before, so i went to check him on wiki, first sentence was:

      was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California

      My first thought was "Gay man elected to office in USA in 70's? I wonder if they killed him for that"

      And of course:

      On November 27, 1978, Milk and Moscone were assassinated

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        I lived in the Bay Area at that time with my family. I wasn't quite a teen yet. That day I saw footage of a crying woman on the news speaking about the murders. It freaked me out because she looked a lot like my mom. Luckily she did not sound like my mom - or I would have been really freaked out. There was only a facial resemblance. Her name was Dianne Feinstein but at the time - of course - I didn't care about that.

        If remember correctly - Jonestown massacre happened the same month. That freaked me out too because I never thought mass death of people "near" me near could happen. Of course they were 1,000s of miles away in Guyana but they had lived in the Bay Area too just like me.

        Back to the murders and Dan White. His lawyers used bullshit later called the Twinkie defense. The bullshit helped him get a reduced sentence. Because he was a "clean cut" white guy and an ex-cop and firefighter - he was sentenced to seven years. Public protests over the verdict led to the White Night Riots.

        Twinkie defense

        The expression derives from the 1979 trial of Dan White, a former San Francisco police officer and firefighter who was serving as a city district supervisor up until assassinating Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. At the trial, psychiatrist Martin Blinder testified that White had been depressed at the time of the crime, and pointed to several behavioral changes indicating White's depression: he had quit his job; he shunned his wife; and although normally clean-cut, he had become slovenly in appearance.

        Furthermore, White had previously been a fitness fanatic and health food advocate, but had begun consuming junk food and sugar-laden soft drinks like Coca-Cola. As an incidental note, Blinder mentioned theories that elements of diet could worsen existing mood swings. Another psychiatrist, George Solomon, testified that White had "exploded" and was "sort of on automatic pilot" at the time of the killings. The fact that White had killed Moscone and Milk was not challenged, but – in part because of the testimony from Blinder and other psychiatrists – the defense successfully convinced the jury that White's capacity for rational thought had been diminished; the jurors found White incapable of the premeditation required for a murder conviction, and instead convicted him of voluntary manslaughter. Public protests over the verdict led to the White Night Riots.

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        White Night riots

        The events took place on the night of May 21, 1979 in San Francisco. Earlier that day White had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible conviction for his actions. The lesser conviction outraged the city's gay community, setting off the most violent reaction by gay Americans since the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City.

        After White's sentence was up - he wanted to go back to SF but he did his parole in LA. And then he went back to SF.

        Dan White

        White served five years of his seven-year sentence at Soledad State Prison and was paroled on January 7, 1984. Fearing he might be murdered in retaliation for his crimes, authorities secretly transported him to Los Angeles, where he served a year's parole. At the completion of his parole, White sought to return to San Francisco; Feinstein, by now elected mayor, urged him not to return on the basis that doing so would jeopardize public safety. Joel Wachs, a member of the Los Angeles City Council, also argued to keep White out of Los Angeles. White eventually did move back to San Francisco, where he lived with his wife and children.

        The happy ending is after he was back in SF - he committed suicide.

      • pooh [she/her, any]
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        3 months ago

        There’s a really great documentary on this called “The Times of Harvey Milk” that’s well worth watching.

      • nothx [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        They had yet to perfect the heart attack gun in the 70s, but did what they had to do to stop the rainbow agenda.

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      you think they're ever going to name a warship after John Brown or is attacking a federal armory too much to whitewash over?

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        It needs an update. The BLM stuff needs to be photoshopped out. A lib bomber would be dropping bombs on BLM.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    in 20 years theyre gonna name a us warship the USS Leslie Feinberg

  • edge [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    is trying to leave San Francisco for Gaza today

    That means it has to go through the Suez (or take a much longer route ofc). Inshallah the Houthis’ aim is true.

    • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Houthis show their true colours and assault a US&A ship named after a famously murdered gay man

      inB4

      • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        They’re already sending this boat all the way from the Pacific Ocean. Maybe every boat which is closer (which would be almost all of them) has the long weekend off? You can’t assume that the US military is going to be sensible or efficient about anything to do with this genocide cruise. They might point it towards Suez just so they can do a bit of sabre-rattling with China and Iran and probably everyone else too along the way.

      • edge [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        (or take a much longer route ofc)

  • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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    3 months ago

    Saw a video recently of a bunch of people on jet skis and small crafts blocking a ship headed for Israel in port. That would be pretty cool.

    • morninghymn [any, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      https://sfbayview.com/2024/03/palestinian-organizers-protest-navy-vessel-said-to-be-headed-to-israel/ , this is the most recent news I can find about the protest, though it's not said whether or not the ship was able to leave

  • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Any footage from the aftermath :)?

    The MSM is nuking virtually all media surrounding this.

    Did you know we had >700,000 March in DC??

  • morninghymn [any, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Not mentioned within the photo posted by OP is the fact that the protesters were disrupting a National Vietnam War Veterans Day commemoration, an event for honoring the "bravery" and "sacrifice" of the US soldiers who are responsible for causing an overwhelming amount of pain, suffering and death in Vietnam. It's honestly just so fucking crazy that right before the departure of a US naval ship to go support a genocide, they're celebrating the so called heroes of one of the most disgusting wars perpetrated by the United States in the 20th century.

    • Octagonprime [any]
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      3 months ago

      Shout out the brave troops who fragged their officers while doped out of their minds