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something you can't really tell from the :fedposting: emoji is that the dude has his gun on the table, like, lol, what's he gonna do shoot the screen when a meme makes him angry
He has the special FBI cyberbullets that can go through the internet
He's also not at an office, he's in someone's living room. It looks like it's an apartment and he's standing using a kitchen counter as a desk? It's weirdly high for a kitchen counter too, there is probably a piece of particleboard set on top of it so it's not obvious it's just someone's kitchen. There is also a love seat that looks like it's been moved, it's facing away from the tv and at a weird location.
The more you look the more you realize this photo was taken not at a studio, but someone's house.
yeah the Fed is definitely the one telling you NOT to commit felonies
that's totally how that works
A better question is, what do you think a Kamala Harris-type psycho DA will do to make it one if it isn't?
Possible, sure - but any resistance, whether lawful or not, carries with it the risk of increased state repression in the future. Not a good reason to not resist imo, just sounds like a comfortable excuse and little more to me
I don't think this is merely vandalism. To me, it's looking more like community self-defense, seeing as it's a rather local phenomenon so far and the aim seems to be to establish SUV-hostile areas.
Don't get me wrong, I'm under no delusion that this is the most effective way to struggle against climate change or capital - but at least it's something, and that something is certainly more than just vandalism.
have you ever studied how revolutions actually happened or are you just going off vibes?
Didn't some states try to make it legal to hit protestors with your car? Wouldn't shock me if damaging a car isn't a capital offense somewhere.
I'm all for most kinds of property damage in the imperial core but I do gotta say that direct action without organization and a real plan for mass action is also gonna be fuel for reaction. You've gotta have a plan for the action and for countering the reaction, which tends to be more cops and criminalization and beatings and getting blacklisted. Gotta get together with your fellow rats and fight against funding cops, criminalization of direct action, prevent violence to our comrades via weapons and training and numbers, and make it impossible to fire all of us. Parties and unions and strong left coalitions are one viable way to get there as conditions deteriorate.
Critical support I guess?
One should be less concerned about the optics and more concerned with whether it actually does anything to warrant effort and time. I’m not sure how temporarily disabling them with minimal damage helps their mission of eliminating SUVs aside from few anecdotes about it affecting sales.
If you want it to be effective, shoot some rounds :fedposting: or at least break some windows and leave threatening vandalism
the difference is your not going to jail if you get caught letting tyres out
In the United Snakes you might
Definitely do not smash a spark plug with a hammer and fling the white porcelain shards at car windows.
you can get fucked for that tho, some states prosecute just having the shards as "burglary tools"
I mean I'd consider it property damage in the most minor sense of the term
Everything but bootlicking literal Nazis hurts our case apparently
It's not even that people are wrong about it how it's not exactly a revolution if it's just a bunch of individual actions, but the criticism is so damn joyless imo. There isn't a whole ton of revolutionary energy to tap into in the West, it should be tapped nonetheless (discuss how below pls), but in the meantime, petty "vandalism" is at least having some fun with it lol. I feel like nobody has compared it to the 2020 protests which might be appropriate in some ways.
ADVENTURISM BAD ALWAYS, NEVER DO ANYTHING, IF YOU SAY TO DO THINGS YOU'RE A FED
Civil disobedience is a baffling concept to me.
How is getting convicted of a crime supposed to advance your cause?
