I know it's not America, but here in Aus, our special forces were released to harass and stalk...
Climate change protesters having a meeting in their own homes.
They'll deploy force against the mildest of leftist groups while letting nazis waltz into the capitol building.
It's fairly straightforward, cops are there to protect property rights and queer people don't tend to be property of Exxon Mobil.
Saw a lot of that with January 6th. People that I knew as labor organizers and vaguely leftist were posting rants about "OUR DEMOCRACY."
The fascists practiced negative opsec by selling 1/6 merch online and yet US law enforcement from the feds down to the local pigs were somehow all caught completely off guard. Very believable series of coincidental intelligence failures.
When you've been propagandized since birth to believe cops are good it's hard to shake
seriously we may either see two things that we don't see frequently in the states soon. either
- an actual armed, semi-coordinated group does a mass shooting. 3 or more people. the police basically bail and they either escape or
- an actual street gunfight erupts between fash fucks and some kind of community defense group. this could also occur as a result of#1. the police are no where to be seen. i'm talking like a 5-10 min sustained firefight involving cover, shooting from behind vehicles, wounded being dragged off, footage looking like a warzone. if the community and/or left side decisively wins the firefight expect the police to suddenly appear to violently arrest or slaughter the defense group, but only IF (and a big if) they are small in number or wounded/messed up.
either way we hear news about years of lead: usa or american "troubles" for a week or so until the next one
The only problem I have with labeling something like this as "the troubles" is it means a exchange back and forth of attacks (so far it's been fash on the offensive not having to worry about retaliation in their meetings/events if they actually even do any meetups as many are terminally online till they pop off). So then will there be any lonewolf or semi coherent militant leftists shooting up a fash event in retaliation?
that's why i said "the media will label it as.." not that I agree. they'll call it the beginning of some civil war when it will mostly just be right on everyone else violence. anything to cover for the right. if the federal government does anything at all it will be attempt to quietly take out the ringleaders and scatter these groups or buy them off rather then risk having the population as a whole tilt leftward in response to this stuff.
True, the media will obfuscate it and if any leftists attempt any type of defense will be seen as "leftists arming for war" or something else stupid. For me it's that by definition this is more of the same rightwing fash terrorism as seen during the height of the civil rights movement (given that LGBTQ rights is a new but equally important aspect of societal rights and self determinism that the rightwing will not abide).
having the population as a whole tilt leftward in response to this stuff.
lmao, yeah right. why would they?
the FBI will suddenly be useful and stop every leftist lonewolf before he can even write a corny manifesto. They're never gonna let their pool of informants and recruits die
In the IRA's war on the occupying British forces they had clear targets and goals; British troops, UVF paramilitaries, cops HVTs like Thatcher or Mountbatten.
There really isn't much of an equivalent right now. The enemy is a vast, amorphous group with relatively little in the way of leadership unless you could LibsofTiktok.
What's strange is, unlike the Weimar cabarets, we've had drag shows for decades without any issues. I mean, religious conservatives never cared for them but it was never a major target or anything. Ru Paul's Drag Race was one of the most popular shows in the country!
Ru Paul's Drag race is also popular in the Red States and had its biggest opening numbers last year.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/rupaul-drag-race-ratings-season-13/
Same. I'm a gay guy and drag shows have never been my thing, but they've been going on for decades all over the country without major issue. It's a great example of how chuds can generate stochastic terrorism in just a year's time.
In the same way that trans women have been using womens' bathrooms for decades with no issues, chuds are really good at finding things that have been happening for a long time and acting like they're a scary new thing
Probably because it's cathartic and fun! Loud and proud, babyyy!
This is all so surreal, on every level. Is this how it felt in the Weimar cabarets?
I really need to study what it was like in Weimar Germany.
(for the pictures https://www.advocate.com/books/2016/7/19/peek-inside-berlins-queer-club-scene-hitler-destroyed-it and https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/germany-berlin-gay-life/578653/ Brenda is nice, knowledgeable about that time period )
There was a lot of drag going on and not only small amounts of gay fun.
idk what it's like in your city, but balls are centered way more on the community in my experience
"Protect western values!" I scream out as I open up my ar-15 on a playground.
to be fair, murdering innocent children has been historically and is currently celebrated by westerners
Is that second guy a fucking mannequin?
edit: Found the video, turns out it's just a particularly stiff looking person https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1599267464118153219
the stupid fucking pig giving them license to terrorize people lmao
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Armed nazis have had their right to demonstrate outside of events firmly established by the courts for the last century. Where the fuck has this person been?
Until they did that, it was a bit uncertain how legal protests for things that weren’t loved were.
The American legal system is built on precedent even more than what is written.
Even if it was illegal, would cops care?
this is what modern military FPS multiplayer avatar customization has wrought
he looks like my coworker (my coworker is a dick and watches JBP videos at work).
I miss the Westboro Baptist Church and their comically outrageous number of signs one could hold. Take them any day over :frothingfash: :tacticool: death squads. :frog-no-pretext:
Can we get that tacticool ski glasses pepe as an image?
Shit like this should seriously be a wake up call that you need to organize your own protection and security if you want to host any sort of pride related event. Unfortunately it won't be a wake up because so many of the organizers of these things are incredibly liberal.
