Don't want to make this sadder, but the synagogue was well known in Pittsburg for a refugee relocation program (source) and this massacre happened around the same time fox news, Donald Trump, and republicans were talking about George Soros funded central American refugee caravans coming to the border. Anti-semitism fueled by anti-internationalist solidarity to those without. That's why we must always remember that an injury to one is an injury to all.
Whenever I see an anniversary for things like this I end up getting half-torn because of the atrocity & half-torn because I'd totally forgotten with the frequency that shit like this occurs.
Yeah it’s near constant these days. It’s got to be fucking us up psychologically. Personally I’m trying to hold onto every ounce of hatred for these right wing sacks of shit until we have our opportunity.
Riot cops sent running for the hills
After seeing so many protest lines getting scattered by organised charges from these cops I have to say it feels real good to see the people actually pissed off enough to FIGHT instead of simply running. This is the power of an actually radical crowd.
These people have made that much extremely clear tonight. It's extremely interesting to see the difference that a simple change in mindset does from "hold the line" to "we are taking these streets they are ours".
If you look at Portland and previous clashes, the mindset of the protesters can best be described as "hold our ground and our protest". That differs very much to the mindset being displayed tonight in Philly, these people are taking their streets back and it makes a very fundamental difference in the way the clashes are conducted. It is purposeful and they are wholly committed to the goal of sending them off, not simply standing in the street opposite them and clashing a few times.
There's definitely some sort of change in mindset that protesters have to go through. A pipeline if you like.
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Lib standing at side looking shocked and running away when the cops attack peaceful protesters for no reason.
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Standing in line and getting beaten.
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Shield wall. Breaking down at first charge because whole crowd starts running and really had no commitment to keeping the line.
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Mild fightbacks. But still being displaced.
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No more fucks given. Goal is to displace the police. Take the streets back.
This feels like it is a process to me. That there is a difference in effectiveness of tactics based on the mindset of the group and tactics should be built around whatever stage the current group appears to be in.
I am guessing that a couple more stages down the line you get to the part where people are stacking furniture across the roads for multiple blocks, hoisting up red flags and categorically demanding self rule of their area. I can only hypothesise on that though because I haven't actually seen it. We're essentially going through a learning process that every other revolutionary movement must have also gone through.
I wish we could pick the brains of previous revolutionaries who saw the same processes first hand. I wish these weird details and extremely specific pieces of knowledge were better documented.
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It is October 27th. It is my birthday. I have been on HRT for close to a year. I'm the happiest I could ever recall being. I've not sucked a dick nor left the house except for essential business since March. I watched a teen girl get shot in the face with a rubber bullet at my first real protest. I watched many more get snatched up by the riot cops, and helped to dearrest the few that I could. I've watched a quarter of Americans go unemployed and 200k+ die gruesome, unnecessary deaths. I've watched food bank lines stretch for miles as my fellow man goes hungry. I've watched landlords shed what little humanity remained and evict the most desperate in the middle of a crisis. I've watched as legislators fed us meager scraps as they made money printer go brrr for their precious line. I've watched again and again and again as cops spill the blood of innocents and are rewarded for it.
It is October 27th. Joe Biden is still a rapist. There will be no stimulus bill until after the election. Instead, another ghoul sits in the highest court of the land. The White House has officially signalled their embrace of the herd immunity 'strategy.' The election will be not be legitimate. Even if Biden wins by some miracle and Trump concedes, nothing will fundamentally change. He is loading his cabinet with scum, he has signalled austerity as we enter into another depression, not having fully recovered from the last. He acknowledges that climate change is an existential threat, yet will not ban fracking. He knows how vital healthcare is, but refuses to even pay lip service to universal healthcare.
It is October 27th. A man has been killed in front of his mother. No amount of cops getting bricked and run over, no amount of burning cars and stations will assuage a mother's grief. Instead, it is our catharsis. May all the stations and vehicles burn. May all their heads make contact with solid objects. May many more know the violence of being hit with a moving vehicle. May they come to know even a fraction of the pain, grief, and sorrow that they have inflicted indiscriminately upon us for hundreds of years.
It is October 27th. Tomorrow I will head to get fitted for ski and snowboard boots in preparation for the slopes opening up. I will think about how each season has been worse than the last. I will wonder how much worse everything will get, how much time is left. How much longer before the trickle at the border becomes a massive swell as the consequences of our actions come to bear? How much longer before the concentration camps become out and proud death camps? How much longer before the internal climate migrants of the US cause mass upheaval? How many will starve? How many will die preventable deaths? How many will scrape by at the margins, all hope snuffed out?
It is October 27th. We have been chained to tracks. A trolley approaches. Its front is bloodied as viscera slides off; its wheels are slick with flesh and juices. Off to the side, a man at the lever could stop it at any time, but doing so would cause the trolley company to lose profits. The man is a death cultist. He declines to pull.
It is October 27th. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
happy birthday! :party-blob:
its still monday at attu station, though, how dare you. these timezone agendists everywhere i look, smh my head.
also the concentration camps already are deathcamps, as in, theyre committing intentional murders, just that no one is talking about it. so... yaaaay? :sadness:
Thank you!
To libs, the most you could get them to admit is that they're 'passive' death camps that kill by neglect, even though the neglect and outcome is intentional. For the average person to outright call them death camps, we'd probably have to see straight up kinetic executions. Which uh, I don't think is too far off, especially if I'm right and 2024 is a hard slide to fash as people get sick of Biden and Harris being as impotent as Obama but with none of the charisma, and who ultimately fail to properly handle the delicate situation that's landed in their unprepared laps. Extra Fash USA 2024 is looking like a real possibility, and so are those mask off death camps. :this-is-fine:
killing someone through willful negligence is intentional murder. courts have been very clear on that.
the idea that there isnt murder happening that goes past that threshhold is absolute naivete.
we know that people in custody are dying. disappearing, being abused, having forcible operations done on them...
the death camps are already as mask off as the death camps in nazi germany ever were.
edit: just... fucking :LIB:s will never admit that because it means admitting how complicit they are in genocide
editedit: youre welcome tho. the whole thing drives me insane
You could show a :LIB: a prisoner digging their own mass grave, kneel down, be shot, and have the camp guards kick his body into the hole he just dug, and the :LIB: would say that it is not a death camp, because death camps had gas chambers.
When I was young and in school and learning about the holocaust and other genocides, I wondered how it could ever have been allowed to occur. Surely someone would stand up and say something. Surely someone would've come in and put a stop to it. I don't wonder anymore.
i wondered how it could ever have been allowed to occur ... i dont wonder any more
mood. the biggest mood
When I was young and in school and learning about the holocaust and other genocides, I wondered how it could ever have been allowed to occur.
For me, it was more how they could pull it off in practice. I saw the pictures from Mengele's laboratory, the endless piles of shorn hair, the mass graves, and i wondered "how could they find that many people to do these things?" These where atrocities as depraved as the deeds of the worst serial killer, but how many serial killers are there? Clearly not enough at any given time to run Auschwitz, let alone an entire country full of Auschwitzes. I looked at old men on the street, those old enough to have been in the SS, wondering if that frail, kindly septuagenarian could be a psychopathic killing machine deep down inside. If my grandparents' old friends, cheerful people in their sunday clothes, smelling of Kölnisch Wasser and mothballs, had been among the killers. It couldn't be that they had been born that way. Something had turned them. Not just a few, but millions of them. And many millions more to enable it. I wondered what that thing could have been, wondered what it took to make a man a monster and a state a slaughterhouse. And like you, i don't wonder anymore.
My dogs test results came back and the nodules they found were just inflammation from her chronic UTI issues.
She should be okay once she recovers from surgery. Stitches out next week.
I'm so relieved. My girl is gonna be okay.
Man was stumbling across leftist tiktok a mistake. I saw a video of a Vietnamese woman talking about how white, western, leftist, scoff at the country accomplishments. Only for a western leftist to duet it saying "they didn't achieve Communism, Bye!"
Please god don't call yourself a leftist if you think successful socialist country's aren't up to your standards.
You hit the nail on the head, I'm a Gen Zer and trying to convince people my age that Obama is bad is like pulling teeth. I think it's an issue on two parts, 1: still believing US propaganda and 2: having too strick of what makes socialism and impossible purity tests, (probably because they don't actually read any theory).
He was also incredibly charming, and liberals basically had/have a parasocial relationship with him.
Can't wait for the police to arrest me under Biden, ask me my pronouns, call me a queer, then throw me in the mens prison.
On the sub after Bernie dropped out, I made a long ass post on why hanging in there and voting for Biden was good. For the 5 people that read it I'm sorry for being a dumbass lib. I swear I'm learning. (Also the mods are good I got temp banned for doing that)
I'm fully expecting trump to win the election with some major ratfucking and you should too
Libs are going to scold anyone protesting after the election while they plead with us to wait for all the votes to be counted.
CHUDs are going to shoot at anyone protesting trump stealing it
2000 election redux. Justice Boney Carrot casts the deciding vote to void mail-in ballots.
They 100% can steal it.... if they want to, but I don't think they do anymore. I think we're seeing them lay the groundwork for what would have happened if Bernie was the nom: just steal the win from him. Trump has shown over and over he really did expect to run against Bernie. I think the financial class would have backed the Republicans on that like how Big Energy backed them in 2000, but Wall Street has invested in Biden and the Dems. Remember: the cycle is deregulate with the R's, then make your own regulations with the D's. Cut taxes with the R's, then make tax breaks and incentives designed around your industry with the D's (see: Obamacare). Regulation is coming for big tech and big energy and from their perspective they may as well buyout the regulators than gamble on them not existing.
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this isnt even the first time ive done this, where you been? :che-laugh:
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what did they expect blocking the road like that? people have to get to work
Oh shit there’s video of MULTIPLE cops being run over.
halloween is treats only this year.
If the cops didn't want to get ran over, then they shouldn't have been standing in the middle of the street blocking traffic. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
there is a :specter: haunting bolivian fascists, the :specter: of michael brooks
just imagine if there were like three more 1200 stimulus checks. that's all it needed to be. didn't need shit to help small businesses or shit for unemployment. three more 1200 dollar stimulus checks and trump would win next week with zero issue and zero pushback from the republican party.
Makes me genuinely worried for the next fascist when they actually know what they're doing
People say this all the time, but I'm pretty sure it's just Jeff Bezos and neoliberalism
yeah, what need is there for a mass political fascist movement? The state is strong and the capitalists are in control of it already
Libs get pissed at ice for concentration camps and kids in cages, but the US has been doing that to black kids for (checks notes) forever. Want a Holocaust? We just outsource those now. Like, literally, what else do you want?
Shit, I'd vote for him. He would ahve done to more to help the poor and voulnerable peoples than any hand full of dems combined at that point.
Just found out the flight I have to make in a few days is full to capacity and social distancing measures were lifted in July. (middle seats are being booked) Great thing we bailed out the airline industry so they could fire employees and ignore safety protocol in a pandemic :amerikkka:
