
some sort of legislative process
Fascism doesn’t work that way.
Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
some sort of legislative process
Fascism doesn’t work that way.
This may be the most wrong thing I’ve ever heard on the internet. 👏👏👏 Have an upvote with your sad, skinless chips.
This is a common refrain online but doesn’t really make sense.
Antisemitism means prejudice against Jewish people.
Separately, the technical term “semitic” is used to mean a subgroup of related afro-asiatic languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, Phonecian, Assyrian, et al.
The fact that the word for prejudice against Jews contains a root word that refers to a different classification is just one of those weird language things - antisemitism has only ever meant prejudice against Jews.
They announced before the event that they had cancelled any elected officials who were planning to speak. They also said something like, “If you are told that the event is cancelled, that is just a rumor.”
Ah, thank you! That makes a lot more sense to me now.
About an hour before Iranian state TV first reported loud explosions in Tehran, pizza orders around the Pentagon went through the roof
there are “a multitude of fast food restaurants in the Pentagon complex, but no pizza places”
the account noted three hours later that a gay bar near the Pentagon had “abnormally low traffic for a Thursday night” and said this probably pointed to “a busy night at the Pentagon”.
Just some truly incredible analysis.
Pizza and gay bar traffic tipping the hand of global events is the cyberpunk dystopia I was hoping for.
I’d heard it was over flyers in a car but I was hoping there was more to it than that. That’s a pretty flimsy threat to be capitulating to when we’re fighting murderous fascists, and sets a bad precedent.
I was not aware of how thin dem majorities were. That’s very important context, thank you.
I heard that the protests in MN were cancelled, which seems like a cut and dry tactical misstep from protest organizers to me, but I haven’t been able to find a lot of details.
This doesn’t look cancelled.
Anyone on the ground know more details?
“Assassinated by trumpists” is a less weasely way to say it.
It’s also important to remember that non-violence serves the interest of entrenched power. The state is at its core a violence-control structure. When people excersize the power of violence in their own interests, the state must reassert it’s dominion or risk collapse.
Non-violent requests can be accommodated without elites feeling like their ill-gotten power is threatened. But it’s often the violent demands that scare them into doing so.
a unique quality to the feeling of it’s drive
I have to admit I’m skeptical, and not just because it sounds written by a marketing team.
Things like the subjective feeling of something are strongly socially determined. When we’re told something is fancy or high quality we have a different and better experience of that thing.
As humans it’s rarely possible to separate our experience of a thing from our judgements of the people and identities we associate with it.
the deputy marshal “fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE.”
100% chance the description was “Mexican”.
It’s only a crime to be an exploited worker. It’s not a crime to exploit workers.
Sure, these fascists have spent 5 years delegitimizing accusations of electoral fraud and are openly committed to ending democracy.
But so far the only actual evidence of ‘election stealing’ is openly buying votes in direct violation of the law, illegal campaigns tactics sometimes resulting in charges, illegal coordination with PACs, systemic campaign finance violations, direct coordination with at least Israeli and Russian leaders to influence the election, decades of foreign disinformation operations pushing for exactly this outcome and a huge influx of dark money from anonymous plutocrats.
Just not direct voting machine manipulation.
Lust and gluttony don’t need a month, they’ve got everything figured out. Sloth couldn’t care. Wrath and greed already rule the world. And envy is sad cat face about everything
Why repost low effort trolling?
Amateur flint knapper.
Securing the resources to spend on communal projects that benefit the state is one of the many reasons that state employs violence against its citizens, yep.
Roads are a great example because across the world, major road projects were always built to speed up the military getting to and putting down rebellious provinces - bearing arms against their subjects.
All states are instruments of violence, that’s their sole function. Anything they do that makes our lives easier is just the velvet glove over that iron fist. It’s easy to pretend otherwise when the state hasn’t turned its violence on you yet.
That’s him, the one whose stated goals can be seen in every move the trump regime makes.
One time I was trying to work out if the people at the next table were Australian. It was a crowded cafe so I was having trouble hearing them.
Then luckily one of them said, “Aw fuck I was fucking fucked eh?” and removed all doubt.