@hrefna

Oh sure it would've changed things-- by making them even worse.

@D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke

That's why Dr. King was killed, too. We hear a lot about the I Have a Dream speech, not so much Beyond Vietnam.

@nihkeys @DJGummikuh @GossiTheDog

The damage is the point.

It's a weapon.

Not sure I'd call it a "targeted" attack, when the goal is to flood absolutely EVERYTHING with shit everywhere.

@DaveMWilburn @futurebird

And then watching the SAME pattern play out in multiple countries at once, over generations, tells me it's a STRATEGY, this is the playbook. The only major difference between neoconservatives and neoliberals is that one is aggressive and the other is passive aggressive. The agenda is the same, but only one will smile sweetly and use Non-Violent Communication as they're getting it done.

@rusty__shackleford @dusk @cR0w @mttaggart @iampytest1

This is bad enough that a serious company that wanted to salvage their reputation properly might wanna consider putting in some weekend overtime.

But if they were being conscientious and diligent none of this would've happened in the first place. So of course instead it's, oops oh well I guess we'll deal with it sometime next week or something...

@feznander @inthehands

The smarter, more stable ones with the long-term agenda will happily let the noisy gung-ho over the top fascists lead that charge break a bunch of shit and burn out-- they'll toss them under the bus to make it look like we had a win and things can get back to "normal", back to our previously scheduled and still steadily escalating police brutality and oppression.

@passenger @pvonhellermannn

Vote blue* no matter who!

* or whatever color happens to represent the good cop supposedly moderate/centrist Diet Evil controlled opposition party in your locale

And if you don't, you're a bad person who should feel bad. I am a very good and sensible person and this is very democratic.

@LukefromDC @alissaazar

He looks scared shitless. That's what they all are, just under the surface.

"The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards."

We have an IMPORTANT WINDOW HERE.

Things are getting bad enough that ordinarily complacent people are getting nervous. More people are starting to notice the signs and recognize concentration camps for what they are. This is not a drill.

We still have ENOUGH freedom and internet capability that we can reasonably look up and find information about how this works, and what other people have done about it before. The botslop hasn't eaten it yet. Our access is still there-- although the system is probably ALREADY trying to keep track of who's searching it up and who's reading what books/websites, they aren't fully stopping us from reaching the information. (Yet.)

There are TWO things that could happen next:

1-- Full Fash: Elections get canceled, the hammer comes down, things get really ugly really fast.

2-- Diet Fash: Republicans pratfall on their faces, some grinning limousine neoliberal Democrats swoop in smiling, they promise things will get back to "normal", and things simmer back down to the miserable grind where we watch our healthcare and wages shrivel while the sky gets angrier.

EITHER WAY, the concentration camps will keep getting built bigger, and our access to information will continue to get worse. Option 2 doesn't mean it's over-- it means they're going to catch their breath and try again.

We're not gonna get through to the other side of this until most of us get upset enough to get used to the idea of showing up the way Minneapolis has been doing lately. That's the level of involvement needed, the energy. The system is going to watch our reactions and be trying to get ready to counter it better next time, trying to figure out how to drain our energy and make it harder to muster or maintain it.

The Obama/Harris/Newsom types are NOT going to put the brakes on that power. They'd be in no more hurry to close Dachau than Guantanimo. Get it? And don't give me that, "aww but they're trying so hard" shit. No. See Minneapolis? That's what resistance looks like. It's not strongly worded letters, grandstanding, or handwringing excuses. The Democratic Party leadership aren't just cowards, but traitors actively collaborating with the nightmare.

Look at what the people in Minneapolis are doing. Figure how to carry that feeling of being FED UP close at hand and ready to deploy. Learn as much as you can while the information window is still open. The main lesson of history, as I see it, is: people should freak out and stand up for what's right harder, sooner, and more often.

@inthehands https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115991953783115796

@inthehands

It's kinda the same, in the way a hatching coccoon of a hideous bloodsucking monster is the same as its hideous bloodsucking larva. Same species, different stage.

It's been incubating. The larva was smaller, and not as often biting at white skin-- but it was a sign, proof, of awful things left unchecked and hungrily growing stronger. It's accelerating, getting bolder and testing where it has or hasn't built up enough political and social infrastructure to bring the hammer down in earnest.

And it has a great many nests and a great many stinging tentacles.

@evacide

Yes.

@rpin42 @LukefromDC @augieray

It's something everyone is going to have to give some very serious thought. Goons may not be directly on your personal doorstep yet, but they're coming for EVERYONE.

The entire planet is under attack. The very air you breathe, the water you drink, the food you eat, the value of your work and life and home no matter WHERE you live.

@augieray @rpin42

Also, some of these books and studies on the effectiveness of nonviolence do NOT actually count property damage as violence, even though a lot of the people who DO consider that violence, like to cite such studies to bolster their arguments against, say, burning the 3rd Precinct. Which further complicates the debate.

@shojiwax

It's a weapon. Signal jamming. Flooding the zone with shit to poison the wells of information. They couldn't fully control the internet with censorship, so they're destroying its usefulness with slop.

You're exactly correct.

@20002ist @inthehands

It's important to understand that the property arbitrarily seized by police, "civil asset forfeiture" adds up to more theft than all burglaries combined. The only heist bigger is wage theft.

You don't have to be convicted or even charged with anything. They'll just take your shit. Like in SF when the non-corporate nightclubs were getting harassed by cops using 40s-era obscenity laws to go after the queer-themed nights. They'd just take the DJ's whole rig. For example. Same goes for the cash under your mattress, when they toss a house "for drugs".

They do it because they know we're not exactly rolling in money (else they'd be taking their orders from us) and it's hard for us to replace that shit. For them it's profitable harassment. Best job ever for greedy bullies who love to make people cry.

Phones have been reappearing after being resold. You know, like how they auction off the cars they seize. Whether it's a personal deal under the table or a whole official process, same evil crap.

@ChrisUplus @Ultraverified @amerpie

Exactly!

And while we're at it: "radix" from the Latin, root. The term "radical" refers to the fundamental origin of a thing, and came into heavier political use in the 18th century with people talking about suffrage and the abolition of slavery, calling for "radical reform" as in meaningful and dramatic change at the roots of an issue. In the wake of the upheaval of the 60s and 70s it was shortened to "rad" as a slang expression for something exciting and positive.

The concept itself is neutral, but conservatives are the ones who will tend to automatically view its connotations as bad and scary because they don't like change and don't want anybody rocking the boat. To them it is basically interchangeable with "extremist".

Dr. King was definitely out to rock the boat. A radical in the best way-- who was reviled, feared, hated, persecuted, murdered... and then the system did its best to sanitize and co-opt his legacy. We named some streets after him, yay civil rights, he won look racism is over everything is fixed okay everybody now go sit back down and shut up.

Nothing short of radical change can save us now, with the whole planet sprinting towards catastrophe for profit.

@Ultraverified @amerpie

That IS being a radical. That's why they shot him.