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Right wingers five years ago: "THE GOVT IS GOING TO USE THE MILITARY TO ROUND UP PEOPLE AND PUT THEM IN CAMPS 😡😡😡!!!"
Right wingers today: "THE GOVT IS GOING TO USE THE MILITARY TO ROUND UP PEOPLE AND PUT THEM IN CAMPS 😍😍😍!!!"
The lib/left doesn't understand that the reason the right supports Kyle Rittenhouse isn't because he engaged in self-defense, it's because they believe he killed leftists. He's their avatar. The lib/left is entirely unprepared for the political and kinetic terrain that is coming.
Kyle Rittenhouse takes the stage at TPUSA’s AmericaFest to thousands of cheering fans chanting his name. He even gets his own Kyle Rittenhouse-themed song to come out to.
Remember in April 2020 when they told us that we should lemons into lemonade and use covid as an opportunity to find our passion and then in 2021 we all quit our jobs and they freaked out and got mad?
After cutting off all support and hanging us out to dry, the ruling class omicron consensus is that the workers are just gonna take this hit for them one more time so that... what? We'll keep on working for them? The economy? More business as usual?
Describing themselves as “the anarchist resistance of the bourgeois heart of Barcelona”... the first demand made by the squatters is that SAREB “dissolve itself and hand over the keys to all its properties”.
If you say "folks" into a mirror three times in a dark room a grad student working for a nonprofit shows up to disrupt your organizing and call you a reactionary.
@BigMeanInternet
This is what the Abolitionists would do. They'd disrupt church meetings demanding that their fellow Christians take a stand on slavery. Sometimes they'd get tossed out. Joel Olson wrote about this strategy, which he called fanaticism. People should check it out. Good stuff.
If you think an Atlanta activist solidarity fund is a RICO operation, just wait until you hear about the Fraternal Order of Police. They're collecting money to bail out killers every day all over the country.
“Him and ALL his coworkers turned in their headsets and uniforms because their manager hadn’t given anyone a raise in five years,” adding, “This is the revolution and it’s definitely being televised.”
On fascists: "I’m making this guy a mumbling psychopath who clearly smells, who lives on cold baked beans, who has no friends because of his abhorrent personality. I hadn’t realized that so many people in the audience would find such a figure admirable."
Modern agent provocateur & outside agitator narratives came out of the anti-Semitic John Birch Society & racist anti-civil rights reaction. It's a paranoid far right myth that's infantilizing & dismissive, claiming POC only get militant/riot when "others" manipulate them into it.
If you're an anarchist long enough you get to see the lifestylism vs strawman debate come back again and again and again. Warning signs: increasing use of the word praxis.
NEW: 85 people in Arizona suffered severe burns from contact with pavements heated up to 180F (82C). 7 of them died. In total, 257 people had underlying cause of death listed as "exposure to excessive natural heat".
This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.
Say, for just a minute, we pretend libertarians are people of principle & not, instead, guided primarily by whiteness. We'd expect an outpouring of support for
#WillVanSpronsen
. The silence of libertarian Twitter, to the extent they're not toeing the fascist line, says tons.
A lot of liberal ink will be spilled over the inequalities of Covid online schooling, rightly so, but we anarchists should keep our eyes on the kids for whom this moment was an escape from the authoritarianism of the classroom. (1/2)
Communists have been largely irrelevant to social movements in the US for a couple decades. They have very little experience organizing or participating in social explosions, tactically or strategically. But that's never stopped a commie from lecturing an anarchist, has it?
The Rittenhouse verdict is no surprise. Whiteness is the policing of black people and that day Kyle deputized himself as a volunteer cop dedicated to that objective. And what happens when cops go on trial?
The Tempe police memorial got tagged up with ACAB and Ⓐ and some offended citizen reported it to the city's 311 app. TPD recently stood by and watched a homeless man drown in the lake instead of helping. "I'm not jumping in after you," they said and they didn't and he died.
Remember, the anti-immigrant movement in Az emerged during boom times with rising home values, easy credit & low unemployment. White supremacy isn't the last resort of white people in a bad economy. It's their first resort & they cling to it the whole time, in good times & bad.
For anarchists, the correct response to the current situation is to expand the breach not to try to heal it. Don't "bring us all together" -- push the sides further apart. Create either/or friends/enemies choices and mobilize around them. Polarize, polarize, polarize!
Leftist professional organizers cry, "We don't know who these fighters, looters and arsonists are!" No, you don't. They aren't your constituency. And they aren't listening to you either. They are out of your control and that's what bothers you most of all.
Between Proud Boy paranoid fantasies of infiltrating antifa and liberal crank theories of the Pelosi/McConnell vandalism, one thing is clear. Both sides are terrified of autonomous responses to the current shit situation we're in.
Last week, we ended our ten+ year neighborhood anarchist project in Tempe ("MAFW"). Though largely unknown outside of the Valley of the Sun, thousands participated at various levels, including daily, in everything from mutual aid to street parties to protests to direct action.
Long term successful anarchist projects are hard to come by. This provides an opening for bad ideas. And bad ideas turn into uninspiring failures. And, people leave.
We closed out a 10 year project this week. I want to mention part of this...
"I don't really want to work anymore," Larry said. He added: "I don't want to have any meetings, no deadlines, no goals, no quarter, no seminar. I don't want none of that stuff no more."
In the era of mass incarceration, your sacrificial arrest means nothing. Get away with it. And do it tomorrow. Do it somewhere they're not prepared for.
Yo, a guy just shot up a mosque. Where the new atheists at? Oh yeah, on the same side as holy warrior racists who want to reconquer Constantinople for Christianity... Weird.
Kids inclined towards independence & revolt may in fact look back on this time as one of liberation. The next year will be all about the system cracking down, corralling & controlling them so business as usual can continue. We should support them. These are our people. (2/2)
@IwriteOK
Also, I don't know anyone who eats a whole box of cereal in one sitting who should complain about the cost because they obviously also bought weed first.
The notion that Americans are alienated and turned off by violence is so patently and obviously wrong that sometimes I can't believe anyone really thinks it's true.
All indications are that the activist/nonprofit left has firmly asserted control over the movement in Phx. Circular afternoon sunstroke marches, speechifying at city hall, petitions to gov't. "Operation tire you out & bore you to death" is in full swing. The left's forte.
First they came for the
#influencers
but I was not an
#influencer
so I said nothing. Next the came for the
#thoughtleaders
and again I was silent. Then they came for the
#creatives
and all of a sudden my rent went down and my neighborhood was affordable and fun again.
Information about what was happening to them was being collectively shared among the whales, who made vital changes to their behaviour. As their culture made fatal first contact with ours, they learned quickly from their mistakes.
ASU frats got kicked off campus due to their racist and violent behavior. They landed in the surrounding neighborhoods, where they continued their bullshit. This led to a 2 year racist mass policing operation targeting everybody but the frats, which locals successfully stopped.
pay attention to who ignores or plays down the physical threat fascists without badges--like the Gadsden & Israeli flag contingent in LA & the frat bros in AZ & the US flag loving frat bros at Ole Miss--pose to a pro-palestine movement. it's important.
I hope whoever broke into my work vehicle and took my lunchbox both enjoyed the meal but also got inspired by the book that was in there. Take it to the next level. I believe in you.
PSL is toxic, even as commie groups go. They tried to dox a local anarchist (the wrong person -- no apology!) when ASU hosted Jared Taylor and his Nazi friends on campus. Red-brown alliance.
I knew Klee for 20 years. Through PAC, PCWC and other projects, I organized and shared the streets with him many times. Klee was creative and fearless in opposition but also in vision. His death is a tremendous loss. We honor him by not allowing leftist hacks to fill that space.
this is a different strain bro it's different this is the 4th industrial revolution bro different strain this it's not gonna destroy the planet there are different strains please bro
All these tankies freaking out about Kim Jong Un dying. Fear not, comrades! Leadership will pass directly to his sister, just as he inherited it from his father and his grandfather before that. Just as Marx intended.
No tears for fascists but the re-emergence of the sedition charge and conviction will definitely come back on anarchists, probably under liberal governments because that's how they roll.
Stoked to play my first game of Burn the Fort. So glad that this was able to get finished after all Klee went through creating it, producing it and getting it out there. A wonderful tribute to a friend. Thanks to everyone who got it over the finish line.
The default position of communists in social movements is to launch "left unity" attacks and accusations of divisiveness against anarchists to increase/consolidate their own power. But take heart in knowing that they have no real experience to back up anything. Do your 🏴 thing.
If nothing happens during a march -- if nothing is disturbed and order is maintained -- it is not an 'action'. It is group travel from one place to another.
Hey
@PeterGelderloos
. At the grocery store today I made an off hand approving comment to a person I didn't know who I saw wearing an anarchy mask. They approached me after to suggest I check out Anarchy Works in a polite 'if you're interested in anarchism' kind of way. Was nice.
20 years ago, a group of playful anarchists climbed Tempe Butte (ʼOidbaḍ Doʼag) under cover of darkness and turned "A Mountain" into "Circle A Mountain."
You steal from the boss? Here come the cops. Boss steals from you? Go find a nonprofit to look into it. Maybe they'll be able to help. Maybe not. Oh well.
Sometimes when I see a death's head blue lives matter Punisher sticker on a car, I imagine being a space alien and asking a US earthling, "What does that terrifying decapitated skull mean?" And they casually respond, "It means they support the police."
Fuck the cops but the NPIC protest police drool over the prospect of a new golden age of bourgeois velvet glove social control where they are constantly up in your shit.
When protests move from evening to afternoon starts, the professional left has transitioned to the fight the movement phase. Especially in AZ once the heat kicks in. The aspiring movement bosses want to whittle it down to a manageable, compliant rump so they can do politics.
It's obvious why the so-called anti-govt right isn't backing this but if they really wanted a non-govt solution to the covid problem it'd look something like this: refusing (unsafe) work, leveraging the market and switching to safer, better jobs. Naturally, they're against it.
“When we say we want to abolish the white race, we do not mean we want to exterminate people with fair skin. We mean that we want to do away with the social meaning of skin color, thereby abolishing the white race as a social category.”
-- Noel Ignatiev, RIP