https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots

i don’t anticipate this. but it’s not off the table

yup. if we want long term change we need the relationship between the government and the people to significantly change

there is documented neurological damage associated with COVID-19. additionally, not engaging with social activities reduces brain function. plus we have 23 years of teaching to tests instead of teaching to teach. we are in a perfect storm of bullshit to enable disconnected misanthropes to take over

yeah. i’ve been attending abolish ice movement meetings since 2009. this isn’t a new movement, it’s just become something that’s become so visible it can’t be unseen at all. it’s like how the Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013 but people think of it as starting in 2020.

too many people view things as starting when they find out about them, and too many people are too hard on people for genuinely not knowing something was going on. we have a horrifying torment machine that’s killing us all and if we lose control of what the truth is we might be fucked for an extraordinarily long time.

so do tell people these things are going on and have been going on for a long time. tell people where you learned about this and where they can find out more. don’t be a scold. don’t tolerate anyone who flat out denies the opportunity to educate themselves or be educated.

we don’t have time to relitigate the 2020 primaries to figure out which of the progressive voices was the one progressives should have rallied around to avoid the neoliberal wing continuing to control the dnc, but we do have to learn our lessons of how the vote was split handing biden the election, despite the fact he was bascially everyone’s 4th choice out of 16. and most of all, we need ranked choice ballots so people can truly cast votes that matter instead of letting the machinery of the party continue the illusion of choice.

this is the propaganda machine at work. this is what the moral apathy of a man turned empty vessel. this is the banality of evil. it has been with us for decades, even centuries. this form of evil is common many places.

it is, unfortunately, extremely believable

the problem i see is that this work takes time to get rolling, but it takes one stroke of the pen to cease entirely. this work may only be stopped for 4 years, but it will be 6+ years before it’s resumed, and then it could be stopped again in another 2- after that and then in 10 years we’ll have 1-2 years of progress

we been tasting this medicine for 70+ years. just some of us refuse to resist out of fear

it is the pizza effect, it’s just about how the specifics of pizza have shifted over time, not about the overall creation of the thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect

what am i thinking of then that’s an itallian-american dish that got popular back in italy. i was thinking the phenomenon was called pizzafication but maybe it’s… lasagnafication?

ah shit! don’t forget an n95, kn95, or respriator mask

1. we are safer in the streets resisting this than sitting at home awaiting death
2. see my comment about reducing direct risk py not bringing phones
3. my full scale going to a protest list includes:

• appropriate closed toe shoes (boots, steel toed shoes, running shoes, gym shoes, and court shoes are all considered appropriate depending on circumstances)
• full length dark athletic pants you can move in
• long sleeved dark nondescript (no logos) athletic top you can move in
• facial covering
• eye protection (splash goggles ideal, impact rated required)
• backpack filled with other supplies you may need

what other supplies go in that backpack:

• first aid kit (ideally with a tourniquet you’ve been trained to use)
• 2+ bottles of water
• an umbrella
• heat resistant gloves or mitts
• collapsible traffic cone
• snacks

what you keep asking for is more armed observers, which we do need more of, but the best way to learn how to be an armed observer is to get out in the streets with other protestors and meet them first hand, or to join a local community defense group. people looking to become armed observers also need to be aware of the responsibilities and risks. Alex Pretti was present for an ice kidnapping and executed for recording it. it’s a very serious undertaking and it can’t be taken up over night. i can’t speak on the specifics here as that isn’t my role, but none of the armed observers i know comment online at all. the only way to get in touch with them is over secured comms like signal. you probably will never hear from any on Lemmy, though you might see videos they’ve recorded and gotten out in places

indian the same as pizza is italian. invented elsewhere by emigres to another country who then had family bring back the crazy new fusion food for the people of the homeland to go “oh that’s good.”

Always has been. Always will be.

I’m not bitching about fuck. I’m just saying the projected messaging is going to be skewed rightward because they own the TV, we own the truth. Whether or not this will work out depends mostly on if we can recruit more people to get out here in the streets with us. I’m less and less concerned with whether or not people outside of this pending civil war believe it’s happening or not. My presence here is only at this point meant to encourage other inclined Americans to get out here in the streets with us where The People are. It’s the only way we’ll survive this because only The People can keep The People safe.

places with above ground lines are effectively low priority for the municipality and utility companies. it’s the common way in places where it’s common because short term benefits are always treated as more important than long term benefits

it’s basically our wolfman constant, only with wildly dangerous results

saaame lol. it’s amazing how certain political positions are like “you know how civilization is fundamentally structured around violence? what if… we just… didn’t?”

and then people are like “THEY’RE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY OUR STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE, GET THEM!!!”

private, public, and personal property are three different concepts. most anarcho-communists have no objection at all to personal property

My recommendation: let it go. Too many people on lemmy demand The People here do things differently. More and more I’m finding that people are more interested in the entertainment of watching protests somewhere else from them than in getting involved in their local communities. I have no interest in performing for the internet the role of protestor, and am much more interested in being involved where I am in making changes. If lemmy wants to be a cesspit of obnoxious keyboard warriors telling eachother to do something and prove they’re doing something, that’s fine, it doesn’t need us. If it’s just going to be an energy sink, it’s going to exist in a place of making us less, not more, effective as mobilized participants in social good.

@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net is frequently posting good comments like this one about how to get active.

“those are paid crisis actors. and all those people making loud noises all night while ice tries to sleep are Japanese sex bots programmed for drumming”