Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

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These aren't police, these are death squads. Not a single one of these people were armed. It took the cops five years to be charged with anything, and two years later their sentences got heavily reduced. Stay safe even if you're not protesting.
https://youtu.be/-5FKkEF7F3M

for anyone protesting in NYC, link from Twitter;

NYPD’s armbands are green today

source
https://twitter.com/rachelmillman/status/1267542233772933121

By the way, today is 99th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre where over 300 black-owned businesses were burned:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/us/tulsa-race-massacre-1921-99th-anniversary-trnd/index.html

Oh fuck, Glinner's reading comprehension is so terrible he tried to "take that" me and misgendered his own supporter XD

Happy Pride Month!

New art done by GoldenGriff!

A message to influencers, who I know aren't even on this platform: Protesting 👏 is 👏 not 👏 an 👏 aesthetic! 👏

Justin Amash has put forward an "Ending Qualified Immunity Act" and I've called my rep about it.

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1267267244029083648

Americans: several states are having primaries today. I know the presidential race is pretty much decided, but this year 1/3 of US Senators, the entire House of Representatives and a whole lot of state and local officials are also in the primaries. In many non-swing states, the primaries effectively decide who is getting the office. This is arguable a more important election.

Opposing 'antifa' the 'organisation' is like opposing 'feminism' the 'organisation': neither has a board, or a boss, or a general election.

It's just a very bad and unsubtle euphemism for "I don't want this movement's goals to get in the way of the things I take for granted."

Somewhat encouraging to see the topic appear in as mainstream a forum as them.

"When protests take a turn like this we naturally wonder … why? Was this preventable? Does anyone know how to stop it from happening?

Three federal commissions concluded that when police escalate force those efforts can often go wrong, creating the very violence that force was meant to prevent.
Turns out, we do know some of these answers. Researchers have spent 50 years studying the way crowds of protesters and crowds of police behave — and what happens when the two interact. One thing they will tell you is that when the police respond by escalating force — wearing riot gear from the start, or using tear gas on protesters — it doesn’t work. In fact, disproportionate police force is one of the things that can make a peaceful protest not so peaceful. But if we know that (and have known that for decades), why are police still doing it?"

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/de-escalation-keeps-protesters-and-police-safer-heres-why-departments-respond-with-force-anyway/

all cops are bastards, especially the ones in your anglosphere country that isn't the USA, even if they don't carry guns around on the daily

But it isn't like there is a Lex Luthor in an armchair or a Scooby Doo villain in a mask that we can just reveal and the work is done.

But fascism's always hoping that if it raises a baton enough times it doesn't need to hit 'the CEO of Antifa'. It's hoping we don't leave home.

Fascism, patriarchy, capitalism is simultaneously just as complex in its guts as its counterparts--made up of varied mechanisms for its ends--yet nowhere near as complex in its outer form, resorting to the brutality of physical conflict coated by misinformation & misdirection.

'Opposing Antifa', however, requires no thoughtfulness or tactic. It just requires its actors to have no shame about being as brutal as possible to people on the street in order to deliver a message: do not get in the way of our structure.

Antifascist action as praxis requires and does far more than care about the individual bodies of fascists. Antifascist action is also education, liberation, mutual aid, legal intervention, and more. Bail funds are antifascist. Food availability is antifascist.