Sort of an Australian Onion.
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https://twitter.com/Crypto_Maniac_/status/1267665396338958338
A Tale of Two Americas. This man watches horrified as a neighbor lets people in en masse, then turns people away from his home. To be clear, nobody was RUSHING anyone’s house. Good people let them in.
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Statement:
We, UAW Local 2865, call on the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) to end their affiliation with the International Union of Police Associations. It is our position that this organization is inimical to both the interests of labor broadly, and Black workers in particular. Historically and contemporarily, police unions serve the interests of police forces as an arm of the state, and not the interests of police as laborers. Instead, their “unionization” allows police to masquerade as members of the working-class and obfuscates their role in enforcing racism, capitalism, colonialism, and the oppression of the working-class. We ask that the AFL-CIO recognize this history and take steps to serve the interests of its Black workers and community members.
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Damn just woke up to loud booms/explosions, people blowing up ATMs
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Yes. There are chances of much worse than that. If I go, I’m pretty much expecting to find out what tear gas smells like and what it feels like to get rubber bullets shot at me. Hopefully I don’t get hit or have worse than that shot at me, but it’s all in play. They’re doing all that to peaceful protesters now, so if I don’t experience any of it, I ran good.
It’s not just about the cost of going, it’s also the cost of not going. I believe this week may be the last chance for a show of people in the streets to possibly save free speech in America. If the military is deployed against US civilians to crush speech in dissent, and it’s accepted, it’s over.
I have extra virus risk, but I have to hope only being 34 is enough of a factor to still keep the risk low, and being outdoors and masked up as well.
At the end of the day, I know whatever percentile I’m in of understanding what’s going on and caring about it, if I don’t step up here soon, were drawing so stone dead.
US Army firing on US civilians on US soil is my line, I expect it to be crossed soon.
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No but I wanted to do something. Anything. None of them responded, I think they had been fed already and most of their phones are dead.
‘Men with bats’ beat Philadelphia reporter
Protests over police brutality have engulfed US cities this past weekImage caption: Protests over police brutality have engulfed US cities this past week
A radio producer in Philadelphia took to Twitter to document his violent encounter with what he called "a huge congregation of agitated white people with bats, golf clubs and billy clubs”.
In a series of tweets over several hours, Jon Ehrens described and filmed what he saw - a man with an axe, and another with a sledgehammer, and what he heard - N-words flying" - on the city’s Girard avenue.
Ok they just mobilized toward Girard again.
back on Girard, one guy brandishing an axe.
He later tweeted a selfie in which his face is bloodied - he said the men beat him up for recording them. His thread ended with a selfie of him in a hospital, saying he’s fine.
Although the situation was tense, police arrived to disperse protesters on both sides. Monday was the third day of unrest in Philadelphia, which saw both peaceful marches, tear-gassing of crowds, as well as police officers taking a knee in a show of solidarity - all in one day.
Australia’s track record on deaths in custody is again under scrutiny, as Aboriginal people whose family members died in similar circumstances to George Floyd express solidarity with protestors on the streets of major US cities following the death of the unarmed black man.
The family of 26-year-old David Dungay, a Dunghutti man who said “I can’t breathe” 12 times before he died while being restrained by five prison guards, said they have been traumatised anew by the footage of Floyd’s death.
Dungay’s nephew, Paul Silva, said he has tried to watch the footage of the death of Floyd, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck and whose death has sparked protests across the US, but had to switch it off halfway.
“When I heard him say ‘I can’t breathe’ for the first time I had to stop it,” Silva said. “My thoughts really go out to the family and everyone on the streets in the USA. My solidarity is with them because I do know the pain they are feeling.
Dungay is one of at least 432 Aboriginal deaths in custody since the royal commission in 1991, the Guardian’s latest analysis shows. There have been at least five deaths since Guardian Australia updated its Deaths Inside project in August 2019, two of which have resulted in murder charges being laid.
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St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Commissioner John W. Hayden said at a news conference that the four officers were near a police line when they felt pain and realized they were injured.
Yeah, i’ll go with they were maybe hit by an air gun or some shit and probably not even that.
…or a public prosecutor.
Also, I’d be very careful about information sent in PM here (or anywhere), not because of who admins are now but because of who they could be one day.
You’d be a lot safer setting up a WhatsApp group imo.
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this entire thread might be considered something ‘criminal’ in the very near future.
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Election cancelled and Discourse and other forums taken over by Feds/CIA for harbouring information relating to the T word. All passwords released to them.
Even if there’s only a slim chance of this happening, the consequences are as severe as you could possibly imagine.
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I know, and I’m sure they’ll de-mask everyone too because fuck us.
I’m not looking forward to the experience whatsoever. I’m dreading it, if anything.
Most likely yes.
Thank you.
What I’m saying is, I think we’re pretty damn close to where me actually using my words to try to influence people is just as dangerous to me as me going to a protest.
I think there’s a short period of time to push back on that, after which point I plan to fall back into some sort of role that uses my communications skills and perhaps some support role, win or lose.
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That’d be awesome, thanks. I don’t plan on doing anything criminal, other than standing peacefully on a sidewalk saying “Black Lives Matter.”
I agree.
Gulp. How about former mods?
Guillotine pilot study.
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I’ve seen these shitheads try to build a wall. If they’re in the pilot phase I like my chances of the whole contraption falling over before they can get my head in there.
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Cool. Where are you?
Quiet night last night. Davenport PD did a good job imo.
Did find out that one of the fatal shootings last night was officer involved, so tonight could be interesting. To be fair the officer was returning fire and had been hit twice himself.
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