I’m pretty polite and wouldn’t “fuck you”, but “thanks, please go home” or “thanks, it would be if you weren’t occupying my city” would be polite enough.
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Which was a better response that mine.
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Now that’s some hyper-local housing slang. I’ve read entire reference books on residential architecture styles and never come across that term.
Of course. Once again, peeps gotta be willfully ignorant of history to see things any other way. The whole purpose of the NGs/militias has always been to suppress civil society, and formally slave patrolling. Why the fuck do provincial middle managers (aka governors) have military powers to begin with?
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Never thought I’d see “support the troops because they signed up to kill poor brown people overseas and not domestically” on this forum, but here we are.
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I sometimes freaks peeps out that I’ll sometimes make an effort to thank the cops at a demo. Which I’ll sometimes do in one particular circumstance. The cops are supposed to facilitate our exercise of the 1st A, permit or not. Sometimes they will actually do their damn job, and will set up rolling traffic control at cross streets, and closing off traffic lanes, for our parades. This is real work, and improves everyone’s safety. I’ll sometimes thank the rank & file cops doing this work, as simply positive reinforcement.
Other than that: don’t talk to cops !!!1! My advice is say absolutely nothing, including “fuck you”. Just don’t talk to them, period.
ETA: IIRC two years before I got Sabo dog, who always insists on being in the vanguard…
I was marching in the Mayday parade, which was from point A (City College) to point B (Chicano Park). What wasn’t clear to a whole lot of us was the parade was going to points C & D in between, and was about 4x longer than we imagined. It was very hot, I foolishly let myself get dehydrated, and ended up with the stragglers. When we got within sight of Chicano Park, the cops doing the rolling traffic control started chanting at us fools bringing up the rear: “Se su puente !”.
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If some people want to say “Fuck the soldiers as well” that’s fine, but I’m not accepting the premise that the same types of shitbags who join the police also join the military in similar numbers.
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I’m more sympathetic largely because we have a child army. People are recruited in HS, can join at 17, and the average age for joining as an enlisted soldier is under 21.
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Fuck the military industrial complex and those that support it. I know some giant shitbags who joined the military to kill Muhammad. I know some shitbags that are cops. They aren’t as different as you think.
When the US sends its 18 year olds overseas to murder poor brown people, they aren’t sending their best and brightest. They are sending rapists, murderers and some, I assume, are good people.
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And it ended up in the river
https://twitter.com/boringdystopian/status/1269643323532292096?s=21
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I went to Uni there - part of my walk home in my 1st year was up Whiteladies Road on to Black Boy Hill …
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Dangerous move. They should have anticipated the base of the statue flying up towards their faces.
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Speaking about the military itself, I see the Marines banned that infamous CSA flag from it’s bases. And they’re getting a buncha praise for that.
WTF BBQ. I’m pretty sure all CSA flags were banned in the Marines when the Marines actually fought against the CSA in the god damn Civil War. How many other of the ~250 flags of Marine foes over their long and bloody history do they also need to ban from their own bases… oh, I’d guess -zero- How fucking fucked up racist is that shit !!!1!
https://twitter.com/abebrown716/status/1269674020582105095
(This may be fake, just enjoy it either way.)
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About time too.
Black Lives Matters protesters in Bristol have pulled down a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston.
Demonstrators attached a rope to the Grade II-listed statue on Colston Avenue on Sunday before pulling it to the ground as crowds cheered. They then jumped on it and rolled it down the street to the harbour before pushing it into the river Avon.
The historian David Olusoga explained why the statue had made people so angry, comparing it to the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. However, the home secretary, Priti Patel, urged the police to take action. She told Sky News: “I think that is utterly disgraceful and that speaks to the acts of public disorder that have actually now become a distraction from the cause in which people are protesting about.”
Supt Andy Bennett, of Somerset and Avon police, said his force was carrying out an investigation into criminal damage.
The 18ft bronze statue, erected in 1895, has long been a focal point for anger at the city’s role in the slave trade and the continued commemoration of those who were involved in it.
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A petition to remove it had garnered more than 11,000 signatures. It said: “Whilst history shouldn’t be forgotten, these people who benefited from the enslavement of individuals do not deserve the honour of a statue. This should be reserved for those who bring about positive change and who fight for peace, equality and social unity.”
Colston’s company transported more than 100,000 slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas between 1672 and 1689, cramming them into ships to maximise profit.
The slaves, including women and children, were branded on the chest with the company’s initials, RAC. Unhygienic conditions, dehydration, dysentery and scurvy killed more than 20,000 during the crossings and their bodies were thrown overboard.
The Bristol West MP, Thangam Debbonaire, now the shadow housing secretary, joined calls for the statute to be taken down in 2018. She said the city “should not be honouring people who benefited from slavery”.
Protesters throw the statue into Bristol harbour on Sunday. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
Colston gave great sums of money to Bristol, but it was earned from slavery. Debbonaire said: “Having statues of people who oppressed us is not a good thing to be saying to black people in this city.”
Action has been taken to erase Colston’s name from other parts of the city. Colston Hall, Bristol’s largest concert hall, announced plans to change its name in 2017, and Bristol city council determined in January 2018 that a second plaque should be placed on Colston’s statue highlighting his role in the slave trade but wrangling over the wording delayed it. A portrait of Colston was removed from the lord mayor’s office later the same year.
Opposition to the Colston statue grew at around the same time as the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, which called for the statue of Cecil Rhodes, an ardent imperialist, to be removed from Oriel College, Oxford. The college refused to accede to the demands.
The toppling of the statue follows the pulling down of several Confederate statues during Black Lives Matter protests in the US.
Explaining the reason for the Grade II listing, Historic England says: “The statue is of particular historical interest, the subject being Edward Colston, Bristol’s most famous philanthropist, now also noted for his involvement in the slave trade.”
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I’m not a fan of the military in general, but do think there is a distinction between people who enlist and cops.
Many/most that join the military do so because they are poor and don’t have better options. They are then trained to be inhuman killers. Perhaps that has changed some recently and you are getting people that want to kill Arabs, but I still think that is the minority of enlistees.
Cops on the other hand seem to largely join because they like to have power over people and don’t have to be indoctrinated to be inhuman shitbags.
I am also more forgiving of a 18 YO making a bad choice out of high school when he has no clue what to do.
You also see more examples of military people standing up to each other than cops. You almost never hear of a cop reporting another cop for anything (or even testifying against them after the fact). On the other hand, there have been quite a few high profile military court marshals that were the result of someone reporting another soldier.
This doesn’t mean I support the troops, just that I have a bit more sympathy for them than I do for the cops.
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I almost went in the guard in the 90s for school money. There really hadn’t been much going on so it seemed safe but then that was about the time sarin started getting used in the Gulf War. I never went into the guard lol.
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