This might be the scariest thing I’ve seen in the last couple of weeks. Like, we’re next. After they round up the media they don’t like, we are next. How long is it before someone posting a lot on Twitter/FB gets arrested for some bogus charge, gets the shit kicked out of them on the way to jail, and gets stuck in the system for a few weeks/months without a hearing?
Could have already happened.
Upper middle class whites with access to quality defense representation have relatively little to fear from the police. Look how silly the police look on this one. This isn’t practical for them at scale. Not saying some idiots won’t read the wrong tweet, get butthurt, and then try to go do something about that… but we’ve got major safety in numbers and weirdly the system is on our side.
So yeah if you go on social media and claim to be antifa or associated with them you might get the attention of the fbi
It’s that instead of OPEN BORDERS MS13. It doesn’t really change anything.
From the above…
Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur,” the [evil toxic waste container]… Martin Gugino… nonviolent protest movements such as the Plowshares and the Catholic worker…
Man, it’s hard to imagine stooping lower than demonizing Plowshares & CW. If anyone wants to understand the kind of grace M.Gugino is coming from, study up on these groups…
There’s no photographs of scary brown people at protests waving “open borders” signs.
For this reason, my daughter and I elected to use NAACP Legal Defense Fund for her charity black lives matter tee shirts. Not sure if that was any better, but it seemed to be more transparent.
IDK man. I am thinking back to things like 1940s Germany and wondering what would have happened if they’d had 1) social media 2) protests that are only getting bigger
Fills me with optimism for what we’re seeing now, even if the road to the other side is a motherfucker.
Find me one person who voted against Trump last time and is going to vote for him this time because of the abolish the police signs and then maybe I would worry about it. Even a person who voted against him and is now going to stay home because of these signs.
Your pony disappeared yesterday
The pendulum was swinging their way even as we had a non white president. The swing back the other way hasn’t even begun yet.
This is going to sound keyboard warrior, but I would be ok with being arrested for this charge. I believe I know how to mobilize the press and shine the necessary light to make things very uncomfortable for the aggressors. May not be able to do that forever, but in today’s climate, I think I could still make that happen.
Nothing more aggressive and threatening than a pacifist group
Yeah it’s not a good idea for the police to hunt outside their usual range. The reason why they don’t mess with upper class white guys now is that we have significant defenses and can hit them back inside the system.
If they want to start screwing with someone their own size instead of going after people who can’t defend themselves… that’s weirdly fine by me. The settlement check will clear just fine.
The CIA released my pony this morning tyvm
Amazing thread, not sure if modern-day COINTELPRO or just instagram influencers volunteering to co-opt and sow dissent for faves and retweets:
https://mobile.twitter.com/AugustTakala/status/1270399690912272384
Stop acting like animals and thugs.
Bonus from the twitter replies:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DearDean22/status/1270434005133848576
Only because of the liberal slaging a couple hours ago:
I remember when lefties were criticizing liberals for focusing on race and gender issues instead of large scale economic change.
What were liberal solutions for race and gender, putting on some African clothing and kneeling or putting a pride flag outside their office?
Elizabeth Warren
