How about we stop deporting people to begin with and abolish the agencies responsible for deportation? I don't want to go back to the status quo where the misery was out of sight and the militarized local police were beating ppl up instead of the feds.

Book recommendation: Fonda Lee's "JADE WAR" is amazing. Second in the "Green Bone Saga" trilogy. Builds on the rising tension in "Jade City" and expands the scope while also digging deeper into the characters from the first book. Read it just after finishing Frantz Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth"

Without even reading the rest of this thread I had to know you were talking about Bari "I'm being so oppressed let me write another NYT article about how oppressed I am" Weiss

A lot of the numbnuts from Staten Island who whine about free buses take the very free SI ferry every day and never notice they work just fine

We've been there for some time.

The violence has been ongoing, regardless of whether the protests are peaceful, the paperwork has been filed correctly, the lawsuit's been won, the useless Dems have said "stop" enough times. Sooner or later we're going to either have to go to a general mass strike or armed resistance.

If necessary.

Yup. Pretty much every major structure in modern society - is built to create actual impairments and/or reclassify people as disabled, and then punish people for being disabled

Worth reading this book for a philosophical take on neurodivergence, and how capitalism seeks to create norms so as to separate and surplus people into classes www.plutobooks.com/product/empi...

What an incredible song, and album

Luddites were textile workers who'd been forced to work for wages, instead of at home on their own. They were protesting terrible conditions and pay. The bosses ignored them, so they destroyed the looms.

Why am I thinking about them now? Oh no reason...
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I usually appreciate Appiah but this is ridonkulous.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Should start a reality show with the airflight attendant who jumped out of the emergency ramp a few years ago. Call it "Resigned!"

Macron should just go ahead and try to get the lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss elected

Made with cholocate, regerts and bittereness

She picked the wrong Urban. Karl Urban would never.

I have evidence to the contrary

It's probably time to get rid of people in your life who are causing unnecessary drama (including family). Also see a therapist and/or do something therapeutic If you find yourself making the same mistakes over and over again (relationships, jobs, friends, money)

That's nothing to be proud of... Obama helped build up the lethal machine, Trump's putting his foot on the gas a lot harder but this was always the endpoint.

Growing up I never understood the kids who dressed up as stormtroopers for Halloween. Vader, sure, but who would sign up to be an anonymous bullet sponge for the empire?

Seeing the ICE asshats in masks parading around in their tacticool shit, I'm reminded of the same thing. Simps.

Most of the DSA folks I know are 20-somethings who were on campuses in 24 or in street protests

1. I'm sure there's a list of ICE employees; it shouldn't be hard to make said list public so they can then be blacklisted from jobs involving firearms or any decision-making power over other people, ever

2. Without an organization empowering & arming their manbaby CoD fantasies, I'm less concerned

Highly recommend seeking out "True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956." Yes that is the full title of the film. It's a fiction film from 2024. A great intro to Fanon's life & work