What I’m saying is, “Nazi idiocy” is the “foundational cornerstone” of America’s “backwards culture”. So, there is no distinction between US Forces with or without Nazi control. American Manifest Destiny inspired the Nazi Lebensraum, American Jim Crow Laws inspired the Nazi Nuremberg Laws, much of the Nazi ideology was built on top of existing admiration for the American project.
Let’s make it bigger for mayday!
Hate to break it to you but…
Someone is reporting that this is fake, I can’t look into it now but if you are going to report something as fake you should be leaving a comment with your sources that show it’s fake. “Apparently this is fake” isn’t enough.
If you’re fucking with me I will ban you.
Huh? They are having near constant blackouts as a result of this energy shortage. They are one of the most heavily sanction countries in the world. That means hospitals, people who need respirators or other medical equipment to live will die as a result of this, lots of vulnerable people.
That’s the trick! It always has been.
This is good, if only other democrats felt the same.
That’s what the article is about, the dangers of AI generated video and images of animals. From the “Key Ideas” section just under the image at the top of the article.
- Conservationists warn that increasingly realistic AI-generated wildlife images and videos are spreading misinformation that can provoke fear, panic and hostility toward wild animals.
- Fake footage distorts public understanding of animal behavior, making dangerous encounters seem normal or portraying wildlife as greater threats than they really are.
- Authorities and conservation groups are forced to waste time and resources investigating false sightings and responding to public alarm triggered by fabricated content.
- Experts say the trend could ultimately undermine conservation efforts by eroding public trust, encouraging wildlife persecution and normalizing the exotic pet trade.
Yes, I think these are positive signs that’s true. I worry these kinds of developments will build a kind of complacency. The difference is that these folks are under state orders, not federal orders. They’re from the state, not from out of state. These are important characteristics.
But we should also remember that Kent State happened on state orders.
Accept the good will. But always be vigilante. Hopefully the locals are striking up conversation with these guard members. Giving them their perspectives.
Handing out Donuts and Coffee is PR. It’s not “siding with the citizens”. When they put their bodies between ICE and the people, they are protecting ICE. When they’re deployed to the Whipple federal building, they’re not doing it to push ICE out of the city, or state, but to shield them from citizens.
“Our demand today is for federal agents in our City to act with the discipline and integrity we expect of our own officers every day,” said O’Hara. “We know there’s a lot of anger, but we also ask our community to be peaceful while we work through the details of this tragedy.”
That was the demand when the city requested aid from the guard on the 24th. The real question is, what do guard members do when a group of ICE agents execute another citizen in broad daylight, right in their sight line? What do you think the guard will do? When they attempt to subdue another citizen journalist or legal observer, are they going to get between ICE and the citizen, or are they going to get between the other citizens and ICE?
How much has the guard changed since Kent State, is the question you really need to ask yourself.
Honestly. This scenario liberals imagine, where there is some kind of red line that would cause a sitting governor to actively utilize the national guard against federal forces is pure idealism.
The last civil war was a social revolution born out of the contradictions between the slavery mode of production of the south and the rapidly growing capitalist mode of production of the north. The abolition of slavery meant more wage laborers for the north and the complete liquidation of debt leveraged “assets” for slavers in the south. This was the contradiction that drove the development of the Civil War.
The wealth of the South was tied up in debt and assets. Land and Slaves, two things not easily made liquid. Increasing slave productivity would require massive investment in industrial machines from the North. While these machines would increase productivity they would be over saturated with labor as they wouldn’t have enough to reached equilibrium and couldn’t as easily offload the unproductive slaves that didn’t have machines to work. Their reserve army of labor would become depreciating assets who still require food, shelter, and medical care regardless of how shitty it was. The end of slavery would literally be the end of the slavers “way of life” their entire economic way of life would be obliterated unless the state compensated them fair market value for their slaves. Which, would be ridiculous right?
The North, however, was rapidly industrializing and making effective use of the wage system. It didn’t matter to the capitalist if machines displaced workers. It was on the workers to feed, cloth, and house themselves. Petite Bourgeois business owners could exploit their workers by playing them tip only wages, since there was no minimum wage (the first state to have one wasn’t until 1912), leaving the burden of paying a workers wage to the patrons. This system was naturally far more effective at dealing with dead labor then slavery, since you didn’t own the worker, just the workers labor. This meant that the reserve army of labor of the north was effectively “free” to the capitalist and ultimately drove wages down as people competed for work. The capitalist never needed to consider if investing in machines would leave them with a population of unproductive workers, because they would just let them go, something the slaver couldn’t do because the slave was often collateral on loans.
While there is always an inciting incident to point to at the onset of a conflict, these inciting incidents are formed by political and economic conditions that had been building to that moment. You can’t run a simulation where a governor chooses to use the guard against ICE and then say it’s similar to current events in a vacuum. You have to ask the question first, what are the economic conditions driving these actions? The country isn’t divided economically like during the Civil War. There isn’t dueling economic models that Walz could find himself aligning with one over the other.
There are only two forces at play internally here in the US. Workers, and Capital. The people on the streets being killed by ICE are workers. The man killed today was a Union member. When Waltz deploys the National Guard, he doesn’t do it to push ICE out. He does it to put bodies between ICE and the workers doing their duty as legal observers, documenters, and citizen journalist. It obstructs them in those duties. He does it to support the police who actively work with ICE in their duties and have never been on the side of the workers. Tim Waltz is the same guy who sicked the cops and the guard on BLM protesters in 2020 in collaboration with the Trump administration. He’s a team player, and he’s not on our team.
The reason he makes these messages on twitter, is not to stop the killings exactly. It’s because he knows that at some point the only next step is deploying the military. If that happens it will only escalate the resistance of the workers of Minneapolis. Instead of individuals carrying weapons for self defense you will have groups carrying weapons for group defense. When the monopoly of violence becomes challenged, all bets are off, and Tim Waltz knows it’s safer for him if ICE just leaves. The likelihood of that happening however seems low.
Well, let’s see where this goes.
Glam Doll Donuts Shooting from Pink Jacket Lady’s perspective:
[Not fully verified] There are reports that the victim was armed but that his fire arm was holstered while he was on the ground being attacked. He was then disarmed by an ICE agent BEFORE he was killed:
CBS News frames the individual as a “suspect” claims they had a firearm.
Video of the killing archived here: https://tankie.tube/w/7aqRDCL79DRNndUaDPTbVX
To quote someone involved in the organizing happening in MN regarding this article:
Marxist.com is unfortunately a Trotskyist international organization and as such is pretty sectarian at times. There is mass organizing happening in MN, and there is a Marxist party doing their fair share of that organizing. Their other points remain well stated, but their comments on the actual organizing on the ground are strictly not based in reality.