Hey, my city is on Lemmy!
wait… shit… my city is in the news…
shit’s about to go down… 👀
Fuck yes! Show them something more than a sign saying “I’m not very happy about the current state of affairs. Sorry”!
Eeeeyyyy, the Black Panthers are still a thing?
They never stopped being a thing
Remember: Peaceful protests are like barking - annoying, but by itself harmless. It’s the fear of the bite that makes the barking scary.
You don’t have to jump straight to violence, and I believe that it’s more effective to start with non-violent demands. Once you escalate, there’s nowhere left to go. But the threat of it is what makes the peaceful option less destructive.
As the saying goes: Nothing will meaningfully change until the rich fear for their lives.
The only way to tell if your protests are working is if the state is restoring to violence to stop you from continuing to demonstrate.
The only way protests are ultimately effective is for the beleaguered group to be easier to negotiate with then it is to further supress them with violence.
The powerful give no ground willingly. It must be taken from them.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand.” -Fredrick Douglas
about fucking time
What else is there to say?
Fight the power!
Oh damn, this is not a headline I thought I’d see
Peaceful protests are like praying: you’re accomplishing nothing and still think you’re helping.
For it to work, the politician class must care about your opinion, and they care not, because they have no obligation to care. Please remember that the only political power you have is your vote, everything else is meaningless.
Hell yeah, the Black Panthers are exactly the heroes we need right now.
Fuck yeah! More violence! Let the blood run through the streets, may your children grow up without fathers, and your daughters carry your replacement for the front.
“Rather live oppressed than die free”.
- You, probably.
“mmmmm. Boot. My favorite!”
That guy, almost certainly
Idiot, truly.
may your children grow up without fathers, and your daughters carry your replacement for the front.
At the current rate you, your wife and your children will die in a concentration camp or get executed for looking at a fed the wrong way. Better to die resisting than while licking boot.
There is a whole universe of difference between Black Panthers present as an armed deterrent to defend protesters peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights, and agents provocateurs there to start shit and raise hell to light the match for the real violence against all of us to begin.
Or, to put it more simply, do you see these guys shooting? No. You do not. You see them walking calmly in open carry. That is not violent protest; it is a very strong preventive of violent protest.
And frankly you sound angrier about that than you do the reason the Black Panthers are there in the first place. Maybe go read something about the Black Panthers, starting with the above article. You might learn something. They are on the side of the community, first and foremost. That may not be your side, but it sure as fuck is mine.
They have committed no acts of violence. Arguably they are the most effective deterrent
I’d hate to see them shoot anyone in the face, like some kind of ICE agent, that sure would be terrible. Expect that they don’t. They are defensive, they are heroes, take your rhetoric of imagined violence and shove it up your ass where the real brutalization and murder of innocence lives.
Maybe you shouldn’t have voted for this then. Weird how the one not wanting bloodshed is the one perfectly fine with what’s going on.
Good to see others getting armed.
How much you wanna bet certain conservative people start talking about gun control, or imposing restrictions on being armed at protests or something?
I don’t know if you’re being rhetorical, but that is the pattern
Good. I’m willing to bet jackbooted thugs are less likely to shoot someone when there’s a visibly armed protestor nearby.
Think of a bully if someone stronger stands up to them they will run a way. I would like to see vets, blank panthers and others stand and protect the protesters. Having black panthers and vets unite for one common cause would send a powerful message.
Not specifically for vets, but the Iron Front is very popular with a lot of the antifascist vets I know, including myself.
Edit - The Sons of Liberty are specifically a vet organization
Thanks for the link for iron front and the fact that they have Blue sky is better
You’re welcome!
I’m not sure if it’s crazier that statement was made or the fact that I read it and agreed with it before I even thought how crazy of a time this is.
1960’s all over again.
But probably worse.
Vietnamese and Cambodians are probably liking this decade a bit more.
I mean… They seem perfectly capable of fighting amongst themselves…
At least they aren’t super soldiers with ray guns
Hard agree on that front. The world is absolutely crazypants batshit right now.
A specific part more than others though
Sure, if you don’t count the unrest in Iran, the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese genocide of the Uyghurs, the Israeli genocide in Gaza, etc etc etc
Then sure, the world is a rosy and wonderful place other than the US.
Didn’t say the world is a rosy and wonderful place. But unrest in Iran, Russian imperialism, Chinese suppression and Israel killing Palestinians has sadly been the status quo for the last few decades. I interpreted batshit crazy as very different than it was before. But you’re right, there is a lot more places where life has gotten harder.
If it makes it any better this has happened repeatedly historically. Though it only really works when the ones you’re protesting against are gormless cowards, so it should be rather effective.
This is so surreal.
It’s like opening up your browser to be reading about The Weather Underground or the SDS or something…but then again, about 20 years ago, I don’t think I was thinking we’d have a Nazi sympathizer in the fucking White House, either, so I also thought Nazis were largely a part of history that would stay in the past.
Operation Paperclip. You’ve had multiple Nazis in the white house, the last one repeatedly lied about seeing 40 beheaded children to justify funding and shielding a genocide.
Trump is just the first fascist Nazi. But America has been totally fine synopsizing with Nazis.
Robert Evan’s has a fantastic audio book called The War On Everyone.
American Conservatism has always played footsies with fascism.
Weather Underground is just a distributed/crowd sourced weather app now full of individual weather stations. I love it both in function and name.
Solid app that’s been around since the early iOS days.
SDS
Funny you say that, there’s also a be SDS org that has been around since the US invasion of Iraq, but got a lot of press recently during the campus protests over Gaza
It’s really wild how all these things are coming back around again.
It’s especially wild because it seems lately the mediascape has been practically saturated with stuff (most of it seemingly from very misinformed/uninformed people that are much younger than the boomers) that tries to paint “boomers” as one big monolith.
In some moments, I actually start to nearly buy into this nonsensical rhetoric.
And then I remember this is the generation where things like the Panthers, the Weather Underground, the SDS, and so much else was going on as well. The people kind of mindlessly spewing stuff about boomers would probably do well to zip their lip for a bit and actually learn something about that generation.
The animosity between generations is a lot like the animosity between races or most other us-vs-them bullshit in that it’s manufactured to keep potential allies fighting against each other.
This is ultimately a class war - everything else is a distraction.
The Weather Underground
Do you mean the Underground Railroad?
Huh, TIL
The Weather Underground had another round in the headlines when Obama was running. The far right (and the “liberal media” really didn’t help much, of course) tried to smear Obama by some kind of much later association of Obama with Ayers.
The whole thing was hella stupid, of course. Obama was born in 1961, FFS, and would have been 16 years at the oldest when the Weather Underground was even still active.
But being idiotic is what the far right does best, often with a big assist with dumb dumbs in the “liberal media”.
I think YT is great. You just have to be selective. And using things like Invidious help a lot, because watching YT normally is just filled with ads.
Oki has an Eraserhead poster behind him - I’m sold.
Also, I should have mentioned MOVE (and the bombing by the cops)…it’s also more geographically relevant, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE_(Philadelphia_organization)
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I understand black Panthers or for blacks folks. But it’s it also open to other folks like Hispanics?
There’s a lot of vets that are Hispanic that could and would help, but again I understand if this is only a black folks only thing.
They have a sister group simply called The Panther Party which is open to anyone.
We need a new Rainbow Coalition. RIP Fred Hampton. There’s a reason they were terrified of him.
The real Black Panthers? They would… probably still prefer it to be a sister org to focus on the African American community but they would very much be allies.
These Black Panthers? Who the hell knows?
Because the thing people forget is that the reason The Black Panthers were so effective wasn’t because they were walking around locked and loaded. It was because of all the community outreach they did. So when the (white) cops and government came knocking? The neighborhoods locked arms because these were people who had been protecting them and who cared about them.
Considering that the federal government is shuttering things like SNAP, there is a vacuum for Rainbow Panthers to fill the void.
So, in the article it very specifically highlights their many community programs like the food program they’re doing in several locations.
Hispanic protestors used to have the Young Lords and the Brown Berets, who the Panthers have partnered with in the past.
Both, as far as I know, are no longer active, but I’m sure there would be support for reviving them today.
Wow I did not know that. Thank you for providing some info about it.
There was also the White Panther Party back in the 60s-70’s formed mostly of white college kids following the Panther model. Essentially a more explicitly revolutionary alternative to SNCC, which was itself highly influential in the anti-war movement at the time.
These days there are several Panther groups doing smaller scale community self defence and mutual aid across the country, many of them led by second and third generation Black Panthers.
Wasn’t MC5 part of the White Panthers?
When people talk about “the boomers” as one big monolith, I have to chuckle because they are clearly overlooking things like this…
MC5 kickout the jams band? Did not know that.
I could be wrong, but I think there was also a white panthers party that they were part of.
The United Panther Party is another small modern Panther org. The UPP is mixed and Anarcho-Pantherist in political philosophy.
Historically, there were a few contemporaneous Panthers equivalents for other minority groups. The Hispanic one was The Young Lords
“That wouldn’t have happened if we were there,” Birdsong said. “Not a single person would have gotten touched.”
It s going to be hilarisou when your learn that even if you are armed if doesnt give you the right to impeach law enforcement in their duty. You have lost the plot and i hope you have a little self peservation instinct before doing something stupid thinking you being a martyr will do anything specially when it s regarding an issue you litteraly loose the majority vote on it.
“Law enforcement in their duty.”
ICE agents have no legal authority to conduct police actions or abduct people without cause. There is no legal justification for any of this. It is naked fascism, tolerated because no one will stop them.
you know ice is a structure that is more than 20 year old ? Im pretty sure they have legal authority
Oh my bad I misunderstood your intentions.
ICE has no jurisdiction over American citizens. All they can do is detain/arrest someone obstructing their legal role: detaining and deporting immigrants. Further, all law enforcement, federal and local are trained NOT to handle that situation with a civilian by shooting them in the face while they are behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. He acted stupidly and illegally, which one suspects he knew since he fled the scene.
Additionally, federal officials are constitutional prohibited from forcing their way into your residence without a warrant signed by a judge.
So while ICE has a narrow legal mandate, they have far outstripped those bounds.
All they can do is detain/arrest someone obstructing their legal role
Seem like thay have some then
The police are hundreds of years old. They still need warrants.
Look at their history. Just block them and be done with it.
Depend on a lot of factors. But yeah in case that are encadred by the law they either need or dont need one. I dont see how that’s an argument that make ice unlawfull.
Age means nothing in this context
“We’ve been treating people like shit for 20 years now. You’re not over that yet?”
You think rolling over and showing your belly will save you. Fucking sad that people like you exist.
save me from ?
Somebody here got the whitewashed version of American history in school…
The law can be wrong. The law is not the final say. The people are the final say, and they have the right to impeach as much of the law as they want if the law has failed in serving them.
bruh try that argument for not paying taxe mb your are onto something
The people who build your roads, teach your children, and take care of you when you’re sick have a right to a living wage.
Taxes pay their wages.
If there is a disparity in the taxes you pay, the wages of these workers, and the rich people of your country, then it’s time to do something about it. And lo, it’ll probably end up in violence.
was just making that your argument my morale value prevail on the law is dumb and doesnt hold any weight. Yeah taxe are useful like for having forces that enforce imigration policy
can u explain to me why an accident that occur 2000 year ago where a colonist force didnt enforce his own rules cause the population where furious based on religious reasoning applie here for anybody rather than you ?
I’m guessing English isn’t your first language?
How’s them boots taste?
idk, guess i have to martyr myself by being really stupid with state agency to being forgiven in your eyes ?
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ICE isn’t law enforcement
Plus the majority of them are mega pussy freaks who will absolutely be afraid and stay away. Such as being afraid of being run over as a car drives near you
they are litteraly law enforcement. Im pretty sure threataning violence about what you called pussy freak that are armed is a good idea. It s a game where you have no outcome that will be a win for you. But do as you want and play the game im sure it s going to go the way you want
Have you seen the videos of ICE and their actions?
i have seen some. But i will watch what you send. I dont think that institution is perfect but i dont think it give ciotizen right to impeach them in their duty
