Maybe. But I’ve watched much better people than him, who did far less to deserve it, die.
That one of the biggest cheerleaders of fascism here in the States, in both advocating for genocide here and abroad, got iced is basically celebratory. Insofar as it’s one less Nazi in the world, not so much that it’ll do anything worthwhile beyond that.
I watched it. Felt nothing.
I’ve been hyper-aware of the possibility of a school shooting since I was in grade school. I’ve watched Palestinians be murdered for over ten years. I’ve watched poor young Russian idiots and Ukrainian soldiers blown apart for the past three years. And I just saw one of the biggest cheerleaders of all that in the States killed.
“Sick reality” has nothing on it. A piece of shit who advocated for and contributed to the shittiest of shitty policy in the US, which has led to the deaths of numerous other people, was killed, and by one of the shitty policies he himself advocated (political violence or gun proliferation, as you prefer).
This isn’t even getting into the ‘less’ severe domestic dangers he was part of pushing forward - the concentration camps for immigrants, the rampant dehumanization of LGBTQ folk, the stripping of medical assistance to the filthy poors who are too sick to be worth keeping alive.
Fuck him.
At least one.
Yep. Several times. Felt nothing.
Am I numb? Maybe. But after shitwits like him supporting genocide, imperialism, school shootings, rape, political violence, domestic violence, and persecution, I’m done feeling empathy for fascists.
An autopsy may finally determine the true size of his face. Praying for the integrity of his facial features postmortem, for science.
Most of this is recollected from college. I can definitely recommend Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia for a ground-eye view of the Spanish Civil War in general, though.
The violence wasn’t exclusively from anarchist groups, but in anarchist-dominated areas, the anarchists committed the same kinds of violence that other leftists did.
This isn’t to say that the anarchists were not the best of the lot, by far. Only that the notion that anarchists don’t engage in unjustified mass violence against political enemies because of the sheer purity of their convictions doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Again, what would that look like? You’re all saying this quips without saying what you mean.
“A riot is a good thing, violence and destruction and all, if it expresses unheard concerns in a way that makes the powerful take note.”
“Why don’t you say what you REALLY mean!?”
???
If a person looked sideways at the white house or any other branch who isn’t on trump’s side, they would get gunned down in a second.
… the post is about ongoing riots in Nepal, which have damaged a billionaire politician’s house. Not the ultra-secured official residence of the head of state.
As MLK Jr. once said, a riot is the language of the unheard.
Violence, even just as a reminder that the social contract is bidirectional, not unidirectional, has its uses, so long as the grievance is clearly communicated in the process.
The Red Terror during the Spanish Civil War comes to mind.
No ideology is without its fanatics.
Don’t worry, once Republicans see that there are Republican names on the list, not just Democrats, they’ll reverse course and call it all a hoax.
God, what a bizarre route for the old expanded universe that was.
the proper way is to do a hostile takeover of the Democratic party.
so, we need to do the same with the DNC. the formula is simple. hijack the primaries, shove the existing leadership out and show the Republicans what “socialism” really means.
Amen.
The Black Panthers weren’t even formed until the greatest victories of the Civil Rights Movement had already been won, and for all of Malcolm X’s rhetoric before leaving the Nation of Islam, the threat of violence from Black Nationalists was not a core factor to the victories of the Civil Rights Movement.
MLK Jr. spent nearly a decade and a half building organizations and connections for nationwide resistance.
Letting Palpatine assume power is not really an alternative.
You can care about the Palestinian genocide, while acknowledging that of the two choices you have, “No fascism at home and genocide in Palestine” and “Fascism at home and increased support for genocide in Palestine”, the former is considerably preferable, and there’s no real moral reason for letting the latter come to pass.
“I face obstacles too, you know”
hodl