Wow. It’s not like the state is quite good at repression. /s
Posting this on International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners is quite tonedeaf, too.
Yeah, I made that one up 🙄 /s
No offense here because i like the sentiment, but just because a random bookstore declares it an “international day”, doesnt make it so.
Don’t you feel it’s a bit counterintuitive to call someone tonedeaf for being unaware of “International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners”, something that more than 99.9999% of people are likely unaware of?
Wouldn’t you be better off, say, helping build awareness of such a day instead of simply berating someone for not knowing about it? At the moment, you’re teaching people to treat it like a joke.
something that more than 99.9999% of people are likely unaware of?
Western liberals aren’t aware of it because they’ve segregated themselves off from the folks in their community most subject to political prisoners.
But then lots of Western Liberals clap and cheer when an anarchist group gets raided by the police and dragged off to prison.
Sounds like you’re just blaming people for not being as smart and enlightened as you because you’re so special you knew about an obscure day that almost nobody outside your usual bubble has heard of.
You could have actually brought awareness to that fact, but you decided to be a petulant clown instead. Bravo.
You must be one of a few hundred people on the planet who know about it so I don’t know why you’re expecting people to care and not post memes that might be related to it.
Still a stupid meme. People are fighting for a better tomorrow. It’s just that the state also cracks down on revolutionary movements (remember Tortuguita and the Stop Cop City protests? Or Lützerath? The fucking Black Panthers?)
Also, activism burnout is also a thing, framing it like people are just too complacent is simply disrespectful. Basically a leftist version of the “still you partake in society” meme.
It also reeks of the defeatist mentality/capitalist propaganda that lefties are fighting for a miserable future. Simply a stupid meme all around and to top it all off on an unfitting date.
You think governments didn’t use to crackdown in revolutionaries? There’s nothing new about that.
It’s almost as if we need to be brainwashed in school to believe America is always The Greatest Country Ever™ because in reality we’re one of the worst.
I don’t mean worst monetarily, or by virtue of our graduates skill. I mean worst in how its people are treated, in how we treat the world at large, and how the only thing that Americas so-called leaders really aim for is to be a giant sweatshop.
For anyone curious about this, I highly recommend the following books on the subject:
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America , Gerald Horne
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century , Gerald Horne
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat , J. Sakai (this one comes with free download links)
I looked at a list of the people who took over immediately after the French revolution, and it looks very much like a bunch of aristocrats used a mob to take over.
It certainly wasn’t handed over to the likes of you and me.
You can see this being emulated right now by people like Trump. “The people won’t stand for it”, “there’ll be civil war”, etc. If Jan 6th was more than a rabble of trailer trash dumbfucks, they might even have been talking about it the same way by now…
it looks very much like a bunch of aristocrats used a mob to take over.
Mostly bourgeois actually, aristocrats were very much profiting of the system. Bourgeois are the ones who had enough money to get education and rethink the political system to end the aristocrats’ birth privileges. How would an illiterate peasant be able to rethink the political system beyond tax reduction?
it looks very much like a bunch of aristocrats used a mob to take over.
Not unusual for educated professionals to form the intellectual and financial backbone of a revolution, because… they are the ones with money and education.
But there was an enormous gulf between the mid level bureaucrats of the French Revolution and the senior aristocrats they deposed. That is, in large part, because the French aristocracy was married into all the other European royal families, while the insurrectionists were not.
If some junior office workers at Exxon executed the board and the C-level staff with the help of the blue collar roughnecks, that would be an enormous change in the governance of the company. Imagine how Wall Street would respond. Not unlike how France’s neighbors responded to their revolution, I’m sure.
And this is why we will not beat climate change. That would mean giving up a LOT. People don’t want it, so politicians won’t campaign on it and thus we are doomed.
Literally why I think killing someone’s family in movies is dumb. You Literally left that dude with nothing but hate. Kind of annoying trope that people get broken instead of full vengeance mode. Very rare you see a character like in Foundation that goes “do it and lose your leverage”.
My point was we owe are love ones to stop evil from continue their rampage but Lol you are right, that is one way to look at it. Certainly would be a more thorough villian. I think Hydra tried that in one of the movies. I just hate it in movies “o no my husband died in battle so I won’t command the army to finish fighting” like whaaaa?
