THIS is what you’re defending:
A punch is too fucking soft.
FOR ALL YOU FUCKING “DON’T PUNCH NAZIS, YOU’RE MEAN!” IDIOTS
And besides…
After one solid clock to the jaw, now memed into perpetuity, Dick Spencer is afraid to show his Nazi face in public. Direct action gets the goods.
People still asking “so this means I should punch anyone I disagree with, then?”
No, it means you should punch nazis because they disagree with other people living.
Also worth noting, here’s an excerpt from the 1939 book Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guérin:
If in the beginning, when the Hitler bands were still weak, the workers’ parties had answered them blow for blow, there is no doubt their development would have been hampered. On this point we have the testimony of the National Socialist leaders themselves.
Hitler confessed in retrospect: Only one thing could have broken our movement – if the adversary had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed, with the most extreme brutality, the nucleus of our new movement.”
And Goebbels: “If the enemy had known how weak we were, it would probably have reduced us to jelly…. It would have crushed in blood the very beginning of our work.”
Punch them. Make them afraid to spread their poison. Oppose them in every avenue available to you because we know what happens when this goes unchecked.
The other point we keep bringing up to those who gasp and clutch their pearls in shock and horror when they see fascists being met with violence is that fascist violence is a serious, serious threat to our communities. By our count, bigots and fascists have murdered eighteen people this year and seriously injured thirty-five in a series of shootings, stabbings, arsons, and mob attacks. Pretending that anti-fascist violence is the real concern in the face of fascist attacks like these = willingly engaging in the logical fallacy of false equivalence.
For people pretending that anti-fascist violence is the real problem, we’d ask: How do you expect people trying to keep themselves, their families, and their friends from being hospitalized or murdered by fascists to react? Where is your outrage and condemnation of fascist violence?
“Is Black genocide right, and if so, what is the best way to dispose of Blacks? I am afraid of being punched when I go out to dinner now though because THOSE kinds of people (punchy antifascists) are about and about :( “ sure is a take, alright
When we say abolish police, that also means take capitalism with it
The primary purpose of the police is to defend the owning class and capital. These companies are investing in the police because the police serve them directly
Remember this everytime you see people attack retailers during riots and strikes. If you’re compelled to cry about ‘looters’, stop and shut your goddamn mouth instead.
Capitalism and state (the cops) are inextricably intertwined. You cannot be anti- one but pro- the other.
For those who haven’t heard, this woman in Arkansas was speeding by a slight margin (5 miles) and was flagged to pull over by an officer. She put on her blinker and got into the right most lane, then slowed and put her hazards on, indicating she was looking for a safe place to pull over. This is actually what police departments, and this one specifically, tell people to do. The shoulder on that road was quite narrow, and she was likely waiting to exit the interstate.
Despite this, the officer slowly gains on her and uses a pit maneuver to spin her car out. This sent her (and her unborn child) careening into the median and completely flipping the car. The officer is heard calling for ems in a very calm voice.
From what I can find, the woman is alright, as is her child. She’s looking to pursue legal action against the officer, who has defended his actions by claiming she was driving wildly and swerving. As I’ve seen so far, he is still being paid and on the force.
In case there was any doubt that cops are fucking liars, here's the video of her "driving wildly and swerving"
Abolish Cops
They bloodthirsty terrorists
The trauma. God. Fuck all the cops and fuck all their supporters too
They're always so calm and collected when they try to kill you, too. "You should've just pulled over, then I wouldn't have done this unnecessary thing we're not /really/ supposed to do."
They don't care about your life at all and actively go out of their way to end it because you don't listen to them or fit into their shitty little system. They don't need weapons to terrorize or murder us; they'll do it with their vehicles and bare hands and they thrive off of the blood they squeeze from us.
This is the American police state and there is no reforming this.
the weirdest argument the US has against socialism is “if socialism is so good why are people leaving this country we sanctioned and invaded to the point of societal collapse?”
it’s like the childish “why are you hitting yourself?” argument applied to foreign policy and everyone falls for it because there is an assumption the US military is heroic. death to america ^_^
There’s also the problem of majority of socialist countries being connected to Russian version of socialism which carries the whole baggage of Russian authoritarianism and corruption which is probably pretty far from what most of people who want socialism in the West want.
It’s not like people weren’t leaving poor/corrupt/authoritarian capitalist countries en masse.
Only probably? You think it’s only probably pretty far?
The “Russian version of socialism” is like saying “the German version of socialism” when referring to the Nazis because it meant National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Neither are/were socialism. Maybe that was the goal, or maybe that is the mask they used to hide behind their plans of total corruption, whatever, but if the majority of socialism countries are connected to Russia’s system, it’s not because Russia’s system is “version” of socialism. It’s not. It’s in a mask pretending to be socialism.
Everyone in NYC got a screeching emergency alert telling us not to heat up our food. Yet all the commercial billboards, NYPD stations, and other utterly unnecessary utilities are left powered on. That’s class warfare, plain and simple.