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by l3mure 3y ago
The FBI has arrested a lot of people under anti-China initiatives in the past few years, and most of the cases have been quietly dropped.
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Yeah, their involvement in the assassination of Fred Hampton and blackmail/suicidal encouragement of MLK Jr. makes this pretty clear. I'm sure if some brave activists were to rob the correct field office (which is the only reason
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by l3mure 3y ago
Sure, sure. Next it'll be "intimidation" to take a picture of an officer's badge -- which they already routinely obscure. There's nothing police hate more than accountability. Pick up that can. > [...] the city o
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Activists face felonies for distributing flyers on “Cop City” protester killing(theintercept.com)
41 points by l3mure 3y ago|18 comments
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by l3mure 3y ago
> We need to crush the idea of victim hood as a privilege. "Victim hood as privilege" is a right-wing strawman of the idea of intersectionality. You're suggesting throwing a punch at an obvious feint. Intersectionality is
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by l3mure 3y ago
Race is the modality by which class is primarily expressed in America. There is no way to resolve socioeconomic problems without dealing with race at the same time, clearly demonstrated multiple times in US history. The failure of Reconstru
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by l3mure 3y ago
> You can, in fact, lift a country out of poverty without also inflicting an authoritarian state on the populace. > Half the world managed it — you’re just making excuses for authoritarianism. You mean the half of the world that enric
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by l3mure 3y ago
Yup. [1] > Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US [2] > For instance, using Gorgon Stare, a 24-hour aerial surveillance system, the U.S. Air Force had been able to plot back from a car bomb explosion in Kabul in 201
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by l3mure 3y ago
absolutely my favorite commentator both for his game analysis and his depth of experience from his own chess career
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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand (2008)(nytimes.com)
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Some of the concepts are interesting but his prose is rather turgid, large portions of the book are clearly filler written to showcase some idea. It's decent enough though.
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Interested to see if they make anything stick, is this under the recent DOJ initiative [1]? That doesn't seem to have a great track record [2][3]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210216044709/https:/&#x
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'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland(forensic-architecture.org)
41 points by l3mure 3y ago|38 comments
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> Within a timeframe of only three hours, between 21:00 and 0:00 that night, the PPB used at least 148 munitions (of which 138 were likely chemical munitions). With our model, we are able to show that these munitions caused airborne chem
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by l3mure 3y ago
Not to mention the crucial land reform project targeting landlords: > The government forced absentee landlords to sell all their land to the government. Farmers were allowed to own a small amount of farm land that they could rent out to
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by l3mure 4y ago
> Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance > Authorities believe the former agent – believed to be from Texas – was one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated wi
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by l3mure 4y ago
SBs were very strong against massed battleship fleets when coordinated properly. You'd have a scout get a warp-in close to an enemy fleet and bring a bomber wing in cloaked, then everyone uncloaks simultaneously to bomb and warp off. I
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by l3mure 4y ago
> I also want to recognize that I can freely talk about this publicly, openly, and take to the streets with protests against such things, without fear the government will lock me up in a labor camp or "disappear" people (re: Ja
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by l3mure 4y ago
The notion that losing an election is "accountability" for mass murder and the deliberate demolition of an entire state is genuinely deranged. Accountability would be Bush, Cheney, Bremer, Tenet, et al getting the Mussolini treatm
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by l3mure 4y ago
> yet so alien to the west > Chinese state planners when they successfully cloak their plans in a cloud of Orientalism https://media.tenor.com/isrmdo9Xr9EAAAAC/mission-accomplishe...
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by l3mure 4y ago
Arbeit macht frei after all
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by l3mure 4y ago
The south is indeed still deeply racist. I lived in Charleston SC for several years and was exposed to plenty of it. People like Dylan Roof and the McMichael family don't come out of nowhere. Doesn't mean there aren't Black a
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by l3mure 4y ago
I'll sign it for $100.
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by l3mure 4y ago
> The slave trade peaked around 11% of the UK economy As your own source states, focusing on this single number is overly reductive: > Any indirect linkage effects are not included in the quantitative estimates presented here. > Th
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by l3mure 4y ago
> never comes up An absurd assertion, it's a staple of discussions on here. Takes all of 5 seconds to find examples. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33811795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by l3mure 4y ago
The modern border system has deep roots in colonial policing as a means of labor discipline, targeting anti-colonial revolutionaries (a group which naturally overlaps with labor agitators), and racial delineation. [1] > Dispersed as it w
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by l3mure 4y ago
It's funny that these posts usually get minimal engagement, in comparison to posts about stupid corporate DEI nonsense which will have 900 commenters shitting their pants about how it's Literally 1984.
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The Trial of Genaro García Luna(mexicoviolence.org)
1 points by l3mure 4y ago|1 comments
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> Rather than an anomaly, then, the dynamics of the drug trade mean that there will always be García Lunas because they are a necessary figure for both criminals and the government. The intermediation offered by “corrupt” actors allows
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by l3mure 4y ago
that's some good schadenfreude, thanks

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