Barbarism.

This man is a demon, it is true, but you can do better than using a misogynistic slur, come on now.

This is pretty fair. The US banned the use of Kaspersky in 2024. If I was the CPC I wouldn’t trust CrowdStrike either.

Hate to break it to you but…

If you’re fucking with me I will ban you.

Huh? They are having near constant blackouts as a result of this energy shortage. They are one of the most heavily sanction countries in the world. That means hospitals, people who need respirators or other medical equipment to live will die as a result of this, lots of vulnerable people.

Yes, I think these are positive signs that’s true. I worry these kinds of developments will build a kind of complacency. The difference is that these folks are under state orders, not federal orders. They’re from the state, not from out of state. These are important characteristics.

But we should also remember that Kent State happened on state orders.

Accept the good will. But always be vigilante. Hopefully the locals are striking up conversation with these guard members. Giving them their perspectives.

Handing out Donuts and Coffee is PR. It’s not “siding with the citizens”. When they put their bodies between ICE and the people, they are protecting ICE. When they’re deployed to the Whipple federal building, they’re not doing it to push ICE out of the city, or state, but to shield them from citizens.

“Our demand today is for federal agents in our City to act with the discipline and integrity we expect of our own officers every day,” said O’Hara. “We know there’s a lot of anger, but we also ask our community to be peaceful while we work through the details of this tragedy.”

That was the demand when the city requested aid from the guard on the 24th. The real question is, what do guard members do when a group of ICE agents execute another citizen in broad daylight, right in their sight line? What do you think the guard will do? When they attempt to subdue another citizen journalist or legal observer, are they going to get between ICE and the citizen, or are they going to get between the other citizens and ICE?

How much has the guard changed since Kent State, is the question you really need to ask yourself.

Honestly. This scenario liberals imagine, where there is some kind of red line that would cause a sitting governor to actively utilize the national guard against federal forces is pure idealism.

The last civil war was a social revolution born out of the contradictions between the slavery mode of production of the south and the rapidly growing capitalist mode of production of the north. The abolition of slavery meant more wage laborers for the north and the complete liquidation of debt leveraged “assets” for slavers in the south. This was the contradiction that drove the development of the Civil War.

The wealth of the South was tied up in debt and assets. Land and Slaves, two things not easily made liquid. Increasing slave productivity would require massive investment in industrial machines from the North. While these machines would increase productivity they would be over saturated with labor as they wouldn’t have enough to reached equilibrium and couldn’t as easily offload the unproductive slaves that didn’t have machines to work. Their reserve army of labor would become depreciating assets who still require food, shelter, and medical care regardless of how shitty it was. The end of slavery would literally be the end of the slavers “way of life” their entire economic way of life would be obliterated unless the state compensated them fair market value for their slaves. Which, would be ridiculous right?

The North, however, was rapidly industrializing and making effective use of the wage system. It didn’t matter to the capitalist if machines displaced workers. It was on the workers to feed, cloth, and house themselves. Petite Bourgeois business owners could exploit their workers by playing them tip only wages, since there was no minimum wage (the first state to have one wasn’t until 1912), leaving the burden of paying a workers wage to the patrons. This system was naturally far more effective at dealing with dead labor then slavery, since you didn’t own the worker, just the workers labor. This meant that the reserve army of labor of the north was effectively “free” to the capitalist and ultimately drove wages down as people competed for work. The capitalist never needed to consider if investing in machines would leave them with a population of unproductive workers, because they would just let them go, something the slaver couldn’t do because the slave was often collateral on loans.

While there is always an inciting incident to point to at the onset of a conflict, these inciting incidents are formed by political and economic conditions that had been building to that moment. You can’t run a simulation where a governor chooses to use the guard against ICE and then say it’s similar to current events in a vacuum. You have to ask the question first, what are the economic conditions driving these actions? The country isn’t divided economically like during the Civil War. There isn’t dueling economic models that Walz could find himself aligning with one over the other.

There are only two forces at play internally here in the US. Workers, and Capital. The people on the streets being killed by ICE are workers. The man killed today was a Union member. When Waltz deploys the National Guard, he doesn’t do it to push ICE out. He does it to put bodies between ICE and the workers doing their duty as legal observers, documenters, and citizen journalist. It obstructs them in those duties. He does it to support the police who actively work with ICE in their duties and have never been on the side of the workers. Tim Waltz is the same guy who sicked the cops and the guard on BLM protesters in 2020 in collaboration with the Trump administration. He’s a team player, and he’s not on our team.

The reason he makes these messages on twitter, is not to stop the killings exactly. It’s because he knows that at some point the only next step is deploying the military. If that happens it will only escalate the resistance of the workers of Minneapolis. Instead of individuals carrying weapons for self defense you will have groups carrying weapons for group defense. When the monopoly of violence becomes challenged, all bets are off, and Tim Waltz knows it’s safer for him if ICE just leaves. The likelihood of that happening however seems low.

Well, let’s see where this goes.

Glam Doll Donuts Shooting from Pink Jacket Lady’s perspective:

https://tankie.tube/w/r4NvYRbXRg7JfafN5DZSrj

[Not fully verified] There are reports that the victim was armed but that his fire arm was holstered while he was on the ground being attacked. He was then disarmed by an ICE agent BEFORE he was killed:

https://tankie.tube/w/odF9opKxso3vGNTRgNwRer

CBS News frames the individual as a “suspect” claims they had a firearm.

If you have an ad blocker or a paywall bypass it hard stops you from loading ft.com. By archive I meant something rehosted at archive.org or ghostarchive or archive.is.

Even with that stuff turned off it still tells me to pay.

Do you have a working archive? Hard paywall on ft unfortunately.

Oh, you fucking suck.

Removed Comment How is that Israel’s fault? Maybe her dad, a literal terrorist, shouldn’t be letting her play with his equipment. Good ol’ child endangerment. by hoch@lemmy.world
reason: Glorifying violence against children

Goodbye 👋

Yeah, that’s why I asked them the question. It’s not even covert anymore. Do I think there is real rebellion happening against the Ayatollah? Yeah, I do. Do I think opportunists and reactionaries will use this to reinstall the Shah or some other western aligned government? Yeah, I absolutely do. I don’t know enough, do not have enough sources, or connections, to know what the character of the movement is on the ground. I don’t know if the Anarchists are organizing broadly, or if the Communists are forming any kind of vanguard to rally the masses, or if there is even a left popular front leading this movement. What I do know is that imperialism never sleeps, and never misses an opportunity to capture a movement.