Doing it for personal use, without profit or gain, is supposedly illegal. Doing it for profit certainly appears to be legal.

It’s really shocking to me, from the US, that this is a compulsory fee and not a tax. It’s like they want people to hate and resent it. I guess it hurts poor people? IDK.

Fair weather friends are no friends of the LGBT community. We need to treat this as permanently burning that bridge. When they come back after this… runs its course… we need to tell them to go fuck themselves.

The problem is they’re going to decide who is and is not antifa. If they say you are, then you are. And if they say antifa are terrorists, then they are. Something like this is the end result in the “war on terror” stuff from the early 2000s. Or, alternately, “anything I don’t like is woke” except they’ll send the cops and/or feds to crack your skull or just straight up kill you.

They aren’t gonna beat up white people about this. not yet. It could be coming but it won’t happen yet.

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/459874481/Everything-I-dont-like-is-woke

But substitute in “racism”.

My man, very very little is being asked of you and your response is to lecture about how wrong the askers are in their asking. Are you going to be an ally to people in need or are you going to be an ally to whiteness?

You literally cannot.

This isn’t about you.

White people’s race does play into this, same as non-white people’s race does. If you’re white (passing) it’s unlikely the ice is gonna show up and throw you into a van.

Trying to make this about you is shit. Nobody cares.

They really want it we gotta fight them off. It’s tough because they have all the resources and institutional backing, but they are particularly stupid and inept so it’s not a foregone conclusion.

We need everyone, not just one person. Don’t get me wrong, what he did was praxis and it did have an effect. I don’t see that solving all our problems by itself, though. Diversity of tactics and all that.

Yeah that telecommunications part is working out great right now, huh? Well, i guess we just gotta keep fighting them.

I’m glad to see i’ve been pronouncing it right all these years.

What’s the first thing Israel did when Assad fell in Syria? Congratulate the Syrian people? Push for a democratic regime? Try to provide aid and build relationships with the people and new leaders?

No, they invaded the country and stole more territory for themselves.

He saw the problem but had no idea what to do for solutions and the ones society was feeding him (he didn’t come up with that on his own) are bullshit. But society won’t tell you about Baudrillard.

This is something people need to get better at seeing. If we want to reach these people we need to understand what’s happening when they say things like this. We also, ourselves, need to understand this stuff so we can speak intelligently about it. You know the media and powers that be never will.

You’re right, this is very destructive.

Who knows? But they can look like they’re doing something, at least.

Honestly this is very clarifying and we should be jumping on this as a tool to further understanding of our cause. Not because the shooter was one of ours but because support for him is common ground we can use to talk to everyone who we want to talk to.

I think, taking the leaked manifesto as legit here, the guy was aware of this. One of the lines basically says “it seems obvious we need to take matters into our own hands and I guess I have to be the first to do it”.

That said, i think this works because it’s not just propaganda of the deed. These masters of the world are still only human. They have manipulated the world so they get to decide what happens to who, when, and accept no input from anyone else. Well, when they use that power to cause millions of excess deaths it’s no surprise their victims will (eventually, after much patience) simply step outside the social contract to deal with them.

Maybe interpol doesn’t know China is straight up kidnapping people of the street in foreign (non-China) countries? Maybe they want to do something about that?

No?

Okay, then. Of course they’re prioritizing someone downloading some jpgs, why would i think differently?