alexwenzel.bsky.social
Postdoc at UC San Diego studying cancer. Academic unionist and transit enthusiast. Trying to make buses less invisible. Medic main in TF2. he/him
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Solidarity protests with Los Angeles for tomorrow (Mon, Jun 9th):
• Chicago: 9:00am
• Los Angeles: 11:00am
• Seattle: 11am
• Boston: 1:30pm
• Raleigh: 2:00pm
• Atlanta: 2:00pm
• Charlotte: 2:00 PM
• Sacramento: 4:00 PM
• Asheville: 6:00pm
Check link for updates and locations
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The commentator class would much rather we spend all our time arguing with Nazis rather than sharing info and building connections with each other. That we aren’t engaging pointlessly with the right angers them because they get clicks by giving their readers sad leftists to look down on.
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At some point I’m allowed to actually create my own life and try to help the people I care about and who care about me rather than endlessly subject myself to people who hate me because that’s somehow a virtue in the fake Ivy League debate club world all these commentators think we live in.
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If the protests make ICE's job maximally difficult to the point where they carry out fewer raids while spending massive resources on each one and lose agents to low morale in the process, it will certainly have threatened the place in the hierarchy that they currently occupy.
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Protest to change policy requires at least the implicit possibility that the protesters feel that the offending actions are so egregious that "law and order" will not be restored until they cease. That doesn't mean protests must necessarily be violent, but they must disrupt order.
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I believe those protests were effective in getting people informed and activated, people who normally wouldn't be that engaged are paying attention now. But they did not move the needle on policy at all.
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And then Democrats won that election.
The narrative from the right will be exactly the same. The "Tesla Takeover" protests were basically the ideal peaceful protest and the right spent weeks condemning them as violent domestic terrorism.
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Those things cost like $150k-$200k and I bet their insurance is already crazy expensive.
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Officers fire riot munitions at point blank range into protesters in the street.
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The "don't give them what they want" people are projecting their own insecurity about hierarchy-threatening protests onto Trump, I think.
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The Mexican flag at protests is not a symbol of people newly coming into a place, it’s a demand for equal rights in a community they’ve already been a part of for centuries, regardless of where the pointless, arbitrary boundary is drawn in any given year.
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Conservatives interpreting the Mexican flag at protests as an attack on sovereignty is ridiculous. It’s like being offended by the Canadian flag at an NHL game.
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Tons of families are binational, many thousands of people cross the border every day for work/school/other routine things. Mexican elections are front page news in the San Diego Union Tribune.
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Another example of creating situations where everyone is guilty and enforcing whenever useful.
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This opens the door to not only stripping livelihoods for speech but to political prosecutions nominally for fraud or misuse. NIH funded researchers have to agree not to advocate “illegal DEI” while funded, and only Chris Rufo knows what that means on any given day.
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If the first amendment is not applicable to grants and their supported activities, there’s no limit to the punitive control that could be used. I don’t have a 1A right, while grant funded, to publish a paper with supporting evidence for vaccines, or to say I value a diverse scientific workplace.
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In New York, the NYPD anti-protest unit — SRG — is full of goons who salivate at the prospect of cracking teenagers’ skulls. This is what they signed up to do. As a society, we should be doing all we can to destroy this occupation.
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To be fair, it will need more recruits. California is extremely large with varying and complex terrain.
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Large city cops very often live in the suburban or exurban regions. They have no connection to the place they police other than getting a paycheck. SDPD has never been asked to beat their neighbors. Soldiers mobilized here would be given that task.