crimethinc.com
We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. 🏴
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We give thanks that neither the mercenaries in uniform nor the fascists who support them succeeded in murdering anyone in the street today, despite their carelessness and brutality.
Even when protesting together is dangerous, it's not as dangerous as silence and submission. Stand up for each other.
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Today, there were vehicular attacks targeting demonstrators in San Francisco and Culpeper County, Virginia.
Republican media outlets and politicians have spent years promoting and even seeking to legalize using vehicles to murder demonstrators.
They are to blame.
crimethinc.com/VehicularAtt...
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As economic and ecological crises intensify, millions of people are waking up to the reality that solidarity and mutual aid offer our best chance of survival.
Whereas the mercenaries who serve autocracy—and the inclination to do violence for a wage—pose the greatest threat to our survival.
Resist.
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For autocracy to triumph, people must suppress their empathy, confining themselves to selfish materialism. Their aspirations to community must be replaced with jingoistic conformity.
And many of them must be desperate enough for employment that they will accept a wage to do harm to those like them.
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Exactly, they're just trying to accustom us to being suspicious of each other—especially of those who are prepared to be courageous in standing up to oppression.
They are afraid that we will identify with the courageous ones (who they call "outsiders") rather than with mercenaries and politicians.
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"Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside agitator' idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere in this country.”
–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail.
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Again, to be fair, you made some extremely charged accusations in your initial message, with precious little argumentation. Rather than insulting you back, it's enough to say that we anarchists will always be at the side of those who are confronting oppression. Some liberals are less reliable.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, herself an anarchist, has explored some of these questions in her fiction. But she wasn't trying to depict a pristine utopia—rather, she was interested in the challenges that emerge even when we don't have to contend with the tragedies pointlessly inflicted by hierarchical power.
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If you claim that the Trump administration is putting troops on the streets right now to punish us for something that *we* have done—when in fact they will tell any lie and are militarizing their repression regardless of what we do, counting on our silence—you are deluded and/or blaming the victim.
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To be fair to Occupy Oakland, *all* of the Occupy movements dwindled; the movement in Oakland actually lasted longer, and was more vibrant, than most of them.
If you don't like anti-capitalists, fine, but it is false that they made Occupy Oakland collapse *faster* than the rest of the movement.
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1. We are protesting a president, not a king. So it is necessary to develop an appropriate analysis of the actual problem.
2. Biden and Obama also deported tremendous numbers of people (and we fought that, then, also). Trying to prevent discussion of the systemic issues may in fact be more racist.
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To be clear, we work closely with Iranian anti-authoritarians like ourselves. We just published this text from some of them last month:
crimethinc.com/Rajaee
The point is that change for the better will never come from imperialist assaults or genocidal bombings, only from grassroots resistance.
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You can print this design out here, if you want to distribute it as a flier at demonstrations:
cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/poste...
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Instead of asking whether an action is violent, we might do better to ask:
Does it counteract disparities in power, or reinforce them?
Rather than trying to legitimize ourselves by asserting that our actions have no material effect on those who are oppressing us, we have to change the discourse.
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Is it more violent to resist the police who kidnap and deport people, or to stand aside and do nothing while people are disappeared?
Is it more violent to throw tear gas canisters back at police, or to denounce those who throw them back as “violent,” giving police a free hand to do even worse?
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Ha, well, did you read the flier?
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Excuse yourself as you like, but the choices before all of us right now are very similar to the choices that faced Germans in 1933.
Stand up for those that the fascists are targeting, or be complicit.
If you can think of better tactics than those that cause traffic jams, demonstrate them.
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To be intoxicated by the sight of mercenaries inflicting violence, to enjoy licking the boots of autocrats, to grow accustomed to doing nothing while they terrorize our neighbors—these things are fundamentally debasing.
We must not let them destroy our capacity for empathy and solidarity.
Resist.🏴
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Seeing as the issue with Taylor was resolved as soon as we got online that day, it might be responsible of you to delete this message?
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To be fair, we still maintain our own website, independent of social media platforms.
But yes, we miss Indymedia too.
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You do need to be able to correctly identify what kind of munitions the police are using, yes.
Fortunately, we have a guide for that, as well:
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
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This is what you want to do with them, ideally:
bsky.app/profile/crim...