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Oh, military gentlemen, they bluster, roar and pray.
Nine sailors on the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away.
The powder in their hair that day was powder sent their way
By poor and ragged sailor men, who swore that they would stay.
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I’ve helped women in their 80s climb up a muddy hill so they could get arrested. I’ve watched older women step between young racialized protestors and the cops. Some were experienced protestors. Many were not.
So, like, Ok, Tankie.
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And now I’ve been silly I want to say something else. I have seen crowds of nice, middle-aged ladies who had originally come for a low-key protest march see kids getting hurt and go CHARGING up the fucking hill to the red zone to support them. I’ve seen them grab and hide the bloc kids from cops.
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Branching out slightly I have fond memories of the Ottawa Police presser after the G-20 showing off the “weapons” they’d confiscated and the guy from CBC (who the cops had roughed up) just about went over the table at them yelling THAT IS MY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR BOOM MIC GIVE ME MY FUCKING BOOM MIC.
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The normies shouldn’t be invited to those because they’re 1/3 cop by volume and their OPSEC is performatively elaborate and elaborately shitty rather than merely primitive. The normies are MUCH better off teaching themselves.
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If we’re talking about personal enjoyment the Quebec Provincial Police launched a massive barrage of tear gas and pepper spray at Oka and realise almost IMMEDIATELY afterwards that they were downwind and that was pretty great, I can’t lie.
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I mean on a purely technical level the shit they were using in ‘01 at the FTAA protests was impressive: tear gas + pepper spray + vomiting agent, all through firehoses and accompanied by rubber bullets. I have to admire the sheer commitment to insane, stupid overkill.
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The bottom line on all of the self-proclaimed “prophets” of the NAR is really just what LBJ said: In your guts, you know they’re nuts.
And the bottom line below that bottom line is this: In their guts, they know it too.
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Come see us!
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The Yanks appear to be absolutely seething at the implication that they may not actually have the most benign reasons to be sticking their oar in the middle east as if we didn't just watch their president embed minerals into their foreign policy with the Ukraine deal lol
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This isn't about democracy. Qatar and Saudi Arabia both have monarchies with authoritarian rule.
This isn't about nukes, Iran signed the non-proliferation treaty whilst Israel didn't.
This is about the long running game of the West turning the rest of the world into their resource plantations.
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I meant record-breaking for funerals of former presidents, so I think I’m missing something here.