By Scottie Andrew CNN (CNN)There’s a growing group of dissenters who believe Americans can survive without law enforcement as we know it. And Americans, those dissenters believe, may even be better off without it. The solution to police brutality and racial inequalities in policing is simple, supporters say: […]
By Hannah Knowles, Brent Griffiths, Miriam Berger, Brittany Shammas, Meryl Kornfield, Candace Buckner, Samantha Pell, Derek Hawkins The Washington Post Cities and towns across the United States faced an outpouring of protests Saturday amid the national outrage over law enforcement excess sparked by the killing of George Floyd […]
“We’ll invade dozens of countries and kill thousands of people but we’ll be ‘woke’ when we’re doing it!” By Jenny Gross The U.S. Marine Corps on Friday issued detailed directives about removing and banning public displays of the Confederate battle flag at Marine installations — an order that […]
One set of scumbags say they might not vote for the Scumbag-in-Chief. Oh well. By Jonathan Martin New York Times WASHINGTON — It was one thing in 2016 for top Republicans to take a stand against Donald J. Trump for president: He wasn’t likely to win anyway, the […]
The main critique I would have of the liberal/left/BLM approach is not that their perspective is “too radical” but that it is not radical enough. Much of this kind of activism is focused solely on police killings and the racial disparities involved. Fair enough. Murder by cop is […]
“What’s the world coming to when we can’t just beat up some random old man and crack his skull? Blue Lives Matter!!” This really is an “A Clockwork Orange” scenario here. By Rachel Sharp Daily Mail Two Buffalo cops have been arrested and charged with second degree assault […]
How about “No Countries Matter”? The first problem with this idea is that many Americans have no clue about the political significance of July 4. They think it’s just another day to partying and set off fireworks. I know people like this myself.
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People side with their own tribe. It’s what people do.
Bye. By Maki Becker Buffalo News Less than 24 hours after a 75-year-old man was pushed to the ground outside City Hall by members of the Buffalo Police Department’s Emergency Response Team and a video of the incident during a protest drew widespread condemnation, all 57 members of […]
“We are all Palestinians now!” By Steve Sweeny People’s World Officers from the U.S. police force responsible for the killing of George Floyd received training in restraint techniques and anti-terror tactics from Israeli law enforcement officers. Floyd’s death in custody on Memorial Day, the latest in a succession […]
By Ryan Parry Daily Mail A Black Lives Matter leader has declared war on the police and plans to release a blueprint for change that involves Black Panther style armed ‘patrols’ monitoring the behavior of officers on the streets, DailyMailTV can reveal.
From 2016. This is why we have anti-police riots. By Shaun King This is as bad as it gets. A North Carolina state trooper shot and killed 29-year-old Daniel Harris — who was not only unarmed, but deaf — just feet from his home, over a speeding violation. […]
The murder of George Floyd is a real issue. The police state is a real issue. The racial disparities associated with the police state are real issues. The rebellion against the police state is long overdue. The fact that the ruling class is trying to co-opt the issues […]
Tech-oligarchs and sweatshop-mongers for social justice! By Mike Murphy and Andrew Keshner Market Watch As protests stemming from the death of George Floyd wrack the nation, a number of leading tech companies have offered their support for demonstrators and funding for social-justice organizations.
Conservatives shouldn’t be in favor of Trump sending out the army to suppress the insurrection because, if for no other reason, it might set a precedent where President Kamala Harris will send out the army to suppress a pro-life demonstration or NRA convention in a few years. Be […]
“I don’t make the laws. I just enforce the laws. And I never said anything about actually obeying the laws.” By Katie Rice Orlando Sentinel ORLANDO, Fla. — A man running for election supervisor in Pinellas County is asking the Orange-Osceola state attorney to pursue charges against Derek […]
Kyle Kulinski has an interesting rebuttal to Carlson’s Hobbesian-Burkean perspective. In his more serious and intelligent moments, Carlson is simply making the Hobbesian argument that order must be maintained at all costs in order for civilization to exist with considerations of “justice,” whatever their merit, being a secondary […]
Keith Ellison has generally struck me as just another shyster politician. However, he is correct that the police state is not just a race issue. I would even go further Krystal and say that it is more than a class issue. Instead, the police state is an issue […]
Exactly as I would have predicted. I have long held the position that while municipal police are certainly a problem, they are actually overemphasized in many critiques of the police state. The reasons why are obvious. They are obviously the most visible, and the ones that most people […]
When a pig kills a black person, most (though not all) other blacks take it as a personal threat/affront that is a representation of institutionalized oppression, and correctly so. Even many white liberals and leftists, who view themselves as black allies, take such a position. But when a […]
The evidence is overwhelming that most people would conform. By Nick Chater The Conversation Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, described the horror of the authoritarian regime of Gilead. In this theocracy, self-preservation was the best people could hope for, being powerless to kick against the system. But […]
The discussion between Saager and Max Alvarez on the relationship between class and the uprising is interesting, along with their discussion of ruling class co-optation efforts. I have long argued that the modern left’s primary emphasis on race, gender, gay, etc. identity politics outside the context of any […]
If you’re not following the Swann Street siege story this morning, it’s incredible.
There are some anarchists who believe in voting for the “lesser of the evils” (although whom they consider to be the “lesser evil” is dependent on what kind of hyphenated anarchist they are). In 2016, I knew self-proclaimed “anarchists” who voted for Clinton, Trump, Johnson, Stein, Castle, the […]
From 2016. Police actions against the Dakota Pipeline protestors were a test market in state repression. By Wes Enzinna Mother Jones Police tactics at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest grew dramatically more aggressive last week, with law enforcement using tear gas, rubber pellets, sound cannons, and other controversial […]
The evidence is overwhelming that this is a low-intensity insurgency, and not just handfuls of “extremists” or conventional criminal sectors, though those are obviously present as well. AMW English On Monday, June 1, the insurrectionary wind continues to blow on the streets of many cities of the United […]
The Mexicans don’t fuck around. While I was in Mexico a few years back, the Acapulco city police massacred 45 student protestors at one point. By Chantal Da Silva Newsweek Protests have ignited across the U.S. and around the world over the death of George Floyd—a black man […]
The effect of the civil rights movement was to co-opt the black middle class and integrate it into the system, while altering the civil religion/ideological superstructure of the state to include a “racial redemption” narrative. Meanwhile, post-1968, the state launched a counter-offensive under the guise of the “war […]
As I have pointed out in some recent posts, we are not dealing with Socratic thinkers here. The Red/Blue tribal civil war is the modern American version of the Protestant/Catholic conflict in Europe during the early modern period or the Sunni/Shia conflict in the Middle East today. Essentially, […]
There are plenty of Antifa, boogaloos/accelerationists, “white supremacists,” “anarchists,” etc. involved in this but there is not anywhere near enough of them to make an insurrection this large happen. All of these “extremist” groups are just a side issue that is barely relevant at all. This is a […]
The actions of protestors/insurgents and cops alike have been widely diverse in this thing. Some cops have engaged in random violence and staged riots of their own, some have tried to engage in conventional law enforcement activity, others have stood down and largely done nothing, and some have […]
By Janet Danek The Hard Times MINNEAPOLIS — Law enforcement officials have renamed the interrogation tactic “Good Cop, Bad Cop” to “Accomplice Cop, Murderer Cop” to more accurately reflect the reality of modern police dynamics, the Minneapolis Police Department confirmed on Wednesday. “We’ve been calling it ‘Good Cop, […]
“And the Lord said, ‘No justice, no peace. Black lives matter.” LOL BBC Lightning struck the Washington DC on Thursday night as the city was under a flash flood warning. One bolt from the storm hit the Washington Monument. Two national guard troops were seriously injured by the […]
By Anarchy Man There are hardly any words that could be used to describe this social order briefly and in more detail.
Trump always struck me as the Red Tribe’s last stand in terms of trying to reclaim their former position of hegemony. In fact, one “conservative” commentator called the 2016 election a “Flight 93” event. Recent events seem to have sealed the deal in terms of rising Blue Tribe […]
This is why we have anti-police riots.
Saager is wrong when he says that Trump’s “base” is 33% of the US. He was elected with the votes of only 19% of the US population, and 26% of eligible voters. His hard-core loyalists are probably a much smaller group. Krystal and Saagar react to Joe Biden’s […]
The insurrection has been a rebellion against the police state, but the police state is only a tool of the ruling class. The ruling class proper remains unscathed. On a class level, while it is true that capitalist corporations have taken a few minor hits here and there […]
Ironically, these FOX News guys have become the biggest publicists for the “defund the police” movement. There is a “defund the police” banner hanging on the building next to my residence.
As an anarchist who is anti-police and pro-gun rights, I’d say this is a win-win situation.
Regrettably, wars produce casualties. The present situation is not yet a conventional civil war, but it is more than simply a series of riots or a crime wave. It is a genuine insurrection, albeit one that is largely spontaneous, decentralized, and uncoordinated which is both an advantage and […]
On one hand, Carlson is correct that there is a dangerous totalitarian element on the margins of the insurrection, and that such elements are motivated by the ambition of riding the wave of a popular rebellion to power, only to set up a tyrannical state of their own […]
The Popo seriously fucked up this time. Even the deep red zones are turning against the police state, which is actually not surprising because a lot of those places include radicalized gun owners who are distrustful of law enforcement. Many people in these areas have been victimized by […]
A “stimulus” or “bailout” of their own. “Yes, we can,” lol. By Maya Lau, Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, Matt Hamilton Los Angeles Times The young man flanked the shattered entry of a ransacked CVS in Santa Monica, where people had swept the shelves clean of everything from diapers to detergent. […]
For some time, I have largely regarded ideological conflict as a conflict between what I have called “psychological tribes” featuring groups of people with different personality types and psychological makeups, with these personality differences probably being rooted in genetics. In order words, people are genetically predisposed to have […]
So Kyle now favors Hubert Humphrey Biden over Richard Nixon Trump? A Biden victory will result in the neoliberal class and Deep State collectively trying to consolidate their position while a Trump victory will likely result in more fragmentation. Krystal and Saagar respond to Kyle Kulinkski’s pivot […]
In the US, this would put the Left is the difficult position of having to either side with the cops or with the anti-lockdowners. By Adry Torres Daily Mail Video posted on social media this week showed Giovanni López being beaten by police officers in Jalisco, Mexico, on […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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