mickey [he/him]

We slopped your trough now why aren’t you piggies squealing!?

I mean this is paper thin on details and it seems like the whole point is to assert Mr. Bonelluci as a leftist and the left as advocating for violence so they can pursue a legal repression campaign.

I’m thinking specifically of boogaloo, libertarian, AnCap, anti-antifascist, etc. types. There is very much a vibe stateside among reactionaries that upholding state violence and resisting social progress is how they rebel against “the system.” So I’m specifically talking about people who are reactionaries first and then choose these tunes because of their meme status.

On a more general line, sure I agree there are a lot of working-poor proles that see themselves as having a sort of rebellious spirit who could be redirected with the correct political education.

But seriously Matt Walsh could instigate bloodshed, can never be an excuse with him.

I can’t speak to Bella Ciao being coopted by the right, I don’t think the shooter was a groyper, but I do think that speculating on it being used that way is plausible when it was being discussed a couple days ago. I base that on a parallel thing where I’ve seen a lot of far right people presumably in the US latching on to Irish rebel music. Either with conservative keyboard warriors leaving bellicose comments on youtube or with rightwing content creators using song clips in their videos. So there are lefty songs that get picked up by fash or just filter into the zeitgeist of apolitical audiences.

Not only that, but if you go to a twitter page the posts are not in chronological order. Xcancel.com gang stays winning.

Smarter people than myself have pointed out that porn bans often accidentally-on-purpose ban LGBT content as well, but this is a new meta. Like how Nancy Mace was throwing around the T-slur or whoever that based Latina congresswoman was doing in her crossfit campaign ads.

Agree, the morning hours caught me too generous, I will harden my heart lol.

they also don’t see fascist policy as either fascist or a bad thing.

Yeah, austerity budgets, anti-LGBT, anti-homeless policies … iM OnLy AgAiNsT iLlEgAliMmIgRaNtS … all fash policies that the supporters get surprised to be labeled thus for supporting. And to not seeing it is a bad thing, I suppose they get very defensive trying to avoid that label but only see it as a slur or a smear applied to them and not a real descriptor of policies.

The was/were thing directed at victims the right despises is such hateful claptrap and as you point out it’s been around for years, you better believe I was making that joke to myself about Charlie.

• Dems are cowards so I can’t say ‘this will push them into action!’ but I’d anticipate opposition to this.
• Def a sprinkling of the frontier turning inwards as we restrict freedom of movement for opponents of the regime
• I don’t see this having popular support [since when does that matter?]. Maybe I am being too generous but the Republican voters, despite being braying hogs, don’t see themselves as Nazis and having the sec state pull folks’ passports for speech is a little on the nose. So this overtly fascist policy might create some friction with the conservatives who broadly - in my estimation and I may be wrong - are allergic to seeing themselves as fascist.
• This is a good indication of what I’ve noticed in the past two years of Israel’s war against Hamas genocidal Zionist campaign to eliminate and displace the Palestinians, which is existential to the settler-colony’s very being. We in the West had almost just barely gotten out of the GWOT era framing of things and the establishment crackdown on genocide resistance really allows our leadership to get the band back together and play the old hits such as anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia and saying everything they don’t like is terrorism.
• Hat tip to whoever it was on here that mentioned you can bypass a paywall on desktop by putting the article in reader mode.

No no you don’t understand, we heard the same rumor 6 times and they all heard it from the same source, so we are very serious journalists who can report we’re hearing it from multiple sources.

I’m not even dismissing that the roommate could’ve known more than they should’ve, but the way the fuzz is trying to make this fit a narrative is so obvious and so heinously directed at scapegoating a GSM group, it’s appaling.

Also the bit about going after other leftist groups, yeah freakin’ right, the powers that be would love it that were the case, but no freakin’ shot.

I used xcancel as a front end to browse X.com the everything app without an account, follow has a specific meaning in-app, can i really be said to follow anyone? But hey, how was it she was brought up in this thread again? Anyway, I’ll watch my act.

Yyoooo I have only been familiar with her twitter for a little while I didn’t know she kept that thang on her. SKS is a nifty 'lil carbine, it would be fun to have but they’re expensive enough to compare to a mOdErN sPoRtInG rIfLe so it’s hard to make the case. Her bulge posting yesterday was absolutely out of pocket, true queen shit.

Me, a stable heterosexual seeing a 20 year-old man posing over his grand slam flappy jack’s at Denny’s: “You know that boy ready to slang dick on the DL”

Defenestration is a fun word. Sounds emasculating if you don’t know what it means. There’s a lot of balustrades and mezzanines where oligarchs and their political class servants like to hang out, I hope everyone is mindful to keep their balance and avoid accidents.

Kirk literally has tweets in the last few days blaming Floyd’s murder on drug overdose.

Thank you, it did not occur to me to contextualize this and I couldn’t have said it half as well as you. I saw the data they were pulling from would likely be making wild conflations between receiving the vaccine and any symptoms that happened after, that they might be double-counting because “Reports can be submitted by anyone and no effort is made to verify the details or prevent duplication” (lol), and they’d be cherry picking like all hell. But I did not even consider that were the worst of their anti-vaxxers claims true here, we’d still be looking at a successful intervention in terms of deaths and disease prevented.

That rolls off the tongue better and if you were feeling diabolical you could likely antagonize some folks with that. “Kirk was tragically struck down by an assassin’s buwullet” with more or less emphasis on the pronunciation depending on how much plausible deniability you wish to pretend.