@cdarwin@c.imRE Mike Lee’s execrable proposal for "Pirates of the Caribbean "
a few days ago
—it’s bad, but
sadly in line with the right-wing movement to expand private actors’ privilege to use violence.
Darrell Miller wrote about this in what we called
“the new outlawry”
https://www.
@johl@mastodon.xyz„As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence of sustained outrage in spaces that otherwise position themselves as opponents of state violence. Among Western progressives, the response has largely been silence.“
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineNo violence but state violence.
ice agent drives drunk with his own kids in the car, refuses sobriety test and claims to suddenly care if children are left alone (after him and his agency have abandoned, tortured and separated what’s gotta be thousands of kids at this point).
https://youtu.be/ilFPeIZohFg
@cdarwin@c.imFrom subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of
self-defense doctrine
to substantive expansions of justified lethal force,
legislatures are delegating larger amounts of
“violence work”
to the private sphere.
These regulatory innovations layer on top of existing rules that broadly authorize private violence
—both defensive and offensive
—for self-protection and the ostensible maintenance of law and order.
Yet such significant authority…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialDHS agents tackled Pretti, held him down, then shot him to death. As in the killing of Renee Good earlier this month, video makes clear this was an extrajudicial killing — violence committed by vengeful agents of the state against a bystander perceived as an enemy.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/alex-pretti-
@hex@kolektiva.socialSlight tanget but...
There is exactly one way to prevent authoritarianism. That is to make these systems optional. It must be possible to leave a system if it becomes oppressive, and by doing so deprive the system of it's power.
This is what anarchists assert.
Now, have you thought to wonder why the state claiming that someone is an anarchist is generally considered sufficient to excuse any violence against that individual? If someone wants to lock you into the system, they are going to target people who assert that systems should be possible to leave.
Remember that when the only evidience against someone is "they had anarchist literature."
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSay what you will about state violence, but •orderly• state violence — an officer with a face and a badge, Miranda rights, an orderly booking, the constitutional phone call, the jail roster, the habeas corpus petition, a trial, a system, a process, maybe once in a blue moon consequences for officers’ most egregious abuses — is infinitely preferable to what ICE is now: a secret police with blanket immunity.
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialThe most ridiculous thing re the US 2nd Amendment zealots casting gun ownership as protection from a tyrannical government is that being armed & in conflict w/ the state (with not just a monopoly on violence but huge advantage) gives then carte blanche to kill you.
Peaceful protest or civil war.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI just wrote this.
"In 2013…CBP…knew that their agents would sometimes '…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force.'"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/preme…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI must have missed this - Netflix is possibly going to buy Warner Brothers.
My grandparents lived close to the old Republic Studios, and not far from Universal, Disney, Warner (and the secret Lookout Mountain studio.) The area wasn't called "Studio City" for nothing.
I remember one trip to Warner right after Kent State. Our class went to one of those cool viewing studios (the kind one sees in movies) at Warner to see the rough edit (with extra violence!) of The Wil…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump could be close to unleashing the state violence he's always wanted (Philip Bump/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/minneapolis-trump-insurrection-act-truth-social-post-threat
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p33#a260116p33
@Dragofix@veganism.socialBrazilian Amazon’s most violent city tied to illegal gold mining on Indigenous land https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/brazilian-amazons-most-violent-city-tied-to-illegal-gold-mining-on-indigenous-land…
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgWhen you ask someone to respect your GPL free/open source license, sometimes they act offended and say you are threatening them with state violence. The thinking seems to be that copyright law comes down to threats to put people in prison. I've only seen this from privileged white men in tech. Where does this come from? It's it a right wing libertarian ideology? (genuine question, I'd like to know!)
Really, the GPL (and AGPL) is all about undermining copyright law, by creat…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s assault on the city of Chicago began in September, and it claimed its first casualty quickly.
As Reuters would later report, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez dropped his kids off at their school in the suburb of Franklin Park on his way to his job at a diner on the northwest side.
Villegas-Gonzalez had come to the United States in 2007 to flee the violence in his home state of Michoacšn, Mexico
—violence wrought by the Mexican government’s militarization o…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Libertad" by Bessie Flores Zaldívar. An #OwnVoices novel about being queer in Honduras, both personally and politically, that grapples aptly with complicated questions of politics and belonging at a personal scale.
CW for domestic violence and lethal state repression.
It wasn't everything I'd hoped for from the cover, but my hopes weren't exactly reasonable and it *is* very good.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@cdarwin@c.imA Maryland lawmaker proposed ✅ banning agents recruited and hired to carry out Trump's mass deportations
from ever working in state public safety jobs.
“It says something about the morals of the person
— the character of the person
— if they see what’s happening on TV,
they see what happening in the streets
and say, ‘You know what? I want to join that,’ ”
said Del. Adrian Boafo
(D-Prince George’s),
the bill’s sponsor.
“Something…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cabefore this orange nightmare started in 2016 the bar for a President resigning was political operatives rifling through documents they shouldnt be...
That President resigned.
This one is making obviously false statements and cheerleading state-sanctioned violence against American citizens.
Impeachment? Midterms?? geezus people, wake up. throw this guy out NOW!!
#theAmericanFascist #usa #protest #massprotest #impeachment
