They really think “this person is/was a principled anarchist” is an own somehow
Of course they do, anarchism is an evil, chaotic, and rabidly violent ideology that is centered around its one extremely harmful principle:
NO RULES
Right?
/s
I feel like there’s a great “how many Washington Post reporters does it take to screw in a light bulb” joke in here but this really isn’t the time
Seriously though, very hard not to fedpost right now
Self medication is the only way to maintain even a fragile grasp on the last fragment of my sanity
Self medication is the only way to maintain even a fragile grasp on the last fragment of my sanity
I dont have money for drugs what do i do
I exercise at home and listen to music. I used to go on runs, but I’ve almost been driven over 5 times by now, there are no sidewalks to run on and South African drivers are terrible. I’m sure Americans that live in car dominant land can relate to that last part.
Holy fucking shit.
You’re telling me that a person who opposes genocide… Has a political perspective that opposes genocide?
It took three cowards to dare squeak up and voice their worthless thoughts about a hero
Hollow ass ghouls
Getting that Rachel Corrie treatment liberal edition.
The “journalist” class must be liquidated at the first opportunity
Pretty sure AI will do alot of that.
The AI will become the journalist class. Perform a forward assault on news servers???
stabbing the databases with my bayonet to try and stop the new york times from making articles about my bombshell wife
Gotta break your nephews and nieces into the industry somehow.
These make work programs are getting out of hand.
I am going to need to see dental records if I am really going to pass judgement on this fella.
The wokes aren’t talking about how his first recorded ancestor in America fought native Americans in 1506 and how his first recorded ancestor in Europe stabbed somebody in France in 472
Look these authors up on muckrack. You’ll see the different syndications along with the syndicate author.
I think they are setting it up to attack from the left as a mentally ill person and from the right as someone gone too woke. That’s my guess.
i hope all three of them one day grow to possess 1/10 of the conviction and class this man had, or barring that i just hope their necks grow longer.
His social media post about ‘what would you do if x’ kept me up last night. it was a lonng, long night of reassessing my own convictions and finding myself lacking
finding myself lacking
Just remember that there were only like two cases of successful adventurism for the hundreds of attempts over the last ~150 years. (Gavrilo Princip and
)I think we’re rapidly approaching a tipping point where a lot of individual adventurism is about to come back into fashion. One ecoterrorist or anti-genocide bomber will spark off an absolute shit tonne of copycats.
That sounds like a tipping point that could become an actual movement, though, if you can intercept all of the prospective bombers before they do something and get them in contact with one another in an actual community. A single bomber is adventurism, a thousand bombers is a guerilla warfare unit. But that means we should all focus on organizing rather than being the bombers.
I mean sure. But the question is how do you identify and reach and organise the would-be adventurist bombers beforehand?
Find the answer to that question and I guarantee you you’re in the process of creating the most revolutionary group the US has seen since the panthers.
Arguably the Panthers successfully intercepted would-be adventurists who would have died shooting cops. Some of them still did, but they did organising in the most revolutionary party the US has seen first.
You find the people that are going to die fighting the state and manage to connect with them before they do it in a disorganised way and you’re heading in the direction of a revolutionary force.
I’m not entirely sure how you would do it, obviously this is something entire orgs are probably discussing in person this very moment, but it would at least be poetic to have one of the most revolutionary groups in the US form for Palestinian liberation
Oh I’m not sure it’ll happen that quickly lol. When I was saying “tipping point” I mean more like over the next 5 years.
This kind of thing is like the start of it. Probably a slow trickle at first, stuff spaced out very far apart before becoming denser as the conditions get worse.
I thought the long timeline was implied sorry
the problem with that is the various government entities that infiltrate any group that attempts to organize, and tears them apart from the inside or arrests/kills them. But the government aren’t in our heads (yet)
Sometimes the best organization is no organization: just individual sparks that eventually coalesce into a wildfire.
feels like adventurism
Nooooo… Never…
There were more. A lot of european noblemen had a bad time in the 1870s-80s
It’s not about whether or not the specific dude got got, it’s about the fallout from it. Generally, Propaganda of the Deed resulted in a backlash by the public against the socialist movements rather than support, whereas
achieved all of his goals, and Princip achieved independence for his people from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.I know it turned public opinion against anarchism and was deadly to their movement.
But in the long run it weakened the perception of the royals as untouchable, and created space for Leninism to grow and succeed.
Which sucks because our anarchist comrades deserved a better go at things. But it’s hard to see a 1917 without the death of Alexander II
I appreciate the sentiment behind your message brother. Thanks
All US military branches require strict background checks and a detailed written response for anything “questionable”. If they’re alluding someone dropped the ball, why not on his superiors?
Is suicide a crime?
Why did you flag your account as a bot? Might want to disable that in settings, some people block all bot accounts.
I’m a bot, block away please
All US military branches require strict background checks
Only if you have a clearance. Rank and file will just get a quick check for state or fed warrants and criminal records.
These days, basically everyone gets a Secret clearance unless they don’t qualify.
Secret adds an interview with questions pertaining to different things that could be used for extortion and a credit check. It boils down to a few things: are you a perverted removed; are you in the kind of debt where someone says they’ve got a job for you; and are you involved with any far right or left anti US government groups.
TS SCI adds a more extensive interview, fingerprint registry with the FBI, and multiple character interviews with people who’ve known you for a long time. Depending on the SCI compartment and or the resources available, you will eventually get a polygraph as well. The people who get interviewed also have their records run, and it’s used to sus out if the affor mentioned interview concerns. They also check watch lists for your name and the names of your character witnesses.
All that is to say, none of this work checks your mental health, any of the nuance of your political beliefs, and doesn’t touch on your personal convictions. The security clearance system just isn’t meant to to consider this.
The higher Australian security clearances go into these details and more (e.g. hobbies, mental health, sexual interests and previous relationships etc.)
The questions themselves are pretty dumb though, e.g. “have you ever heard voices telling you to set fire to a building”
Yeah, it’s pretty funny. They do all this Freudian questioning that’s not at all based on evidence based research. And the person asking and interpreting, if they hold a degree at all, has no background or training related to it.
you will eventually get a polygraph as well
Might as well do a crystal ball or tarot reading, it’s about as useful and at least the aesthetics are nicer
Nonsense, the science is completely settled, they even show it in action movies and it’s in Tom Clancy novels. You think Law & Order would lie about such a thing?!!
He had secret clearance he was working backend IT
“Strict” is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here. Nobody cares/knows if you read “The Conquest of Bread” once or a book of MLK’s writings.
His superiors aren’t the ones doing background checks, that happens during enlistment. Once you’re in a unit, unless your superiors actively think you’re up to something (or want a reason to chapter you out of the military) nobody is pre-emptively investigating you.
Personal and direct anecdotes, perhaps we were just flagged by chance
Was it during the enlistment process or did you make it through the initial paperwork, get through the MEPS station (or whatever your country’s version of it is), get through basic training, get through advanced individual training (actually learning your specific military specialty), get assigned to your first unit, and THEN get kicked out?
Enlistment process required explaining all questionable affiliations, any religious connections that are not mainstream, and all tattoos
I mean, if you walk in with a swastika tatoo on your forehead, sure. But you don’t have to tell anybody that you read Das Capital every night before bed.
I once met a guy with Mao pic on his wall but also he had a security clearance for his job*. I don’t think they really care that much unless you’ve actually done something.
*this guy was weird
Is suicide a crime?
Maybe they’ll file it under “damage of military assets”
I was actually told that if you attempt suicide and don’t succeed, you get charged and thrown into the brig for exactly that. However, the military is full of made up bullshit that just gets repeated over and over, nobody knows what’s true.
It’s actually illegal for civvys, too. It’s so that if there’s someone suspected of attempting suicide, the police can break into their house and
preventkill them before they do the deed.Kind of a convoluted way to allow for interventions, you’d think they’d just make it legal as part of their duties.
Also, I can’t get the image of that pig holding a gun on the airman self immolating.
Is suicide a crime?
Yes actually, in the US suicide is considered a crime and at least gets you put in grippy socks jail if you even show obvious signs of considering it.
i had red grippy socks, wish they gave us slippers :/
What a fun country
Its so fucking bizarre to see the bylines get longer and longer as the content gets more and more formulaic.
What is this? Author, Editor, and Commissar?
distant sound of liberals everywhere breying like literal jackasses and seal clapping
Biden is safe for another news cycle!
All publicity is good publicity. I would say an article like this is better than his action just immediately being memory holed.
But also yes fuck these journalists trying to smear him.
