Notices by b9AcE 🐊 (b9ace@soc.ialis.me)

To clarify: Yes, the assault was in November, but the video and info was first publicly released today.

RT @th1an1@twitter.com:
#Greece: #Antifa march in Ano Petralona of #Athens in memory of Shehzad Luqman, a migrant worker from #Pakistan, who was stabbed to death by two #GoldenDawn (Greek neo-Nazi party) thugs on January 17, 2013.

The "Internationalist Commune of Rojava" has asked people to join the campaign against the Swedish companies SSAB (steel) and Scania (vehicles) supporting Erdoğan's illegal invasion of Rojava in alliance with al-Qaeda affliates.

RT @ldnantifascists@twitter.com [London Anti-fascists, minutes ago]:
Some photos from the demonstration today in solidarity with Russian Antifascists facing persecution from the Russian state. Remembering means fighting! #rupression

MT @MikeStuchbery_@twitter.com [merging two posts, 2h ago]:
'Yellow Vests' in Leeds are carrying the flag of the "British Movement', an explicitly fascist movement in operation since the 1960s.

RT @TA_Anarsist@twitter.com ["Tekoşîna Anarşîst" (Anarchist Struggle) in Rojava, 21h ago]:
A new group of combat medics have joined our collective! We are very excited about this new project. We are incredibly grateful to those who donated. Medical supplies are very much needed. If you're interested in donating supplies please email us to find out how!

"Around 117 migrants unaccounted for after dinghy sinks off Libyan coast"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-migrants-dinghy/around-117-migrants-unaccounted-for-after-dinghy-sinks-off-libyan-coast-idUSKCN1PD0EW?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29

@Finfell I take no credit. If I recall correctly it was me summarizing lectures at Chicago University and CARTA. Possibly some others too, so the credit is all theirs. ;-)

@Finfell Again, I did not make that specifically about USA nor did I make it as mockery or any other form of comedy.
If that is the only context you can see it in, that is up to you, but if you really must know, I was thinking about Erdoğan when I was inspired to create it, but decided as it reminded me of the situation in probably about 10 other places I know well enough to make the comparison and therefore I generalized it.

I don't know what you describe here, as it's very unspecific, but everything from drawing funny graffiti slogans on the walls against dictators in Egypt or Turkey to dressing as clowns and dancing around Nazis of the same Swedish group that just a few months earlier committed a bombing spree,
that is in my opinion bravery and not causing loss of "trust" in anything, but loss of prestige exchangeable for authority for those targeted.

@aral I thought "My desktop is free but my data … aww not" was better. ;-)
Like "Awww shit, my data ain't free? That is some bullshit!". :-D

@Finfell Well, as far as we know the concept of rulers probably evolved from people tasked by agricultural communities to prevent starvation at misgrowth by administering communal granaries, which they then developed into a position of violence- and/or deity-based personal power (proto-State and/or clergy) by using the communal resources as their personal property and thus it to hire soldier and those to impose taxation and when that led to poverty impose serfdom or pure slavery.
I don't believe we are aware of "meme"-campaigns or anything similar inspiring any of those steps.

Comedy as a tool against tyrants was a method since before the word tyrant existed I believe. One of course don't have to wait for them to become a tyrant, to use it.
It's especially used when the target dominates in the area of violence or those using it want violence resulting.

@Finfell If A causes B to exist, A can not require B for itself to start existing. "Mockery" of something that doesn't yet exist can not exist and can therefore not cause that which is mocked to start existing.
On the other hand, one of the most effective means of countering dictatorships and other authoritarians has been to publicly deny them the authority they claim and apart from violent confrontation or methods they will ban and therefore lead to violent repression, all that remains is humor as a method to show they are not to be feared and deny them their illegitimate authority.

However, that was not mockery nor any other form of comedy.
That is my experience of the opinions of the masses opposing dictators and their propagandists in several countries, just simplified and generalized.

You know who they are...

My first console...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ra1yju-0yA
The Nintendo "Game & Watch" game "Green House" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_%26_Watch_games#Green_House).
It was super-fun, because it was before fun was generally available.

@lilletale Carl is good at dropping cutesy comments and replies like that.
The only reply that I got to mentioning that Carl is just a suspected war criminal now, twice, in 2014, was noticing in 2016 that I had been blocked from Carl's other, Swedish language account.

I'm OK with that. ;-D

@publius The alternatives do not have to be power-structures, but can be alternatives explicitly fighting any tendencies at centralizing power to any individual or outside group within themselves.
It is very important to create alternatives before the current system is removed, but they must then strive to be as close to the ultimate goal as possible before the current system is removed, to not just re-create that system's flaws within itself and thus become the shelter where a new structure power being centralized without consent is centralized.
The formation of such alternatives for everyone's participation is in itself a part of the revolution against authoritarianism, as it shows that a better society is possible not just in theory but in practice... is my experience anyway.

Any elite-revolutionary grabbing of power will always result in an elitist society, either immediately or by their heirs.
I don't know of any case where this has not ended up being the result, no matter how well intended the avantgarde may have been.

The only way to avoid this must be to immediately abolish the entire system of power and its old structures, so the hydra has nothing to grow itself back from.

As always, fight the power, don't fight for power.

Trump's next Presidential Campaign video, leaked by @UCNYrK4tc5i1-eL8TXesH2pg@youtube.com.

(not actually)