#Violence

Infinitely more interested in collective organising and collective politics than any discussions around collective language. BAME, BIPOC, POC, whatever... But, if we really want collective language it should start from
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Today was something we've been dreading for a while.The Proud Boys bragged that tens of thousands of people were coming to Portland from across the country for the purpose of
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definitely pay attention to the language being used to describe what’s happening in Minneapolis vs. other similar events involving white people notice how when white people are involved the media
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checking in with the chuds. this appears to be their new "concrete milkshakes" etc. sounds like an awful lot of work doesn't it some of them seem to believe that
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During almost the entirety of Wheeler's role as mayor of PDX, I worked in crisis and support services for people experiencing domestic, sexual, and trafficking violence. It was during this
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I condemn the excessive use of force used by the Government of #Belarus against peaceful protesters and journalists since the Presidential elections last weekend. The violence being used against the
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Do you notice how the US description of mass murders in Afghanistan is in the passive voice, avoids blaming the terrorists who commit those murders, and then shifts rapidly to
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There’s no higher aesthetic/intellectual achievement than calling your shots. Only a rare few have been able to do it.- Jonah Peretti- Li Lu - Thiel- Soros- KeynesAre a few who
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TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai, 1997) remains the most exhilarating deconstruction of the gangster genre ever made: exit the romantic kinetics of Heroic Bloodshed, the looming
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A few days ago, @arrington called it that there was a big hit piece in the works based on the Coinbase memo. The piece is now live, & it's remarkable
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I want to talk about reclaiming your traditional language, not the how, but rather the things that come up during the journey.It starts with the hard question, "Why don't you
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Truly fuck the militaryhttps://twitter.com/a___lorna/status/1310630790540275715 Y’all do realize I was talking about the military like you know ACTUAL MILITARY. lmfao y’all are proving to me y’all have no morals Since y’all
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This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have never seen the Karate Kid. So, on that note, I bring back the return of Drunk Classics
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Why do police escalate against protesters, often leading to arrests without charge, charges that won’t stick, lawsuits that cost cities money? Wouldn’t it make more sense to let people march
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Reading through debates on whether incel violence connects to an ideology or not (and therefor should or shouldn’t be classified as terrorism) has been informative. I looked through Elliot Rodger’s
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on this day (may 22) in 1958, sinhala mobs attacked, raped and murdered tamil civilians in sri lanka. it was the first large scale genocidal massacre of tamils to take
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