I love it when reactionaries assume that people were radicalized by “leftist college professors”. Bitch, I was radicalized by reading about different perspectives on my own time.
Also by the circumstances we’re living in, the degredation, violence and constant state attacks. When you look at your estate, then the rich suburbs, you know something’s up.
People be thinking they’re anonymous protesters but they be having their location shared to open source data.
None of you are slick.
Any recommendations for fixing that other than leaving your phone at home?
I mean, not installing apps that share this data, but with the current state of government surveillance, if you’re going to be doing goon shit, leave the tech at home.
Leave phones at home. Take radios, don’t use real names on comms, speak in code. Be smart
Use old phones
If the phone was made in the last decade in a half odds are it has some form of data sharing app on it. Anything older the towers don’t support the older signals. Radio waves will always be around.
Considering Omar Jimenez was arrested when literally politely asking cops what he should do, the idea that peaceful protesting would fix anything is ridiculous. The cops blatantly lied about his reason for arrest too. The whole fucking thing was caught on camera and they still claimed he had to be arrested because he “wouldn’t move”, which makes no sense in the first place but is even worse considering he was asking where he should move and didn’t get an answer.
Sy Snootles, a long-limbed Pa'lowick, was a popular singer and dancer whose patrons included Jabba the Hutt. Very few realized that she also worked as a spy for the Hutt criminal cartels and that she betrayed her love, Ziro the Hutt, in exchange for a big payday.
One of the perennial criticisms of zero-to-hero tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons is that they stifle creativity by sharply limiting your initial character building options and reserving all the really outlandish stuff for high-level play. Like, what if I don’t want to be an elf wizard? What if I want to be a vampire werewolf angel from outer space? What about that?
Certainly, there’s something to be said for games that let you go as weird as you want right from the start, and there are any number of games that will absolutely do that for you. Heck, most tabletop games will do that for you; the popularity of D&D and its various imitators notwithstanding, zero-to-hero RPGs are the exception rather than the rule! (If only because getting character advancement mechanics right is a stone bastard even for every experienced designers – but I digress.)
There’s a trick, though: reserving the weird stuff for high levels obliges you to work your way up to it, and while this can sometimes feel like the rules are saying you have to “earn” the right to play the character you want, introducing that weirdness over a span of time – and here I mean real time, not just narrative time – in response to the events of a story with multiple storytellers will send it in directions that never would have occurred to you on your own.
The result isn’t no weirdness: it’s organically grown weirdness. You start out with something basic like “elf wizard”, and by gradual degrees, over the course of many sessions, that character develops into something that takes several paragraphs to explain.
Now, I’m not saying one approach is better than the other – going full gonzo right from square one can be fun, too. I am saying that it’s not a simple matter of weird now versus weird later; when you build up to it gradually, in response – and as a response — to a collaborative story, you don’t just get deferred weird. You get different weird, in a way that simply could not have been accomplished by leaping straight to the end result.
(This is why high-level characters contrived for the sake of examples and illustrations never ring quite true, incidentally; when somebody’s trying to fake organically grown weirdness, you can tell!)
The types of Right-wing people who support the rioting in Minnesota and the broader idea of “acceleration” or collapse are socially disaffected NEETS. They harbour the delusional belief that in a collapse/post-collapse scenario, not only would they survive it (unlikely) but they would end up in an overall better position (even more unlikely).
The idea that a poorly nourished social shut-in has any upward mobility in a collapse scenario is laughable at best. In reality, they would either be dead, a serf, or Tyrone’s prison bitch.
These people live in a world of self-imposed psychosis where they actually believe that they’re just temporarily embarrassed aristocrats or warlords waiting for the collapse so they can ascend to their rightful place in society.
Sounds like a cope OP.
Listening to y'all, nothing would be ever done. Don’t leave the rebellion to the leftist do your own.
“Rebellion.” Bro there’s not gonna be a rebellion when people don’t even have an objective or a goal they want to accomplish with all of this. No one goes to war just cause. There’s something that needs to be accomplished.
The right and the left are both equally guilty of the same thing, don’t act like y’all would fire the first shots in anything, or do I have to remind you how the boog is just a meme at this point like the fabled communist revolution.
Yeah I know that the boog is a meme, that’s the point, a lot of right leaning guys are all talk and no fight. Even worse than antifas, we don’t have a common goal other than opposing leftists.
I mean I think that has more to do with the idea that everyone who leans in a political direction all share the same goals. I don’t think a constitutionalist and a fascist would really be all that alike, just like how you can’t expect a Maoist to agree with an anarchist. It’s why you got several competing revolutionary armies in the Russian Revolution vying for supremacy despite having the common goal of overthrowing the Tsar.
