Maybe next time, “The Sniper” will want to just stick to hanging out in the warehouse, looking for “slacking” workers to fire, like he did in days of yore. Maybe he should also do it for the same wages and benefits as the real workers, so he can get an idea of why they’re on strike.
And he can even bring his own damn pee bottle, just to blend in. Maybe he can even hang out in their vans when they have to poop in the bushes.
Or he could just STFU on Twitter about things he clearly doesn’t understand. That’d work!
And these clowns call themselves CHRISTIANS. Guess they forgot the biblical parable of the golden calf, eh? (They also failed to remember the flag code, which is also cringey as hell. And just think, they also call themselves patriots!)
…and the good folks of the Majority Report have a few words to say about that, before the major media trot out their sickening tributes to what an “icon” he was:
Only one thing’s a pity about all this, and that’s that Sam Seder is, as they say, not there to speak on it.
I’m so glad that at least two people are not suddenly pretending that the Fucking Pigman deserves an honorable memorial.
Ding, dong.
PS: Sam has chimed in!
Pour one out, Sam. And don’t drink it, whatever you do!
I’ve known from the start that the so-called Proud Boys were fascists; it was clear from their self-description. And terrorists; it was clear from their actions. But now it’s official at the governmental level here in Canada, too.
And that’s why it counts. Because white supremacists have been terrorizing this land for as long as they’ve existed here. And more worrisomely, they’ve been infiltrating law enforcement and the military. There’s been a lot of cross-pollination between neo-fascist and white-supremacist groups, and the cop shop, the army, the air force, and the navy. It has to stop somewhere. By designating them a terrorist organization, our government has served notice that they will be treated as the volatile troublemakers they are. And our government, fortunately, did NOT have to redefine “terrorist” to include them. It determined that they met the existing definition already.
But Harsha Walia’s points about this issue are also well taken. Who, or what, is a terrorist? And how does that term actually serve to perpetuate white supremacy, rather than serving to dismantle it? Why are white supremacy and fascism themselves not illegal? It’s not as if they haven’t led directly to an abundance of terrorist acts throughout our history. Or a plethora of groups, right here in Canada, which have a strong potential to turn terrorist, even if they’re flying below the official radar right now.
Non-white and/or leftist groups have been tarred with the “terrorist” brush, often wrongly, for decades now. And even as a handful of white supremacist groups (including a particularly ominous Russian one) have finally made Canada’s terror watch-list, the majority of today’s newly added terror groups are still non-white and non-Christian. And our government has only officially recognized a handful of them since 2019! That means that even in a country where the majority of people (and terrorists, and the law-enforcers that the terrorists have co-opted) are white as Wonder Bread, racial justice is still far, far away.
She doesn’t mince words. And no wonder: The terrorists were out for blood, and especially, HERS. She’s one of the youngest, non-whitest, most progressive members of the House. She’s a rising star, and everybody who has heard even a little bit about her knows how effective she is. She has already made a considerable impact during her first term of office, and she’s on her way to doing much, much more. She is an outspoken and highly articulate critic of everything that’s wrong in the US of Amnesia, and she’s determined to do whatever is in her power to fix that. Undoubtedly, that rankles the racists, who can’t bear to see anyone who’s not one of theirs succeeding, and doing it fairly and squarely in elected office, where the people put her because THEY WANT THAT CHANGE.
But racists don’t want things to change — at least, not for the better. They don’t want things fixed; they’d rather keep them broken, or even break some more things in order to rig the system to benefit them, just as she says. That’s why, just before the putsch went down, they (and we don’t yet know exactly who “they” were, but we will soon enough) tore the panic buttons out of offices used by members of “the Squad”, the most progressive faction of the Democratic caucus (and one that happens to include AOC):
And, what’s worse, some of “them” were AOC’s Republican congressional colleagues. Yeah, that’s right, the people she was supposed to be working with to introduce and pass legislation at the federal level. Including this absolute fucking lunatic right here, who somehow thinks she gets to impeach a duly elected president before he even completes his first day in office:
Something tells me that she won’t last long in office. But AOC will.
Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next.
--Arthur Miller, "Why I Wrote 'The Crucible'", The New Yorker, October 21, 1996
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