In S1E1 of The New Batman Adventures (the series that continues The Batman Animated Series) Poison Ivy declares Christmas to be a annual "Botanical Genocide". It is like Lenin says:

"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it."

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I'm not in on the deep lore here. Hexbear Archivists, what do the tomes say?

What up mega thread?

It's AI

Grandpa, what did you do to fight the second wave of fascism?

I was deep in the trenches of Reddit in '24, then reassign to the federated trenches of Lemmy in '26. Your typical poster would hit a thread and see a wash of usernames. Me? I didn't even see usernames. I'd go thread to thread day and night and all I'd see were Putin's orcs and Xi's brainwashed zombies. I got real good at spottin'm too. Your pops was a real sharp shooter. The amount of Z heads I sent packing back to the beet canning factory could have filled a stadium.

Chat is this real?

Maybe it's too early in the AM for me here, but who are they in this statement? The bourgeoisie of the USA?

I should really bust out the N64 and play some games on the TV. I have a nice signal converter box and Nintendo to SCART connector that should make the N64 look very crips on our modern TV.

Oh yeah these are good.

Yeah I think that's fair.

This book is so good please go download it. It's free! I'll update with a link when I can. E: LINK. In reading book two on Historical Materialism and it's just as good.

I think what they are trying to say here is that historical fascist governments or military dictatorship's would have simply massacred those standing in their way. This pushback in Minneapolis shows that they do not have the level of political capital to simply deal with the unrest.

Like, is this a Fascist Italy / Nazi German move here:

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For all the shock and aw this fascist government has, it isn't capable of overcoming these events. They do not have the level of control over the media or newspapers that historical fascist governments had. They don't have the same level of control over labor they had. Nazi Germany would have literally reassigned your ass to another job in another industry across the country for getting in their way, or they would just kill you like they did the Communists.

Now this fascist government is doing the bare minimum PR deployment of cameras to their SS in an attempt to perform damage control.

I'm actually going to quote your comment and leave it from my account on news.abolish.capital so people see it when they see the story.

Yeah, I should have added my own commentary here, but you are 1000% correct. Marxist.com is, unfortunately, a Trotskyist international organization, so when I read these points, they were not shocking to me. I appreciate all the work the PSL does, and has been doing in organizing around MN, it's been great to see. Not a lot of movement here in my state, but if anything, that makes me more interested to join the state's party, since for all I know they need more people.

Is this the same platform that wasn't open source, and also only on the iOS app store?

E: Actually, it looks like this might be different. Still very careless to have exposed peoples names, phone numbers and GPS locations, why was that information even required?

E2: Thinking about this, what are the requirements really? A group chat already provides a host of useful functions (as illustrated by MN organizers). The one thing you would want that a chat app can't provide is plate tracking. One could imagine a federated plate tracking database being built with activity pub being useful but probably technical overkill.

Where are these "riots"?

But also, this is a retreat, do not see it any other way. Someone made it clear to Trump that if pressure continued at pace in MN these strikes could expand wider, or become multiday long. This to me is a clear signal that what the people of MN are doing is working, and they should keep doing it. That isn't to say that I think the raids are going to stop, but I wouldn't doubt they shift to odd hours, and attempt to avoid people as much as possible when doing so.

Thanks Socko!

2yo is dropping the pacifier

We're pretty lucky with our two kids. The oldest we simply tossed it one night, and she never really asked for it after that. The youngest just went through this, and I would say he would ask for it for about two weeks straight, and then it started to taper off. The hardest part, I feel like is convincing yourself it's time to give it up.

I remember when my grandfather died we had an open casket and I overheard some of my relatives say that it didn't even look like him. One made a crude joke that maybe it really wasn't him. That's the thing about dead bodies, they change enough that they start diverging from what the person looked like pretty quickly.