the People's Rogue State

a concept

[anarchistmemedistro]

Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

[kropotkindersurprise]

1991 - Fidel Castro speaks about the failures of Capitalism.

[kropotkindersurprise]

1991 - Fidel Castro speaks about the failures of Capitalism.

[archivedeathdrive]

Richard Avedon, Bernardine Dohrn, Weatherman, New York, November 10, 1969

[manishtama]

[pavlovadiplomacy]

[plaguedctr]

some meanings cuz i saw someone ask for them algiz rune - this was used in postwar germany as a symbol of the neo-nazi movement in place of the actual nazi symbols that were banned 88/HH - code for Heil Hitler a phrase used in the nazi salute. also used as a reference to the 88 precept, a manifesto written by white supremacist david lane the black sun - this symbol originates in nazi germany and later utilized by neo-nazis and other far right movements. celtic cross - it was used by nazis in norway in the 30s and 40s, and more recently it has been used by neo-nazis, klansmen, and other white supremacist groups. white nationalists use a version of the symbol with a square cross as opposed to the elongated cross Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging - an afrikaner nationalist, neo-nazi, and white supremacist political party in south africa i believe this one stands for völkisch equality (if im wrong correct me) - a concept within nazism which ascribed racial equality and full legal rights to people of german or related blood but deliberately excluded people outside this definition odal rune - was the badge of the SS race and settlement main office, which was responsible for maintaining the racial purity. it was also the emblem of ethnic Germans and neo-nazis in nazi germany occupied territories and other neo-fascist groups 14 - from the fourteen words coined by david lane: "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" Wolfsangel - a heraldic charge from germany and eastern france, which was inspired by medieval european wolf traps. widely adopted in nazi symbolism Atomwaffen - Atomwaffen Division is a neo-Nazi group that emerged in 2016 92 - not too sure about this but it could refer to the 92nd Infantry Division, correct me if im wrong Totenkopf/SS death head - julius schreck, the leader of the stabswache (hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the totenkopf as the unit's insignia. this unit grew into the schutzstaffel (SS) which continued to use the totenkopf as insignia throughout its history iron cross - a military decoration in the kingdom of prussia, and later in the german empire and nazi germany Identity Evropa - an american neo-nazi and white supremacist organization established in March 2016. It was rebranded as the American Identity Movement in March 2019. In November 2020, the group disbanded. 18 - code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1 H = 8 iron guard - a romanian militant revolutionary fascist movement and political party founded in 1927 arrow cross - the symbol of a far-right hungarist fascist political party the arrow cross party, led by ferenc szálasi,

unable to find any information regarding the rest of symbols, if anyone knows them please feel free to add

[queeranarchism]

small addition: the Algiz rune was not a post war alternative to nazi symbols, it was very much a popular nazi symbol during the war also, associated with health and life. See, for example, the nazi Health ministry’s logo:

the sanitation services of the Hitler Youth:

the badge of the nazi association ‘German Women’s Work’:

As with all these symbols: this symbol also has non-nazi uses and context is key. If you see this thing on a random person, maybe do a double take and look for other signs that they’re a nazi. If you see this thing on a person at a white lives matter demo? you don’t need to wonder what it means.

[peoplesroguestate]

How a Notorious Georgia Army School Became America's Training Ground for Global Torture:

How a Notorious Georgia Army School Became America's Training Ground for Global Torture

In spite of undergoing several name changes and employing shrewd repackaging strategies under the pretext of human rights advocacy, the noto

[berniesrevolution]

[thisrobotbeatcaptcha]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline

[the-inevitable-minor-fires]

Did you know you were going to shoot

off the top of a four year old girl's head

And look across her car-seat down into her skull

And see into her throat and did you know

that her dad would say to you,

"Please sir, can I take her body home?"

Oh wait, you totally did know... that that would happen

Cuz you're a jock who was too stupid and too greedy

And too unmotivated to do anything else but still be

The biggest and still do what other people tell you to do

You did it to still be a winner

You shot your grenade launcher into peoples windows and

Into the doors of peoples houses

But you want to shoot it into someone, just to watch them blow up

Why should I care if you get killed?

[sayedhusaini]

[sayedhusaini]

[sayedhusaini]

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Hot take but the nonsensical portrayal of the third world being entirely made of absolute destitution is an important propaganda element that keeps workers in the first world (Particularly the USA) complacent with a lifestyle that will literally kill them. 

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

This rice farmer survives on $2 a year! Think about how much they must be suffering! Now get back to your third job stocking shelves so you can pay the $1,500 rent for your studio apartment and eat your 25¢ ramen packet like a good little wage-slave. 

[hug-your-face]

The question that we should be working to inject into such conversations is not “my god how can those people survive on so little” but rather “why does our own survival require so MUCH?”

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

This is an excellent framing - and there is an answer. 

When average people have their needs met - they are no longer desperate for basic survival. Comfortable workers have the most energy to challenge the hegemony and organize their community, thus material security and comfort is a direct antagonist to capitalism. 

In a society that has an abundance of resources, desperation must be artificially created through material barriers (needing a smartphone for work, etc) and increasing sources of debt obligation. (Rent, student loans, etc.) 

In other words - we do not require so much, rather new requirements are perpetually created to keep the proverbial carrot just out of reach and the stick chasing our tail. 

This is also why public activities are discouraged in favour of individual distraction. The loss of parks where people may meet without payment. The lack of folk schools which might foster skills in the community. The lack of workshops where people might engage in non-industrial manufacturing. 

And for clarity I do not condemn entertainment as frivolous when I say distraction. That we do not have public (as in “a free community space”) theatres and arcades, is another way to deprive a community of social bonding opportunities. 

[nevver]

Christopher Sperandio

[ubernegro]

I hate you all. Because he campaigned on doing this.

He fucking campaigned on this and you pieces of shit didn’t hold him accountable because you lowered the bar so fucking low. Well thanks. Fuck you.

[ubernegro]

“But it was worse under Trump.”

Look at that chart. It literally fucking isn’t. I had friends lose eyes and get severely injured because of this shit and you literally choose the guy that wants to give them more money. For fuck’s sake!

[tsskyx]

The article has been updated since and puts things into a slightly different perspective. Now, we can speculate whether Biden will ramp things up or keep them more or less the same as Trump, but the 2021-Q1 spike is still there and HOLY FUCK look at the Obama period.

[queeranarchism]

Let me clarify that a bit for people who struggle seeing the Q’s:

maybe that’ll give you an idea of why many people don’t think things will get better under Biden

[queeranarchism]

So if Democrats are just as eager to give the cops fancy murder tools, what are they better at?

Maybe they deport less refugees? They gotta be nicer to refugees, right? Well, no.

Here’s an overview:

The 2020 figures are an estimate and strongly impacted by Covid, but even if we ignore those, you can see that Obama deported far more people than Trump, and while the Bush era saw a sharp rise in deportations, that rise started under Clinton.

(This is often overlooked. We pretend the war of refugees started with the ‘war on terror’, but the truth is terrorism was only used to justify a war on refugees that had already started in the mid-90s. It was never about safety.)

From 1990–2018, Democratic president deported an average of 246,006 people per year in power and Republican presidents deported 205,453 people per year in power. Obama tops the chart with 383,307 deportations per year of his presidency. So this is why many of us are not hopeful about Biden at all.

(source graph)(expanded with this data)(average per president)

[howieabel]

“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?” ― Angela Y. Davis

[allcops]

Hey, does anyone remember that time that the police arrested people for feeding homeless people? No, not that time. No! Not that time, either! This time!