May 27, 2025
George Floyd was a low life, criminal grub and he died because of the choices HE made!
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George Floyd was a low life, criminal grub and he died because of the choices HE made!
Civil Disobedience versus Suicidal Stupidity
Life-long protestor explains why and how he’s still alive after decades of getting on the wrong side of the police: By NOT attacking the police or resisting arrest.
And if you really thought that America is a fascist dictatorship and all of the police openly want you dead, you wouldn’t be playing a fool with them and trying to provoke them into doing something stupid.
You would be going to every protest armed with guns, and you would be shooting on sight.
Anyone telling you to go unarmed into high-stress confrontations with armed men, and to provoke those men without actually trying to kill them, is manipulating you.
Anyone telling you to act this way wants you to get yourself killed so that they can use you as a martyr.
But this man in the video wants you to SURVIVE.
Excerpts from Herbert Tobias entry on Wikipedia:
Tobias was a German photographer best known for his fashion photography during the 1950s. He also drew critical praise for his portrait studies, his photographs of Russia during World War II and his homoerotic pictures of men.
In 1942 Tobias was drafted into the German Nazi army and was sent to the Eastern Front. Shortly before the end of the war he deserted and was captured by the Americans on the Western Front. He was released at the end of 1945.
In 1948, while staying in Heidelberg he began a relationship with a civilian employee of the American Forces of Occupation. In 1950 both men were denounced under § 175 of the German Criminal Code. They moved to Paris.
In Paris Tobias worked as a retouched for German photographer Willy Maywald who introduced him to the fashion world. In 1953 Tobias' first published photos appeared in Vogue. In the same year, after resisting arrest during a police raid on a gay establishment, he was thrown out of France and returned to Heidelberg.
Soon his fashion photographs began to appear in West German magazines. And November 1953, out of over 18,000 entrants, he won first prize in a highly lucrative competition by Frankfurter Illustrierten Zeitung.
Through publication of his work in many high-class magazines Tobias had become, by 1956, an established figure in West German fashion scene.
During the 1960s, Tobias style fell out of favor in Fashion magazines. But in 1972 he found a new avenue for his photographs - various gay and pornographic magazines.
By 1981, with some high profile exhibitions of his work in Amsterdam and Berlin, Tobias working on a book with a collection of his nudes.
Tobias became seriously ill in February 1982 and died in August of the same year. He was one of the first high-profile victims of AIDS in Germany. He was buried in Altona Cemetery in Hamburg. In 2007 his grave site was declared an Ehrengrab ("grave of honour") by the Hamburg Senate.
NYC, baby girl, im on my way in 5 hours please get your shit together.
How we've trained our kids - to not protest peacefully
My son (18) asked me what I thought about the video of protestors barricading themselves in a building and then hitting a cop on the head with a large water jug.
I told him that was not a peaceful protest and that what I was taught when I first became an activist is to never resist arrest. Then I told him what my dad told me. Don't ever hang out with people who throw rocks at men with guns. Throwing rocks at men with guns isn't a smart thing to do.
My son stared at me.
Then he said - you know my entire life I've been taught to rush at men with guns and throw things at them and hit them and do whatever you need to do to get the gun away from them. And if you die doing this - at least you may save some of your classmates and friends in the process and die a hero.
WTF!!!!!
This is what he has been taught in every active shooter drill , which is twice a year for the entire time he's been in school. All because instead of keeping guns away from nut cases, we've taught kindergartners and up that if you can't hide from a man with a gun you should rush the gunman and hit them with whatever you have handy.
Cops - in case you were not aware - are men with guns. A man with a gun is a man with a gun, even if they are cops. If they are threatening you - this is what they have been taught to do. And it's the cops who taught them to do this!!!!
These protestors are doing EXACTLY what we've taught young people to do for decades now. If someone with a gun approaches, barricade the door and if they try to enter - hurl things at them - just - mob them as a group and get the gun away from them.
This is insane. This is what conservatives have turned our country into. Every single effing conservative who is complaining about the protests, if you didn't want young people to act this way - you should not have insisted we teach them this heroic fantasies about rushing gunmen like it's some sort of action movie. It would have been safer for everyone - if we just regulated guns!!!!!
For everyone else, be aware, our kids will respond instinctively to a man with a gun - even a cop - exactly as they've been trained to.
Arrest Me
So... I was just sitting there, minding my own business and playing Link’s Awakening, when this popped in my head...
