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Everything posted by bolverk
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Nah, that was 1986. Clifford Antone was being held in the minimum security federal prison here at the time and helped organize a benefit concert with Willie as the headliner to help raise funds for the community. True story. Good guy.
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You should've seen what it looked like after Led Zep came to town.
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I'd been out of town for a week or so and got back Saturday but was too lazy to restock the fridge, so this morning I drove across town to Starbucks and the hail/wind damage around town is pretty significant: windows out in several places, signs fallen over, pieces of metal roofs, power lines down, couple of uprooted trees, broken branches, etc. Fortunately, the hail only reached about a quarter-size diameter in my part of town. Still, it was blowing sideways and crashing against my windows. I hate it when that happens. A few more photos of damage stolen from local FB accounts:
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Big Spring
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Had a helluva storm blow through yesterday evening. Torrential winds, hail, and rain that lasted all of 10-15 minutes. Quite a bit of damage in the downtown area. Fortunately, my neighborhood was spared the worst of it.
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@BurntOrange&White One big part of the issue is the disparity between the behavior of cops when progressives or poor people protest, compared to when right-wingers do. They don't pull this kind of shit on white goppers.
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So, last night, I stayed up watching the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, covering the protests. According the anchors, the thousands of legit protesters had gone home, but a 100 or so shitheads decided to stick around and cause trouble. How the fuck are "the Democrats" responsible for or behold to thuggish dickheads? "The Democrats" aren't leading or organizing these spontaneous protests. "The Democrats" obciousky disagree with the regime's gestapo tactics, but they aren't doing shit. Why aren't you laying blame at the Trump regime for provoking all this?
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Wall Street Fucking Journal Bill Fucking Krystol
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The cop took direct aim at this Australian news crew.
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The 1990s was at the request of the CA governor at the time. The last time it happened without the consent of a governor was the 1960s.
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The last time the National Guard was federalized and deployed without the consent of a state’s governor was before you or I were born. So, yeah, this time it’s different.
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And also recall that 1-2 months ago, in an interview, when asked directly if he was obligated to uphold the Constitution, he said: "I don't know." Never mind that oath of office stuff.
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Close your eyes, can't happen here Big Bro' on white horse is near The hippies won't come back, you say Mellow out or you will pay Mellow out or you will pay California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California Über Alles California Now it is 1984 Knock-knock at your front door It's the suede denim secret police They have come for your uncool niece Come quietly to the camp You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp Don't you worry, it's only a shower For your clothes, here's a pretty flower Released 46 years ago this month
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Bio of thread author: Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies. https://bsky.app/profile/risabrooks12.bsky.social/post/3lr4a4woqts25
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Timely interview with a researcher on why well-organized nonviolent resistance proves more effective in countering government forces hellbent on breaking the will of the people. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolent-resistance-beats-violent-force-in-effecting-social-political-change/ WCFIA: In your co-authored book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict,” you explain clearly why civil resistance campaigns attract more absolute numbers of people — in part it’s because there’s a much lower barrier to participation compared with picking up a weapon. Based on the cases you have studied, what are the key elements necessary for a successful nonviolent campaign? CHENOWETH: I think it really boils down to four different things. The first is a large and diverse participation that’s sustained. The second thing is that [the movement] needs to elicit loyalty shifts among security forces in particular, but also other elites. Security forces are important because they ultimately are the agents of repression, and their actions largely decide how violent the confrontation with — and reaction to — the nonviolent campaign is going to be in the end. But there are other security elites, economic and business elites, state media. There are lots of different pillars that support the status quo, and if they can be disrupted or coerced into noncooperation, then that’s a decisive factor. The third thing is that the campaigns need to be able to have more than just protests; there needs to be a lot of variation in the methods they use. The fourth thing is that when campaigns are repressed — which is basically inevitable for those calling for major changes — they don’t either descend into chaos or opt for using violence themselves. If campaigns allow their repression to throw the movement into total disarray or they use it as a pretext to militarize their campaign, then they’re essentially co-signing what the regime wants — for the resisters to play on its own playing field. And they’re probably going to get totally crushed.' WCFIA: Is there any way to resist or protest without making yourself more vulnerable? CHENOWETH: People have done things like bang pots and pans or go on electricity strikes or something otherwise disruptive that imposes costs on the regime even while people aren’t outside. Staying inside for an extended period equates to a general strike. Even limited strikes are very effective. There were limited and general strikes in Tunisia and Egypt during their uprisings and they were critical. WCFIA: A general strike seems like a personally costly way to protest, especially if you just stop working or stop buying things. Why are they effective? CHENOWETH: This is why preparation is so essential. Where campaigns have used strikes or economic noncooperation successfully, they’ve often spent months preparing by stockpiling food, coming up with strike funds, or finding ways to engage in community mutual aid while the strike is underway. One good example of that comes from South Africa. The anti-apartheid movement organized a total boycott of white businesses, which meant that black community members were still going to work and getting a paycheck from white businesses but were not buying their products. Several months of that and the white business elites were in total crisis. They demanded that the apartheid government do something to alleviate the economic strain. With the rise of the reformist Frederik Willem de Klerk within the ruling party, South African leader P.W. Botha resigned. De Klerk was installed as president in 1989, leading to negotiations with the African National Congress [ANC] and then to free elections, where the ANC won overwhelmingly. The reason I bring the case up is because organizers in the black townships had to prepare for the long term by making sure that there were plenty of food and necessities internally to get people by, and that there were provisions for things like Christmas gifts and holidays. WCFIA: How important is the overall number of participants in a nonviolent campaign? CHENOWETH: One of the things that isn’t in our book, but that I analyzed later and presented in a TEDx Boulder talk in 2013, is that a surprisingly small proportion of the population guarantees a successful campaign: just 3.5 percent. That sounds like a really small number, but in absolute terms it’s really an impressive number of people. In the U.S., it would be around 11.5 million people today. Could you imagine if 11.5 million people — that’s about three times the size of the 2017 Women’s March — were doing something like mass noncooperation in a sustained way for nine to 18 months? Things would be totally different in this country.
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