Not ⚡️Smart
Not ⚡️Sexy
Not ⚡️Seeing anyone
Not ⚡️Socially well-adjusted
Not hitting the gym. Not skipping dessert.
Meanwhile Americans are holding peaceful protests that will change everything… Just like the Pro Palestinian protests changed everything, just like the massive global protests stopped the second Gulf War… It’s time people realise that while protesting peacefully does bring awareness, it changes nothing, especially when the administration is purposely working against the interests of the majority of the population.
Yeah, Like the last generation was successful in advocating climate activism, the German RAF successfully sparked a revolution with their kidnapping and bombings, like the IRA successfully drove out the English from Northern Ireland or like Ghandi failed to free Britain and the East Germans tore down the wall with dynamite.
The 3.5% theory is extremely questionable. The first paragraph of this article is extremely problematic if you know like 3 things about Philippine politics.
I’ve dug deeper into the data and it is very questionable how it defines “success” and violence/nonviolence.
I’m not a pro-violence guy, i defend liberation struggles, buv work to create educational/political/cultural revolution. Also the 3.5% mobilized population would be rad AF in USAmerica. I haven’t read the whole book the study is based on, though I was working on it for a while. But IMO it misrepresents historical fact to make a nice-sounding abstraction, and I’m not sure how people will react to its failure, which would be based on a faulty premise.
We need to be more focused on what we will do with the power that will come from mobilizing like 12 million Americans rather than hoping some members of the political class notice and decide to fix things. The actual problem is that power is kept out of the hands of workers. The thought of building that power and giving it away would be a catastrophic blow to our movements.
The political system is empowered to fix problems, but not equipped. As far as I can tell, the only people who have ever created or fixed a goddamn thing in all of history have been workers.
We are in a new world, it’s very hard to compare the grip billionaires have on policy with what was happening in the 70’s onwards.
NS clearly signifies “national socialism” , i.e. what Hitler’s party called their ideology. Don’t evne worry about the lightning shaped rune in the center.
Assumed it stood for Norfolk-Southern. That’s a domestic terrorism firm responsible for the horrifying Palestine bombing.
Norfolk-Southern is a rail operator, am I missing something here?
The east Palestine rail accident.
Neve heard of them until now. But wouldn’t be surprised if they chose their name based on the initials.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palestine,_Ohio,_train_derailment) it’s a class one railway. It’s really rather well known. Even for Ausländers.
Thanks for educating me! I seriously had no idea. The accident rings a bell though
Why in this faux-old german script though?
Showing their true colors.
The gothic letters are also a dead giveaway.
told ya…
The NS of course stands for Nice Succulents!
Related: Why TF is ICE wearing camo if they’re law enforcement?
there’s actually a Wikipedia article about it here
It’s a LARP until it isn’t, and we’re really approaching the point where it isn’t.
Why are they wearing camo in a fucking city?
They couldn’t get solid olive drab with fantastic red arm flair
Why is camo worn in cities in general or why ICE is wearing camo?
Cities aren’t big splotches of gray. Wearing camouflage still provides some benefit when within cities. Also, uniforms are no longer just the pattern, these uniforms would also reduce IR signatures to not be seen as easily by nighht vision equipment.
Why ICE is wearing it? Surplus. The uniforms are easy to get and identify them as some form of federal agent. The alternative is a batch of one colour uniforms which would cost a lot or go plainclothes which I consider to be worse.
Intimidation factor. In addition to militarization of police.
Army surplus
Here’s the thing they are law enforcement in name only…
everything is law enforcement if you can define the law arbitrarily …
I think it’s more likely that dude saw it and went “oh man that’s fuckin siiiiiiccccccckkkkkk” probably has skull stickers on his truck too
I want to note that this is exactly what that actual Nazis did when they stole symbolisms from various cultures including the rune ᛋ and of course the swastica. Both of which represent the sun.
The swastika is one of the oldest, they have ones etched in stone in bulgaria from like 40k years back or something I forget, maybe it was 10k. Also later ones in india and elsewhere.
Related from my own defunct blog: Skulls in military symbolism are actually not particularly odd, as indicators of toughness and ferocity (and in Navy a nod to the Jolly Roger, which was partly an identifier of the pirate vessel, but also a call to surrender with the promise of quarter…)
Discussing the M&W Are We The Baddies skit and the preponderance of skulls in Waffen SS kitch.
There’s also a symbol they called the black Sun, they were into it for sure
The SS fucks had a flat top and bottom, this one appears pointed. Anyway, close enough and most their ranks are filled with neo-Nazi turds.
I’m starting to wonder if these “ICE” people aren’t just kids who outgrew video games like Call of Duty, but didn’t care to join the army.
or couldn’t pass basic
Gravy Seals.
Nah they didn’t outgrow gaming, they just got tired of being torched by 8 year olds on chat, or picking a genre that was not online gaming. Those 8 year olds should go into comedy, provided they remember to punch up.
Definitely, want to carry a gun but others not so much.
Recruited from the Young Republican cesspool.
Will be unsurprising if they’re accepting full-on MAGA and Kluxer fanatics.
Accepting? That exactly the person they want. Someone who will follow orders no matter how heinous.
ICE are all the raging assholes that constantly demanded violent responses to everything a minority or liberal did, or suggested nuking every foreign country for whatever perceived infraction, while safely behind a screen and keyboard. They refused to sign up for the military that would impose rules, expectations, and restrictions on them. Also, people shoot back at you if you get deployed. Can’t have that. Too scary. So they join ICE and get to beat up on those foreign people and piss off the libs while under State Protection, nobody gets to shoot back. They’re protected from consequences. Cowards and bullies.
There must be towns all over America that are suddenly peaceful and pleasant because their local psychos all went and joined ice.
You dont have to look back very far to determine how this started on a low level, this is just aggresive inaappropriate counter-culture , 4chan internet troll, basement dwelling shitheel behaivor from the 90s and 00s but carried over into adult life
Contrarians will always be contrary, so I guess being contrary to a boring “regime” that didnt particularly say or do anything except for ask for generic human rights for everyone, means cosplaying as the most offensive thing you can think of because it makes them mad, Cosplaying as Nazis and even doing the same thing the Nazis did with randomly and incorrectly co-opting norse iconography.
They aren’t Nazis just for contrarianisms sake, a large portion of the right wing in the US is inspired by and wants to emulate the Nazis and agree with their racist worldview. A lot of the people trolling and posting ironic racist stuff were just being edgy at some point, but many of them do agree with the things and just troll/joke as a cover.
It means No Sack.
