#say no to cop city

[catgirlcommunism]

I'm posting this because i havent seen anything about this on tumblr yet.

Memphis police murdered another black man, on Jan 7 2023. His name was Tyre Nichols. Police have not released the body cam footage, but it's apparently really REALLY bad.

Between the murder of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, and the murder of Forest Defender Tortuguita in Atlanta, things are about to get REALLY hot in the south.

The continuing brutality and extrajudicial execution at the hands of police NEEDS to stop by any means necessary.

Tortuguita's comrades have called for tonight, January 20, 2023, to be a "Night of Rage" to commemmorate, and retaliate, for Tortuguita's murder.

Now is the time to talk to your comrades and those you trust in order to make precautions and contingency plans for each others safety if you have not done so already.

Stay safe comrades.

Black Lives Matter.

Justice for Tyre Nichols.

Justice for Tortuguita.

No Justice, No Peace.

[hussyknee]

Once I stopped wheezing, I went looking for what inspired this tweet. Apparently anyone consistently ripping into Biden and telling anyone why he's trash is "voter suppression". Liberals have all lost their goddamn minds.

[hedgehog-moss]

In other news, this week a French publisher on his way to the London Book Fair was arrested by British counter-terrorist police to be questioned about his participation in protests in France.

A French publisher has been arrested on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.

Moret arrived at St Pancras [...] with his colleague Stella Magliani-Belkacem, the editorial director at the Paris-based publishing house, to be confronted by the two officers. [...] He was questioned for six hours and then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer. [...] He was transferred to a police station in Islington, north London, where he remained in custody on Tuesday. He was later released on bail.

Éditions la Fabrique is known for publishing radical left authors. Moret also represents the French science fiction novelist Alain Damasio and had arranged more than 40 appointments at the London book fair. [...]

[Quoting publishing house’s press release] “The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act – a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make, and which seems to clearly indicate complicity between French and British authorities on this matter.” [...] “There’s been an increasingly repressive approach by the French government to the demonstrations, both in terms of police violence, but also in terms of a security clampdown.”

(Guardian link - BBC link) (article in French)

The publishing house (here’s their latest statement in French) and the publisher’s lawyer mention that the British police asked him “Do you support Emmanuel Macron? Did you attend protests against the pension reform?” and he was also asked to name the authors with anti-government views that his employer has published. They add, “Asking the representative of a publishing house, in the framework of counter-terrorism, about the opinions of his authors, is pushing even further the logic of political censorship and repression of dissenting thought. In a context of social protests and authoritarian escalation on the part of the French government, this aspect [of the questioning] is chilling.”

Being an accomplice to thoughtcrime by publishing dissident authors gets you treated like an international terrorist now... The publisher’s lawyer suggests that French authorities asked the UK to help them get their hands on the publisher’s contacts in the radical left sphere. But on the face of it, we’ve got: Exercise your right to protest your government in France -> get arrested by counter-terrorist UK police in London. That’s literally the reason he was given for being greeted by police at the train station...

[designernishiki]

strongly believe that those few lines in kiwami 2 where majima hits on kaoru while half-dead in the street were literally just put there to try (and fail) to negate how fucking gay it looks when kiryu cradles a bloody badly-injured majima in his arms as majima tells him that he basically just fought an entire army of yakuza singlehandedly for kiryu and kiryu alone, fully aware that doing so would almost definitely be the death of him. but you know. whatever

[hack-saw2004]

THIS MORNING: (note, the name in the tweet is incorrect, the name on the video is correct) noëlle mcafee, the emory philosophy department chair who was arrested yesterday, did an interview speaking about her experience. she explained that she wasn't even protesting, she was a legal observer who just wanted to see what the students were doing. noëlle stated that just moments after she started observing, police moved in on protesters and almost immediately started attacking them with tear gas & rubber bullets. saying that she saw 3-4 police officers brutalizing one single student, and when she tried to stay and record/be a witness they told her to leave and when she didn't they arrested her. it should be raising alarms for everyone that police are not only arresting protesters en masse, but arresting journalists and now any legal observer documenting their violence with impunity.

[canary-song]

Does Noir Spiderman start making brief friends with other random civillians, the same way other Spiderpeople do? I know that he's more villainized than other versions, but surely a few people start to take notice of his attempts to protect people. Implying he's universally hated feels both insurmountably bleak and mean to the city itself - the people of New York aren't all one-note.

What about the people getting in trouble with cops, or those walking home at night in the dark? The man down on his luck doing stunts for money that he catches on an ill-fated climb that slipped? The photographers he joins at the top of a skycraper? The factory-workers staging protests, a once-fellow journalist being tailed?

Do some of them learn to smile when they see him, knowing helps arrived, and does he wave back?

[thosewildcharms]

Yeah how would Richonne even meet before the apocalypse?? He’s a small town southern cop (American flag displayed in the doorway of his house an all) and Michonne’s a dark skin black woman (personally I think she was a art curator or something along those lines). Cannot even imagine what they would talk about. Unless someone calls the cops on a function and Rick shows up to which Michonne rips him a new one and Rick is like 😧😍😰. Other than that no clue how they would’ve gotten to know each other outside the ZA.

love your scenario anon 😂 you're much more creative than I am!

but yeah maybe I didn't articulate it very well but this is kind of what I meant in my original reply. there was a repeating beat in the richonne narrative in both twd and towl of divine intervention/fate/destiny/coincidence/whatever you want to call it. and with that in mind, if we are talking about a world with no zombies but was otherwise exactly the same, my thought is that something would happen that would put them in each other's orbit on a consistent enough basis for the connection between them to make itself known. because yeah, not only would they probably not cross paths otherwise but their different backgrounds - not to mention the fact that they both already had partners and kids - would mean it would take much more than a passing attraction for anything to happen. now, if we're talking about an AU in a more general/traditional sense where their lives are completely different from canon but their basic characterizations are relatively the same, then obviously the possibilities are endless.

but listen, I also totally get feeling like there's no way in hell these two would have ever met otherwise all things considered. it took me a while to come around to enjoying AUs in general (like for any fandom) but I've really come to enjoy thinking about my favorite fictional people in all sorts of little scenarios, especially ones that are kinder to them than the one I found them in. to each their own!

[gotham-response]

A Gotham rogue has incarceritis. This will buy him an hour, max. I hope he knows we're understaffed, and instead of helping people who are actually hurt, I am in a back alley trying to get a blood pressure from an ungrateful criminal reenacting the Exorcist

[max-nolastname]

jason todd, stephanie brown and duke thomas are absolutely the best robins for gotham; they have the knowledge and perspective on how to best serve their gotham because they actually grew up in the city. they have lived experiences with addiction, poverty, homelessness, foster care etc. that the others don’t have and there’s a lot they can bring to the table in terms of how to best help the most vulnerable populations of gotham. 

[sapphire-weapon]

probably the most interesting observation about RE fandom since the release of RE4make is that RE4make brought in a shitload of new fans, and yet it created absolutely zero new leon/ada fans.

this isn’t even a case of “fandom only cares about m/m” either, because i’ve seen a dramatic uptick in support for leon/ashley. it’s just that the only people that i’ve seen making leon/ada content have already been doing it for years.

it’s just fascinating to me because for like 20 years, leon/ada was THE SHIP in RE fandom, outclassing even chris/jill, and it seems to have fallen out of favor ever since capcom starting releasing the new remakes.

you know, the remakes that are determined to write the characters as though they were actual people and not ridiculous caricatures.

funny how the ship just falls apart when you do that. which is what i’ve said for actual literal years, but, much like RE2 leon, no one ever listens to me.

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

like this perpetual american defensiveness online whenever someone is mildly critical to be like well things are terrible here and our government is violent and oppressive like yes thats true. most governments are though. the us is very evil, but it does not have a monopoly on evil and it installs evil in other countries routinely. why act like NOBODY can ever be critical of us or our methods of resistance and then act like this is the only country in the world where dissidents are jailed or killed…..it’s tone deaf on top of being annoying

[surrealismhorror]

YEAH A LOT OF PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT WTRC LEON BEING "TOO STUPID" WHICH IS ALREADY ODD BECAUSE LEON IN THE GAMES ISN'T THAT SMART BUT ALSO WTRC LEON ISN'T THAT STUPID HE'S JUST IN A JOB AND SITUATION HE'S UNFAMILIAR AND UNCOMFORTABLE WITH MADE WORSE BY THE LITERAL ZOMBIE APOCALYP-

[coockie8]

do you know anyone who's been reported to the feds for proship junk?

Not personally, no. I, honestly, am not even 100% sure the CSIS (Canadian FBI) is even what would get involved in that situation, since Canada is so weird with their censorship laws to begin with. Like it feels like something the Federal Government would probably leave up to the Provincial Governments to handle.

With that being said, while I can't name exact names so feel free to take this with a grain of salt, I have heard of people in the states getting the feds called on them over proship bullshit. I've also heard of antis getting the feds called on them for going way too far over cartoons (like bomb threats and shit), though.

At the end of the day, I think getting the literal Federal Government involved in fucking shipping wars is absolutely insane, and if you're a person, on either side, proship or antiship, who has or has even considered doing that (not including over active death and terror threats, "shipping war" has been breached at that point), I genuinely believe you might be due for an internet detox, 'cause holy shit.

[resizura]

probably the biggest line i hate from re2r

leon: hopefully they’ll have some answers at the police station

claire: wait, ur a cop?

[inventinginventoroftruth]

Do you hate the government and the rich

Yeah.

[france-isnt-real]

it's funny how sometimes i think me & my parents have similar political views and then they'll say something offhand and i'll be like okkkk no.