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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 1h

Unrelated but I love yelling at chuds to "get a job" when they're counter protesting or whatever. Usually short circuits their brain as they work through the dialog tree.

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah I don't disagree with you. That's been the basis for a lot of the anarchist critiques of "anti-fascism."

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfr...

What can we do with anti-fascism?

Alfredo M. Bonanno What can we do with anti-fascism? 1994 Original title: Che ne facciamo dell’antifascismo?, “Anarchismo” n. 74, september 1994

theanarchistlibrary.org

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 2h

Since the beginning?
Arditi del Popolo was big tent.

ARA was big tent.

It's usually anarchists who end up doing most of the work but to say there's no historical precedent is just false.

We don’t rely on the cops or courts to do our work for us. This doesn’t mean we never go to court, but the cops uphold white supremacy and the status quo. They attack us and everyone who resists oppression. We must rely on ourselves to protect ourselves and stop the fascists.
Non-sectarian defense of other anti-fascists. In ARA, we have a lot of different groups and individuals. We don’t agree about everything and we have a right to differ openly. But in this movement an attack on one is an attack on us all. We stand behind each other.
We support abortion rights and reproductive freedom. ARA intends to do the hard work necessary to build a broad, strong movement against racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, discrimination against the disabled, the oldest, the youngest, and the most oppressed people. We want a classless, free society. We intend to win!

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 9h

ACAB includes little bathroom detectives

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“At toilet time, you sign in via a fingerprint sensor so that the device knows who's using the facilities. (Please wash your hands before signing out or tracking your progress.) Then, check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time.”

Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents

The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.

www.cnet.com

Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 19h

Clear Channel is an op I'll give him that

Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 1d

He thought he was a bruiser

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 1d

Here you go boss

bsky.app/profile/moll...

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 1d

They also exclude anything from the US.

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 1d

They do actually. I saw this in Gelderloos' critique but it's in the back of the ebook I have.

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 2d

If I see someone swearing at a cop tomorrow I'm sitting my ass down and listening

Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 2d

The police have always been racist.

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 2d

Piss bloc

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 3d

Please

crimethinc.com/2018/01/19/a...

Anarchists: Government Shutdown Doesn't Go Far Enough

If the government shuts down, who will funnel our taxable income to military contractors? Who will tap our phones and read our email? Who will deport and imprison people? Whatever shall we do?

crimethinc.com

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 3d

Parades begin at conception

Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 3d

Probably the same amount, but with a lower conviction rate. BWCs are useful for us in some unique cases, but overwhelmingly help the police & prosecutors.

zepcam.com/bodycams-inc...

Bodycams increase conviction rates in cases of assault against police officers by up to 93%

The results of the new research show how bodycams increase conviction rates: by 93% across the board when it concerns attacks against police.

zepcam.com

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 3d

That isn't really true. Police killings have increased since the adoption of body worn cameras.

prismreports.org/2024/07/16/c...

The complex and troubling history of police body cameras

A new article in the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation aims to reveal the propaganda behind police body cameras and who has stood to benefit from “reform narratives”

prismreports.org

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 3d

He was obviously treating him better for being a fellow cop.

Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 3d

You should educate yourself.

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Post–World War II anti-fascism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, that's why they're doing it. Denying the existence of an antifascist movement and antifa groups helps that repression by denying them solidarity.

Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 3d

Then who has been doxxing all these nazis? Ghosts?

bsky.app/profile/safc...

Screwston Anti-Fascist Committee @safc161.bsky.social · Sep 6

**BREAKING**

We've identified a white supremacist affiliated with the Goyim Defense League responsible for a string of racist, anti-semitic flyers in multiple Houston suburbs as well as transphobic banner drops. Visit our blog for more details.

screwstonafc.noblogs.org/post/2025/09...

White Text at top says:

"HOUSTON NEO-NAZI EXPOSED

LIVING AND FLYERING IN MISSOURI CITY FOR THE GDL"

Multiple pictures show Douglas Earl Landrum throwing nazi salutes and one wearing a siege skull mask in the center.

Text at the bottom says:

"view details on our blog at SCREWSTONAFC.ORG (LINK IN BIO)"

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 3d

Would you also say there's no Feminism because there's no formal organization called Feminism?

You can reject the far-right's framing of Antifa as a centralized organization without denying the existing of the movement and groups within it that organize against fascists.

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 4d

Antifa is cool and good and pretending it's not reals throws the people who have been fighting the far-right for years under the bus.

The correct response to repression is solidarity, not distance.

www.rsn.org/001/what-lib...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution.</em&...

www.rsn.org

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 4d

Some kings, some masters!

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Jun 17

lmfao

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Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 4d

Their platform is explicitly anti-capitalist. It's a demsoc party.

The Green Party opposes capitalism and seeks to build an alternative economic system based on social ecology, decentralization of power, and freedom from state control. We will build an eco-socialist economy based on large-scale green public works, municipalization, and workplace and community democracy. Worker and community empowerment will ensure that decisions that greatly affect our lives are made in the interests of our communities, not at the whim of capitalist CEOs and distant boards of directors. Democratically run enterprises embedded in and accountable to our communities will make more ecologically sound decisions and help end labor exploitation, environmental exploitation, and racial, gender, and wealth inequality and bring about economic and social justice.

Crime Is Not A Crime @crimeisnotacrime.bsky.social · 4d

More surveillance!

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