Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

I also think actions like this--not so much the spraypaint but invading space--put pressure on systems I hear you on optics, but I've been to a lot of peaceful demonstrations described as riots by the police and news next day. Seems like the optics are bad no matter what we do

I agree with this completely, and it's why I'm frankly encouraged by any act of civil disobedience Because if this goes like I think it's going to, 43 days from now what we're going to need is people willing to hit the streets and stay there

(as someone who covers protests in Portland I've seen the test runs and while I'm sure he'd appreciate the opportunity for more, I'm not convinced it's strictly necessary for his designs)

as someone who has had the windows taped shut in Portland for a week + is struggling to stay civil, I don't appreciate anything that gives #45 any "opportunity" what will help end the ICE atrocities? disciplined + sustained protests would help--are they possible given who is...

doing the protesting? I went to the Macadam protests in PDX (2018? can't keep track tbh) + did not observe anything like revolutionary discipline btw liked your thread of 9/2, "sitting around w anarchists" u ended up saying "I'm shitposting"--no! why not make it into a novella?

Everything that happened in 2018 is obsolete. Things that happened in June are obsolete. The world is changing very quickly and so is the protest scene 9/2 was a shitshow and a very unusual evening

our climate crisis is changing for the worse quickly human nature is not changing so quickly, sorry to say I recall 15 presidential elections, this one is different--but in some ways much like 68, Trump is George Wallace *and* Nixon "very unusual" 9/2? maybe worth more words?