"But the time of combat and the celebration of victory is incommensurable with the habits, spaces, and attachments of everyday life and its reproduction. It is frightening how distant the event already feels from us."
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Fascinating anonymous rioters' account of their destruction of the Minneapolis PD precinct & surrounding shops. Especially interesting are the notes on utilizing peaceful protesters, and the final section, horrifically titled "visions of the commune." https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/10/the-siege-of-the-third-precinct-in-minneapolis-an-account-and-analysis …pic.twitter.com/q9x7Lt9P61
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"While peaceful protesters probably viewed each other’s gestures as moral symbols against police violence, [rioters throwing projectiles at police] undoubtedly viewed those gestures differently, namely, as shields, or as materially strategic opportunities."pic.twitter.com/xal3fneFts
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"We awoke on Day Three to so-called reports that either police provocateurs or outside agitators were responsible for the previous day’s destruction. If that is true... their plan backfired spectacularly. In general, the crowd looked upon these sublime fires with awe & approval."
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"When the condominium development became engulfed, the crowd sat across from it... and rested as if gathered around a bonfire. Each structure fire contributed to the material abolition of the existing state of things and the reduction to ash became the crowd’s seal of victory."
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"Editor’s note: The partially constructed 189-unit housing complex referenced here was not, in fact, condominiums. Midtown Corner was a mixed-used development, with retail space on the first floor and a full 189 units of affordable rental housing comprising the upper five floors"
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“Anonymous rioters” This claims that a mom’s “young teenager” said “Come on! I’ll help you [loot a liquor store] Mommy!” Come on.
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Also, it was “unexpected” that peaceful protestors would serve as a shield (knowingly or not) from police for those throwing projectiles? This is an obvious mechanic to anyone who has even THOUGHT about how riots work, never mind participated in one. Again, come on.
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How does hradzka put it? "The mask comes off... along with the skin and large parts of the skull"?
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this is every vertigo comic in the 90s. it reads like a someone reading a grant morrison comic talking about what's on the page. this is an era of creative bankruptcy at its finest.
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"Ballistic confrontation" as a euphemism for "throwing rocks" is...something. Reminds me of the "kinetic actions" under Obama.
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