Henry Edward Hardy @hhardy01@mastodon.social

60 Years of Police Reform

What has 60 years of police "reform" brought us in the USA?

60 years ago, when there was to be a lynching, they were released at the edge of town. The police put on hoods and robes. They feared retribution or disrepute. They tortured the victim to death.

2021. The police torture the Black man to death, on camera, in front of the world. With impunity.

Repetition normalizes this.

We're being subjected to "Learned Helplessness" as a tool of social control.

People used to own their own websites in the pre-social media phase.

The ISP model was web hosting. Everyone would be a publisher. Everyone would have their own website.

Now the model is: you provide the content for someone else's website, for free. You don't own it, and it is used for a comprehensive surveillance system like the world has never seen to not only observe, but to manipulate and influence your affect and conduct. It is aggregated and used by every government and large corp.

I've been thinking about the George Floyd killing and other killings like Jacob Blake.

What I see is impunity.

Not law enforcement. Not "serve and protect."

I see pudgy incel insecure white cops who didn't serve in the military, trying to prove how tough they are by torturing and breaking strong Black men. Making them beg for their lives, beg for their mothers, and then killing them in cold blood. In public.

And the whole system is bloody-handed and complicit.

Not just a "few bad cops."

Privilege.

If you don't fear the police & don't understand why other folks do.

Let's break it down.

Hundreds of people are killed by the police in incidents of police violence.

Black folks are stopped & searched, restrained, beaten, tasered, handcuffed, transported to jail, charged, sentenced, and imprisoned longer with much higher frequency than whites with similar alleged offenses. There's a huge amount of statistical evidence showing this.

If you don't fear the police, that's privilege.

Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.

A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."

People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.

Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.

"Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joined other public figures calling for an independent investigation into the death of Mikayla Miller. Though authorities had initially deemed the death of the LGBTQ 16-year-old found hanging in the woods last month in Hopkinton a suicide, questions have risen around the possibility of “a lynching, a racially motivated beating, and a police cover-up,” according to the Boston Globe."

https://bostonspiritmagazine.com/2021/05/ayanna-pressley-other-public-leaders-call-for-an-independent-investigation-into-mikayla-millers-death/

Fork GNU

That is all.

...and so the infectious disease authorities funded a giant pink squid statue in the town, which brought assured prosperity, and they all lived happily ever after... wait, no, wat!?!

"A town in Japan spent Covid relief funds on a giant squid statue."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/world/asia/japan-squid-statue.html

Check out the new Black Lives Matter poster I made. It is foam core, printed same both sides, and dry erase markable.

This is a strategy of destabilization and chaos intended to bring about a race war and genocide leading to a Fascist dictatorship.

It isn't wrong to compare the attack on the US Capitol to the Beer Hall Putsch; a failed coup full of bathos. Low sentences and privileges given the accused in both cases let the Fascists know that a "silent minority" of whites tacitly approves the impending genocide.

"German society ‘brutalised’ as far-right crimes hit record levels"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/04/rightwing-extremism-germany-stability-interior-minister-says

"If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus)"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159121001258?via%3Dihub

"‘We’re terrorized’: LA sheriffs frequently harass families of people they kill, says report

Los Angeles sheriff’s department has routinely retaliated against victims’ relatives who speak out, NLG and ACLU say in report"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/04/los-angeles-sheriffs-harass-families-of-victims-report

In these days there are giants, apparently.

Giant Bidens to be specific.

lolol.

Nice, if unintended use of spherical distortion.

"Ms. Cheney warned that the Republican Party was at a “turning point,” and suggested that some Republicans were playing a dangerous game by continuing to support “the dangerous and anti-democratic Trump cult of personality.”

“While embracing or ignoring Trump’s statements might seem attractive to some for fund-raising and political purposes, that approach will do profound long-term damage to our party and our country,” Ms. Cheney said."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/05/05/us/joe-biden-news

#blacklivesmatter #blm

I got them today!!!

I designed and printed 10,000 2x3 inch Black Lives Matter stickers.

PM please me if you would like some.

These cost me 2.6 cents each so I'm requesting a voluntary donation of $3 per hundred or 3 cents each, plus shipping or self-addressed stamped envelope.

Fist graphic public domain, Rafaelgr
Typography and scaling, CC BY-NC 2.0 Henry Edward Hardy 2021

"Former Neo-Nazi Leader Sentenced to 3 Years in ‘Swatting’ Scheme

John Cameron Denton, 27, and his co-conspirators, who targeted journalists, a cabinet secretary and a Black church, were fueled by racial animosity, federal prosecutors said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/john-cameron-denton-atomwaffen-division.html

The Mandalorian:

An armored Mandalorian warrior not born of Mandalore allies with a clone of Jango Fett to protect an abnormally old force-sensitive child from bounty hunters and the Empire.

The Bad Batch:

Armored clones of Mandalorian warrior Jango Fett seek to protect an abnormally old force-sensitive child from bounty hunters and The Empire.

Omega is from their batch and presumably, the same age as the rest of the Bad Batch, just without the rapid aging gene and obs, female-presenting.

M.I.A
OHMNI W202091
2020

https://youtu.be/nJKjx52S2pk

#fediplay