• YouKnowIt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          I never watched that tbh, but that does sound like something that lovecraft himself would put in his books. That they’d have to do it to shut down a old god summoning, I mean

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            Lovecraft country was based on a fantasy/sci fi book about a black family in the 50s-60s written by a white dude.

            Black Wall Street was a trope because the idea sounds good to a “progressive” bourgeoisie

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    Lol mostly false. “But they were not all found burned to death in their cars” So how many were found burned in their cars? Because the post claimed 6 not all.

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      CW: Suicide, police violence, you know the deal.

      Two found burned in their cars, both were shot prior to the burning (one shot in the head, the other “bullet-riddled”).

      The fentanyl OD is possible; he was unresponsive on a bus and the toxicology report showed fentanyl.

      The suicides were as follows:

      • Shot himself in front of a courthouse
      • Shot himself
      • “Hanged himself” (his mother claims he was lynched)

      Nothing on the drowning in the article I checked.

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    Chinese dissidents spend a couple weeks in jail and then get airlifted to DC to spend the rest of their lives making 7 figures at NGO email jobs and doing TED talks.

    American dissidents are murdered without trial in broad daylight by unelected secret police.

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    I did some organizing with a woman who, in my area, was doing a lot of stuff to make sex-workers lives better. Like pressure the city to pull back on laws that allowed them to use the possession of condoms as evidence of sex-work. Pressuring them to get the local PD to refocus their vice department. Building a network of people sex-workers can turn to for support. Amazing woman whom I wish very much I could have helped so much more to do all the things she wanted to do. She was speaking out and contacting sex workers across the country to build a movement. Then one day, out of nowhere, she died of a fentanyl overdose. She wasn’t a user. She wasn’t an addict. Her partner and room mates found her. They were shocked. She just, as it turns out one night, decided she was going to IV a heroic dose of fentanyl. Just a normal thing people who have no history of addiction or hard drug use do. Just something that can happen to anyone whose friends would never be the wiser.

    Anyways, probably a coinkydink. These things happen every day.

    Reminds me of the time I went to an anticop protest and a week later my vehicle got flagged for an outstanding ticket. Turns out that a few years ago when I was in an accident where someone slammed into me they had gotten a ticket for that. Somehow, and isn’t this just the funniest thing, the ticket got changed in their database 2 days after the protest to show that the ticket was never paid and was actually issues to me instead. If I didn’t pay I was going to get a warrant out for my arrest for this outstanding ticket. Luckily I caught the issue before it came to that and squared it away. Was a real headscratcher to the boys in blue as well. They swore they had no idea how such a computer glitch could happen.

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    Thanks for posting this. This kinda stuff randomly popped into my head when I suddenly remembered one of the activists in my area. Dude kinda dipped off the face of the planet and I’m concerned…