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tbf I didn’t have summer of love 2 popping off anytime soon on my bingo card, I thought we were stuck with brunch libs sipping mimosas and being epic with $50 “protest” signs.
Trump summers just gonna be like this
I think that assumption was pretty misguided. Biden obviously didn’t work to solve anything (including the baseline “at least it’s not trump”, cause here we are) and most liberals under the age of 50 are not Twitter Democrat supporters (something else that gets lost in online spaces).
summer of love 2
umm actually the second summer of love was the 88-89 acid house rave scene in the UK, this would be the third
Reminds me more of the Summer of '69, of which the Summer of Floyd was its second coming.
the contrast between the blue on the police car and the fire is great color theory. this is a piece of art
I think that’s just a Waymo. They were calling them in to where the cops were entrenched and lighting them on fire for the last bit of the drive.
that is fucking genius
Whoever used their phone to call in the cars on the app is gonna be in big doodoo though
Good luck proving intent lol
yeah assuming it wasn’t super obviously coordinated, all hailed by one person, etc. this is true (and it’d be bad PR to go after them if it wasn’t an airtight case). fucking hasan hailed an uber or whatever like 2 blocks from the protest to go home, live on stream, the waymos were hailed early enough in the protest to be very plausibly deniable
Oh so they were using them as weapons? I kept thinking it was kinda dumb to just be destroying cars for no reason
The Waymos were being used to send camera footage of the protests to the pigs.
But the protesters were calling them though
Column A, column B
Yep, from another thread:
modern problems require modern solutionsah your right. i forgot those had the lights that look like sirens on them
Understandable, really. The scorch marks on the one in the back make it look like it has the cop car black-and-white paint job.
The rise of the Swoletariat
They leaned into the Purge aesthetic and I’m here for it.
Grok, make this photo black and white and put the Parental Advisory image in the corner
Oh yeah, that’s the stuff. This could be rap, punk, or hardcore and it would slap
2 mins in GIMP
original photog did all the hard work though tbf
Tom Morello’s HexbearScrapeAI is taking note.
thought this one was pretty good too
New modest by default album coming soon
Hope they burned those clothes, head to toe.
Yeah that’s probably for the best but those pants are a vibe.
They’re just crust pants. They can be remade
Ikr?! I wish he’d worn worn out clothes he’d painted in or something!
proto-Butlerian Jihad
Why waymos though?
I’ve been wondering that myself lol. So random. I heard it’s because they share data with cops, but I don’t know how many people on the ground actually know that.
I have a feeling it’s just an easy way to get a burning car in the road to cause disruptions, because you can easily call them over.
It’s because the waymos would drive themselves in front of the line of cops, protestors would light them on fire, creating a flaming wall where the cops would not cross.
It’s frankly genius. And should be used in any city with waymos.
I heard it’s because they share data with cops, but I don’t know how many people on the ground actually know that.
People said this about the burning and looted Target stores in Minneapolis in 2020. It wasn’t true, a lot of people on the ground absolutely knew about many of their horrible practices, and even those who didn’t know the specifics correctly idenitified big corporations and big tech as being big drivers/boosters of police repression and surveillance.
More generalized looting is also a thing (and I have no interest in condemning it) but there’s a reason Target went first and was targeted across neighborhoods even far from the action.
That specific Target (the first one) was well known as a testing ground for new surveillance techniques
Idk it just doesn’t send the right message. Just looks look like a bunch of brats vandalizing stuff using ICE raids as an excuse. Why not smash actual ICE cars?
oh no not the poor property owned by a corporation :(
I’m not worried for the corporation at all, more worried about the public image this gives off from everybody classifying activists as looters and knuckleheads.
If you’re so worried about that then maybe you should stop insinuating that you think that way and defend these protesters from smears by the media. You can’t tone police an organically arisen protest movement. These are regular (but very brave) people fighting fascist government institutions. It’s very easy to recognise the actual bad guys here so don’t go and pretend it’s not.
Cause of the guys with guns in those cars. They waymos are being called in and set in fire to disrupt the roads and make it harder for cops to get around.
I think it’s beautiful and inspring, and there were police and ICE vehicles damaged with at least one burned as well. If someone thinks these people or anyone rioting these days are ‘brats’, better optics won’t change that. People at the time thought MLK and the civil rights movement were too violent, how do people view it now?
Idk it just doesn’t send the right message.
I don’t think the activists are really worried about messaging. The political system in this country has completely abandoned these people and left them no choice but to take community defense into their own hands. Both political parties have doubled down on border fascism, building a bigger police surveillance state, building more prisons, and building more police counterinsurgency training centers. These people aren’t out here trying to convince people to vote for Democrats. They are taking direct action to inhibit raids in their community.
Why not smash actual ICE cars?
They did on a few occasions. The majority were LAPD because they formed the majority of the repressive forces deployed so far.
It is worth noting that Waymo is a Google property though. Google is a significant defense and surveillance contractor that provides technology to ICE.
It’s looks like a fun get together to me
Well the message isn’t for you then.
Interesting that you’re upset about the message these protestors are sending instead of the message that the cops are sending, the state is sending, the federal government is sending, the national guard is sending, ICE is sending…
I’m just saying it’s better to directly attack those government vehicles rather than a self driving car.
Ok but in all seriousness what does breaking waymo cars get you?
Besides catharsis against the omnipresent surveillance state, it gets you fewer police-accessible mobile cameras (making other actions safer) and a greater reluctance on the part of companies to continue investing in this. It’s also funny and good pr, because people hate these things
Safer roads
The US government is a failing and failed system. Un-ironically hurting an oligarch like Google’s bottom line would do more for influencing govt. policy.
In the USA, a corporation losing potential profits is the closest we’ll get to a peoples democracy like China that doesn’t have these issues by actually being democratic.
