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      Another woman, 38-year-old Ashley Spring of Worcester, was also arrested by local police after allegedly throwing “an unknown liquid substance” on officers. She is charged with assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct and interfering with a police officer, Worcester police said.

      Water it was water, or possibly Dunkin’s iced coffee water, but I bet it came out of a fucking drinking container. Deadly weapon my ass.

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        So, in MA, if you throw literally anything or any substance at anyone, Assault and Battery with a Dangerous Weapon is the default charge, because state law defines “Dangerous Weapon” as “literally anything that’s not a part of your own body”.

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          Dangerous and weapon are redundant. And water is neither. Spit, sure but that’s because of diseases and should still be assault but not with a weapon. I hope a judge is rational enough to throw this out.

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            I’m not debating that it’s dumb. I’m just saying that’s what the law is that’s on the books, and that’s the book they’ll throw at you if they can.

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    Notice how the video is focused on the neighbors watching…but they blur it to ‘protect’ the identity of the ice thugs.

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    “There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.

    Remember this.

    Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

    And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural.

    Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.

    And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

    Remember this.

    Try.”

    The Trail of Political Consciousness (Nemik’s Manifesto)

    By Karis Nemik from Star Wars’ Andor Season 1

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      Running out of real world examples where resistance has any effect on stopping or even slowing the glacial slide of fascism so we have to dig into fantasy to find hope and inspiration. We’re so fucking screwed.

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        “There is a wound that won’t heal at the center of the galaxy.

        There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us.

        We let it grow, and now it’s here. It’s here and it’s not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.

        The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness. It is never more alive than when we sleep.

        It’s easy for the dead to tell you to fight, and maybe it’s true, maybe fighting is useless. Perhaps it’s too late.

        But I’ll tell you this… If I could do it again, I’d wake up early

        and be fighting these bastards…

        from the start.

        Fight the Empire!"

        By Maarva Andor from Star Wars’ Andor Season 1

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          Wow, what powerful words created by a team of writers describing something make-believe that never happened. So inspiring.

          “There once was a boy who felt sad about all the awful things in the world, but then he said “Stop it world! Be good instead!” and the world listened and became good and everyone lived happily ever after!”

          There, doesn’t that help? Whenever you are overwhelmed with our dying planet, rampant corruption, and the enshittification of society as a whole; just remember my story! If you’re a child, you might just be able to convince yourself it’s really real and matters.

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    That is horrifying. It’s all horrifying. I always thought that with everything online that we’d all look at each other and do something, but from this to genocide, it feels like we’re stuck in “thoughts and prayers” mode when we should be at “torches and pitchforks.” They’re human beings, we’re human beings. We only get one life. Why the fuck are we doing this to each other.

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      What we really need is the gangs to step in and protect thier territory from ICE. They have networks of people who can hide them if they get identified. And good luck to the agents who come and try to arrest them. The cycle will just build and build.

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        Hadn’t really considered gangs… I wonder if this will drive them into some unity. If they got over the whole red vs blue bullshit or racial focus, their combined force would be one to be reckoned with.

        …fucking sad when literal gang violence is being floated as a plausible solution to active tyranny.

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      Pulling a gun in this situation will absolutely, without a doubt, get you killed. If that’s the way you want to go, that’s your decision, but it’s not going to do anything to protect you.

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        And if you don’t pull a gun in this situation it will absolutely, without a doubt, get you killed. If that’s the way you want to go, that’s your decision, but compliance is not going to do anything to protect you.

        …and if those are the options, might as well drop a Nazi or two on your way out.

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        Well if they get rid of habeas corpus then you may as well consider yourself dead the moment they try to “arrest you”. Never go to a second location if you want to remain whole.

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    until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everywhere is war

    (ed-sp)