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1 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
happy may day

my favorite of the haymarket martyrs was george engel. not the fiery bombthrower nor the indomitable organizer, he was a german toymaker (as best as i can tell) who only came to anarchism later in life as he saw other methods to reach equality prove fruitless.
he worked with an anarchist paper, i believe behind the scenes. he wasn’t at the haymarket rally, he stayed home that night. yet put on trial for being an anarchist, he held fast. when the governor offered clemency in exchange for apology, he refused.
he died in chicago with a noose around his neck for the crime of believing in a world without rulers. his last words were, in german, “hoch die anarchie.” translated, “hurrah for anarchy.”

may we all meet our fates so bold as this 50 year old man.
he’s buried in chicago with the rest of the martyrs, near emma goldman and lucy parsons. it’s worth going.

we are our own ancestors, whether through blood or through belief. their ideas live on, though they are dead.

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dear liberals,

gun control will disproportionately affect marginalized groups, both in terms of enforcement and in terms of removing access to the tools required for self defense.

sincerely, a heavily-doxxed trans woman in the rural south
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in light of all of this, another prepper gear thread. things that i would encourage most left-ish people to have. (list is non-exhaustive and not authoritative, just suggestions).
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whatever happens in the coming days and weeks and months, we collectively have the skills and strength to deal with it.
we just have to take care of one another.
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We're all preppers now. Whether we want to be or not. It's hard to think about, but we're just in the opening credits to the apocalypse movie. This is the calm before the storm. This is your moment to get ready. We can get through this. A thread.
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i was so into the guillotine because i thought we were all on the same page that the guillotine is obviously fucked up and the wrong way to solve social problems, as evidenced by, you know, the history of the guillotine

narrator voice: we were not all on the same page
like i love the guillotine as a symbol because it's a symbol of revolutionary violence that carries within it the necessary critique of revolutionary violence that we need to be VERY aware of whenever we talk about revolution.

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I'm watching people in portland struggle to get gas masks in any kind of hurry. anywhere you are, might want to get one now as revolt and repression continue to spread. A brief thread about what i've learned through research.
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