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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago

![fred-hampton](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/410929f3-60ac-4f4c-abc7-83a2786f9dec.png "emoji fred-hampton")

it'll be fine for liberals to admit the Ferguson activists were murdered once twenty or thirty years go by

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

at which point they will be considered martyrs for liberalism

thing about martyrs is they're dead so they can't contradict you

[-] YouKnowIt@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Once it's used in a capeshit tv show, of course, like the Tulsa bombing and the Watchmen show

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

It was weird that both watchmen and lovecraft country had Tulsa massacre scenes.

[-] YouKnowIt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So like one or two for those could be suicide out of 6. Probably just the one.

[-] Cummunism@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

golly those activists sure do die in suspicious ways, must be nothing at all

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Leave it to libs to means-test Police State retribution killings to the point where their answer is: ![this-is-fine](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/a7983510-a3d7-4586-be32-28edeb143334.gif "emoji this-is-fine")

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Country with an exhaustively-documented history of murdering black activists, including police murders: "Nope, nothing to see here!"

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Don't be ridiculous that was in the distant past of like 10 yrs ago. Now that things have changed America would never murder activists

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] shath@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

get fact checked bucko

this is false on a technicality and therefore you should disregard everything

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Um, yeah, ![berdly-actually](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c5a13b0e-6010-42eb-b7b0-24cec79619d7.png "emoji berdly-actually") there are such things as coincidences and some of them were found burned to death in cars they DIDN'T own.

![pinocchio-evil](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/691df7ef-cdfd-45a7-940a-9c1219d41801.png "emoji pinocchio-evil") ![pinocchio-evil](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/691df7ef-cdfd-45a7-940a-9c1219d41801.png "emoji pinocchio-evil") ![pinocchio-evil](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/691df7ef-cdfd-45a7-940a-9c1219d41801.png "emoji pinocchio-evil") ![pinocchio-evil](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/691df7ef-cdfd-45a7-940a-9c1219d41801.png "emoji pinocchio-evil") ![pinocchio-evil](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/691df7ef-cdfd-45a7-940a-9c1219d41801.png "emoji pinocchio-evil")

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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...

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