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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • We know zero about the shooter(s) besides they claimed to be volunteer peacekeepers, but the volunteer peacekeepers were forbidden from carrying guns…

    I don’t know why people keep acting like they had any type of authority.

    They saw a gun carrying a gun breaking zero laws and started blasting.

    Good intentions or not, they deserve to be charged and have their firearms taken away.

    But this is a larger problem as the article gets into. These “peacekeepers” aren’t there to protect from the police, they’re there to police protesters and hand anyone further left than they are to the police.

    A growing presence at demonstrations in recent years, many protesters hold disdain for protest marshals, pejoratively called “peace police.” To many, the use of marshals hampers spontaneous and autonomous tactics, and puts those who are willing to take more risky actions during protests in danger. In some instances, these “peace police” have gone so far as to isolate and turn in to police protesters who take on more confrontational roles, leading to arrests and police violence.

    They’re working against the cause not for it, even if they dont understand what’s happening

    Neoliberals with guns, they do t care about any rules restricting themselves, but will literally murder a bystander if someone else is doing the exact same thing.

    Like, when it comes down to it the only people who fucked up were the “peacekeepers”. And now someone is dead.




  • HIRED BY THE PROTEST ORGANIZERS

    What’s with people saying “hired” now?

    It was an unpaid volunteer, and as far as I know we have zero information on how much vetting was involved.

    Like, where is this shit coming from?

    Did you read it somewhere in a comment and are just repeating like it’s true?

    Do you not understand why there’s so much criticism of these “peacekeepers”?

    Did you ever read an article instead of just comments?

    A growing presence at demonstrations in recent years, many protesters hold disdain for protest marshals, pejoratively called “peace police.” To many, the use of marshals hampers spontaneous and autonomous tactics, and puts those who are willing to take more risky actions during protests in danger. In some instances, these “peace police” have gone so far as to isolate and turn in to police protesters who take on more confrontational roles, leading to arrests and police violence.






  • I mean, I only worked one season with migrant laborers, so you may have more experience…

    But a lot just aren’t gonna come here this season. They don’t need us, at least not as much as we need them. If anything I’d expect all this shit to drive up their wages.

    Quick edit:

    There’s a misconception farm work is “unskilled”, it’s not. So the vets stay out and we get less experienced workers who do the job slower, and for a higher hourly to deal with the risk and uncertainty.

    So both per hour wages and amount of hours needed are gonna go up.

    Shits still going to become substantially more expensive.










  • I mean…

    Honestly the whole “assassinating a leader is against the rules” has always felt ass backwards when the alternative is a shit ton of people with essentially no say in the conflict dying.

    Let me take it back to Hammarubi.

    All these shitty world leaders can just take turns killing themselves like the bloody Sneeches, until we eventually end up with leaders who think peace is worth a shot.

    To me, that sounds like a self correcting and sustainable system. If a country’s government starts a war, the most likely result would be that political leader getting merc’d by the government of the country they attacked.