Griffi

@gettingbucketz.bsky.social

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down with this sort of thing.

Portland Mayor wearing clothing from company (Portland Gear) well known for stealing designs and its frat culture
OPB article about hundreds of Portland school kids walking out of school for climate protestors in March 2019
Grandma: Portland used to be an unsanitized, hardcore city full of anti fascists willing to cause actual pain to the American Empire. "Sure grandma let's get you to bed"
Ron Wyden did not sign a letter asking for investigation into the murder of Nasrallah Abu Siyam, an American killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo. Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water. I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace -business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred." Franklin Delano Roosevelt