in4apenny

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[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago (13 children)

In middleschool some peers and I helped run a fundraiser and helped organize in 2003 against the war in Iraq (kinda started here, cuz I naiively thought we were past that as a species)

When living in America during my teens, attended every protest I could physically go to to march against KKK and NeoNazi rally’s, we even (foolishly) got physical with them.

November 2011 was at Occupy Wall St. where 800+ of us were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. (first time being arrested at a protest)

2012-2013 worked with Greenpeace, Wilderness Society, and alongside with Bob Irwin (Steve Irwin’s dad) in his Fight for the Reef campaign to protect the Great Barrier Reef from coal shipping expansion (successfully managed to delay the Australian coal industries plan for a whole year, sadly they dredged the GBR anyway but I’d like to think we gave them a headache.)

2013 onwards - Attended every protest but at this point I’m past yelling and shouting, nowadays I hand out bottles of water and information on rights and what to do if you’re arrested or confronted by police.

2024 - Helped defend Plymouth UK from the fascist pogroms, same as above except also using my body as a shield to protect others from bricks. Hurt like a bitch but i’d take a million more. Also help run classes and leftist meetings alongside socialist members of government to teach members of the public everything from history of anti-fascism to safe resistance to mutual aid and preformative politics to cybersecurity to fascist dog-whistles and local fascist groups.

Does this qualify as doing something?

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)
  • In middleschool some peers and I helped run a fundraiser and helped organize in 2003 against the war in Iraq (kinda started here, cuz I naiively thought we were past that as a species)

  • When living in America during my teens, attended every protest I could physically go to to march against KKK and NeoNazi rally's, we even (foolishly) got physical with them.

  • November 2011 was at Occupy Wall St. where 800+ of us were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. (first time being arrested at a protest)

  • 2012-2013 worked with Greenpeace, Wilderness Society, and alongside with Bob Irwin (Steve Irwin's dad) in his Fight for the Reef campaign to protect the Great Barrier Reef from coal shipping expansion (successfully managed to delay the Australian coal industries plan for a whole year, sadly they dredged the GBR anyway but I'd like to think we gave them a headache.)

  • 2013 onwards - Attended every protest but at this point I'm past yelling and shouting, nowadays I hand out bottles of water and information on rights and what to do if you're arrested or confronted by police.

  • 2024 - Helped defend Plymouth UK from the fascist pogroms, same as above except also using my body as a shield to protect others from bricks. Hurt like a bitch but i'd take a million more. Also help run classes and leftist meetings alongside socialist members of government to teach members of the public everything from history of anti-fascism to safe resistance to mutual aid and preformative politics to cybersecurity to fascist dog-whistles and local fascist groups.

Currently diagnosed and disabled from Graves disease, but if a march were to happen outside say millionaire or billionaire gated communities i'd defy my doctors orders to show up.

Happy? This is kinda my hobby.

EDIT - If you NEED proof I can dig up the video I took back in 2011 of us marching onto the Brooklyn Bridge, but that would take effort and I don't see why I should waste that effort on you.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 6 days ago (7 children)

What have you done?

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

I'm not gonna send my professional c/v to some rando on the internet. What difference does it make anyway?

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He also looks like a cop and I don't trust like that.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (26 children)

If I wrote the list of actions and demonstrations I visited and helped organize in the last 15 years, I'd get accused of bragging. There's no winning against that argument, it's either "Show me what you've done" ::Shows all the things:: "You're bragging" or ::Shows nothing:: "See? I'm right."

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Nature peaked here.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 days ago (40 children)

::Looks at Americans really still just look on and do nothing while the Trump administration is tearing the country apart::

Yes.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Even conservatives have principles, at least they used to, getting less and less popular with that crowd though. Centrist liberals however refuse to have principles because "that's taking sides."

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 6 days ago

Imagine how much power his ketamine dealer has

Holy shit I never thought of that before.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The biggest and most truthful conspiracy is not that there's some shadowy cabal puppet masters pulling all the string, but nobody has any fucking clue what's going on and the world lives in a constant state of anarchy and our notions of "government" or "the state" is just a coping mechanism to help us believe that "somone is in control." We feel like we need to believe in it like we used to believe in the church, until the Enlightenment of course (and we all know what that entailed.)

PS Edit - Give people bread and they will realize they hold all the power, and won't need that sense of someone else being in control.

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