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robotslave commented on Why They Break Windows.
@35
I don't think the intern here is stupid so much as woefully undertrained.
Before covering unpermitted marches, the new hires need to be sat down with a senior reporter and/or legal rep and told in very clear language that a plastic-coated bit of cardboard with the word "Press" on it does not impart special extralegal status, and that the privileges a cub reporter might naively associate with that beguiling physical totem will, when they actually exist at all, derive entirely and exclusively from prior meetings and agreements with event planners and police representatives.
Which will of course not exist, if the event happens to be of the sort which the organizers are not inclined to announce in advance.
I don't think the intern here is stupid so much as woefully undertrained.
Before covering unpermitted marches, the new hires need to be sat down with a senior reporter and/or legal rep and told in very clear language that a plastic-coated bit of cardboard with the word "Press" on it does not impart special extralegal status, and that the privileges a cub reporter might naively associate with that beguiling physical totem will, when they actually exist at all, derive entirely and exclusively from prior meetings and agreements with event planners and police representatives.
Which will of course not exist, if the event happens to be of the sort which the organizers are not inclined to announce in advance.
8:27 PM yesterday
robotslave commented on Why They Break Windows.
@24
They don't want your check-- in fact, the smashists explicitly reject that sort of consumerist activism, on the grounds that it reinforces capitalism, promotes false consciousness, and disengages one from the struggle.
If you want to show your support, the best way to go about it is to go out and vandalize some government property yourself (or corporate property, provided the corporation is sufficiently large or non-local).
They don't want your check-- in fact, the smashists explicitly reject that sort of consumerist activism, on the grounds that it reinforces capitalism, promotes false consciousness, and disengages one from the struggle.
If you want to show your support, the best way to go about it is to go out and vandalize some government property yourself (or corporate property, provided the corporation is sufficiently large or non-local).
7:59 PM yesterday
robotslave commented on Why They Break Windows.
@21
I'm sure we'll have the opportunity for a better comparison come the last night of Pride, when Seattle's shrill little band of anarcho-queers will once again "take the street" somewhere in the Pike-Pine corridor, hoping against hope that this time, the police will finally overreact and magically resurrect the glory days of ACT UP.
I'm sure we'll have the opportunity for a better comparison come the last night of Pride, when Seattle's shrill little band of anarcho-queers will once again "take the street" somewhere in the Pike-Pine corridor, hoping against hope that this time, the police will finally overreact and magically resurrect the glory days of ACT UP.
7:23 PM yesterday
robotslave commented on Why They Break Windows.
Ah yes, once again we encounter the idea that Journalists are an elite class, entitled to deferential treatment from the police beyond that which might be reasonably expected by ordinary citizens.
May 21
robotslave commented on Drug-Trafficking Organizations Continue to Intimidate Newspapers into Silence.
If the entire world were to legalize drugs tomorrow, it seems highly unlikely that the Mexican warlords would just shrug their shoulders, put away all their guns, and become peaceful tax-paying shopkeepers.
May 16
robotslave commented on US Military Grants Itself the Power to Police American Streets and "Quell" "Civil Disturbances".
Shorter:
Dr. Strangelove is in black and white, ergo it is a documentary.
Dr. Strangelove is in black and white, ergo it is a documentary.
May 15
robotslave commented on Occupy Offshoot Blockades Home to Save South Park Man From Eviction.
Does anyone know why SAFE chose Jeremy Griffin as the beneficiary of their apparently very selective largesse, rather than any of the other Seattle residents facing eviction in foreclosure proceedings?
I'm quite curious about the selection process; are there any local journalists who share my curiosity, or am I some kind of loony-tunes outlier here?
I'm quite curious about the selection process; are there any local journalists who share my curiosity, or am I some kind of loony-tunes outlier here?
May 15
robotslave commented on Black Bloc Community Service.
@37
You've previously covered events in public spaces produced solely for their theatrical effect, though without any implied threat to the society within which they take place. No-one has been interested in those events; you've had under ten comments per post when you've tried to push those stories.
Why is that? Do you really think the grubby unsophisticated peasants are to blame for this disinterest, or is there perhaps some other reason that the hoi-polloi take rather more interest in Direct Actions that convey an implied threat to the society we share?
You've previously covered events in public spaces produced solely for their theatrical effect, though without any implied threat to the society within which they take place. No-one has been interested in those events; you've had under ten comments per post when you've tried to push those stories.
Why is that? Do you really think the grubby unsophisticated peasants are to blame for this disinterest, or is there perhaps some other reason that the hoi-polloi take rather more interest in Direct Actions that convey an implied threat to the society we share?
May 15
robotslave commented on What Do You Think of the Riddick Trailer?.
Haven't seen the movies, but the Chronicles of Riddick was an improbably good video game.
I do like Mr. Diesel; even on-screen he always seems quite a bit more self-aware than you would assume if you'd only read reviews written by critics who have 'muscles are bad' hard-coded into their rating systems.
I do like Mr. Diesel; even on-screen he always seems quite a bit more self-aware than you would assume if you'd only read reviews written by critics who have 'muscles are bad' hard-coded into their rating systems.
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Ah, so you're just being disingenuous, then, not undertrained. Noted.