[FRIAM] Don't take your guns (or ammo) to town...

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I got into an argument with a friend who's starting a company this morning. He expressed that he wants to design a workplace where everyone can enjoy working there, be themselves at work, etc. In my usual @sshole mode, I objected. What if one of your employees is a devout evangelical, who regards converting people to Christianity as part of "being themselves"? Spends her time in the break room asking people to give themselves to the Lord and pray with her. ... I regard that as a fireable offense. It's as unprofessional as walking around the office in your underwear.

In that context comes the task of policing ourselves. Sure, maybe a bunch of bros form a company and love to degrade women, calling each other "pvssy" if they don't "man up" in some code sprint or whatever. It's the responsibility of the Bro CEO to tell his bros to stop doing that, to fire them when they do it.

Self-policing is important, which is why I'm so happy they went after Reinoehl so fast and hard, *because* he's fvcked up my ability to call myself Antifa, just like the right has stolen the word "libertarian" from me. Danielson is just another Trump moron. I don't much care what happens to him because he's not in my group. I try to hold my group to a higher standard, even though I fail constantly.

If that group would show even the *slightest* attempt to self-police, like the Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump, I'd hold them in higher esteem.

Is this a rant? Should I say it more sedately in order to make it look like more of a learned piece of wisdom? I honestly have no idea.


On 9/16/20 11:09 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> They are understandably terrified of what will happen to them when the party is over.   Would Trump even bother or remember to issue pardons for everyone that will need one? 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 10:46 AM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] Don't take your guns (or ammo) to town...
> 
> And I just can't stop ranting can I?
> 
>    
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8736703/Trump-appointed-HHS-official-told-followers-buy-ammunition-election-apologizes.html
> 
> Another whack-job Trump-sycophant-appointee going off like a mini loose cannon on deck...   how in the world does one conflate "the public health interest" with telling people to "stock up on ammunition" because it will be hard to get.
> 
> He was even subtle enough to say that "*when* Trump fails to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin" with all the ambiguity and implied innuendo that Trump is famous for.   Fails to stand down if he LOSES?  And WHO will be doing the shooting?   It is a setup to say he
> *might* refuse to stand down if he loses, and/or that his opponents will start a civil war if he WINS, and that either way, the "strong people"
> (Trump's phrase) "who have most of the guns" will take up arms and "put down" any opposition in vigilante/mob/militia/self-appointed-posse style?
> 
> I can't register this kind of top-down "inciting to violence" as anything but yet another example of how much more threatening the RIGHT at least wants to appear and very likely IS than the Left.   Reinoehl is very much the exception to the bias of Right vs Left vigilanteism.   One might invoke the shooting in Compton as a Lefty shooting, or even BLM, but it reads a lot more like a neighborhood breakdown in the poor (mostly black, yes) population and local Law enforcement...  I don't think any BLM or Lefties-at-Large or even AntiFa-identified individuals would endorse or enjoy such a blatant blindside attack (apparently) for no particular reason (14 month on-the-job rookies not as likely to have provoked specific/personal animosity as veterans).  The local crowds heard jeering/cheering against law enforcement seem to represent the local antagonism that has grown between them and law enforcement.
> 
> And then we have Trump describing/applauding Reinoehl's "apprehension by one-sided gunfire" as "Retribution".  As Glen points out, his (apparent) shooting of a civilian "on the other side" absolutely required that he be apprehended, investigated, charged, tried, probably even sentenced...
> but the fact is nobody seems to know what *really happened* in either his shooting of someone, nor in the Marshalls', et al. shooting of him.   Eye/Earwitness accounts of his "apprehension" seem to be "all over the place", but it seems to be agreed that Reinoehl did not fire a weapon, even if he WAS holding one (that is up for question) at the time of the "apprehension by gunfire".  No body or dash cams of course, and that is apparently "standard practice" for Federal LEO.... hmmm? Especially in THESE times?
> 
> I'm hoping/trusting that the Secret Service detail on Trump has not been subverted and if (when) he is defeated, it is THEY who will perp-walk him to Marine1 and fly him to his closes private resort to lick his wounds and get wound up on his next career as a Rush Limbaugh/Alex Jones wannabe (or whatever).
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> </rant>


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