#is gonna fuckin come out of no where and accuse me of military and police apologism

[socialistsephardi]

Regarding cops and soldiers.

ACAB/ASAB.

It's not a comment on them as individuals, its a comment on the role they play in society and the wider world and the inherent corruption and power abuse present in both the policing system and the military industrial complex. Both are not much more them money making tools for the wealthy, either by locking up and looting minorities and provide literal slave labor in the form of prison work, or by pillaging, uprooting, and obliterating foreign governments, markets, and populace in order to ransack their material wealth, strategic resources, and further develop a stranglehold over global hegemony.

We don't give a fuck about your nice aunt who's a cop, and you know, yeah, maybe she is a good person, maybe shes a great person! It's not a judgement on her. But the role of the cop is an abusive one, cops and soldiers are respectively the domestic and foreign sides of the coin of populace subjugation.

I have friends who are aspiring cops and who are soldiers, actively on duty. I love them very much, I hate the role they play and though I know there is many different reasons why they've gotten to where they are, I sincerely do hope they see the institutional issues. I feel a lot of fellow Leftists forget exactly how many prominent leftists are former cops/soldiers. The easiest way to radicalize someone isn't to convince them of us, it's to show them why the other groups are wrong and the damage it does. You don't jump directly from 1 to 4. For many people that go through those systems, they see firsthand the horrors committed in the name of capitalism and the state. They see it and they hate it and by that point there's nothing they can really do and they're trapped, but you fucking bet they'll come out of that disillusioned. ESP the military. So many kids, especially minority kids, are specifically targeted by drafters and fed propaganda from a vulnerable age where they're trying to figure out how the fuck they're gonna afford to eat or get an education in the future, and I don't think its fair to write off a potential ally, someone who could come around, because when they were 16 they made a deal with literally one of the most powerful and corrupt forces of all time without realizing what they were getting into.

Seriously I know so many people who's entire stance is just "fuck 'em" and they think that's revolutionary, radical praxis that'll change people minds and spread the cause and get people to wake up. No!!! You're cutting them off from leftist resources, from exploring and asking those questions and finding those answers, and just confining them to that same fucking system we're all claiming to be against. Well, if you pushing people away and back into the system, you're not fighting it, you're helping it. A lot of the way online radical pages are structures, the norms within those forums and feeds and magazines etc, are so self-toxic and detrimental to the overall resistance and revolution like... you can't cut everyone off until it your small fanclub in a wooden house and expect a world-changing revolution to occur. You can't.

So yes, all cops are bastards, all soldiers are bastards, but it doesn't mean you don''t stick around and try to change their minds later on, it doesn't mean you just tear up all connections with them. And ofc no one has to stick with someone if they're scared of them, I'm not saying that. Trust me, I hate the police, I hate soliders and the army and everything to do with it, but I will be damned before I seal off my buds and remove what might be the only radical voice they know from their lives, which only further embeds them as a cog in the machine.

like ffs there are 15000 trans people in active service RIGHT NOW, and that's only estimated. There are 130,000 ESTIMATED trans reservists and veterans. More than a fifth of all trans people in the US are military affiliated. I for one am not comfortable condemning a fifth of the trans population from ever radicalizing because they signed a piece of paper as a scared, desperate, hungry teenager. There has to be room to allow people to improve. You have to let people improve. You can;t build a revolution out only people who've held entirely pure lives and never made mistakes, and a lot of online leftists like to act as if that's the way it is, which I find to be absurdly liberal thinking that everyone must adhere to a life-long ideological litmus test spanning birth to death. Let people have a journey of radicalization ffs.

[forthosethatdont]

[Annotated] [Lyrics] Chapter 273 - So Much Pain | 4. Shout Out (Icey Hott)

Tell me, nigga’s ass get sent to the motherfuckin’- crossroads fuckin’ around wit’ that southcoast, boy I’m tellin’ ya, that southcoast so real, boy Don’t mess with the South. I-I rolled down da motherfuckin’ flip road down the street, nawatimsayin’ Drove through town. ain’t nothin’ but playas, nigga I’m tellin’ ya, I been in that H, nigga, I’m H-town deep, shit mayne, nawatimtalkinbowt Houston born and bred, and proud. Sunnyside, nigga, green shacks, four bedrooms, nawatimsayin’ whole family livin’ in that hole, nigga, strugglin’ mayne I’m tellin’ ya straight by addicts, nigga, straight by addicts, mayne Shotgun houses, common in Houston ghettos, of which Sunnyside is the oldest. where da motherfuckin’, where da brick was, where the whole in da wall where da lil’ brick was, where tha car ran into da lil’, da lil’ bricks in the wall we stayed up stairs from the othah side, right up theyuh yeauh, stayed in that jail house, nawatimtalkinbowt A car ran into a building near the police department while they were sitting in jail. *laugh* I’m talkin’ bout, man, just straight doh, representin’ that motherfuckin’ rap game, dawg that rap game, world-wide doh, down south, that Gulf Coast, nawatimsayim’ Rapping the way it is meant to be done. niggas have to, niggas have to, we have to stress on these white folks we have to clean on these white folks then, nawatimsayin’ everybody aggravated, let’s click on these white folks though-, den let’s take on these white folks, let’s see what’s real let’s see what’s real, let’s click on these white folks that’s what I wanna do-, what you wanna do Committing crimes out of self-righteous, vengeful frustration caused by their experience of racism. | | |~Yuhhp, that boy John from that Quail, ‘preciate ya boys, all these playas up in heyuh, cross the roads, I promise cuz, all these boys in heyuh real, keep the lord in y'all life mann in y'all eye, I promise mann, it gotta go down ten-two-oh-one motherfuckin’ three-foh three-B, Street Military from Southbank, all the way cross them tracks, I promise cuz, the crossroads’ comin’ to the north, it’s the south, mann, I promise, that Lil’ Black locked up, that boy Mike, mann all them boys, what’s up Lil’ Bill Burn, what’s goin’ down in this bitch, holla'in’ at that Poppy, Pop Rock, everybody, all them boys in the county, all them boys in the pen’, mann keep ya head up mann, that light gonna shine into yo’ eyes mann, we all gonna make a million dawg, I promise cuz-, mann Basically a commercial break, plugging his group and shouting out to some friends that are away. | | Yuh, holla at that, nawatimsayin’, cuzin on that north, up on that trinity garden, nawatimsayin’ I got family out there on that side, too, nawatimsayin’, so what Referencing the feud between the north side and south side of Houston, which the S.U.C. is of the south. Trinity Gardens, another ghetto, previously known as Houston Gardens, was created by F.D.R.’s New Deal. I’m-I'mma I'mma judge every individually individually, nawatimsayin’ what’s in my face, ya nawatimsayin’ it don’t matter what side a nigga from, nawatimtalkinbowt I'mma straight stress what a nigga, what’s in my face if it ain’t real in my face den, it gotta leave out my face, nawatimsayin’ I’m tellin’ ya, that’s straight real Judge everyone as you experience them, not as to how you assume they may be. if it, if uh-thing come to a nigga then nigga gotta handle da business ta-ta get whatever come to you offa you, nawatimsayin’ You have to be able to take care of yourself. there ain’t no such thing as where you from, it where you at, nawatimsayin’ you gotta have yo’ business right deyuh- you can be green, purple, whatever nigga, you gotta have yo’ business doh you gotta have yo’ business doh, forreal doh, am I right doh, huh you gotta have that business, it don’t matter where you from it don’t matter where you from, I’m tellin’ ya there ain’t no, there ain’t no, it-it-it-it gotta be real like that Your actions are what matter, not your history or color. this system made, man, white folks, man, laugh at a nigga everyday, nigga “aw dem nigga pop pop boom pop 'em in da face” Accusing a prejudice and biased society, mocking how they believe they them self are mocked by the beneficiaries of such. I ain’t fittin'a let it, I ain’t fittin’ ta go like that fooh, I ain’t fittin’ ta go like that nigga bust a nigga in da head, mayne, fo’ nuttin, nigga Calling out the reality of unnecessary racially driven deaths, and resistance to such. wit’ da, what’s up then, what’s up then, let’s go start gettin’ some houses den let’s go, let’s go get some cribs then, let’s go, let’s go take some jewelry then let’s go, let’s go get some stores then, let’s go, let’s go shut em down den, let’s shut 'em down like P.E. said, let’s shut em down den, let’s shut em down den Cause havoc out of spite, an attack on the “system” previously referenced. all the bullshit then, let’s shut it down forreal den Stop fighting among yourselves, so the “system” can be overcome. | | |~That J Deuce mayne, stay up, stay real, baby, keep shiftin’ |~N M D B, baby |~K Deuce, Leevy, Lil’ Cole |~Dewberry, cuz, that Dew Various shout outs and praises.