Admittedly they have been labeling all of israel as high risk for travel, and certain areas as “very high risk” since at least mid-May, and issued a vague warning on friday right as things were kicking off. But an additional “get tf out now” on saturday seems like an obvious choice…

possible source (though they do just say “Circulating:” so I don’t think they originated it.)

I don’t think there’s any reason to believe this is real

I fucking love this quote every time. Getting a lot of mileage out of it

he really thought he could just go home. (the rest is somewhat speculation)

He hoofed it to his crash pad in the city, picked up a car that wasn’t in his name and a cowboy hat, drove towards home, ditched the car and the hat on some dirt road in the sticks, and tried to hike the last few miles home through farm fields. Meanwhile he had already long since been ID’d by the fake cop car’s ownership and spotted on CCTV leaving his pad with the cowboy hat, so the house had been raided and he just… hid in the fields? until they caught him with drones.

if he were hiding out somewhere… anywhere… just not near his home, he could’ve stood more of a chance. Just drive out into the woods, either hide the car off the road or ditch it entirely, and then play survivalist for a while. I mean he’d still have been caught eventually, but he could’ve gotten a long way and stood a chance if he wasn’t such a dumb chud. Good thing he was lol.

The liberapay takes a variety of typical credit/debit cards via stripe. Idk if that works for you but its more accessible than US-only payment apps and shit

beats the sex pest, but I’m not holding my breath

When it’s spread out over 150 sq. miles I’m not so sure lmao (and that’s just the city limits, the metro area is almost 4500 square miles!!)

I mean it is a city, but its not particularly large, and the way it’s laid out its like 3 suburbs in a trenchcoat

edit: okay honestly not as bad as I thought. It’s almost twice as dense as my rubric for “really more of a town” type places, but half as dense as what I’d consider definitely real cities (still pretty low density by non american standards)

FUCK! I KNEW WE HAD ONE BUT I COULDN’T FIND IT

fair lol. gotta know the right people I guess to get advice on that. my thinking was that immigration “crimes” are not really the same as other crimes (in some countries at least). Pursued by different authorities, openly tolerated by most people, etc.

could you not just come in on a tourist visa and then try and live off the grid until shit hits the fan to the point where deporting you back to america becomes a lower priority? idk maybe thats unrealistic in this day and age but how hard could it be to find under-the-table or online work/roommates and get by for a while? Esp if you made some comradely friends online first before coming

I can see it now: cops throw tear gas upwind, it immediately blows back at them and behind their lines, the marines don’t have gas masks so they get gassed and then all hell breaks loose as soon as some rocks start getting thrown into the clouds of tear gas

Yeah I’m definitely not a liberal

doing your best impression of one then?

But I’m not going to pretend that I’m super stoked about a bunch of people from a country that’s been threatening to invade my country coming here either. Don’t know how Americans don’t understand this about their effects on other countries and how it makes them feel about your country.

This is just nationalism. The tiny little seedling of reactionary cancer in your mind. The logic that leads people to fighting wars they never needed any part of to preserve or glorify a state that doesn’t give a fuck about them.

Of course nobody wants to be invaded or annexed by america, but accepting a few refugees ain’t that. And even if I accept your premise of needing to defend kkkanadian culture, American cultural influence doesn’t come from a few too many americans crossing the border, if anything its primarily 1) media like I said is far and away the biggest, and 2) canadians going to the US for work and bringing it home. And probably a few other factors I’m forgetting off the top of my head, but not a few genuinely endangered fuckin refugees

I don’t expect anyone to feel anything positive about america, if anything I wish people hated it more, both in America and around the globe, but recognizing the humanity in those who choose or are forced to leave it, is pretty basic stuff. They’re human beings not a pernicious influence on “muh culture”. Especially not in a country that’s just as much of a dogshit settler state as america is but in a slightly different flavor

PNW is full of fascists

but so’s everywhere I guess, to slightly varying degrees

A vast majority of you guys who think you’re “one of the good ones” are in fact not “one of the good ones.”

Perhaps you, the liberal handwringing about american influence on your culture in response to a trans person not wanting to get genocided in america, is “not one of the good ones”. Jesus how hard is it to think these things through before you say shit? Honestly, a bunch of white liberals, I get having some qualms, though the cultural influence talking point is far more pertinent in reference to media than via any imaginable number of refugees coming up.

Edit: AND ANOTHER THING, ITS NOT A “GUY”

2 mins in GIMP

original photog did all the hard work though tbf

NO you have to ALWAYS keep going and keep escalating until you all get kettled and rounded up so you can be ID’ed and catch charges

I meet a fair number of cool anarchists but I do think the less-cool ones tend to be way more susceptible to this type of thing. I hear this kind of “drama” locally as well about various orgs and I genuinely assume that when it’s this deranged the person is either a wrecker or wreckers have their ear and they’re just unthinkingly spreading it (this is more likely but always hard to tell)

Highly dramatic stories that turn out to be completely made up are pretty commonplace here, they just kind of materialize from someone who heard it secondhand or heard it on the ground from an unidentifiable person

It doesn’t help that the coolest anarchists doing the most praxis got infiltrated by feds a few years back, that probably skews my perception of the remainder of publicly identified anarchists towards dumb shit

Of course baby MLs get sucked into all kind of dumb shit too, weird cults, uninspired book worship, cargo cult behavior like printing paper newspapers constantly as their main/only outreach, etc.

yeah. I think demoralization, staffing levels, and shit like you describe, has done more to improve the police situation in portland/mpls than intentional reforms tbh

it also produces some negative outcomes in terms of just lawlessness, but I’m not convinced its not a net positive to just have lazy cops who won’t get off their asses since less police interaction=less harm

hassy actually wearing some PPE and a press tag today

I know the cat is out of the bag on this generally but it feels weird to go to this sort of thing and livestream still to me. no opportunity to blur faces if you witness something cool