Karl AuerbachJan 11

I've been beaten by the LAPD. I lived in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I've been tear gassed and watched police push people backwards off of highway overpasses. I knew and understood many Black Panthers.

I am sick and tired of Kumbaya songs. I am sick and tired of turn-the-other-cheek reactions to current affairs in the US.

But I am also a lawyer, sworn to peaceful methods.

What do I do?

What strikes me is the age old method of ostracism - practiced in ancient Athens, written about in plays like Lysistrata, and rendered into strong force by churches through the practice of excommunication.

We ought to perform civil excommunication on ICE agents - do not sell or rent products to them in stores, do not rent hotel rooms to them, do not fund them, treat them like modern day lepers. Businesses should make it clear that they will never be hired for a job. Do not adopt Jesus' policy of acceptance of them.

Spread their names so that we may cut them off from society.

Show threadWhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮Jan 12
@karlauerbach Or shoot them.
Show threadKevin LeecasterJan 12
@NickSchwanck @karlauerbach
Do you honestly believe that a 2nd hot Civil War is a good idea or are you just an accelerationist that is privileged enough to know you would not suffer from the actions you encourage?
Show threadWhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮Jan 12
@GreenFire @karlauerbach No. I don't think it's a "good idea", nor do I envy your position.
But I know history. And for all your name calling, I doubt you're going to vote your way out of this.
Americans are really starting in with "don't blame us".
Well, the rest of us didn't fucken elect him and now he's a danger to us all. This is YOUR problem to solve.
Show threadKevin Leecaster

@NickSchwanck @karlauerbach
You, of course, not being a fucking American know absolutely nothing about the American politics you are interfering in from across an ocean.

It was not Americans who elected him. It was the Americans who you foreign agitators convinced not to vote who put back into office plus a bunch of other headwinds liberalism has had globally lately.

Jan 12 at 4:19amWeb
Show threadI AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑‍🔥Jan 12

@GreenFire
Non-Americans can know plenty about your political system, thanks. Often more than Americans.

@NickSchwanck @karlauerbach

Show threadKevin LeecasterJan 12
@xinit @NickSchwanck @karlauerbach
Dunning-Kruger most definitely knows no boundaries.
Show threadWhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮Jan 12
@xinit @GreenFire @karlauerbach 👏👏👏
Show threadsherbangJan 12

@GreenFire @NickSchwanck @karlauerbach I am an American (well at least for a little longer). Does your family not have a bunch of fascist sympathizing Trump supporters in it? That would make for a rare exception.

It's not like any of this is new. Trump's behavior is only the stuff the Republicans have been pushing for since Regan (at least). They're just not afraid to say the quiet part out loud anymore.

Show threadsherbangJan 12

@GreenFire @NickSchwanck @karlauerbach The land of the trail of tears, slavery, Nazi sympathizer rallies in the 30s, Japanese "internment" campus, the KKK, water boarding prisoners, "liberating" oil-rich lands, etc, etc.

Proud American history.