Jerry Boyle
He/Him; Fenian Bastard;
Area Code 1312
I speak here only for myself. Any affiliates are blameless.
“If someone only looks at you to find a flaw, you're under no obligation to afford them a view.”
- Despite the debates over the Columbus statues in Chicago, the bottom line is that they were never coming back because they are piñatas, guaranteed to draw vandalism.
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View full threadAll three Columbus statues in Chicago were removed by the City shortly thereafter. We know we live on stolen land. We do not honor monuments to genocide.
- And we know our history’s complicated, but reckon with it. The first settler here was a Black Haitian married to a Potawatomi woman. They set up a trading post where the river meets the lake, founded our City.
- It was one of the more intense conflicts of the ‘20 Uprising here. After the cops retook Grant Park with overwhelming force, I thought: “They won the battle, but lost the war. That statue’s just a piñata now.”
- Ballot box poison. Rahm Emanuel was a spectacular failure as an elected official. It’s why he was exiled to Japan. Chicago has receipts.
- Wait . . . was she trying to insult us? Or is she just jealous?
- Quakebuttocks:* These guys are scared, pathetic. Remember that. Difference triggers a hyperarousal response, which is bivalent; and it doesn’t take much to flip them from fight to flight.
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View full threadFor them, the way they’re trained, the use of force begins with mere physical presence, a show of force *is* a use of force. And you can tell a lot about them by comparing precisely *how* they present themselves to the threat presented to them.
- So, for instance, when you see cops dressed like this to snatch some people from a building, confronted by a small group of relatively polite white folks, compare them. Then it’s easy to see who has the courage, and who’s scared to death. Quakebuttocks.
- Over the years I’ve literally faced off with thousands of cops in paramilitary gear. And I’m just a lanky gray wisp of a guy in jacket, tie, and eyeglasses. They’re terrified, butt cheeks quaking beneath the macho armor.
- I do Legal at protests. I’m not in the crowd, or even watching it. I’m on the edge of the crowd, standing between the clients and the cops, eyes pointed *away* from the crowd, watching the cops. And what I see is abject fear masked with an overcompensating display of aggression.
