this is a gentle reminder to posters in this thread that the fediverse in general is nowhere near secure from an opsec perspective; don’t post anything that compromises yourself or us.
with that said, happy December 4th to those who celebrate. post commemorative cocktail recipes here.
e: remember, they call it the fediverse cause it’s full of feds
Don’t plan murders over the fediverse no
However celebrate that shit. We don’t answer to advertisers, we’re self and community funded.
This is one of the huge benefits of the fediverse.
I started thinking about when Emma Goldman’s partner Alexander Berkman tried to kill a 19th century robber baron who had sent in Pinkerton to murder workers into ending a strike.
One can make an argument about the economic conditions creating the condition’s for what the anarchists back then called “the propaganda of the deed”. But that isn’t where I am going. Instead let’s look at the aftermath.
From an assassination perspective, the quality of the assassination was lacking. Also, Wikipedia (my bold):
Frick was back at work within a week; Berkman was charged and found guilty of attempted murder. Berkman’s actions in planning the assassination clearly indicated a premeditated intent to kill, and he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.[5] Negative publicity from the attempted assassination resulted in the collapse of the strike.[19]
In other words, today’s robber barons gets less sympathy than the O.G. kind. That’s a bit interesting.
Berkman’s case had the perception of doing something violent to end a strike. UHC is pure retribution (for now). It hits differently.
