Notices by 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠 🌻🏴:heart_bi: (tothedaring@kolektiva.social)

If you’d like to read more about RevCom / Refuse Fascism / Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, their patterns, history, and criticism have been covered in @Vice and @theintercept by @annamerlan and @robertmackey

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axx7q/the-abortion-rights-group-other-activists-want-nothing-to-do-with

https://theintercept.com/2022/07/14/rise-up-4-abortion-rights-protests-revcom

@benda @Vice @theintercept @annamerlan @robertmackey too much of that going around these days so i hear you there. glad we’re on the same page 💪 nothing communist or revolutionary about RevCom grifters

🔔 Friendly PSA for people on @kolektiva & adjacent instances and those following or supporting the #StopCopCity movement:

A group known as Refuse Fascism (@/refusefascism/@mastodon.world) is on Mastodon and they seem to have a sizeable reach.

This group is associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party a.k.a. RevCom as well as Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, none of which are to be trusted and I would suggest considering adding them to block lists.

These groups are known among organizers to:
• collaborate with police
• stifle dissent
• perpetuate harmful ideas & myths
• perpetuate racism & transphobia
• swoop demonstrations or co-opt movement engagement for their own ends (like funneling green protesters into their cult-like patterns of behavior or their fundraising efforts—including merch—that diverting funds away from longtime and legitimate outfits)

The last point is critical because prior to the Supreme Court decision to overturn protections, they had no established presence or platform in this movement space then spun up Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights to capture newly generated interest among new or young activists. They appear to be using the same playbook for the #StopCopCity movement.

While I am a leftist, I’ve always been baffled by the “LOL 9/11” humor. It’s so vapid and immature to me.

It’s not exactly deep analysis to point out that US Gov was to blame as much as the hijackers and those that make the case that the attacks targeted financial and military strongholds are looking at it from a geopolitical standpoint, but neither make sense of or validate the childish look-at-me-I’m-edgy humor over the death. Yeah, who gaf about the buildings, but there were numerous innocent people killed.

What’s interesting to me, is that there’s a pattern I’ve noticed about the people that go hard on 9/11 jokes. They tend to invariably be the least likely to engage in substantive political conversation because even my moisturizer goes deeper than their ideology, and there’s no chance in hell they’ll pull up when fash show up to counter-demos.