{"id":74,"date":"2017-01-22T22:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/22\/of-technocrats-and-black-blocs\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:22:42","slug":"of-technocrats-and-black-blocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/01\/22\/of-technocrats-and-black-blocs\/","title":{"rendered":"Of technocrats and black blocs."},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a>, about Dubya\u2019s America, remains a lesson yet to be learned<\/a> in today\u2019s post-Dem America.<\/p>\n

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The truly rich are so used to instant gratification that they\u2019re consumed with fury when the technocrats inform them reality won\u2019t grant them their every desire. Rather than accepting they can\u2019t transform the entire mideast into a society that worships Tax Cut Jesus, the rich blame the technocrats for purposefully obstructing their cunning plan.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening now is the technocracy is organizing itself to fight back. MoveOn, the Obama campaign, blogland\u2014that\u2019s the technocracy in action. But the only way they\u2019ll win is by allying themselves to the 80% of Americans who have essentially no power. And technocrats can almost never bring themselves to identify downward. (I didn\u2019t get a PhD in mechanical engineering so I\u2019d have to join no union!) Meanwhile, the 80% can smell the fact that many technocrats do have contempt for them and have no intention of sharing real power\u2014making the 80% vulnerable to rhetorical attacks on the technocratic elite.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s time to venture out of our comfort zone, in thinking first so that the principles and assumptions behind our involvement are checked for validity against today\u2019s reality and its trajectory. The following might be easier to digest for us devotees of civility if represented as \u201ccoloring outside the lines\u201d and \u201cthinking outside the box\u201d:
\nNeo-Nazi Richard Spencer Got Punched\u2014You Can Thank the Black Bloc<\/a><\/p>\n

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We were heading south when riot cops cut us off just a few blocks from the unimpressive inauguration crowds. We ran, altogether, for some short minutes, which felt long. The Metropolitan Police Department doused us with pepper spray and dispensed flash-bang and smoke grenades, and finally trapped a large section of the bloc against a wall. These members of the black bloc were kettled there for over four hours, forced at various times to form human cubicles around those detainees who could no longer hold their bladders. The bloc never found full force en masse again, but clashes with cops, mild altercations with rowdy Trump supporters, and attacks on property continued throughout the afternoon and evening in fits and starts. At some point, someone punched Spencer. While the over 200 arrestees were held for 24 hours, jail support volunteers waited for them patiently while the Women\u2019s March filled DC streets and then dispersed. The J20 detainees have been released, some with felony rioting charges to be tried in DC Superior Court next month\u2014a harsh prosecutorial reaction that seasoned DC activists had not expected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This, about Dubya\u2019s America, remains a lesson yet to be learned in today\u2019s post-Dem America. The truly rich are so used to instant gratification that they\u2019re consumed with fury when the technocrats inform them reality won\u2019t grant them their every … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,65,241,348],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-bloc","tag-class-war","tag-neo-nazis","tag-technocrats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/11\/11\/a-fallen-black-soldier-being-disrespected-thats\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"A fallen black soldier being disrespected? 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