• they/them

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.

host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)

chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)

other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)


vogon
@vogon

https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/06/02/seattle-democrats-mulling-drug-law-siccing-republican-city-attorney-on-the-poor/

https://twitter.com/GuyOron/status/1665814820266946568

the city attorney and CMs sara nelson1 and alex pedersen, now joined by dan strauss, are pushing this initiative through the city council while completely skipping the committee process and apparently doing next-to-zero due diligence to ensure that it doesn't kill people or harm marginalized groups


  1. who, it should be repeated, is literally a drug dealer -- she runs a local "microbrewery" that produces 30 million gallons of beer a year, as of a decade ago -- and was until recently knowingly violating city law by blocking the curb lane of the streets outside her brewery with concrete blocks to prevent people camping in RVs from parking there


pnictogen-wing
@pnictogen-wing

stories like this make it pretty easy to guess why: capitalism wants to turn cities into 24/7 moneymaking machines, running at full steam all the time, and that of course furnishes ample excuse to lock down urban centers with heavy policing. effectively the entire city is to become an "office park", always 'on'. https://archive.is/kSwyM ~Chara


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in reply to @vogon's post:

This is very dumb. What I want to know is: what do they actually think is going to happen after this? Because what definitely isn't going to happen is people quitting their drug addictions as a result.

in reply to @DavidForbes's post:

Oh they've always been horrible but in recent years they've dropped the facade completely and are going more brazenly authoritarian. In the city I'm in for example camp sweeps, open attacks on any activists they don't directly control, gutting services, arrests/prosecution of journalists have all escalated in major ways they hadn't before.

Basically 2020 reminded the gentry most people hate their guts so they're doubling down in an attempt to preserve/increase gentrification at all costs. It's an old story, but we're in an even uglier chapter of it.

forgive me for being stuck in this mode but is there any chance they don't just win? Feels like they're just going to win and we're going to get the eugenicist human factory-farm society where being caught being homeless for one entire second means you get sent to a labor camp for decades.

They're certainly dangerous but also a hell of a lot weaker than they let on. The cops here have had about half the force quit due to how much the public hates them and even after pouring cash into their budget they still can't replace their losses. With months to prepare Atlanta's elite could only find four people to speak in defense of Cop City.

I absolutely get this fear but also, from experience, see a lot of the weaknesses they try to hide. Yes, there's a very real chance they don't win.