@artemis @burnoutqueen
I came across information about the Black Panther Party and the incomprehensible levels of cruelty the US government has deployed to shut down dissidence, even if the dissidence was feeding hungry children.

“COINTELPRO also aimed to dismantle the Black Panther Party by targeting their social/community programs, including its Free Breakfast for Children program, whose success had served to “shed light on the government’s failure to address child poverty and hunger—pointing to the limits of the nation’s War on Poverty”. According to Bloom & Martin, the FBI denounced the party’s efforts as a means of indoctrination because the party taught and provided for children more effectively than the government

I’m in Poland, here we have very deeply rooted racism against the Roma, a disturbing amount of casual antisemitism, and the more I learn about EU’s Frontex the more outraged I am. EU is so proud about privacy laws and all that shit but according to the state suddenly when it’s immigrants they no longer deserve those allegedly basic human rights. Poland has suspended the right to asylum, which isn’t even a legal thing to do, just to keep out immigrants.

It’s always a play on people’s fears, “but if we didn’t require visa applicants to provide documentation outlining all of their international travels ever how would we make sure they are who they say they are”, idk we give citizens personal identification numbers, we give intra-EU immigrants extra country specific personal identification numbers, you can just issue them a document and put them in a database it’s not rocket science, would be much cheaper that way too, but I guess we just really need that sweet sweet denied visa revenue? The revenue that goes back into funding Frontex? It’s horrible.