Turns out the camera is a very effective anti-fascism tool

[Andrew - EOSHD]

Unusually, Petapixel and DPReview have found a backbone and posted some interesting stuff in relation to the Minneapolis protests.

https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/6336791578/john-abernathy-pierre-lavie-protest-photographers-ice-minneapolis-thrown-leica

Imagine for a moment if smartphones and this Leica didn't exist.

All we'd have to go on is the lies coming out of the federal government and they'd easily be able to smear the dead and do the big cover-up operation they're attempting to do now.

But the images all around social media tell a different narrative.

And I for one commend the bravery of the folk on the streets with their cameras.

The truth is constantly being debased and it really took the biscuit last week with Trump's denial of British and NATO troops service in the Gulf War, Iraq War and Afghanistan. They were on the front lines and gave their lives for it.

To anyone still thinking of voting Reform in the UK, or for those who voted for Trump at any point, surely your eyes are not still CLOSED after what you are seeing in recent weeks? If yours are, I'd be fascinated to know why.

[fuzzynormal]

I wish video documentation would stop it.  But if you're here you'd kind of know it's not gonna stem the tide in my nation.  Shame and reality are irrelevant now; doesn't move the needle.  As an American it's pretty easy to see that the collapse of our ideals post WWII society is inevitable.  The capitalists want it and they have the power, they control the narratives.  And the narratives don't offer rationality--they just offer ideological excuses.   Not exactly sure why the powerful want this.  Maybe they're just cruel people?  Maybe they know climate change is coming and will cause crisis so they need to lock things down with fascism to have societal control while covering their asses(ts)?  I don't know.  I do know I'm sad.  I would've rather not lived through this.

[Andrew - EOSHD]

1 minute ago, fuzzynormal said:

I wish video documentation would stop it.

I'm more optimistic than you on this front.

[fuzzynormal]

2 minutes ago, Andrew - EOSHD said:

I'm more optimistic than you on this front.

I want to be wrong...but my own family...man.  It's not good.

[Snowfun]

And, unfortunately, it is becoming too easy to blame AI for the creation of material we don't like.