a few things about the pelosi graffiti incident:
- the can control skills (the writing style & the way the letters fade from top to bottom) make it clear that the writer was an experienced graffiti artist
- the phrase “we want everything” is directly lifted from a book title by the relatively obscure italian anarchist nanni balestrini and i just don’t know why a fed would do that much in-depth research on anarchism for a fake graffiti job
- it’s not implausible at all that a random anarchist would be pissed enough at nancy pelosi to tag her house
- if you spray paint toward a ledge at an angle the spray paint is going to hit the ledge and stop because that is how particles work
- what would be the point of faking a message that’s actually pretty relatable instead of something more hyperbolic and aggressive to alienate people from the cause (which is generally the point of false flag operations)?
- why do people think this one is fake but the mitch mcconnell one is not? is it the pig’s head? that was admittedly gross
- people paint circle a’s in all kinds of fucky ways i see em out in the world all the time
- why do you want it to be fake so bad…they all deserve to have their houses vandalized every day at the very least but ideally they deserve much worse than that
- politicians should feel lucky that spray paint is thus far the only consequence for their actions after what they’ve done to us and they should be appropriately concerned about the possibility of being torch-and-pitchforked
- fuck nancy pelosi
concerned about how many people i’ve seen uncritically reblog a “there’s no paint on the bricks!!” post.
who does it serve when you spread rumors and baseless speculation? what is the benefit of saying it was a false flag op with no actual evidence?
is it because you don’t want people to think we’re angry or that we want everything? you should be angry and you should want everything for us and they should know it.
is it because you think of nancy pelosi as a lesser enemy than mitch mcconnell? she isn’t.
is it because you think we shouldn’t be vandalizing politicians’ houses at all? because we’ll never be given anything by asking nicely and vandalism is the absolute least we should be prepared to do in terms of dissent. i personally would love to see more politicians’ homes vandalized bc they still feel untouchable even after everything they’ve done to us and nothing short of direct action will make them uncomfortable enough to concede anything to us. i don’t even really care about the off-chance that it is fake because either way it sets a good example.
why do you actively want it to be fake? why would it be better if were?
why does an op seem more likely to you than legitimate anger in the wake of injustice?
did you think it through or did you see a post about it and take it at face value?
did you reblog a picture of mitch mcconnell’s address this week?