Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating if saboteurs placed bugs in a breakfast buffet prepared for delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.
“Multiple unknown female offenders are alleged to have entered a building…and began placing unknown objects onto tables containing food,” the convention’s information center said in a statement. “The offenders are believed to have then left the area. One victim was treated and released on-scene. Along with CPD, FBI-Chicago is assisting in the investigation.”
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Yeah I’m not really stoked about the food safety implications and food waste for the rest of us if “bugs in food” protests become normal, but I still think that inconveniencing and antagonizing powerful people complicit in genocide is in general an acceptable form of protest. It accomplishes perpetual and fractal (“at all levels”) discomfort for their actions as long as they continue them.
Why are you assuming that this is about Palestine?
Good question! Because of:
Last month, maggots and other insects were reportedly released at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Chicago has seen nightly protests during the convention by organizations seeking an end to the Gaza war and an end to U.S. military support for Israel.
And because Palestine is the main focus of DNC protests right now, i.e. the big thing that the DNC is choosing to ignore.
Frankly, if it ends up being a Republican or non-political attack, I’m still cool with seeing the ruling class squirm even if it’s done by assholes for the wrong reasons.
But also, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with Palestine, that is far from the only reason to be irritated with the Democrats. For example:
- Their continued funding and support of police
- Their continued material support of capitalism and neoliberalism
- Their support for putting down radical movements,
- Their tendency to soften radical movements (for example, abolish the police -> defund the police)
- Their quiet support for racism at home and abroad
- Their use of jails and prisons
- Their imperialist foreign policy (other than on Palestine)
- Their enforcement of borders (which has been strengthened under the Biden administration)
- Their rejection of refugees that their foreign and climate policies created
- Their tolerance of LGBTQI oppression
- Their attempts to destroy what little privacy we have left and destroy our precious free internet
- Their antagonism towards homeless people in a country with more empty homes than homeless people, a system of property ownership that they fundamentally support
- Their refusal to fix the Supreme Court, which they absolutely have the power to do
And so much more! All while pretending to be the party of progress, they are in fact the party whose sole goal is to prevent more radical change being imposed on the ruling class from below!
The problem is that without attaching an actual message to the action, it’s just an attack. It doesn’t convey anything, doesn’t further any agenda.
Agreed.
Hence why I’m expressing my schadenfreude that it happened at all, rather than saying “yeah this is a perfect protest by perfect people who are definitely 100% confirmed doing this for perfect reasons that I perfectly agree with”.
In fact, I said as much in the comment you replied to:
Frankly, if it ends up being a Republican or non-political attack, I’m still cool with seeing the ruling class squirm even if it’s done by assholes for the wrong reasons.
I’m not operating under the pretense that it is necessarily revolutionary action. I’m simply expressing my frustration at Democrat ghouls and laughing at their misery because they give us nothing else in return for our submission.
What a brain-dead take wow
What an atrocious waste of food. And what exactly was this supposed to accomplish? What did their best case scenario look like?
Probably cause some slight discomfort to genociders?
Childish sure, but it’s a noble goal to harass and disrupt these scum anyway possible.
yeah I somehow doubt that the people attending the DNC are the same people murdering innocent civilians in Palestine. There is quite a gap between “people not prioritizing pressuring the current administration as to their support of isreal” vs “people actively engaging in genocide.”
“Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating if saboteurs placed bugs in a breakfast buffet prepared for delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.”
They are DNC delegates, according to the article. You think they are scum and you call them genociders?
Do I think the DNC are scum who silence Palestinians and support Israel like nearly everyone else in US politics does?
Yes.
Huh, I suppose if you do support Palestine, you can’t be a DNC delegate?
Huh, I suppose if you do support Palestine, you can’t be a DNC delegate?
Of course not, you simply shouldn’t be a DNC delegate if you support Palestine. Because they’ll point at these delegates and use them as props to say “see, we’re listening to Palestinians” while not changing course.
These are not ordinary voters, these are sometimes local politicians but competing to run the same machine as their more successful national counterparts. These individuals have some degree of power and influence, and they’re choosing to use it for the American Empire.
Zero pity for these turbo-losers getting bugs in their food. Admittedly, making “putting bugs in food” a popular protest tactic doesn’t set a great precedent considering the food safety implications for everyone else, but food safety concerns are NOTHING compared to what Palestinians are suffering at the delegates’ party’s hands.
You are making this the ONLY issue in the world. I fucking hate the israeli government for what they are doing. Fuck israel. But you are willing to let everyone around you burn for this. Willing to let lgbt, people of color, students, poor people and the working class be oppressed and possibly murdered. Because trump WILL make sure of that.
Willing to let lgbt, people of color, students, poor people and the working class be oppressed and possibly murdered.
Sounds like what’s happening right fucking now under a Democrat presidency!
How many times do you have to try to kick Lucy’s football before you realize that she’s punking you?!?
Voting for President merely ratifies decisions already made by capital. I’m not voting for your candidate, and I refuse to be guilted for decisions already made by capital.
Because trump WILL make sure of that.
Trump winning would be an indicator of the trajectory you have no control over as far as the ballot box is concerned.
But you are willing to let everyone around you burn for this.
No I am not. I want people to organize themselves against the system, not within it. The system itself is the problem. Having “”“good people”“” is insufficient to get even mediocre change. See self-described socialist AOC speedrunning ghoulification.
So what you’re saying is that we should let trump win and let israel completely wipe gaza and the west bank off the map? We don’t vote for harris because we love her or something. We vote to keep fascists from winning and destroying everything.
What is it with you people? Im pro-palestine but do you want lgbt people murdered, people of color even more oppressed, set back society 80 years, possibly never get to vote again because trump WILL make sure of that. And dont forget destroying educations, food health and safety and other laws and institutions that makes society better and safer?
I get that democrats are not doing nearly enough to stop israel. But trump will do so so so much worse. And not only the palestinian people, but also america itself.
Ok so was it tankies or MAGA?
Brother I fucking wish Marxist-leninists were enough of a problem to create real life news. I might not be one, but they actually make a good foil for dem socialists.
I’m guessing qanon brand crazies, Alex Jones types are constantly saying that the dems are trying to force everyone to eat bugs so I imagine it’s related to that.
Ok so MAGA
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abrahamic religions are the scourge of the earth. maybe they will all kill each other somehow and we can try to have an actual global society without a bunch of religious freaks ruining it. the earth could use about 6 billion less people. i can easily think of which ones should go first.
the earth could use about 6 billion less people. i can easily think of which ones should go first.
Least genocidal shitlib
i prefer animals
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If you don’t care then shut the fuck up.
