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It doesn't, but whomever made it forgot to remove that toggle, I guess 🤷🏻

Or maybe that was something I should have done when uploading to catbox? 🤷🏻

Either way, no sound 😁

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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

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A few protesters broke away and spray-painted graffiti on employees’ cars and a security post, slashed the tires on a government van and broke a security camera

That's just vandalism, which is a perfectly acceptable form of protest against fascist concentration camps.

When a police officer arrived at the scene, drawing his gun, an armed protester shot her rifle, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.

And that's defense of self and others against potentially deadly violence from a member of a gang known to murder with impunity.

After a three-week trial, a jury found eight of nine protesters guilty of “providing material support to terrorists”, among other crimes. For the Sotos, this “material support” included owning a “printing press” used to print anarchist zines and being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued. The couple had already left the scene by the time guns were drawn. All eight of the defendants sentenced so far have received unusually harsh sentences – 30 to 100 years – essentially life in prison.

If anybody had suggested that as part of the plot of a Hollywood movie 10-15years ago, they'd be rejected for being WAY too over the top on the draconian oppression for anyone to suspend disbelief.

Truly a ridiculously monstrous miscarriage of justice.

The federal government’s focus on the possession of leftwing literature, including zines, and other basic security measures common in our modern era – like owning Faraday bags, meant to block wireless signals to prevent surveillance; using the encrypted messaging app Signal; or dressing in all-black clothing – is alarming to activists.

And it fucking SHOULD be.

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I'm thinking they worked for the hardware store and bungled the sealing so catastrophically that the higher ups refuse to take any chances on the risk of such calamities reoccurring.