#patriotic resistance

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Propaganda posters in Wuhan, mid-1938. Found in an album that had belonged to Leslie Reginald Frederick Shrimpton RN (1910-1964), who served on the gunboat HMS Falcon in China waters from 1937 to 1939. All photographs and descriptions with translations from University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China. 

1) The banner depicts Nationalist forces attacking the Japanese. The Chinese text on the banner urges viewers to join the military, fight the Japanese, and thereby defend China. Bi-s168

2) Anti-Japanese public hygiene banner. The slogans on the lower banner (depicting a fly with a Japanese Rising Sun Nisshōki emblem) read: 'We need to knock down our enemies with the world's sympathy on us'. 'We need to prevent cholera and kill flies; and if you want to survive, kill the Japanese soldiers'. 'If you don't kill it, it's going to kill you'. The higher banner depicts Japanese bombers attacking a train. A wall poster on the left reads: 'Build a new Great Wall with our heads'.

3) Banner by L'Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS (France, Belgium and Switzerland Returned Students Association), Hankow (Hankou). The banner text provides explicit details that accompany the image of 'cruel massacre and rape never before heard of'. Bi-s163.

4) Propaganda banner featuring Chiang Kai-shek. The slogans on the banner read: 'War of Resistance to the end!' and 'Support the leader'. Chiang Kai-shek is depicted beside Hankou (Wuhan) on the map of war-torn China. This photograph was taken in Wuhan. 

5) The banner slogan reads: 'We demand that the Japanese repay their blood debt!' Photograph taken in Wuhan. Bi-s164. Photograph 3 shows the same building in a different location.. The actual term used here for 'Japanese' is 倭寇 'Dwarf pirates'. Bi-s167.

6) The main banner, showing charging soldiers and workers, bears the slogan: 'Defend Wuhan!' The Hankou (Hankow) bund is depicted in the banner - the clock tower is part of the Custom House. The banner was made by the 'Korean Youth Wartime Service Corps' (朝鲜青年战时服务团), founded in Wuhan in December 1937 by leftist Korean nationalists. Bi-s166.

7) Banner outside the headquarters of "L’Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS", Wuhan. The banner was made by L'Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS (France, Belgium and Switzerland Returned Students Association). The banner slogan reads 'Mobilize the power of the masses to defend Wuhan'. Sign on the window of the L'Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS headquarters building at 69 Jianghan Road (江漢路六十九號) in Hankow (Hankou), in French: BUFFET & BILLIARD. Sign on the window in Chinese: Cold drinks / Coffee. Bi-s162

8) Remarkably, famed war photographer Robert Capa took this photograph of the street from inside of 69 Jianghan Road. This was identified by the excellent Visualizing China blog, and the image is marked from the International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos, who published it with other photos in 2018.

#wuhan #武汉市 #hankou #war propaganda #propaganda #propaganda posters #black and white photography #sino-japanese war #sino japanese war #kuomintang #L'Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS #朝鲜青年战时服务团 #royal navy #republic of china #patriotic resistance #resistance to japan #japanese aggression in china #robert capa

[beneath-the-mask]

Durham Date - Morimyu Op3

#sherliam #yuumori #yuukoku no moriarty #morimyu #yuumori musical #moriarty the patriot #william james moriarty #sherlock holmes #op3 literally blew me away #I couldn't resist making these I mean LOOK AT THEM #they understood the assignment #sorry if these are bad i am not a good gif maker lmao #but for sherliam i will do anything #I want to do a whole analysis of how well these two portrayed sherliam in this scene but literally would be 5000 words of me rambling #feel free to use these gifs just please credit me!

[shinobisandals]

What do you mean this isnt Liam's POV

#Sherliam #I couldnt resist giving the shoujo manga edit #Yuumori #yuukoku no moriarty #moriarty the patriot #sherlock holmes

[reality-detective]

Well Said. 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think for yourself #think for yourselves #think about it #question everything #ask yourself questions #be the resistance #free yourself #freedom fighters #freedoom #patriots

[musette22]

Boston & Cambridge, MA 🇺🇸☀️💛

#just a little impression of my trip so far! #bc some of you said you'd like to see some pics and I love taking pics 🥰 #I'm such a tourist and it's great #I just couldn't resist buying that red sox cap lmao #EVERYONE was wearing it #also yesterday south station was swarming with patriots fans who were heading to the gilette stadium #as I said: the chris vibes were STRONG in boston #I love that city so much #when I grow up and get rich I'm gonna live in beacon hill #anyways sorry about the pic spam but I figured I'd just make one big post instead of actually spamming lol #minnie talks

[mysandwichranaway]

today's warmups.

#men with big tits....wearing corsets.... #i gave zoro a pensive and embarassed look because i thought it would contrast well with his rugged looks #i think it looks nice. and i couldn't resist giving him a corset. so there you go #i'm practicing old men. i hope these look nice haha #warmup #sketch #sandwichart #roronoa zoro #netero #jack #one piece #hunter x hunter #moriarty the patriot #these were requests by the way. i've never seen one piece or moriarty the patriot haha #also please don't steal my art :)

[cicadaland]

But like you would have to like Extract me from nyc I love it too much DESPITE EVERYTHING

#bloggy #I think I just got like appreciationpilled because my mom always wanted to move to nyc since she was thirteen #and so we had a lot of books like about new york around the house #and I was so sheltered thet I didn't really see much of it until I was in middle school #i think it's fine to be patriotic about ur city and appreciate its culture though... #so it can resist homogenization

[hergan416]

Trafalgar Square, Bloody Sunday, Rebellion, Moriarty the Patriot, and The Phantom of Whitechapel

Ok. I think I have finally figured out Bloody Sunday. The wikipedia article is honestly kind of atrocious. I want to update it to be honest. Maybe I'll try when I get done with this 🤷‍♂️

(Long post, etc)

Part 1: Historical Context & Sources

The good source is JSTOR (not the one by Theresa Moriarty, that ended up only really mentioning Bloody Sunday in passing as it related to someone's biography, although I will add it to the list.) Here... have MLA I don't care, you probably really want the link.

Andy Love. “Centenary of Bloody Sunday.” History Workshop, no. 26, 1988, pp. 211–12. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4288877. Accessed 12 Mar. 2023.

If you don't have access to JSTOR this website says similar things, and also claims to cite primary sources. I'm not familiar with the domain though, so take that as you will: https://spartacus-educational.com/TUbloody.htm

Moriarty, Theresa. “Labour Lives, No. 13: May (Abraham) Tennant, 1869-1946.” Saothar, vol. 36, 2011, pp. 99–101. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23200051. Accessed 12 Mar. 2023.

Alright, that out of the way, basically, Bloody Sunday and Trafalgar Square refer to a mass protest by laborers that was met with (brutal) police and military suppression, resulting in continued protests. A group of aligned labor groups had chosen the square, symbolic of the meeting of London's East and West Ends, as a place to protest poor working conditions and low wages.

In addition to the Socialist Democratic Federation, which is discussed at length in (2), the following organizations were present/organizing the attendees at the square: The Socialist League and the unemployed, the Trade Union, and "radical groups." (1) A march was planned, where speakers would address the crowd, and they would make demands. The crowd instead was met by both the military and the police, who fought back brutally, at least according to one of the leaders of the movement, Williams Morris.

Following the events in the square, another prominent leader of the labor rights movement that hadn't been present at the march was run down and killed, sparking further protest over his funeral.

Finally, I want to quote this paragraph from (3) about Bloody Sunday, tying the Jack the Ripper murders to a larger sociopolitical labor rights movement:

"Police brutality in Trafalgar Square in November 1887 brought out thousands to the funeral parades that followed, and embedded 'Bloody Sunday' into the language of public political protest. In the summer of 1888, young Bryant & May women match workers in east London brought their defiant solidarity against their low pay and their hazardous work to the pavements of Westminster. By autumn Whitechapel women walked their neighborhood in fear and public fascination, when 'Jack the Ripper' exposed the lives of their sisters in poverty. London's political culture was being transformed through social concern and sensation..." (3)

Essentially, because of the Jack the Ripper killings, prostitutes now had a reason to join with other women laborers in solidarity-- or at least their concerns have academically been connected; I'm definitely not an expert and I feel like I've done more than enough academic research for someone who is months away from having graduated college 10 years ago and works in fucking retail.

Hopefully that's enough context.

Now, how does this inform my reading of The Phantom of Whitechapel and Moriarty the Patriot?

Part 2: Moriarty the Patriot's Plot

So, remember, in Moriarty the Patriot, the Jack the Ripper killings were being done by organized criminals to spur on a revolution. They want the proletariat to rise up and they aren't afraid to use people they view as inhuman to trigger it.

William sees this right away. After all, other than the fact that he (mostly) doesn't use the underprivileged as bait and pawns, he's doing the same thing. The sensational murders are just somebody else's play.

But, what's truly interesting is the bottom panel, where William brings up something that the Yard had been concerned about earlier:

The Yard might think the Vigilance Committee is the mastermind, instead of this unnamed criminal force, but regardless, William and the Yard are indeed thinking along the same lines. The clash between poor citizens and the police is bringing back memories of another recent clash. It's happening again.

Clearly, the Yard doesn't want to deal with armed rebellion. Their job is to stop it. And the politicians of the time (real life too...(1) and (2)) are exactly with the Yard. They don't want to make concessions or make leeway for commoners, they don't care if conditions improve, and they don't care if they prevent the right to protest in the meanwhile.

Lestrade is right about there being forces above the Yard breathing down the commissioner's neck.

But William... what he's looking at is the way the agitation is taking place. The murders are public, with letters to the press, etc, to create hysteria, and to create the conditions where the people of Whitechapel are confronted with the fact that the people in power are not caring for them. The Yard doesn't care how many prostitutes die. How many citizens in Whitechapel die. They've specifically made disarming the Vigilance Committee their goal.

That's true regardless, and by killing people that are powerless, it becomes exceptionally clear to the populace. They will rise up against the police that fight them instead of protecting them. The revolution will happen.

I want to claim that this cell of agitators is acting disingenuously, but it's only apparent from the text that they don't value all people evenly.

Whatever reason it is they seek proletariat revolution, it's clear they are not ideologically Marxists.

"Dregs of society" "All we did was eliminate some whores." "Society's rubbish." "With coin they'll follow you anywhere." "Worthless." "Meager."

How can anyone leading a proletariat revolution say or believe these things?

"The strong devour the weak" is Machiavellian, not Marxist.

To make it even more personal, William and Louis grew up in Whitechapel. The abandoned library has been taken down, but it was fucking RIGHT HERE.

This group must be culled.

Part 3: My Conclusions

Personally, I read that these men are trying to stir up revolution as a way to gain power. Right now they don't have a lot, and if they control when and how a revolution happens, they can come out on top in the end.

it's clear that they aren't interested in actually changing the status quo, with the strong on top and the weak on bottom. They also aren't actually interested in people's fates.

What does that mean for the plotline and what is being said about Bloody Sunday?

So, obviously this isn't in alignment to the Moriarty Plan, because outside of the one man that Lord Enders murdered and ended up being the centerfold of the act on the Noahtic, we don't really see William using anyone who hasn't already pledged their life to his ideals (and he even tries to respect the dead bodies he uses to the best of his ability). We get a strong stance against it, while having a more "pure" movement being put forward by William et al.

The differences I see are namely: a) consent: most people dying for William's plan have chosen to give their lives to the cause b) respect: William views all people as people and c) punching up instead of down: the people who don't consent to dying for William's plan deserved it. They weren't just stupid, or worthless, or the dredges of society. They were committing crimes against humanity and getting away with it.

But... if these people did do this, and it did incite revolution, and William hadn't stopped it... would it be so bad?

William wouldn't join hands with them. But in a thought experiment where he did, or he didn't exist, what would happen?

A story on NPR recently was talking about how to predict when a populist uprising will happen, and how to tell how successful it will be. This kind of cell, the kind of cell that will gain power from the revolt, the kind of politicians that are the voices of protest, regardless of how corrupt they are... the positioning of these people is basically the strongest predictor of a revolt's success.

So sure, these guys are assholes. But they probably would have succeeded. They would have used the few to create revolution, just as Moriarty does.

To what extent would our world care about the methodology used? To what extent do those differences make a difference? Are the few still not sacrificed for the many? Are the remaining people not better off in the end?

The most informative article about Bloody Sunday was a commemoration of the centennial of the protest. Nothing in the sources I found looked back poorly upon the agitators fighting for labor rights at the time.

I don't think that would change even if these events actually had happened.

And, since William plans to die at the end, take his whole cell with him... what is to say that that someone like this group couldn't still take advantage of his plan to gain power?

Sure, these guys are dead now. But surely they aren't the only ones?

#long post #moriarty the patriot #i have more questions than answers #the moriarty plan is met with so many interesting similar plans throughout the series #also... its interesting because while the manga is ostensibly about class struggle these guys aren't seen as patriots #ever #not like the conservative guy who resists the war in Afghanistan ending because he sees it as a way to maintain Brittain's colonial might #whose only crime was 'not wiling to die for the cause' #EVEN THOUGH HE FUCKING SACRIFICED SOLDIERS. MORAN'S FRIENDS #i have to see how the yard politics play out later #im exhausted #its 1:30am #but yeah... the actual real life events of Bloody Sunday definitely really lean into the themes of the manga and add a lot to think about

[jerseydeanne]

#patriot #resist #freedom isn't free

[p-seduonym]

Ngl its criminal how underrated Moriarty the Patriot is

Liam is prime a yandere material

#yuukoku no moriarty #moriarty the patriot #i just can't resist a victorian man #enrapt in murdere mysteries of his own twisted design #and it works #yanderecore #just let me ramble

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Old-Timers On Parade," Border Cities Star. August 3, 1933. Page 10. ---- Riel Rebellion Veterans At Prince Albert Exhibition ---- King Is Speaker ---- Survivors of Duck Lake And Batoche "Nation's Real Makers" --- PRINCE ALBERT, Sask., August 3. - "The real makers of a nation," to quote Rt. Hon. Mackenzie King, passed before cheering thousands here yesterday. Men and women, some nearing the century mark, with grayed hair, skins tanned by prairie sun and wind, and shoulders bowed by toil, walked by the grandstands in the "old-timers" parade, feature of the Prince Albert fair. SOME ARE 90 NINETY years had passed over the heads of a few. Some were in their prime when the Riel rebellion shook the frontier district. They had served at Batoche and Duck Lake, they knew those stormy days and they knew Riel.

The parade, in which veterans of the prairies who had lived in this district for more than 40 years, were eligible to take part, drew from Mr. King words of admiration. In his speech opening citizens' day, the Liberal leader referred to "the splendid band of old-timers-pioneers in settlement and government, who have helped to build up Canada."

POSSESSED COURAGE "Indomitable courage, self-reliance, endurance and vision" had been their manifestation. These were the qualities to rely on in times of stress, rather than looking to vain remedies.

This is the golden anniversary of the Prince Albert fair. Yesterday it drew to the platform men prominent in the life of the province.

It being citizens' day, Mr. King chose citizenship for his theme. He said as this world progressed the meaning of this word "citizen" expanded. It was not now circumscribed by the locality in which the individual dwelt. A Canadian citizen was a citizen of the British Commonwealth, of the world. The world point of view had now arrived with the growth of communication, transportation and dissemination of knowledge. HUMANITARIANISM NEEDED Human society must "substitute the law of the neighborhood for that of the jungle" if the present-day problems are to find permanent solution, Mr. King asserted at a banquet of the Elks Grand Lodge here last night. The last war constituted a great out- break of the jungle spirit in humanity. but it also served to demonstrate the high spiritual qualities of self-sacrifice, love and bravery in humanbeings.

As a member for the constituency of Prince Albert, in the Federal Parliament, Mr. King welcomed members of the Grand Lodge from Canada and Newfoundland gathered here in annual convention. The problems of humanity are more important than all the great material resources of the world, he said.

Too much endeavor today was devoted to material progress and too little to human life. After all, it would be remembered that material possessions were merely for the purpose of satisfying human needs.

#prince albert #saskatchewan history #riel rebellion #northwest resistance #canadian veterans #settler colonialism in canada #empire building #william lyon mackenzie king #politics of chaos #canadian history #liberal party of canada #member of parliament #fall fair #great depression in canada #canadian patriotism

[lyledebeast]

Does anyone remember Con Air (1997), the action movie with Nicholas Cage where he has the most atrocious Southern accent of all time? It is the first movie I remember watching and enjoying in a way that completely flew in the face of what the filmmakers intended.  I was prepared for The Patriot because of Con Air.  They’re part of the same genre, which is: Dramatizations of Conservative Nightmares that Make You Root for the Villains.

Instead of one British theater queen of a villain we have a coalition of the most diverse and racist collection of villains you could possibly imagine: John Malcovich as the White mastermind, Ving Rhames and Dave Chapelle as the Birth of a Nation-esque Black caricatures, Danny Trejo as the Mexican rapist, and Renoly Santiago as the queer/possibly trans woman Latin character.  

We also have Cameron Poe (Cage) who is Benjamin Martin in the 1990s, sent to prison for killing a man while defending his wife’s honor (i.e. “teaching him a lesson” for threatening her while she’s safe in a car, yelling for Cameron to get back in.  I’m not quite sure it was her honor being defended here). 

Anyway, the premise is that Poe is being sent home after serving his sentence on a plane with the Evil Rainbow Coalition, and in the process of the Coalition hijacking the plane, his diabetic friend (Mykelti Williamson’s) vial of insulin is crushed.  Williamson’s character is the token Black victim and recipient of Poe’s White Saviorism who is there to distract us from the violent racism of the entire rest of the movie.  Poe stays on the plane after he could have gotten away to save his friend and, in the process, kills/subdues the bad people and saves the day.  In spite of the eye-rolling ending, it’s almost worth watching just for the Team Work Makes the Dream Work ethos of the Evil Rainbow Coalition.

Con Air, recommended with All the Reservations in the World!

#con air #the patriot #i was SO obsessed with this movie between the end of high school and my first semester of college #resistant reading #racism in film

[williamkergroach55]

Why is the West in decline ?

The rise and fall of the West is the result of a number of historical factors.

During the #Renaissance (14th-16th centuries), the West benefited from the intellectual, artistic and scientific revival in Western Europe. It fostered the emergence of new ideas and perspectives, stimulating progress in fields such as the arts, sciences, philosophy and literature. Centers such as Florence, Italy, were important centers of this era. Today, these centers are extinct, and there's nowhere to find the intellectual elite in the West.

From the 18th century onwards, the #IndustrialRevolution began in Britain with the introduction of new technologies and production methods, particularly in the textile and mining industries. This led to a major economic, social and technological transformation, marking the beginning of the Industrial Age. Today's robotization and the role of Artificial Intelligence are a monstrous development of this logic of profit and efficiency.

With #Colonization (15th-19th centuries), European powers undertook major colonization campaigns, establishing colonial empires across the globe. Countries such as Spain, Portugal, Great Britain and France established colonies in America, Africa and Asia, seeking to extend their political, economic and cultural influence. Today, the West is polluted and invaded by hordes of wretches who, unfortunately, add no value to Western society.

The #FirstWorldWar (1914-1918) profoundly affected the West. It pitted the Allied Powers, including Great Britain, France and the USA, against the Central Powers, notably Germany and Austria-Hungary. This conflict, waged by the moneyed powers, brought about numerous political, social and economic upheavals, marking the end of the old order and paving the way for the future changes desired by big business. Too many men and women died, and mentalities were damaged by war, rancor and the spirit of revenge. The blood of the brave fed the soil, leaving behind the weak, the twisted and the cowardly, which characterizes Western society today.

The #SecondWorldWar (1939-1945), also waged by the dark powers of North American finance, had devastating consequences for the West. It pitted the Allies, led by the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, against the Axis, comprising Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. This conflict led to major geopolitical changes and the emergence of the American empire, which lost the spirit and nobility of its founding fathers to degrade itself into materialism and moral perversion.

Decolonization (1940s-1970s), after the Second World War, led to the end of Western colonial empires and the emergence of new nation-states, most of which were incapable of governing themselves. Poverty and oppression by local despots replaced colonization. The poor emigrated to the West, bringing with them their problems and lack of morals.

The #ColdWar (1940s-1990s) was a period of political and ideological tension between the USA and the Soviet Union, which had a profound influence on the West. Washington favored the division of Europe into opposing political and military blocs, with the formation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) on one side and the Warsaw Pact on the other, to better rule and divide. The Cold War also had repercussions on the arms race, the space race and regional conflicts around the world. Everything was designed to kill the revolutionary spirit that capital hates. Everything has been done to destroy the will of the people to throw off the yoke of the oligarchs.

These factors have led to the decline of the West as much as to #Materialism, that excessive preoccupation with material goods and the pursuit of material comfort. Over time, certain aspects of materialism have led to an incessant quest for wealth and possessions, emphasizing consumption and the accumulation of goods rather than moral and spiritual values. We have become a people of consumer-hungry pigs, locked into our own selfishness. Our intellectual laziness prevents us from properly analyzing current events and revolting against the globalist totalitarianism that is gradually strangling us.

WILDCapitalism, the unbridled pursuit of profit without adequate regulation, leads to social inequality, exploitation of workers, environmental degradation and a race for profits without consideration for the long-term social and environmental consequences. This sickness of our economic elites is destroying our society and leaving us to their greed.

Selfishness governs our individual and collective behavior in Western societies. When egoism prevails, personal interests take precedence over the common good. This leads to a loss of social solidarity, increased inequality and a diminished commitment to collective well-being.

The #EvolutionofMorals is a sensitive issue in any society. Social norms and values are evolving badly, influenced by the desire of certain secret societies to encourage debauchery and unnatural behavior. Moral disease and perversion are not progress, they are degradation. Our social and family structures and our interpersonal relationships are weakened by these demands on the part of a minority of weirdos and perverts.

To read more : https://www.williamkergroach.fr/blog

#capitalism #immigration #Moral #healthy #patriotism #deepstateagendas #DeepState #deepstatecoupdetat #QAnon

#patriotism #resistance

[babybluesquid]

“Why can Dagne get drunk?” is one of the central mysteries of Consequences of Karrnath.

#my post #consequences of karrnath #dagne #the answer is that reborn have poison resistance #not immunity #so that’s the doylist reason #the watsonian reason is never addressed #maybe Karrnath wanted its good patriotic undead soldiers to be able to enjoy a pint of Nightwood ale with the alive boys #ever think of that?

[libertyfriendstogether]

#How Patriots Can Effectively Resist Tyranny Without Direct Confrontation

[stand-up-for-the-usa]

Julie Jaman Stands Against The Transsexual Abuse Of Our Elderly And Our Children

#children's-hospitals #gay-agenda-theme-song #julie-jaman #men-pretending-to-be-women #music-drama-comedy #news-commentary #patriotic-storytelling #puberty-blockers-and-children #resist-transsexuals #the-big-lie #the-gay-agenda #us-constitution #ymca-transexual-abuse