to "in their own words"

"I visit here occasionally to tweak the anti-everything crowd, though I should note that I'm 100% behind the sentiment of yesterday's rally and the rights of immigrants."

Whoa, thanks, I forgot people needed your approval to celebrate Mayday. And we aren't anti-everything, we're just anti-everything you apparently support, or whatever you think we should just "tolerate" or "vote about".

and Carl, "My guess is the vast majority of those waving the flags were saying, 'Americans, set aside your fears, drop the hypocrisy and live up to your own best democratic ideals!"

Maybe you've been living on another planet up until yesterday. If we can even talk about an "America" as some kind of generalized identity of people who identify themselves first as "Americans", one of the first things we would notice is that many of them are profoundly anti-democratic. Listen to them. They mostly trust the police, either don't vote because they don't care about "politics" or do vote because they "do care", buy more shit than anyone could ever need and then either don't care about the environment and the people that died so that they could buy that shit or "do care" and turn off their bathroom lights sometimes to "save energy". They love states, desire repression, work at jobs they hate, and then sometimes one of them just want everyone to "chill out", wants us to remain complicit in the destruction of the earth and the theft of our lives but make sure no one is angry about it.

We know why there were so many American flags at the march. We want the people carrying them to know, though, that the flags they should be carrying are red and black, not red, white, and blue. Nations should not represent them (and cannot anyway), in any context, nor should worker's marches be about anything other than total liberation from bosses and their armed guards, the cops.

"I would hate to see this movement co-opted by the aforementioned college know-it-all crowd"

As if college know-it-alls even come to mayday marches, as if statists like "in their own words" hadn't already co-opted it.

We don't need apologists, vanguardists, or imperialist flags. Its awful that so many of the people getting fucked over by this whole sick empire think that the only way they can look legitimate here is pander to the racists and "patriots" who want them to leave anyway.

For total war on the state
For autonomy and friendship