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Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP14 Jul 2025 5:27 p.m. PST

@ReformistPrimere
Crowds just tore down the walls of the old fortress-prison. Centuries of injustice toppled brick by brick. Today belongs to the people.
#EndTheChains #PeoplePower #HistoryMade

@Hardline Revolutionary Left
Bureaucrats negotiated while the people bled. Don't forget that. This wasn't gifted to us—we took it.
#NoMoreTyrants #WeHaveStormed #DirectAction

@MediaIntern
[📸 blurry video] A lot is happening. People are cheering? Someone just waved a loaf of bread in the air?? Unclear if this is about food or freedom.
#LiveCoverage #WhatJustHappened #FortressStorm

@MemeSaurusRoi
When the "symbolic fortress" turns out to be made of very real stone and bad decisions.
✊🔥📜🧱💥
#NoGodsNoGates #ArchitectureOfOppression #TodayWeClimb

@TraditionalistLoyalist
You tore down something sacred. It wasn't just stone. It was order. It was continuity. Don't come crying when the chaos comes for you.
#HoldTheLine #CivilizationMatters #MobRule

@EcoSpiritualHomme
The fortress has fallen, and the earth is listening. Old energies crumbled, and new winds rise.
#RootsOfChange #StoneFallsSeedGrows #SacredUprising

@Liberte-arian
Turns out 400 angry people can beat a government building. Imagine what 400 accountants could do to the tax code.
#JustSaying #StormTheLedger #FreedomMath

@TruthFinderGeneral
This wasn't spontaneous. Watch the footage. Same banners. Same chants. Someone organized this. Ask why.
#QuestionEverything #FalseFlagFortress #WakeUp

@Reformist1789
The people entered the fortress. Some were surprised at how empty it was. That's not the point. What mattered was being kept out. What mattered was power saying "you can't."
#AccessMatters #SymbolFell #PowerToThePeople

@ RevolutionaryLeft
He surrendered. And? That structure never surrendered when it was our families inside. No sympathy. No compromise.
#HeKnewWhatHeDid #NoTearsForTyrants #FortressDown

@Liberte-arian
Let me get this straight:
• The place held 7 people.
• The crowd brought 900.
• And somehow the crowd needed rescuing from the bureaucracy?
#RatioedInRealLife #FreeTheSeven #MathChecksOut

@MemeSaurusRoi
When the last lock breaks, and you realize the real prison was made of permits, uniforms, and bored guards.
Caption over photo of open gates with no one inside
#LiberationLooksWeird #StillWorthIt #SymbolicVictory

@MediaIntern
Okay so:
• They opened the gates
• Then someone stabbed the guy who opened the gates
• Now there's cheering, but also… arguing?
We'll be back after this ad.
#ChaoticNeutral #SoManyFlags #GovernorGone

@TraditionalistLoyalist
You executed an administrator who literally opened the door. That's not justice. That's rage. You think you're heroes. You're just untrained executioners.
#MobRule #SacrificeOrder #WeAreNotBetter

@EcoSpiritualHomme
The tower fell, the voice fell silent, and no birds flew overhead. Let the fire cleanse, but remember: rage doesn't plant seeds.
#BalanceTheFlame #OldRootsBurned #TimeToListen

@MemeSaurusRoi
That was no random execution. He was silenced. He had records. He knew names. You think this is about freedom? Wake up.
#RedactedRevolution #LooseEndsCut #NotAMistake

@Reformist1789
The man who ran it is dead. That wasn't the plan. Violence answers nothing. But don't let this distract from what had to fall.
#MournWithPurpose #StillRising #ComplexTruth

@Inside Outsider
So they overran a symbolic building, executed a functionary, and cheered when they found old furniture.
Are we sure this wasn't a community theater project gone feral?
#WatchingFromAfar #SendPopcorn #SymbolismMattersMaybe

@Cell6Poet
I watched the stones quake before I heard the crowd.
The moss on the wall peeled back like skin.
I thought I would die nameless.
And then they shouted my name.
I don't know who they were.
I love them anyway.
#FreeToSpeak #WroteThisYesterday #Cell6Survivor

@RealPrisonerRealStory
I was in there 11 years. They forgot me. No hearings. No charges.
A kid with a flag pulled me into sunlight.
I want to say thank you. I don't know his name.
I just want breakfast.
#FortressFall #WeWereThere #FreeNow

@MDS
I did not shout. I did not weep. I observed.
When the gates opened, I walked out at the pace of law.
When asked for my name, I declined. The moment was not mine.
Today, I speak because silence would be vanity.
They came for ghosts. I was only history.
#LastManInTheLibrary #NotASymbolButHereWeAre #ObservedAndReleased

@DefinitelyWasThere
They had me locked in the west wing for asking questions.
Now I'm free. And I remember every guard's face.
We won't forget who held the keys.
#IWasThere #VengeanceIsMemory #TheWallsSpoke
(fact-checkers note: west wing hasn't been used in 43 years)

@HeardItFromABarrel
Was hiding in a cask room. Missed the action.
Heard the gates break like thunder.
Poked my head out, saw smoke and dancing.
Best nap I ever had.
#SleepyAndFree #BarrelBrigade #CheersToChange

@AnonFormerInmate
I watched the governor hand over the keys. Then I watched them take his head anyway.
I've seen cruelty from both sides of these bars.
I'm walking out, but I'm not marching.
#NothingIsClean #FreeButWary #NoHeroesHere

@PrisonScholar
They locked me up for writing essays they didn't want read.
First thing I did when I got out? Finish one.
It's called "On the Nature of Sudden Liberty."
DM for copies.
#IdeasLiveOn #FortressFootnotes #EssaySmuggler

@TheSeventhOne
Everyone keeps asking what I did.
I'm not telling.
Doesn't matter now.
#AskTheStoneWalls #StillMe #NotYourNarrative

Reply to @Cell6Poet
bro you were yelling "do you have snacks" through the bars.
not sure the moss was "peeling like skin."
poetic license is one thing. gaslighting is another.
#IWasThereToo #StopRomanticizing #YouPanicked

Quote tweet of #RealPrisonerRealStory
"11 years"? You got tossed in last winter for tax nonsense.
you literally said "this place has good porridge" to me last week.
stop stealing valor from the real lifers.
#CloutChasingFromCell3 #IHaveReceipts

Reply to @MDS
oh my gods not this guy again
you were not in a cell
you were consulting on records digitization
I watched you walk out carrying your lunch
also no one asked your name
#AcademicTourist #YouWoreLoafers #NotAGhostJustAnnoying

Reply to @DefinitelyWasThere
West wing??? the west wing collapsed in like ‘42.
you were probably in the wine cellar doing interpretive dance
ALSO YOU HAD A LANYARD
#YouWereTheTourGuide #NotAGuestJustDelusional

Reply to @HeardItFromABarrel
honestly this is the only post I believe
dude did come out smelling like brandy and asking "is it thursday?"
legend
#BarrelBrigade #RealOne #DidntClaimAMonument

Quote tweet of @AnonFormerInmate
"Watched the keys hand over"?
Bruh you were passed out.
They thought you were dead and used you as a barricade.
Don't make me post the sketch someone drew.
#SleepingBeauty #HeroOfTheHallway #WeAllSawIt

Reply to @PrisonScholar
he really did get locked up for essays tbf
but the "Nature of Sudden Liberty" was 37 pages of footnotes and four diagrams
he's selling it for 2 coin and a sandwich
#SupportSmallThinkers #ZineRevolution

Quote tweet of @TheSeventhOne
"Not your narrative" is such a dodge
bro you literally admitted to stealing a bishop's horse
in your defense it was funny
but stop pretending to be an enigma
#HorseThiefConfirmed #YouNamedItBureaucracy #IconicButKnown

@CivicUnityVoice
We remind citizens that the recent civil disruption at the Central Holding Facility involved only six non-political detainees and one voluntarily confined scholar-consultant.
No political prisoners were found. The structure was not in active use.
#DisinformationAlert #NoUprisingHere #FacilityWasDecommissioned

@OrderAndContinuityNews
Contrary to irresponsible reports:
• No prisoners were "freed"
• No executions were "authorized"
• The administrator died in an unconfirmed incident of structural collapse
The situation is now under review.
#CalmNotChaos #NoHeroics #MaintainingPerspective

@CultureStewardshipChannel
The symbolic value of the structure has been greatly exaggerated by fringe commentators.
It was architecturally unsound, administratively obsolete, and culturally overinterpreted.
#NothingToStorm #PreservationMatters #FactsNotFlames

@JusticeOfficeClarificationDept
Important context:
The alleged "Governor" was a logistics coordinator with no executive authority.
His actions are being commemorated internally for their calm under pressure.
Rumors of "surrender" or "execution" are unfounded.
#ServeWithDignity #DoNotInflame #RespectTheQuietOnes

@TheStoneStreetWire
We have now confirmed that at least three of the seven detainees were held without charges for over two years.
"Administrative oversight" does not justify indefinite silence.
#TheyWereForgotten #PublicRightToKnow #WallsHaveVoices

@TheSeditionChronicle
New eyewitness sketches show the "structural collapse" described by officials was more of a structural dismemberment, followed by what appears to be cheering.
A rope and a stick were involved.
#ContextMatters #NotJustAnAccident #VisualEvidence

@MuckrakerAndQuill
"No political prisoners were found."
That's because you burned the paper trail, closed the tribunal docket, and reclassified their charges as "ambiguous unrest."
You buried the politics and then blamed the shovel.
#WordGames #SemanticCleansing #WeHaveTheNames

@L'Oignon
Officials say the "facility was decommissioned."
Our guy literally got out of a locked barrel in a locked room.
Also: porridge was still warm.
#DecommissionedMyAxe #BreakfastDoesn'tLie #WeWereThere

@TheInkUnbound
Today they say "no executions occurred."
Tomorrow they'll rename the square after the man who bled in it.
Revolutions are always denied by the first draft.
#WriteTheSecondDraft #MemoryIsPolitical #BloodInTheStones

khanscom14 Jul 2025 6:24 p.m. PST

Too real 8-O

Gear Pilot15 Jul 2025 1:56 p.m. PST

Was this about Seria? If not, which uprising was this one about?

Oberlindes Sol LIC Supporting Member of TMP15 Jul 2025 2:17 p.m. PST

Un travail vraiment gιnial : sardonique et hilarant.

@Gear Pilot: What day in history was yesterday? Hint: the USA is not the only country with a revolutionary history and national colors of red, white, and blue.

Zephyr115 Jul 2025 8:52 p.m. PST

Wasn't one of the seven the Marquis de Sade?

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