“Hey what do we pick for the stock photo to go along with our story about women and trans people being abused?”
“Idk it’s crime let’s throw a police car in there”
“Don’t the police tend to be the worst offenders of this sort of gendered violence, categorically speaking?”
“Meh, whatever. Ship it”
Thanks I didn’t get it at first
How would voters have the chance to “level the playing field”? The whole reason large donations are a problem is because most people don’t have that kind of money and it allows the wealthy few to buy elections?
I’m not looking for a politician to take anything seriously. I am looking for we the people to remake this godforsaken place, and that means implementing our goals directly, which includes dismantling every police station and sheriff’s office.
Seriously the police are kidnapping people at random and you still don’t get that the system is broken?
I’m not so unreasonable to assume that no one who is currently wearing a badge and gun can rehabilitate themselves into productive members of society, but the systems that they work as a part of need shut the fuck down.
To begin to analyze this we have to have clear, simple definitions of the left and right. I think it very easily maps on to authoritarianism vs. freedom. You could take “being racist” as a right-wing position and say “but they want to be free to do that”, but freedom only extends until you’re compromising someone else’s freedom, then it’s power. Whether it’s about being racist, controlling trans people or queer people, or whatever it is, the right worships one thing and that is power.
When you do that, by the very nature, it’s more easy to be organized and disciplined. There’s no one to push back on orders from above no matter how dumb because that’s the goal. If we try to strive for their level of organization and discipline, we become like them. We have to stop, every moment, and make sure that what we’re doing is something being consented to by the wider community. That’s just the nature of the fight.
And I don’t think it will ever end. There will always be this tension between permissiveness and discipline. We’ve just been stuck in the disciplined, authoritarian mode, since the authoritarians gained the upper hand by stealing the Americas.
If you’re looking for more reading along these lines I believe Graeber and Wengrow talk about this in The Dawn of Everything. But I’m also drawing from my own experience and understanding.
“No more police” is a pretty simple idea that seems to have slipped by you so idk
Right wingers don’t give a fuck to conserve anything. They’re fascists, regressives, revolutionary authoritarians
This is very confusing because ACA plans are for profit, so one pays more into them than they get out, even if they’re subsidized. So this is really not a thing that everyday people would would be doing and if anyone were manufacturing fake people to sell insurance to it would be someone high up at insurance companies.
FYI archive.is will turn your browser into a botnet node to attack others
Y’all who are not saddened or enraged by this do get that this affects you, too, right? Measles is like the most contagious shit ever if unvaccinated people are running around getting killed by it they could kill you or your vaccinated friends too?
Y’all who are not saddened or enraged by this do get that this affects you, too, right? Measles is like the most contagious shit ever if unvaccinated people are running around getting killed by it they could kill you or your vaccinated friends too?
OVH has been reliable and boring afaik
Well, that’s not first-person…
Are we really still doing the “masculinity is when no empathy” thing? Really?
AOC been a sell out for a bit. Cozying up with Schumer and shit
Not really. They’re water resistant. Like, they say not to dunk it in water, but also that it won’t shock the wearer if it gets wet.
Defensive measures are possible: It won’t work through thick clothing as well.
Maybe all your contacts also value their privacy and therefore have not set signal to allow them to be discovered by their phone number
Sure is something that you made this post about how “hey wow I’m seeing a lot of racism” and the racists immediately show up and go “well, yeah, why aren’t you racist?”
I think that answers your question 😅
Say that shit to my face and see what happens, racists.
While left-leaning Democrats have gained momentum within their own party by winning primaries, the real challenge is whether they can get elected in November during the general election.
This isn’t really true. A ton of Americans are ready to vote for a socialist and enough of the rest would come over when they hear about the policies. The tough part is getting through the DNC’s filter and get past the millions they’ll throw at your opponent to fuck over anyone who challenges their hegemony
I think a lot of people who you might think would not agree with that statement would actually agree and just say that feminism is bad. They may not say it out loud but they’re a lot more likely to these days