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at this point I wish advertising in general was just literally illegal. Word of mouth only. Maybe exceptions beneath a certain net value like if you’re a startup or a family run business but if you’re already making a billion dollars then making even one single commercial or banner campaign should be a crime and I mean a crime like the CEO gets investigated on national television and goes to prison forever and everyone agrees they’re a sick fucked up maniac
𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟸𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹
[ID: July 21. Miserable creature that I am. END ID]
man everybody acts like trans women’s segregation from sport isn’t like, a big deal, too. like every two years when a new olympics event rolls around we see the same articles being rewritten about how the olympics’ transphobia hurts cis people, but i’ve never seen anybody seriously call for trans women to be allowed in sport on this website. like it’s supposed to be a big deal that a few cis women are stopped from participating in the olympics every year but it is so normal to exclude trans women that this somehow is skipped in the discussion like, well obviously they’re never gonna let trannies in so why even talk about it when real women are being stopped?
I would have been such a faggy lil caveboy, they'd be like "grug come learn hunt and throw spear now" and id be like waaaa no let me pick berry with old gran. I'm the best berrypicker and all the elders love me and are soso sad seeing me cry getting dragged off to do hunting.
At dark around the fire, uup the wise would say some shit like "different flower bloom different way, let grug bloom" and everyone would be like "aaaaaa thog see now, thank you uup the wise." so next day im allowed to pick berry and seed with old gran again and she lets me eat the juiciest ones (o^－^o)
I hope all those white boys shocking waiters by ordering in [asian language] all collapse into a black hole singularity
I just watched a tiktok where the white guy tried speaking in vietnamese to the waitress who had to admit on film that no, she doesn't speak her ancestors language, and he was like "oh I've out-vietnamesed you" while she like sat down on the restaurant floor in shock. and the comments were like haha how cool and smart of the white guy isn't this funny! like how do people not realize this is humiliating? white people will never understand the complex relationship asian diaspora have with their language and the shame and guilt and baggage of assimilation, and then they get to exploit that shit for views and clout like I genuinely want all those people to kill themselves
POV: You are a photographer at the event dinner at the conference of decolonial pedagogy and epistemic justice in the Global South .
I am not making fun..that is actually the conference. Lmao.
But like looking at this picture, I shudder in horror wondering how bland the food must be that it is a collective insult to all of the third world. 🤣😂🤣
On a serious note.
Our decolonial conferences must happen in the favelas and barrios of Caracas and Lima, in the Jenin camp and the streets of Gaza and slums of Lagos and Mumbai, in the shacks of South Africa and in the reservations and the rikers. Not this. This picture is where decolonisation goes to die.
we need to make fun of people who eat at chick-fil-a. if you eat at chick-fil-a you are directly funding police militarization and are intentionally anti-lgbt at best. it should not be socially acceptable to eat at chick-fil-a. it costs zero dollars not to eat at chick-fil-a. if you eat at chick-fil-a you are a spineless dweeb and stand for nothing. internalize that.
“what is life but an opportunity to smash?”
-Ancient Anarchist Proverb
People on here and Twitter are turning the term “refugee” into some sort of joke - so I’m just going to kindly ask everyone to stop tossing the term refugee around like it’s not an extremely politically charged term
- sincerely, someone who’s family are literally refugees
Anonymous asked:
The point of voting is harm reduction. The system is bad and stupid. That’s not the conversation. The conversation is “if you don’t vote and protest and strike then things get infinitely worse faster and faster”. That’s why several states disallow felons from voting. That’s why districts aren’t gerrymandered to shit. That’s why voting protections are getting chipped away at.
Fix the system. Tear it down. Put a new one in place or don’t. In the meantime, work with the reality we live in and vote so things don’t go full facist as fast as they possibly can. Which is what will happen if some right wing fuckhead like DeSantis gets voted in because ON TOP of all the aforementioned issues, people decide they’d rather let everyone rot than deign to accept an imperfect stopgap for the revolution
I'm going to assume you're asking in good faith so I'm going to try to answer in kind, on a point by point basis.
Just to get it out of the way, I'm going to put aside the specific phrase of "harm reduction" because I could talk all day about how frustrating it is to see a phrase made in reference to safe drug usage and legalization used to support a Democratic party that put Joe Biden in the White House, who doesn't even support marijuana decriminalization.
Firstly, who is truly having their harm reduced? Because Biden has increased police and military funding even over Trump, to better enforce imperialism, white supremacy, and colonialism at home and abroad. The Biden admin has continued apace with an appalling immigration policy that was crafted under Bush and Obama and worsened under Trump. Deportations continue at a blistering rate. Children still in cages. The Biden COVID policy was more of the same we got under Trump. Climate policy is a joke, oil and gas drilling approvals are up under Biden.
So moving past that: "the system is bad, but that's not the conversation" Who is deciding what the conversation is? Isn't it in the interest of those in power to specifically limit the conversation to systemic solutions? There's no question that things are getting worse but I would argue that a system that presents the electoral options of "collapse into fascism" or "maybe slower collapse into fascism" necessitates a conversation for what we do other than just voting and protesting.
Next, on the landscape of voting: you give several good examples of why voting can't be relied on to get us out of this. We live in a country with the largest per capita prison population in the world, probably in human history, and that disallows felons from voting. Gerrymandering means that in many states your vote is effectively nullified. The electoral college functions similarly. Voting protections are being chipped away and the options for actually meaningfully affecting electoral politics beyond the local level shrinks by the day. Why, then, would we make voting the pillar of our political strategy?
"Fix the system." I would argue it is working as intended, namely to defend capitalism and white supremacy and imperialism at any cost.
"Tear the system down." Yeah that's the idea.
Finally, the fact that DeSantis is essentially running Florida as his own autocratic playground, after coming to power on purged voter rolls and massively suppressed votes for the reasons discussed above, should be the most damning evidence that fascism is here to stay, that we are past the point where voting can reliably serve as a truly effective brake in the collapse of the United States.
So why can't we talk about politics by other means? Why do people who insist that the conversation center on electoralism get to control the boundaries of discourse on politics and strategy? Why are we wasting our time on this? Vote if it will make you feel better, if it will make a difference on a local level, but let's not pretend that we're voting our way out of this situation, and stop turning on people who point that out.
Amazing how every guide on interacting with police, including ones that are explicitly pro-cop, are indistinguishable from guides on how to avoid being attacked by a wild animal.
Don't make any sudden movements, avoid eye contact, stay calm or you WILL die. Wait, what do you mean this is advice for interacting with a human being and not a hungry bear?
"Keep your hands on the steering wheel and don't have anything in them, a police officer might mistake a cellphone for a weapon." Okay, should I also hold my hand out for him to sniff when he approaches so that he knows I'm not a threat?
Don't worry officer, I'm not reaching into my glove compartment for a gun, I'm grabbing the bag of beggin' strips in hopes that your power trip and homicidal impulses will be appeased with a little treat :3
All the seemingly altruistic fervor about overcoming "the digital divide" continues to be a unified campaign by corporate interests to require digital compliance everywhere, including the use of computer-based learning in schools for even the youngest of students. The suggestion has been that people without broadband access are living in a condition of deprivation, cut off from the possibility of upward mobility, career opportunities and cultural enrichment. However, the primary goal of the most powerful stakeholders is the eventual transformation of everyone into captive and obedient consumers of their products and service. The unspoken truth is that as internet access and use expands, economic inequality is heightened, not diminished. "Tech literacy" is a euphemism for shopping, gaming, binge watching, and other monetized and addictive behaviors. Wealthy, cynical power brokers like Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Lab, pontificate about making internet access a "human right" while corporate-friendly agendas promote "a laptop for every child," despite the unmitigated failures of computer-based education in elementary schools. However, the juggernaut of high-tech companies marketing their products and services in the Global South and elsewhere has had more injurious consequences. The violent processes of Western modernization have always targeted the survival of local or regional singularities. In nations or areas in which traditional or indigenous solidarities persist, the internet complex becomes a new techno-colonization, ripping apart long-standing forms of social cohesion. Now, even its partial installation introduces another layer of homogenization, but this time at the level of consciousness.
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World, Jonathan Crary
Pedestrian affirmations:
YOU ARE INVINCIBLE
AUTOMOBILES TREMBLE AT THE SIGHT OF YOU
GOD'S DIVINE LIGHT SHIELDS YOU
CROSSWALKS ARE YOUR HOLY PATH TO SALVATION
oooooo okay so introduce yourself as the meaning of your name