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in MAG 41 jon says he brought the “largest knife [he] was able to buy on short notice” down into the tunnels with him
I need you all to imagine jon covered in bandages looking like he hasn’t slept in 3 weeks walking into like a williams-sonoma and pulling up to the register with the biggest fucking cleaver in the store and absolutely nothing else
If it were an individual thing, you’d give them the benefit of the doubt, but it isn’t; it’s an institutional thing. the job itself is a bastard, therefore by carrying out the job, they are bastards. To take it to an extreme: there were no good members of the gestapo because there was no way to carry out the directives of the gestapo and to be a good person. it is the same with the american police state. Police do not exist to protect and serve, according to the US supreme court itself, but to dominate, control, and terrorize in order to maintain the interests of state and capital.
Who are the good cops then? The ones who either quit or are fired for refusing to do the job.
While the following list focuses on the US as a model police state, ALL cops in ALL countries are derivative from very similar violent traditions of modern policing, rooted in old totalitarian regimes, genocides, and slavery, if not the mere maintenance of authoritarian power structures through terrorism.
also this: lol
the police as they are now haven’t even existed for 200 years as an institution, and the modern police force was founded to control crowds and catch slaves, not to “serve and protect” – unless you mean serving and protecting what people call “the 1%.” They have a long history of controlling the working class by intimidating, harassing, assaulting, and even murdering strikers during labor disputes. This isn’t a bug; it’s a feature.
The justice system also loves to intimidate and outright assassinate civil rights leaders.
The police do not serve justice. The police serve the ruling classes, whether or not they themselves are aware of it. They make our communities far more dangerous places to live, but there are alternatives to the modern police state. There is a better way.
Further Reading:
(all links are to free versions of the texts found online - many curated from this source)
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. (2013). Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense.
Rose City Copwatch. (2008). Alternatives to Police.
Williams, Kristian. (2011). “The other side of the COIN: counterinsurgency and community policing.” Interface 3(1).
Williams, Kristian. (2004). Our Enemies in Blue: Police and power in America. New York: Soft Skull Press.
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Source: Watch large group of officers protecting George Floyd’s killer (reddit user american_apartheid)
society is fucked up because we don’t wear gauntlets and drink elixirs anymore
I can't stop thinking about this pamphlet from my counselors office
“worm” = some little wet tube who lives in ground & eat dirt
“cat a pillar” = same, but on leafs instead basicallg
my hopeful ass: listen, elias knows everything, right. if jon hated martin or could never love him back, it would absolutely not be beneath elias to use that information against martin. however, elias bouchard, bastard that he is, never actually lies outright, so the fact that elias didn’t mention anything about that—and instead spoke about discouraging martin’s crush altogether by “shattering” martin’s image of jon—might mean that there is still a possibility jon could develop or already has some feelings towards martin. in this essay i will
#jonny could’ve just made elias say something like: ‘he can never love you back’#and ‘here‚ feel what he thinks about you’#but he did not (@marinavermilion)
ok so marina reminded me this post exists, and it just occurred to me that elias didn’t even have to do spooky shenanigans to martin in this scenario. he could have just played the s1 tapes where jon was being nasty about him. is that what he meant by “preparation”? was that what he might have done if he had had the time?
and oh– i just had a terrible, terrible idea:
what if someone–peter, elias, i don’t know who–plays those tapes to martin while jon is in the room. maybe the tapes alone won’t be fully enough to break martin but coupled with the isolation and general heartbreak he has, martin just sits there numbly listening to jon in the tapes berating the shit out of him while jon in reality desperately tells him, no, don’t listen, please, i didn’t mean any of it-
This is horribly sad, but also… Hasn’t Martin listened to those tapes already? He says during the season 1 finale that he listens to Jon on those tapes, tearing the statements to pieces - it means he listens to Jon’s notes, and has definitely already heard the things Jon has said about him…?
(which, then, Martin, why even - how did you even developped a crush on Jon - but nevermind)
So I’m just envisionning Peter, being all fake sweet and letting the tapes run (an idea of Elias?) and Martin’s eyebrow twitch, and Peter thinks ‘aaah, emotions’ but then suddenly Martin is looking up to him, unimpressed, and goes:
‘So, what? I already knew Jon didn’t like me before. That’s not new. Do you think he only said those sort of things to the tapes? He’s not exactly very good at lying, you know. Or I guess you don’t. You don’t know Jon and you don’t know me and that’s - whatever this is - that’s certainly not going to advance anything. So, if we could just - just go back to work, please, Peter -”
(and if his eyes meet Jon’s - just briefly, and they do look sad, because, because yeah, knowing it doesn’t mean being thrown the fact to his face again doesn’t hurt, well) (honestly, hearing those tapes again hurt Jon even more, probably, because he was such - he was so horrible, and gratuitously as well - it was all because of stupid, silly reasons that make no sense nowadays in the world they live in, and Martin — is already looking away, and Peter says ‘of course’ to him quite sympathetically, but the glance he gives to Jon is gleeful anyway, because Martin may have not been affected like he thought he would, but Jon was.)
I have Feelings about a very specific thing in MAG 22 that I’m having trouble finding a way to articulate
so like this thing is, it just gets me that after Martin finishes his statement Jon just asks him “You’re sure about all of this?” and then when Martin says yes, Jon immediately tells him to stay in the Archives and that he’ll be safe there
and I guess it’s the fact that so much of Martin’s character and development revolves around his being someone who has spent most of his life unhesitatingly giving everything to take care of people who do nothing to reciprocate his kindness, and the fact that this time, this one time, his boss – who is irritable and standoffish and dislikes Martin specifically and isn’t inclined to believe the kind of story Martin has just told him – listened to him, believed him, and then without prompting or hesitation invited Martin into his own space and assured him not only that the Archives are safe and he has nothing to be afraid of there, but that he’s going to actively ask Elias to make them safer
and then Martin is so surprised, because Martin is the one who listens to people and makes sure they’re taken care of and tells them that things are going to be alright? and now instead, right after this ridiculously traumatic experience, he’s suddenly on the receiving end of that same care, from Jon of all people, when Martin didn’t even expect Jon to believe him? and THAT’s what Martin sees in Jon, and if you ask me he’s been a lost cause ever since
So a Florida woman with an infatuation with the Columbine shooting took a plane or drove all the way to Denver and is loose in my state. She has a gun too so keep an eye out and be careful. Her name is Sol Paris and she is armed. There is currently a man hunt for her. To my fellow Colorado residents Please keep an eye out for her.
She also made threats to columbine and other schools in the denver metro area.
reblog if you think ‘mr clean magic eraser’ is a good name for a cat trying to prove a point to my friend
Well everyone, here it is. The video begins with a roughly 1 minute summary, so you don’t have to watch the whole thing if you don’t want to, but there IS some bird-call identification in it :^) !!
[video includes an explanation of my situation and the need for a fundraiser, which is also explained below]
If you’ve been following me for any time at all, you may know I’m majoring in wildlife biology. You may also know what a struggle it was for me to get here. In high school, I was reeling from the loss of my father in a house fire, along with trying to cope with undiagnosed mental illness and autism. I was told by my school staff I wasn’t “smart enough” to pursue science. Four years after I graduated high school, I said “I don’t believe that,” and I started my path and made it to where I am today despite those early challenges, and as I say in the video, I love it. I love what I’m learning, and I love what I do. In wildlife studies, I don’t just get to enrich my own knowledge of the world. I’m given the chance to share what I learn with others. In the last four years I have worked as a camp counselor, as a naturalist, and volunteered hundreds of hours to public education about wildlife, plants, and the world around us. This is more than a degree or a career to me. It’s a call to duty. I could become the smartest wildlife biologist in the world, but nothing I studied would matter if people don’t understand, care about, or connect to the world.
My studies are allowing me to act as a bridge for that connection, but now, in the home stretch, I am about out of funding for my schooling. The aid I receive this year will not cover my tuition and living expenses. My school only just informed me of this, months after the deadlines for scholarships that I could use for my final semester this fall. I won’t know my exact expenses and how much (not enough) funding I will get until July 1st, only 4 weeks before the bill is due on August 1st.
I know you have all given and done so much for me before, even for some of my tuition for this summer, and I feel extremely vulnerable coming to you with this, with my expenses and my debt and my life out there this way, but it is my final chance.
I have gone into detail on the campaign page about my expenses and why I am trying to raise this number.
I am exhausting all other options for funding, but they are extremely limited, so I am fundraising as what is my best option and hope. In return, I will be posting videos and doing live-streams for any of my readers, even if you can’t donate, about nature, wildlife, and all I’ve been learning over the last for years.
Pursuing this degree has been the biggest challenge, but also the greatest joy, of my life. Please help me finish it.
Thank you so much for your consideration! If nothing else, please share. Thank you!
TL;DR: I AM OUT OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MY DEGREE, AND I AM SUPPOSED TO GRADUATE THIS SEMESTER! I am desperate and doing everything I can to raise the funds, but my options are EXTREMELY limited. This is a fundraiser to finish my schooling after years of hard work! Thank you!
My content gets shittier every day.
this cured my depressive episode
