Please watch I Think You Should Leave on Netflix

any ideology founded on the rejection of the Other requires the existence of the Other to function

川の畔の巨大発電所→詳細 Abandoned giant power plant in river side.

Saul Steinberg, Country Noises.

people will be like obviously im not transphobic i only hate trans people who don’t tell you they’re trans and ones that won’t shut up about being trans and that don’t pass and that pass too well and who think kids should be allowed to transition and who transitioned late and ones who watch anime and who are nonbinary and ones who make transition gofundmes and ones who are activists and who are gender nonconforming and who conform too much to stereotypes a

scientific institutions aren’t “corrupted” by racism or sexism, they developed specifically in the context of white and male supremacy. modern medicine developed, in part, to provide a biological basis for oppression and to pathologize the vast majority of the world’s population, all women and all “nonwhite” people. not only that, but many of the major developments in medicine have directly been at the expense of marginalized people. oppressive regimes also often rely on scientific institutions to further subjugate the population.

some sources to further read if anyone’s interested!

medicine and imperialism:

colonizing the body, chapter 5, david arnold

curing their ills, chapter 5, meghan vaughan

toward an anthropology of immunology: the body as a nation-state, emily martin

ethical variability: drug development and globalizing clinical trials, adriana petryna

science and authoritarianism/imperialism:

japanese doctors’ experimentation in wartime china, jing bao nie

administering colonial science: nutrition research and human biomedical experimentation in aboriginal communities and residential schools, 1942-1952

the humanitarian impact and implications of nuclear test explosions in the pacific region

medicine, misogyny, and racism:

interrogating bodies: medico-racial knowledge, politics, and the study of a disease, melbourne tapper

the woman in the body, chapter 7: premenstrual syndrome, work discipline, and anger, emily martin

the growth of medical authority: technology and morals in turn-of-the-century obstetrics, judith walzer leavitt

“scenes of an indelicate character”: the medical “treatment” of victorian women, mary poovey

The Coming Insurrection

“The panoptic mechanism arranges spatial unities that make it possible to see constantly and to recognize immediately. In short, it reverses the principle of the dungeon; or rather of its three functions—to enclose, to deprive of light and to hide—it preserves only the first and eliminates the other two. Full lighting and the eye of a supervisor capture better than darkness, which ultimately protected. Visibility is a trap.” Discipline And Punish

trump really rolled back healthcare protections for lgbt people during pride month AND on the day of the 4 year anniversary of the pulse nightclub shooting. i don’t know why i’m even shocked at this point but i still feel physically ill

while this is going to affect lgbt people in general because we are now at risk of being charged higher premiums or fees for being lgbt or at risk of being completely denied healthcare for simply existing it’s especially going to affect trans men and trans women. i know there is a lot happening right now but please don’t let this go unnoticed. they are purposely passing these anti-lgbt laws right now because they know with the protests going on it’s an ideal time to do so. it’s an evil, underhanded tactic. don’t let them get away with keeping us in the dark about this.

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"Many people outside of the twin cities aren't really aware that there is basically an honest to goodness autonomous zone there now"

- a comrade

I think so many recent theories and models of police abolition or dissolution are illustrating how deeply authoritarian-minded people and institutions can be in the U.S. as a cultural tendency. (not limited to the U.S. obviously but our culture is like a full capitalist white supremacist flanderization of it.) the rush of every variety of person or profession to theoretically fill the gap of “police” with themselves as the social machinery of control in our societies should be something people are making a note of and actively questioning, is all I’m saying.

We shouldn’t abolish or defund the police only to turn over the tools of social control, suppression, marginalization, and systemic exploitation (all still in incredibly colonialist / racist ways) to someone else with slightly better PR. like I think falling in line with the schulmanesque model of ‘state-dispatched college-educated social worker response teams’ is not the direction we should be heading in immediately as a goal or aspiration. like even completely not addressing the actual ways these various entities (like in social work and education and law and NGO activism) have worked to reinforce the cultural status quo we’re in, we still just need a better model than “well there has to be some specific group of people summoned to maintain what I think the social order should be. my demand for a better society just means choosing who that is.”

this is also on the heels of one of my friends in the twin cities area being like, “uh, we might need to talk about how some of our community patrols seem to be thinking more and more like cops and it’s making me uncomfortable....uh, how do you have community patrols without them becoming mobs.....advice pls.....”

A cool technique for time management.

This is handy, and VERY well shot; I followed it with no problems even with no sound. In fact I don’t even know if there is sound, because I’m in a doctor’s office and I forgot my headphones.

oh SHIT gonna have to give this a shot

A million angry, unemployed, fucking restless new yorkers vs 36,000 worn out demoralized cops

Keep the protests up until all the cops quit after one too many 84-hour work weeks

It’s only a trickle but it is starting :)

“Tell me, Wu Guang, what is the penalty for rioting?”

“The police will shoot us with tear gas and rubber bullets and arrest us, Chen Sheng”

“And for peacefully protesting?”

“The police will shoot us with tear gas and rubber bullets and arrest us”

“I see. And if we stay at home?”

“Ah, then they’ll just shoot rubber bullets and cs pellets at us through our doorways and windows.”

“Well then…”

June 3 2020 - CEO of ANTIFA, Chairman al-Paca, personally inspects the troops and the strategic placement of caches of bricks, while Subcomandante Quackers leads the paid, out of town antifa supersoldiers in the charge against the riot police, at the Portland anti-police brutality demonstrations. [video]/[video]

This is innapropriate please blur Paca’s face & rethink this

Tell the chairman I’ll take down the gifs when my delayed riot payments finally come through!

it really kills me to see (multiple times) some sort of idea that the reason the police commit these acts is because they lack some sort of extra credentialing or dont have a grad degree or whatever (frequently this finds its articulation as wanting to replace cops w social workers). Military officers contribute to imperialism just as much as enlistees, well heeled politicians who support the prison/police state are just as responsible for the current systemic problems of antiblackness and police violence.

As anarchist people of color in the United States wrote recently:

“What does it mean when people say that all cops are bastards (ACAB)?”

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)

white nationalists court and infiltrate a significant number of Sheriff’s departments nationwide

Kropotkin and a quick history of policing

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)