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"no other road but revolution"

[suffersdoodles]

Disclaimer: this probably isn’t a very good recipe but it’s mine. Also, details of the recipe can be found in the tapas link below (if you wanna try it).

⭐’s Diary 

[theforeverknight]

I tried this today and it was so good!

Okay looking good.

Okay we’re ready

Holy Shit

Well that was the best 5 minutes of my week! Guess who’s making hot chocolate every morning for the rest of forever?

[wingolight]

Your eyes got MASSIVE!

[catchymemes]

[proud-homosexual-woman-deactiva]

Seriously

[yooterus-deactivated20220126]

“You do have it easier because you don’t have kids!”

Thanks, that’s the point.

[mewtripled-deactivated20230508]

I remember how throughout middle school - high school there was so much pressure around to be dating someone, and if you weren’t, you were a loser or deemed unattractive. Your relationship status was like a social status, and if you’ve never been in one, you’re inexperienced and missing out.

I always thought to myself, what about the work I put into my personal interests? What about the friends I build deep connections with? What about me just being capable of taking care of myself? I feel like there was a lack of emphasis of being your own self and not giving a shit about what other people are doing back in middle school / high school.

While some people may think it’s important to have had previous relationship experiences before (which yeah, it works for some people that way), there’s also nothing wrong with investing that time in yourself and your friendships, and placing yourself first ✌🏻

Support me on patreon.com/mewtripled or buy my merch on etsy.com/shop/mewtripled!

[mysharona1987]

[catra123t-deactivated20210128]

Women have learned to conflate sexual subservience and objectification with sexual empowerment.

“There is something about fetishizing voyeurism of women’s bodies that is deeply embedded in our psyches. To the extent that, collectively, we cannot even conceive of female sexuality that doesn’t revolve around objectification. Women’s sexuality is so deeply intertwined with our exploitation that the two are often defended as one in the same. 

As Meghan Murphy wrote in 2016:

“It’s worth asking ourselves why all these practices presented today as ‘expressions of female sexuality’ (from burlesque, to pole dancing, to the sexy selfies young women post on Instagram) are rooted so firmly in male-centred ideas about what ‘sexy’ means. Why does our so-called ‘sexual empowerment’ look so very similar to the pornified imagery men have long imposed on women?”

Andrea Dworkin offers an answer in her 1983 book, Right Wing Women:

“Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeited for women.”

- Laura McNally, J.Lo’s pole dancing during the Super Bowl is not benign

[loumovies]

Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

[superhusbands4ever]

Here’s a fun tale from your local Target employee:

I was pushing truck for OTC today which is the pharmacy area. I was pushing cases of hand sanitizer because we got the “good stuff” in today (purell) and it goes quick even with the the product limit put in place. People were literally taking it from my hand before I could put it on the shelf, but that’s not the point.

As I was putting the goods on the shelf, this woman comes up to the stand and she’s very excited. “Yes! You guys have it! How many can I take, is there a limit?” I say yes, 3 per person per transaction per day. She nods, accepting, and grabs her three. “Sorry, that was weird. I’m a teacher, I’m trying to stock up. I promise I’m not a hoarder.” I smile and nod and say it’s fine. She starts to walk away but stops and turns back.

“Do you have any Clorox wipes in stock by any chance?”

Heart sinking, I shake my head and say no, sorry, and we don’t know for sure when we’ll get more. (We get them maybe once every two weeks, but the product limit for those is one per person per transaction per day and they usually sell out within hours of going on the shelf.)

Her face dropped and she kinda looked down at her hand sanitizer and said “that’s okay, with the product limit I wouldn’t be able to get enough before school starts anyway. It’s only 4 weeks away.” She laughed a little but I could hear the frustration in her voice and see the tension in her face. She sounded defeated. The most I could offer her was one of the small bottles of pure bleach. I honestly wanted to cry. For a second there I thought she would. I had no clue what to say as she turned and walked away.

This is what teachers are dealing with. Even in years when there’s not a pandemic they have to rely on donations from parents or their own money to be able to buy hand sanitizer, wipes, tissues, etc. for their classrooms. Now they’re being forced to return to school with no extra funding, no extra supplies, no support from the government; they’re STILL expected to provide for and protect these kids *on their own.* All while, now, risking their own lives and their own health because the government doesn’t want to admit that they fucked up handling this pandemic.

Every time I hear someone say “kids don’t die from it, it’ll be fine,” I realize that person does not give a flying fuck about teachers. Sure, *maybe* the kids will be fine. But the teachers are not children. They are adults with underlying conditions, adults living with elderly family, adults who are over 50 and are at more risk. Adults with at risk family at home. Adults who are at risk themselves. But they are STILL trying their hardest to protect your children in the classroom.

It’s honestly fucked up that we live in a country where police departments get millions or even billions of dollars in state funding, yet teachers have to buy their own cleaning supplies and doctors have to reuse PPE in hospitals. Police get tens of thousands of dollars worth of riot armor to wear and terrorize peaceful protesters, while the Navajo Nation get sent body bags instead of medical supplies.

Honestly I don’t know where I’m going with this, but I’m tired y’all. I’m tired and frustrated because leadership in this country doesn’t care enough to prioritize human life. Idk, it was a small moment in the grand scheme of things but it really was a slap in the face reminder of how this country treats it’s own people. I feel like we’ve all been getting those lately.

[trylonandperisphere]

Wow. The patience, kindness and calm communication skills. Outstanding.

From raindovemodel

[loveislattes]

This made me cry. I wish all situations could be handled as perfectly as this

[fatsexybitch]

I just want to point out the core of what the diffuser did in this conversation

They recognized that the mother was also expressing a vulnerable truth about herself - that she felt like a bad mother because her child was expressing gender feelings she wasn’t equipped to help with - and met her where she was, a concerned parent with limited information - to point her where she should be heading, research and resources.

Im going to make more of an effort to stop reflexively pushing people away when they express biases and make more of an effort to hear the underlying fears when i can

[redseeker]

“it’s easier to love ourselves when we feel loved as ourselves”

damn that is so  powerful though

[wheeloffortune-design]

It’s hard to explain such a complicated matter in a short comic, so please forgive me for not diving deeper in some nuances. Also: I am not black, and I’m Canadian, so I’m not an authority on the matter. I just know how to draw. Listen to black voices.

White men: Don’t use the term Karen. Coming from you, it’s just misogynistic. Karen is a word coined by people of color, mostly black people, in reaction to acts of racism.

And if you’re a white woman campaigning against the use of the term Karen— wonder why you’re not campaigning against the racist acts of the ones that get called Karen.

(please don’t repost this comic on twitter or instagram, i posted it myself on both)

[newgin-clever-title-goes-here-d]

Karen is a name coined by retail workers about shitty White women customers. Racist karens are shitty with more shitty.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Part of my roadtrip tool me to Atlanta. And, the Civil Rights Center was amazing. Very powerful. They have this one exhibit where you sit at a lunch counter and close your eyes and put on headphones. And It plays sounds like you are at a sit in and people are yelling. And it times how long you can sit there for. I think i lasted almost a minute before i was almost crying.

It…made its point.

[the-headless-vulcan]

And most of those people were being physically assaulted too

That’s a brilliant exhibit

[fandomsandfeminism]

If you make it long enough, the chair actually shakes a little, along with the sound of someone hitting the chair with a bat. It was super intense. (It included a trigger warning for obvious reasons.)

[alopiassupersillyosus]

What’s the address of this place? It’s now on my bucket list

[fandomsandfeminism]

100 IVAN ALLEN JR. BLVD Its right next to the aquarium and world of coca cola.

[aleena-jean-101]

What’s also really great is there’s an attendant too. If a person gets overwhelmed or has a panic attack the attendant will sit with them, console them, and give them tissues. AKA guess what happened to me when I used the headphones 

[jurasspark]

This is one of my favorite museums of all time. Last time I went there was an older couple (white girl and black guy) who I watched sit through it, and at the end they were crying and she hugged him, saying “I’m so sorry I wasn’t there with you”

[guerrillatech]

[theperksofbeingaperk]

[jinxfmrl]

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.

[republicansareahategroup]

don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA

[chewbacca]

Britney Spears in a 1999 interview

[cherryandsisters-deactivated202]

[glozirina]

[bass-borot]

[officialmacgyver2-deactivated20]

Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”

[thelovelylunareclipse]

Foreign Policy actually just published an interview with Frank Serpico 4 days ago (06/11/2020) regarding police corruption and brutality. Give it a read.

[marxist-peach]

A post on the amazing Rosa Luxemburg, and by extension Luxemburgism. Luxemburg defended and ammended orthodox Marxism and accepted dialectical materialism. Where she diverts from traditional marxism is her commitment to democracy. Luxemburg rejected the traditional communist party guiding the revolution, instead focusing on supporting class conciousness, and encouraging workers to take up arms in a revolution.

Early on, Luxemburg attacked undemocratic tendencies in leftists, firmly believing that any democracy must represent everyone, not just the vanguard party. She was supportive of the October Revolution, although deeply criticized the Soviet Union and Lenin in particular.

She criticized leftists in different countries supporting their respective states in the conflict of World War 1, seeing them as traitors to the working class. She was always a violently passionate dissenter of wars, seeing them as senseless slaughter for the benefit of only the elite class.

She was killed in 1919 after attempting to rally the working class of Germany into a violent revolution, and was murdered by the German Social Democracy Party, who saw her speaking out against World War 1 as betraying the party, as they were in power. After her death she was revered and commemorated by both lenin and Trotsky as a hero of the working class. May she rest in peace, and may her memory inspire many more struggles in the future.

[andreii-tarkovsky]

13th (2016)

Dir. Ava DuVernay

[doomhope]

[image description:

8 screenshots from the documentary showing Bryan Stevenson–a Black man who is bald and wears a blue collared shirt; he is sitting in a room, speaking toward the camera with an serious and disgusted expression. He says:

“People say all the time, ‘I don’t understand how people could’ve tolerated slavery. How could they have made peace with that? How could people have gone to a lynching and participated in that? How did people make sense of the segregation, this white and colored-only drinking…that’s so crazy. If I was living at that time, I would have never tolerated anything like that.’

And the truth is, we are living at this time, and we are tolerating it.”

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