may death never stop you

[eroscestlavie]

me rn

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

US Media: “The immoral Chinese peop- I mean, government says that their COVID19 deaths have been flattening due to heavy social distancing- but are they lying? Could these vulgar communists be trying to hide the disease they are spreading to us?”

The US, like a week later:

[zvaigzdelasas]

and remember don’t trust vietnam either and ignore all the vietnamese people telling you they’re doing well uwu they’re all paid stooges being paid billions of dollars to lie and hide the trillions of deaths caused by evil communism that so much of this website loves bc they’re edgy uwu

[zvaigzdelasas]

dont trust the evil scary commies cracking down on freedom uwu

children! avert your eyes from this scary evil brainwashed propaganda uwu

[sunflower-satellite-deactivated]

our government tried to bomb their government into submission for 12 years for saying these types of things. Let that sink in.

[zvaigzdelasas]

The US had had boots on the ground in Indochina since the early 50’s, and they were supportive of the french colonial war for years before. The US destroyed their own navy ship in Tonkin a decade into the war to justify their nearly 30-year colonial bloodthirst.

Let that sink in.

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

this tweet is such a perfect encapsulation of what the brain trust on twitter considers activism at this point, i swear to god

she was a child

she was a child trapped in a legendarily abusive studio contract where she was being pumped full of drugs and sexually abused by producers

what is the point? “think about this the next time you watch the wizard of oz”? and do what? this tweet is so pointless

not for nothing but she was also a lifelong advocate of the civil rights movement and held a whole press conference to denounce white supremacist terrorism after the 16th street baptist church bombing

there are politicians who did blackface in office right now

judy garland has been dead for 50 slutty, slutty years

[thehours2002]

If you want to use this information to actually learn about minstrelsy I would recommend the chapter “Past Imperfect: Performance, Power, and Politics on the Minstrel Stage” from Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by Brenda Dixon Gottschild. Gottschild covers the Africanist dance influence in minstrelsy, the re-appropriation of and resistance in minstrelsy by Black performers, the legacy of minstrelsy, and much more.

In a similar vein I would also recommend the Marlon Riggs documentaries Ethnic Notions, which covers anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the antebellum period through the Civil Rights movement, and Color Adjustment, which covers the representation of African Americans on television from its advent through the 1990s.

You’re not going to raise your consciousness by watching The Wizard of Oz and feeling bad that Judy Garland did blackface (in not just Everybody Sing, but also Babes in Arms and Babes on Broadway, for the record) because she was a minor under the thumb of her abusive stage mother and legally obligated to perform in these films because of her contract with MGM. Engage with the work of Black activists on the subject instead and think about or criticize how the stereotypes from minstrel performances still manifest in popular culture today in different forms.

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

this isn’t showing up in my replies because of the links so i’m boosting it, tumblr user thehours2002 is smart and thoughtful as always

[goawfma]

[evieplease]

Lynching is STILL NOT ILLEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES!! The bill passed the US House on February 26, 2020 and went to the Senate for a vote. Senator Rand Paul held up unanimous consent, and thus has NOT been passed by the Senate, and has NOT been signed into law by the president. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, has delayed putting the bill on the Senate floor for either debate or a vote. LYNCHING IS STILL NOT ILLEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES.

[nodded]

A BUG’S LIFE (1998) dir. John Lasseter

[clownkiwi]

[bluehollanov]

if you're going to listen to any celebrity right now, listen to john boyega. hes spoken out since the start, since way before this. hes had to deal with people telling him that him speaking out isnt right and 'kids look up to him so less swearing'. he was breaking at the protests. and the fact his career could be ruined for speaking from his own experience and basic white celebs get praise for posting a picture isn't right and if you need anything to make you realise that the treatment of black people is different from anyone else, this should be it.

[anthropologyofwater-deactivated]

me at 6 am unable to stop looking for new articles to read:

[guccigarantine]

is he.... you know.... your narrative foil?

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

when welcome to night vale said: “Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first, and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us, we can cope with that. We can do this together you and I.”

[janeplease]

*throws rocks at God’s window* hey! Why did u make me

[pidge-gunson-deactivated2018010]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

[whitepeopletwitter]

[alva-alice]

[reputayswift]

No one:

The Twilight Soundtrack:

ˡᶦᵏᵉ ᵃ ˢᵘᵖᵉʳᵐᵃˢˢᶦᵛᵉ ᵇˡᵃᶜᵏ ʰᵒᴼᵒᴼˡᵉHOW DID WE GET HeEre?? I USED TO KNOooOw YOU SOoo WEEeeeEeeLLL when the thorn bush turns white, that’s when I’ll come home…WHEN MY TIME! COMES! Forget the wrongs that I’VE! DONE! Help me leave BEHIND! SOME! ReeEEeeAaasooons to be MiIiIisssed—ᴶᵘˢᵗ ᵗᵃᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵃᴬᵃᴬˡˡ…ʸᵒᵘ’ʳᵉ ᴼᵒⁿᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵁᵘˢˢ….THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON!! Let’s goOoOo in!to! twi!light! OH I’LL TREM!BLE! FOR! YOUR! LOVE! Al!WAYS! NOW WHEN I CAUGHT. MY.SELF. I HAD TO STOP. MY.SELF—ᴵ ʷᵒⁿ’ᵗ ˢᵒᵒᵗʰᵉ…ʸᵒᵘʳ ᵖᵃᶦⁿ….ᴵ ʷᵒⁿ’ᵗ ᵉᵃˢᵉ…ʸᵒᵘʳ ˢᵗʳᵃᶦⁿ…saaaave your soOul……saAAaave your SoOoul….I was a quick. wet. boy. divin’ too deep. for. coins. *sweeping piano noises*

[fvckyouimaprophet]

the professor who assaulted me decided to reactivate his facebook page. it should would be a shame if people left links to my article detailing what happened on there.

(you don’t need to say anything else. just post a link to the medium article on his wall. it would mean the world to me, and it would help get him off a platform that he used to target myself and other students.)

[left-reminders]

Down the drain: Wisconsin dairy farmers told to dump milk because of an oversupply in the market

A West Bend farm says it was told to start dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk per day because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

'It's discouraging for dairy farmers:' Coronavirus' economic impact on Wisconsin

With the first case of coronavirus confirmed in Wisconsin, the impacts could extend further than just health.

This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.

Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.

We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!

[left-reminders]

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[left-reminders]

People have been reblogging this with some points that seem fair to call attention to -- milk expires quickly, farmers are locked into a situation where they have to throw stuff out, etc. But the larger point we were trying to illustrate in the original post was that this system compels people to do irrational things in the name of market laws. We have a surplus of goods around us and yet we arbitrarily build up social constructs (property laws and exchangability) to prevent people from comfortably living off of these goods. Goods are produced and given away only if profit can be extracted from the process. These aren't immutable laws of nature, though, and most of human history hasn't operated this way. Not to suggest that things were just peachy keen in slave empires or feudalism -- class stratification in general is a big part of this, not just the particular market laws of capitalism. But it's still important to realize that these irrational all-pervasive market forces are a comparatively recent invention and that these historical moments of crisis demonstrate how truly anti-human production-for-profit and class inequality truly are. We believe that the economy should be more broadly democratized and managed on a for-need/for-use basis by the people actually impacted by the outcomes; that would entail workplace/community democracy, as well as a new emphasis on direct distribution of goods (rather than having those goods wait around to be bought).

Goods sit unused -- give them to people. Make sure everyone has the means to live a comfortable life. These seemingly obvious goals are perpetually blocked by billionaires and profit-sharks, who'd rather see people sleeping on the streets in the middle of a pandemic than have their bottom lines suffer any hit. Things are fundamentally top-down; we believe it is a reasonable proposal to start moving things into a bottom-up direction. That requires choosing socialism at this crossroads of human history.

[left-reminders]

Another reminder: capitalism artificially imposes scarcity.

[not-safe-for-democracy]

[thepurelands-deactivated2021031]

I don’t know who this bloke is, but I definitely think we should all start saying “thriving wage” until it becomes a thing

[daywalker75]

This makes me think of that line Hopper from A Bug’s Life and just the relationship shown between the grasshoppers and the ant colony: 

In case you can’t see the quote very well, “Those puny ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life. It’s not about food, it’s about keeping those ants in line.”

[musicalsilence]

Are you telling me that when i watched bug’s life i was actually watching a proletariat revolution?

[accidental-muse]

yes.

[theladyjanedoe-deactivated20221]

YES EXACTLY