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When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the anarchist-inspired Common Ground Collective was created to fill the void. With the motto of “Solidarity Not Charity,” they worked to create power from below—building autonomous projects, programs, and spaces of self-sufficiency like health clinics and neighborhood assemblies, while also supporting communities defending themselves from white militias and police brutality, illegal home demolitions, and evictions.

Black Flags and Windmills—equal parts memoir, history, and organizing philosophy—vividly intertwines Common Ground cofounder scott crow’s experiences and ideas with Katrina’s reality, illustrating how people can build local grassroots power for collective liberation. It is a story of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain to create better worlds.

l0stvegas

this headline i just saw is making me lose it. searching ‘dracula’ on google images and scrolling the results for an hour every morning nodding solemnly at each pic like they’re motivational quotes before clocking into work

koddlet

yellowjackets pokemon au: nat!

jackie + shauna // taissa + van // lottie + laura lee // misty

vague-humanoid

This is about a right-wing account that was scanned for cp getting reinstated

vague-humanoid

#OKAY BUT THIS IS LEAVING THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS OUT #those being that like 3 million people saw the original tweet #and that the tweet in question was a (poorly censored) screenshot from DAISY'S DESTRUCTION #aka the worst csem video to ever exist

betterthanabortion

“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

fandomsandfeminism

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.

See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died.

You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.

albinwonderland

reblogging for commentary

generalmaluga

But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.

fandomsandfeminism

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.“

And that is gross.

mothly

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guerrillatech

wordsandshadows

See the chap with glasses and an incredible moustache in the bottom right? that's Magnus Hirschfeld, the gay Jewish doctor who ran the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) in Berlin. It was largely his books, his research that the Nazis burned.

Everyone else in this photo is a trans person that Dr Hirschfeld worked with. This photo was taken at their christmas party.

failure-to-adult

It is important to note that this action was not an "oh, Nazis ALSO targetted other prople". They directly linked Hirschfeld's institute and research to claims of a Jewish plot to destroy German society.

If that sounds familiar, it's because it is the EXACT same rhetoric being rolled out by prominent TERFs for the last few years including, yes, The Wizard Lady.

Antisemitism, racism, and transphobia/homophobia are ALWAYS linked together.

nandomando

Police in South Jordan Utah engage in racial intimidation in saying a black guys need a permit to play basketball in a park if they do not live in the town.

the-real-numbers-deactivated202

adhdvsautismbracket

ADHD/Autism Duos: Round 1, Side A

Matchup 16:

Reigen Arataka & Kageyama "Mob" Shigeo 'VS' Kim Kitsuragi & Harry Du Bois

Reigen Arataka & Kageyama "Mob" Shigeo (Mob Psycho 100)

Kim Kitsuragi & Harry Du Bois (Disco Elysium)

Voting ended onApr 2, 2023

dankxsinatra

Government's bill to ban tik tok is apparently loaded with other legislation that includes 20 years in prison for use of a VPN.

theconstitutionisgayculture

It's actually even worse than these screenshots show

I am feeling quite bamboozled by this whole "ban TikTok" thing. I was fully on board, but I actually hadn't read the proposed bill. Silly li

stalker-among-the-stars

Need the people behind this shit to learn basically this meme

godlessondheimite

fluffmugger

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

pennie-dreadful

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

doctorbluesmanreturns

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

mikkeneko

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

three--rings

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument. Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM. The message is that it is BAD.

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

lyricwritesprose

Huckleberry Finn can actually be seen as a powerful case study in trying to do social justice when you have absolutely no tools for it, right down to vocabulary. And in that respect, it’s a heroic tale, because Huck—with absolutely no good examples besides Jim, who he has been taught to see as subhuman, with no guidance, with everyone telling him that doing the right thing will literally damn him, with a vocabulary that’s full of hate speech—he turns around and says, “I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to participate in this system. If that means I go to Hell, so be it. Going to Hell now.”

(I used to read a blogger who insisted that “All right, I’ll go to Hell,” from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature. Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a “Get thee behind me,” and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too. Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because “they can change their name, I’m not changing mine.” Interesting guy. Sorry for the long parenthetical.)

Anyway, the point of Huck Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, with no guidance and no help and none of the right words.

And when you put it like that, it’s no wonder that a lot of people on Tumblr—people who prioritize words over every other form of social justice—find it threatening and hard to comprehend.

youngalientype

There's a reason the state starts by going after the people you refuse to respect

skeuo

since I already reblogged about it here's a less informal, more concise way of putting it:

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE IS NOT GOING TO DIE. ONLY CERTAIN BOOKS ARE AT STAKE NOTHING ELSE. DONATE WHAT YOU CAN FOR THEIR COURT COSTS. THEY STILL HAVE AN APPEAL TO GIVE

noelle-ism

It is important, however, to note that, should this situation settle with TIA completely losing the fight, that it sets a precedent: Copyright abusers can go after Internet Archive.

This has happened before and gone both ways - the reason we have videogame emulation as it stands right now (completely absent of cost and done purely out of love, admiration, and a desire for preservation) is because the company Bleem won in court against Sony over the topic of emulation.

The reason Music Copyright has been so tumultuous and pro-copyright owner is because dozens of Record Labels went after (and beat) companies like Limewire.

This is not a slippery slope - give companies with too much money an inch in court, and they'll take all they can get.

You need to help in any way possible

rozentias-deactivated20240103

in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

pedropascal24-7

The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal joins Paul Mescal and Kit Harington as high profile male actors who have faced awkward interview questions,

thirddeadlysin

Lest anyone think this a fairly recent phenomenon, Jason Isaacs has spoken repeatedly about how women grope him at events and have done since at least the start of his Lucius Malfoy appearances. I was briefly mutuals with someone in a fandom about 20 years ago who basically stalked the actor she liked and paid thousands of dollars to force him to have photo ops and meals with her at charity events and conventions, at which I cannot imagine she was anywhere near treating him like a human being instead of a sexy life-sized doll who couldn't be rude without jeopardizing the real work that paid his mortgage (the appearances) when the roles were few and far between.

It's BEEN creepy but the escalation is accelerating as the fourth wall between fandom and celebrity crumbles to dust and as entertainment and news media scramble for viral titillation they can monetize without having to put any effort, time, or money into. It's not the other side of anything. It's the whole entire same coin as the awful sexualization of cis and trans women; it just looks WAY more jarring because we aren't used to men being objectified publicly this way.

sadwhiteguy

bloodwormbasement

history classes when going over the holocaust: -goes over how horrible it was-

history classes when going over what happened what happened to people who lived under communism in the Soviet Union: uhhhhhhhmmm the US had a space race with the Soviet Union hahaha

gigglygamer

I can easily say the U.S. EduSystem has failed me miserably. History side of tumblr, please, I implore you, explain.

enamel5

I’m not an expert, but Stalin killed basically as many people as Hitler did. He also specifically managed the logistics of food to starve parts of the country that weren’t sufficiently cooperative with the goals of the USSR, like Ukraine. He just hid it while Hitler did it much more openly, so the world didn’t understand just how terrible the things he was doing were.

polihate

dashaibo

"Managed the logistics of food to starve parts of the country"

That makes it sound like he just didn't send extra food to Ukraine, which is not what happened. He TOOK food from Ukraine, the most fertile bread basket of Europe to the point the peasants had nothing left WHILE exporting grain to the UK in exchange for funds for his gigantic infrastructure projects.

People were shot if they dared to "hoard" a bag of grain to survive the winter.

People devolved into eating dogs, killing their children and cannibalism because there was NOTHING to eat.

And he did it knowingly because Ukraine is a volatile region that never wanted to be part of USSR or Russia and was the biggest hub of resistance to Bolshevism during the Civil War.

dashaibo

Also most stats gloss over Stalin using GULAG prisoners, mostly over political or petty crimes, to build his massive factories, roads to nowhere and the famous Moscow metro. They died en-masse but he didn't give a shit.

saintofpride201

All this, and people nowadays STILL simp for communism and the USSR's "glory" days... Like for real...

dashaibo

They say it's fake Western Imperialist propaganda and that Holodomor was "just a famine, bro" and that GULAGs weren't "all that bad" and people inside deserved it.

fiachdubh

I've seen multiple instances of people saying the holodomor was just due to "bad weather." I dunno what they were smoking.

dashaibo

Ah yes, just bad weather in the most fertile region in Europe at the age where famines were largely eradicated in the developed world.

Clearly.

firelordderpy

I would also point out that Stalin and Lenin did it to Russia first. Granted, part of it was from the aftershocks of the civil war but 5 million Russians died in the 1920s from the first famine,

During the famine in the 1930s (Holodomor) 3-4 million Ukrainians died, as did an additional 2-3 million Russians, and 1-2 million Kazakhs

Stalin’s only saving grace when it comes to his reputation is that he was in charge of the Soviet Union during WW2, and even then he often hindered the war effort as much as he helped. But WW2 is one of the most important events in Russian history given the sheer scale of the destruction, so it overshadows the horrors of Stalin’s pre- and post- WW2 evils.

Now after Stalin things did actually improve a lot in the USSR, but that’s easy when the bar was set so low by Stalin. It was still a brutal dictatorship but it rejected a lot of Stalin’s actions and the mass killings previously seen were stopped,

Things getting better in the USSR can lead to a prettier picture and gloss over the fact that the foundations of most of its greatest advancements were laid by the Tsars, hijacked by Communists, and then built with blood under Stalin in an unnecessarily brutal construction.

takashi0

#those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it#and that's why i just CANNOT take any pro-communist arguments seriously#it always boils down to 'it'll work this time bro all those other times where all those people got genocided don't count'#and it's always bored privelidged white kids from first world countries that conscript to the ideology#the people who support communism think they'll be part of the ruling class but in reality they'll be the first ones lined against the wall#useful idiots

libertarian-druid-ny-separatist

And they rarely, if ever, listen to people from former communist nations or people fleeing currently communist regimes. Like, who better to listen to than the people who lived under it? You can make the argument, and I've seen it done, that the same applies to neonazis and listening to victims of the holocaust. But that only works to a certain point because typically, they're the type that won't care because they're not X group (leaving that blank because there were just so many). They need to hear how bad it was for occupied nations as well.

But I digress. These Western communists aren't just idiots. They're delusional in some cases. They'll refute testimonies of people who survived communist regimes as "not real communism" so regularly it's become a meme.

takashi0

Yeah but no one really asks Holocaust survivors since 1. most of them died of old age and 2. Despite what Tankie Dipshits claim, western civiliation as a whole does not deny or try to justify the unspeakable atrocities of Nazism anywhere NEAR the amount it does for Communism outside of the niche neonazi circles and /pol/-esque losers that no one takes seriously anyway.

the-davest-of-uncles

If it's okay to punch Nazis, it should be okay to punch Communists ten times, because Communism's body count is ten time Nazism's.

theconstitutionisgayculture

There is nobody in history whose legacy benefited more from Adolf Hitler than Josef Stalin. If Hitler hadn't done the Holocaust, Stalin would be remembered as one of the worst mass murderers of the 20th century. He had the death camps and the ethnic genocide, but because he didn't have gas chambers or Mengele everyone thinks Hitler was worse even though Stalin's body count was much higher. If Hitler hadn't stupidly attacked Russia when they had a non-aggression pact Stalin wouldn't have been able to spin himself as a Hero of the Great Patriotic War who fought against the fascists. He would have been the coward who hid behind his snow and his Kremlin while the rest of the world fought for freedom.

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