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"in north korea they teach kids to hate america since birth" wish I had had formal training too I had to learn to hate america all by myself

luntfontanne

the nypd doing a mass shooting over a $2.90 fare evasion truly is the inevitable endpoint of the police as an institution and also just the encapsulation of how everything we're fighting is all the same fucking thing at its core. nypd kkk idf you're all the same.

luntfontanne

Four people were struck in the subway shooting, including a bystander who was hit in the head and an officer.

a lot going on in this article and the fact that they didn't let anyone in his family know except by leaving a fucking business card at his mom's door is fucked but i keep thinking about this part:

they handcuffed a BYSTANDER that they shot????? they shot a random guy by accident because they were so incompetent at trying to execute someone over a $3 fare and handcuffed that bystander while he was lying on the ground with a gunshot wound??? and the other bystander who they shot in the HEAD is still in critical condition? $5.8 billion annual budget for this shit

luntfontanne

thinking about lozito v new york city, where a person was brutally stabbed in the face head and neck on a subway car by someone on a killing spree while nypd officers were literally on the subway with them hiding in the next car the whole time and waited until the stabbing victim had disarmed the guy himself before they came in. the cops were literally there to find this killer, they'd been searching for him in a citywide manhunt for like 24 hours and flooded the subway with cops to do that, and the pigs who were there knew it was this guy and even while a random commuter was actively being stabbed in the fucking head they stayed behind a closed door to watch. and when lozito sued, the judge dismissed the suit saying that the police have "no special duty" to protect anyone. radiolab ep on the case:

A look at what happens when the police don’t do the one thing you expect them to.

anyways. "no special duty" to protect the people and yet they're fucking everywhere on the subway all day playing fucking candy crush on their phones. literally all they are there for is to protect the city from $2.90 fare evasions and that's fucking it. i know this is very obvious and not a novel observation that the police don't protect people but the fact that it's the fucking nypd on the subway… just can't stop thinking about these two events together

(more on how The Police Legally Have No Duty To Protect You: fivefourpod ep on castle rock v gonzales, which is also covered in the radiolab ep)

iguessweallcrazyithinktho

spacemancharisma

zwischenstadt

From the somethingawful forums, the live thread when 9/11 happened

garbage-empress

http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/

This thread was wild, especially because the OP was posting webcam photos from nearby right after the first plane hit. Possibly before CNN even reported on it.

wow terrorists hijacking a plane that’s fucking rich, you idiot, you complete buffoon

This poster might be one of the first dozen people in history to publicly accuse Osama Bin Laden, possibly before any news agencies, and their post has the words “ROTFL Owned” in it.

la-volpe-bianca

🤔🤔🤔

spicyposting

Posted not even 2 hours after the 9/11 attacks and this person predicted the next 2 decades of American public policy. Remarkable.

dialogic

nobody got hurt so im allowed to giggle about this extremely looney tunes looking accident on a part of 64 i used to drive down at least once a week

tunafan9000

this is near ne

lakevida

why didnt you prevent this

lovely-v

It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

lovely-v

It’s like. When I was told to “just be yourself” as a kid I thought it was a passive thing. Like oh easy I just have to sit here and be myself. but the reason so many people think that “being yourself” is bullshit advice is because you actually have to make active choices to do this and it WILL make your life way more fun. You have to wear t-shirts of bands that were popular ten years ago because you like them. You have to do your hair in a way that you find cute or comfortable even if it’s “so nineties”. If your friend says a food you enjoy is gross to them, you can’t be afraid to admit you casually disagree. You have to do hobbies that you’re interested in even if you’re bad at them and you cant feel like you have to get good at something before you tell people it’s an activity you do. You have to read manga and comic books in public and get piercings your relatives think are unattractive. You don’t have to tell people you dislike that you dislike them, but you don’t have to give them your time and attention either. You have to rewatch that kids show you’re nostalgic for even if you’re in your 30s. You have to change your name if you hate it, even if only a few close friends can know. You have to get fun girly drinks at the bar. You have to order hot chocolate when you don’t like coffee and black coffee when you don’t like sweet things. I am still bad at practicing this but it is the only way to make it all tolerable.

captainwarbuckle

It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes

orangechickenpillow

psi-spectacular

"I hate (insert media here) because of the fando-"

serial-unaliver-deactivated2024

not sure what tags this one could possibly have

legoyuri

#inspo

consistantly-changing

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byjove

“I don’t know how to reconcile that my favorite piece of media was made by someone awful.” Because they’re a shitty person who made something good. It’s not that rare of a phenomenon. Shitty people make good things everyday. A piece of art being made by a terrible person does not make its effect null and void and making good art does not redeem a terrible person. People who are irredeemably nasty can say something true and honest on occasion. To reevaluate a work after finding out more about the artist’s horrendous biases and actions and still find things that are honest and true even when consuming it through a critical lens, that is a beautiful thing. If the artist’s actions and words completely destroy it for you and distort the meaning you once found, it’s okay to feel a sense of mourning and loss at that.

This is not to say that you should continue to lavish social and financial capital on the artist because you enjoy their art but to say that enjoying art made by horrible people does not mean you are in some way unclean.

joker-ace

my current top 3 favs in one piece and me forcing them to interact bc that's super unlikely to happen in canon right now

edgebug

the thing that sucks most about Joanne Rowling being a terf is that she is actively hurting real life trans people every day.

the second worst thing about joanne being a terf is that the Harry Potter intellectual property is So Much Larger than her. look at the credits for just one of the harry potter movies. every single one of those people put YEARS of time and effort and dare i say love into those films. think of all the people involved in theme park design and operation who put together the wizarding world park lands and detailed them so lovingly and fully

and yet even though the intellectual property of harry potter is so much larger than joanne, she's poisoned the whole well

i feel so. so immensely sorry for every person involved in the harry potter ip who isn't jkr. doubly sorry for every trans person involved. it's fucking sad

edgebug

I want to be very clear, before we have a category 4 piss on the poor moment, that this post is not saying "it's ok to like Harry Potter still because other people were involved in it, and the ip is larger than jkr" NO! you must fully divest yourself from the harry potter intellectual property!

if you go to universal studios, it's fine to ride the rides and appreciate them on a theme park artistry level. jkr had nothing to do with the engineering. and you're already there for other reasons--riding the rides doesn't give any more money to jkr. but do NOT buy any hp branded merch, at the parks or anywhere else! that's where joanne makes her money! hp merch funds anti-trans legislation! almost directly!

"What about buying indie merch? What if I buy from artists on etsy? Nothing goes to JKR then..." I hear you cry. and you have a point. that's harm reduction. buying indie merch is unambiguously better than buying licensed merch.

but you must be aware that it still makes trans people feel unsafe. you become schrodinger's terf. i see people with hogwarts houses in their bios and i feel a chill. i see cars with glasses-and-lightning-scar bumper stickers and i have to wonder if those people literally wants my wife dead or if they're just clueless.

it's just horrifically sad that so many people put so much love and years of work and artistry and blood sweat tears etc into an IP that is now retroactively so emblematic of transphobia

they-bite

To the people who I’ve seen suggesting “just buy HP merch in trans colors!”, I’d like to remind you that JKR’s already storied anti-Semitism has transgressed full-speed-ahead into straight up Holocaust denial (specifically denying that Nazis burned books). She has proven to the public that she will only continue to skew farther right as she goes.

But more to the point, even if you found a way to show your love of Harry Potter in the most Death of the Author-evoking way possible, it doesn’t cancel out anything. As A Tran™ I don’t give a fuck if you’re liking Harry Potter in an informed context. All a Harry Potter sticker with trans colors on it would tell me is that you still care more about Joanne’s fictional work than you do about the real harm she’s causing. Your guilt is worthless if you still can’t help but put a damn Harry Potter sticker on your laptop.

The UK has become a trans person’s nightmare because of the bills JKR has funded. It’s inspired waves of anti-trans legislation in other countries, which in turn embrazens transphobes to harrass us and attack us and kill us. And you still can’t let these goddamn books go? Are you fucking serious?

patricia-taxxon

the thing is, if your younger self was a bigot or an abuser, u can't make people forgive you. but you still gotta forgive yourself, like that's non-negotiable, dude. that happens before u can even ask the question of earning forgiveness from anyone lese

patricia-taxxon

oops, in your attempt to martyr yourself out of respect for your victims you accidentally sabotaged your own ability to conceptualize yourself as anything but a perpetual evildoer who is always one bad day away from hurting everyone you love, all but guaranteeing history to repeat itself. rookie mistake

patricia-taxxon

im gonna try explaining myself, cus im a gambling addict and im waiting for the day that it actually works.

"forgiveness" is personal, that's why I said in the post that you might inflict harm on people for which they can never forgive you, but that's their quest. if you abuse someone, you can't go no-contact with yourself. you actually keep living in your own head indefinitely, and ultimately you need to learn to live with yourself in order to continue living a full life without further harm. this is not necessarily an anti-carceral thought, although i am generally anti-carceral myself. I simply want people to like, fix their heart and atone for real with measured accountability & self love instead of dissociating, self-marking themselves forever and guaranteeing their recidivism.

You and a remorseful abuser would both think I'm giving the easy, coddling path. It's actually the tough pragmatic path in disguise.

dark-fire-thoughts

Ok. I see where you going, but I strongly disagree. The one person who can't be allowed to forgive ones crimes is oneself.

Even if everyone else has forgiven you for the abuse you did, you must never allow yourself to let what you did be forgiven. Once you've done that, you've gotten to the point where you might do it again.

Never let up. Always strive towards improvement. Never let yourself live down the horrors of the past. Only by comparing ourselves to who we were can we grow.

patricia-taxxon

this is called OCD

yuyurana

It’s so fucking frustrating to argue about this on tumblr.com. Because people might pay lip service to the idea of criminal justice reform or even prison abolition. But deep down they always come back to the Calvinism of it all: there are good people (victims) and bad people (abusers) and once someone has revealed themselves to be an abuser they can never be forgiven, never be part of society again.

And if you believe the world works like that one other thing also has to be true: You know you are a ‘good person’, so nothing you ever do could be truly abusive. You could never truly harm another person. And if you did they must have deserved it. Because you are a good person.

And wow, does that not just sound like something abusers usually say, when confronted with their own behavior?

I would leave the rest up to the reader but because we are on the piss on the poor reading comprehension site here, I’m going to spell it out: get comfortable with your own fallibility. Acknowledge that you could indeed severely harm someone else. And that means that you NEED to learn to forgive yourself.