Clover

Hiii!!! My name's Clover!!(previously Fang) He/xe/pup/it/them Irl platonic gf: @aspenm00n

[oh-good]

this is a Christmas post for you to like and unlike over and over to see the little snowy animation they have rn

[echoschaoticreality]

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH 🗣️. Did y’all know it’s the 100th anniversary of Black History Month? IM SO HYPED ABOUT THAT. Shout out to all my black cosplayers, black artists, black gamers, black people in the education field, black shifters, black self shippers, black people in the medical field and sooooo much more. Y’all are amazing and I’m proud of y’all. KEEP GOING‼️

(Y’all be safe if y’all are going out🫶🏾)

[pucksandpower]

I still remember being in high school immediately after the Parkland shooting. My homeroom teacher looked thirty terrified teenagers in the eye and told us exactly what he would do if there was an active shooter. He said he would block the door with his body.

He told us, “I have lived a good enough life to attempt to buy you some time to jump out of the third-story windows and give you a chance to live.”

At the time, Republicans claimed that school shootings and piles of dead children were a necessary price to pay to protect the Second Amendment. They insisted the right to bear arms was absolute and untouchable.

But now? They say the Second Amendment no longer applies when the guns are being wielded by law-abiding protesters.

Now, the Second Amendment apparently doesn’t apply because ICE agents can kill someone and use the fact that he was simply legally carrying a gun as justification for that murder.

This is what matters to them more than keeping children safe and alive. It was never about the Constitution. It is about who they believe is allowed to hold the power.

[naughtynanzhu]

Alex was recording, which was well within his right, and was shielding other people from pepper spray. He was trying to help. You'll hear people blame him for having a gun, which he had a permit to carry and the only time it was out of the holster was when ICE took it before shooting him. You'll see people claim he shot at officers, but that is a blatant lie.

[onlytiktoks]

[theconcealedweapon]

[libanezink]

These faces have been and will be in my mind all month, and likely they will never leave. Worse even, there will likely be more added. To artists and those of us who can speak up, we NEED to speak up—we are as much a part of this world and society as everyone else, and we can create things that can do even just a little good/reflection/solidarity. I’m so angry, which only means I’m NOT going to stop speaking out and doing what I can to remind people that this is so wrong and evil. Abolish ICE!!!

[theconcealedweapon]

Remember when people demonized protesters because "What if an emergency vehicle is trying to get through?"?

Well, here we have ICE literally blocking emergency personnel from attending to an emergency.

So, when are ICE going to be classified as monsters the same way protesters have been?

[theconcealedweapon]

[outspokenblackman]

And it's only January.

[saywhat-politics]

[theconcealedweapon]

[phantomrose96]

Day 286 of quarantine I have discovered www.webstaurantstore.com

It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.

30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.

But what gets me

What truly gets me

is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE 

FOR LESS THAN $20

Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENT for the fucking PENNIES that is $50

I’m so sorry for the normal person I’ll be after quarantine because the cabin-fever version of me I’m inhabiting right now is perhaps just uninhibited enough to follow through on this dream I’ve just discovered of out-ricing myself.

[closet-keys]

real talk though, if you had a large number of people in your community who wanted a particular food item and couldn’t afford it (for instance if you’re in a food desert and need produce or if you’re a part of a large disabled and/or overworked community who all need prepared frozen food), you could pool funds and get an order from a supply store like this.

it requires organizing for finance management, ordering, transport, and distribution, but if you build a stable mutual aid network, it’s genuinely within the realm of possibility.

[anarchopuppy]

This idea is called a buyers club (or buying club, buying coop, etc) and it’s a great time-tested method of mutual aid. And there are guides and tools for starting your own at managemy.coop

[vaspider]

This is a really great store for buying all kinds of cooking-related stuff, including storage, pots, pans, etc. We bought big storage containers here that we use to keep our flour and rice and stuff in. :)

[theconcealedweapon]

"Nazis killed people. ICE are only deporting people."

Well, now we see that ICE are killing people.

How much more evidence do you need that they're exactly like the Nazis?

[predictablesloth]

Even if ICE retreats from Minnesota, the system has to go.

Even if Kristi Noem is impeached, the system has to go.

Even if ICE is defunded, the system has to go.

Even if the right withdraws, the system has to go.

Even if Trump dies, the system has to go.

Even if a liberal is elected president, the system has to go.

Any institution that lets fascism rise is one that's fundamentally broken.

We have the unique opportunity to change the foundations of the US for the better and we can't waste it.

[former-incel]

ICE is full of incels, because incels are the perfect people to join ICE.

They're able to hurt people while thinking of themselves as the good guys.

They're unfazed by being disliked, because they believe that they'll be disliked no matter what they do.

They're full of hate and jumping at the chance to direct that hate at a socially acceptable target.

And when you understand that ICE is full of incels, it makes perfect sense why they'd murder someone for this. Nothing enrages an incel more than being told "don't touch her".

[depsidase]