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Hey, Americans! Support fast food workers, don’t cross the picket line. No fast food on Feb 16.
I don't think people point this out often enough but think about every single fucker that stormed the Capitol:
- An adjunct professor
- A lawyer
- A real estate agent
- A state legislator
- A CEO of a company
A LOT of these people, thorough their occupations, family connections, what-have-you, all had varying degrees of institutional power to inflict their menacing politics on people and harm them. Do you think a MAGA real estate agent is gonna help a black family looking for a good home at a fair price without regards to whatever the neighborhood is? Do you think that MAGA teacher or that MAGA university adjunct professor is treating his non-white students fairly? Are you sure that MAGA CEO gives a single fuck about creating a safe working environment or not discriminating against employees that aren't white? We all know the power of a racist legislator, but even a single racist, with the backing of the white supremacy system, can ruin a life pretty effortlessly.
White supremacy is a cancer. It infests and infects every aspect of a person's life. It is truly insidious.
I don't know how to wrap this up conclusively but maybe this tweet thread will sum it up better
People really need to get rid of the belief that it's only rural, poor, uneducated white men who are racist and capable of exhibiting the extremist views that are nurtured in our white supremacist society.
It's doctors and teachers and first responders and bankers - all sorts of fucking people who hold a lot more power than being in a giant pick up truck tailgating you on a dirt road. There's literally no escaping them. They made the system.
There’s a reason your boss lies to you about union membership.
That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.
It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.
The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.
It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.
They like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.
They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.
They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.
It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.
Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.
This makes sense to me.
TERRIFIC stuff by the cat!
i love how the crowd goes nuts
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I don’t think people quite understand how much money a billion dollars is, let alone 600 billion every year.
So the US military spends 600 billion dollars a year. That averages to about 20,000$ every second.
The US college board estimates that state public colleges cost an average of about 10,000$ per year. The US military budget could pay for 60 million people to go to college. The United States has about 50 million total people of college age. If all of those people went to college for free the amount of money left over would still leave us with the second largest military budget on the planet.
op i have some news for you
The US military may kill innocent people, destroy entire countries infrastructures, poison the local populations, cause birth defects lasting generations, be the worlds largest pollutor, absorb massive amounts of resources in a country full of poverty, but it also sends some people to college, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,
I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say
reblog if attacking fascism is really the hill you want to die on
this is literally like one of the most justified and honorable hills you could die on??? lol??
I will be proud if I die on that hill
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Using soldier ants to stitch a wound in Africa.
Holding the edges of the cut together, a healer places a number of ants directly on the wound. Instinctively the insects bite down directly onto the flesh and lock their jaws, sealing the cut like a medical suture.
The healer then cuts off the thoraxes and tails of the ants. The jaws remain in the skin for several days until the area is healed. Though the procedure is still being observed on the continent, it is slowly disappearing with the proliferation of hospitals and clinics.
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On October 11, 1988, ACT UP members from all over the country descended on the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, MD, in an action they called “SEIZE CONTROL OF THE FDA.”
ACT UP activists demanded that the FDA make its drug approval process faster and more ethical in order to get more experimental drugs into the bodies of people who needed them. They demanded that drug trials include women, people of color, IV drug users, and all other people with AIDS who had traditionally been excluded from trials and therefore denied access to new drugs.
As a result of the action and ACT UP’s continued lobbying, the FDA adopted ACT UP’s proposed structure for drug trials, Parallel Track, which greatly expanded access to experimental medicines.
Read more about the action here.
Join the fight! ACT UP still meets every Monday at 7pm at the LGBT Center in NYC.
some of you people NEED to be fucking reminded that loving minorities will always be more important than hating bigots
BLM goes before ACAB ALWAYS. loving black people is more important than “pissing off bigots.” loving jewish people is more important than “making nazis angry.” dont just fight against oppressors, start fighting for minorities. fighting against the oppressor is important, but start doing it for the right reason.
“some of us are Black”
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