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The thing most on my mind about the Mangione trial is how effective this has been. For those five days, everybody had ideas. They saw you could just walk up to somebody on the street and shoot them dead, and that no amount of surveillance would mean anything if the shooter took simple precautions. Nabbing this poor guy and pinning it on him, plastering his face everywhere on the news and saying this is the shooter really worked to calm everyone down. There is no longer an imagined escape. Somebody's going down for it, even if it's the wrong guy. They'll stop at nothing.

balaclava-trismegistus

Interesting how even people knowing Mangione isn't the shooter doesn't really change anything. If this is how they're treating some guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, imagine how they'd treat you if you actually did something like that.

"I'm scared"

"I don't know what to do".

"I want to just stop existing.."

Here is something you can do, right now. Turn your head from the screen and go do something that usually makes you happy. Go small or indulge, it doesn't matter. Brew a tea or take out a box of crayons.

You need to take care of yourself so that We can take care of Each Other.

#us news #news #community

i-am-a-fish

This is rough, have any advice on not fucking killing myself?

I know there are a lot of people thinking about killing themselves right now. I felt the exact same way in 2016 when he first got elected.

This is a bad thing, but to anyone having these types of thoughts, please don't do anything that can't be undone. This is the last term he can be be inaugurated, after these 4 years, or hopefully less, he will be gone. It's difficult to stay positive right now, and that's okay. You don't have to stay positive, it's okay to feel these emotions as they are. But please do not commit suicide, because if you do, you won't be able to feel any emotions ever again.

Even though I felt hopeless at the time, I am so glad that I didn't kill myself in 2016.

For my own sake, I really need the people who are upset with this election to stay alive with me

drchucktingle

the curve

somehow ive found myself in a position where folks come to chuck in times of strife for encouragement. lets get the big part of this conversation out of the way LOVE IS STILL REAL and that is the thing to remember. that north star remains. today there is more to talk about though

existence pushes towards love community and freedom, because CREATION is what we were built to do and creation thrives with these things as fuel. IT GETS BETTER. LOVE IS REAL. however this change comes in up and down waves. its not a straight line and should not be expected to be

some of these waves are short and small, and some of the slopes are years or decades long. there is no mincing words here, we are entering a massive downward wave. the implications are huge and it is okay to mourn that. FEEL THOSE FEELINGS. it is an important part of the ride

the most telling sign post on our slope is this: tromp won the popular vote (or likely will when the votes are done). we can talk POLITICAL STRATEGY all day about electoral college or who should court the center or the left and on and on but ultimately THIS is the real story

to me it signals a TRUE cultural shift. likely conservatives will have presidency, senate, house, and supreme court. WHAT A GIANT SLOPE. HOLD THE HECK ON because we will be riding it for a while, deep into the pit of the void. hold your buds tight, prove love at the local level

but heres the thing, MASSIVE waves have happened before. theyll happen again. mind numbing slopes into the abyss and great soaring leaps into the sky. in fact the inertia almost ALWAYS causes them to happen right after each other. hippies or punks back in the day, buckaroos now

politically we were trapped in a basically fifty fifty trot for a long time, but it was not always like this (just look at old election maps what the heck). to be honest, tromps map looks like one of those old maps right now. and DANG did COUNTER MOVEMENTS blooms from those times

in other words, THERE WILL BE A COUNTER CULTURE MOVEMENT THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN OUR LIFETIMES. you are now a rebel for the resistance and the wave that will swing back towards love will awe us in ways we cannot even imagine yet.

but for now, feel those feelings, mourn, prove love, stay safe. do not let the hope i am espousing feel like a distraction from the very real, even deadly consequences of the terrible pit we are plummeting into. it is a horrible day, and FUTURE HOPE does not diminish that, BUT

get ready because that counter culture wave is coming and YOU are a part of it. if you want to shout HECK OFF DEVILS then shout it LOUD, if you want to cry then cry HARD, if you want to love then love with your WHOLE HEART. thats the start of the movement that we dont know yet

when that movement takes shape we will feel the inertia of the curve and it may make us sick from the rollercoaster turn, and that pressure will be uncomfortable and scary, but THEN buckaroo, we will soar, and ill be so dang glad to be holding on tight with you when we do

gender-nightvale

There have never been leaps out into the sky. Just leaps out of a pit. Yes the struggle is upwards, but don't forget that for many folks - the sky has yet been touched.

oldtvandcomics

HEY GUYS!!

GUYS!!!

FRANCE HAS REACHED THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES ON THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE AGAINST CONVERSION THERAPY IN THE EU!!

ONE COUNTRY DOWN, SIX TO GO!!

We also need still quite a few signatures in order to reach the one million required.

As to date, the six other countries with the most signatures are:

Spain - 38.72%

Finland - 30.31%

Ireland - 24.86%

Netherlands - 24.15%

Germany - 23.54%

Belgium - 23.09%

So yeah, still a long way to go, but we ARE slowly getting closer. Don't stop now! Don't let this stay within the community, either, if you have any friends or family who are open to queer rights, get them to sign, too!

thistlearts

Signed! (Belgium here)

18thcenturythirsttrap

In the EU? Please sign and share!

Not in the EU? Please share, for reach!

bloglikeanegyptian

there's something very scary about the way we argue and entertain discourse on israel or on settler colonialism when, on the ground, israel has totally isolated northern gaza and is currently systemically liquidating jabalia (a refugee camp in northern gaza) just as they have, from the very beginning, said they would do. just as large swathes of israel came to be in 1948, to 1967, to the west bank today. there's something scary about watching indigenous people undergo a genocide in real-time in 2024 like they're squatters on some prime property while nobody moves except to argue about semantics. there's something scary about people being trapped and killed like fish in a barrel while you can text them and follow them on social media and watch their pleas in video as soldiers and tanks come closer. what the hell is this

bloglikeanegyptian

jabalia in northern gaza has been under siege for over a week. no food aid in. constant bombing. journalists being openly targeted. the bbc describes israel's plan to use medieval siege tactics to ethnically cleanse and settle the north of gaza as a "controversial plan" while acknowledging that not only does israel not allow people enough time to use the humanitarian corridor to evacuate, they also shoot at people evacuating and are still targeting the south. they have also made it clear that whoever leaves will not be returning.

i don't really understand how the news can describe the process of genocide in such stark terms and call it a "controversial plan" instead of what it is: a horrifying crime against humanity.

bloglikeanegyptian

i see they changed the headline after widespread condemnation with no apology or editor's note as usual. the BBC has done this multiple times over the past year:

bloglikeanegyptian

everyone (including kamala harris) has acknowledged that aid isn't going into gaza and aid trucks are at the lowest they've been since the genocide began (and of the aid that enters, NONE reaches jabalia camp, currently under siege).

israeli reservists have confirmed that the so-called general's plan is, in fact, being acted out.

the biden admin issued a "thirty day notice" for israel to start letting aid in—people in jabalia have had no drinking water for ten days already. like rafah, the humanitarian pier, and all of biden's other "red lines" this is political theatre. the people of jabalia are being exterminated and have been for over a week.

as a side note, which many have forgotten: this happened with al-shifa hospital and the surrounding area. when israeli forces retreated (which will not happen if the general's plan is carried out) they found mass graves at the site, with nearly 500 people buried (some buried and bulldozed while still alive) in the courtyard.

bloglikeanegyptian

the israeli army has currently surrounded all three barely functioning hospitals in the north of gaza and attacked two of them. there is nowhere for injured people to go. horrifying videos have been coming out of the aftermath of bombings (including one of a child being bombed, then the people gathering to gather the child being bombed). there are reports of idf rigging neighborhoods up to blow while people are still there, and bulldozing a house with the residents inside. several families have succumbed to starvation inside their homes.

israel is systemically destroying entire families, home by home. people from north of gaza are losing their families who have withstood over a year of genocide:

people in jabalia are literally being exterminated. this is not an exaggeration in the slightest. israel has declared that it will exterminate the people of the north of gaza, and it is doing it, and the united states has given them 30 days to finish the job. this is genocide in every sense.

you are watching an extermination campaign.

mens-rights-activia

The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“

ffcrazy15

Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.

javarisx-fightingthosedemons

vmkhoneyy

“Oh how do you stay positive when the world is so awful how can you stay positive when our lives are falling apart-“ SPITE!!!!! ITS SPITE GODDAMN IT!!! REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE ANGRY AT THE WORLD AS A TEENAGER?? THAT KID WAS RIGHT AND YES IT FUCKING SUCKS AND NO, ITS NOT FAIR, SO YOU HAVE TO KEEP TRYING TO MAKE IT FAIR!!!!

furryprovocateur

okay but aging is literally a privilege. notice that

sufficientlylargen

My T-shirt with the entire text of Borges' theoretical Library of Babel is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt, somewhere.

technofeudalism

"why do you even know that" i thirst for knowledge as the arctic tern chases a perpetual summer

bombplot-foiled-deactivated2025

i mean, ‘guilt trip’ posts aren’t necessarily infallible but ever since the student encampments ended there has been no national attention on palestine, protest turnout has halved, donation campaigns have been subjected to extreme harassment and liberals have made it clear they will be a danger to anyone who criticizes kamala harris. more than ever you need to stay attentive, you need to go to demonstrations, you need to keep up pressure on your representatives. palestine always cycles in and out of relevancy in mainstream western periphery but we can’t afford for that to be the case this time.