there's a lot of good reasons to read a lot of comics like "genuine enjoyment of the story and characters" and "appreciation for the art form" but by far the pettiest and most valid reason is so you'll know when people you don't like on the internet are lying.
If there’s one thing left-leaning whites HATE it’s being reminded they’re part of an oppressing class even when they aren’t actively saying slurs or committing outright hate crimes
Contribute to or at bare minimum share Black/BIPOC mutual aid. It is the literal least you can do to make a tangible difference especially for small bills/needs. Sometimes you can keep a Black person housed, sometimes you feed us, sometimes you let us have clean clothes or get to work.
It is literally the BARE MINIMUM you can to do pass it on so that if you don’t toss like $5, $20, more their way, someone following you might and it can literally save a life.
Last year two of the most prominent cis Black disability activists died bc they couldn’t crowdfund money - one for a rideshare hospital trip when they knew an ambulance might bankrupt them, the other for cancer treatment.
If well-known/loved cis Black disabled people can’t survive from crowdfunding, imagine the hopes of Black trans disabled people for example.
If you can’t FUND US then at least fucking reblog our shit! That’s how you use your privilege!
Example: my friend @harumscarumcos had their power cut off and they only need another like $100 to get it back on and be able to work again. If you can, toss a bit their way and share! https://www.tumblr.com/harumscarumcos/788718438281625600/8450-14183
i think americans should have to put a banner above their post that says U.S. CENTRIC ADVICE/INFORMATION. i think political posts should clarify that they are giving protest/societal/class information relevant only to the USA i think i would like to stop getting halfway through a post with really good information and then realising it is not widespread advice and is only applicable in the united states of america
for the love of GOD can we PLEASE stop treating us-centric advice as applicable to the whole entire world. Please. beyond anything else, i do not think you guys understand how difficult it makes it for young people to interact with and learn information relevant to them.
at a certain point, treating us-american advice as universally applicable borders on misinformation. i am not saying that it is done maliciously, but it is dangerous at worst. i do not want younger people going around assuming that certain laws do/do not apply to them and getting in trouble because of it. i worry about what 'fundamental/constitutional/labour rights' are only legally defensible in the USA. i worry about kids who do not know yet to wonder where the advice is for, and take it as fact because a post that reads "EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS" begins with "EVERYONE".
okay yes all the tags are very very good points but i would like to point out the main reason i made this post, which is that
if you are non-american then it can be dangerous to hold beliefs about your rights that are only applicable in the US.
i am australian and i have seen young australians have completely us-american perceptions on the rights they hold (or do not hold) in regards to protest, police officers, self-defense, medical care, higher education, debt, and legal proceedings. i am not talking about "boooo americans" i am talking about the genuine danger it might present to have us-centric assumptions in high-stakes situations
(please do not chalk this up to 'if you don't do research then you are stupid'. i made this post with young people in mind. that being said i am willing to bet it also applies to others, ie those who are newer to non-local internet, older folks, or those escaping high-control environments.)
Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”
👆Really really good article by the way. Feels like a good piece to show to folks you know who are still on the fence about things like police or prison abolition. Plus the pseudonym the author uses is hysterical, and he's really quite a good writer.
extremely good article, please read it. at the very least read the "how to be a bastard" section, it outlines a lot of the ways cops will try to trick you
stratt and grace and the rest of the phm science team running on 4 cumulative hours of sleep at an unscheduled conference. dimitri and lokken are trying to explain a new complication in the hail mary's fueling system and the resources necessary to iron it out but they keep getting interrupted by government officials butting in until grace (who doesn't even look up from his laptop and checked out of the conversation two days ago) snaps "we raise our hands to speak"
complete silence for like 3 seconds. the french prime minister sheepishly raises his hand and stratt smiles for the first time that week (grace buries his entire head behind his laptop screen for wont of a better option, like jumping straight into the sea)