[lizzylolz]

Do you get it now? Without due process, everyone is at risk. How are you going to prove your citizenship otherwise?

[ceevee5]

[brucewaynessoundingrod-deactiva]

[snakespeare]

[scramratz]

[intersectionalpraxis]

the resistance in LA.

if anyone has photo credits -please inbox me, and i will add them. @/SetPixels on X. June 8th, 2025.

[quasi-normalcy]

I'm just saying, "We created a computer to make decisions for us, but it assimilated all of the bias that was implicit in the dataset and now makes incredibly racist decisions that we don't question because computers are logical and don't make mistakes" literally sounds like a planet-of-the-week morality play on the original Star Trek.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If your goals basically amount to "after The Revolution everything will be great because people will all have the Good Ethics and work together in my Perfect System and the Evil People with Bad Morals and Bad Behaviour who are making this world bad will be gone (killed/imprisoned/exiled/all converted to agree with us when they see our Perfect System)" then that's just fascism. I hate to say it but you've put a gay socialist hat on fascism.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The MAGA people are still gonna be around in your Perfect System and a very large proportion of them are still gonna be Like That. We can discourage antisocial behaviour through laws and education and changing cultural norms, but if plans for future society involve [group I'm opposed to] magically not being part of it so the Good People can Do Things Right, well.

[brainfugk]

✨No Bad Guys Here✨ - how do you want to enforce that.

[catgirlthecrazy]

Honestly, I think this concept of The Revolution is to some leftists what Armageddon is to some Christians: an easy excuse to not try and grapple with difficult problems like hunger or poverty or injustice or climate, because any day now the Great Reckoning will come and wipe the slate clean.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#well you see america was founded on [original sin] which makes it irredeemable and any effort to improve it ultimately pointless#the only hope for salvation is to wait for [armageddon] to destroy it and cast down the unrighteous so the rest of us can [reach paradise]#voting for example is an act of interacting with and investing in this world which is too evil and tenporary to be worth it#not when The Great Reckoning is on its way to wipe the slate clean

@blujayonthewing you can't leave these in the tags

[guerrillatech]

[lilac-scrapbook]

*screams in old hyperfixation*

They locked. The fucking. Fire escape.

To prevent theft, they said to justify it. Because profit was more important than safety.

I learned about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in college and it has continued to hold an iron grip on my soul for years. It may seem a weird and morbid thing to obsess over, but it's so interesting (and awful) just how fucking preventable it was. So many underpaid, poorly-treated immigrant workers (mostly women) died horrific deaths (burning alive and jumping out of windows) because those in power were greedy and paranoid and they just didn't care. The fire itself was an accident iirc but it was caused by unsafe, exploitative working conditions. There had been protests prior to the fire, people trying to raise the alarm and push for change, but nothing came of it. No one listened.

Not until after the fire, of course. When the public was forced to see and read about the carnage, the loss of human life, and the terror that the victims must have felt. It was a terrible spectacle. The company at fault looked like the villains they were. There was, finally, public outrage. And only then did things change.

It was too late for those who died, and it wasn't enough, but it was a start.

The shirtwaist factory fire wasn't even the last time Triangle was caught pulling that shit, either. It's just the example people remember.

Triangle rebuilt their factory somewhere else and were caught locking the doors again.

So, even when a tragedy is a catalyst for positive change, we still have to be vigilant and hold people in power accountable.

[theconcealedweapon]

You hate that your favorite bands are exercising their free speech.

[susiephone]

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, 11x14

[aarch-aangel]

[jkcki]

World's most divorced man becomes first human to be alienated from both biological and digital children.

[liberalsarecool]

'Certain people deserve to die' says the fascist.

[radicalgraff]

Italian leftists hung an upside down effigy of Musk, filled with garbage, at the square where Mussolini was strung up in 1945

[aarch-aangel]

[amayikes]

I think the one thing we should learn from rednote is the value of person-to-person connection. The american government censors tiktok out of sinophobia, the chinese government censors lgbt content out of homophobia, and the one thing I can think of is let's all bond over how shitty governments are.

Time to quote Persepolis again.