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Stop convincing yourself you’re wasting your life away. The time you’ve spent resting and healing was and is necessary. You’re not a waste of a person if you find yourself struggling right now. Healing, recovering, sitting with your pain is foundational. It’s not a waste. You are still whole.

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who here self identifies as a nerd

enbeemagical

*raises hand* nerd; subspecies geek; type: fangirl; categories: TDP, A:TLA, WOF, MCU, POTO, M:TOLBACN, other miscellaneous

firefox-official

girl what

morbidlycrunchy

please say date of origin

firefox-official

this is from today

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

while we're on it

an example of internalized misogyny: a woman calling other girls dumb sluts and claiming she's not like most girls according to misogynistic stereotypes

not an example of internalized misogyny: a woman not liking a fucking war criminal that happens to also be a woman

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Looks like I’m gonna be full of ‘controversial’ opinions today so I’m just gonna be real about this next topic that’s been itchin’ at me for a while:

I genuinely don’t think a lot of white leftists understand just how integral anti-black racism is to keeping class oppression in power and they often gloss over their own internalized racism while using the argument of ‘uwu don’t assume all poor/rural white people are racists and have more compassion uwu’ as a way to try to ‘band’ together as a community of lower class people.

Here’s the thing, though: you CANNOT ‘defeat’ this class struggle, especially in the United States, if you CANNOT acknowledge the pivotal role that anti-blackness/racism in general has played in keeping poor communities struggling. Race has always played a part in determining rent, mortgage, education, and other basic human necessities within a community because if that community just so happened to have a lot of black folks in it, the ‘value’ of that area was inherently seen as ‘lower class’ or ‘unworthy’ of fair opportunities that could improve that area.

This should not be a surprise to ANY so-called leftist but I’m starting to see more and more white leftists try to weaponize the whole ‘don’t call rural white people rednecks, they’re not all racists’ and ‘we need to band together to defeat the rich and stop focusing on little things that divide us’ as a way to deter any deep conversation about the inherent racism involved in the class struggle.

Y’all really need to start reading more articles and books from past black/non-white leftists who have already talked about this entire subject YEARS before any of us became the ‘leftists who occasionally make good points on a public blogging platform’.

Because I’m tired of seeing white people complain about how poor/rural white folks are seen as racists and it’s ‘not fair’ to them while I’m an Afro Latino person who has lived in a rural area for MOST OF MY LIFE and has experienced nothing but racism from poor/rural AND rich white people, with no mercy.

White leftists need to stop using ‘class struggle’ as a way to band people together and actually work on their own internalized racism, do more research by actually READING information given about this subject by previous non-white leftists, and then confront the anti-black racism in their own communities. Especially if those white leftists live in poor and/or rural areas themselves.

Relying on black/non-white people to do all the heavy lifting for you and risk their lives by having to ‘educate’ rural/poor white people on how to be decent human beings to poc is not a good look.

EDIT: y’all can reblog this but if you start being disrespectful, I will block you.

voidvelociraptor

Antiblackness and racism is also the primary reason poor white folks vote against social safety net improvements, minimum wage increases, pro-labor laws (especially those that protect service jobs that are primarily held by poor black folks), infrastructure improvements and expansions, rent caps, changes in mortgage and debt laws that protect and benefit borrowers, and basically anything that would materially improve living conditions for poor people. Antiblackness is literally the foundation of conservative. anti worker propaganda, it's full of racist dogwhistles.

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☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽 These are facts, y’all! Thank you for your addition!

jaubaius

This tortoise loves shower time!

The Radiated Tortoise is known for this “dancing” behavior during periods of heavy rain in its native range (dry areas of southern Madagascar).

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snowylynxx

the ability to see ppls tags when they rb in the activity center now is so intimate.... i feel like im seeing into ur brains

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deadaccount2000

Big Warning

If you see a police car or a cop with a speaker looking thing on it, FUCKING RUN. It’s known as an LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), a device that, when activated, can permanently damage your hearing and cause serious harm. If you’re too close, you’ll be left in a lot of pain and squirming on the ground permanently deaf. Ear plugs do not work. Unless you have one of those shooting range headphones, you do not stand a chance against them. Again, if you see them pull up, RUN. This is what they look like.

Stay safe.

sunfortune

To the comments asking if this is real/can cause hearing loss. Not only is it real, but the NYPD lost a federal lawsuit in 2017 for using it on peaceful protestors, during the Black Lives Matter protests for Eric Garner in 2014, and caused them permanent damage. It was spotted again at protests this week.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40585221/piercing-sound-can-be-excessive-police-force-federal-court-rules

also heres an episode of brooklyn 99 where they talk about how cool this thing is

pee-pan

Said this in an earlier post but if you see this thing RUN FROM IT IMMEDIATELY IN A HORIZONTAL DIRECTION (left/right from it). The best earplugs will not help, they only protect about 30 decibels of sound and these things shoot 160, and are effective for about a mile. Earplugs will do very little (better than nothing ig!) so the best move is to keep your mouth closed and GET OUT OF THERE. They will cause headaches, panic, vomiting and PERMANENT hearing loss. They used these in Portland yesterday (6/5), so yes, it’s a real thing cops are using now.

e-the-village-cryptid

The media isn’t reporting on it as much, but BLM protests are still happening in March 2021. Bringing this back for another year of fighting for justice.

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didnt you die

That was weeks ago dude. Things change

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publiccmenace

(Post on the r/vancouver sub by u/buckyhermit)

PSA: Please Don’t Kick Automatic Door Buttons

I use a wheelchair.

Since COVID started, I’ve seen people kick automatic door buttons to avoid using their hands. This is horrible for me, since these are high touch areas I cannot avoid.

People who can walk can elbow those buttons, but they are often too high for me (a seated person) to do that - meaning that sometimes I have no choice but to use my hands. And if the bottom of your feet has touched that button, that is negating any efforts I’m making to keep my hands clean.

Since I basically have to use my hands for everything, and many wheelchair users are in the COVID “high risk” category, this is really bad.

I would really appreciate if people used their elbows, or literally any other part of their body to press the button. Just not your feet.

Thanks.

wakandamama

Honestly if it wasnt for Keke Palmer and Raven Simone and Kyla Pratt little me would have NEVER developed any kinda selfesteem or confidence. Like my parents made sure I saw this constantly in my house

And I KNEW I could do whatever I wanted and have all the fun in life. We need to bring this era of black girlhood and success back

wakandamama

This post broke out of tumblr to insta yall and they way people are relating and telling their stories and giving flowers to Keke, Kyla and Raven in the comments rn 😭🥺😭🥺😭🥺😭