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hi there! i’m rose and this is my personal side blog for @silliestflowergirl. here you can expect to see:

more serious text posts about my life and thoughts

music recommendations, me talking about songs and artists im obsessed with at any given time

curated political reblogs

my own personal political thought, analysis and critique of the world from a leftist perspective

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#reblog - reblog

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and also you can follow my main account @silliestflowergirl where i mostly reblog a lot of posts abt my interests and shitposts, i might also do some less serious poasting there but no promises

ok so ive been thinking about this for a while and cr1tter is actually like modern day lilpeep

like if peep were still here she'd fucking love this

#she her peep cause estrogen wouldve saved her do not fucking @ me #meowsic

eldritchbauble

Getting plowed is for the country folk. Here in the city we call it being taken to pound town. And if it's a place with decent public transit, getting railed.

biohorror-human

If you tell a yankee "its never okay to kill people for the US no matter how poor you are" you can trigger secret dialogue that makes you understand why Malcolm X hated liberals the way he did

closet-keys

opposing police/military/border enforcement will have people accusing you of literally anything and everything forever. you oppose police? you support rape/pedophilia. you oppose global north military forces? you hate marginalized/racialized/poor people in the global north. you oppose border enforcement? you support sex trafficking.

carceral feminism is rampant on here, and people need to stop being afraid of holding to their principles. these accusations are empty. they will be leveled forever, and the people leveling them do not actually care.

there is nothing you can say to convince them that liberation requires dismantling these systems because they are more interested in protecting state violence than anything else.

asfairaseros

TLDR: Puerto Rico is NOT a part of the United States.

I see a lot of well meaning Americans saying things along the lines of "Um HELLO, Puerto Rico IS a part of the United States! They're Americans, too!" in the context of criticizing racism towards Puerto Rico e.g. Bad Bunny performing at the Superbowl. As a Boricua, I am here to tell you - PUERTO RICO IS NOT A PART OF THE UNITED STATES. This is a legal fact, not my personal opinion or cultural viewpoint.

As officially designated by the 1901 Insular Cases of the United States Supreme Court, Puerto Rico is an "unincorporated territory" "belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States" (read: a colony - Puerto Rico is sadly but accurately dubbed The World's Oldest Colony)

People born in Puerto Rico do have US citizenship (which the US government only granted so that it could draft Puerto Ricans into the military) but are explicitly not afforded the full rights of the US Constitution. The US cherry picks what "rights" Puerto Ricans do and do not have while exploiting it as a tax haven and tourist playground. The most glaring and straightforward example - you cannot vote for the President of the US if you live in PR.

US Statehood is not a solution to any of this. That is another deeply misinformed liberal talking point. After over a century of abusing Puerto Ricans' human rights (forcibly sterilizing 1/3 of the women, using our land for bombing practice and causing insanely high cancer rates, massacring peaceful protestors, I could go on and on and on), full independence and sovereignty is the only acceptable resolution.

Yea, of course Bad Bunny can perform at the Superbowl. But because he is literally the planet's most listened to artist this year, NOT because Puerto Rico "is part of the United States." That is not true. Educated yourself. Que viva Puerto Rico libre.

I recommend War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson A. Denis for further reading.

asfairaseros

I need to add to this (January 13, 2026):

The USA is remilitarizing Puerto Rico right now (and has been since Fall 2025) as it ramps up to terrorize Venezuela and the rest of the world, despite ongoing and growing protests.

Several military bases were recently reopened after Puerto Ricans shut them down with decades of intense protests. In the town I live in, the military planes flying to/from the bases fly so low, all day and night, that it's painfully loud even when you're inside. The first time it happened we thought it was an earthquake. The vibrations are so intense that they even wake up my deaf partner. Last night, I was woken up by one of these planes flying overhead at 4 AM. Sleep deprivation is literally a form of torture. This is becoming more and more frequent in recent weeks.

Kind of a side note, but many ecologically sensitive bats nest around my house. Thinking about how loud and painful these planes must be to their delicate ears is heartbreaking.

The United Nations has declared every year for many years that the USA is in fact holding Puerto Rico as an ILLEGAL COLONY. This only further highlights that there should be no US military presence in Puerto Rico.

Independencia y soberanía ya, and USA get the fuck out of Puerto Rico.

hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon

I try to explain this to people. We don't need statehood or a shit ass president, we need sovereignty and reparations and U.S. troops off our soil.

opencommunion

people who tell you to stop reading the news to "regulate your nervous system" do not have your best interests at heart. if following current events makes you spiral you probably need a better analytical frame, not less information

opencommunion

and the analytical frame you need is probably dialectical materialism

opencommunion

i'm totally crazy, i freak out all the time, but you know what helps me most? learning. reading. studying. discussing. sometimes you do need a nap, but sometimes you need a conversation with someone more knowledgeable/experienced, or a day at the (physical or digital) library. and really i think everyone has a different baseline emotional register that's best for them and their circumstances, but i recommend aiming to feel solid and anchored, not necessarily "calm." of course we won't feel "calm" after reading about genocide. but if we approach what we're reading correctly, it can strengthen our resolve; feed our fighting spirit; show us paths to liberation. a lot of people in my life have diagnosed me with "revolutionary optimism" and wonder how i maintain that mindset but i'm not an optimist by nature, it all comes from studying

communist-ojou-sama

Like, the US is doing this because they want Venezuela's resources, yes; but they're doing it because they have failed to overthrow the Bolivarian government and replace it with a government that would give it to them. They're doing it because after the Zionist entity's war on Iran demonstrated the inferiority of the US military industrial complex's interceptor technology, and their total retreat from the South China Sea in the wake of the exponential increase in Chinese naval power, they have been pushed out of many major power-projection theatres in Asia, the Middle East, and ofc Ukraine, that occupied their attention when they were more powerful.

They are in fact Also doing it because more of the people in charge than ever before are racial chauvinists who are Furious at the waning control of the US over south America and are incensed that Latin American states refuse to bow down to them, and that most recent hands-off coup attempts have failed. They're also doing it because factions within the usamerican ruling class sincerely believe all the propaganda published about Maduro. They're also doing it because they want a vaguely military "win" that they can parade in front of the media and, yes, they're doing it so that they can create and sell media spectacle of the murder of Spanish-speaking foreigners by the usamerican military. These are All major reasons for Why the usamerican state is doing what it does.

luulapants

If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:

The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.

The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.

The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.

The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.

The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.

Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.

The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.

If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.

You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.

The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.

Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.

Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.

Veterans' benefits suck these days.

Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.

The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.

The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.

A lot can change in four years.

anarchistmemedistro

*veterans’ benefits have always sucked the government will never care about you even if you fight and die for it.

#reblog

simpforsix

after volunteering at a harm reduction agency for a couple months i can confidently say that addicts and homeless people (and homeless addicts) are not the boogeymen people make them out to be. they all just want coffee and candy. there's all this fear mongering and meanwhile your local addict is just some guy drinking a double double with slightly smaller pupils than normal.

and before you bring up a bad thing an addict has done, please remember that sober people have also done bad shit and that the majority of addicts are totally safe to be around. if you want to talk about how scary addicts are, i will talk about all the customers i had at my old job who made me fear for my life. stop fear mongering and start actually meeting addicts. yes, they can be scary, but so can anybody. fear mongering about addicts only leads to discriminatory policies and policing, which increases violence against them and worsens the problem.

the scariest thing about addiction isn't the addicts. it's the blood on the hands of politicians.

girltestes

Build a real Working Class Socialist Party or this shit will keep happening.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism

Every year, I march to tell the true history of the European conquest of the United States.

On Thursday, millions of families across the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving without giving much thought to the truth behind the heavily mythologized and sanitized story taught in schools and promulgated by institutions. According to this myth, 400 years ago, the Pilgrims were warmly welcomed by the “Indians,” and the two groups came together in friendship to break bread. The “Indians” taught the Pilgrims how to live in the “New World,” setting the stage for the eventual establishment of a great land of liberty and opportunity.

In the usual narrative, no further mention is made of the Native people, as if they all faded away. By sanitizing the English invasion of Wampanoag homelands, the Thanksgiving myth blatantly disregards the true history of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America and the centuries of violence and oppression that Indigenous peoples have endured as a result of the colonization of the Americas.

I know the Thanksgiving myth well. For my entire life — 22 years — I have gathered annually with hundreds of other Native Americans and supporters in Plymouth, Mass., on the fourth Thursday in November. We gather and march to challenge this myth, to tell the true history of the European conquest of the United States, to speak about the devastating and continuous impacts of colonization on Indigenous peoples. We gather to declare Thanksgiving a National Day of Mourning for Native Americans.

handsworthsongs

unpaywalled article here. and donate to Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project here.

fruitsaladchewits-deactivated20

Palestinian lady collects gas bombs fired by Israeli army. She grows flowers in these bombs.

ilovespike

What the AP photo story neglected to show was that this garden is in memory of Bassem Abu Rahmah, killed by Israeli forces with a tear gas to the chest in 2009 in Bil’in. The garden was planted and is maintained by Bassem’s mother.

#reblog #heartbreaking

flesh-is-the-fever

I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

bff0f7

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

adamtheredbeard

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”

afronerdism

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

doobiebenson

butch-bakugo

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

churchoftheconfusedchicken

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

ifiknewiwouldtellyou

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

gayvampyr

here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was

nothingweirdhere

this is the memorial at the vancouver art gallery. 215+ pairs of children’s shoes (as well as stuffed toys and flowers) cover the steps…

radicalgraff

Anti-work & anti-cop stickers spotted in Katoomba, NSW

alanshemper

“There's already American contractors here, bidding to rebuild this joint. You're gonna tell me. You know, that's all the defense department is. We're bodyguards for American contractors. [...] The U.N.? They don't... We own the U.N. The U.S government owns the U.N. We foot the bill for the U.N. The U.N. does what we want it to. Except for who? Libya and Cuba. So what. We wanted to go in there in a week, we'd take those over if we wanted to anyways. But we foot the bill for the U.N, they'll vote how we want them to vote. That's just our, that's, that's the U.S puppet. You guys should know that you're, you've been in college, I haven't!”

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