Bourgeois Blues

i occasionally reblog or comment on posts about class race and feminist politics from a left-wing perspective. also funny things that appear on my dash. I live in São Paulo, Brazil.

[myboyfriendpetebuttigieg]

White dudes: I don’t know who’s worse: Hillary or Trump.

LGBTQ people: Trump is.

Black people: Trump is.

Undocumented immigrants: Trump.

Muslims: It’s Trump.

Women: Trump duh.

White dudes: *shoves head deeper into ass* I just… don’t… know…

[fullpraxisnow]

Because creating monoliths and weaponizing every identity for Democratic votes doesn’t erase the voices of marginalized people at all, or does it?

LGBTQIA critiques of Hillary Clinton:

Debunking The Bullshit Claim: “You’re Privileged If You Don’t Vote For Clinton”

I’m A Young Feminist And I Can’t Vote For Hillary

When Brown Looks in the Mirror and Comes Out White - Alok Vaid-Menon

You’re Not Voting For Hillary To Protect Me

Black women’s critiques of Hillary Clinton:

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

Black Feminists Don’t Owe Hillary Clinton Their Support

Why I’m Not Voting for Hillary as a Black Woman

Angela Davis on Not Endorsing Any Presidential Candidate: “I Think We Need a New Party”

Black men’s critiques of Hillary Clinton: 

The Time is Now: To Defeat Both Trump and Clintonian Neoliberalism

Trump Way to the Left of Clinton on Foreign Policy – In Fact, He’s Damn Near Anti-Empire

Cornel West: Why I Endorse Green Party’s Jill Stein Over “Neoliberal Disaster” Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Latino & Latina critiques of Hillary Clinton:

Hillary Clinton’s Empowerment

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Latino Vote

Slain Activist Berta Cáceres’ Daughter: US Military Aid Has Fueled Repression & Violence in Honduras

Socialist candidate Gloria La Riva: Hillary, you’re nothing like my abuelas

Muslim / Arab critiques of Hillary Clinton 

Steven Salaita: Palestine and Hillary, ‘the lesser evil’

Muslim voters between Hillary Clinton and a hard place

Is Hillary Clinton more dangerous than Donald Trump?

Other Women’s critiques of Hillary Clinton: 

Dear Hillary, Madeleine and Gloria: Full Feminism Demands We Say No to America’s Deadly Imperial Wars

On the Current Paranoia about Trump vs. Clinton

You Can Be a Feminist and NOT Support Hillary Clinton

Rejecting Bourgeois Feminism

Interview with KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine on Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton’s Faux Feminism

Five reasons why Hillary Clinton won’t be good for women

Making history or maintaining the status quo?

Identities are not monolithic. Contained therein are multitudes of diverse political perspectives. We only empower a dogmatic view of our struggles when we flatten the full range of positions out there into a bastardized analysis which, un-ironically, serves more to maintain the status quo than it does fight it.  

[fullpraxisnow]

@leftist-daily-reminders, this is the post your anon is asking about. 

[arsmay-blog]

@fullpraxisnow you obviously would rather see trump win…

[fullpraxisnow]

@arsmay Half my family lives in Honduras, you know, the place where the Obama administration and Clinton backed a rightwing military coup that has caused massive violence and forced tens of thousands of Honduran child migrants to flee a repressive government, a government which is now assassinating indigenous community organizers too. Maybe stop swallowing the Koolaid? For MOST people outside America’s white upper class Clinton is NOT a “better” choice than Trump. Both are tyrants. Falling for the lesser evil shit is what keeps getting people killed.

[micdotcom]

[thabougieone]

BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL!

[emeraldjade]

Y’all this is serious! My friend’s 13 year old daughter is missing. (8/3/2016)

She was last seen yesterday wearing a grey t-shirt and a purple skirt in  Bridgeport, Connecticut . She is 5'4", slender built, with her hair twisted up into a ponytail. Her name is Ariana.

If you see her contact the police immediately. 

Please keep your eyes open and pray that she is found safe and returned to her family.

UPDATE AS OF 6:00 PM 8/3/2016

[nursepup-deactivated20150910]

this is probably the only sex gif i will ever reblog, because for some reason i feel like it’s more than just sex. i don’t know if it’s how they’re actually looking at one another or the way they can’t get close enough. he’s actually looking at her like a person and not just a sex object.

but then again, it could be all in my head. i mean, this is how i would want it to be. but that’s just me.

[leviathan-supersystem]

so uhhh

was he supposed to do a jump there

or is this like… what they planned from the begining

[the-evil-conservative-deactivat]

Good question.

[leviathan-supersystem]

unfollow me

[the-evil-conservative-deactivat]

Uh, why?

[leviathan-supersystem]

i despise you and your political philosophy and also your blog is terrible?

like i only occasionally blog about politics, but i do very much believe capitalism must be destroyed and global international communism must be established, so like…. why is it confusing that i don’t want you following my blog.

[the-evil-conservative-deactivat]

You may “believe” that capitalism should be destroyed, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t the most successful economic model in human history, and has to led to the most successful civil societies in history. You may “believe” that international communism is “necessary”, but that such a system can’t compete with capitalism is historically evident, that it doesn’t work is well established, and that any citizen with even a half way decent life would reject any proposed decline in their standard of living, through violence, is obvious. I won’t fault you for holding these misguided beliefs as much as you fault me for my correct ones.

[theraddragon]

What the fuck is going on in this post

[themariahcarey]

is this like… what they planned from the beginning

[surprisebitch]

this is probably the only sex gif i will ever reblog

[marxrecords]

het sex is weird

[fomysquad]

4 Cops Beat Pregnant Woman, Stomping on Her Stomach During False Arrest, Causing Miscarriage

The woman initially informed the cops that she was pregnant, the officers allegedly struck her before throwing her to the ground and stomping on her stomach.

NYPD officers arrived at Emelda Fitzroy’s house at 1:45 p.m. Although the civil complaint does not mention why the police went to her home, Fitzroy asserts that she told the officers that she was pregnant before they “forcibly grabbed” her and arrested her “without any legal justification.”

After striking her in the stomach, officers reportedly threw Fitzroy to the ground before stomping on her. Arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges of assault, misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, and lesser counts of harassment, Fitzroy was incarcerated for 26 hours and later miscarried her baby “as the result of the injuries she sustained” at the hands of the police.

All of the charges against Fitzroy were dropped according to the complaint. Her lawsuit alleges the NYPD committed deprivation of civil rights, use of excessive force, false arrest, unlawful search and seizure, and common-law assault and battery. Due to the fact that the lawsuit is still pending, the NYPD has refused to comment on the case.

This is not the first case in which the NYPD has been accused of assaulting an unarmed pregnant woman. A video was posted on Facebook depicting NYPD cops repeatedly throwing an obviously pregnant woman onto the street before viciously shoving another unarmed woman onto the ground.

SOURCE / VIDEO

The video shows the level of corruption that these racist gang members don’t even care they’re being recorded doing this.  Cops do not ever stop other cops from beating and killing people. Cops do not ever arrest or even disarm other cops for doing it. The number of times I have ever heard of it happening you can count on one hand, and in every case the intervening cop was made to suffer for it.

#Cops #NYPD #PoliceBrutality #CrookedCops 

#StayWoke

[stringsdafistmcgee]

Where and when are the pro-lifers going to be protesting at?

[sheabutterwxtch-blog]

^^:(

[alwaysbewoke]

to be clear the first one is the original. i just riffed on it because it’s a powerful message.

[alwaysbewoke]

MLK day is just a few days away. You’ll hear NONE of these quotes.

[sex-positive-anti-porn-deactiva]

Just a tiny sample of examples of the way porn influences sexual expectations

^^In reference to the last article, the 4 things girls “must” learn: Act like you want it, don’t worry about your bod (…right), dress sexy, introduce dirty talk.

I’m getting super bored with the people sending me asks saying that “everyone knows that porn isn’t real”. In many of these articles, the author cites porn as an instruction manual that can be used to convince women to perform degrading acts for men’s pleasure. I worry so much for the generation that has been raised on this shit.

[landmerbabe-deactivated20190210]

Women have endured so much more abuse than most are aware of. it’s really scary how little men care about their partners’ comfort. we’re just 3 holes.

[yoursocialconstructsareshowing]

‘My Body Was Not Mine, but the U.S. Military’s’

Inside the sex industry thriving around America’s bases.

[musaafer]

“[Korean] Officials offered classes in basic English and etiquette to encourage women to sell themselves more effectively and earn more money. “They urged us to sell as much as possible to the GI’s, praising us as ‘dollar-earning patriots,’” recounts former sex worker Aeran Kim. “Our government was one big pimp for the U.S. military.”"

[marxrecords]

Kunyaza, Sex Trick That Trigger Woman’s Orgasm In Five Minutes | Red Pepper Uganda

[iloveyixingsomuch-blog]

[yaboydeactivating-deactivated20]

Why do Americans put the month first. It just makes no sense.

[another-nonsense-deactivated201]

We put the month first because in conversation we say, “July 1st, 2015.” Because it’s quicker than “The first of July, 2015.”

“Tomorrow is May 29th” not “Tomorrow is the 29th of May.” That is why we write it 5/29/15 and not 29/5/15. Because we go by how we phrase it in conversation rather than in sequence because it converts better between numbers and language when written in the former. We also use the month first because that’s how calendars are organized. You have one year and one calendar so the year is a constant and can go in the back. However, calendars aren’t organized my days, but rather by months. You flip to the months first and then find the day. So…. p>

While on this topic, we also use Fahrenheit and not Celsius because a 0-100 scale of measuring temperature makes a lot more sense to a human. We know that 0 is really fucking cold and 100 is really fucking hot, which makes sense. Celsius, however, is just about how water responds to temperature, and makes no sense when applied to humans. Fahrenheit is for people, Celsius is for water. And I am a people not a water.

[lasombritas]

oh

[impulsemuppet]

I find this very funny cause you say that but your independence day is not called July 4th, its called the 4th of July.

[fallen-angel-in-a-laundromat-de]

What I find funny is that our armies were about half the size of the British army and yet we were still able to crush your crumby asses, declare independence and pour your tea in the ocean.

[marxrecords]

0°C is also cold and 100°C is also hot so whats your point? but the real reason why you should change is to be in tune with science and the entire rest of humanity, regardless of which scale you think is slightly more or less practical. because in the end it makes very little difference

[macleod]

If you believe in those three things above, you are probably a democratic socialist just like Bernie Sanders.

[leninslesbiandaughter-deactivat]

This is why Bernie sanders is not enough

[cultural-hoxhaist-deactivated20]

i believe in universal healthcare, equal opportunity for all, and public education at no cost whatsoever that’s why i’m an anarcho-communist.

[guy-debordiga-deactivated201602]

“fair redistribution, not proletariat revolution” is the most depressing thing i’ve ever read

[whimslcott-deactivated20151122]

the best argument against marxist views of history is how easy it is for anti-bernie people to work against their own class interest by being reactionary idiots to look cool on the online

[guy-debordiga-deactivated201602]

lmfao check out this fucking smug liberal. voting for a tedious populist is barely our ‘class interest’ jesus christ.

[i-walk-a-path-unknown]

He’s a demagogue he has not single warrant for anything beyond a great empty and glib orator and he’s not even that suave.

Jesus fuck America,

Some guy says all humans are human promises free shit and you go fucking fangirl moDe at the ballot box.

Well now that I think about what the fucks new

[basedcomradefox-deactivated2017]

I wouldn’t say he’s a demagogue, Sanders is just a run-of-the-mill social democrat. Nothing special, nothing new or revolutionary. Also he’s pretty xenophobic and thinks that the Nordic model is socialist (which it most definitely isn’t), let alone viable.

[marxrecords]

social democracy is not the same as democratic socialism

[commiekinkshamer]

Price-gouging CEO Martin Shkreli gets doxxed

Hackers reveal his address and phone number

Ph# 646-217-2783.  245 E. 40th St., Apt. 20C, NY, NY 10016

[rickey-recesh-deactivated202306]

360impossible its either being reblogged by right wingers who think hes a real communist or liberals who .. also think hes a real communist

[marxrecords]

im pretty sure it means that hes disguised as a socialist even tho he very clearly is not

[koz-khor]

I want to talk about social subordination, because women are not equal in this society and one of the ways that you can tell is the quality of our silence. The Three Marias of Portugal said (and they were put in jail for saying this) silence does not mean consent: silence means dissent. Women are the population that dissents the most, through silence.The so-called speech of women in pornography is silence. Splayed legs on a page is silence. Beaver, pussy, cunt, bunnies, pets, whatever, that is silence. The words that women say in pornography: that is silence. “Give it to me,” “do it to me,” “hurt me,” “I want it bad,” “do it more”: that is silence. And those who think that is speech have never heard a woman’s voice. I want to tell you that even those screams, even the screams of women tortured in pornography, are silence. Men pay money and watch, but no one hears a human scream. They hear silence. And that’s what it means to be born female. No one hears you scream as if you are a human being.

Andrea Dworkin, Silence Means Dissent, 1984 (via uterusbearer)

[sbrown82]

[dynastylnoire]

Get em

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

“I’m going to punt you in your pus-y!” LAPD tells woman and kicks her to death

These were the words of LAPD Officer Mary O'Callaghan to Alesia Thomas. Handcuffed with her legs restrained, Alesia can be seen getting punched in the throat by Officer O'Callaghan who then delivered on her promise and kicked her directly in her groin - repeatedly. This was nearly 3 years ago.

It was recorded on the dashcam.

As O'Callaghan jabbed at the woman’s throat with her hand, Thomas looked into the camera with wide eyes. The recording captured Thomas, who also had her legs tied with a nylon hobble restraint, repeatedly saying, “I can’t.”

The video showed O’Callaghan raise her boot and strike Thomas, whose body shook in response. A few minutes later, Thomas’ eyes closed and her head fell backward, the video showed. The recording then cut off.

She died at the hospital that evening. The video of her being assaulted was just released for the first time in court and can be seen below.

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/21/1386673/-LAPD-officer-who-kicked-Alesia-Thomas-to-death-now-on-trial