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"We are the DNA evidence of the crime committed"
Police: *leading sex workers into a squad car to be taken to jail*
Sex work prohibitionist: “I called the police! You’re all free now! No more patriarchal violence! No need to thank me!”
Prohibitionist: “How does it feel to be free of your pimp?”
Sex worker: “I was an independent worker!”
Prohibitionist: “Yeah right, so how much did the porn industry pay you to say that, faker?”
Sex worker: “Who will care for my kids?”
Prohibitionist: “No worries, they’ll be placed with a nice Christian foster family who will teach them to hate and judge you as harshly as possible.”
Prohibitionist: “This is to protect you. It’s feminism. I’m a feminist.”
Former sex slave: Wait so I went to the police and I got arrest for being sold into sex work?
Prohibitionist: Yup! That way we can make sure people don’t get sold into sex slavery!
Former sex slave: But that just makes victims less likely to come forward?
Prohibitionist: pRoTeCt WoMeN
Former sex worker: I have been arrested and prosecuted and now have a criminal record which greatly reduces my ability to get a non-sex work related job.
Prohibitionist: Yep, but it was to help you get out of the sex work. Now you can get “real” jobs working for minimum wage or less. We did good. Why aren’t you thanking me?
Prohibitionist: We want to implement the Nordic Model: Sex work is not criminalized but those who pay for sex are.
Sex worker: So you mean I’m going to lose most of my customers except for those who are willing to commit a crime? Won’t that make my job more unsafe?
Prohibitionist: it’S FOR yOUr OWN gOOD
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this headline should be “police kill innocent child in reckless firebombing”
The innocent boy’s name is Brett Rosenau. He was 15 years old, not 14 like some news outlets have reported. Here is a link to donate to his funeral expenses. His father, whom Brett is named after, was shot by police on December 31st, 2006. He was 24 years old and his son was months away from being born.
His mother Amanda Lopez has lost both her partner and son at the hands of police.
not to be an old cranky leftist but going forward i think those of us who live in the us need to remember a protest is not a group powerwalk to register polite disapproval with those in power
a protest is an implied threat. a protest says there are a lot of us, and we do not like what you’re doing. we are giving you a chance to course correct before we take things to the next level.
if there’s no shared commitment to the potential of moving to that next level: a protest is useless and essentially just public performance art.
You can really expect the committed liberals to start losing their minds. As it becomes more and more obvious how completely complicit and evil the Democrats are, as the country really completely unravels and the sham of democracy can't be sustained, more and more of them will finally radicalize, but the ones that are left are going to go completely berserk in fun, new ways. The K-hive was the prototype.
“Didn’t threaten the lives of justices”? Fuck that bullshit.
Justice Blackmun, who wrote the Roe majority opinion, had a bullet shot through his living room window. This after years of receiving letters threatening his life. The bullet occurred right after he had received a particularly concerning letter, and was at the end of a year in which DC-area clinics had been subjected to seven bombings. Not threats, bombings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/03/05/shot-fired-through-blackmuns-window/270a0516-2c7f-4c5e-9002-d017515a5131/
Oh, and Blackmun also was picketed regularly ever since the Roe decision was handed down.
Unfortunately, I do love you now that you can dance
ok, but honestly, it is unfortunate. you know how we’re always passing around that ‘you are not immune to propaganda’ meme? this is the propaganda it’s talking about.
it’s cute dancing robots! they have a cute robot dog! it’s cute! it’s friendly!
well, the robot dog friend? cute little jumpy guy, does some careful ballet-esque steps, often between the humanoid robots? so far, both the boston police and the nypd (heads up: autoplaying video, with sound) have ‘deployed’ the cute dog friend. both departments say that the robots are being used as ‘observation devices’, sent into buildings with lights and a camera that sends a videofeed back to the cops.
part of why i think this video (and others like it) is so interesting is because boston dynamics has defended police use of the robots, saying that there’s a clause that the robots can’t be used in a way that would ‘physically harm or intimidate people’. i don’t know about you, but if i were at, say, a protest, or honestly literally anywhere, and a robot dog started running towards me, i’d be pretty fucking intimidated. i’d assume that it was going to hurt me. if one of the humanoid robots were running towards me, i’d assume it was straight-up about to kill me.
but these videos do a lot of work to erode that assumption. how can anyone claim that they’re intimidated by, say, a line of robot dogs at a protest? the robot dogs do funny dances online! the video above has been live for about two months, and it has thirty million views. people love them! they can dance!
so when they start being used as mobile security cameras, or when they start being used to maintain a perimeter or for crowd control or whatever, it’s not really a violation of the contract. the robots are friendly! my bet is that when they start setting them out to do security or whatever—and i don’t doubt that they’ll be used for security, etc—they might even do funny little dances and interact with people who stop to gawk at them. anything to normalize increasingly autonomous roboticized policing. get one of the humanoid ones out in the field, and it’s a remarkably short step to autonomous, mobile cctv—that can also detain you if it doesn’t like what you’re doing, or if there was a crime and you’re in the area, or if your face looks like someone from a database, or—
and all that assumes, of course, that the no-harm clause stays there forever, and that police departments, so famous for their love of doing things by the book, adhere to it. but just for fun, watch that video again, and imagine even one of those robots weaponized, outfitted with even ‘nonlethal’ crowd control.
i’m not arguing that the robots are inherently bad, or that there’s no reasonable use for them, even by cops. but the time to get critical of them is now, not in five or ten years when their use has been largely normalized. this is cute propaganda, but it’s still propaganda, and we should acknowledge it for what it is.
anyway this is how to disable the Spot robo-dog that the NYPD just purchased
Occupation forces attack the funeral of Shireen Abu Aqleh, the journalist they murdered:
Heavily armed forces are beating up Palestinians carrying Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin, they’re charging at them with cavalry horses and assaulting them with batons (theyre also kicking those they knock to the ground) and threw sound bombs and stun grenades inside the French Hospital of Jerusalem. Here is the moment of attack:
They’ve besieged the hospital and demand Shireen’s coffin to be hidden inside a hearse instead of her being honored with visible a martyrs funeral being carried over the shoulders of Palestinians
The ocupation yesterday raided the home of Shireen’s family and took down Palestinian flags raised there. They detained Shireen’s brother the day after murdering his sister and ordered “no Palestinian flags. No chants. No walking procession”
Occupation forces have rushed the funeral and continued assaulting Shireen’s family, friends and mourners. They ripped away Palestinian flags (including off the hearse) and are attempting to suppress chants in honor of the martyred journalist
Israeli occupation forces have arrested several mourners for raising the Palestinian flag in occupied East Jerusalem. Abu Akleh’s niece, Lina Abu Akleh, has said Israeli forces are “still trying to silence” her aunt and the mourners gathered for the funeral.
Shireen was a Palestinian Christian and the funeral has moved her body first towards the Church for the service then are moving her towards the Christian cemetery where she will be laid to rest.
The Israeli occupation army asked people “if they are Christian or Muslim”. And Muslims weren’t allowed in to participate in the funeral march. Occupation forces have also prevented thousands of Palestinians from entering the cemetery.
Despite agression and attempts of supression from the occupation Palestinians continue the funeral and resist by still raising Palestinian flags and chanting for Shireen Abu Aqala and for Palestine. Arriving in the dozens of thousands
They murdered her and will not grant her peace even in death, the brutality of the israeli occupation against Palestinians is clear
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may the occupation and it’s evils come to an end, ya rabb
western news sources already calling this “clashes” as “violence broke out”
watch the video again.
what about any of this is a clash?
was it a clash when the sniper’s bullet hit her in the face? was it a clash when they shot at anyone trying to get to her as she lay in a pool of her own blood? was it a clash today, when they forced a young boy to take off his clothes in public and a young woman to take off her hijab while they filmed it? when they bombed a civilian’s home in jenin today? when soldiers shot grenades at civilians trying to hold a funeral? when they ripped a kuffiyeh off shireen abu aqla’s dead body?
how long will the world call genocide and ethnic cleansing a clash?
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What a lot of people don’t understand is that the prison industrial complex goes far beyond just the fact that prisons exists.
It’s every single major corporation in the world benefitting from paying slave wages for prison labor
It’s private prisons enforcing quotas to incentivize the state to arrest and convict at higher rates
It’s the war on drugs treating (mostly black and latino) non-violent drug users as hardened criminals
It’s the school to prison pipeline
It’s a country where homelessness is criminalized
It’s mandatory minimum prison sentences
It’s imprisoning civilians for years without bail Before they get a trial
It’s prisoners leaving prison in debt because the slave wages they were forced to work for didn’t cover the cost of food and a bed
It’s former prisoners losing the right to vote
It’s employers discriminating against former prisoners
It’s abuse and substandard living conditions.
It’s a corrupt police state that falsifies evidence and unfairly targets minorities.
The problem is that a lot of y'all still just think of prison as a place where bad people go. It’s not. Most of the bad people are in board rooms, on the golf course, at the bank, in the white house. The truth is, prisons in America are just a business. The lie that they keep you safe is just an ad they can run.
Abolish the prison industrial complex
White supremacists at the “freedom” convoy are now trying to co-opt orange shirt day and every child matters
“Misty Wind” is pretending to be a Saulteux First Nations elder. This is her face:
Cannot describe how evil this is. To turn the deaths of Indigenous children from government sanctioned genocide into a goddamn joke for your white nationalist agenda…
So some folks in Edmonton tried to counter protest the convoy @allthecanadianpolitics
nazis can build wooden structures directly downtown, homeless tent encampments get dismantled
Black people: *block highways to protest the murder of unarmed Black people by unaccountable police officers*
Republicans: Let's pass laws making it legal to do murder to protesters who block highways!
Canadian truckers: *block highways and international crossings to protest not being allowed to spread a deadly disease across international borders*
Republicans: These are the most heroic heroes who have ever heroed! I hope they come hero in the United States and block all of our highways!