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earlier i reblogged a post about a certain meme format that originated on alt-right platforms slowly finding its way into mainstream meme platforms and fandoms etc, so i just wanted to expand and say that these memes/formats:
originated in alt-right/neo-nazism threads. please stop using them. please stop making alt-right propaganda ~relatable~ and normal by spreading the things that they create and passing it off as good fun.
wanted to add some clarification to this: the first meme did NOT originate from alt-right threads. it is just an old meme and while it originated from 4chan it is not related whatsoever to the alt-right, nor did the original version of the meme. i haven’t seen any alt-right figures use the first meme pretty much ever so the first one is safe.
the 2nd, however, IS, because it uses the tradwife character (aka an idealized version of a white housewife whose goal is to pump out white babies for nazi men).
it was CREATED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF RACIST MEMES, which is why it is bad in a different way from say, pepe, which was not originally alt-right but was co-opted for a time before people started reclaiming him. other versions of the 2nd meme include a male counterpart to the tradwife (and if you think he looks like pewdiepie...its because he’s supposed to, since pewdiepie is seen as an idol to the alt-right because of his popularity among young men and occasionally platforming antisemetic creators/the fiverr thing)
it’s important to target the right memes when talking about the alt-right, or else they are able to use misinformation to seem innocuous and use it as a “GOTCHA” for why ANY of these memes are ok, as well as to explain WHY these memes are related to the alt-right, to prevent people from just brushing them off as just memes.
Unlike you plebs, all of my stupid jokes are ethically sourced and certified virtuous
Backgrounds from Scooby-Doo episode, “What the Hex Going On?” (1969).
Some places don’t even name the charity like you’re just donating to the corporation’s tax writeoff. You’re better off giving that money to a homeless person on the street who needs it more..
So they were a “back the blue” group supposed to be supporting cops, but started chanting all lives matter, then chanting kill transgenders. Just seems like groups that support the police are hate groups.
NBA star Kyrie Irving is stepping up to support his WNBA colleagues. The Brooklyn Nets point guard announced Monday that he will be setting up a $1.5 million fund to help supplement the income of any WNBA players who choose to sit out the 2020 season, either due to the risk of COVID-19 or for reasons relating to racial justice. The $1.5M will come from Irving’s KAI Empowerment Initiative and will also include a financial literacy component. ‘Whether a person decided to fight for social justice, play basketball, focus on physical or mental health, or simply connect with their families, this initiative can hopefully support their priorities and decisions,’ Irving said via a statement.
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She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughter's lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonald's coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.
Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughter's lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.
Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burns--which cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layer--within 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didn't stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonald's coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonalds' justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the "frivolous" lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.
Classy.
Never, ever take a corporation's side over a private citizen when lawsuits are involved.
She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this woman's life were a miserable hell because McDonald's was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.
All police departments are evil but the NYPD is exponentially more evil than any other PD in the country.
The NYPD has an annual budget if $6 billion. A lot of this budget goes into excessive overtime. When you have such a large budget, it translates into over-policing and dramatically shifts the type of policing that happens. Cops will be more interested in issuing fines as opposed to spending time solving actual crime. This affects poor people and neighborhoods (often people of color) at a disproportionate rate. So over policing for revenue collection and under policing for serious crime ends up becoming a loop.
So when you hear that the NYPD needs an annual budget of $6 billion because "NYC has a high crime rate" just know that it's like this on purpose. The NYPD drains tax revenue and distributes it internally through excessive overtime and uses fines and fees (officers literally have quotas) to justify it's need for such a large annual budget.
If the NYPD budget was cut, I promise you they wouldn't impose an 8pm curfew and have 8000 officers on duty collecting overtime. A budget cut for the NYPD means we could allocate much needed funding to help small local businesses hurt by COVID. We could fund programs on homelessness, mental health, youth services, combating overcrowding in schools and transportation.
If you live in NYC, I urge you to call/email the New York City Council and ask them to cut NYPD funding. This is your right as a tax payer.
The current chair of the Finance Committee is council member Daniel Dromm
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District office phone: 718 803 6373
Legislative office phone: 212 788 7076
I got an overwhelming amount of messages from this post and instead of answering all of the messages, I thought I’d address it all in a follow up.
While I made this specifically because the NYPD is an evil crime machine, this applies to ALL police departments in this country. DAs, prosecutors, and other corrupt local officials will usually work together with cops in EVERY state.
Many of you have asked me what you can do if you live outside NY? A few things actually:
1- Reach out to your state’s congressmen and ask them to push the bill aiming to end Qualified Immunity. Qualified immunity gives racist/abusive cops immunity. Call them, email them, use resist bot. Be relentless in this.
2- We need to put a stop to the legislative/collective bargaining power held by police unions. This again means you need to be relentless in your outreach to local officials. I heavily believe in unionizing but police unions have proven to be extremely corrupt. Bob Kroll is the elected president of the local police union in Minneapolis. He has over 29 complaints against him for promoting a hostile/racist work environment (he even proudly wears a biker patch linked to white supremacy)
3- Vote to get NEW officials in. Local elections are key. If you’re 18+ in the states, you need to vote more than just every 4 yrs.
4- Harass the FUCK out of your state’s AG. Sign petitions to reopen cases like Kendrick Johnson or Sandra Bland but also take this directly to your AG.
While we 100% need to de-fund ALL police departments, we also need to make sure racist/abusive cops are charged and serve actual time. Do the things mentioned above but also remember that the protests/riots going on right now need your support as well.
Can you elaborate?
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/18/african-americans-techno-music-los-angeles-clubs-whitewashing
Rave Reparations, a social experiment, is working to make LA’s dance parties more black – through donations and discounts based on oppressio
https://www.metrotimes.com/city-slang/archives/2015/02/04/before-techno-was-white-and-hedonistic-it-was-black-and-poor
Today, thanks to some cultural smudging, "techno" has become synonymous with a multi-billion-dollar electronic music industry — a far cry fr
https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/detroit-is-techno-city-and-techno-is-black/Content?oid=12291432
How a homegrown artform took over the world
https://djmag.com/news/history-detroit-techno-explored-new-documentary-black-techno
Narrators include Juan Atkins, Kodwo Eshun and Greg Tate
https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/02/filmmaker-jenn-nkiru-reclaims-the-black-origins-of-techno/
With her new film ‘Black to Techno,’ commissioned by Gucci and Frieze, the filmmaker looks to the genre's beginnings in the Motor City.
https://afropunk.com/2020/02/why-the-dweller-festival-matters/
Brooklyn’s Dweller Festival matters because knowing history matters — because futures are built on knowing history. Especially Black History
Have fun.
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This shows humor is criminally underrated
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There’s a lot to unpack here
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I want y’all to meet Mr. Vic DiBitetto, Bernie Sanders anger translator
This man looks like he’s suffering from burning constipation… but mood😂
Not but seriously though, read about the Philadelphia Parade in 1918:
When the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive parade stepped off on September 28, some 200,000 people jammed Broad Street, cheering wildly as the line of marchers stretched for two miles. Floats showcased the latest addition to America’s arsenal – floating biplanes built in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. Brassy tunes filled the air along a route where spectators were crushed together like sardines in a can. Each time the music stopped, bond salesmen singled out war widows in the crowd, a move designed to evoke sympathy and ensure that Philadelphia met its Liberty Loan quota.
But aggressive Liberty Loan hawkers were far from the greatest threat that day. Lurking among the multitudes was an invisible peril known as influenza—and it loves crowds. Philadelphians were exposed en masse to a lethal contagion widely called “Spanish Flu,” a misnomer created earlier in 1918 when the first published reports of a mysterious epidemic emerged from a wire service in Madrid.
For Philadelphia, the fallout was swift and deadly. Two days after the parade, the city’s public health director Wilmer Krusen, issued a grim pronouncement: “The epidemic is now present in the civilian population and is assuming the type found in naval stations and cantonments [army camps].”
Within 72 hours of the parade, every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals was filled. In the week ending October 5, some 2,600 people in Philadelphia had died from the flu or its complications. A week later, that number rose to more than 4,500. With many of the city’s health professionals pressed into military service, Philadelphia was unprepared for this deluge of death.
Attempting to slow the carnage, city leaders essentially closed down Philadelphia. On October 3, officials shuttered most public spaces – including schools, churches, theaters and pool halls. But the calamity was relentless. Understaffed hospitals were crippled. Morgues and undertakers could not keep pace with demand. Grieving families had to bury their own dead. Casket prices skyrocketed. The phrase “bodies stacked like cordwood” became a common refrain.
And:
With summer, the Spanish flu seemed to subside. But the killer was merely laying in wait, set to return in the fall and winter—typical peak flu season—more lethal than before. As Philadelphia planned its parade, bound to be a large gathering, director of public health Krusen had ignored the growing concerns of other medical experts and allowed the parade to proceed, even as a deadly outbreak raged on nearby military bases.
A political appointee, Krusen publicly denied that influenza was a threat, saying with assurance that the few military deaths were “old-fashioned influenza or grip.” He promised a campaign against coughing, spitting and sneezing, well aware that two days before the scheduled parade, the nation’s monthly draft call-up had been cancelled because army camps, including nearby Camp Dix in New Jersey and Camp Meade in Maryland, were overwhelmed by a conflagration of virulent influenza. Philadelphia’s parade poured gasoline on the flames.
Krusen’s decision to let the parade go on was based on two fears. He believed that a quarantine might cause a general panic. In fact, when city officials did close down public gatherings, the skeptical Philadelphia Inquirer chided the decision. “Talk of cheerful things instead of disease,” urged the Inquirer on October 5. “The authorities seem to be going daft. What are they trying to do, scare everybody to death?”
And, like many local officials, Krusen was under extreme pressure to meet bond quotas, which were considered a gauge of patriotism. Caught between the demands of federal officials and the public welfare, he picked wrong.
History is there to remind us of what not to do, as much as it is there to remind us what we should do.
And yet it's exactly how it's gonna go again. Do not weaken restrictions ffs!
- friedrich nietzsche 1874 (colorized)