Dicktator

Freak Goddess, Americana Dream, Middle Eastern Reality

[burymeinpink-remade-deactivated]

i eat a lot of bread because it’s soft and i deserve it. also i am gorgeous

[heavensickness]

[foreverthirty1]

I won’t be watching the Bundy Tapes on Netflix.

Instead I will be reading and thinking about Ted Bundy’s victims. I wonder where their movies are. I wonder why their names aren’t raised.

I wonder why we don’t hear about Lynda Ann Healy, a 21 year old psychology major about to graduate that semester. Lynda worked with handicapped children and got up early every day to report on the skiing conditions for local radio.

I wonder why we don’t hear about Debra Kent, a 17 year old aspiring social worker who was known for always having change to feed parking meters for strangers.

I wonder why we don’t hear about Susan Curtis. Susan was only 15 years old and was riding her bike to church that day. She was a star on her high school track team.

In a world filled with kind, beautiful people, I wonder why we all know Ted Bundy’s name. I wonder if that isn’t giving him and people like him exactly what he wanted. And frankly I’m sick of hearing people talk about him.

I’d like to talk about 12 year olds Lynette Culver and Kimberly Leach, neither of whom turned 13 because Ted Bundy stole their innocence and their lives from them. Kimberly had just been elected first runner up “Valentine Queen” by her peers and never got to wear that pretty new dress. Do you think her parents still have that dress, hanging in the back of a closet? I bet they do. I bet her dad sits with it in his darkest moments. You ever thought about him when you hear the name Ted Bundy?

Let’s talk about 19 year old Susan Rancourt, who had a 4.0 GPA. 17 year old Laura Aime. 18 year old Georgeann Hawkins. 23 year old Janice Ott. 26 year old Nancy Wilcox. 23 year old Caryn Campbell. 17 year old Melissa Smith. 19 year old Donna Manson, who was an excellent flute player and by all accounts a bit of a goth. 20 year old Kathy Parks. 22 year old Brenda Ball. 20 year old Lisa Levy. 21 year old Margaret Bowman. 25 year old Denise Oliverson, who had just gotten into a spat with her new husband and had gone for a walk to clear her mind. Denise weighed 105 pounds. She was bound, gagged, raped, mutilated and thrown from a fast moving car. Have you ever considered what HIS life has been like since that day? How many hours of his life do you think have been spent on the floor, clutching the ring he had given her, apologizing into thin air?

These stories are real. These people are REAL.

I get that Ted Bundy was handsome and his eyes were very blue but please. Please stop glamorizing him like this. He ended and ruined lives. Nothing about him is cool or worthy of emulation. Ted Bundy raped, tortured, mutilated and strangled over 30 females, including 12 year old girls. None of his victims weighed more than 115 pounds.

Ted Bundy was a pathetic man.

Emulate Lynda. Emulate Debra. Raise their names and their voices to those around you. Honor them. They were very real people with promising lives and futures stretched ahead of them, stolen.

Please don’t elevate or whitewash this kind of rampant violence against women. I assure you the world is harsh enough for us without a new generation thinking Ted Bundy is a cool, fascinating guy.

Thanks.

[pastpredictions]

Romanticizing. Serial. Killers. Is. Vile.

[programmerhumour]

Relatable

[association-of-free-people]

🤔

[elpatron56]

[pastpredictions]

Relatable

[mothernaturenetwork]

How to help animals affected by the wildfires

More than 200,000 acres have burned in California, displacing hundreds of animals.

[pastpredictions]

Wildfires

[starlightomatic]

Saturday morning, on the 26th of October, a Nazi walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue, shouting “All Jews must die!” and opened fire. He killed eleven Jewish people, including grandparents, husbands, wives, and a doctor remembered for his compassionate care of his patients during the AIDs crisis. Several of them were there celebrating a baby-welcoming ceremony for a gay couple’s newly adopted twins.

This was the deadliest antisemitic attack in all 364 years of American Jewish history. Jews all over the world are shaken, upset, and scared. We know that this could have been any of us, but beyond that, this attack struck at the heart of our people. We were attacked in a place of safety and sanctity. We were reminded that as Jews, we are not safe in America. And we lost eleven Jewish souls.

Some of us are grieving, some of us are angry, some of us are devastated, some of us are numb, some of us are crying, some of us are terrified, some of us are anxious, and some of us can barely walk up the stairs because this doesn’t make any sense and yet it makes so much sense because we all, on some level, imagined this was coming. Our history has taught us that our safety is never guaranteed, and over the past two years we have watched the sickening rise of Nazism and antisemitism all over the world, including in America, where, despite our history, many of us had been lulled into believing it could never happen here.

We lost a third of the world’s Jewish population within living memory. So many Jewish families, in every country, fled antisemitic violence within the past few generations. The tragedy we just experienced is visceral, it’s terrifying, it’s devastating.

So please, check in on your Jewish friends and ask how they are doing. Please, take a moment to understand and absorb this tragedy. Please, understand how this is not just yet another mass shooting (that while theoretically tragic, you don’t really have the space for another one, what with compassion fatigue), but rather an attack that pierced the heart of a group of people already carrying centuries of pain and trauma. Please, make space for this one. Please, when you talk about this, don’t use generalized language about hate and about how no one should be killed for their religion. Please speak the words: Jewish. Antisemitic. Say this was an antisemitic attack, on Jewish people. And please, keep us in your thoughts today.

[starlightomatic]

Folks who aren’t Jewish, you can reblog this. In fact I’d be grateful if you did.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

ACTIVE SHOOTER A PITTSBURGH SYNAGOGUE THOUGHT TO BE WHITE SUPREMACIST: https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/10/27/heavy-police-presence-near-synagogue-in-squirrel-hill/

7 Dead, Several Others Shot At Pittsburgh Synagogue

Police from across the city of Pittsburgh are responding to an active shooting situation at the The Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill.

[pastpredictions]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pennsylvania-shooting/gunman-kills-at-least-eight-injures-12-in-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-idUSKCN1N10J6

I can be absolutely sure that I will never see anything about this posted by a non-Jewish person. Antisemitism runs deep.

[alltrippygifs]

[thisishangingrockcomics-deactiv]

Love what she’s done with the place.

[poledancingghostson]

In case you still needed proof that our president is anti-Semitic

[pastpredictions]

Please reblog this.

[npr]

Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House

Under state law, sheriffs can "keep and retain" unspent money from the jail food budget. In Etowah County, a reporter found evidence of how Sheriff Todd Entrekin is spending his "food provision" cash.

[pastpredictions]

The State of Hate: Travel and Racism in the South

In 2009 I traveled to Oxford, Mississippi with a girlfriend of mine. It was a physically and emotionally draining experience for us Californians, but it undeniably had its charms.

To my deep surprise, that friend returned a couple of years later (she has quite a fixation with Mississippi, and is currently applying to graduate school at Ole’ Miss) and had some stories to tell about that quaint college town.

The one that struck me the most was a night that she was dancing in a blues bar downtown—one we had been to together on our trip. She told me that she had been dancing with a black man on the main floor, when she took a quick trip to the bathroom. While in a stall she overheard a few white college girls talking about her, saying something along the lines of “Ewww did you see that girl dancing with that n*****? I would never get near a darkie, that’s disgusting.”

Needless to say my friend (whom I should mention is white) was horrified. And when she relayed the story to me I felt physically ill. There are so many instances of extreme racism in the United States at present: Trayvon Martin stands out, Marissa Alexander (jailed for a warning shot fired into the air as she was attacked!), Oscar Grant, Renisha Mcbride…these cases do not lessen the impact or importance of those seemingly “less significant” acts of hate. These girls used a rhetoric of racism and hate that is self-perpetuating, that signifies deeper emotions. This rhetoric is not merely words, it builds on itself to the point where we do have murders like Trayvon’s or Renisha’s. And let’s not forget America’s history “post-slavery.” Emmett Till. Lynching. Assassinations of black leaders.

Now this friend had many experiences in Oxford that curdle my proverbial milk– including being framed for theft after working a service job for 3 days— and during our trip we were actually shot at in the countryside, but her encounter with the college town girls is what stands out to me.

I am not writing this to draw attention from a community that is already acutely aware of the state of hate. I am not writing this as an outlet to deal with my own emotions. In fact, I no longer live in the United States but in the tremendously volatile Middle East.

I am writing this because I care that these stories are aired and that these hate crimes, no matter how subjectively important, are made open knowledge. I am a cynic, with no illusions of a future without senseless hate. But I believe that uninhibited knowledge is the first step to justice.

[pastpredictions]

Years later and this still feels relevant

[npr]

Prominent Ivory Trade Investigator Found Stabbed To Death In Kenya

Esmond Bradley Martin's innovative work as a conservationist and investigator made him one of the global authorities on elephant and rhino poaching. He was found at home with stab wounds to his neck.

[inothernews]

I mean, really.

[politicalsci]

[pastpredictions]

I checked the receipts before reblogging. Sick shit. 

[ecologiadigital]

Remember when that cop pepper-sprayed students in 2011? UC Davis paid $175K to scrub it from the internet’s memory https://t.co/5prbgrx1WL

— Xeni (@xeni) April 14, 2016

[daggers-drawn]

Nice try fuckers.

[steeleman]

$175K wasted with every reblog.

Let’s sure they DON’T get their money’s worth.

[ravingsofamadpoet]

Remember the last time the FCC nearly killed net neutrality?

Tumblr had this nice big banner at the top of your dashboard alerting any active user about the problem. Guess what has changed since then? Verizon, one of the companies gunning for the death of net neutrality owns yahoo who in turn own Tumblr. Spread the word, tell everyone you can: battleforthenet.com tag posts you see about net neutrality with popular tags so the news spreads.

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[draggedthruthe-yard]

WAT THE FUCK. WAT THE FUCKING FUCK I HOPE HE DIES. I DIDNT KNOW THE EXTENT OF WAT HE DID WAT THE FUCK.

[kittybratt]

cant ever forget.

[kzaketchum-deactivated20170819]

People will still accept his trash ass anyway cause he can dance so I gave up on even arguing

[kandyie]

This breaks my heart and makes me so mad.

[onlyblackgirl]

I’m confused on how you didn’t know this???

[saito-91]

A lot of people only heard the story… From what I’ve seen not too many people actually read the police report.

[onlyblackgirl]

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised no one actually reads anymore. But like her photos were everywhere this story was everywhere. Idk how you didn’t know unless you deliberately avoided it.

[theeamazoniangoddess]

Tbh it wasn’t broadcasted like this. I only saw photos and I never saw the police report till now.

[moodyspacebabe-deactivated20180]

Some of us were like twelve/thirteen years old when this happened? At that age, we weren’t thinking about reading up on police reports, chill.

[weavemama]

Spread this fucker’s face around like there’s no tomorrow, him and the system put his victim through hell until she couldn’t take it anymore, all because they had powerful connections. This is why it’s hard for rape victims to report what happened, because the system is constantly failing them. 

“Megan was treated like a criminal by the police and the local district attorney. She was even threatened with felony charges for stealing Bunn’s gun, the money and breaking into his car. That is when her family decided that it was best for her to leave school and head home to Texas where she was from and that’s ultimately where she fell into a deep depression and ended up taking her own life. Everything and everyone in this case conspired against this young woman. She couldn’t find a therapist in town because everyone was friends with the Bunn family. The police were going to charge her, not Bunn because she stole money and a weapon to protect herself after her assault. She did the right thing and filed a report with the university, only to have them close her case as “unfounded.” What exactly does it take for a rape victim to believed?”

[pukeworm]

WHAT THE FUCK ??

[queenofsabah]

Oh my God I have this terrible urge to fight everyone now

[wesfromthewest-deactivated20200]

Also, all those therapists who wouldn’t see her should be fired or have their license taken away.

[erinnnoire]

Honestly this story is heartbreaking because she literally did everything you’re “supposed to do” when you’re raped, and still she was treated like a criminal and even charged with a bs crime to encourage her to drop her case. I hope everyone involved knows that her blood is on their hands.