I need to keep this on reference for the next wiseass who uses late stage or just capitalism as summation for abuse and lack of compensation of the working class.
Not that I can just throw capitalism as a buzzword out and solve all of these problems but that indicates that you're using the exact wrong term in order to categorize everything as well as the wrong thinking and lens to analyze the analyze And bring things forward just in order so that you can sound smart or revolutionary as opposed to actually assess what the issues are the solutions that can be applied and the concern for the people who are suffering
But you don't care about that you still want to style on everyone about how educated you are and how everyone's dumb because they don't disagree with the people who you hold in contempt
please consider writing to Prarieland defendants Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, they are both trans lesbians incarcerated in men's prisons for protesting an ICE facility
prosecution established affiliation by way of defendants having fucking anarchist zines, the kind of shit you see in a punk house. this is what they want and are willing to pursue for all of us who aren't willing to lay down and die, imprisonment and torture and the absolute stripping of our dignity (the govt gleefully included their deadnames in a press release yesterday; Morris' public defender has consistently deadnamed and misgendered her despite her legal name change)
there is no one who will protect us except us, and if our sisters are lost to us and forgotten as soon as they are grabbed by the prison system (ie if the system is allowed to work as intended) then we are failing, and we are woefully unprepared for a world where they start taking more of us
Autumn is a loving wife and is interested in religious history and mythology. Write to her at FMC Fort Worth.
Meagan Elizabeth Morris is loved by her wife housemates, and dogs. Her name was legally changed in 2007, but the federal complaint used her
this is what happens when you make suffering a cornerstone of your self-image. on the same wavelength as people who jump down the throats of depressed people giving advice to other depressed people on how not to be 100% miserable constantly because “we cant all be neurotypical KAREN”
something something if we always define transgenderism by how much we’ve suffered, the community will never be able to envision and work for a future that involves joy and acceptance.
i see this post going around a lot and i just want to like. add my two cents as a trans adult who transitioned as a child medically years ago. I agree with the above points, but need to just mention that being a person who medically transitioned as a child and was supported by their parents doesnt mean that transition was easy and free of suffering either. Transition doesnt need to have pain in it, but transitioning as a child is a very painful experience. I knew peers who were kicked out of their schools, forced to move across the country, had the support of one parent but not the other and had to deal with a divorce as a result to even be able to legally access care at all, and nearly every one of my medical providers have told me they recieve daily threats for doing what they do. Trans children are one of the biggest targets of harassment and abuse in this community. Saying that trans kids have it easy doesnt just show a disturbing view of transness having a requirement of suffering- it shows a complete denial of the suffering of trans children. I personally had it much easier than many of my friends, but having that experience makes me feirce and insistant that people know the shit that kids in our community have to go through on a daily basis.
i transitioned (socially, not medically) as a teen. i only felt safe to do it at a time when i literally basically cut nearly all interactions with my previous environment and started fresh in a new one. most people who knew me before i transitioned do not know that i am trans, because i have not talked to them since transing my gender. i hated and dreaded every single time i had to come out/tell someone my new name and pronouns, even though 99% of those were positive interactions.
i have a different experience from someone who didn’t even realize they were trans until they were an adult, or from someone who knew but never came out to their family, or from someone who did medically transition young.
but for all of these different transition journeys, we are still all transgender. every single trans person, regardless of how well we pass, has the experience of being trans. of being treated as a gender other than our own for at least some of our life, and of asserting ourselves as ourselves.
Omg yes! like how an Asian or white person in a room full of black people is terrified. But a black person in a room full of asians or white people isn’t.
People deserve to be profiled as dangerous for how they were born.
All men are their exes who were awful but chose over objections of family. This is proof the patriarchy set them to fail
(not really I just been holding that one in for a bit. I am VERY bitter about this lie that patriarchy eagerly forces women's sexual abuse by men as to being the fucking cheat code for female social maneuvering by bad actresses for a loooong time.)
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu
Hey, so the ACLU is gearing up to take this on if yall have room to support this org, it would mean a lot to me (and other adult queer creators). As always, word of mouth is really important here too so reblogs are greatly appreciated.
I made a reblog explaining exactly why this is bad, beyond the fact that they're telling you what you can and can't do with your own money which is bad enough.
Imagine one day, the CEO of Mastercard has a falling out with the CEO of Food Lion or some shit. You're in the store, you have food for your family in your cart, you're about to purchase it all, oh no your card's been declined. The CEO is beefing with Food Lion so bad that they added a new rule: No transactions allowed at Food Lion.
Ridiculous? Well, yes. Let's use a different example. The CEO doesn't like that FL or any store is selling Twinkies. Maybe it's because they're unhealthy. Maybe it's because they suck. Maybe it's because the CEO thinks "Twinkie" is a slur. Regardless, now you can't buy things at Food Lion, Dollar General, Walmart, etc... because they sell Twinkies and the CEO of Mastercard isn't having it. Sounds even more ridiculous? Yeah, no shit. But they can do that. How about a more realistic example?
Know that highly influential LGBT charity you wanted to help fund/donate to? The 100% legitimate one whose goal is to fund numerous causes, like providing shelter for estranged LGBT teens eho'd been kicked out of their homes, provide rehab services to LGBT people who suffered from addiction, therapy for traumatized individuals who suffered gay bashing/sexual assault/religious trauma/etc, and medical aid for sex workers (both legitimate workers who made the choice AND human trafficking victims who didn't) who now suffer from STDs/sexual trauma/etc?
Mastercard doesn't like it. Under the excuse that the support of sex work in general goes against their "policies" (but really, someone at the top is just really LGBTphobic), they blacklist your ability to pay them.
It's called corporate financial authoritarianism, and it 100% should not exist, full stop. They should not have the right to tell you what you can and cannot do with your own hard earned money. They do not **own** your money, you do. They're just the middleman to help get your money to where it needs to go. Or supposed to be.
Gina Haspel, a woman, was formerly the director of the CIA from ‘18 to ‘21. Before that, after 9/11 she was the head of a black site torture prison in Thailand where she had personal involvement and oversight in “enhanced interrogation techniques” (which involved waterboarding, humiliation, and depriving them of their clothing) against prisoners both rightfully AND wrongfully arrested and detained, and had been found to have destroyed 92 interrogation tapes.
ah. a nuanced story that allows for imperfect victims and portrays the confusing and contradictory nature of being human – particularly in a context that explores abuse, harassment and trauma. i wonder what people on the internet make of it... oh. oh no. oh no no no no no
look drama llamas annoy and always will ESPECIALLY when their trauma is a reveal to adjust or change our point of view. I just can't Shinji Ikari killed that part of me dead for fictional characters. Save my universal consideration for in an actual therapy group.
This is video has a growing trend of asides from end of The Boys streaming series to Man Carrying Thing and now here with asides on Israel performing a genocide and war crimes on Palastine and elites of Left wing/democratic establishment or just social influences denying or betraying morality to say not so
as mostly got my Gaza shitshow updates from @takashi0 curious as to why made this start trending to the point feel emboldened to call out individuals from victims (Hilary Clinton) championed by the narrative to diverse actors (Tomer Capone, attributed to bragging about war crimes and misconduct)
It seems, mostly the same rhetorical standards adhered to and enforced have come to head on matters from those established to those who feel like being extreme and mean but I curious as to what
Yes I realyl REALLY doubt their empathy and humanity that much as the process of sharing this in condemnative and contemptous so I wonder what set off this backlash? Like they aren't rethinking right wing stuff being somehow valid and coherent just with different values. Still going for motivated by racisms, are idiots, and mislead by bad thinking/disinformation/wrong positting . Gotta love asserting politics isn't a zero sum game and you need to think about more than can I win the next one other truths to moderate/widen thinking while saying that.
I mean the video has a MASSIVE aside calling groups of people sellouts and frauds just really roundabout on it and assuring thinks less of his political opponents.
Even the thing on maps feels...weirdly overelaborate in deconstructing the concept when it feels he makes better points when he.. well gets to the point.
Why are these 'sneak in contempt for Israel and democratic leadership' things starting to rise?
Wayne was gay. It was obvious. He was unable to stay in the closet even if he wanted to. To make matters worse, he was also Black. From a bullying standpoint, that was not a great combo. Both Black and white students made fun of him relentlessly. He was ostracized from the only community that may have given him protection. Only us theater kids stuck up for him, but not to significant effect.
Wayne was bullied so much that at one point he finally snapped and attacked his bullies with a lunch tray. I was actually seated in perfect line of sight and just sat there chewing my soggy fries in stunned silence. It didn't even seem real as I was witnessing it. The image of him wailing on his main bully as the food on his tray flew off is permanently logged into my long term memory.
The bully he attacked had blood all over his face and went straight to the nurse. Other than superficial cuts, he was not injured.
Before the attack, Wayne went to teachers for help.
He went to guidance counselors for help.
He went to the principals for help.
He did all of the things you were supposed to do. No one helped him. They wagged a finger at the bullies and warned them to stop.
Wayne's lunch tray melee was the only thing that worked. His bullies stayed far away from him. But a week later Wayne was expelled and the bullies were given no punishment.
So... no.
No one in my school talked about being trans.
Because the only way to survive being openly queer was to bash people with a lunch tray.
Not to mention... School in the 70s,80s and 90s?? Transgenerism was DEFINITELY not as accepted as it is now. Those kids would have been eaten the fuck alive if they even HINTED at it.
Even as a gay dude who went to school in the 2000s it was all I could do not to get beaten in the goddamn bathroom by the same 4 dudes every goddamn day and sexually assaulted by one dude in particular. I can't even fathom how a trans person would have been able to survive in the same damn school.
Maybe none of your friends ever came out to you because you weren't a safe person to come out to, Heather.
#to have the confidence of a mediocre white man #speaking on matters he knows nothing about
Hey @adamtheredbeard did you notice the image suspiciously cut off before the end of the tweet? I wonder if that softlib had anything else to say...
I see a lot of tags from Communists gloating in the reblogs, very confident that they know better than this guy...
But I'd wager that basically none of them do. It isn't just a matter of historical knowledge, either. For instance, "#mediocre white men" is part of a push for a form of scientific racism (based on "correct" race ratios that are just made up), and you didn't notice.
They talk about it a lot in others, but they tend to be pretty weak in their ability to spot when they're giving in to hatred and it's distorting their thinking.
I'm really sick of people dissing on figures like MLK because they weren't violent activists. They assassinated MLK because his activism was actually fucking WORKING. And that only made him a martyr and furthered progress for black America. Black America owes a LOT of its success in the fight for civil rights to MLKs pacifist approach.
Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. This pamphlet provided instructions on how to properly display and respect the United States’ flag. Printed in 1968 by the United States Printing Office, the pamphlet was issued by the United States Navy Recruiting Service.
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A notorious pedophile was slapped with new charges just hours before he was due to be released thanks to California’s insane elder parole la
A notorious pedophile has been slapped with new charges just hours before he was due to be released thanks to California’s elder parole law.
David Allen Funston, 64, was found guilty in 1999 of 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation.
Living in a suburb of Sacramento, he reportedly kidnapped and molested at least eight children — seven girls and one boy — luring them in with Barbie dolls and candy. He was later sentenced to three consecutive sentences of 25 years to life.
But because of California’s elder parole program the Board of Parole authorized his early release from prison on Thursday, because he met the requirements.
Yet in a later update, Placer County DA Morgan Gire said his office decided to pursue a separate prosecution against Funston stemming from an alleged child sexual assault that happened in Roseville in 1996.
He said prosecutors at the time believed Funston was going away for life and chose not to pursue the separate prosecution.
“To be clear, this individual was previously sentenced to multiple life terms for extremely heinous crimes,” Placer County DA said in a statement to CBS News.
“However, subsequent changes in state law and recent parole board failures have altered the practical effect of those life sentences for the victims and communities at large.”
He added. “When changes in the law put our communities at risk, it is our duty to re-evaluate those cases and act accordingly.
“David Allen Funston committed very real crimes against a Placer County child, and the statute of limitations allows us to hold him accountable for those crimes.”
Instead of being released to the community, Funston’s custody has been turned over to law enforcement officials in Placer County and he remains behind bars awaiting his arraignment for the new charges.
Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho blasted the elder parole law that allowed for Funston’s early release.
“This defendant is the worst of the worst – a child predator who lures, grabs, kidnaps, and assaults children…
“This is yet another example that highlights how elder parole is a broken law that results in broken promises and broken lives,” Ho said.
California Republicans have demanded Gov. Gavin Newsom cleans house after the state parole board upheld the release of the serial child rapist — blasting the governor for claiming his “hands are tied.”
Funston was granted parole under the elder parole program, which was expanded in 2020 through AB 3234 and signed into law by Newsom.
The governor’s office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on any actions he intends to take. Newsom has said state law limits his ability to overturn parole board decisions.
Calls to the Placer County and Sacramento County District Attorney’s office about Funston were not immediately returned to The Post.
Funston is due back in court in Placer County next week.
I uh, don't want to come off as soft hearted, at all.
But if he was determined a case worth releasing from jail. slapping him with charges to extend his stay? That's some 'chivalrous south lawmen' level shit.
I know its crazy but I fear out of control law enforcement more than a gaggle of perverts on the streets. Bystander empowerment and therapy and check is can help my young family members. Cops who twist law to win as to appease the ire of the incensed.
Also, admittedly naive or at least ignorant but how long(especially with sex registries and info look up a thing) is sheer isolation NEEDED to perma-disenfranchise a man for life? no punishment with unrape the kids, we aren't killing him so I mean doing this deciding to free but oops no now MORE crime. That shit is.. I mean yikes. TBF if truly repentent I suppose confessed his guilt of these already.
You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.
For Dr. King, my uncle, protest wasn’t a moral stance alone—it was a strategy, a discipline, and a craft, writes Isaac Newton Farris Jr., To
By: Isaac Newton Farris Jr.
Published: Mar 24, 2026
For my uncle, protest wasn’t a moral stance alone—it was a strategy, a discipline, and a craft. Today, we’ve lost all three.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “The greatness of America is the right to protest for rights.” The freedom of assembly (protest) joins the freedom of speech, the freedom to petition, the freedom of the press, and the freedom of religion as the five essential freedoms granted to every American citizen. In the 20th century, it was the Civil Rights Movement’s nonviolent protests that finally made America a true democracy. Today, in the 21st century, it is violent protests that threaten to return it to autocracy.
Invoking Dr. King in any conversation about the act of protesting is appropriate because he is the Henry Ford of protesting. Of course, Ford did not invent the automobile, nor did Dr. King invent protesting. But Ford taught the world how to efficiently build a car by applying his assembly line idea to the process. Similarly, Dr. King taught Americans how to properly protest by applying his philosophy of nonviolence to the act of resistance.
The last few years have seen a potent number of protest movements sweep America: Black Lives Matter, the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, the “Free Palestine” movement, the “No Kings” rallies, and the ongoing protests against the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). All claimed to be acting in the great spirit and grand tradition of Dr. King. But the only thing these have in common with the protest demonstrations of the Civil Rights Movement is that they gathered a crowd of people together.
Black Lives Matter protests provoked property destruction. On January 6,, 2021, protesters attacked one of the seats of our government and temporarily shut down the certification of a national election. Pro-Palestinian protesters have seized campus buildings, scuffled with police, and physically stopped pro-Israel rallies. And many of us are aware of protesters committing vehicular attacks on ICE agents. These acts of resistance are anything but nonviolent.
The core principle of the Civil Rights Movement was voluntary conversion, never any compulsion or arm-twisting. Its protests were mounted as an appeal to the conscience and goodwill of both the protest target and the wider public. Protesters, never the protest targets, endured every consequence their demonstrations brought: physical assault, destruction of their property, restriction of movement, and imprisonment by law enforcement. For them, protest was a demonstration of their commitment to the cause; it was never a punishment of the people or institutions that were the protest’s target.
The core principle of today’s movements seems to be involuntary coercion and intimidation. Too often, they want to force others to adopt their perspective and support their cause by threat or physical attack. They seek to shut down any program, activity, or speech they disagree with.
[ A man poses in front of a burning auto parts store across from Minneapolis's 3rd Precinct during 2020 protests following George Floyd's death. ]
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, she didn’t attempt to interfere with the bus driver or to stop any other passengers from sitting down where they chose. Her message was not If I can’t sit where I choose, I will stop the bus from operating. Her message was I am prepared to subject myself to physical abuse and arrest, offering no resistance, in order to exercise my right as a human being and an American citizen to choose to sit in any available empty bus seat.
When black college students first sat down at a Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter and refused to move until they were served or arrested, they purposely didn’t occupy all the empty seats available at the lunch counter. They knew not to prevent other customers from entering and conducting business in the store, because their protest message was not If blacks can’t buy lunch here, no one will be allowed to buy lunch or shop here. The message was We will not move from this lunch counter until served or arrested, because the color of one’s skin should not prevent someone from being served.
The Birmingham, Alabama, schoolchildren who participated in a march on city streets in 1963 were attacked by police dogs and sprayed with high-pressure fire hoses. The images shocked Americans. Yet, regardless of the morality of their cause, had these children been armed with guns, knives, and lead pipes to resist their attackers, American sentiment would have been Yes, the police needed the dogs and fire hoses to put down violent thugs with weapons. Instead, the students met violence with nonviolence. Their only intention was to resist racism and possibly sacrifice their lives for justice, freedom, and democracy. As a result, American sentiment was moved, and in 1964, the Civil Rights Act became the law of the land, which made America a true democracy for the first time in its history.
The Civil Rights protesters also avoided violent speech. Never would you have seen a Civil Rights protest sign that read “Death to the KKK.” Even when it came to one of America’s most notorious racists, never would you have heard a protest speaker say, “George Wallace should be condemned to hell.” The only messages Dr. King would allow printed on signs and heard in speeches at protests were positive and affirmative: “I too am a human being,” “I am an American citizen entitled to equal rights,” or “We shall overcome.” There was never any violent speech directed to or about the protest targets. Yet today’s protesters frequently abuse their opponents, call down retribution upon them, and praise acts of horrific violence.
A nonviolent protester’s goal is to create a minimum degree of discomfort or inconvenience to draw attention to the protest cause. But the discomfort or inconvenience should never exist to the point of preventing a college class, a public speech, or a legal arrest. It must never deny its opponent’s rights.
A successful nonviolent protest generates sympathy for the cause, and it requires planning. Dr. King would have never sent out a social media message to meet him in an hour for a protest; instead, he would have sent out a message to meet him in an hour to plan a protest. He never led a march, organized a boycott, or convened a rally without first addressing all the necessary logistical questions and contingencies. A proper site must be selected and, if necessary, permits applied for. Plans must be made to deal with counterprotesters and any other attempts to interfere with the protest and for how law enforcement should be dealt with if and when they show up. Most importantly, protest organizers must insist on nonviolent protesting and explain its meaning. As Dr. King wrote in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, nonviolence is “a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love.”
Yet the passivity of the protester can only go so far. Denial of a permit does not mean a protest should not happen, because an act of civil disobedience or disobeying a denied protest permit can itself be a legitimate protest tactic. Dr. King’s famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” was written because he had been arrested for leading a march in defiance of a court order banning “racial demonstrations.” But attempting to obtain permission to protest is a necessary step along the Kingian path. Seeking permission to protest sends the message to all concerned that the intention is for the demonstration to be peaceful. Such a message could determine if the police or security forces show up wearing riot gear or their normal uniforms.
When pro-Palestinian students and activists took over Hamilton Hall on Columbia University’s campus in 2024, the spectacle drew the worst possible attention to the cause. The students caused damage to the building by breaking its windows and using its furniture to barricade themselves inside. Occupying a campus building to focus attention on a protest cause can be a legitimate protest tactic. But truly effective protest requires that no property is destroyed to facilitate the protest. Protesters can plan to use their bodies en masse as an obstacle to prevent entering or reoccupying the building. And they should never resist arrest—in 1968, when nonviolent protesters occupied the same Columbia University building, they did not resist removal.
But the way that pro-Palestinian college students occupied a Columbia University campus building in 2024, the way some BLM protests turned to property destruction, the way protesters violently invaded Capitol Hill on January 6, and the way some protesters impede ICE from doing their job is to adopt the means of tyranny and autocracy. Ironically, these protesters see themselves as genuinely resisting tyranny, but by doing so violently, they make their causes deeply unsympathetic. As Dr. King wrote in 1967, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that. The beauty of nonviolence is that in its own way and in its own time it seeks to break the chain reaction of evil.”
American democracy cannot survive without the right to protest. Yet in the 21st century, 23 states have enacted at least 55 laws to limit how people can exercise their constitutional right to protest. Protesting in the way of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights activists he led is the way to protect one of America’s greatest rights, the right to protest for rights. If a just protest is to succeed, its advocates must walk in Dr. King’s footsteps.
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All anyone can or should think is, these violent, dangerous animals don't belong in our society so why should we give them what they want?
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