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MAGA and TERFS are American Nazi’s. I will always uplift trans/queer Joy. I am filled with Joy to be trans and Queer.

[alienatedartt]

atlas

[rotomartsblog]

I loved meeting mr “opposite of ‘I miss tenna’”

[eliassimp]

Noelle's face looks soooo much like Carol's...

[inkyaltbitts]

IM SORRY????? WHAT???

[summerof2005]

And I see the future and there’s no death cause you and I we’re angels

[xixneo]

YOUR BEST FRIEND ?

[vinihyperfocus]

(Tw Suicide mention)

"Charlie, we didn't just watch Kris and Noelle try to kill themselves on the Weird Route, right?"

[the-irreverend]

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[thekijs]

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

[weaselle]

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

[paper-mache-stars]

been thinking about grace and adrian being alike

[kathrenax]

"Liam. Someone you love very much is about to die."

[inkskinned]

How clearly does the point need to be made that "police officer" is just a fucking job, one with minimal training and minimal monitoring. It is NOT some kind of promise of honesty, truth, or heroism. It is a bunch of assistant managers with extremely powerful weapons. IF you can understand "pedophiles choose to be priests and teachers so they can get to children", IF you understand "arsonists choose to be firefighters so they can be present at their own crimes" - then you can ALSO understand "people who are bigoted, violent, and power-hungry choose to be cops for the opportunities the job presents" and you can ALSO understand "any occupational culture that chooses fraternity over justice - and the allowance of violence in the name of a unified front - is therefore siding with their worst representatives"

[inkskinned]

by the way. the average time to train to be a police officer? 19 weeks. A little over 4 months. many states only require a high school diploma and no further education. there is often no requirement of any form of previous experience - no interning or observations. it took me 3 years of experience and a master's degree for me to get my job in writing. hell: in my state, it takes at least 6 months with a permit before people are allowed to drive a car.

being a police officer is an entry-level job, and we are handing them weapons. nothing about their occupation automatically makes them smarter, quicker, braver, or in any way elite. there is very little in their onboarding process that would allegedly "weed out" the worst of the applicants - and once they are part of the fraternity, they're not gonna leave.

we have been taught to respect, honor, and worship them by virtue of a job title they barely even had to try for. they sign no contract, swear no vow, and make no promise to the general public. it is a community that is extolled above others and given virtually no oversight. think about the kind of people who would be attracted to that opportunity. the adage: power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[inkskinned]

circling this back around to say FUCK ICE, and fuck you if you willingly support them just because they're "a federal agent" and therefore "deserve respect".

ICE officers are a fucking privatized militia they do not have authority over united states citizens and none of their so-called "purpose" requires live rounds and weapons. It is entirely made up of fascist racist dickbags with no fucking training. they are lower than scum. they're police-school dropouts with no fucking spine. there is no honor in their position. they accomplish nothing but terrorizing communities they don't even fucking live in.

Any!! occupation or government !! that chooses fraternity over justice - and the allowance of violence in the name of a unified front - is therefore siding with their worst representatives.

[negativepeanuthoarder]

As an aroace person I actually never had that feeling of being broken. I thought everyone was the same way and some people were just dramatic 😭

[negativepeanuthoarder]

THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY THATS EXACTLY HOW I FELT WATCHING ATTACK OF THE CLONES FOR THE FIRST TIME LMAOOOOO 😭😭😭😭

[aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact]

I’m starting to think a lot of people don’t realize their parents are abusive because we have so completely normalized some types of abuse as “unintentional” to the point people just automatically forgive them when they. really shouldn’t

[aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact]

guys. unnecessarily strict rules/punishments are abuse. repeated verbal insults are abuse. and for fuck’s sake, oh my god, NEGLECT IS ABUSE.

[aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact]

THIS INCLUDES EMOTIONAL NEGLECT.

[the-raising-of-lazarus]

[ID: Tags reading #this includes emotional neglect btw #neglect is so little talked about it drives me crayzay #misc /End ID]

[probablyasocialecologist]

In theoretical terms, the goal of a socialist society is to restrict and then abolish the law of value, and value production in general, and replace it with a conscious democratic plan of production. This is a more accurate but more complicated way of saying that socialism is an alternative to private ownership of capital and the dominance of the market with a view to abolishing exploitative work. It is a society increasingly based on use values and not exchange values. This involves participatory democracy, workers’ management of industry, alongside worker and consumer checking of quality guided by a democratically agreed plan. This is something that must be fought for. Capitalism is not one thing that is then abolished and replaced immediately by something else overnight. It will be a struggle to purge the planet of capitalism, and socialism is only the class struggle of workers and the popular masses escalated to a higher and more intense level.

Simon Hannah, Reclaiming the Future: A Beginner's Guide to Planning the Economy

[lethalwizard]

[ajarofpickledtears]

[ospreyonthemoon]

Map of Indigenous Australia

The AIATSIS map serves as a visual reminder of the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia.

For anyone who actually wants to read the map, here's a better view of it.

[morlock-holmes]

One of the things which I think should be most shocking to people who have no experience with Homeless shelters is how often they have policies which *actively make it harder for their residents to find or keep a job*.

What happens if you have a strict curfew but the bus back from your new job only comes once every hour? Better hope you don't leave work even five minutes late, otherwise you ain't getting to sleep indoors tonight! Hope that doesn't impair you at work tomorrow!

Also, better not try to get any swing or night shift work!

This is so obviously stupid and counterproductive that I think those of us who have never had first-hand knowledge of being homeless can't imagine that this kind of stuff is *normal* in American shelters.

Like legitimately they seem designed to keep people homeless.

[magpiemirroring]

A lot of things I have read about homeless shelters seem to operate on the principle (spoken or unspoken) that homelessness is not something which can befall Nice & Normal people, and therefore, the unhoused are somehow a separate class of people that need and deserve weird rules and regulations and curfews to keep them in line and even punish them.

The goal of these shelters seems to be not to provide assistance in getting people stable jobs and homes again, because the people that run them do not actually believe homeless people can keep jobs and homes. So they run shelters as a containment system.

That same attitude is why you get places that push for laws that criminalize the unhoused while cutting the resources that would help people get jobs and homes and help people with the issues that make it hard for them to get and keep jobs*. They don't think of the homeless as folks like themselves who are struggling, folks whose lives could change for the better. If homeless shelters are run like Jail Lite, it's because the people in charge would really rather be sending those people to prison.

*(It doesn't all have to end in Getting A Job. I think you deserve a home and food, etc even if you are incapable of meeting capitalism's demands that you must be Productive to be a full person.)

[anarchistmemedistro]

remember that the prison industrial complex is very real and very powerful and includes government run prisons. the cop union and the prison guard union are some of the most politically influential unions., before you even factor in the corporations who build, maintain, and run prisons.