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@punchedtheburrsir
using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold
âcanât believe women fought to work!! i donât wanna work!!â women have Been Working they fought to get Paid you know that right ?
"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.
if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry
âcheated onâ and âmegan thee stallionâ in the same sentence is nasty work all men have is audacityâŠâŠthats so crazy seriously are u out of ur fucking mindâŠâŠ..i hope she has a good hot girl summer like oh she needs it bad
crazy how if you do your chores and obligations first thing on a day off you can enjoy your free time more than if you feel like youâre procrastinating your chores and obligations the whole time. i will not be learning from this experience
MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie
irish coworker: *is back from a month in italy*
me: the weather must have been great, you're looking so tanned!
irish coworker: *stares down at his arms, which are a shade of eggshell white i associate with tasteful wedding table settings* i suppose i am!
welsh coworker: *enters room* wow, youre looking so tanned!
ghanaian coworker: *looks around like hes on the truman show*
notice how it's "with mama" and not "with papa". even in a fake cutesy tumblr scenario, she took the fucking kids. <- what I imagine i'd be posting as a divorced dad on tumblr
I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters
In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels
Oh my god
Itâs been three years since DashCon and Fyre Fest has happened. Meaning that in accordance to the Rule of Three, in another three years, a third and final gathering catastrophe will occur with its own symbol joining the ball pit and concierge stand to create an ungodly trifecta.
I cannot wait.
hello i am from the future and i am here to assure you that you really, really, CAN wait for the Great Gathering Catastrophe of 2020
sure yeah thatâs definitely what it predicted. yup. yes. that was the Great Gathering Catastrophe of 2020. nothing else relevant happened that year.
[Image ID: Tumblr reply from icy-moons2 on Jan 24, 2020 reading: this post predicted the area 51 raid /End ID]
Iâm getting threatening scam emails from author john green
hi!! sorry if you've been asked this question before, but as someone who wants to be a lawyer, how do you deal with defending people that morally you really don't agree with? thanks!
I get a lot of versions of this question, and I answer it seriously every time, because itâs both important and not important at all. Anyone who asks respectfully gets my whole ass answer.
Itâs just not really about that. My job isnât about defending the idea of hurting someone else. Itâs about stopping the state from inflicting further hurt, torture, pain. Itâs about pushing back for some fairness against a monumentally stacked system. And itâs about stuff thatâs normal human stuff that counts as crime for some reason.
Yeah, itâs hard to do a sex abuse case. Sometimes the images stick around and it bothers me. But honestly? Mostly those cases have real plausible theories of innocence or theyâre cases that I will lose because the evidence is there, and the question is not whether the perpetrator will go to jail but how long.
Those cases are so rare, though. I get so much pointless bullshit. Felony of a teen taking momâs car without permission. Two kids that try to break into a car and get so scared by the alarm that they run away. Trespassing on dadâs house because his new girlfriend wants you to stop coming around. Itâs just human stuff, and the violence of the state is not necessary or helpful.
I also reject the idea of punishment completely. The state has a responsibility to stop people from hurting other people again. But inflicting pain doesnât do it, we know this by now. So I argue for mercy and for real solutions to real problems. Iâm here to build a future, not get caught up with doing violence to someone because of the past.
So yeah, sometimes itâs hard, but mostly my conscience is dead clear: Iâm not responsible for the crime. The damage has been done. I want to start the healing process, and I want it for everyone involved. When thatâs not possible, I just want to tell the authorities they donât get to just Do What They Want.
The more I do this job, the more I am a genuine pacifist who is against violence in all forms, and actually I donât see a contradiction between that and what I do for a living. State violence is a pervasive evil that tears apart families, communities, and countries, and itâs far more damaging and awful than any individual crime. The average prosecutor has more blood on their hands than a serial killer, but itâs invisible: people who died in jail, who froze to death on the street, who were shot in a drug deal. Their violence begets violence.
When I get blood on my hands, itâs because I put my hands over the wounds and try to stop the flow. Iâm okay with it.
Also: people donât ask doctors how they can stand to treat bad people. Why ask me?
#i find people have such an inherent misunderstanding of the roles of defense attorneys (understandably but still)#in that most people i talk to seem to be envisioning me personally defending the right of people to commit crimes or that like. Crime Is#Good Actually#âyeah this person did X but they should never face any consequences ever please and thank you judgeâ#(and people think this would WORK??? a different tangent on a lack of legal education and cop shows being awful etc)#meanwhile i am simply protecting peopleâs rights. yes even those peopleâs#idk i could write my own post but op Gets It and also a prosecutor just filed the DUMBEST motion ive ever seen and i need to respond to that#instead lmao (via @anixit26)
The number of people who respond to my post about how even the guiltiest person in the world deserves rights with "but not [crime I think makes you undeserving of rights]!" is truly insane. People really truly think that being accused of a crime makes you irredeemably evil and protecting the rights of those accused means you are also evil.
"What if we find a way to keep fetuses alive outside the womb" that already exists, it's called the NICU and it took decades of advancements in medical science and technology. it takes an entire team equipped with state of the art technology to keep a fetus alive outside the womb. because it cannot perform basic life-supporting functions like breathing on its own. this isn't an anti-NICU post tbc. I'm actually considering the nicu as an option after going back to school because I really like fetuses and babies, I think they're neat. but the fact remains that it takes an entire team of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and more to keep a micropreemie alive. and most abortions occur even before the point that it becomes possible at all. "viable" doesn't mean ready to be born. it means it is possible to keep it alive thanks to medical science developed by the same "abortionists" whose executions you're always calling for.
also, it's not an "after birth abortion" when they "let" micropreemies die, it's fucking hospice care.
absolutely. and to add onto this, i was a nicu baby, and i was a late term abortion. when i was still in the womb i was dying inside my mother, so they had to induce her extremely prematurely to save our lives. there was a very high chance of me dying because they took me outside of the womb before they knew if i could survive on my own, but the chances of me and my mother dying if i stayed inside her were 100%.
the procedure to remove me is medically and legally a late term abortion. i was aborted, and it saved my life. if they hadnât aborted me, my mother and i would both be dead, my siblings would have been left with a dead mother, and i would have never even gotten a chance to live a single day. and now, people are being denied this procedure and dying because itâs literally an abortion!! mothers and their babies are being killed because their doctors are not allowed to perform life-saving abortions.
on the same note, my sister was recently denied an abortion. which is to say, cleaning out the already dead fetus after she had a miscarriage from a wanted pregnancy. they refused treatment unless the DEAD fetus was actively killing her, because the procedure to remove it is medically and legally an abortion. they basically said to her âcome back when youâre dying of an infection or sepsis or something, until then you just have to bleed out.â my sister could have died from this, people HAVE died from being denied abortions after having a miscarriage. if she was one of these people, my sister would have been dead, my mother would have to live the rest of her life without her daughter, and my nephew would have had to live the rest of his life without a mother.
sick and tired of people saying to me âyeah, but thatâs different. you canât really call those procedures an abortion, theyâre not really an abortion.â yes it is. itâs an abortion. any procedure that entails unnaturally removing a fetus and/or baby from the womb before theyâre sure it can survive outside of it is an abortion. if it wasnât, people wouldnât be being told that, sorry! we canât do that! youâll have to come back when youâre already dead. i was aborted, my mother had an abortion when she was pregnant with me, my sister needed an abortion after she had a miscarriage. all of these things are ABORTIONS! and now mothers and babies are being killed, murdered by these anti-abortionist fuckers and the laws they put in place to âsave and protect poor, innocent lives!â
the procedure to remove me is medically and legally a late term abortion
read it, now read it again.
this procedure is an abortion from a legal and medical standpoint. laws that target "abortion" include this and more.
miscarriages are abortions ffs
and Shirley Exemptions are no way to protect anything
abortion is healthcare
thank you for bringing up the Shirley exceptions because i think people don't realize when they say "surely that would be an exception" what they're really saying is "surely the doctor would put their ass on the line and risk life in prison for me" which is a pretty bold thing to just assume
if there are going to be exceptions, the legislation needs to clearly lay them out, say which specific procedures are permissible in which specific circumstance. but that would require actually understanding the medical science related to pregnancy so we all know that's not happening
SCOOBY-DOO (2002) dir. by Raja Gosnell
how many people on this website like actually absorb the fact that race is a social construct? that race is indeed assigned at birth and reinforced socially through an entire lifetime? that race is fluid and racial privilege is granted and taken away arbitrarily based on what white supremacist power structures benefit from the most? that racialization is relative and changes over time and space? that there is no genetic evidence that race is biological, that itâs a farce in the same way the idea of biological sex is?
