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Civil rights violations in the US today doesn’t look like the bad cops on TV, it more often looks like the good cops on TV

jethroq

How many times in your favorote cop show have they kicked in a door and searched a home without a warrant?

How many times in your favorite cop show have they questioned a suspect without their lawyer present and after the suspect has clearly stated they don’t want to talk?

jethroq

Special question to fans of Criminal Minds: how many times have the BAU purposefully taunted the unsub in a standoff to the point that they become agressive and the agents then shoot the unsub?

jethroq

By the way, to be clear on the door kicking thing, I am very specifically talking about the following line I’ve seen countless times:

”Hey, did you hear screams/smell drugs inside?”

And like it’s always shown as a flimsy excuse, yet, still the right and good thing to do

almostrealistic26

The one where they make the suspect talk without a lawyer is so common it’s actually ridiculous.

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Or the one where they get mad at a perp for having a shitty attitude/mocking them and end up losing their temper and using unnecessary force is always framed like the police had no other choice. Because the perp insulted their wife or dead colleague so obviously they deserve some brutality

officecyborg

also when the cops maybe don’t do anything wrong, but the show frames it as “if only we could violate human rights a LITTLE, then we could solve the case!” or even that the law is preventing them from doing their job. e.g. the stodgy old judge won’t give them a search warrant, the arrogant psychiatrist won’t hand over their patient’s information, the team has to do things by the book this time(!) because the FBI/internal affairs/the media are watching them.

chuplayswithfire

the number of times the police stalk someone because they’re “sure” they’re the culprit, even when they have no evidence and their captain tells them not to, but it’s justified in the end because they wee right of course, looking at you SVU.

sovietspacedogs

If you’ve ever watched White Collar pretty much every episode where someone asks for a lawyer, the show always brings up this motif that “only guilty people ask for a lawyer” and it doesn’t help that the show’s entire premise is how an agent and his CI solve crimes where the agent often turns a blind eye or sometimes even helps his CI to commit crimes if it means arresting the episode’s antagonist.

And not to mention the last season was about how the FBI had to bring down the Pink Panthers 😒

Or for shows like The Blacklist where the story tries to make the FBI look like heroes and the CIA the villains and every episode is literally the FBI crossing the lines of legality and morality in bringing down the bad guy.

Shows like these justify abuses of power by institutions and approves the corruption of these powers because it’s “for the greater good” or because “they’re the good guys.”

Fuck em.

pochowek

the legality of parodies is so funny. if you take a bit from someones work without their permission its illegal UNLESS you make fun of them

gahdamnpunk

“Child rescue”?? They are literally trafficking children

starlightomatic

Oh how cute

bipolar-bubbeleh

dear FUCK

mystic-fauna

Jesus fucking Christ

la-laborista-republiko

https://iww.org/

wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva

STRIKE HARD

STRIKE TO WIN

joylove-j

https://www.transnational-strike.info/2018/05/17/call-to-all-amazon-workers-in-europe-in-july-a-european-general-strike/

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spread this around. if any of my european followers work at amazon, please participate, and stay safe in case amazon retaliates.

queeranarchism

Never strike alone! Organize with your fellow workers! Unionize!

queerestforestcat

Strike! Strike! Strike!

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I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

velvety-secret

Like most people don’t like to admit this, but one of the reasons a lot of us have so many mental health issues is because we live in a world that has basically become untenable. People can’t afford basic necessities, let alone to cultivate their interests or take breaks and rest or do any of the things necessary for good mental health. People my age are wracked with debt, working at jobs they hate or studying topics they hate, living in a shitty apartment with five roommates. We live in a world that’s very hard to be healthy in. So while yeah, a lot of people obviously do have mental illnesses that would need medication no matter what, they are greatly exacerbated by these issues, and a lot of people have basically just been thrust into an eternal situational depression. So if that doesn’t change, medication is just a band-aid.

zvaigzdelasas

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

queerestforestcat

That said, short of ending capitalism tomorrow, we do still need medication for many of us to get by in the meantime. There should be no shame in that.

love the idea its not us who are "broken", but our surroundings.

asciiheart

The nuclear family is probably the greatest enabler of child abuse, ever.

Putting two people in complete control of another person (who is particularly vulnerable and has few legal rights) and then having no oversight for the whole arrangement is the absolute worst idea.

Families are garbage.

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

Hahaha wtf

yourownpetard

I wouldn’t even know where to start with this. omg.

amal-wa-ahlam

OP, what would you propose as an alternative to families?

asciiheart

communal child raising

less isolated familial structures in general

children being made aware of how they should and shouldn’t be treated

Some form of child protection services that don’t just believe the parents and assume a child is lying when they report abuse

more legal and counselling services made available to children

tracyalexander-deactivated20201

I don’t get people that are like “lol, what? that’s so weird, lets laugh at the very notion that traditional families are abusive”.

itsfridaybutimstillaro-deactiva

communal child raising is the traditional family. 70-100 years ago 4 generations lived together in the same house, having 4 grandparents, 6 aunts and 15 cousins around every day was normal.

queeranarchism

Things that should be mentioned:

- These communities are not necessarily connected by an biological ties. In a lot of these multigenerational ‘families’, including people in the family who are not relatives or married into the family is totally normal. This has always created a lot more space to support people without families, support people who do now want to partner up and to create communities in which couples who can not have children (like some queer couples but not all & other couples too) can be a part of child raising.

- Having a lot more young people around often means young people learn from each other. In many cultures young people form a non-hierarchial group that learns together and can do a great deal without adult supervision.

The nuclear family doesn’t just facilitate abuse, it facilitates hierarchy. It’s a training school for obedience to authority.

Now, which system would push such a training school strongly so it could get docile obedient citizens? Which system whould push the nuclear family.

I’m not saying it’s capitalism but it’s capitalism.

And then there’s the fact that the 2 parent, nuclear family can be most easily pushed into the pattern where one adult works an extremely exhausting job many hours a day that leaves that adult hardly capable of doing anything else, while the other adult takes on all the other things that adult would otherwise have done: care for children, clean the living space, prepare food, prepare clean clothing, etc. for free. What we know as traditional gender roles.

This way capitalism gets one intensely loyal worker who feels ‘responsible’ for ‘supporting a family’ while all the work to keep that worker going is done for free by an unpaid worker in the home.

And, you know, communities need a lot less stuff. A community of 50 can do just fine with one or two hammers. 25 nuclear families need 25 hammers. The nuclear family demands a huge amount of commodity purchasing.

dollsahoy

(hooboy that last point)

heartmindalignedspirit

Damn. What a breakdown…

queerestforestcat

Tool libraries have come into existence to address that hammer issue, specifically. & they are an awesome resource! But unfortunately they wont help raise your kid.

Also its a shame that our political climate is so polarized that it would be hard to be on good enough terms with extended family to share a home with them- especially for a lot of us queer and trans people. This is why we need to start forming big queer communes full of chosen family.

Unfortunately we are all beholden to our employers and (at least in my area) many of us are pulled to commute an hour or more from our homes in different directions, due to skyrocketing rents. Most people my age here move at least every two years or more, so keeping a family unit with more than 2 working adults together long term sounds logistically challenging!

Love this tho, we should be thinking about how to dismantle the nuclear family & better support kids in our community ❤

#tool library #nuclear family #big gay commune #queer community #end capitalism #chosen family #keep kids safe #end abuse #i wanna be some kids auncle #it takes a village

daily-puns70-blog

I don’t often tell dad jokes

But when I do he laughs

kropotkhristian-deactivated2019

If you want to know how quickly the government justifies its own existence to the point where people cannot even imagine an alternative, consider this: ICE has only existed since 2003. When people say “abolish ICE,” they are often immediately accosted by people asking them what we would do then, because what about border security and illegal immigrants and how can you say that this organization just shouldn’t exist, what even is the alternative, etc.

ICE has only been around for 15 years and some people are already acting like it is just an inevitable fact of existence and there is no alternative. Think about what that means.

great-tweets

First there was Yanny Vs. Laurel, now there’s Brainstorm Vs. Green Needle.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

queerestforestcat

What the hell