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Imma be honest, I think when people say, "why hasn't the US had a revolution yet," they mostly have no idea how bad everyday life got for people before revolutions have actually happened.
Fourth No Kings event will feature a concert with Bette Midler, Patti Smith and Rufus Wainwright streaming nationwide
Joseph Gedeon at The Guardian:
The No Kings movement has announced a nationwide event on 14 June, directly counter-programming Donald Trump’s 80th birthday celebrations and a Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout on the south lawn of the White House.
The centerpiece is a 90-minute concert at New York’s Town Hall featuring entertainer Bette Midler, songwriter Patti Smith, actor Jane Fonda, musician Rufus Wainwright and commentator Joy Reid – streaming free nationwide, while local groups host watch parties across the country. The event is co-presented by the Committee for the First Amendment, a coalition of artists and cultural figures, and frames the US’s 250th anniversary as a moment of democratic reckoning.
The plans put two very different visions for the occasion in direct competition.
The US president is billing UFC Freedom 250 as a historic national celebration: a star-spangled octagon arena on the south lawn of the White House, with 4,000 ticketed guests, and a fan festival on the Ellipse expected to draw up to 100,000 people. The weigh-ins are reportedly set to take place at the Lincoln Memorial.
Trump has claimed that demand for tickets, for an event which will feature a title fight between the lightweight champion Ilia Topuria and the interim champion Justin Gaethje, has been unlike anything he has seen. The White House spokesperson Davis Ingle called it “one of the greatest and most historic sports events in history”.
The 4th installment of No Kings will be on Sunday, June 14th-- one year after the first No Kings protest. The event will be billed “Rise Up, Sing Out.”
So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"
Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.
"Modern movements are too fractured, too aimless, with too much infighting and corruption among the leadership. What we need is a revolution, which famously never have any issues with those things" okay then. Good luck I guess
This whole line of thinking comes down to "the current systems and leadership are bad. What we need is a fresh start with only people who are good, and then all the systems will be good". Which is simply not how anything has ever worked!
"We don't have enough people, funding, and power to bring about changes through elections! We have to do an armed revolution instead which thankfully doesn't require people, funding, or power to pull off."
The reason why "Not knowing about [X] leads to fascism" applies to so many different subjects btw, is that fascism is less of a structured political philosophy and more like "succumb to the worst of human impulses and knee-jerk reactions to provocations, let your biases guide you and embrace the dopamine rush of feeling powerful through cruelty" formalized into a political system
This is also why fascists keep investing in nonsense projects like really huge tanks. On an ideological level, fascism is the rejection of the idea that you have to think things through critically, so in the fascist logic, if the really huge tank failed it was the fault of the engineers who didn't try hard enough, not the concept of a really huge tank itself.
If the criminal justice system isn't making crime go away, to the fascist it just means the cops are too lazy and not punishing the bad guys hard enough.
The idea that the method needs to be tested and scrutinized is anathema to fascism, because it implies that the knee-jerk response to a perceived issue could be wrong.
REAL STRONG FASCISM MAN DRINKS RAW MILK, EATS RAW STEAK, RAWWWWWWWW. FASCISM MAN DOES NOT NEED VACCINES BECAUSE FASCISM MAN HAS A STRONG IMMUNE SYSTEM. FASCISM MAN EATS DEREGULATED FOOD, ONLY THE UNWORTHY DIE OF FOOD POISONING!
i'm genuinely at a loss for words as to what to say. we are on the second to last day of raising money for ammar's injection for the upcoming week, and we didn't even raise enough for the immune globulin injection last week, let alone anything else
the only reason ammar is still alive right now is because a doctor took pity on him and bought him the injection before we raised enough money. the extended delays made ammar have his first seizure.
israel has also been bombing the hospital again, photos on this post - and their planes + drones are still circling the hospital now, threatening to shoot people. ammar, samah, and mahmoud are all outside in the courtyard and will be immediately wounded if they do so
we need to raise $1471 by tuesday 4 pm at gazan time, which is roughly about 50 hours from now. this is for his food, as well as his injection, and the iv fluids. this is now the bare minimum required to be urgently raised
if he doesn't get this by tuesday, he would need an intensive injection that costs $6k+ total alongside the fact he would need extra medicine and this original injection too
i have nothing else to say. donate as little as $3 or $5 for him, or you'll be letting him die. this is extremely time sensitive.
thank you to the people who generously donated, but we only raised $30 today
though the immune globulin injection is not yet delayed, the most pressing issue is that israel is still bombing the hospital
here is a video that samah provided from the latest news reporters, there continue to be airstrikes and the israeli planes have not stopped flying over the hospital
$1483 is still needed to be raised total, $1107 of which will be for ammar's immune globulin injection (and paying for the remainder of last week's iv fluids)
WE NEED THIS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE SO THEY CAN EVACUATE
THE LONGER THEY STAY AT THIS HOSPITAL, THE MORE THEY RISK DEATH
THE HOSPITAL HAS ALREADY BEEN BOMBED WHILE THEY WERE HERE. THEY WERE LUCKY TO SURVIVE
please take this seriously and donate as much or as little as you can, but donate and encourage all your friends to donate even a small amount if possible - even $3 or $5 helps, because it will build up, but it requires many people to help
the immune globulin injection needs to be taken before 10 am wednesday gaza time, about 20 hours from now, but i am begging you not to wait until then.
ammar's birthday will also be on thursday, if that can additionally move you. please let him return home to celebrate it, instead of being forced to stay in a hospital courtyard, where he might die before he manages to reach that date.
THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD TO URGENTLY EVACUATE BY THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF THE DANGER.
ISRAEL IS BOMBING AROUND AND AT THE HOSPITAL. SHE SENT ME A VIDEO OF A DESTROYED CAR
THEY NEED DONATIONS NOW
THEY HAVE HAD TO GO INTO HIDING.
WE NEED $1403 MORE TO GET THEM OUT
I AM BEGGING YOU NOT TO LET AMMAR DIE THE DAY BEFORE HIS BIRTHDAY.
[3/6, 5:51 AM] Samah: Brother, please, the situation is dangerous, and they are telling us to leave the hospital. I beg you, have mercy on us.
[3/6, 6:47 AM] Samah: Brother, please reply. Ammar, Mahmoud, and I are hiding near the hospital. Please tell everyone that it's a matter of life or death. I don't want to lose Ammar on his second birthday. Please tell them to have mercy on us. The situation is very scary. 😭😭😭🙏
[3/, 6:47 AM] Samah: Please, brother, reply as soon as possible.
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
one of my principles of social interaction is "dont be a dick to someone who's worst crime is being annoying and not understanding social cues" because i know firsthand how much that sucks. unfortunately this means that i'm not a dick to people who i just find kind of annoying when a lot of other people are and then they try to be friends with me (because im not a dick to them) (but i still dont really want to be friends)
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.
the child you were // cantata belongs to @fir-fireweed !
slight spoilers for cantata chapter 6 ! man that ending is awesome. in character venea understands why tellus hesitates, out of character tellus genuinely what else was she supposed to do man.
venea's character has always been informed by her vengeance and this chapter will super not make her normal about it later. give murdertron 9000 the ability to murder more actively. (listened to the child you were by francis aravel while drawing)
