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[chippyyyz]

What football will look like in the future

Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

[mrchalamet-mrstyles]

Have you seen this article? I would make it mandatory reading, over and over again, for a lot of fans. They could certainly use it.

https://slate.com/culture/2023/12/timothee-chalamet-wonka-snl-movies-kylie-jenner-timmy-tim-rap.html

Yes, anon! I just reposted this and I agree that it should be read by everyone in the fandom 💯

There Would Be No Timothée Chalamet Without His Relationship With Black Culture

The false dichotomy of Timothée vs. Timmy Tim.

This article deserves an award!

There’s something peculiar about certain fans’ open revulsion at Chalamet acting like many people his age do, as if he is supposed to embody somebody more mature than he has ever declared he was, merely because of the projects he has been attached to. Because he has played the tender teenager in Call Me by Your Name, the aching kindred soul in Little Women, the hurting son in Beautiful Boy, must he necessarily be held to the same expectations as the characters he plays?

[mxtr3ssquickly]

Drop what you're doing and go read this RIGHT NOW. Read it slowly, read every word, thank me later.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@draculard is unusually talented anyway but this -- gods this. I'm shook, y'all. Shook.

[jigsmave]

Twelve Thoughts for Twelve Episodes of a Twelfth Season

Posted by  rynogeny

https://lunaticworlds.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/twelve-thoughts-for-twelve-episodes-of-a-twelfth-season/

[keninamu]

MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA

utopia by

YUGUREUCHUSEN

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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”

[toshootforthestars]

It is a mistake to limit your definition of “political violence” to riots and assassinations alone. It is indeed rare that our elected representatives are shot down in the street; it is decidedly less rare that our citizens are gunned down by armed agents of the state, with the unqualified support of the entire justice system (and a significant level of public support, too).

The founding myth of America is that the country was benevolently settled by morally righteous colonists; that the nation they founded constituted the leading light of democracy in the world, thanks to the timeless wisdom of our Founding Fathers. But bloodshed has been an essential component of the American experiment since day one.

America is a bloody place, and remains so even in an era of declining violent crime. Americans are ten times more likely to be killed by gun violence than people in other developed countries.

The shooting on Wednesday morning marked the 154th mass shooting in this year alone, and the sixth incident this week. Just hours after the Alexandria shooting, news broke of another shooting at a UPS facility in San Franscisco, which left three people dead and two injured.

In American politics, as in American life, violence is not the exception, but the norm. Our political system is organized in such a way that structural state violence against the poor or otherwise marginalized isn’t considered real violence, but that violence is nonethelesswoven into the fabric of American politics. As Chris Hooks wrote shortly before the election, politics is “the way we distribute pain”...

A congressman getting shot is an obvious, visceral example of political violence. It is an event that merits reflection and discussion. But there is another level of violence that those in power tend to ignore: The structural, often invisible violence of the state against our nation’s least fortunate. You can see it in the housing crisis, in the draconian cuts to welfare programs, and, yes, in Republicans’ plan to take away health care from one in 14 Americans.

Scalise’s home state of Louisiana has one of the highest rates of poor health in the country:  Residents of the state, which has the nation’s fourth-lowest life expectancy, live nearly six years less on average than residents of the healthiest states, according to federal data. And Louisiana had among the highest uninsured rates.

Scalise once reportedly described himself “David Duke without the baggage.” Duke is the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.  I bring this up not to condone what happened to him, but to show that Scalise was a participant in this violence—as all Americans (all humans) are, in ways large and small—before he became a victim of it.

Fusion: America Is Violent 

Emma Roller   |   15 June 2017