#fix the system

[issalovescandyclouds]

Oh, and just so you know where I stand:

FUCK MAGA, FUCK ICE, FUCK TRUMP, FUCK THE PATRIARCHY, FUCK MITCH MCCONNELL, FUCK AI, FUCK YOU IF YOU SUPPORT ANY BULLSHIT, NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND, IMMIGRANTS BUILT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TRANS, QUEER, WOMEN’S, AND MINORITY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS, FREE PALESTINE, FREE CONGO, FREE SUDAN, FREE ALL OPPRESSED COUNTRIES, NO ONE IS FREE UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE, HOLD ASSAULTERS AND MURDERERS ACCOUNTABLE, FIX THE SYSTEM, SPEAK UP, EAT THE RICH, AND STOP SUPPORTING BUSINESSES THAT DON’T SUPPORT YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES!!!

[positivelypresent]

Don’t blame yourself.

[saiyanprincessswanie]

Having technical difficulties 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ all my quick links vanished at top of blog.

[thatrandompassersby]

Why don't humans chests sink in so that you can hold your drink? Like, that's so inconvenient, you should fix that.

[lis-ard]

Mother Nature has spoken.

America. FIX THIS.

[imconfusedallthetimehelp]

This country is fucked up in so many ways. This system is fucked up. I'm so done. I'm so fucking done. Get Trump out. NOW. Hopefully his followers will sink into their basements and never come out again.

[afrobutterfly8]

[daisypoisonpen]

-The Dauntless Manifesto, “Divergent”

I don’t believe the problem is racist or not racist cops. I don’t believe the issue is competent or incompetent cops. I don’t even believe cops are the problem.

I believe the system has gotten LAZY.

What happened to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbury, as well as other people like Kalief Browder who served three years in Riker’s Island for a crime he didn’t even commit and was never tried for, Philando Castile, Michael Brown, scores of others— this is all a symptom of the fact that we’ve become okay as a society with mediocre people becoming mediocre cops. We’ve allowed the system to slack off when it comes to training police officers, auditing their ethics, studying their psychology, managing their stress, overlooking their blatant cruelty and brushing off their mistakes. We’ve allowed the government(s) we live in to believe that we won’t rise up against them when they make it known to their officers, judges, correctional faculty, etc. that they will get away with it all.

The entire judicial system is corrupt. Everyone scratches each other’s backs and makes things go away, and innocents like these pay the price. Thousands of lives of poor people, people of color, people you know are at risk—not because there are racist cops or severely evil and incompetent men and women putting on the uniform, but because we have allowed the government to think, with our votes and with our dollars, that we’ll allow it to continue.

I’m not here to tell you that black lives matter because you already know that. I’m just here to tell you that arresting these officers is going to change nothing. It’s time to demand a better correctional and criminal justice system, it’s time to demand changes in training and funding, it’s time to demand that our states and countries do what the fuck they have to do to secure our freedom. As Americans we have a right and a duty to demand that.