#systemic violence

[trash-panda-kitty]

So let me get this straight.

We’re still arguing about whether the public deserves to know the names of the powerful men who enabled Epstein,

but somehow it’s totally fine for Congress to release the names of his victims

including people who were children when the abuse happened.

Victims warned DOJ about this.

Their lawyers begged for a real redaction process.

And yet multiple documents have now been released without with their names being protected.

How does this keep happening unless the system simply doesn’t care who gets hurt in the process.

You can’t call this “transparency” if the only people being exposed are the victims the system already failed.

That isn’t justice.

It’s cruelty.

[oldguardians]

just read "the lottery" by shirley jackson for the first time, and I've never read a better story for thinking about the functioning of systemic violence in real life. Systemic violence as perpetrated by people who are friendly and occasionally fumbling, who are primarily occupied with their everyday concerns of home and family. Violence perpetrated by people who believe their actions are perhaps regrettable but ultimately necessary, even though the system could be reimagined at any point. People who comprehend that the violence would not happen without their compliance, but feel a squirming discomfort at the idea of change. Systemic violence stripped of its original symbolic meaning and logic, perpetrated through tradition and the vague sense that all this violence must be serving some purpose. Violence as evident in the predilections of unruly little boys who can't wait to pick up the stones, even against their own mothers. Violence perpetrated against the one who loses the luck of the draw, and therefore deserves what she gets, no matter how she protests that it isn't fair, it isn't fair.

[sammroo167]

"...every day when you're trying to do the best job you can but you're systematically destined to fail because of the lack of support."

[regretandressurection]

Welcome to America

Welcome to America, land of “free,”

Where sickness fattens shareholders with ease.

You’re told you’re fine while rotting silently;

Your pain’s denied; there’s profit in disease.

Welcome to America, know your place.

Freedom is filtered by money and skin.

Smile wrong, get raped; cross lines, get erased;

The law shrugs softly; violence still wins.

Welcome to America, work or starve.

Tents line the streets where wages go to die.

They praise your grit, then gut you to the marrow;

Six figures deep, you’re still one check from sky.

Welcome to America; eat the lie.

Your food is poison sold as cheap relief.

Four bags cost more than rent will justify;

“Just budget better”; poverty’s a belief.

Welcome to America, teach your kids

Not hope or dreams, but how to bleed in class.

We clutch our guns like God himself insists;

Dead children are the freedom tax we pass.

Welcome to America, stuffed and sick,

We gorge, then dump our waste in burning streams.

The rivers choke; the skies are flared and thick;

No fireflies; just oil-fueled bad dreams.

Welcome to America, built by ghosts

Of immigrants we praise, then hunt and cage.

We chant “great nation” loudest at the coast

While ripping families apart on stage.

They say it’s great; so great the world arrives.

So come, but know the price before you kneel.

The dream exists, but only if you survive;

Here, freedom’s real, just not for you to feel.

By-regretsandressurection

[ellewantsrevenge]

🐷: we are here to help. get the fuck out of your house you sick old fuck beekeeper: FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[s3znl-gr3znl]

Something i keep thinking about is after palestine is freed there needs to be justice up to an including removal from office for everyone in a publicly held office position across the globe that supported this genocide.

If we leave the system in place that allowed, sponsored, and benefited from this genocide, then we have not achieved freedom at all. Only a temporary peace until the next time these governments decide to outright eradicate an entire group of people for whatever reaason.

[machinemoony]

The whoooole system is so fucking useless ,I want to shit in a sock and throw it at the courthouse.

I was literally neglected, abused and pathologized at every step since I was a child, because the system rewards mediocrity and abusers. Like I had so many social workers who sucked at their job. Some straight up left me hanging in crisis, without food or help and got all wise on me when I asked for help , distespected me, where unprofessional and rude or straight up wanted to put me back in a home because "I can't live by myself" when I definitely could if they'd just do what they are fucking payed for.

And the moment I complain about that kind of behavior I'm the problem and painted as uncooperative and difficult ,just because I have a spine and expect a baseline of respect and professionalism.

I have a legal guardian who is tasked with handeling health stuff , money and beurocracy, but she is lazy, incompetent and constantly pushes my boundaries, treats my needs as optional and tries to flee at the slightest pushback. I went to a disability rights advocacy to get help for this since Im dependent on a helper I don't trust ,that has already neglected me without food and basic nessecities while being on holiday then threatened to institutionalize me when I became unstable because I was literally starving and dirty because she neglected her responsibilities.

My disability advocate first took forever to even do anything, then came back to me with "but she said this and that" completely missing the point. I showed her EVIDENCE of her neglecting and disrespecting me and she was like "but she apologized" . Then asked me how it went when I last asked her for help because I didn't have any food again, I said I handled it by myself without any money and she said "great" like its an achievement or proof I didn't need help because I was forced to be scrappy and pile on more debt just to eat. It just goes to show that everything is fucking mediocre garbage in this system, even the indipendant ,peer reviewed advocates, nobody is actually helpful or taking this shit seriously, stuff like this is unacceptable , its negligence, it needs to be punished and controlled harder, there needs to be standards!

[cassiachloe]

My enslavement and the treatment of myself shares some similarities to the treatment of individuals in concentration camps. I may not be in a death camp (at present), but I fear other individuals in my situation may be.

We must all be concerned when crimes against humanity are being applied systematically, especially as a part of a dominant regime and with broad public complicity (such as in my case).

The crimes against humanity inflicted upon myself have not yet been recognised by the world, I then therefore do not know how many others are being afflicted with this suffering. I do not know the scaling of how many other victims there are like me, but due to the covert and secretive nature of these operations, I fear it may be many.

The major points under which my enslavement is equivalent to the treatment of individuals in concentrations camps are the following. Whilst I am not starved, like many individuals in concentration camps, I am serially tortured, raped, enslaved and even experimented on.

My prison equivalently has no visible walls but is upheld through secret agents and ‘handlers’ who further who uphold the invisible chains on my body as well as the perpetual torture, rape, physical and coercive control, and the trafficking and enslavement of me, enabling the operation in my home or wherever I am nudged, forced or persuaded to go. These invisible chains and secret prison make it all the more difficult for me to prove and expose.

Whether or not there is a discriminatory element is something to consider in the creation of tortured slaves like myself. Where gender based torture and sex slavery plays a role in the creation of govt ‘assets’, many in my situation are enslaved, tortured, victimised and mass raped simply due to possessing female genes. This is gender-based enslavement, torture and discrimination of the highest degree.

Systemic violence happening on this extreme level of cruelty is shocking. Perhaps something like the US Govt’s connection to Epstein, the tortured MKULTRA victims and MI5 & SAS’s creation of martyr ‘assets’ in Libya; I fear there may be other serially tortured slaves and assets secretly used, experimented on and controlled by major government powers, including the UK and its allies, that operates in a global network victimising slaves under invisible chains like my own.

Photos by Peri - From Stills To Motion

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