#thesystem

[ptseti]

This video reveals how they have been dumbing you down.

[riotready]

Each one of those tool sheds cost $130K. An $800 tool shed from Home Depot cost $130K to a developer simply because they put a toilet in it. There are roughly 41,000 chronically unhoused people in Los Angeles. There are also tens of thousands of vacant properties. For 30% of the police budget, every homeless person in L.A. could get $2000 a month. This "village" isn't a step towards anything besides making a colorful mockery of human life, and a windfall for a developer that's likely a Mayoral donor. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #anarchismo #postscarcityanarchism #greenanarchism #nogodsnomasters #egalitarian #freethought #thesystem #anarchism #corruption #anarchy #fuckfascism #socialism #socialist #leftism #melodichardcorepunk #anarchopunk #punkrockers #hardcorepunk #grindcoreband #grindcoremusic #melodichardcore #hxc #dbeat (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/COG08g5DkLk/?igshid=yrs4cnni626u

[renoyes]

My mom asked me why are the protesters still marching, “the bad cop’s in jail, they’ve made their point.”

This was my response...

According to census the US is 12.6% black, 16.3% Hispanic (estimated), 72.4% white (including Hispanic, so 56.1% non Hispanic white).

That makes over 41,900,000 black people and over 186,500,000 white non Hispanic people.

Police kill, on average, 2.8 men per day. Police were responsible for about 8% of all homicides with adult male victims between 2012 and 2018. Black men’s mortality risk is between 1.9 and 2.4 deaths per 100 000 per year, and White risk is between 0.6 and 0.7.

So back to census data there are about 4.5 times as many whites are blacks in this country but blacks are over 3 times as likely to be killed by cops.

Ignoring that cops shouldn’t be killing in those numbers in the first place, but black men are 3 times as likely to be killed?!? Not arrested, not stopped, not convicted. Just killed!

In 2014, Blacks made up 2.3 million, or 34%, of the total 6.8 million correctional population. Yet only 12.6% of the entire population.

Blacks and whites use drugs at similar rates, but the imprisonment rate of Blacks for drug charges is almost 6 times that of whites.

Now why are these numbers important BESIDES DEATH?

According to the NAACP,

Infectious diseases are highly concentrated in corrections facilities: 15% of jail inmates (serving 1 year or less) and 22% of prisoners (over a year sentence), compared to 5% of the general population, reported ever having tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and C, HIV/AIDS, or other STDs.

Also a criminal record can reduce the likelihood of a callback or job offer by nearly 50 percent.

They are protesting because how the police treat them affects every single part of their lives. From jobs, to health, to living.

When the economy crashes it effects them disproportionately too.

Black people were affected 6 times as badly financially by the coronavirus.

And these were the people who could get the jobs in the first place.

Once getting a job whites make an average 1.6 times that of blacks.

Blacks are 12.6% of the population but 60% of corona deaths.

Black workers make up 11.9 percent of all employees but 17 percent of front-line workers

Less than 1/2 of black adults have a job.

Black workers lose work early during a crisis and their employment rate continues to lower even as the economy for white workers begins to get better.

Being out of work makes skills become outdated, making it even harder for them to get back into decently paying jobs.

Black workers consistently earn less than white workers. (This is partly because they are more heavily concentrated in jobs in low-paying jobs.)

But blacks earn less at every education level, and black workers continue to be underrepresented in the highest-paying occupations.

The typical black household has one-tenth the wealth of a typical white household, according to Federal Reserve data.

Since 1983 blacks went from a net worth of 3 months income to now 6 months income

But whites went from 2 YEARS worth income to 3 YEARS worth income.

It isn’t about 1 man’s death. It isn’t about over 1000 men’s deaths a year from police. It’s about a system that disparately affects them. Why would they stop marching? It’s not like they have a job to go back to thanks to this system.

The protesters haven’t made their point because people think they are marching because it took 4 days to arrest the officer who killed 1 unarmed guy and 9 days (the number of days they have been marching by the way) to arrest the other 3. They are marching because this is a symptom of a much much bigger problem. And it starts with how the system interacts with them on a daily basis, the police.

Here is another example. There was recently an officer who was caught on camera pushing a black teen who was already on her knees during a peaceful protest in Fort Lauderdale. He has had 71 complaints of excessive force against him in 4 years, 51 of those he pulled out his gun. 4 years is the length of time since the black lives matter movement started.

Community relations doesn’t do anything when the police protect their own to the point men like this still have a job.

Watch this and ask why they are protesting. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protester-knelt-down-to-tell-police-he-loves-and-respects-them-they-threw-him-in-jail-charleston-south-carolina/

Why should people stop protesting? Why should they let the police go back to their normal routine when this is what the police think their normal routine should look like.

When one cop is bad, but three more just watch and do nothing, you have 4 bad cops. The problem is, there are bad cops out there, but the rest of them are just sitting around watching and doing nothing.

[propagndamusic]

The plague of pursuit of power is perpetual )}] but we all know who really exercises control #PROPAGNDA #thesystem (don’t tell Zeus)}] #SorrySisyphus (at Towards) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCDprTZpnhp/?igshid=1gbp2osr5gnpo

[trendmood1]

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[ultramelodic]

More often than not, people wear or use masks to hide who they truly are, to appease people in their lives, or who the world expects or perceives them to be. Masks are like a double-edged sword. On the one end, masks, particularly in Africa, have always played a performative role, where people masquerade behind exaggerated or even simplified versions of themselves. For generations, we have been taught to practice customs and question nothing. We are told to follow tradition merely because it is our way of life. It is reinforced in our thinking that we are who we are because our people have always been that way. Essentially, the masks we wear, are handed down to us bearing conventional moral codes – but on the other end, masks have also been pivotal in the preservation of African storytelling. In cultural ceremonies, the masks would be androgynous - a marriage of the sacred masculine and divine feminine. Anyone, whether young, old, male or female could partake in the ceremonies, which signifies inclusivity. In these ceremonies, it is believed that the masks would connect the person behind the mask to those in the spirit realm. I believe that the masks were used as a channel of communication between the physical and nonphysical. In the same way the tribes and spiritual entities used the masks to initiate, entertain, venerate, mourn and celebrate; Absolut Vodka is now the vessel people use to do the same. Having considered this, I was inspired by African masks to celebrate the coming of age and the process of unravelling. For the LGBTQ+ community, shedding the masks they have adorned – for however long, can be a painful process… but there is beauty in that. And that’s what we’re celebrating here. As hard as our pasts may have been, they have informed who we are. There’s beauty in the struggle, there’s beauty in the pain, there’s beauty in our stories of transition. In my entry, the closeness of the masks and faces speak to the strength of the LGBTQ+ community. It is through our collective strength, that is informed by our varied experiences, that we as a people continue to grow. Absolut is about bringing people together. Not only has this spirit given us liquid courage, (lol) but it has also reaffirmed its influence and beliefs for decades. Through this piece I want to acknowledge the great strides Absolut has made to uplift the LGBTQ+ community. In the same way, Absolut advocates for honesty and transparency - which allows one to be invisible and thus invincible. My hope is for the LGBTQ+ community to embrace their inner strength. It is through the journey of self-discovery that we meet people with similarities and differences that connect us. And it is through those connections that we rise above the need to constantly hide ourselves. We make these connections because we ourselves have come to understand the process of unravelling. Through the journey of self-discovery, we meet people with similarities and differences that connect us & help us rise above the need to constantly hide behind masks. That's the beauty of unravelling.

[lordloveless]

Some work from the cellblock for the prison Rpg I’m workin on for iOS & Switch💪🏾

[hitachibaylouisher]

Today I made a decision to take a pause on social media such as instagram, twitter and facebook for a week.

My blog (tumblr), pinterest and things like email are fine.

I remember when Instagram was becoming popular and people were talking about it and using it.  Being the me that I am, I wasn’t in the loop.  I didn’t know what it was all about, but I wasn’t curious either.

Eventually, one day I found interest and signed up.  I haven’t looked back since and I don’t regret it.  I’m in my own world and naturally do things at my own pace.

But now I find myself opening the app and browsing.  Going to the explore page, that internally annoys me when I see things that are trending and utterly uninteresting to me.  It’s psychological that it’s almost as if I feel something mystical will appear if I keep re-opening the app, but I know that its deeper than that for me.  I’ve never been moved with the herd, I wasn’t made that way.

I was just re-opening the app, as a means to in some way temporarily fill in the gap for something else that I knew wasn’t vacant.

The emotional voidance and company voidance.

It was the same with whatsapp, when it was becoming popular I vaguely remember and I had no idea about what it was.  Again, eventually one day I signed up and found it ok but have never been a fan so I deleted it.

I’ve always appreciated traditional text message.

When netflix was all that people spoke about, I had no idea what it was.

I didn’t think to ask, because of my indifference.  Until one day I went into a store called HMV and asked “excuse me, what’s netflix?” 

He told me and then I one day experienced it for myself.

Things like instagram, facebook and twitter are things that I like.  Some more than the other, but they are also someone’s product and a means for someone to make money off of.

I don’t want to be the result of someone’s product.

Nor do I want to be someone’s Product.  If you don’t realise what these things are capable of doing to you, you become a product and become the gullable muse of systems doing.  My eyes are open and they are staying open.

Shortly after making this decision.. I remembered these cupcakes that I used to make when I was little.  Tom and Jerry cupcakes, I could just smell and taste the icing now.. That’s the sort of thing you could do without the linger of social media there.

You can live.  You can bake.

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