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[taikeero-lecoredier]

CHAT CONTROL TO BE VOTED ON THIS THURSDAY

Original tweet

I know americans are busy with fighting KOSA but I urge you to please help us by spreading the word about this, I can't say this enough, if chat control passes, citizen's private messages will be scanned via artifical intelligence,and they must comply,otherwise theyre not allwoed to send pictures,videos,or links anymore. We have a discord server made to organize against it,with emails scripts you can use when contacting your meps : https://discord.com/invite/e7FYdYnMkS

Find your meps and tell them to vote no on this :

Home | MEPs | European Parliament

Search for a Member per geographical map of the European Union

[fred-the-dinosaur]

What in the fucking fuck

[fred-the-dinosaur]

Ok, they failed to get a majority again on Thursday but for some reason it's going to come back again!? And a horrifying number of EU countries are still in favour of it.

[thecx]

Something, something, surveillance state, horrible dystopia, etc.

This needs to be rejected.

[gameraboy2]

Peanuts, November 19, 1965

[island-delver-go]

If you don't understand Magic, read this in reverse and you'll understand Magic better.

[scipunk]

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

[thecx]

L o o p I t.

[verysium]

[neon-wonderlands]

[warakami-vaporwave]

Phone Wallpapers

[thecx]

Huh...

I kinda forgot I had this.

Hello.

[yellowwperil]

a sentiment i must internalize

[scottlava]

“You fabulous thing. You crawled out of a pitiless grave, deeper than hell. Only one thing that is going to do that for you. Not hope. Hate. No shame in hate. It’s one of the greatest forces of nature.”

[raan-miir-tah]

You motherfuckers yes I hate Kamala too but when she is announced to be the Democratic candidate we are all going to shoot fireworks and go to the goddamn polls

[kaelio]

Saying "voting doesn't matter" might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn't reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn't missed a one.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[cyberratz]

me when i find out something will cost a pretty penny but i only have gross and ugly pennies left

[mio-mao4]

I’m tired

[animentality]

[coffee-mage-sans-caffeine]

Seriously though, do most Americans not know that the reason you can mock the shit out of public officials without getting charged for libel is Hustler Magazine? No really. In 1983, Hustler Magazine ran a fake ad that Jerry Falwell (yes, that Jerry Falwell) went to bone-town with his own mother in a dirty outhouse. This was in response to Falwell's Moral Majority, a puritanical organization that tried to put prayer in public schools, ban abortion, ban homosexual acts, ban any 'anti-family' news outlet or magazine, and convert Jews to Christianity. For obvious reasons, Jerry Falwell's Moral Panic PAC (not the actual name it was definitely called the Moral Majority and NEVER represented the majority of Americans) represented a threat to Hustler and its ilk. The ad itself was a parody of a Campari ad that was running at the time, asking people to describe their 'first time'. The original would be a bit risqué and end with people revealing they were talking about Campari, an alcoholic drink, not sex.

In the ad, there is a fake interview wherein Jerry Falwell supposedly confesses to banging his mom in a fly-ridden outhouse while drunk on a Campari based cocktail called a "Fire and Brimstone" after chasing a goat out of the outhouse. The ad concludes with fake Jerry Falwell saying he's always drunk when he preaches and he calls his teachings bullshit. At the very bottom of the ad, in very fine print (too fine to be legible on the image I found of the ad) it tells the reader that this is a parody and should not be taken seriously. Well, Falwell was pissed and took Hustler (and its editor Larry Flynt) to court for libel. From 1986-1988, different courts said yes it was libel or no it wasn't libel until, in 1988, the case made it to the Supreme Court. In an 8-0 ruling, the Supreme Court said 'Yeah, being accused of incest in a parody ad probably hurt Falwell's feelings, but the First Amendment protects free speech that is critical of public officials and public figures.' Without Hustler Magazine writing a distasteful porn parody about a homophobic, anti-woman, anti-semitic man who wanted forced government-sanctioned Christianity to be the state religion of the United States, your free speech wouldn't be protected. Pornographers aren't 'the devil' but our friend John Waters up there is correct. Pornographers protect our rights. Whether you agree with porn or not, if you live in the United States, you ought to thank a pornographer for your free speech and the best way to thank a pornographer is by rallying behind pornographers' rights to exist and distribute porn. So next time someone on any platform comes for the pornographers, remember that you owe the pornographers for your right to mock politicians and other public figures. Thank pornographers and back them up.

[vague-humanoid]

A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks

Published in coloration with Transfighters/Traction Project, A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinar

[wakewithgiggli]

The threead continues:

All people have a tendency to be unconsciously biased toward seeing trans women as untrustworthy, unsafe, lacking vulnerability, the problem to be solved rather than a person to be taken care of. And this is not less true in trans and queer and feminist communities. It’s just more unconscious, and more propped up with social justice, feminism, queer lib, leftist, and anti-oppression beliefs. This book is talking about this in context to a physical public situation of harassment, but this is true of social conflicts too, including on social media, in friend groups, in all kinds of situations. The unconscious bias also gets taken advantage of by people who know what they’re doing and hide behind that bias to make their mistreatment of transfems seem reasonable—again, often supported with social justice and anti-oppression rhetoric. TERFs aren’t the only people who do this! It felt so incredible to see this spelled out in print, plain as day, an actual book calling out a real thing I’ve experience more times than I can count, that all transfems I know go through, and that I still feel crazy for seeing because there’s so much gaslighting about it. You know how when you KNOW something is real, but you feel defensive about that knowledge, like you have to be ready to hold onto it, and then you see something confirming that knowledge for you in no uncertain terms and it feels like “wow maybe I wasn’t crazy all this time!” That’s how I felt seeing this.

The book linked is free to read and download. See the link above.

[punishedgwyndolin]

if you’re a transfem you should read this, and if you’re not you should reblog it for your transfem friends & followers, the advice in here is extremely good and the grips breaks are not hard to practice!!

[sirfrogsworth]

The under-education happening here is of fascist history. When these folks try to say Dems and Republicans are two sides of the same coin or say things are already terrible, it feels like they don't understand that fascism, like everything else in the fucking universe, is a spectrum.

Yes, things are bad.

But things can get much-much worse.

And things can get much-much worse much-much quicker.

They are ignoring the much-muches, basically.

Even if you ignore the entire history of fascism we have to learn from and how much-much worse it can actually get, we got a preview during COVID of what horrors Republican leadership can bring. There was a clear difference between the parties. One side was ready and willing to sacrifice their old and sick. And they were willing to do it primarily for convenience. They don't actually believe masks are some kind of insult to their freedom. They just thought they were annoying to wear. So they were like, "Sorry Gram-Gram, my glasses are getting foggy, under the bus you go."

Right now the fascism is moving slow. There are still mechanisms to mitigate and undo it. But electing Republicans is like throwing accelerant on a fire. And the most vulnerable will be the first to burn.

I wish people like this understood how much-much worse things can still get.

I should also mention a lot of that color coding is bullshit. But I was trying to make a larger point and didn't want to get caught up in fact-checking.