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We won't judge people who cast a begrudging "harm reduction" vote to Biden/Harris. But we think it's safe to say that you can't convincingly label yourself a progressive/left-winger/socialist/etc if you're enthusiastic about the ticket. (We've seen a not-insignificant handful of self-described progressives/left-wingers show enthusiasm for the announcement tonight, in other words.) Months of valiant protest against the police establishment and the DNC's response is essentially Prison Industrial Complex: The Campaign. This is an absolutely awful attempt at an opposition and it's par for the course for the US's """left-wing""" party. The 2020s are going to be a crucial decade for building people power outside of the capitalist electoral sphere, and that will take on all kinds of forms. We don't care where you decide to devote your revolutionary energies (union/syndicalism organization, vanguard party, Food Not Bombs, eco-activism, dual power, the list goes on) as long as you're committed to helping us all move beyond this shitty state of affairs.
alright the US Army is tryna be hip with kids on social media by posting corny memes and acting like weebs and it’s upsetting me and my homegirls. imagine being recruited into the wackest terrorist group on earth with no swag dressing up in anime cosplay lol smh.
From J.Wade via Facebook
"Chicken pox is a virus. Lots of people have had it, and probably don't think about it much once the initial illness has passed. But it stays in your body and lives there forever, and maybe when you're older, you have debilitatingly painful outbreaks of shingles. You don't just get over this virus in a few weeks, never to have another health effect. We know this because it's been around for years, and has been studied medically for years.
Herpes is also a virus. And once someone has it, it stays in your body and lives there forever, and anytime they get a little run down or stressed-out they're going to have an outbreak. Maybe every time you have a big event coming up (school pictures, job interview, big date) you're going to get a cold sore. For the rest of your life. You don't just get over it in a few weeks. We know this because it's been around for years, and been studied medically for years.
HIV is a virus. It attacks the immune system, and makes the carrier far more vulnerable to other illnesses. It has a list of symptoms and negative health impacts that goes on and on. It was decades before viable treatments were developed that allowed people to live with a reasonable quality of life. Once you have it, it lives in your body forever and there is no cure. Over time, that takes a toll on the body, putting people living with HIV at greater risk for health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, diabetes, bone disease, liver disease, cognitive disorders, and some types of cancer. We know this because it has been around for years, and had been studied medically for years.
Now with COVID-19, we have a novel virus that spreads rapidly and easily. The full spectrum of symptoms and health effects is only just beginning to be cataloged, much less understood.
So far the symptoms may include:
Fever
Fatigue
Coughing
Pneumonia
Chills/Trembling
Acute respiratory distress
Lung damage (potentially permanent)
Loss of taste (a neurological symptom)
Sore throat
Headaches
Difficulty breathing
Mental confusion
Diarrhea
Nausea or vomiting
Loss of appetite
Strokes have also been reported in some people who have COVID-19 (even in the relatively young)
Swollen eyes
Blood clots
Seizures
Liver damage
Kidney damage
Rash
COVID toes (weird, right?)
People testing positive for COVID-19 have been documented to be sick even after 60 days. Many people are sick for weeks, get better, and then experience a rapid and sudden flare up and get sick all over again. A man in Seattle was hospitalized for 62 days, and while well enough to be released, still has a long road of recovery ahead of him. Not to mention a $1.1 million medical bill.
Then there is MIS-C. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a condition where different body parts can become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs. Children with MIS-C may have a fever and various symptoms, including abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, neck pain, rash, bloodshot eyes, or feeling extra tired. While rare, it has caused deaths.
This disease has not been around for years. It has basically been 6 months. No one knows yet the long-term health effects, or how it may present itself years down the road for people who have been exposed. We literally *do not know* what we do not know.
For those in our society who suggest that people being cautious are cowards, for people who refuse to take even the simplest of precautions to protect themselves and those around them, I want to ask, without hyperbole and in all sincerity:
How dare you?
How dare you risk the lives of others so cavalierly. How dare you decide for others that they should welcome exposure as "getting it over with", when literally no one knows who will be the lucky "mild symptoms" case, and who may fall ill and die. Because while we know that some people are more susceptible to suffering a more serious case, we also know that 20 and 30 year olds have died, marathon runners and fitness nuts have died, children and infants have died.
How dare you behave as though you know more than medical experts, when those same experts acknowledge that there is so much we don't yet know, but with what we DO know, are smart enough to be scared of how easily this is spread, and recommend baseline precautions such as:
Frequent hand-washing
Physical distancing
Reduced social/public contact or interaction
Mask wearing
Covering your cough or sneeze
Avoiding touching your face
Sanitizing frequently touched surfaces
The more things we can all do to mitigate our risk of exposure, the better off we all are, in my opinion. Not only does it flatten the curve and allow health care providers to maintain levels of service that aren't immediately and catastrophically overwhelmed; it also reduces unnecessary suffering and deaths, and buys time for the scientific community to study the virus in order to come to a more full understanding of the breadth of its impacts in both the short and long term.
I reject the notion that it's "just a virus" and we'll all get it eventually. What a careless, lazy, heartless stance."
Just had my nth conversation with someone about mask-wearing today - yet another well-intentioned moron who was like
‘But the virus is gone now’ (it isn’t)
‘But the mask is uncomfortable’ (ventilators are worse)
‘But you’re young, you won’t die’ (having this thing could impact my health for decades to come + it’s my responsability to protect those who’re more vulnerable than I am because that’s how society works)
‘But are you going to live in fear for the rest of your life’ (taking concrete safety measures actually helps me feel more in control and less worried)
‘But are you going to give up everything and stay inside like a rat’ (no, but I’m definitely going to decide what’s worth risking my health for, and shopping for bread rolls is not very high on my list of literally-to-die-for activities)
‘But what if they never find a vaccine’ (then we’ll get used to the situation just like we got used to a thousand other things like seat belts, bike helmets, and increasingly weird true crime podcasts).
I know it’s tiring to have people call you paranoid all the time - but you’re right and they’re wrong. Check the news, keep a safe distance from others whenever possible and keep wearing your mask!
(Btw that thread is full of interesting stuff.)
I feel sad now that I know I will never again have the experience of watching Dark for the first time.
FOR THOSE OF YOU PROTESTING
TAKE NOTES FROM HONG KONG AND USE THE BRICKS THAT THE POLICE ARE PLANTING TO INCITE VIOLENCE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE!!
We need to be smarter and stack them up, glue them to the ground, or place them in large patterns to block Police vans from causing more damage.
PLEASE SPREAD TO GET THIS IDEA ROLLING
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If I see anyone I know falling for this naked, brazen, bullshit stunt, I will scream
before you encourage people to get arrested as a form of protest, think
And even if you think you’re just in for a dull afternoon because you’re ‘privileged’, you could be very wrong. What you could be in for is trumped up charges, months of court proceedings, your identity leaked to the media, intelligence agencies monitoring your phone, your name in an anti-terrorism file, and much more.
Protesting and taking action involves necessary risks, including at times the risk of arrest. When we decide to take action against the state, we accept that that might have unpleasant consequences, or life-changing consequences. But we limit those consequences when we can.
Which is why activists prepare, meet without phones, encrypt their online communication, wear masks and gloves, organize a legal team, organize jail support, make sure every activist knows not to talk to police, etc etc.
Because our lives matter, and because the more of us are safe and free, the better we can fight on.
Think before you choose a form of ‘civil disobedience’ that involves the certainty of arrest. That is not your only option and organizations that tell you that this is how activism must be are lying to you. There are more effective ways to resist and people that can help you do it. You can disrupt the system with a good chance of getting away with it.
In the 1920s, factories in the United States hired young women to paint watch dials with radium paints. The women, later called as the Radium Girls, were told that the luminous paint was harmless and they could “sharpen” the brush using their lips, which caused them to ingest heavy amounts of radium and suffer the gruesome effects of radiation poisoning.
Are you going to any protests?
It’s sure an incredible coincidence that this anon with this exact same wording is getting sent to so many people, officer
In case any of y’all haven’t heard by now, don’t answer anything like this. Don’t brag about your actions online. You don’t need the spotlight, don’t trade your safety for a few good boy points
Don't trust them, they'll use this performative kneeling and say we're the ones being "violent". Don't fall for these intentional photos.
do you guys realize that…the videos and articles about the “good cops” who are “protesting” are propaganda designed to make you think “not all cops are bad”? do you realize that when the chief of police of flint said “let’s not make this a protest, let’s make it a parade,” he was successfully de-escalating the situation and dissolving the protest?
the police force has been corrupt since long before you and i were born. people don’t become cops to protect and serve, they become cops to feel strong and to use their strength against others. you are falling for propaganda if you believe that white men kneeling a la colin kaepernick mean the cops you see firing rubber bullets and batoning people are the exception to the rule.
all cops are bastards. full stop.
The spread of COVID-19 is based on two factors:
How dense the population is
How dense the population is
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