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Release the files.

Let's see the spending habits of child rapists in our government and judge their enablers.

Not every road to success is the same way. Some are paved with guard rails. Some are dirt roads. Some have many turns and twists. Some have massive potholes and spikes laid everywhere. Some have the safety lights shot out. Know your privilege.

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“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐉𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐫. 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫. 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐘 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐝—𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤!” -𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐧/𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐬𝐨𝐧 Adam West as Batman, Cesar Romero as The Joker, Burt Ward as Robin/Dick Grayson, Yvonne Craig as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Ronnie Knox as Skip Parker, Johnny Green and the Green Men as themselves, and Joyce Lederer as “Green Haired Girl” in the Batman episode entitled Surf’s Up! Joker’s Under!, originally broadcast by ABC on November 16th, 1967.

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In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

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Emmitt and the Columbarium.

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18-year olds are not well-regulated militias.

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#i know people have started criticizing the#‘men are afraid of getting laughed at women are afraid of getting killed’#but this is real?

Oh, yes.

A few years ago I went to pick up a woman I met on OKCupid for a date, and a friend of hers was there. They kind of over-explained “Oh, she just showed up to say hi” and there was a vague nervousness in the air that even my autistic ass was picking up on. Her friend was playing conspicuously with her phone. I went “Ah, the safety. Need to get a picture?”

Dead silence for about a second and a half, then the friend took a picture, looked at my date, and said “Have fun” and walked out the door.

(I would ordinarily have been clueless, but I’d just been asked to be the safety the previous night.)

My advice to male-presenting folks: recognize that this not your problem. By which I mean, this sort of security check isn’t a problem for you. It doesn’t hurt you. You aren’t being insulted or disrespected. And if you treat it like what it is– a reasonable adaptation to an unreasonable situation– and just roll with it, your dates will be more comfortable, and you will have a better time as a result.

The same applies to phone calls mid-date. Let them answer the damn phone without drama.

They aren’t accusing you of being a dangerous person. The very fact that they are willing to go on a goddamn date with you means that they have extended a certain level of trust. But the fact remains that there isn’t really a way to distinguish between “a man who isn’t dangerous” and “a man who knows how to behave like he’s not dangerous.”

liberalsarecool

Why would a criticism about a construct that negatively targeted black people make a white person feel ashamed?

If we call bank robbers bad people, will you feel ashamed if they were white bank robbers? Probably not because your identity is not tied to robbing banks.

But if your identity is tied to whiteness, and more to the point, anti-blackness, well then...

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Anežka (Agnes) Kašpárková

(via 90-Year-Old Czech Grandma Turns Small Village Into Her Art Gallery By Hand-Painting Flowers On Its Houses | Bored Panda)

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I want to be like her when I grow up.

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whew chillay

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^^^

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[Image ID: Tumblr tags: #important! #racism #antiblack racism #sometimes men talk to me about this because they think i’m a man i can 100% confirm it’s on purpose. End ID.]

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

[Brief clip from a previous video, which has the caption “When I have to send my husband to the store.” A white person is writing a shopping list. As well as listing the items and quantities, they are including what aisle each item can be found on, how much it costs and a painstakingly made little sticker showing exactly what it looks like.]

[The main video starts. A black person with glasses is standing in a bathroom, holding a toothbrush, talking to the camera.]

So that is a video of a woman, like, literally piece-by-piece word-for-wording what her husband’s trip to the grocery store for their household is going to be.

And I saw another creator stitch this video, talking about – I mean, they had a really dope word for it, and I can’t remember it right now, but it’s about performed incompetence and how, actually, what this husband is doing is exaggerating their own incompetence and exaggerating their own incapability, to force the labor that they don’t want to do (this husband) onto their partner, right – that their wife will hopefully be like, “oh my gosh, it’s just easier for me to do it myself so I’m going to do it myself, you’re good.” And now they’re absolved of the need to, like, contribute to the household.

So, actually, that performance of incompetence is an investment that that husband is making for his future self, if you know what I mean? It is like a patriarchal investment. And it’s two-pronged, right? One, you don’t have to do the thing that you don’t want to do, which is go to the grocery store, but two, you’ve set the expectations for your own capabilities so low that whatever you end up doing is incredible.

So now I’m going to do my favorite thing, which is to make it about race. And I’m actually going to say that in a parallel sense – like, that is a patriarchal investment that the husband is making into his future self, but I think that, actually, in the same way, mediocrity is a gift that whiteness gives to its own future.

You know what I’m saying? That whiteness performing mediocrity sets the bar so low that the generations that will eventually inherit the legacies of whiteness can do anything and feel entitled to, like, riches and fortune, right?

And we also accept that performance of incompetence, that performance of mediocrity, and then accept the bare minimum from whatever white person or whatever beneficiary of whiteness comes along and does [pinches fingers together] juuuuuuust more than we would expect from them.

And I think that, because of anti-blackness, it’s the opposite for black people. Right? Like, to escape the violence of whiteness you have to perform such excellence, and inherently the bar is constantly getting higher and higher, until you have all these superhuman black people who are just getting by.

Anyway, I gotta brush my teeth. Bye!