Zaver's Blog of Other Shit

[nogodsnokingsnomasters]

Taxation is theft

[esc0terrestria1]

Amen.

[tattoovonbeardy-deactivated2025]

And people still think we need more government

[severeobjectfun]

Guy whose family fled from communism: "Can you please not praise the man who tried to kill my family and destroyed their home country?"

American teenagers who have never experienced living under communism: "Well obviously your family deserved to be killed. I bet they were really the bad guys. How dare they keep too many chickens to themselves."

[noblepeasant]

Have you ever seen the list of what the Soviets considered a "kulak" during dekulakisation?

Using hired labour. Pay one or two lads to pick your crops for you? Kulak.

Owning a mill, butter-making rig or any device with a complex motor. Own a tractor? Kulak.

Any involvement in trade, money-lending or other source of "non-labour" income. Sell your surplus product at market? Kulak

Here's a video of an Ivory Coast farmer. By the Soviet list above, he would be considered a Kulak:

Commies are all the same, and are no friends of the working class anywhere.

[zaver]

Oh if you got @’d wasn’t by me.  Somebot got my account, but didn’t lock me out.  Don’t know how or why they got in.  Oh well.  Back to not using this for weeks at a time.

[garrettauthor]

This made me so fucking angry I have to inflict it on all of you.

[thyrell]

what’s the punchline here

[thyrell]

wait

[thyrell]

[no-context-vtubers]

[oceanmonsters]

a woman started ramming her car into her car with her 2 year old daughter inside. she had a permit. the gun was unloaded. Michigan has stand your ground laws. she’s 7 months pregnant with a high risk pregnancy. she’s just been sentenced to 2 years in prison. not a fucking word from Tomi Lahren, or any of the “Guns should be allowed for self defence!!” crowd.

she got 2 years for brandishing a LEGALLY OWNED UNLOADED GUN, AN ACTION WHICH IS LEGAL IN HER STATE at someone who was threatening the life of her 2 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. meanwhile police get paid administrative leave for murdering unarmed black men in “self defence”

america really hates black people more than it loves guns

( source: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/4/17311452/gun-rights-black-lives-matter-michigan-siwatu-salama-ra )

[jonpertwee]

Destroy the legal system. I’m so over it. Lives aren’t games.

[sembulapeyalneerpol]

An update as of 03/03/2020 and some context. 

Siwatu was released from incarceration after spending 9 months in prison. She was released on born November 2018 with a GPS ankle monitoring for a year. Her conviction was reverse in August 2019, her ankle monitoring removed in October. Unfortunately,  Wayne County Prosecutors refused to dismiss Siwatu’s case and instead presented her with two options: go back to trial for the original charge (felonious assault and felony firearm) and risk being taken from her children again, or take the misdemeanor brandishing plea. Though Siwatu and her community stand by her innocence, she was at risk of being taken from her family and community so she pleaded no contest. 

Siwatu is a long term environmental justice organizer and activist in Detroit, this was targeted attack on her as a Black Muslim woman involved in her community’s fight for justice. Her incarceration and her subsequent fight to stay free shows how the carceral system in this country targets Black people and robs them of their humanity. Even in the midst of the violence she faced from the criminal justice system, Siwatu and other women continued to fight for their humanity and organize, holding poetry groups and organizing for change. You can read more in the links below and how to support Siwatu. 

Sources/Links

The Love She Waged from a Prison Cell

Detroit mom, activist forced to give birth in shackles cuts deal to go free 

Freesiwatu.org

[non-state-actor]

some forward this to FPC they go to bat for everyone unlike the NRA

[snatch-daddy]

You are legally allowed to shoot a motherfucker in the face in Michigan in this situation. Brandishing a firearm, the actual action she performed, is highly illegal in Michigan. It’s just a reality we have to live with here.

[up-rigger-deactivated20221017]

But, but that’s total bullshit! Not cool Michigan.

[unlimited-shitpost-works-deacti]

It is bullshit because gun laws are largely stupid driven by fear and emotion. Yeah, this is illegal though. If you draw down on someone, you’re better off shooting them from a legal standpoint.

[brosefvondudehomie-deactivated2]

That seems like it’s designed to punish people who (for ethical, religious, or order reasons) would hesitate to take a life. Which is a lot of people.

[trilllizard666]

the argument here is “well if she was scared for her life why did she brandish the gun but not use it?”

it’s stupid but I can sort of see the rationale

why have a weapon if you do not have the will to use it? they’re not built for pointing, they’re made for shooting

[stand-up-gifs]

It’s the presidential primary of 1968. Young voters care about ending the Vietnam War and rally around anti-war candidates like George McGovern. Democratic Party leaders instead choose moderate Hubert Humphrey, LBJ’s Vice President, a man who has not won a single primary, as the nominee. Young voters revolt at the convention. In the general, Humphrey loses to Nixon.

It’s the presidential primary of 1988. Young voters care about racial and economic justice after years of racist right-wing rule. Jesse Jackson runs on taxing the wealthy and prison reform and single payer healthcare. He builds the Rainbow Coalition, a coalition of black and brown and LGBTQ and working class people. He does better than anyone in the media expected, is suddenly considered the frontrunner. Democratic Party leaders hurriedly consolidate support and resources behind moderate Mike Dukakis, kneecapping Jackson. Dukakis becomes the nominee. In the general, Dukakis loses to HW Bush.

It’s the presidential primary of 2004. Young voters care about ending the Iraq War and removing a right wing president who lost the popular vote from office. Howard Dean runs on ending the war, on reforming the healthcare system, on overturning the establishment. He starts to gain momentum before the Iowa caucus, going from 3% in the polls to frontrunner by early January. The media starts to grumble about his “electability,” about his temperament, about his angry tone of voice. This culminates in a media frenzy around the “Dean scream,” a brief yell at a rally that commentators use to brand him “unhinged.” Democratic Party leaders consolidate behind moderate John Kerry. Kerry becomes the nominee. Kerry loses to Bush in the general.

It’s the presidential primary of 2020…

[butchflirt]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

why can’t people accept “the media is over-hyping coronavirus” and “coronavirus is concerning given the lack of knowledge surrounding it” are both true? like can I order some nuance

[spooky-lord]

and also "stop panicking about dying because most deaths will be due to previous immunocompromisation" and "we should work to reduce the spread as much as possible to keep those immunocompromised safe" are both true

[crimewave420]

[lafortis]

I love that the Megamam arm is the only unaltered part of the screenshot

[gahdamnpunk]

Italians literally have maggot cheese. Ain’t nobody joking about it 🤔

[lordmarble]

I know I’m gonna get flamed for this or something, but I need to get this off my chest.

As an Asian, our food markets are unsanitary as shit. Animals, live or not, are cramped in displays. Ever seen those holding tanks for the fish? They don’t even have room to turn around. Frogs stuffed into bins, turtles stacked atop of each other in boxes. Meat is out in the open, albeit on top of ice, is still exposed to the air. And I swear, they never mop or wipe counters down.

In cramped environments like this, pathogens spread and incubate very, very easily. Even in places like Chinatowns in America exhibit shit like this.

It is NOT uncommon for us humans to get infected by diseases by animals (ex. swine flu, avian flu). Having these animals exposed to us for so long allows their virus strains to adapt into us. Plus the unsanitary conditions, it is the perfect environment for the spread of pathogens.

This isn’t about us Asians and our not-pickiness. This is about the government not regulating and not making better laws about this. This is about the government not giving a damn about our health.

Stop making everything about racism.

[bagheadautist]

@lordmarble is 100% right. It’s not about the traditional dishes @gahdamnpunk, it’s about how the meat is taken care of once the animal is killed. If anyone is saying that the specific dishes Chinese people are eating is the problem, they’re being racist.

What most of us are pointing out is the flaw in the Chinese meat processing industry, namely the lack of regulation. This is not a Chinese problem, this is a human problem. But the difference is that most countries (including other Asian ones) have laws in place now to prevent poor meat handling. For example, Americans used to handle their meat poorly too until Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle and exposed our entire meat industry, so now we have rules. But people used to get sick, especially if you were near the meatpacking district in NYC, where raw meat sludge would run like rivers through the streets. It’s suspected that smallpox came from improper livestock management among Europeans. This is not a Chinese exclusive issue, and if people think it is then they’re racist. But pointing out that China as a nation has not put policies in place to ensure the health of its people is not racist, especially since we’re acknowledging that we needed to do this ourselves.

What needs to happen now is that the Chinese government should put laws in place about protective gear, temperature, and workers’ rights so that this stops happening. It’s not just corona, we know the bird flu was linked to bad meat handling, same with SARS.

But basically the debate could be summed up with this: Chinese people eating traditional dishes that we think are weird is the problem: RACIST Chinese people having an unregulated meat processing industry is the problem: NOT RACIST

[rhaenyrastormborn]

Listen. We can take the piss out of J*hn B*yega here where it’s safe. But PLEASE do not engage with his posts on twitter or Instagram because he WILL attempt to target you next. Please just block and avoid. Keep yourself safe. People have already been deactivating because they’ve received so much harassment from his latest post.

[princessnijireiki]

this is literally. SO funny

[official-mugi]

[realest-asami-requiem]

[memefix]

What's going on

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

John recently got off of his legally enforced Disney gag order and has been blasting ass about how dissatisfied he was with the sequels, especially the forced romance between Rey and Keylo and how poorly his character was handled.

A bunch of fandom weirdos freaked out because they can't separate fiction from reality and tried to shame him into silence, but being the King he is John took this opportunity to blow off 5 years of steam that built up after being one of the prime pieces of meat in the pressure cooker known as the Star Wars fandom.

The social incompetents had their minds shattered at the realization that the actor is not the character he plays, that he doesn't like them or think the way they want him to think, and because of this they are breaking down at the mundane revelation that the public figure they've been harassing for years can sling their shit right back at them.

[steakplissken]

Also he’s been really funny while doing it

[loreweaver-universe]

I just had a realization.

Vegeta knows what “clown” means.

Saiyans had clowns.

[radiotopia]

yes at least one, his name is vegeta

[jayteezl-deactivated20250321]

[trilllizard666]

peak comedy is finding out tenlied, the girlfriend of a dude who got sputteringly, red faced FURIOUS that goblin slayer has rape in it to show how evil and nasty the goblins are, has an Emergence/Metamorphasis shirt

[trilllizard666]

[badjokesbyjeff]

A Jewish man decides his son isn’t religious enough, so pays for him to go visit Israel.

When the son comes back, however, he says he’s a Christian now.

The father goes to his friend exasperated to explain the situation, and his friend says “that’s funny, I sent my son to Israel last year, and when he came back he also said he was Christian.”

The two men decide they should speak to their rabbi about this, but when they explain the situation, the rabbi says “that’s funny, two years ago I sent my son to Israel, and he also came back a Christian.”

The three men decide only God can have the answer, so they pray. The rabbi says aloud “dear God, all three of us sent our sons to Israel, and all of them came back Christian.”

God’s voice booms down “that’s funny…”

[broteampill-deactivated20200407]

What happened with Vic and your friend? People believe he didn't do any rapes and you think he did based on an experience they had with him.

She was 14 and met him at an autograph session at some anime convention. He hit on her and told her he could give her his hotel room key so she could come and meet him later. He was very physical and she told the convention organizers about him and he was banned from returning. Looks like he has an aggressive presentation with a few probes for sex so he can say that he is just loving and affectionate if he gets caught. It was weird to see videos of him explaining in this exact way. She told me about this 3 years ago.

[politicalsci]

Find them here: https://waronwant.org/McStrike-near-me 

#McStrike

[the-space-ferret]

It’s McDonald’s, it’s not supposed to be a high paying job

[jabberwockypie]

People deserve to make enough to live on. That’s not up for debate. This idea that some jobs aren’t “supposed to” pay enough for people to get their needs met is bullshit. Nobody should be living in poverty.

[the-space-ferret]

Yes, but it’s McDonald’s. It’s not meant to be a job to support a family, it’s mainly for support for teens or side jobs.

[aeliad]

No, it’s not. 

There is no such thing as a job “for teens” (and even if there was, they deserve a fair wage for their labor, too.) Nobody should get paid so little that they need “side jobs.” 

If your business model relies on paying people a wage that keeps them trapped in poverty, your business should not continue to exist. McDonald’s can afford to pay their workers a better wage, they’re choosing not to. 

[grimelords]

62 year old guy that’s just trying to find out about the latest Led Zeppelin remasters: ‘what has happened to my magazine. why do I have to see these words.’

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

everyone asks if the furry community has a nazi problem but nobody asks if the nazi community has a furry problem.

[nunyabizni]

The Furred Reich is gaining power

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

he had to do something after his tumblr got shut down.