Reliving an old political stabbing is fun and all, but personally I think we should celebrate The Ides of March by picking a new person to stab to death each year. There are plenty of eligible candidates seeing as most politicians are awful, and honestly I think this is what those that stabbed Caesar would want us to do to.
today is the 3 year anniversary of breonna taylors murder at the hands of police. as a reminder, she was killed in a no knock swat raid. the warrant for this raid was provided under false pretenses, as the police officers lied about the suspect of their investigation having packages delivered to her house. none of the officers have been charged.
Something I’ve learned from my pseudo-historical arranged gay marriage au post is that a lot of people really don’t get the “birth” part of birthright monarchy. The Hapsburgs didn’t do all that incest because they read too much supernatural fanfic, the had a literal religious belief that their bloodline was blessed by literal god. If you want your fictional monarchy to justify its right to rule a different way fine but I’m 99% sure the magic god blood enjoyers would not be super chill about anyone adopting street urchins into their social class. Like, It took until this century for the English Monarchy to let a peasant marry in
So many TV shows/movies depict the Epi Pen as a total solution for anaphylaxis…it’s not. The Epi Pen gives you 30 minutes to get to a hospital where they can save your life. TV makes it look like you just have to use the Epi Pen and then the crisis is over. Do people without allergies or a loved one with allergies know that an Epi Pen only buys you time? The more I see this on TV the more I worry…
**Maybe you should reblog this because I’m actually worried that most people don’t know.
Omg so much this! I have to use my epipens about three times a year and my doctor recommends I shoot both of them in my thigh and then call an ambulance! They are a STABILISER not a cure!!
What exactly is Coca Cola’s role in Israel’s occupation?
Coca-Cola has a factory in Atarot, an illegal Israeli settlement built on stolen Palestinian land. Palestinian communities are forcibly removed for illegal Israeli settlements like this to be built. These settlements are illegal under international law.
By having an Israeli franchise in the illegal Israeli settlement of Atarot, Coca-Cola is ignoring international law and profiting from the illegal occupation.
There are currently up to 750,000 Israeli settlers living in at least 250 illegal Israeli settlements across the occupied West Bank and East Jeruasalem. By drinking Coca-Cola, we as consumers are turning a blind eye to the illegal occupation of Palestine.
In 2022 American food company General Mills announced it was divesting from Atarot as a direct result of pressure from human rights groups, activists and others.
Let’s keep up the pressure on Coca-Cola to stop operating in Atarot!
Join our call to #BoycottCocaCola until it stops operating in Atarot illegal Israeli settlement. Make a pledge to boycott Coca-Cola until it stops operating on stolen Palestinian land.
If you’re in the UK, they have several upcoming campaign and events you can participate in.
Also, UK peeps: bad news.
Costa canned drinks, Monster, and a lot of those major brand premixes (Jack Daniels and Coke, Absolut and Sprite, and so on) are Coca Cola linked here. Time to give Rockstar Drinks a better market share. Oh, no, wait - they’re Britvic. Part of Pepsi.
No more fat suits in movies instead we need more muscle suits.
We won’t need actors to work out for months and then dehydrate for one shirtless scene, just put on that muscle suit and we can cgi it a bit so it looks good.
yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame
This is even WORSE.
To elaborate why this is worse:
Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did.
The entire library and everything within is gone here.
Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen.
So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,
Jesse: “Yo, Mr. Fring, I’ve been thinking about this quote, man. "One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” What do you make of that?“
Gus: ”Ah, Jesse, I see you’ve stumbled upon the existential musings of Albert Camus. It’s an intriguing concept, to say the least.“
Gus: ”Sisyphus, condemned to an eternity of rolling a boulder uphill only to watch it roll back down again, represents the futility and absurdity of life’s struggles.“
Gus: ”However, Camus suggests that by accepting and embracing this absurdity, one can find happiness.“
Jesse: ”Yeah, but I mean, isn’t that just some crazy philosophical bullshit? How can someone be happy in such a fucked-up situation?“
Gus: ”Happiness, Jesse, is a state of mind. It’s not about the circumstances we find ourselves in, but rather how we choose to perceive and respond to them.“
Gus: ”Sisyphus, despite his eternal struggle, can find meaning and purpose in his repetitive task. By embracing his fate and finding fulfillment in the act itself, he transcends the burden he carries.“
Jesse: ”That’s deep shit, man. So, what, you’re saying we should just accept all the crap that comes our way and be happy about it?“
Gus: ”Not necessarily. Acceptance doesn’t mean complacency. It means acknowledging the realities of our situation and finding a way to navigate them while maintaining our inner peace.“
Gus: ”It’s about finding meaning in the journey, even if the destination remains elusive.“
Jesse: ”Yeah? I guess that makes sense in some messed-up, twisted way… Hey, speaking of finding happiness, have you tried Taco Bell’s Nacho Fries? They’re insane, man!“
Gus: ”…Nacho Fries, Mr. Pinkman?“
Jesse: ”Oh, you gotta try ‘em, Mr. Fring! They’re like these crispy, seasoned fries with this gooey cheese dipping sauce. It’s like a flavor explosion in your mouth, man. I bet you’d love 'em.“
Gus: ”If they are as remarkable as you claim, perhaps we can find a moment to indulge.
After all, even in the face of existential ponderings, we mustn’t forget to appreciate life’s simpler pleasures.“
Jesse: ”That’s what I’m talkin’ about, Mr. Fring! We’ll have ourselves a little culinary adventure amidst all the fucking chaos.
Life’s all about finding those moments of joy, even if it means embracing the absurdity along the way, right?“
Gus: ”Indeed, Jesse. Life’s contradictions often lead us to unexpected discoveries. Perhaps, we may find a glimpse of Sisyphus’ elusive happiness in the process.“
the class war is not some hypothetical future event. class war is being waged right now, by the ruling class, against you, every single day of your life. the question is what you’re going to do to fight back.
I’d like to point out that this is the same guy who told millennials to stop eating avocado toast 6 years ago
fight the class war or become it’s victim
I was thinking about why he would say all that at a property summit. that’s real estate. this is not about that. why does he want to punish workers until they worship him? why does a real estate investor want a 40% unemployment rate?
it’s so you and your neighbors lose your homes or have to sell them for money to live. then he can buy them all for cheap, raise the rent, and sell them to other landlords. or use the land to build more big ass parking lots with chain stores that pay minimum wage
In the one hundred fifty days after October 7, Israel killed thirty-one thousand Palestinians, injured seventy-two thousand, displaced 1.7 million, and razed or damaged more than half of Gaza’s buildings. Joe Biden sent over one hundred weapons shipments to Israel during the same stretch. In a recent classified briefing, US officials told members of Congress that the Biden administration approved and delivered more than one hundred separate weapons sales to Israel in the one hundred fifty days after October 7, “amounting to thousands of precision-guided munitions, small diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal aid,” the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. That works out to one new arms deal every thirty-six hours, on average.
who had “jkr goes full nazi” on their 2024 bingo cards?
honestly the reason she’s straight up posting holocaust denial on twitter is just the natural end goal of transphobia. it’s a refusal to admit she was wrong.
“actually no. I’m correct in saying that trans women are not women. these people agree with me” she says gesturing to the conservative christians
“actually, I’m right in saying that trans people should not exist in any circumstances, period.” she says gesturing to the terfs
“actually, everyone else is lying. trans people didn’t exist before the 1950s and the nazis didn’t burn books on transsexual studies. these people agree with me” she says pointing to nazis and white supremacists.
I mean, tons of leftists, especially trans and Jewish leftists, have been telling you since day fucking one about all the horrible shit in her books. the antisemitism with the goblins. the racism with like half the characters. the homophobia, the fatphobia, the misogyny, the slavery apologism.
she’s just saying the quite part out loud.
I don’t believe that she’s been slowly radicalized into being a nazi. I think she’s always been like that. it’s clear in her writing that she’s at least unintentionally letting horrible bigotry seap through in her books for children. but now that’s she’s turned it into a political issue, an “us vs them” hate campaign hellbent on the eradication of a group of already vulnerable and targeted people, she feels safe to go full mask off.
if you still like hairy potter, in any shape or fashion, even if you pirate the stuff and say you don’t give her your money, I don’t care. I genuinely hope you burn in hell.
“People are training artificial intelligence on Indigenous art without the artists’ permission to create inauthentic works, which are selling online on platforms run by companies such as Adobe and eBay.
Indigenous artists in Australia say their work is being stolen and turned into another threat to their livelihoods and cultures while they are already struggling to compete with the tens of millions of dollars worth of fake art produced every year by non-Indigenous artists.”
Bodily autonomy is not just about abled people choosing not to have a baby, it’s also about respecting disabled people’s right to have one. And it’s not just about mentally ill people’s right to treatment and meds, but also about their right to refuse both. It’s about respecting people’s right to choose for themselves, even when you disagree with their choices. Real bodily autonomy includes the right to make a choice that YOU wouldn’t make or advocate for
Something I think ppl who aren’t used to it struggle with when it comes to ancient history is that frequently ‘we do not and cannot know this’ is the only truthful response a historian can give. People severely overestimate how much we actually know about Ancient Rome.
I remember talking to someone at a party once about the debate over Septimius Severus’s ethnicity (whole other can of worms) and they asked if genetic testing of his remains was not a way to settle it and I was like oh. Oh okay you are under the impression we have the physical remains of Roman emperors from the second century AD alright then. (We. Do not.)
Can’t stress how much of high level study of Ancient History is devoted to trying to make sense of what actually factually happened. When I was at university (10+ years ago now) the discipline was embroiled in the lengthy and ongoing process of trying to unpack not just the biases in ancient sources but the centuries & centuries of biases within the field itself. I don’t imagine this process is ever going to Stop. It’s not uncommon for historical accounts to be so garbled & contradictory that it’s not possible to reconstruct the real events behind them.
Once in an introductory lecture one of my professors was talking about this problem and articulated it very simply as 'we know real things happened between real people, but we aren’t sure what they were’. Sums it up really!!
Protecting the planet from climate change and overthrowing capitalism is the same thing. We cannot be sustainable in an economic system that demands perpetual growth in profits.
the class war is not some hypothetical future event. class war is being waged right now, by the ruling class, against you, every single day of your life. the question is what you’re going to do to fight back.
I’d like to point out that this is the same guy who told millennials to stop eating avocado toast 6 years ago
fight the class war or become it’s victim
You know what would be a good replacement for that avocado toast?
Like it’s been said before that when Israelis and Zionists cry “why do you single out Israel?!”, they should in fact be reminded that Israel singles itself out. I mean, who commits violence at this magnitude and then bemoans being the victim??
anarchists: i hate that our lives are largely controlled by arbitrary authorities who use covert threats and overt violence to maintain their positions of power. it’s really bad and i would prefer if we could all just exist without having to exert systemic power over others like that.
dozens of chucklefucks crawling out of the woodwork: explain to me right this fucking second the exact details of how you personally will maintain the supply chain for insulin, or you hate disabled people and your ideology is actually fascism
Impeccable tags on this one, well done folks
These tags do nothing but avoid the question. You’re just complaining about people who bring up a point you don’t have an answer to.
girl this has been addressed by people like anarcblr and anarchapella like…several times at this point. But i’ll re-write it for you really clear, just this once, because I want them to be visible on this post.
Your Argument: Anarchy would interfere with the ability of diabetics to obtain insulin. Therefore, anarchists are either naive or outright malicious.
My Response:
1. Diabetics are already having a very hard time obtaining insulin–that is, even with current supply chains and infrastructure in place, 50% or more of diabetics worldwide don’t have adequate access. [source] So this is not a new problem that would be created by anarchy after/during some theoretical revolution, but one that already exists. This problem is made worse, rather than better (as those tags point out), by capitalism and the government, two things that anarchists famously oppose.
2. You’re starting from the idea of some kind of ‘anarchist revolution’, where anarchists go around instituting+enforcing new rules and (somehow) these negatively impact insulin availability. That’s just not accurate. Anarchism is not about imposing specific rules, but about removing barriers to you and your friends choosing your own rules. It’s about empowering you, as well as everyone else, to control your own self and nobody else.
This is a big part of why nobody will give you a “straight answer”, anarchism is not about creating plans for other people to carry out in the future. It is about encouraging people to create their own plans to address the present. Ergo, there isn’t the same emphasis on ‘waiting for the rev’ and ‘after the revolution’ that many statist communists have–instead, there’s a call to address conditions in a radical way right now, to reduce capital and govt’s hold on us now. I have friends who I talk to about this stuff all the time, trying to think of ways to meet medical needs with resources we’ve already got access to outside of capitalism.
3. People (some of them anarchists) are already working really hard to make insulin more available! The Open Insulin Foundation for example, who are “working to develop the first practical, small-scale, community-centered model for insulin production to make insulin accessible to all.” There’s also the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, who aren’t working on insulin specifically, but do have some other medicines they’re developing in an open-source way. Not to mention–all the people who are already making insulin right now? and all their equipment, and all their supplies? Those aren’t going to magically disappear. If those people didn’t have to worry about paying their bills (if anarchists helped them meet their other needs, perhaps?) why shouldn’t they share that knowledge and experience in return?
tl;dr your point about medicine in anarchist communities is fundamentally based on some incorrect assumptions about how anarchism works. if you wanna talk more about community medicine and explore more solutions, totally message me! As an anarchist dependent on medications for a couple chronic conditions, it’s a subject I think about a lot.
It’s less a matter of “holy shit after The Revolution how will I get my meds? :(” and more a matter of “damn, right now i have to work so I can even afford to buy my meds, depending on a fragile supply chain with humanitarian crises at its base. Let’s figure out a way to get around all that so we can all live better lives!”
People ask others to have a plan as if real well thought out plans don’t fail constantly, including the one that is the basis for all “modern societies”
Funny what a little bit of Holocaust denialism will get you trending with.
Also, worth noting that calling it “Holocaust denialism,” as Aye and Alejandra Carabello (and myself) have, is not hyperbole.
JK Rowling is denying that trans people were targetted by the Nazis, and promoting the tweets of known anti-trans activists screeching that any insistence that we were is “the LGBTQ+ lobby” revising history. That is, by a 2022 ruling on a case regarding similar tweets by the Regional Court of Cologne, (translation) “a denial of Nazi crimes.”
She is, by German court precedent, quite literally engaging in an element of Holocaust denial.
In case anyone is unfamiliar with the Nazis’ destruction of both gay and trans culture in Germany, Germany had a sympathetic gay and trans health clinic in the early 1900s. The Nazis destroyed it and burned literature studying homosexuality, gender noncomformity, and what we now understand to be transgenderness or transexuality. This took place only 3 months after Hitler came into power.
In addition to homosexuality, crossdressing was illegal under the Hitler regime even though trans people had (albeit limited) rights prior to his rise to power. And before anyone says it, the trans holocaust victims we talk about weren’t misidentified crossdressers, drag artists, or gender-nonconforming people. One trans woman, Liddy Barcroff, died in a concentration camp for her “crossdressing” after telling arresting police “my sense of my sex is fully and completely that of a woman.” The queer community, all of us, suffered huge losses both in individuals and in education and understanding during the Holocaust. Denying any part of that is offensive and dangerous.
It’s also important to add that the founder of that institute was Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who was a gay Jew. This allowed Nazis to claim that Jews were promoting homosexuality to “destroy the family” and weaken the white race.
You know, pretty much exactly what Republicans are saying now, just in dogwhistles.
Funny what a little bit of Holocaust denialism will get you trending with.
Also, worth noting that calling it “Holocaust denialism,” as Aye and Alejandra Carabello (and myself) have, is not hyperbole.
JK Rowling is denying that trans people were targetted by the Nazis, and promoting the tweets of known anti-trans activists screeching that any insistence that we were is “the LGBTQ+ lobby” revising history. That is, by a 2022 ruling on a case regarding similar tweets by the Regional Court of Cologne, (translation) “a denial of Nazi crimes.”
She is, by German court precedent, quite literally engaging in an element of Holocaust denial.
In case anyone is unfamiliar with the Nazis’ destruction of both gay and trans culture in Germany, Germany had a sympathetic gay and trans health clinic in the early 1900s. The Nazis destroyed it and burned literature studying homosexuality, gender noncomformity, and what we now understand to be transgenderness or transexuality. This took place only 3 months after Hitler came into power.
In addition to homosexuality, crossdressing was illegal under the Hitler regime even though trans people had (albeit limited) rights prior to his rise to power. And before anyone says it, the trans holocaust victims we talk about weren’t misidentified crossdressers, drag artists, or gender-nonconforming people. One trans woman, Liddy Barcroff, died in a concentration camp for her “crossdressing” after telling arresting police “my sense of my sex is fully and completely that of a woman.” The queer community, all of us, suffered huge losses both in individuals and in education and understanding during the Holocaust. Denying any part of that is offensive and dangerous.
It’s also important to add that the founder of that institute was Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who was a gay Jew. This allowed Nazis to claim that Jews were promoting homosexuality to “destroy the family” and weaken the white race.
You know, pretty much exactly what Republicans are saying now, just in dogwhistles.
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