Foreign nationals shut the fuck up about American politics challenge
Wrong post lmaooooooo
STOP REBLOGGING THIS!!!!!
asking people to stop reblogging is like thrashing in distress when being savaged by a shark and summoning every other fish in the ocean to come and have a nibble
[Video Description: extended tiktok/video by fettuccinefettuqueen. Multiple camera views and qualities are shown. Gabbi Bolt, a feminine musical comedian wearing a bright floral shirt, earrings, and bandana, plays a keyboard and sings under pink and blue lights on a small stage. She sings and plays a song (lyrics below). It begins slowly. Every time the Aus police are mentioned, the song gets faster and goes up a key. By the end, she is singing and playing very quickly. It ends with a flourish and applause.
Lyrics: A kindergarten teacher would only have up to F. When they looked at their curriculum to teach the alphabet. A surgeon would not yet have even touch a surgery. But 6 months, Yep, that’s all it takes to join the Aus police. A lawyer would be juggling 4 subjects on their feet, when on average there are 38 - right? - subjects to complete. They cannot yet defend, object or bargain for a plea, but meanwhile you can make arrests when you’re the Aus police. Seem fair! A first time mum is still too busy cooking up a kid. A first time architect is still drawing up a blueprint. A first time taxidermist is still fucking creepy so is the fact that in 6 months you can join the Aus police. A retail worker would still have a skerrick of their soul. The West Coast Eagles still would not have scored a single goal. Michelle has not been introduced as Child of Destiny but you can lock up kids when you work for Aus Police. The age of criminal responsibility in this country is 10. When I was 10, I couldn’t even spell criminal. A politician would’ve only fucked up 40 times and for every fuck up made, they would have told bout 40 lies. A Telstra support worker still has not got back to me but I would not have this problem if I worked for Aus police. Hands up Tesltra! It’s a raid! Fa La La La La La La La La La Firearms Mililililili Military Complex Li li li li li li li li little tiny boots! Haha! ay ay ay ay ay. All the people I know that went into this career were annoying at best … and horrifying at worst. A learner driver would still be making their mum go *pffftt*. An office worker still has not worked up two weeks in lieu. A musical comedian just has this melody. But 6 months, Yep, that’s all it takes to own a gun and make arrests and join the Aus police.
While the CCP may not personally vet individual cooking videos,
ID: Two screenshots. The first screenshot is of a Tumblr reblog with the name cropped out but text reading: “Sure, but like. China is a surveillance state where dissent is illegal. While the CCP may not personally vet individual cooking videos, they absolutely have a monitoring apparatus that”
The second screenshot is from Wikipedia and reads:
“The USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the Patriot Act) was a landmark Act of the United States Congress, signed into law by President George W. Bush. The formal name of the statute is the Uniting and Strengthening American by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA Patriot) Act of 2001, and the commonly used short name is a contrived acronym that is embedded in the name set forth in the statute. [1]
The Patriot Act was enacted following the September 11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks with the stated goal of tightening U.S. national security, particularly as it related to foreign terrorism. In general, the act included three main provisions:
Expanded surveillance abilities of law enforcement, including by tapping domestic and international phones;
Easier interagency communication to allow federal agencies to more effectively use all available resources in counterterrorism efforts; and
Increased penalties for terrorism crimes and an expanded list of activities which would qualify for terrorism charges.
The law is extremely controversial due to its authorization of indefinite detention without trial of immigrants, and due to the permission given to law enforcement to search property and records without the owner’s consent or knowledge. Since its passage,”
ID: A screenshot of a Twitter post by Bae Guevara [communist symbol emoji] @ Kaimandante with text reading: “Why is the military "fighting for our freedoms” in Iraq & Afghanistan? How tf did our freedoms get over there?“
Below the text is an image of a Black person wearing grey sweats and a sweatshirt staring straight into the camera, hands on hips, looking unimpressed.
Below that is a screenshot of two comments from Tiktok. The first comment is by userpmdezfeo with text reading: "My dad was actually killed in the line of duty last year” with a reply below by sixthreecjj reading: “ratio”
Below that is a Twitter post by Based Savage @ BasedSavage_ with text reading: “I’ll serve crack before I serve this country” The tweet is dated 2/7/19.
ID 2: A screenshot of a Tumblr reblog by originalzipperalmondrebel with text reading: “That’s a super light story huh? My great grandfather got killed in action from a land mine to protect this country. If you don’t wanna respect the history or stand for a national anthem [grinning emoji] then leave to your peaceful home and fuck right off”
peteseeger reblogged that with text reading: “How did your great grandpa stepping on a landmine protect this country”
Now what would happen if a homeless quilt was made by someone who actually cared about homeless people?
Meet former ad designer Willie Baronet.
Baronet is an artist who talks to homeless people and buys their signs from them for $20 a pop, if they’re willing to sell. He uses the signs in art exhibits to educate the privileged and point them to ways they can help, and to humanize homeless people and tell them they matter.
One sign at a time, Baronet makes a statement to help people with $20 in their hand and a voice that rings across the nation saying “I’m here.”
So not only did they take the small, hand-made signs away from homeless people but instead of just tossing them, they kept them. Not only did they keep them as some kind of homeless trophy, they actually went through the time, energy, and effort (funded by tax dollars) to tape them together, pose for a picture, and post it during the holiday season.
This is why people say that there are no good cops. Because there aren’t.
ID 1: Two cops holding up a patchwork sign made of pieces of cardboard. They are smiling, looking proud. Someone has edited text onto the cardboard that says, “we do not serve or protect you. we are very blatantly a private military carrying out only the will of your capitalist ruling class. fuck you and fuck poor people.”
ID 2: The came picture in an uncropped Facebook screenshot. The text of the Facebook post says, “Wanna wish everybody in 4th precinct a Merry Christmas, especially our captain . Hope you enjoy our homeless quilt! Sincerely, Panhandler patrol.” The state that the Panhandler police force is in, and the officer names, have been redacted from the screenshot. The signs, fully visible in this version of the photo, say things like “will work”, “in need of help”, and “trying to make it, anything helps, god bless you”.
ID 3: Willie Baronet with his homeless quilt. It is similarly made of signs with pleas for help written on them, but covers most of an entire wall.
History wants so badly for Cleopatra to be beautiful. Like they can’t conceive of Rome being intimidated by anything less
because being a linguist, fleet commander, and powerful ruler doesn’t matter, only her looks
Reblogging the version without any terfs on it
here’s the picture of her face so theres no reason to reblog the terf version, esp since it talks about her lack of beauty being tied to her curly hair and hooked nose, yikes
You say “history wants to bad for Cleopatra to be beautiful” as if she isn’t already beautiful
But she is beautiful was my first reaction.
A more accurate complaint would be “modern amateur historians want so badly for Cleopatra to be conventionally beautiful by western European standards, and they want this to be the only thing about her that is remembered, and not her sharp wit and general academic prowess”
a party of adventurers that are all equally convinced that they are in completely different forms of media
the mage keeps giving smug glances in the direction they assume a camera is in. the fighter keeps getting indignant about missing attacks because of “bad dice rolls.” the rogue is doubtful that a villain is gone for good because “nobody ever stays dead in comics.” the paladin attributes fortune to “good rng.” none of them have even considered that “tumblr post” was an option
luigi mangione, the SUSPECTED (innocent until proven guilty) united healthcare shooter, has been charged with terrorism. that’s right. a man who supposedly shot ONE SINGLE PERSON is being charged with terrorism. because in america, billionaires lives matter enough that a SINGLE rich man’s death is considered a terrorist act against this country. think about that.
Did the guy who was paid to photograph Luigi Mangione perp-walking with a police escort bigger than Superman’s in the James Gunn teaser trailer intend to make him look like Jesus being hauled to the cross? During Christmas week?
Why does every pic of this man make him look like the protagonist of a new Netflix series? Are they trying to start a cult?
shoutout to the woman from my high school martial arts class who liked to get me in joint locks and then joke about how I was easy to catch. you cannot comprehend how psychosexually formative that was for me
imagine, if you will, having an adolescent half-crush on someone way older than you, which is also confusingly blurred up with admiration of them as a role model. now imagine that you and that person are in a social environment where it is acceptable to (platonically, consensually) choke someone. I think I was very normal about it considering the circumstances
she would demonstrate takedowns on her husband (also in the class, and who was not a small man) before we got to try them and the first time I saw her twist him around and down onto the floor like it was easy my entire abdomen clenched
I cannot stress enough how eager this guy was to be manhandled (womanhandled?) and flipped around by his wife. he was her de facto guinea pig whenever she got to teach and I never saw him unenthusiastic about it. he’d set himself up for a joint lock fully smiling. the other adults in the class occasionally teased him about it (being so quick to let your wife put you in a submission hold tends to raise a few eyebrows), and I always kind of wanted to defend him but what would I have said? like, don’t worry. I won’t judge you. I also like being pinned down by your wife
That last sentance really hits ya like a psychosexually formative takedown
the urge to stream and talk and draw the map of the cult grounds but (1) its past midnight and (2) i have no experience in mapping villages. its stuck in my head
Pulled out the cotl artbook to style study for when I design the village houses and I was attacked by a viscious beast
Hey listen. A bunch of people will now try to convince the public that the killing of Brian Thompson was ethically wrong. They will try to use the same old tired arguments: that murder is always wrong, that we should stand against political violence in all forms, that CEOs are people too, etc.
Now, you probably won’t fall for all that bullshit, but a lot of people might. Here is what you need to tell them in return - it’s not guaranteed to change their minds, but every time you offer someone a chance to accept the truth you’re making it ever so more likely to take it.
In philosophy, the idea that people should never do certain “bad” things (e.g. killing) is called deontology. The thing is, unlike utilitarianism (which states people should choose actions that create the most wellbeing in society), deontology is inherently flawed as a morality system.
See, only through deontology can people end up finding themselves having to choose outcomes that will lead to more suffering in the world; think, the trolley problem. Now, ask yourself, what kind of morality system expects its followers to selfishly pick the choice that ensures their own moral purity, even if it dooms the wellbeing of possibly hundreds or millions of others?
Understanding this, you might ask yourself: who benefits from having deontology be the crux of understanding morality for so many people? Who benefits uplifting rules like the Ten Commandments as the ultimate guideline to ethics, as opposed to what it was in the original context of it’s religion - a simple list of base laws meant to instruct a small group of escaped slaves several thousand years ago?
The answer is twofold. First, there are the authoritarians, who wish to instill obedience by making people believe that breaking their rules, no matter how justified, is wrong. Secondly, there are the bystanders, who watch nervously as the world crumbles around them, but excuse their inaction by latching onto a false belief that they are still somehow better than the people who are doing something about it in a way they find aesthetically displeasing.
Therefore, it is imperative to look at the world through a utilitarian perspective, and judge every incident like so. Brian Thompson is part of a very exclusive club; he had wronged so many people so severely that the suffering caused to him and his loved ones by his murder is still innumerably outmatched by the joy his unlikely retribution will give the literal millions of people he’s wronged.
Remember, by similar logic it is still very unethical to kill 98% of people, so think of all the choices Thompson had to make to put himself in the top 0.1% of the 2% of people who’s murders can be justified. In a better society, a society that prevents and punishes exploitation, it would be hard to even conceive of a murder that could ever be so righteous.
In fact, in a society that uses classism and bigotry to block people from achieving their fullest potential through non-violent means, we must celebrate those who risk their lives and legal rights to push humanity forward, bringing to justice the true criminals of decency.
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