god i keep seeing people posting this as a positive.
yknow in dystopian movies and society has collapsed, the air is unbreathable, theres no water, the grid has shut down….but theres still sexual slavery…?
why are we celebrating this happening during a fucking pandemic.
I feel like this is pretty important to realize: the cops are becoming exhausted, and there’s a limited supply of them. NYPD has every cop on duty working full days every day. We have an unlimited capacity to rotate in fresh fighters that they simply do not have. We can take shifts. They can’t.
This is also why we’re starting to see bare minimum concessions now. The powers that be have realized they’ve made a grave miscalculation. A week into it, and ideas that seemed utterly impossible even a month ago are on the table- LA is talking about a hundred and fifty million dollar budget cut for the LAPD, every cop directly involved in George Floyd’s murder has been arrested and Chauvin’s charge has been raised to second degree murder, parts of the Minneapolis city council is pushing to permanently disband the Minneapolis police department.
What could we win with two weeks? Three? An organized general strike that brings the entire economy to a crashing halt? It is difficult to feel hopeful in such brutal times, but there is profound hope to be had in the realization that a week of getting our asses kicked has advanced the mainstream narrative around police so much further than electoralism would’ve dared to dream in 100 years.
1. #Antifa isn’t an organization.
It’s just Being Against Fascism
Something that Everyone should be
By declaring it a terrorist organization, Trump WILL say that anyone he doesn’t like is a terrorist
When you’re called a terrorist, you lose your rights
We’re fucked
2. Also y'all realize that the vast majority of left-leaning #Jewish people actively ID as #antifa because, like, the last time fascism was a big fucking deal we lost a third of our total pop and the majority of our biggest subculture?
Like?????????????????????
Um????????????
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its 2035 and i wake up to a porn ad playing on my microchip and the only way to shut it off is to drink a verification bottle of Dasani™️ which has a gif of a naked woman playing automatically on the label and the tagline "satisfy your thirst" and the most downloaded app on the appstore is a DeepFakeNudeFree (for 1.99 the pro version removes ads and allows you to make deepfakes of two people at once) and i tell my sex positive therapist i feel depressed and he recommends i take high doses of tranquillizers and start an onlyfans to reaffirm my self-worth with easy-to-visualize monetary validation and tells me politely he would be the first to subscribe
don’t post pictures of unmasked protestors! especially right now! the police don’t need more of a reason to target people who are protesting George Floyd’s death
99% of the protestors ARE masked and y’all are still posting face pics of the ones that aren’t please stop making their images go viral
people are killed for this shit, protests are a unit, not an individual action, stop drawing attention to the individuals
several activists/protesters from Ferguson were murdered. this isn’t a joke people’s lives are really at risk when you do this.
Whether its police retaliation or white supremacists.
The breakthrough for these men (and The Man writ large) is to have influenced a signification and vocal part of mainstream culture to the extent that it now agrees that women in these situations are somehow liberated and so being ‘the other woman’ or a man’s sexual whipping toy is somehow empowering.
y'know… i think we, as a society, have reached the appropriate amount of drawings of aged-up power puff girls dressed as e-girls we need. i think we can rest.
mercy, andrea dworkin // straw house, straw dog, richard siken // lines, anne carson // uncle vanya, anton chekov (trans. hugh aplin) // firesong, sylvia plath //the brothers karamazov, fyodor dostoyevsky // if not, winter, sappho (trans. anne carson) // the encounter, louise glück // aleksandr blok: selected poems, aleksandr blok (trans. jon stallworthy) // poems: poetics of eros, delmira agustini (trans. alejandro cáceres).
these companies are making RECORD PROFITS while their workers are dying from being on the job. boycott them on may 1st. the power of our efforts lies in the efforts of the working class.
