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I CANNOT get over @asexualzoro​‘s headcanon that Brook doesn’t know who or what the Pirate King is and so I just.

brook ride or die ready to commit regicide for his captain

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maid you look

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omg look how wholesome this is (posts a screenshot from stormfront) this fascist marginally improved their life <3

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I'm gonna be honest, a good portion of tumblr users seem incapable of actually reading posts they dislike, and instead just choose whichever sequence of words they can interpret most extremely - often just completely mixing the subjects and objects of different sentences together for maximum effect. I'm speaking of my fellow communists here, too. This attitude really isn't helpful, and fits more in the echoic rhetorical style of an SJWs OWNED video than anything else. You're not disproving someone's argument, you're coming up with an excuse, for yourself, of why you don't have to disprove it. At the very least, recognise that that's what you're doing, or you're liable to end up plastering over real ideological issues you hold.

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Ahmed suffers from Hepatitis

it has become a widespread disease in Gaza due to contaminated water, food and poor living conditions.

Ahmed also takes care of his mother.

Please donate to his gofundme or chuffed so they can afford the medicine they need.

10 USD = 103 SEK. gofundme takes 3 SEK off each donation. 5-10 SEK means giving pennies.

These are some pictures and a video he sent me today.

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A sign that your post has journy'd too far from its home

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I am pleading once again for white liberals to read The New Jim Crow and see how racist policing and law enforcement is 1) bipartisan and 2) the key to how people of color (Black people specifically) are systemically, violently, and purposely kept in check in this country. Begging y'all to see that someone doesn't have to say a slur to be antiblack in the entirety of their belief system, that the status quo you live under is maintained by the suffering (both current and potential) of millions

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bringing up on authority is a cliche at this point but the thing is those guys really do keep thinking by changing the name of the thing they have changed the thing itself

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do not hesitate to be totalitarian. "how would X work under socialism" the state will appoint a scary looking 6'2 lesbian in a trenchcoat and commissar hat carrying a Tokarev to get it done

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I don’t really want to wade into discourse too much today because I know everyone is extremely miserable online rn but I think if you want to give people genuine advice on what to do politically, “join a union/get involved in your current union/organise your workplace” or “join ACORN/a tenant union/etc” is much more actionable advice than like “build community.”

the problem with “community” is that it doesn’t have the same formal infrastructure / resources / political connections / organising capacity that allows your hard work to have reach far beyond your immediate circle (which is what a union has), and also because like, “community” is an extremely vague and abstract concept that can mean anything from a local restaurant run by your neighbour to a church to your dnd friend group. Reaching out and helping your neighbours is a good thing, lots of people are having a really tough time and helping people around you pay rent or take care of their family or etc is a good thing and you should feel good doing that, but in response to the complete institutional and political failure of electoral liberalism I think the next best option is to turn towards already existing national infrastructure that can mobilise people without requiring you to individually maintain dedicated personal relationships with everyone around you. In my experience + the experience of many long-time activists that I know, relying on interpersonal connections to organise and get things done leads to highly sectarian, disorganised, toxic, and unpleasant organising conditions. The cold impersonal bureaucracy of union membership is legitimately a good solution to this problem.

there are many little positions of power available in these organisation that become open to you for as low a cost as showing up to zoom meetings. I have personally been elected to positions in various unions/orgs literally because I was someone who showed up to meetings! Nobody goes to committee meetings! You get annual budgets! You get to pass votes, organise events, spend money on organising materials! You get to buy food for people! Organising is so much easier in these spaces.

And of course, you are going to face the same ideological resistance, apathy, ignorance, incompetence, and bigotry that you would at your local queer meet-up or community neighbourhood council, and I have no illusions about the institutional limits of unions (which can also be reactionary, bigoted, highly disorganised, incompetent, toxic, and so on), but if you want to avoid completely exhausting yourself and resenting everyone around you, you don’t need to build “community” from the ground up, there are already structures out there where you can do good work. For all the resistance there is to unions and union activity, you will face that same level of resistance with local organising but have none of the power, resources, or institutional legitimacy already secured by unions

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so california is a 'blue' state which voted for keeping slavery. lesser evil, you say?

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take everything i say with a hint of lime

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penny for yout thoughts on the latino vote this election? i'm on a working visa in a very liberal part of the US right now. it's hard for me to be objective right now, i feel like my own people (sigh) betrayed me. what happened?

everything i've seen seems to support the idea that, just like most us voters, a very large percentage of latinos treat elections in general and this one in particular as a big referendum on Econony: Good Or Bad? [x] and that the economy is a higher priority for most of them than immigration policy [x].

also, yknow, even if immigration had mattered a lot to latino voters, "the camps are good and should be expanded, we need crueler, more violent, more vicious border policy" was a bipartisan consensus this election. harris couldn't shut up about how tough on the border she was. the message the democrats wanted to send was "don't worry, we are just as racist as the republicans" -- with that as their pitch, why apart from inertia would anyone expect an overwhelming latino majority for the democrats?

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If you convince yourself that no one center or right of center can make good art, you are going to get suckered into some shit.

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if you say "i'm an ally but if you don't coddle me and people like me forever we're going to become neofascists" then i don't think you know what ally is because you're not describing an alliance -- you're describing an attempted hostage situation

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Everyone who lives in the third world gets a comment on her campaign solely for the fact that she promised to have "the most lethal military in the world"

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"I escaped the alt right but I have a hard time when leftists yell at me." My friend that is out national sport. Yelling at each other is how we bond.