#DISSENT

[typhlonectes]

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Mother of Voices, Vol.1-Issue 2, Dec. 1-14, '67

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[ridenwithbiden]

PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY ie Trumps Immunity

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Robert Scott Horton]

[thestarlightforge]

And so it begins.

[originalleftist]

I'm going to be blunt: If you are in the US, especially the US government, and ESPECIALLY serving in the armed forces, you need to be thinking now about how far you are prepared to "just follow orders", and whether your loyalty is to the United States and its Constitution, or to Donald Trump/whatever SCOTUS says the Constitution is today.

Hopefully it won't come to that, but be thinking about this now, and discussing it (quietly) with any loved ones you trust.

[captainxtra]

A reminder that House and Senate will be back in session this coming week, we need to look out for bad bills like HR 9495 in case they do go up for a vote.

Reminder on how to find your Senator in order to contact them:

If you have a GOP/MAGA Senator, read the advice given here:

Don’t spam them with messages!

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[eklaysea]

Another from my Father Jean Juste protest shoot in Downtown Miami. Jean Juste was, at that time, jailed in Haiti by a tyrant at the helm. One thing I learned about the Haitian people is they have determination far beyond the average Millenial (us old farts too!)

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[mylionheart2]

lmao democrats I will give you ten whole dollars if you do this. 💀😂😭😭

New Zealand's parliament was briefly suspended after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

still thinking about crowley's fall.

That one quote, more specifically. "How much trouble can I get into just for asking a few questions?"

It's very possible I'm overthinking it. But it still reminds me so much of art and censorship, I wrote a poem on it just now, and I just wanted to elaborate on that, on why I said that an answer is judgement but a question is justice.

Back in Ancient Greece, Plato tried to outlaw writers, the storytellers. For millennia, those in power have feared people in arts, because we're not just dealers in aesthetics, we're dealers in ideas. Even in times of war, poverty, censorship, songs were sung, paperbacks exchanged in dark alleyways, stories whispered and walls covered with graffiti.

When stories are created, the writers have to balance both opposing ideas in their head, no matter how vile or repugnant. To prove that the protagonist is strong, you can't have a weak antagonist. The opposing idea has to be as strong as the one that will win for the victory to be meaningful.

Art, and stories, aren't about being right. People say we find answers in art, and maybe for some that's true, but I think what is infinitely more important are the questions it raises.

Because what is braver, what is more shattering to the status quo, than to question it? To dare to ask what if, to present an alternative, to pull an idea up to the witness stand and cross-examine it?

That's why when we see censorship, we need to look deeper. Because if an idea is truly that 'right', it will survive even the most intense of questioning, and even sceptics will have to accept its veracity. Why, then, are people so afraid of stories that question? Maybe it is because deep down, they aren't convinced themselves. They don't believe that their idea will survive the cross-examination. They are trying to keep a lie in power over the truth.

And art isn't about finding that elusive truth, it's about daring to look the lies in their face and say, maybe, maybe you're wrong. I don't know, you don't know, nobody may ever know, but maybe.

Like the Serpent of Eden, whispering, presenting that alternative of dissent to Eve. Not coercing. Not forcing her hand. But telling her that there is an alternative, whether good or bad.

That's why the writers, the artists, the musicians, those from every walk of the arts, are journalists interviewing society. We cannot allow ourselves to be silenced.

It's not about the answers offered, and whether someone agrees with them or not. It's about the questions, and if people fear the questions, maybe think about why that is.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Great writing from Sotomayor in the Grants Pass dissent.