#borders are violence

[cantsayidont]

So, all last week and the week before, I got a barrage of email junk from the ACLU begging for donations to Protect Democracy and Safeguard Civil Rights and stuff. I was already pretty salty about those on account of the "refusing to divest from Israel because it would harm the liquidity of their fucking investment portfolio" thing (see above link).

Then this morning, I get an ACLU email alert saying their latest local issue is … begging Biden to issue presidential pardons for 25 military veterans who were previously deported under Biden's sweeping deportation campaign, and framing this as being about how these Heroic Veterans are now in danger of being deported by the evil Trump. Which would seem awfully disingenuous to me even if I were sympathetic to the premise that people who sign up to commit imperial violence abroad should be entitled to a special path to citizenship, which, uh, not so much. (Borders are violence and the bipartisan anti-immigrant crusade is malevolent, but so is the U.S. military!) It feels way too STARSHIP TROOPERS for my liking.

This seems an uncomfortable preview of what we can probably expect from the ACLU over the next four years: attempts to Appeal to Patriotism and Appeal to Nationalism with some cosmetic lip service toward Civil Rights (for Loyal Citizens only, of course).

[anarchotahdigism]

"

Even while in the middle of harassing the migrants, the livestreamers could still be heard thanking those who were sending them money via YouTube’s Super Chat function or through other platforms like Venmo and the Christian-aligned crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. In one situation, while Fulfer was shouting at migrants in Arizona telling them to go home, he stopped briefly to call out a supporter who had sent him $50 on Venmo.

These livestreamers come after weeks of inflamed rhetoric from both the far-right community and Republican lawmakers about immigration at the Texas border with Mexico. This year, the situation has erupted: After Texas governor Greg Abbott refused to heed the Biden administration’s calls to remove razor wire along the border, a dozen GOP governors publicly declared support for Abbott, and the Take Our Border Back convoy traveled from Virginia to Texas. Though the convoy petered out, the violent anti-immigrant rhetoric, which experts have warned would have long-term impacts, has only heightened."

[illustriousdaydreamer]

My insides want to be outside. They do not feel comfy inside my body they yearn

Guys my partner left back to the states. Where they are trans and they kept getting clocked left n right while here but like yall- that shit was scary cuz I was like oh gawd they prolly clocked ME too. Like FUCK.

[somerandomg33k]

asking help for a friend of a friend

A friend of a friend, Abhi, is still to get his green card and complete his immigration process. Full story in the GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/30dd30b9

[jackass-democrats]

It doesn't support the socialist democrat narrative to point out who commits the lion's share of gun crimes.

[hurgablurg]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/deal-roxham-road-migrants-biden-trudeau-1.6788358

So the liberals have decided that Canada is no longer a safe haven for immigrants and people fleeing violence. The one thing we can actually be proud of with certainty in our 300+ shitty years of monarchy-masturbating history, stamped out to make a dementia-ridden freak-puppet who buries dogs feel better about his standing with the american troglodytes.

I’m SOOOOO sure this will totally keep people from coming to Canada, rather than say, force people to enter illegally through dangerous and unscrupulous methods, the same ones that saw the corpses of children wash up on the shores of the Mediterranean not long ago.

But no! PLEASE tell me more about how the liberal party is actually A Very Good All Time and has human rights and social liberties at the heart of all their policy decisions.

I’m sure this won’t be any kind of slippery slope into rightoid-ism or anything for the spoiled frenchie rich kid who loves putting on blackface. I can take a guess at who the “15,000 immigrants from the western hemisphere” he’s allowing are going to be - wealthy americans looking for new tax loopholes to take advantage of and who’ll tickle Trudeau's ballsack with a loonie whenever he needs money for his reelection campaign.

@liberalsarecool Should probably change their url.

[mysharona1987]

[auxryn]

Always keep your socialism INTERNATIONAL.

I am not kidding. It is an IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.

It's not even "top tier political satire" for a social democrat to side with a nazi. That's literally just the most average social democrat. Both historically and in the present day. They will always end up siding with fascism if it means attacking communism in any way.

Also most European social democrats are always at best one "So what do you think of refugees/Muslims/Romani people?" from going on an ethno-nationalist rant.

[sforzesco]

WHAT DOOM FOR YOU?

back again with my Please Read The Thebaid Agenda! I adapted the ending of Book VII into a comic because oh boy. thoughts thoughts thoughts.

There is a horror in having yourself altered to such a degree where you are unrecognizable in your own self, to know that it is happening, to know that you should be dead and yet you are not. You have already seen the moment of your death!!!! (Stat. Theb. 3.537 – 47) There's a horror in knowing, and in it being treated as an act of love when it's really more like a violation. Amphiaraus is spared Creon's decree, but by falling into the underworld, it makes things worse on a cosmic scale.

Statius' Thebaid Book VII, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War, Charles McNelis

The Perils of Prophecy: Statius' Amphiaraus and His Literary Antecedents, E. Fantham

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[lambmotifz]

dean having cannibalistic thoughts about sam as a metaphor for his repressed desire to fuck him but also his extreme possessiveness over him. cannibalism as a metaphor for ownership. a need to have control. cannibalism as a metaphor for love that is desperate and violent and possessive

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Content Warning for graphic depictions of violence and discussion of the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Maher Alanqar sat and watched his nephew suffer. The video — shot by a CBC News freelancer — captured every scream, every spasm as 10-year-old Adam Abu Ajwa called out for help after the home where he was sheltering with his parents and siblings in Khan Younis, Gaza was hit by a grenade on Jan. 17. Adam suffered third-degree burns; his older sister Zeina, 26, escaped with burns and broken bones after being trapped under rubble for hours. They were the only ones in the house to survive. Their mother Hana and oldest brother Amr died and were buried in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital, one of the main hospitals in the central Gaza Strip. Alanqar's mouth twitched with every scream as he watched doctors work to treat the boy's wounds without anesthesia. He told CBC News on Feb. 4 he had applied to get his sister and her kids out of Gaza under a special immigration measures program for extended family members of Palestinian Canadians. They were waiting for news when their home was hit.

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[fecklesheckleshacklesschmeckles]

thanks to the wayback machine i now know how reece announced his upcoming appearance on bakeoff

absolute props to the lad, this is incredibly funny to me

[lesbianmaxevans]

Thony & Jorge || 3.04 Agua, Fuego, Tierra, Viento

[jackass-democrats]

Biden voters.

As always, never buy anything made in china. Don't ever trust a democrat and NEVER leave your child alone with one.

[malaierba]

Does anyone understand what it means that Ecuador, which used to be the second safest country in South America, is in a state of emergency, am I going insane is it just me???