#defund them

[kalashtars]

y'all remember when book fairs used to have those "banned books" display sections that advertised books based on that fact that they had been banned in schools in the past and everyone went "haha wow, it's crazy that they banned books like this! what a wacky thing to do!" haha........ yeah....... who would even do that......

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

According to the New York Times, 1/5 of the Israeli hostages are dead.

Aka kidnapped and then murdered in captivity by Hamas.Each one of their deaths is a war crime.

If these people were kidnapped from anywhere else in the world, you would all be rioting and screaming for their release. Yet people here are silent when it comes to the Israeli hostages.

I guess the fact that the ICRC and UN have failed the Jewish people (yet) again doesn’t help…

-This is also a friendly reminder that According to the ICJ trial in Haag, Hamas has less than a month to *Bring them all home*

[bogkeep]

i am happy with who i am but i am also deeply envious of my eight year old younger brother, who's always had a skill and interest in a thing that's very easy to make a career out of, so he just went straight into the specialized schools straight into a job... and i've kept flopping around like a fish on land with no idea what i'm going to do this whole time. maybe i'm just bitter that i HAVE a skill i'm passionate about and really good at, but there's basically no infrastructure for turning it into a decent, stable job. sighs

[sjerzgirl]

Oh Idaho! You've lost your frigging mind!!

[ferallyartistic]

BY HIS FUCKING TEETH!!!!!

MAHMOUD WAS ONLY 19!!!!

FUCK THE OCCUPYING TERRORIST STATE!!!

[subsequentibis]

i keep getting anti-union mailers with prewritten statements for me to sign to opt out of my union dues (i.e. leave the union and not receive any protections) so i finally sent them an email telling them in polite terms to eat shit and die because i'm a far left socialist. realistically this probably won't do anything but sign me up for their email newsletter as well, but i can dream, and also it was cathartic

[ciudaddelapazmp3]

I wanna stay informed on my country's politics but everything i read abt the new administration fills me with an irresistible urge to become a suicide bomber👍

[dany36]

been avoiding the news all day and decided to check in what the results are looking like and...

like, literally every single aspect of this country has worsened under amlo (security, economy, feminicides, murders, health, corruption). people who decided to vote for his party's presidential candidate for 6 more years of this mess just live in a completely different reality. it's just honestly baffling.

here's to surviving another 6 fucking years i guess.

[sphyrne]

thinking how the revolution in night watch failed short term (e.g. the next patrician was as bad as the previous)... but long term it changed the trajectory of vetinari and vimes’ lives, it shaped them, and how much better the city is now bc of them

[news4dzhozhar]

[captainjonnitkessler]

Love it when online leftists are like "I think we should be feeding more people into the bonecrusher machine", and then when someone is like "idk that doesn't sound good" they respond like "you idiot. OBVIOUSLY I mean we should be expanding access to orthopedic surgery, you obviously just hate the concept of universal healthcare because you're an idiot liberal who can't imagine anything outside of your dystopian worldview."

This is about the current "family abolition" discourse but also the "prison abolition" discourse and the "defund the police" discourse and every other kind of discourse that uses a snappy, controversial slogan to encompass an extremely complex political topic and then gets mad when less terminally-online people aren't able to correctly extrapolate an entire ideology out of that slogan.

[flintmcgraw]

The government of Canada did not see any evidence backing up Israel's claim that staff employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) colluded with Hamas before suspending funding to the agency, CBC News has learned.

Government sources tell CBC that Israel still has not shared evidence with Canada to substantiate its claim that 12 employees of UNRWA were involved in some capacity in the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and the affiliated group Islamic Jihad.

(...)

Canada announced the suspension of all funding within hours of the U.S. announcement (x).

I don't know how many times I can keep saying that it's humiliating to be Canadian. Fucking disgusting.

[isawthismeme]

[murderballadeer]

not that they shouldn't have made the stm pass free for seniors but they keep increasing it for students and like i don't have any money either!! come on valérie plante i voted for you will you let me catch a break damn

[ohello0]

The dickheads celebrating youth under 16 being banned from social media in Florida are never the same people fighting to keep third spaces alive and funded. They’re just selfish adults who see children as a burden and think “out of sight out of mind” means problems go away.

Everyone wants to complain and poke fun at how the younger generations are “strange” and aren’t socialized properly but don’t put in the effort to actually talk to children and even rejoice when the few opportunities they had to talk to people are taken from them. This is fascism and if you think the government will stop at populations you deem annoying and disposable you’re dead fucking wrong

The government is feigning concern for children’s safety while rolling back child labor laws and banning books that help children communicate when they’re being abused and some of yalls dumbasses are falling for it. Banning youth from social media is not a win, don’t treat it as such

[louisdotmp3]

truly i think everyone who has a difficult time imagining what a justice system could look like without police should listen to the women's war. i agree that a lot of leftists who want to, i think correctly, abolish the police don't have a good idea of what that would look like and struggle to articulate an alternative conception of how to solve difficult things like murders within a community. i agree that there's a good chunk of it tied up in getting people the resources they need, but what do you do on the way to that? and how do you handle really tough situations that have the possibility of spiraling out to create more harm? in particular i recommend law and order among the anarchists and grandma law and revolutionary sacrifice. i'm not saying these are perfect solutions but in the same way we find it difficult to imagine an alternative to capitalism because we are so deeply embedded in it, even though it's a relatively young economic system, it's difficult to imagine alternatives to policing and this is a good starting point for that imagining.