#equality …?

[ashciz-thoughts]

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

[demidolll]

@ all the women in the USA, now that elongated muskrat and tangerine are in power and so obvious about their plans

[humanityinahandbag]

I'd like to tell you all a story about my grandmother.

My grandparents raised their children, four girls (one of them my mother), to be fighters. My aunts marched in Washington for women's rights with babies strapped to their chests and like to joke that all of the grandchildren who came from that line (including myself) were born with picket signs in their hands.

But it started with my grandparents. They fought hard for what they believed in. They marched against Vietnam. They marched for Martin Luther King. They marched for women's rights. They marched for a better future.

But let's talk specifically about my grandmother for a moment.

My grandmother unfortunately passed away in 2016. She had to watch the first Trump election and did so knowing that it would probably be the last election she'd ever see. And there is some argument there that she could have given in to fear and defeatism. She could have decided none of it was worth it, and she could have decided that fascism had won and the world was over.

But she did something else instead.

To give some context, my grandparents had friends who were Republicans. I say were, because they shifted from the normal Republican towards the MAGA Republican we see today. And despite a very clear message from my family about how we felt, they were more than ready to still come to the funeral as if everything was normal. Like their beliefs were normal. Like they were welcome to celebrate someone who had fought so hard for the rights of other people.

These were people who would have absolutely used their rhetoric to scream and shout if they were left out or disinvited.

And so my grandmother, even past her final moments, pulled the most brilliant, petty move I've ever seen.

She'd decided ahead of time that everyone who had known her was more than welcome to attend but that she wanted everyone attending the funeral to donate money. That was the requirement to be invited. And so everyone did just that. There was no talk about what the donations were for, just that they were appreciated. I want to say that the assumption was the money would help pay for funeral expenses and give the family some support while we grieved.

Except that wasn't the case.

Because in those final moments of the funeral, the rabbi stepped forward to thank everyone, and then very cheerfully announced;

"Arlene was so happy to know just how many people were coming to join us here today. She couldn't have been more proud of her family. And I'm sure she would have been elated to see just how much money you all gave today to Planned Parenthood."

When I say that the faces of those people are enshrined in my memory, I mean it. The anger, the devastation, the rage, the betrayal. It was an absolutely gorgeous display of true defeat at the hands of a boss ass old lady who literally fought with her last breath and threw up both middle fingers all the way out the door.

What I'm saying is this.

It is very easy to feel defeated. It is very easy to think that everything is over, and there's nothing left for us to do. It's very easy to say that fascism won, that fear won, that hate won.

But that's only true if you let it be true.

There is always more that we can do. There is a future that is still worth fighting for. And it's more than possible, even when it doesn't seem like it.

And fighting is going to look different every time.

Some days it will look like picket signs in our hands.

Some days it will look like spending time with friends and family and people you love and knowing that you have a community that supports you and your vision of a brighter future.

And some days, it's pulling absolute natural level 20 petty trickster shit even after you've left the world.

Because you can always make an impact and you can always add a little brightness to life, and if that means tricking a group of MAGA idiots into throwing their money behind Planned Parenthood in the middle of your own goddamn funeral then that's what it means.

Keep fighting. People have done it before you. People will continue to do it after you.

And enjoy the little victories.

(Even the petty ones)

[neuroticboyfriend]

IM GOING TO CRY THEY MIGHT INCREASE THE SSI ASSETS LIMIT TO $10,000.

it's a bipartisan bill too! and for anyone unaware, people on SSI (which is different from SSDI), can only have $2,000 in assets (unless they have an ABLE account, which comes with its own rules). this assets limit has been in place for FORTY YEARS and is a giant part of why being on SSI keeps people incredibly impoverished.

i've also heard they might remove the marriage penalty but i don't have the spoons to read or explain it so someone else please add on!

this is huge! please spread the word and do what you can to help ensure this happens!

[galerymod]

The privileged hyperactive adult simulation is a real danger for every democracy because it has the means and the possibilities as well as the will.

Nobody should underestimate that!

mod

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Somehow it fits here.

Well, if that's not heredity:

Joshua N. Haldeman

Haldeman is the maternal grandfather of Elon Musk.

Haldeman was a supporter of South Africa's apartheid policies and the ruling National Party of South Africa. He told a reporter for the extremist newspaper Die Transvaler, which was a Nazi tool in South Africa during World War II, ‘Rather than keeping me out, the attitude of the government of South Africa had the opposite effect – it encouraged me to come here and settle here.’ In 1951, he wrote an article for the Saskatchewan newspaper Regina Leader-Post about South Africa, in which he defended apartheid and wrote about black South Africans: ‘The natives are very primitive and should not be taken seriously... Some are quite clever at routine jobs, but the best of them cannot be trusted.’ -Post, in which he defended apartheid and wrote about black South Africans: ‘The natives are very primitive and should not be taken seriously... Some are quite adept at routine jobs, but the best of them cannot be trusted with responsibility and will abuse authority. The present government of South Africa knows how to handle the native question.’

Weeks after the Sharpeville massacre of 21 March 1960, Haldeman self-published ‘The International Conspiracy to Establish a World Dictatorship and the Menace to South Africa’, a 42-page response to the massacre. The United Nations passed Resolution 134, the first official condemnation of apartheid by the organisation and the beginning of decades of diplomatic isolation. Later, Haldeman self-published a second book in which he again claimed international conspiracies: The International Conspiracy in Health, in which he questioned the fluoridation, vaccinations and health insurance.

Wikipedia

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

[mushroomyhouse]

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

Pride Flag Stamp Washi! Brand new and on sale to celebrate Pride Month 🥰

🏳️‍⚧️ mush.house/pridemonth 🏳️‍🌈

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[alwaysbewoke]

[galerymod]

Morals and ethical principles are qualifications that are far removed from the Christian simulation of those in power, clans and their lackeys, who live without any sustainable values.

mod

Within a very short time, it has become quite clear what they are really concerned about: the remodelling of the state in their favour, the removal of all obstacles to their personal enrichment and the undermining of the social security system.

Women are brave.

#ReverendMariannEdgarBudde

This just in; Christians now angry at church bishop for saying church things in a church.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The Beijing court supported Ms. Gao on two counts and ruled that Dangdang should continue to honour her original contract of employment. In addition, the court said Dangdang should pay her salary from the date she applied for sick leave to the date of arbitration

The Beijing No 2 Intermediate People’s Court went on to state that “social tolerance is a blessing of the rule of law” and highlighted the need to “respect diverse ways of living and protect the dignity of transgender people.”

[politijohn]

Source

Some good news!

[angelheart-bunny]

people who deserve more respect and recognition:

intersex people

trans men

aromantic people

multigender people

people in qpr's

aplatonic people

[zenosanalytic]

See like: this really gets at it.

These people want to be Special, want to be Above other people, but they know they're not. Every. Time. They interact with another human being, which they HAVE To to reinforce their Specialness over them, they're reminded of the infinite ways they're the same. They KNOW It, they can't ESCAPE Knowing it, and while the buzz of absurd praise and self-aggrandizement can help them forget it for a time, they'll always remember that they're just another human like everyone else all too soon.

So they have to keep doing this stupid, obnoxious shit to avoid the, to THEM, horrifying and Inescapable Truth that they're Just Some Guy.

I think that Elon Musk is an object lesson in moral philosophy.

Like, he's the epitome of self-interest; the closest thing real life can produce to a Randian hero. And by any reasonable standard, he's won at life! He's the richest man ever to live, and he's getting richer; he controls the channels of information and communication; the government of what remains the world's only superpower waits on his command. If capitalism had a victory condition, he would surely have achieved it. And yet...

He's empty. He's an absolute sucking void of neediness. His own children hate his guts. He pays professional gamers to run up impossibly high scores in every game under the sun because the pale glow of being praised by epic bacon chuds online is the closest thing that he can feel to love.

Like. I can't tell you what a soul is, but I think you neglect it at your peril.

[progressive-memes]

[spoiledbratblog]