#fascists please fuck off

[vintageseawitch]

at this point if you're against Project 2025 while also being republican or libertarian, you're more than welcome to join all of us, liberals, centrists, communists, socialists, & anyone else. our country has an awful system but Project 2025 will rip it shreds in a way that will benefit no one but the ruling class. i know it feels like it's this way now - & in many ways it is - but the kind of state that will be created is not going to be good not just for US citizens, but for people across the world & the environment. Project 2025 is a real threat & needs to be taken seriously. please talk about this with everyone. i won't gatekeep you if you also don't want Project 2025 put in place. literally the only thing stopping is is making sure they don't get the presidency. i hate biden & what our government is doing but i hate trump more. how can anyone be proud of a vile rapist felon being able to run for president is brain rot i will never understand & frankly it's fucking embarrassing. please vote like not just your rights but your life no matter who you are. LEARN, BE ANGRY, & VOTE!!!

[stil-lindigo]

Context: Israel “allowed” aid in the forms of flour bags to be airdropped into Gaza, waited for hundreds to congregate, and then opened fire into the crowd of desperate, starving Palestinians. 150 Palestinians were killed. Hundreds more wounded. This is being called “The Flourbag Massacre”.

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Meanwhile, over on the other side…

[spot-the-antisemitism]

Opinions on this post?

https://www.tumblr.com/t4tvampireisms/755145847508959232/guys-you-have-to-vote-for-biden-otherwise-trump

It's reductio ad absurdium and being mad that people care more about themselves than gazans instead of caring about only dictators like a good tankie

"Don't vote for Biden his followers are idiots"

Boy do I have news about Magats then!

but like YEAH "Death to America" girlies are performative pumpkin spice latte Karens who dicovered an aestetically pleasing scarf, these fuckers actually DO want to bomb DC to the ground

[ultraviolencced]

so called leftists: genocide joe has to go

genocide joe: drops out

so called leftists returning to their lib origin: kamala *heart eyes*

actual leftists:she’s copmala she’s killer kamala like yall she has said over and over that israhell has the “right to defend itself” and has no intention of pulling funding and weapons to israhell SHES A FUCKING COP GUESS WHO TRAINS AMERIKKKAN PIGS THE FUCKING IDF

[bongjuiceconcentrate]

incredibly interesting how “leftists” on the internet decided that, now that autism is cool and trendy, making fuck of schizophrenic people is 100% completely fine and in fact, the new go to group of people to insult

[zeb-z]

everybody all like ‘oh Hunters reaction to Crosshair being captured vs his reaction to Omega is awfully telling’ telling of what? huh? yeah the capture of his daughter after watching his brother die is a liiitle different from the capture he isn’t even sure is real of a brother who has used similar tactics to trap them.

like yeah, if the last you knew about your bro was him choosing to fight for a fascist regime right after using a distress signal to trap you, you would be a little skeptical! and he still went to try and save Crosshair anyway, and lost Tech permanently and Omega temporarily in the process.

going to save your shady nazi supporting brother who’s done something similar in the past vs going to save your innocent kid daughter. there’s a bit of a different attitude going into both!

it just irks me. the audience is privy to his character development, the rest of the batch is not. there’s a lot of different factors to consider. and if you’re getting that Hunter doesn’t care about Crosshair, or he only cares about Omega and nothing else, you’re just wrong straight up.

[missiodine]

tfw you wanna try to play ttrpgs again, but ever since playing a few years ago during a certain two campaigns, you were bullied by people who you thought were your friends because you didn't know how to play and they made up reasons why they should dislike you irl. especially while you tried to be nice to them and give them space and tried to make steps towards interacting with them in rp too.

like no, it wasn't like "oh, it's just character interaction, these characters just don't like each other!" no it was "no joke, I absolutely hate your guts, Miss Iodine, fuck you and I'll be an arse to you in-game and irl. i will ignore everything you and your character say, i will attack your character because why not and say it's just what my character would do, and then start harassing my DMs"

love it when i tried for months to reach out for a proper sit down only to be given a sorry-not-sorry half-assed push the blame onto the victim apology

like yes this lives rent free in my head. you won, if that's what you wanted.

[underscorecareless]

Wowa, finding there is no such thing as true empathy in this world

Just an attempt at understanding

And an attempt at sympathy

Neither of those are quite the same thing

And its a shame to pretend

[thesinisterseventh]

no. no no no no no no no no no no no

[angel---eater]

i think the universes greatest warriors are those in 10+ year long LDRs cause holy fucking shit. holy fucking shit yall. trying to immigrate for over a decade is. i mean

[nerevarbignaturals]

let me introduce you to the world's best tool; it's called Blocking That Person So You Don't Have To See Their Horrible Political Takes

[starblaster]

"but if you're pro-union, why are you anti-cop-union?" because cops are not laborers. what cops do is not labor. they are enforcers of the laws that oppress laborers and exist solely to protect capital. don't bother me with stupid questions.

🛑 STOP asking me to make the post rebloggable. i refuse to let a bunch of anticommunists, libertarian anarchists, neoliberal spooks, and other pro-cop fascists pass around their bad-faith additions on a post if i can help it (which i can, by disabling reblogs) while others of you are saying some really misguided, off-topic shit, and it’s pissing me off.

please get your facts straight before embarrassing yourselves on the internet. for fucking ONCE in your lives.

i am not “redefining labor” i SAID that cops are not LABORERS (EXPLOITED WORKERS) unionizing to receive better working conditions for the betterment of their fellow workers. they participate in collective bargaining with the express goal of subjugating and abusing the working class by protecting their fellow cops who harass, brutalize, stalk, rape, and kill the poor, homeless, working class, and other marginalized people. OTHER, ACTUAL LABOR UNIONS also use collective bargaining power to protect their members. if you argue otherwise, i’m sorry but you need to get serious and examine not only the truth about what a labor union is and does but why our purposes and missions and goals as unions are what they are. clarification aside, here, that wasn’t the fucking point of this post! the derailing and misunderstandings of what a LABOR UNION IS that occurred in the short time this post was rebloggable was too insane not to shut off reblogs!

COP unions, LIKE I SAID IN THE ORIGINAL/ABOVE POST, ARE UNIFIED IN DIAMETRIC OPPOSITION TO THE LIBERATION OF WORKERS, AS IN PEOPLE WHO DO LABOR (WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE LITERAL ARMED PROTECTORS OF CAPITAL)

NO OTHER UNION BASHES, KILLS, OR ARRESTS STRIKING WORKERS LIKE COP (OR PRISON GUARD) UNIONS DO.

if you agree with the post so much that you NEED it on your blog or whatever, post a screenshot of the original post with this part cropped out and leave me the fuck alone! THANK YOUUU!!!!!!!

and to the wiseasses saying screenwriters and actors "aren't laborers, either," are you just fucking stupid actually? you think artistic labor isn’t labor? shut the fuck up.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

https://www.tumblr.com/mogai-sunflowers/755171327009226752/well-people-like-you-are-fascist-bootlickers-who

https://www.tumblr.com/mogai-sunflowers/754390025163210752/a-warm-celestial-welcome

Get a load of this fuck

I remember this person. They used to be all cutesy queer positivity type of posts. Wild to see them pivot to being anti-voting on main. Also ofc they have zionists dni in their bio.

I mean if signallling the virtues on your pinned includes "I hate Jews" then that's the hill you want to die on, I guess

"Holy shit two genocides" is so good I asked on my main if I could start using that

AWWW they're a tankie

I think OP did all the rebutting for me expect making fun of their name, that's a bit childish

thanks for introducing me to OP

[wilwheaton]

Hey man, I could use a few talking points to help convince a friend that Musk is horrible. I'm reading 'Think Again' by Adam Grant (good read btws) and he says to help convince people to come to your viewpoint that it can be good to have 2 or 3 strong points instead of 10 mixed points. The counter argument I get from people about Musk being good is that he did spacex and tesla, and without him we'd be decades behind. Maybe, but I don't have good ammo. Please help as I get too angry tobe critical

Well, listen, the fascism, the transphobia, the chaos, and the unwavering support for autocrats all over the planet really ought to be enough to outweigh anything else, if you ask me. It sounds like you know some people who got excited about the companies he threw money at, and they are having a tough time updating their feelings due to current events. Or maybe they share his values and don't want to admit that.

But I'll try to offer some simple facts.

He did not do engineering with Tesla or SpaceX or even PayPal. He is a fraud. He walked into these existing businesses, where people had done actual work and engineering, threw some of his Apartheid money at them, and took credit for their work. He claims, over and over again, to be a founder of these companies, and that's just straight up a lie that is easily disproved.

He literally did nothing except throw money at people and take credit for their work. Look at every Tesla up to the (chokes back laughter) Cybertruck. Those Teslas look like cars, because they were designed by engineers. Look at the Cybertruck. When you stop laughing at what a joke it is, know this: that's what happens when Elon Musk is in charge. It's like a ten year-old with some crayons drew it on a menu at Denny's.

All of the things his weird fans claim he made possible, are things that would have happened, and were in the process of happening, without him. He literally did nothing to advance the technologies or engineering. In fact, SpaceX whistleblowers have told reporters how they had to keep Musk occupied with bullshit, so they could do the real work without him fucking it up all the time with his incompetence.

But even if he were telling the truth, even if the myth were fact, it would not outweigh the damage, the pain, the chaos, and the suffering he has inflicted on millions and millions of people, all over the world with his lies, his spread of misinformation, and his incitement of angry incels.

Also, don't forget, when Ukraine was trying to defend itself, he turned off Starlink access when they could have decisively ended Russia's aggression. A lot of people have suffered and died as a direct consequence of that action, which he took to support his buddy and fellow autocrat, Vladimir Putin.

That's more information than I think your friends will be willing to hear. Studies indicate that people who are heavily invested in the myth of a person will fight hard to hold onto the myth, and reject truth and facts, because it's so jarring to them. Musk has built a cult of personality, and maybe your friends are stuck to it.

I'd gently encourage your friends to consider one key fact: he has lied about his entire origin story, he has lied about his contributions to Tesla and SpaceX. He lies about everything, except when he posts on Twitter like a 12 year-old edgelord, because that's who he is, emotionally.

Finally, and this is for you, specifically: if your friends insist on supporting a fascist, a racist, a misogynist, or a bigot, because they think rockets are cool, maybe it's time to look for new friends.

I hope this helps.

And fuck Elon Musk.

[the-bees-patella]

ok, well now what.

My fellow Americans: hello from your local pissed-the-fuck-off former community organizer.

You're probably seeing a lot of calls to support each other right now, and that's all well and good in principle. Where we tend to stumble is largely practical: we're not sure where, how, or when. The same way it works to make a plan to vote, make a plan to help. A few key points:

Please do not get impatient if the organization's response to you is late or generic at first, or if what you're asked to do isn't what you offered. A lot of local organizations—where your impact will be the greatest—are very small and 100% volunteer-run. You're here to help. Don't be one more thing they have to manage.

Be honest with yourself and the organization about your capacity. If that's a couple hours on a weekend from time to time, that's great. If that's driving people places once a month, if it's a small, regular donation—whatever it is, it's one more person helping who wasn't before. The point of doing it all together is that none of us can do everything, and it isn't on any one of us to do it all. It's much easier to scale up your participation than it is to take on a big responsibility and back out.

Stick with it. Everybody's fired up right now, and many organizations won't be lacking for personnel or funds...for now. They'll need you when it gets boring, when people get tired and busy. Whether it's recurring donations or one shift a week, stick with it for as long as you can, which is why see point 2 above. The need will not stop. The help can't either.

My aim with this brief list of organizations/funds is not to be comprehensive, it's more a starting point of both actual orgs and the types of opportunities there are out there. I highly encourage you to look around in your local community. There are people out there working on creative solutions in innovative ways to problems you didn't even know existed.

I know it might sound small or facile, but I promise, going out there and talking to real people will help. Just go to one meeting, on Zoom, in person, anything. Start there. Everything you're able to do is more than there was before.

Fascists thrive on despair and isolation, on mistrust and fear. But there is good in this world, it's worth fighting for, and you're part of it. The time is now. Let's fuck them up. (List below the cut).

If you're on bluesky, here is a much more specific list of organizations. If you're not, reply to this post or send me an ask with your region and I'll respond if I can. Everyone else, please feel free to add your local organizations in the reblogs. Make sure you do your vetting first; please link to a direct source/person/means of contact if you add something to the list.

Trainings and support for leaders to run for public school boards

And library boards

Black and brown youth organizing

Labor organizing in the South/Southwest

Mutual Aid in NYC/Donate to keep that mutual aid active

Mutual aid/volunteer orgs in DC

Supporting and training young progressives to run for office

Collective action against medical debt

Climate action

[the-rainbow-lesbian]

gaza has no freedom of press, it's a fascist state ruled by a terrorist organization funded by the IRGC with the intent of killing jewish people and wiping out israel off the map and they kill and torture anyone who they suspect opposes them or is pro peace with israel. meaning any information coming out of gaza is directly coming out of hamas, because as fucked up as it is, this terrorist organization is also their government so when you share their figures and the "news" from their "journalists" you are aiding terrorists who are nazi-like in their hatred of jewish people to more quickly and easily spread their propaganda and fulfill their goal, they are actually quiet pleased when they see you make your jewish neighbors feel unsafe around you, they are an antisemitic islamofascist death cult and this is obvious to anyone who pays a little bit of attention, you don't get the excuse of "not knowing any better"