#free speech issues

[ashtonderoy]

Cannabis rant on Instagram.

Written by: Ashton Deroy Click the image above to see how I had to write the stupid Instagram post. In order to talk about working in the Cannabis sector to an American Social Media Audience. This is a post about the Cannabis sector. The post links to Ashton Deroy’s Instagram page. From there you can see the hoops Ashton Deroy has to jump through in order to talk about Cannabis on American…

[whereserpentswalk]

Nonsexual nudity needs to be fully accepted in our society. It should be legal in public. It should be allowed in media regardless of rating or target audience. There is nothing about the human body that is inherently harmful to see or inherently sexual. Reblog if you agree.

[bonefall]

Can I hear more about Villain Thornclaw? The way you described him is a really cool take on his character.

He exudes a sense of detached ruthlessness, something happened and he just never got over it, most of the time he is a model warrior, but sometimes he says something or gives a cold look, and that hints just how much he is willing to do for his beliefs

The first warrior that Firestar named becomes his most insidious enemy.

He was too young to clearly remember Clawface snatching him and his little sister, but he does remember the way it became an early fixation. His favorite games were always reenactments and play fights, and his father Lionheart and kidnapper Clawface would be characters in them. He often would go too far and play rough, actually biting or scratching his playmate.

We, in the real world, may recognize this as a way kids often process trauma. But they don't have cat therapy here.

And quickly these fixations became unsettling. Brightkit didn't like these games, and their older siblings were disturbed. Frostfur reacted strongly and tried to intervene, but it didn't help the way they wanted.

He got good at hiding it, and he got better at finding other ways to express his fixation. He never knew Lionheart, but he DID know Grandma Speckletail, and she would tell him all about the ways he could be like his dad. When you don't know a person, they can be anything you want them to be.

Turns out if you dress up "I'm obsessively xenophobic of foreign cats and want to rip them to shreds" as "I will ferociously avenge my father and uphold his legacy," suddenly you're golden! It's that simple!

(it's almost like clan culture didnt actually value peace or kindness and just encourages you to channel ur violence towards specific ends)

Thornkit went from Grandma Speckletail to Mentor Mousefur, and she continued to cultivate this. There's a time and a place for aggression. Be good to your clanmates. Use words in camp, not claws. She made a good soldier out of him.

When ThunderClan had a reckoning with Tigerclaw and his ideology in TPB, during his coup, the line of thought that went through Thornpaw and the cats like him was that Tigerclaw was the problem. Who could have known! A shock! Sickening!

...for a while they were "better," devastated by his betrayal, more openminded. But minds don't always trend towards progress.

Eventually, Thornclaw backslid. Let's not throw out the kitten with the tonguewash, here. Yes yes, Tigerclaw was a damn traitor and a hypocrite, but there's worse cats to look up to, you can't deny his nobility, that some of his ideas were great for ThunderClan, that there were lofty ideals he merely took from our grand and glorious history and we can return to those days...

What is so terrible about being a thistle? To lash back when you are attacked? To defend the meadow for you and yours?

We can have Tigerclaw's good aspects without the bad, surely?

And Firestar...

You must understand it's nothing personal. Firestar's a fine cat, for a kittypet. There is no hate for him. But we can't have a leader who stops ThunderClan from engaging in honorable combat. The Clan has become too mixed, and he punished him simply for expressing his concerns. What other choice is there? To do nothing as the clans are destroyed from the inside out?

Bluestar brought wildfire to the forest, to burn it to the ground. Firestar is Thornclaw's natural enemy-- and so is every cat like him.

[birdietrait]

i’m so angry today i need to go sit in the sun and listen to adrianne lenker

[quietwingsinthesky]

there’s a progression in there, somewhere, of even going from ‘the master might kill me any day now :(‘ to ‘the master is going to kill me :) she’s not going to let someone else do it after all this time’

[eterniityblooms]

updated my rules to include shipping info + a bit more about my monster muses specifically, since shipping with at LEAST one muse on this account is probably inevitable at some point

[angerinthenation]

Some in our community would rather be surrounded by "Yes Men/Women" than people who will be honest with them. That's why the Lizzo's and others behave the way they do. There's no reason for people who so call love these individuals should allow them to be as self destructive as they are. All the while, other communities just sit back and laugh their asses off while county the money they make off of them. If one of us speaks up, we are called Haters, We are truly crashing to Earth faster and faster each day.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

just got in an argument with my mom and sister because they said that comedians making offensive jokes are funny because “they’re not talking about a specific person, you just don’t have to take it personally” like HELLO??? i used an example with ts since, you know, i have ts and they were like “i’d laugh at a ts joke because they’d be joking about the stereotype” like yOU DO SEE HOW THAT’S EXACTLY THE ISSUE, RIGHT??? and i said that there’s a difference between Me making ts jokes and someone who Doesn’t have ts making ts jokes because 1. mine are actually funny aND TRUE 2. coping 3. I’M NOT MOCKING TS like God

comedians aren’t funny and if you need to insult other people to Be funny then you were never funny to begin with UGH

[trendseng]

Chris Rock's Provocative New Special "Selective Outrage" Takes on Cancel Culture, Race, and Politics

Prior to the 2022 Oscars, comedian Chris Rock will release a new stand-up comedy special titled “Selective Outrage.” The programme is anticipated to address divisive issues like politics, race, and pop culture. Chris Rock has established a reputation as a controversial and irreverent comic, and his most recent special is probably going to push the envelope and challenge his audience’s…

[stinkyies]

i genuinely need people to realize how fucking dangerous project 2025 is. it is quite literally a textbook on how to do fascism. and is more dangerous than u can imagine than the Big Scary Orange Boogie Man's last term.

i know its wikipedia but this article does a GREAT job outlining what project 2025 is and its worse than u can imagine. i am begging people to never take political advice from twitter (lets face it- tumblr too) bc shit like this isnt funny. it will kill so many americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

when i see people express sentiments like this, my thought is pretty much “who exactly are you trying to prove a point to?” the democrats? if trump gets elected, they’re going to be completely sidelined if not worse and will be entirely focused on trying to get back in power and i can tell you they will NOT be moving further left. netanyahu? it’s a BETTER outcome for him if trump wins since trump is SIGNIFICANTLY more pro-israel than biden has ever been. the people in gaza? they need a ceasefire which has been rejected by both the israel and the hamas sides multiple times and a trump win WILL NOT make that a stronger possibility.

[whereserpentswalk]

You have to be at peace with the fact that not everything you find disgusting is immoral. There's no secret way out of it.

[sheilamurrey]

Meta CEO Acknowledges Pressure from Biden Administration to Censor Content, Exposes Deeper Issues

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta Platforms, made a striking admission regarding the influence of the Biden administration on Facebook’s content …Meta CEO Acknowledges Pressure from Biden Administration to Censor Content, Exposes Deeper Issues

[twelvebooksstuff]

This is extremely insightful!

I think the hardest part about addressing child abuse is getting people to acknowledge, not just intellectually but actually responding accordingly, is that the biggest threat to children, the biggest risk of abuse, is family and parents.

it is of course most often parents who are crowing about needing to protect children (often against far smaller threats than family), and pointing out that they are, statistically, the biggest threat to their kids is not gonna be received well.

[kesarijournal]

"We’re Coming for You": The UK Police Chief's Threat to Jail Americans Over Social Media Posts – A Legal and Diplomatic Nightmare

In a startling and alarming turn of events, the UK’s top police official has allegedly threatened to prosecute Americans for their online social media posts. Yes, you read that right—Americans, sitting comfortably in their own homes across the Atlantic, could potentially face jail time in the UK for exercising their First Amendment rights. This isn’t the plot of a dystopian novel; it’s a chilling…

[whereserpentswalk]

Reminder that restrictions of freedom of expression always benefits the right. Giving governments and more corporations more power to control what people talk about, will always make it harder to talk about things that aren't good for governments and corporations.

It's why the majority of people arrested for "antisemitism" in Germany since Oct7 have been jews. It's why Twitter couldn't use its anti nazi algorithm because it was flagging too many US politicians. Even when it looks like it's censorship that helps the left, it always helps the right.

You can only censor things that go agasint the mainstream. People don't realize that despite how logical it is. You can't have cops arresting people for being pro cop. You can't have corporations banning people who support corporations. To get the mainstream to go along with censorship, and to get mainstream powers to do it, it has to be in line with mainstream values.

If you give people in power the ability to censor, they will use it to censor those who challenge their power. Free speech will always benefit the left, and always harm the right.

[i-am-aprl]

Yesterday, Palestinian and solidarity organizers disrupted a Biden campaign event 14 times during his speech on the protection of women's rights. These activists called out hypocrisy because Biden and his administration are actively causing a reproductive care catastrophe in Gaza.

50,000 pregnant women do not have access to healthcare in Gaza, and C-sections are being performed without anesthesia. Women and children in Gaza are being killed by U.S.-made and supplied bombs.

described by @winged-wolf-s-collection-of-arts

[ID: Transcription of what the protesters are saying, while security personnel try to get them out:

Israel kills two mothers every hour in Gaza. Ceasefire now! End the genocide! Ceasefire!

Women in Gaza are being murdered. Killing people in Gaza is a war crime. You are a war criminal.

Stop funding genocide! Ceasefire now!

50,000 pregnant women don't have healthcare. Their blood is on your hands. Ceasefire!

Ceasefire now! Stop funding genocide! Gaza is a reproductive issue.

Free, free Palestine!

The end of the video shows article headlines with photos of the protesters or of Joe Biden, from various news organizations:

POLITICO: Biden's abortion rights rally repeatedly interrupted by protesters

ALJAZEERA: Biden speech interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters

CNN politics: Biden's abortion rights rally in Virginia beset by repeated protests over his handling of Gaza

abcNEWS: Biden campaign speech on abortion rights disrupted 14 times by protesters

yahoo!news: Biden abortion rally in Virginia interrupted by multiple protesters: 'Genocide Joe'

NEW YORK POST: Biden claims Gaza heckler is 'MAGA Republican' as he's interrupted at least 10 times at rally

Forbes: Protesters Interrupt Biden's Abortion Rights Speech More Than A Dozen Times

NBC NEWS: Biden interrupted by protesters more than a dozen times at campaign rally

USA TODAY: President Biden's abortion rally disrupted by repeated protests over Gaza

Reuters: Biden's abortion rights rally in Virginia interrupted by Gaza protests

/End ID]