#fuck the police & free the people

[mueritos]

i hope we continue to see more protests within the US military. i see a lot of leftists and folks who are anti-military who have such an open disdain for the people who are in the military, yet neglect to considering the conditions this country makes to produce ideology, poverty, and the illusion of choice to make all kinds of people choose to enlist in the military. You ever see those videos of ROTC kids recording each other asking why they joined the military and everyone's like, "healthcare", "it helped me go to college", "I was bored" or "free ptsd lol". I hate to remind everyone but folks who are in the military are people, too, and they are the same victims and perpetrators of violence as the rest of you, we have all been shallowly conditioned to view each other as enemies just because one person is wearing army greens and the other is not.

some of the biggest anti-war advocates are those who engaged in war. Veterans who genuinely believed they were protecting the US against "terrorism" come back with blood on their hands, and they choose to realize that it was US imperialism that forced them to carry out violence, instead of doubling down and shielding themselves from the fact that they too are capable of atrocities... This is a class of people who are intentionally conditioned to be as poor and as ideologically aligned to US imperialism so that the military has a never-ending pool to send their youth to destroy other country's youth. The only people I have ever heard say "do not join the military" are those who ARE military.

This is in no way to ever excuse or explain away any of the atrocious war crimes and violence this industry and its people have committed against others. What I am saying is that we absolutely cannot cast aside the individuals who have been victimized within US imperialism, even if they are wearing army greens. I was speaking with my Palestinian classmate last week and another classmate--a member of the US air force-- walked up to me and struck up a conversation. My military classmate showed me her new bird, bid both of us goodbye, and left. My Palestinian classmate asked me if I was close with her, and I said we talked quite often, and she said, "I never met a person who's in the military. I still hate the military, but I never knew that they did, too. I didn't realize that they were also victims."

If my Palestinian classmate--one who is actively watching her own community die--can understand that it is not individuals who are the problem but it is in fact systems, US imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism...why can't we all? And she has EVERY reason to hate any individual military member. A lot of online activism just creates more barriers. if your optics look bad, complicated, or contradictory, you are cast aside. Everyone has got the be the perfect activist, you can never make a mistake or share a half-baked thought, you should always believe every word from a marginalized persons mouth (because being marginalized doesn't mean you're not entrenched in white supremacy too!) and you should never question what you see...Do you know what you sound like? The very imperialists who are convincing poor whites to vote against themselves. Perfectionism is white supremacy. Black & white thinking is white supremacy.

I'd rather have a military member who genuinely believed in the US imperialism machine but was disillusioned after being deployed as my comrade than some leftist who cherishes the performance of "being a good person". I don't want "good people" in our movements. I want humans who care. I want humans who make mistakes and who learn from them. I want humans who accept the messiness of a person. I want humans who hold others accountable and allow themselves to take responsibility for their actions. I want people who change for themselves and others.

fight systems, not individual people. we can change each other, but if we're too preoccupied looking like the World's Perfect Activists, we will only consume each other alive. Connect to your fellow humans, forever and always.

[autistic-katara]

peaceful is when u punch jews, yell slurs, set things on fire and wave around signs with mein kampf quotes on it

[raatteeth]

so.informed //instagram:

"The Deadly Exchange between U.S. and Israeli police allows for the exchange of tactics on repressive policing, including racial profiling, mass surveillance, deportation and detention, and attacks on human rights. This is the most visible example of how we are fighting one, coordinated, united crackdown - from Columbia to Palestine."

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

i would die for the shark in under paris but that's probably unnecessary to say considering she'd kill me without hesitation. icon. keep killing bestie i love the way you snack on humans you are a star

[myglittervoid]

When leftists were being very critical of Kamala Harris, myself included, we were telling you exactly what was going to keep people from voting for her. When we were critical and you, in your pride as a democrat, came into our replies and comment sections to tell us that you viewed our concerns as an endorsement of Trump, what result did you think that was going to have? When people were telling you that the things she was saying sounded an awful lot like conservative values and you told them to "vote for Trump than" and see how he treats them- what did you think the result of that was going to be?

Because in a country where the majority of people do not even have a high school reading level, people received that as you telling them that the democratic party did not care about their concerns. People received that as you telling them that you viewed them and their concerns as the acceptable cost for you to get what you want. Many of you blatantly said that your political activism would only happen as a response to Trump. You ignored genocide under Biden, but expected people to really believe you when you said you would care about it under Kamala Harris?

I am not happy that man won. But a lot of you assumed he would lose and you let that dictate how you talked to and treated people during this election. I got multiple conservatives to vote for Kamala Harris by just being nice and listening to their concerns and understanding them well enough to know how the Republican party works against them. We aren't talking about politeness politics- we're talking about caring about your principles enough to let them cause you discomfort from time to time.

[adelinamoteru]

at some point some of yall will have to admit to yourselves that the jason todd you like and have built up in fanon is not the jason todd that he actually is

inconsistent canon writing included, I have no idea where these povs on him are coming from if ur not actually meaning to do a disservice to his character

[loveguts]

i love seeing those advocacy groups that say they’re fighting to protect free speech on campus and i think that they mean advocating for the (peaceful btw) pro-palestinian protestors that have been brutalized by police and arrested and expelled en masse, but then i go to their website and they’re just advocating for conservatives to be able to say hate speech with no repercussions

[portrait-of-dorian-gay]

I'm tired of y'all "what side are we on again ?☹️🥺"

"I just don't know anything about politics🥺☹️🫣😖"

Stfu. Learn?

We are in a time where information has never been more easily accessible.

Please get a grip on the realities of the world right now.

[1hellofacookie]

Just. For the record:

Dear historians looking back on this time of the Palestinian Genocide in like what? 50? 70? 100? years time, please note that specifically in Germany barely anyone helped. Barely anyone does shit. At least up until now. A lot of people are acutely aware of what is going on and are still not doing anything. Our government is actively contributing to the genocide. The police are even more fascist than usual.

And if you're still wondering what the people did in Nazi Germany, if they were scared of also being sent to KZs, or if they just didn't know. Honestly no. They were probably the exact same as the people are now: very much aware of what's going on but either actively in support of it or too preoccupied to give enough of a fuck.

[luxaofhesperides]

hope the president of my uni dies in a fire btw ✌️

[myglittervoid]

The average person in the US has a reading level below the 8th grade. Most of the US is lacking media literacy and reading comprehension.

When you hear people say things like "underaged woman", they are counting on you not understanding that they are talking about a child.

[vicontheinternet]

Do ppl not know what the implications of them actively co-signing for the national guard to come to a peaceful protest is? They aren’t going to be as “harmless” as the cops were and they were fucking aggressive as hell. You are actively campaigning for the death of these kids knowing or unknowing because they are protesting. Are they really disrupting you that much? They are not being are nearly disrespectful and disruptive as they could be they could’ve held up inside the school with their dean like Kent university back in the day but they decided to do this peacefully. So why were there snipers for sure at Ohio state but from what I’m hearing on multiple campuses?

[chaiaurchaandni]

[nando161mando]

The UK has absolutely no care about oppression that serves it.

[icannotgetoverbirds]

saw an exclusionist post so here's a reminder

specifically in reference to transmasc lesbians and trying to draw lines in the sand on who can and can't claim the lesbian label, about how being a lesbian is exclusive of loving men, with someone referring to the people they're attempting to exclude as "fandom gremlin transmascs and neo-mogai crazies."

I don't have the spoons for a proper response but i do feel like i need to make something clear.

on this blog we support fucky genders, fandom gremlin transmascs, and neo-mogai crazies. reblog if u love ur fellow fandom gremlin and neo-mogai crazy queers.

[clhampir]

one of my least favorite themes about the internet lately is non-american people complaining that americans are talking about american-centric issues on the internet and being like "nOt EvErYtHiNg ReVoLvEs ArOuNd YoU iDiOtS" and it's like. yeah buddy. that's why we didn't apply it to anywhere else in the world. we're talking about the specific issues we are facing as americans living in the states. the reading comprehension is atrocious