#like prisons or the police

[spn-rewatch-ventzone]

Oh boy the papers I could write just about the line “Dean, does it bother you how well you fit in here?”

There is so much nuance to Dean’s character in that one line

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[strongermonster]

one of the funniest news things in canada that always tickles me is the ongoing war between magic mushroom shops and the police.

this is the absolute height of humour to me right now

[regicidal-defenestration]

Big news from the criminology trenches. Did you know that if you treat someone like a human being rather than Someone Who Will, We Know, For Sure And Undoubtedly, Commit A Crime, So We Must Lock Them Away Before Their Foul Words Can Infect Our Pure Minds, then conversations about cybercrime are more successful? [1]

[1] R. Brewer, M. de Vel-Palumbo, A. Hutchings, T. Holt, A. Goldsmith, and D. Maimon, "Targeted Warnings and Police Cautions" in Cybercrime Prevention: Theory and Applications. Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019, 77-99

[littlest-foxx]

HI IM IN SUCH A GOOD MOOD !!!! my shitty sexist supervisor (who’s always sexually harassing me and being a dick to patients) got fired today thanks to me :3 muahaha.

2 weeks ago he did some police brutality bs to a lady who was tryna get admitted. he threw her face down on the ground several times kneeling on her back. which *** all hospitals will tell you to NEVER put patients face down because they can go into cardiac arrest from it. *** also she was throwing up and drunk so she could have aspirated during this too.

anyway, nothing was getting done about it and yesterday i went to my CEO and the assistant director, told them this longgggg ass thing about him and how i refuse to work with someone who is going to cause a patient death and blahblahblah. and today there was a full investigation into camera footage and interviews with people who were there and he is ✨✨ fired hunnyy✨✨

i refuse to stand by while people take advantage of and brutalize anyone. and i wasnt there when it happened but i sure as fuck will not be complicit in it so —

[bumblydumbly]

Crazy how people buy into the ‘Vander and Vi hero, Silco and Jinx villain’ thing like the writers didnt try so hard to tell you its not even close to being that simple

[grindel-elf]

I want to underscore that the creator of the audio has stated multiple times in their other videos (and in the full length video this audio is from), that she recognizes that voting/demonstrating/calling your reps DOES indeed have an impact, however, they go on to explain that the impact is simply NOT ENOUGH at this point; that by itself, protest is ineffective without making other disruptions to the system. I highly encourage you to check out his other videos. She has a lot of great content that breaks things down.

You can find their videos at this link:

[balis77]

Ekko when he comes back from the arcane dimension and finds out Jinx somehow became the most responsible member of the main cast in the meantime:

[istharoth]

Can Leo like,,

lift my chin with his baton while pinning me to the wall? (Idk just a thought...)

[hms-no-fun]

Why do you, as a marxist, talk like a liberal

[batfamfixation]

Batman is not "pro-police" and is sure as hell not a Republican

Some people are under the impression that Batman is pro-police, but that is literally so inaccurate. Batman is for police reform and accountability, and he will personally do it himself if he has to. He is anti-gun and believes a police officer should never shoot unless absolutely necessary. He wouldn't have become Batman if he thought the police were competent. He only works with Jim Gordon, because he thinks most of the police are incompetent. He would and has fist fought with dirty cops. He thinks that getting rid of corrupt cops (and politicians) is an important part of making Gotham a better place. He prefers giving petty criminals jobs and social resources rather than having them arrested.

He is not just for police reform but also prison reform, because he believes the point of prisons should be about rehabilitating inmates. He believes that no one is beyond rehabilitation. That is borderline one of his character flaws. He hires former inmates so they can make a living without turning back to crime. He even has a halfway house that former convicts can stay in until they get figuratively back on their feet. He prefers eradicating crime by addressing the root cause, which is often poverty and a lack of social resources.

AND ANOTHER THING- There's this idea that Gotham is a shithole because Bruce isn't doing enough with his wealth, but that doesn't take into account that he is nowhere near the only billionaire in Gotham. He's up against the Court of Owl elites, and a lot of them are board members for Wayne Enterprises and have a say in what the company can and can not do. The Court of Owls plays a heavy roll in politics and most politicians are puppets of the Court and mobs. Politicians that aren't corrupt get killed by the bad guys for refusing to obey. Look at what happened to Harvey Dent. Look at how much money he has funneled into Arkham to no avail. Bruce can not own and control every aspect of every major business in Gotham. No person should have a monopoly on an entire city.

[mercymornsimpathizer]

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[widowshill]

— Are you sure Burke wants to buy Collinwood? — Yes, he said so. I'm just afraid it's only the beginning of what he wants.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[barszcz-czerwony-i-biali]

Last semestre of English I was technically supposed to read Kafka's the trial. I didn't but managed to write a great paper on humour and authoritarianism and The trial and Milan Kundera's Žert as a way of coping as well as resistance but that paper isn't the point.

Anyway seeing discussions about Kafka's Jewish identity and how it explains his writing makes the trial quite relatable especially now.

Like dealing with antisemitism it's like being on trial without knowing why. Endless and constantly changing, forced to play by rules that have no rhyme or reason. The absurdity of the process and accusations would be funny if it weren't for the fact that I could end up dead like Josef K.

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

i remember being in an anthropology (????) class a couple years back and experiencing it as a fairly leftist group. then, (foolishly) assuming that everyone would be on the same page as me, i brought up the need for prison abolition and got absolutely DOGPILED and outright dismissed by my classmates and ta. literally the equivalent of this