#speak out

[punkspacepirate]

SHOUT IT

SAY HIS NAME: Nex Benedict, another 16 YEAR OLD was murdered in Oklahoma, news channels are deadnaming and misgendering him, just like with Brianna Ghey here in the UK. But I urge you to not let your grief drive you to despair. GET ANGRY. Do not become apathetic, do not let grief numb you. Stand united as a community, lean on each other, have each others back. Reach out to any trans individuals of any age and make sure they have support in some capacity. Speak with your family, your political representatives, your school, anywhere, with anyone, that may be able to make some change, whether big or small. Everything builds, that is the power of a movement, of solidarity. If you make life a bit safer for one trans youth once, then you may have saved their life that day. And that kid might then show some other kid that there is hope, and so they live as well. And it grows.

Fly high Nex.

[rithikap12]

today is an important day to remember this poem 💙

[palatinewolfsblog]

"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." Ayn Rand.

[eliz-copalian]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This is a shrewd a summation of the current coup in the United States and the crisis it is generating. Thoroughly recommend. American friends take note: It can and must be resisted if your country is to survive as a constitutional democracy.

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THE LOGIC OF DESTRUCTION - AND HOW TO RESIST IT

By DR. TIMOTHY D. SNYDER, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University

What is a country? The way its people govern themselves. America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws. The assumption of a democracy is that individuals have dignity and rights that they realize and protect by acting together.

The people who now dominate the executive branch of the government deny all of this, and are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation. For them, only a few people, the very wealthy with a certain worldview, have rights, and the first among these is to dominate.

For them, there is no such thing as an America, or Americans, or democracy, or citizens, and they act accordingly. Now that the oligarchs and their clients are inside the federal government, they are moving, illegally and unconstitutionally, to take over its institutions.

The parts of the government that work to implement laws have been maligned for decades. Americans have been told that the people who provide them with services are conspirators within a “deep state.” We have been instructed that the billionaires are the heroes.

All of this work was preparatory to the coup that is going on now. The federal government has immense capacity and control over trillions of dollars. That power was a cocreation of the American people. It belongs to them. The oligarchs around Trump are working now to take it for themselves.

Theirs is a logic of destruction. It is very hard to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point. They don’t want to control the existing order. They want disorder in which their relative power will grow.

Think of the federal government as a car. You might have thought that the election was like getting the car serviced. Instead, when you come into the shop, the mechanics, who somehow don’t look like mechanics, tell you that they have taken the parts of your car that work and sold them and kept the money. And that this was the most efficient thing to do. And that you should thank them.

The gap between the oligarchs’ wealth and everyone else’s will grow. Knowing what they themselves will do and when, they will have bet against the stock market in advance of Trump’s deliberately destructive tariffs, and will be ready to tell everyone to buy the crypto they already own. But that is just tomorrow and the day after.

In general, the economic collapse they plan is more like a reverse flood from the Book of Genesis, in which the righteous will all be submerged while the very worst ride Satan’s ark. The self-chosen few will ride out the forty days and forty night. When the waters subside, they will be alone to dominate.

Trump’s tariffs (which are also likely illegal) are there to make us poor. Trump’s attacks on America’s closest friends, countries such as Canada and Denmark, are there to make enemies of countries where constitutionalism works and people are prosperous. As their country is destroyed, Americans must be denied the idea that anything else is possible.

Deportations are a spectacle to turn Americans against one another, to make us afraid, and to get us to see pain and camps as normal. They also create busy-work for law enforcement, locating the “criminals” in workplaces across the country, as the crime of the century takes place at the very center of power.

The best people in American federal law enforcement, national security, and national intelligence are being fired. The reasons given for this are DEI and trumpwashing the past. Of course, if you fire everyone who was concerned in some way with the investigations of January 6th or of Russia, that will be much or even most of the FBI. Those are bad reasons, but the reality is worse: the aim is lawlessness: to get the police and the patriots out of the way.

In the logic of destruction, there is no need to rebuild afterwards. In this chaos, the oligarchs will tell us that there is no choice but to have a strong man in charge. It can be a befuddled Trump signing ever larger pieces of paper for the cameras, or a conniving Vance who, unlike Trump, has always known the plot. Or someone else.

After we are all poor and isolated, the logic goes, we will be consoled by the thought that there is at least a human being to whom we can appeal. We will settle for a kind of anthropological minimum, wishful contact with the strong man. As in Russia, pathetic video selfies sent to the Leader will be the extent of politics.

For the men currently pillaging the federal government, the data from those video selfies is more important than the people who will make them. The new world they imagine is not just anti-American but anti-human. The people are just data, means to the end of accumulating wealth.

They see themselves as the servants of the freedom of the chosen few, but in fact they are possessed, like millennia of tyrants before them, of fantastic dreams: they will live forever, they will go to Mars. None of that will happen; they will die here on Earth, with the rest of us, their only legacy, if we let it happen, one of ruins. They are god-level brainrotted.

The attempt by the oligarchs to destroy our government is illegal, unconstitutional, and more than a little mad. The people in charge, though, are very intelligent politically, and have a plan. I describe it not because it must succeed but because it must be described so that we can make it fail. This will require clarity, and speed, and coalitions. I try to capture the mood in my little book On Tyranny. Here are a few ideas.

If you voted Republican, and you care about your country, please act rather than rationalize. Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, your money, your country, and your future, make it known to your elected officials that you wanted something else. And get ready to protest with people with whom you otherwise disagree.

Almost everything that has happened during this attempted takeover is illegal. Lawsuits can be filed and courts can order that executive orders be halted. This is crucial work.

Much of what is happening, though, involves private individuals whose names are not even known, and who have no legal authority, wandering through government offices and issuing orders beyond even the questionable authority of executive orders. Their idea is that they will be immunized by their boldness. This must be proven wrong.

Some of this will reach the Supreme Court quickly. I am under no illusion that the majority of justices care about the rule of law. They know, however, that our belief in it makes their office something other than the undignified handmaiden of oligarchy. If they legalize the coup, they are irrelevant forever.

Individual Democrats in the Senate and House have legal and institutional tools to slow down the attempted oligarchical takeover. There should also be legislation. It might take a moment, but even Republican leaders might recognize that the Senate and House will no longer matter in a post-American oligarchy without citizens.

Trump should obviously be impeached. Either he has lost control, or he is using his power to do obviously illegal things. If Republicans have a sense of where this is going, there could be the votes for an impeachment and prosecution.

Those considering impeachment should also include Vance. He is closer to the relevant oligarchs than Trump, and more likely to be aware of the logic of destruction than he. The oligarchs have likely factored in, or perhaps even want, the impeachment and prosecution of Trump. Unlike Vance, Trump has charisma and followers, and could theoretically resist them. He won’t; but he poses a hypothetical risk to the oligarchs that Vance does not.

Democrats who serve in state office as governors have a chance to profile themselves, or more importantly to profile an America that still works. Attorneys general in states have a chance to enforce state laws, which will no doubt have been broken.

The Democratic Party has a talented new chair. Democrats will need instruments of active opposition, such as a People’s Cabinet, in which prominent Democrats take responsibility for following government departments. It would be really helpful to have someone who can report to the press and the people what is happening inside Justice, Defense, Transportation, and the Treasury, and all the others, starting this week.

Federal workers should stay in office, if they can, for as long as they can. This is not political, but existential, for them and for all of us. They will have a better chance of getting jobs afterwards if they are fired. And the logic of their firing is to make the whole government fail. The more this can be slowed down, the longer the rest of us have to get traction.

And companies? As every CEO knows, the workings of markets depend upon the government creating a fair playing field. The ongoing takeover will make life impossible for all but a few companies. Can American companies responsibly pay taxes to a US Treasury controlled by their private competitors? Tesla paid no federal tax at all in 2024. Should other companies pay taxes that, for all they know, will just enrich Tesla’s owner

Commentators should please stop using words such as “digital” and “progress” and “efficiency” and “vision” when describing this coup attempt. The plotting oligarchs have legacy money from an earlier era of software, which they are now seeking to leverage, using destructive political techniques, to destroy human institutions. That’s it. They are offering no future beyond acting out their midlife crises on the rest of us. It is demeaning to pretend that they represent something besides a logic of destruction.

As for the rest of us: Make sure you are talking to people and doing something. The logic of “move fast and break things,” like the logic of all coups, is to gain quick dramatic successes that deter and demoralize and create the impression of inevitability. Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them.

What is a country? The way its people govern themselves. Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.

[alwaysbewoke]

being anti-genocide is not allowed on meta

like i said before, i don't mess with shaun king like that, but that being said, many things about one thing can be true at the same time. it is very clear that there is a wave of censorship happening across social media against pro-palestinian content in favor of israeli propaganda. so whether or not you like shaun or not, it is very clear what is happening and why. there is clearly a genocide happening in gaza that is being perpetuated by colonizing power. a genocide against an indigenous population for land, resources, and power. basically the same thing america did to the natives here. had it not been for people like shaun king (flawed as he may be), many people would not be aware of the heinous acts of israel against the palestinian people right now. so even as someone who is not a shaun king fan, i am not so myopic in my view of things to not realize that he served a positive purpose when it comes to the israeli genocide of palestinians.

on a much larger scale, whenever a platform or a power attacks someone popular, one of the goals is to send a message to everyone else that they are not safe and that they should back off. it's like a football coach picking on and cursing out their hall of fame quarterback. when everyone else who isn't as popular or powerful sees that on the team, they immediately realize that they must fall in line or worse can happen to them. that's the goal of banning shaun king from ig. however as a black man who understands how connected all oppressive systems are, we cannot slow down. may i remind all my brothers and sisters that israel is where police forces like the nypd go and train in abusive violent tactics, which they then come back to america and overwhelmingly exercise on black and brown bodies. so if you think this does not affect you, you are sadly and deeply mistaken. additionally, this kind of censorship is going to spread. if we don't fight back, it won't be long before you will be arrested for speaking out against israel. this is what israel wants, and they have the money and political power to make it happen. you can either sit back and let it happen or you can fight back. however, make no mistake, it's coming, and this is the first major blow that the enemy has struck in their offensive against our free speech.

[ryiju-muunie]

ALL EYES ON RAFAH

Yes I’m gonna use the fucking jjk tag if you have a problem I could care less. I’m a jujutsu kaisen fanfic acc, yeah, but I’m also a person and there’s shit that’s more important than fiction going on.

If this is at least shown to someone from scrolling through jjk shit and they repost it I’ve done my job.

Here is a link to @ Erenhattamers link tree on Tik tok. Here you can help give aide to Palestinian families that need it.

Here is a link to @ operation olive branch’s link tree on Tik tok.

I know so many of you people on here have platforms. You have people who follow you. Sure it’s for fucking JJK shit. But why don’t you use it? I don’t care if it’s tumblr I don’t care if it’s your private instagram.

Use. It.

I DONT CARE: if it doesn’t go with your theme. I DONT CARE: if you don’t know enough. I DONT CARE: if you don’t post!!

I don’t care if you have ten followers or ten thousand. The algorithm needs engagement. So engage. Don’t spout bullshit when you can do shit to help.

I’m angry at my friends with Tik tok accounts or instagram accounts doing nothing. I’m angry at celebrities who want us to eat cake while they galavant around. I’m angry at people who sit and repost videos on Tik tok and think theyre model citizens.

I’m posting links. Re post those links. If you have money, donate. If you don’t. Repost. Protest, put stickers on benches, something. Block celebrities who don’t speak out, flood their comment sections. Pressure them. Do whatever the hell you can.

I might not have the most information and I might not have a lot to say other than pure anger. But I’m going to be pressuring everyone I know with platforms to say something.

[seekerwingzcg]

My personal post war Megatron Anthem. Reminds me to speak out against injustice.

Remember Garfunkel's words (original song writer) and sing your song to heal someone else's broken heart and hopefully this broken world. She needs to hear you.

-Peace through Empathy.

[windywaves]

"Don’t post politics!" NO. Post them. Raise your voice. Exercise your right to question, to challenge, to speak up. Awareness is our weapon, our shield against the injustices we face and the oppression that threatens to come. Use your voice to shine a light, to resist, to remind those in power that we see, we hear, and we refuse to be silenced.

[waragainstapathy]

E

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they weaponize words

to divide and to conquer

that is their grand plan

if you might wonder

their vocabulary

lacks sophistication

to pack lethal punches

and fuel transformation

for we are the poets!

the artists, you see

musicians and painters

reflect history

we see it all coming

words are our passion

they may fire first

but we'll have the last one

there's one thing I fear

our souls are too fragile

to ready for combat

or prepare for battle

here's a call to the people:

we are the musicians!

screaming out symphonies

...nobody listens

we recognize patterns

this one is fearsome

time to take action

rise up against them

those who control

want to turn back the clock

repeal all the rights

for which we have fought

they brainwash your mind

you think it is fine

hopefully you will all

wake up in time.

[gennsoup]

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[yogutwo]

i dunno guys project 2025 pisses me off.

like genuinely none of the shit in there would benefit you if you aren’t a rich straight white man. then on top of that it’s 900 pages of ignoring the constitutional rights put in place two hunad years ago?

like if i genuinely had the financial situation america would no longer be my home, much less the south. but the thing is people aren’t paying attention to our choices right now. the winner doesn’t have to be trump it just has to be republican, and it’s not like the democrats are much better. COUGH COUGH BIDEN.

Biden who funds war crimes overseas in israel and sends artillery over to fuel the genocide in palestine. he’s does all that funding and doesn’t focus on his own country that is struggling itself with housing and inflation. i’ve never been big into politics except for the fact that i’ve dabbled in presidential stuff so if what i say is misinformation correct me and i’ll edit the post.

But it is way more important then ever to GO VOTE. PROTEST. BOYCOTT. SPEAK OUTTTT.

closed mouths don’t get fed and your voice is your weapon use that shit to its full potential.

[alexithemiyatic]

The loudest voices won't dictate the way I speak

Surrounded by the herd of elephants, I won't be meek

They scream because they're hurt

I scream so I can be heard

At the end of the day, they communicate while I try to comprehend

I will speak with respect and will not act like them with condescend

[thefrogsthewaterturnedgay]

I wish I could be there at the encampment protests at colleges. Students are being detained, graduations are being cancelled. People are risking their education and futures for Palestine. That is incredible and beautiful. The protests are peaceful and not at all hateful. The opposite in fact, the demonstrations are for love and peace and freedom. All of the things America is supposed to stand for. But students and professors are getting arrested. What happens to our constitutional right to peacefully protest when the US government doesn't want you to know the role they's played in this apartheid, oppression, and genocide for decades? Suddenly they come up with a scapegoat of antisemitism to silence us. Thousands of Jewish students are protesting alongside Palestinians. We need to learn from history to not repeat the same mistakes, Never Again means something.

If you are like me, and are unable to participate in these protests for whatever reasons (personally I do not live anywhere near one and cannot drive, as I am still in high school and living with my parents), continue to speak up. Post about it, educate your friends and families, use your voice. Our generation is blessed with a tool to speak out. We have something our past generations did not have, which is a way to spread information and advocate to people who may not even know about this. Use it to our advantage. Make the world acknowledge this.

Netanyahu has just passed the ground invasion of Rafah, the place Palestinians were told would be safe. It doesn't take a master's degree in history or any higher education to see that this is wrong. Please, do whatever you can to speak out. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤

[razreads]

You don’t have to be part of a group to understand that they’re being mistreated.  

James Ponti, City Spies

[spacedadsupport]

Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport When you silence yourself to keep the peace, you're simply advancing the war for those who would obliterate you and others. 3:06 PM · Dec 29, 2023