#stop dodging the question

[needabetternamelater]

JFC! YOU ARE DESCRIBING A PRISON.

I’m watching a video on the philosophy of prison abolition and these two guys (one white. One black) are talking about how people really do want to see people punished for wrongdoing but no one admits to it

And I may well be biased but it’s feeling smug to me, like thevye caught people out having Bad Thoughts and are above it all

And I just… ok Mr Harvard professor, so what do YOU want to see happen to Donald Trump, then?

[needabetternamelater]

Read it, it just dodges the question. Now what?

[blood-orange-juice]

an absolutely normal reaction to ffxiv lore

[monstrsball]

reigen going to r/AmITheAsshole after his fight with mob

[needabetternamelater]

Congrats, you dodged both questions so you wasted two baskets.

who’s left- Mariame/Prison Abolition

by Flynn Nicholls

[queerdiazs]

i am just a fool, but i have loved you all along | 5.1k, teen

for @spagheddiediaz. love u loser.

“I made a list,” he says, digging in the pocket of his jacket and producing a wrinkled piece of paper. “I figured if you could see all the reasons why we shouldn’t date, it’d be easier for you to understand.”  Buck raises a brow, unimpressed, and holds out his hand. “Let me see it.”  Like a scolded child, Eddie hands over the crumpled piece of paper. Buck takes it stiffly, primly, and does his best to unfold it without ripping the corners more than they already are. He reads over the list; Eddie watches his face the entire time, unsure if Buck’s impassive expression is good or bad.  “‘His big tits stretch my shirts out every time he wears them,’” Buck reads aloud, sounding terribly bored and wonderfully amused all at once. “‘He won’t be able to kiss me properly the first time because he’ll be smiling too much. He keeps the AC at seventy-four.’” “That’s hot,” Eddie interjects pointedly. “That’s hot, Buck.”  Buck rolls his eyes. “It’s not that hot.”  “It’s seventy-four. It’s hot.”  Snorting, Buck moves on. “‘Aggressive use of cumin.’” He crinkles his nose and shrugs. “I do love my cumin.”  Eddie nods, swallowing around a lump in his throat the size of Buck’s tits. “As—as you can see, these are all valid reasons why we shouldn’t be together.”  “Oh, definitely. It’s a solid list.” He looks up at Eddie and grins, backlit by the yellow-orange-red of the setting sun. He looks like he’s on fire, but not like he’s going to burn Eddie up. He looks like he’s going to keep Eddie warm instead. “But you do realize it’s nowhere near complete, right?”  Eddie blinks. “It isn’t?”  Buck chuckles. “Nope. I can think of, like, a dozen more reasons why we shown’t date off the top of my head.”

read the rest on ao3

[secondshiftau]

Frisk are you made of cheese?

[starflungwaddledee]

which ocs in the fandom do you find the most interesting? also, which ocs do you think have the most aesthetically pleasing designs? finally, which ocs have you only heard of but would like to know more about?

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooo ha haaa noooo i can't possibly answer this because it would be soooo unfair to have favourites wouldn't it's comet knight by @kittenvirus

[needabetternamelater]

Well, that's what happens when you dodge obvious questions!!!! Come on.

“I attended a conference recently about youth/police interactions. The familiar trope about the need for young people and the cops to get to know each other was bandied about, useless pablum offered as a solution for ending police violence which relies on a faulty definition of the problem. As a young person once told me: ‘I know the cops here very well and they know me. We know each other too well. That’s not the problem. The problem is that they harass me daily. If they’d stop that, we’d be fine.’

The young people in my community who come into contact with the police can recite their names and badge numbers. Those are unforgettable to them; the stuff of their nightmares. It’s unclear to me how more conversations will change the dynamics of such oppression. For most of the public, whether liberal or conservative, it’s the cops’ job to arrest people, and they are incentivized to do that work. Presumably, then, what would need to change to shift the dynamics are the job descriptions and the incentives. […]

History offers evidence of the intractability of the problem of police violence. What should we do then? Quite simply, we must end the police. The hegemony of police is so complete that we often can’t begin to imagine a world without the institution. […]

Importantly, we must reject all talk about policing and the overall criminal punishment system being ‘broken’ or ‘not working.’ By rhetorically constructing the criminal punishment system as ‘broken,’ reform is reaffirmed and abolition is painted as unrealistic and unworkable. Those of us who maintain that reform is actually impossible within the current context are positioned as unreasonable and naïve. Ideological formations often operate invisibly to delineate and define what is acceptable discourse. Challenges to dominant ideological formations about ‘justice’ are met with anger, ridicule or are simply ignored. This is in the service of those who benefit from the current system and to enforce white supremacy and anti-blackness. The losers under this injustice system are the young people I know and love.”

Mariame Kaba, “Summer Heat,” The New Inquiry, June 8, 2015

[meeple-inc]

Mfs be like: "I got my whole life ahead of me!"

Nah bro the ❌ is coming 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Coming to a Meeple Store near you!

Actually, it's already there! You can also order it online here.

[waterwizardcat]

you’re so right about needing that jinken story… every detail gege reveals about kenny and sukuna and that whole mess going on just makes me crave Heian or Yuji birth story flashback even more… like gege please!!!!

maybe im being delusional but it’s always on my mind that sukuna doesn’t really direct any anger at Kenny over the yuji thing and also the fact that sukuna willingly took over the merger too!! like please this feels like a husband being overly indulgent of his wife’s weird tastes 😭😭 gege when do we get the reveal that sukuken had a deep past 😭

exactly! that's what I've been saying, sukuna is weirdly tolerant of kenny, kenny caused so many trouble but he just seems not upset with them at all, letting kenny do whatever they want, even that one time he said kenny is gross he's kinda smiling, and I'll never forget how sukuna jumped out suddenly to save kenny from gojo, why are they like this...i have so many questions 😭

so call me delusional but I believe sukuna likes kenny a lot, you wouldn't casually hang out with someone you hate after a thousand years, not to mention this guy had a son with your dead twin and jailed you in their son, seriously gege I need that heian flashback right now, let me see their deep past i can't take it anymore

[needabetternamelater]

Yeah, people meant what @so-and-sos-blog said so again:

If your reaction to hearing calls to abolish the police and prisons is "but then who will protect people?", you're missing the point.

Cops and prisons exist to maintain white, colonial systems. They exist to keep power in the hands of the privileged.

They don't protect marginalized people, they persecute us. Maybe you're lucky enough to belong to one of the groups that police exist to protect (white people, the rich, etc.), but if you've been paying attention you should know that they only protect you because of your privilege.

So when you say "without police and prisons, who will protect people?", what you actually mean is "without police and prisons, who will protect privilege and the privileged while actively harming everyone else?"

When your instinct is to ask who will help people if not cops and prisons, you need to take a minute to reflect on why prisons and cops protect you in particular. And ask yourself if that protection is really worth the lives of the people of colour, disproportionately Black people, that police and prisons kill.

Because it shouldn't be worth it to you, and if it is then at least admit that you think your life is worth more than the lives of people of colour.

[nexus-nebulae]

is it my fibromyalgia thats making me feel like im just On Fire or

[leonvarcas]

EXPLAIN MEPHISTOPHELES TO ME OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU! DON'T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN MEPHISTOPHELES TO ME RIGHT NOW OR I'LL LITERALLY FUCKING KILL YOu! WHAT THE FUCK IS AN EXTERMINATION OF GEOMETRICAL ORGAN? WHAT THE FUCK ARE CORRIDORS? DON'T DUMB IT DOWN OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!

[taviokapudding]

I was told to go kill myself on my old but permanently banned twitter account when I pointed out that ARMY should be allowed to choose not to stream Idol featuring Nicki Minaj due to her history with defending pedophiles a couple years ago

I just wanna say the universe came to collect and it will get exponentially worse for Mrs. Minaj each time she & her supporters talk nonsense and make poor choices moving forward now that things are really aired out to the public

Let this be a reminder to never mess with those of us born & raised in Texas, doubly if you're someone who's willingly prostrating to a penis who prefers preteens & pacifiers