#the murder capital of the world

[ratbastarddotfuck]

I've never been truly able to get on board with "if you go far enough left, you get your guns back" because I genuinely just don't think we should be mass producing weapons that can facilitate mass murder at the scale we do. like, sure, I'm not against the principle of "marginalised people and activists should have the same access to weaponry that others do, especially for protection in a state of fascism" but I just. we only have these things as a result of the military industry, finding the most efficient ways to kill. these things should never have been made. we shouldn't be producing assault rifles for mass consumption, we shouldn't be producing them at all.

so like. sure. if you go far enough left you get your guns back, I guess. but I think that's a short-sighted and disingenuous way to phrase it, when I would assume that the more "radical" leftist stance is something more akin to global demilitarisation and the cessation of mass-production of weapons (alongside a lot of other garbage made for mass consumption under capitalism - we need to de-industrialise production on a major global scale).

(I don't necessarily mean getting rid of guns "completely" because people will always find ways to engineer them, but I think there is a massive difference between a gun designed for responsible hunting or sport vs a gun designed to kill people as fast as possible, or to be wielded as a threat the way cops do.)

idk. obviously this is a very future-focused perspective and I guess the "far enough left etc." crowd are usually talking more in the present. I just have concerns that this particular piece of rhetoric encourages some leftists to be less critical of the weaponry industry than perhaps we should be.

[cherrimonsterbunni]

[i-eat-worlds]

Starcross Part 5

Flashback! This is shorter, sorry, I was going to work on lengthening it but Clonebang happened.

Content: explicit murder and violence, space imperialism, capital punishment, death, nationalism, conditioned whumpee

KM-4862 ran behind one of the simulated combat center’s many moveable hunks of cover, crouching down by the large block of white metal. The knife’s pulse blade was activated, energy radiating all the way up into the handle. It was thrilling.

Around the corner, it could hear footsteps. They were quiet, more so than would’ve been natural, but not quiet enough. Not like one of its compatriots would’ve been. That was the sound of prey.

A traitor to Yera, who had been sentenced to execution. Well, technically, it was a ght for their life. But they would lose. The weapon would make sure of that. Traitors to Yera deserved nothing but a slow, agonizing death.

It smiled as they rounded the corner, rolling the knife in its hands. Show time. They stepped out from around the box, and it pounced. Body slammed into body as it tackled the traitor to the ground. They screamed, pinned under the weapon’s legs, crying out for some deity it didn’t know in a language it didn’t speak. Nothing would save them, though.

Mercilessly, the weapon sank its knife into their chest. It slid between their ribs like they were made of butter, drawing another scream from their already wide open mouth. They bucked wildly, kicking their legs and scratching at it in an effort to get free, but it was all in vain.

It twisted the knife in their chest, wrenching it inwards towards their sternum. The traitor went silent, eyes shimmering as tears started to flow. They mouthed something that the weapon didn’t understand over and over again.

Every detail of their face was cast in agony. Eyes wide, mouth gaping open, trying to scream but unable too. Not a single speck of the horror on display escaped being burned into KM-4862’s mind. For a brief moment, a microsecond, it felt a tinge of guilt.

Maybe it didn’t want this.

There was no room here for “want.”

The weapon ripped the knife out, blood splattering over everything around it, and over its entire frontside. It rose, knife gripped tightly in its hand, ready for its next target.

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[bunnihearted]

the earth is getting hotter and hotter and nobody's doing anything about it but im misanthropic and depressive because i can see nothing that inspires hope 🤙

[brionysea]

this man is pissing me off

[conjinkies]

HM LOOK AT THAT THE LIGHTS ARE BACK ON

[nando161mando]

"Thirteen protestors were killed in the police firing on May 22, 2018, causing widespread outrage and the subsequent closure of the plant. The protesters had alleged that the Sterlite Copper plant contaminated the region’s air and water resources.

Sterlite Copper owned the copper smelter. It was a subsidiary of the Vedanta Group, one of the world’s largest mining and metals conglomerates."

[starthelostboys]

the thing is that i think all of the lost boys + star HAVE spent time with other vampires before, they were just too stupid to realize the person they were talking to was also a vampire

[dreamedfyre-a]

i'm thinking so much about hel and her children today for some reason. how she was way too young to be a mother and quite frankly relied entirely on the servants and ladies and her mother at first, and how she would have struggled with not knowing how to be a mother when she wasn't even an adult, and how her sensory sensitivities (especially when it comes to sound and touch) would make it harder to deal with her children, and how easily overwhelmed she would be

but also how she loves and cares for them and keeps them close most of the time. she's with them so often even though strictly speaking she didn't have to be. but she loves them and she wants them close, whether they're playing indoors or she's taking them to dreamfyre (rip to anyone who tried to say 'but it's dangerous' she trusts dreamfyre with her life and with her children's lives too)

when her little prince is born, it's a lot easier. she's older (young, still, but even so) and she has experience, it's also one (1) baby instead of two. she's a little less terrified overall. he's the one she spends the most time with since he was very little

[biillyhargroves]

once again watching the lost boys and once again struck by how very jason patric-coded billy is which has me once again desperate to write a vampire!au. much to think about.

[timemachineyeah]

damn it lord van zieks I would find your absurdity so hot if you weren’t a fucking racist

[bisexualvampires]

michael being all moony eyed over starr right up until the moment he sees her and david on the bike. then it’s blonde vampire tunnel vision babeyyy let’s drink blood and hang off a bridge beneath a moving train

[cherrimonsterbunni]

[cuckerfailson]

Whatever. im reading my book.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"POLICE SAY "CONFESSION" OF WINDSOR MURDER FICTITIOUS," Windsor Star. July 8, 1943. Page 5. ---- Two Await Death Here For Slaying ---- Hamilton Man's Story of Killing Borg Is False, Officers Say After Careful Check ---- HAMILTON, July 8 - A fictitious murder "confession" by a convicted forger now serving a term at Burwash Penitentiary was disclosed Wednesday by Hamilton police, who said the 19-page statement admitting the slaying of restaurant proprietor Joseph Borg, Windsor, Ont., last year "contained details of the murder which corresponded to the actual crime."

TWO AWAIT NOOSE (Two Detroit men have been sentenced to be hanged next month for the Windsor slaying.) Inspector of Detectives A. J. Chamberlain recalled that some months ago a cheque artist, waiting transfer to Burwash, called police to the city jail and dictated 18-page statement in which he admitted the Windsor shooting and two Ontario bank robberies. An accurate description of the murder scene was included.

The confession was so complete and the prisoner so emphatic in his statements that Hamilton police took it as genuine. It was forwarded to the Ontario Provincial Police at Toronto and to the attorney-general's department.

CAREFUL INVESTIGATION C. L. Snyder, deputy attorney-general, was quoted as saying: "Our department carefully investigated the confession made by the prisoner and we are satisfied he had nothing to do with the crime." Said Inspector W. J. Pranks, of the provincial police criminal investigation department at Toronto: "After checking over the confession we were satisfied that it was a phoney."

[mismaxx]

I’m obsessed with the ‘Yemen’s about to find out why the US doesn’t have free healthcare’ tweet being a strip of Ospreys

You know. The VTOLs that are NOTORIOUS for only being able to kill the marines inside of them and basically nobody else

Maybe those dumb motherfuckers should’ve been fighting for some healthcare back home?

GONNA FAF- ACK! 🌊🔥