Here’s a quick history lesson about the right’s favorite not-so-new term, “groomer.” It should go without saying that the issue was never actually about adults harming children. It was always against queer and trans people existing openly.

— Sara Ahmed, “The Bond of Belief” (via wild-bill-jones)

Check history, this is literally what the Nazis did!

anyone with a ‘trump 2020′ campaign flag/poster/ecc is openly saying ‘yes im okay with all of that even if im not actively supporting it im going to excuse that as acceptable’ and honestly what can you say about someone who sees all of that as acceptable?

Protesting is a FELONY in Tennessee now…Facism at it’s finest (x)

I’m sorry, but people need to know this. This is LITERALLY the most blatant telltale sign of totalitarianism and this needs to be spread like wildfire. DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

Here’s an actual link, since the one above seems to just go to Reddit:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/13/tennessee-camping-felony-capitol/%3foutputType=amp

It’s important to point out that protesting generally hasn’t been made a felony, but rather the camping that the protestors are doing (and the legislation also includes other things to discourage protesting).

This is still really bad though, because the right to peaceful protest is protected in the Constitution, and even if protesting isn’t outlawed outright the government is still criminalizing an act of peaceful protest just because it’s a protest.

Furthermore:

According to tn.gov felons in Tennessee lose their right to vote. This is called Felony Disenfranchisement

So this means that the Tennessee government just passed legislation that would render the protestors unable to vote.

I’m sorry lemme repeat that again

the Tennessee government just passed legislation thar would render the protestors unable to vote

Across the country they’re blocking Internet connections, protesters came out for a PEACEFUL protest to defend their voice and their right. People are tired of this dictator. Polling stations across the country publicly announced the results of voting to residents of these areas, and almost everywhere Svetlana is the winner. But officially, government representatives declare that 80% of the population SUPPORTS LUKASHENKO. This is not true. Our television and all media resources spread terrible and untrue information, calling the protesters bandits and accusing them of causing injuries to law enforcement officials. In fact, the police and all the armed forces last night used rubber bullets in all the cities of Belarus (this has never been used in the country before), water cannons, stun grenades, and so on. The President himself today brazenly lied and said that the police and others used rubber bullets only once. But according to unofficial data, more than 50 people are in hospitals with wounds, burns and other injuries.

the only place for racists, fascists or otherwise in the cottagecore + naturecore + other environmental tag is in the compost as fertiliser, and that’s that

This is the most performative bullshit I have ever seen in my life. Like...that’s you!!!

I’m literally indigenous ❤️

So like...you get it then how fucking damaging the concept of cottagecore is....

used as a colonial/settler concept? absolutely. the concept of taming ~new land~ or otherwise is extremely fucked up and harmful to indigenous people everywhere. generalised european farming is also terrible for most environments it’s been introduced to and is strip mining them of essential nutrients and biodiversity.

at the same time, cottagecore has been used as an overarching term by multiple different marginizalied groups to express their desire to not constantly live in distress or an environment that is consistently damaging for them and i don’t begrudge them that. i personally find most people saying they’re anti cottagecore to be performative.

the majority of the cottagecore community aren’t planning on going on to colonise and continuously oppress local people, and are actively trying to engage with indigenous voices, permaculture, environmentalism and other necessary concepts for the continued health and survival of literally everyone. the people who want the trad wife/manifest destiny/white supremecist “cottagecore” literally don’t give shit about explanations of why term/idea may have harmful connotations to certain groups, and they’re not going to stop regardless.

all that’s being done is that 1) people are abandoning an aesthetic to be co-opted by those racist/misogynistic fuckers 2) people move onto another concept/aesthetic without actually engaging why the way they view land or these issues are problematic. shaming people for enjoying cottagecore doesn’t do shit, and instead we should be pushing for reframing of concepts and education about why certain ideas are harmful and damaging, and where improvements can be made.

This isn't performative: this is how you keep the fash out! In the 80s literal nazis tried to make a place for themselves in punk scenes. Now why do you think punk isn't seen as a nazi thing these days? Because at the very least people were willing to stand up and say "nazi punks get fucked" and many others were willing to help fash lose teeth and earn broken bones.

We should be helping people get fash trash out of their space, not accusing every individual who has any sort of interest in any of the things we label "cottegecore" as an imperialist colonizer or fascist. People outside communities shouldn't be giving entire communities, aesthetics, genres, etc. to the fascists. They need to be helping the people in those communities excise the fash rash they've picked up so they can get back to enjoying their interests.

Tl;Dr: quit giving stuff to fascists. Start making them regret showing their faces anywhere and everywhere.

same energy as the guy on reddit calling the protesters ‘violent’ and then saying ‘today’s generation couldn’t handle Call of Duty: Age.’ Because of how toxic the language is. 

It’s actually an incredibly common tactic fascists implement.

Their enemies (the outgroup) are both too weak to the point of being undesirables while also so powerful they can control vast global conspiracies against the in group.

Think of how fascists represent Jews. We’re both so weak - effete and sickly and morally corrupt - but so powerful that we run a vast empire that controls banks, world governments (basically anyone that the fascist is not currently in charge of), all of left-wing politics (“cultural Marxism,” George Soros, ect), and racial minorities in a bid to replace white people with Jews and PoC (yes, they do not consider Jews white, all of us).

It’s very important to recognize this tactic.

Yall, I don’t want to be alarmist but…. that’s… concerning. 

Well, and least we got this about of it. Even Ted Cruz had to slam on the damage control brakes.

I just want to clarify- even though McConnell and other republicans have slammed on the “NO NO NO we aren’t doing that” brakes- we should still be concerned. 

Between this and Trump’s refusal to commit to election results, he is deliberately undermining his base’s trust in the electoral process. By citing “voter fraud” as his reason to try to delay the election, now even though the election WILL happen on time, if (when) he loses, he can claim that the election was illegitimate- that it was voter fraud, that he warned us, that he knew it was rigged, that Congress didn’t do enough to stop all the ~fraud~ that he knew was there, and he will refuse to step aside peacefully. 

He has been placing armed mercenaries in major American cities run by democratic mayors, and he is laying the groundwork to claim that the election is illegitimate if (when) he loses. 

You need to vote, so that both the Electoral College and the Popular vote are against him, and when this asshole finally breaks the tradition of the peaceful transition of power (which is what he is planning), when you need to be willing to protest and fight more than you ever have before. 

Like, I do not want to be an alarmist here, but we could be looking at like… Congress having to send in armed men to remove this man from office, and depending how the Republicans in power and his base handle that, we could be looking at a level of violence in the transition of power that is literally unheard of in the US.   

^^^^^^ This. 

This si why you vote blue even if you’re in a scarlet state with no hope of winning the electoral college. 

This is why you vote for Biden even if you loathe him with every fiber of your being. 

This is it. 

If we are to have any hope of maintaining a fair system and avoiding an all-out dictatorship, the numbers have to be absolutely unambiguous. 

Go. Vote. Blue. 

Fuck. Joe. Biden.

Look, YES fuck Joe Biden. And I know that asking people to vote for a shitty option because the other viable option is FAR worse is hardly convincing. I know. 

But a vote for Joe Biden isn’t just a vote against Trump. It’s also a vote for all the positions that Biden would get to fill, rather than leave Trump’s people (like Barr and DeVos) in charge. 

It’s also a vote for all the judges Biden would appoint (Which is likely at LEAST 1 Supreme Court pick.)

 It’s a vote for all of the 700+ positions that the President appoints and Senate confirms (Not just being generally better than Trump’s picks, but ACTUALLY GETTING FILLED. Trump still had over 170 unfilled appointments as of this year.)

And honestly, at this point, it’s also a vote that says “You shouldn’t get to undermine our electoral process and threaten the peaceful transition of power and STAY IN POWER.” 

Joe Biden is a bad candidate, and I wish we had gotten nearly anyone else. But I do believe that he’s a candidate who like… generally respects our political process, who could competently staff an administration, who could be reasoned with and compromised with, and who isn’t going to try to crown himself Emperor. Biden probably won’t spend hours a day on Twitter instead of like, reading security briefings.  It SUCKS that we have to aim as low as “isn’t literally trying to power grab himself a dictatorship” but the other option is to forfeit your vote and let the dictator get reelected.

So please, for the love of fuck, can we try to temper our disappointment with pragmatism? We should always vote for the best possible option, even if the best possible option is kinda shitty. 

And the best possible option is the Green Party.

In a ranked ballot, you would absolutely be correct. Hell, even if we had a true popular vote, that would be reasonable if the Green Party got real traction in debates.

But welcome to our shithole electoral system that isnt going to change between now and Nov 3.

And if you REALLY think that a political party that has 0 senators EVER, 0 congressmen EVER and 0 electoral votes in a presidential election FUCKING EVER is the answer to this, I….I dont know what to tell you.

Vote for the best VIABLE option, please. (And then campaign like hell for election reforms. Because ranked ballots and the popular vote would be GREAT and actually would make 3rd parties like…actually a reasonable choice.)

LOOK I rarely like to yell on this website but please understand that the way the system works (and trust me we all know it’s fucked up but it won’t be changed overnight just because you don’t like it) if you don’t vote for Biden, you are voting for Trump.

A VOTE FOR THE GREEN PARTY IS A VOTE FOR TRUMP

(or at least a throw away vote)

That’s why it’s so damn important to vote blue no matter who.

This has been the case for literally ages. Don’t throw away your vote just because you don’t like Uncle Joe. We are dying under the rule of Trump and now more than ever we must come together to get him out of office. And THE ONLY WAY that can happen is if we all vote blue.

We can work on fixing the system after the country isn’t in literal peril of being run by a literal facist dictator.

A lot of people (myself included) would LOVE to have ranked voting or win by popular vote (if that were the case we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in now)

But NOW is not the time to fight that battle. Democracy is dying and we need to come together now to get this shit done.

PLEASE VOTE BLUE!!!

VOTE BLUE!!!!

VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN

For everyone and anyone saying “Vote third party!” please take a look at this: https://ncase.me/ballot/

It’s an interactive guide to voting systems.  Play with it, learn from it, and see the flaws in Winner Take All systems, such as problems with “the spoiler effect.”  Thank you.

“We came out here dressed in tshirts & doing hula hoops… they started gassing us. So we came back w/ respirators. They started shooting us. So we came back w/ vests… they started aiming for the head. So we showed up wearing helmets… now they call us terrorists. Who’s escalating this? It’s not us.” via @MauraBarrettNBC, featuring @MacSmiff

If the Feds keep this up the mothers in question will learn that being an anarchist who hates our country is not actually a bad thing.

I live in Portland. I have friends who’ve been shot with rubber bullets and who’ve been gassed. This is happening, and you know what the feds say?

“We’re just following orders.”

Well, sir, I’d like to point you to a little historical event called the Nuremberg Trials. That excuse didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.

funny you should mention that about cops

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-complain-about-nazi-comparisons-say-theyre-only-enforcing-laws-1521382

July 28 - Follow up to this post. Stickers / Nikki, a trans teen and organizer, has been released by the NYPD. This is another view of her abduction by the police. She’s skateboarding by the white van in the bottom when they grab her. This is abduction. Video link.

NYPD abducted her because she allegedly damaged cop cameras at the city hall occupation literally over a month ago. this means that NYPD has been keeping track of visible activists and people at the occupation and at the protests in general, and are now identifying them and taking them on the street without even asking for formal identification. be careful, cover your face, dont let your identity be connected to any actions you take. btw this is her gofundme

“Surely nothing could be worse than a lot of women dying,” she thinks. “Ah,” she says.

source

We currently have a unique chance to normalize face covering and then try to maintain that normal after the medical need has passed. Mask up and continue to mask up, for your own safety and in solidarity with those who are more at risk than you.

nypd kidnapped an 18 year old trans girl off the street last night because she helped organize a march. she’s a homeless teenager and they literally dragged her into an unmarked van and threatened to pull their guns on civilians who demanded her release.

according to her friends, she has been released. this is her gofundme though luckily it has already reached its goal.

the nypd claims it was an arrest by their warrant unit because she was suspected marking police cameras. she helped organize one of the marches, has been staying in the nyc abolition park, and was the one to identify the unmarked van to her friends.

Remember how for years, right up until the very year we are living in, Republicans would try and claim that liberals/progressives/anyone who isn’t a straight cis white christian man is bad because they would claim, without any evidence to back said claims up, that we were plotting to create a world where anyone who had a different opinion from us would be treated like a criminal by the government?

Funny how those same Republicans who said that are strangely silent when the NYPD literally ARE abducting people off the street at gunpoint right now for having a political viewpoint that they don’t like

Oh but the people they’re kidnapping disagree with Republicans so I guess that must mean it’s okay for them to be abducted by violent fascists ._.