I made this fake poster that I'm gonna paste around hot spots in Southern Cali. If enough people contact the representatives then the program will have to be formed & recognized, or someone who has the means to promote it will be elected in their place.
It's honestly pathetic that there isn't a federal program that gives longtime residents in purchasing a home in the place they grew up & crafted their memories. Things have to be changed, with logic & force.
"oh I dont know a lot about other countries because the american school system was so bad haha." You know you can fix that, right? You can change that. With the device you are reading this post on. You know that, right?
wearing nail paint and makeup and reading Anarchism and The Black Revolution in a Drs office waiting room surrounded by karens in rural alabama is the most fun a gay latino guy can have with his clothes on
"Now, you might not feel like you can do much now, but that's just because, well, you're not a tree yet. You just have to give yourself some time. You're still a seed."
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness."
you matter and knowing you is life-changing
make sure the things you change are changed for the better
You aren't the only one trying to make the world a better place, even if it feels that way sometimes.
Caring about yourself and community is a revolutionary act in a world that wants to exploit your hyper-independence
yeah the world sucks right now but You don't have to
In your post about democratic socialism, you said you are no longer a pacifist, but that you'd be happy to explain why if someone asked. I would love your thoughts on this please ☺️
I have been anti-war my whole life. I will be anti war my whole life. But I am no longer a pacifist. It was one of the hardest pills to swallow when I was reading anarchist literature and learning anarchist theory; after all, I’m an anarchist first and foremost because I want an end to domination and war.
My biggest revelation came from hearing Gramsci’s thoughts on pacifism.
Gramsci said that that our current system is inherently violent, relies on violence, and hence requires violence to overturn it. Gramsci redefined the bounds of violence, arguing that people starving to death because they can’t pay for food, the homeless freezing to death on cold streets, the poor being kicked out of their tenancies because they can’t afford rent, and effectively the entire purpose of the police in capitalist society is violence. That the law itself is a system of violence and domination. That capitalist government is inherently violent, being built on and maintained by violence.
in an ideal world, the populace would rise up and overturn the system without a single drop of blood shed, but the inherently violent nature of capitalist systems demands violent overturn of capitalism and capitalists. Pacifism, then, is effectively useless, and at its worst, actually harms us. The government can and will never be pacifist, so taking a futile moralistic stance that we should be non-violent just gets us and our movements hurt. If they are going to use violence against us, it means we must respond with violence.
A.2.4 Are anarchists in favour of “absolute” liberty?
No. Anarchists do not believe that everyone should be able to “do whatever they like,” because some actions invariably involve the denial of the liberty of others.
For example, anarchists do not support the “freedom” to rape, to exploit, or to coerce others. Neither do we tolerate authority. On the contrary, since authority is a threat to liberty, equality, and solidarity (not to mention human dignity), anarchists recognise the need to resist and overthrow it.
The exercise of authority is not freedom. No one has a “right” to rule others. As Malatesta points out, anarchism supports “freedom for everybody … with the only limit of the equal freedom for others; which does not mean … that we recognise, and wish to respect, the ‘freedom’ to exploit, to oppress, to command, which is oppression and certainly not freedom.” [Errico Malatesta: His Life and Ideas, p. 53]
In a capitalist society, resistance to all forms of hierarchical authority is the mark of a free person — be it private (the boss) or public (the state). As Henry David Thoreau pointed out in his essay on “Civil Disobedience” (1847)
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Seeing "proship dni" (or the variety of rude variations that folks think are cute/clever *sigh*) in controversial communities, attached to dead dove content, or on selfship posts makes my head spin every damn time
my brother in christ, who else is gonna stick up for you? the antis? lol. lmao, even.
If Colt had Felix destroy an actual plush toy — do you think his heart broke when Ladybug tore of the little frog’s arm? Do you think he breathed a sigh of relief when it got fixed?
If the rabbit plushie in Representation is meant to be a metaphor — do you think he picked it on purpose? Do you think he was intentionally calling back to this moment they shared, right before the heroes threw Strikeback into the sun, in an effort to make her understand the pain she caused?
Whichever interpretation you prefer — do you think Felix equates this akuma to his own abuse and/or perceived mostrousity? Do you think he wishes he could be saved and fixed as easily as Froggy was?
been seein a few popular posts about what could Happen in season 3 that i think are kind of missing the mark a bit when it comes to crowley and aziraphale’s characters and both of their approaches to their relationship? so heres my take
aziraphale is a fighter: all throughout the book and season 1, he’s done his best to fight for what he thinks is right. the fatal flaw in this position is that he only ever does it within the confines of his faith and position as an angel: protesting punishing job until God’s Orders are cited; excusing his eating habits to gabriel by saying it helps him ‘blend in’ on earth; even after an entire day of listing things he wouldn’t be able to enjoy on earth anymore, crowley was only able to convince aziraphale to help him raise the antichrist by framing it as ‘thwarting wiles’ (ie. doing his job). aziraphale has always had a lot of conflict with how his and heaven’s ideals align-- this is why aziraphale went to heaven, so he could make the rules he’s so hesitant to break work for him instead of against him.
crowley on the other hand, is a flier: at the slightest sign of trouble he can’t fix, he flees. no, he does not want to dismantle the systems of heaven and hell, he wants to run away forever and never think about them again! he’s canonically tried to do this at least four times! but the fatal flaw in this position is that it means he sees everything he’s built and collected in 6000 years as disposable, which is not unlike how heaven and hell also think about the earth. he’s built a fragile, peaceful existence for himself, but is willing to run away and dump it all the second its peace and fragility is threatened by something he can’t control.
understanding both of these attitudes makes the middle ground where they realize their mistakes and come together again painfully obvious (imo): its earth! literally the ground in the middle between heaven and hell. crowley and aziraphale both already know that the other is worth protecting-- aziraphale wants to go to heaven so being together won’t be against the rules, and crowley wants to run away so heaven and hell can’t destroy them for being together-- so the revelation that needs to be reached in season 3 is that their lives and their history and their home is worth protecting too. beelzebub and gabriel had ‘heaven/hell is wherever you are’, but that kind of attitude (even ‘to the world’/they are each others world) doesn’t work for crowley and aziraphale because they spent 6000 years building something that makes simply being together synonymous with being on earth.
after all, the Really Big One is going to be all of us vs. all of them-- heaven and hell against all of humanity. when crowley and aziraphale have this exchange in the book and season 1, i fully believe that both them assume that when they say “us”, it means heaven and hell-- even after everything that happened, they’re still aligning themselves against the earth and the history they have there. which is why, after all their wonderful and inevitable character development in season 3, they’re going to realize that “us” actually means humanity.