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I cannot be killed

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– Susan Sontag

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“Trans people are emblematic of wider, conceptual concerns about the autonomy of the individual in society. Their rejection of dominant, ancient and deep-seated ideas about the connection between biological characteristics and identity causes a dilemma for the nation state: whether to acknowledge and give credence to the individual’s assertion of their own identity in law and in culture; or to mandate that it, the state, is the final authority on identity, and to assert its power over the individual – by force if necessary.”

— Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue

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i fear fujii kaze ig stories have become my personality

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Remember, the basis of all morality is disgust. If something makes you feel icky it is ontologically evil.

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“Locke wholeheartedly promoted colonial domination (and denial of the right to self-government) in England’s American colonies and in Ireland. In fact, Locke’s commitment to both colonialism and slavery extended back to at least 1669, when he served as secretary to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, in which capacity he ardently recommended slavery for the new colony—perhaps unsurprising in light of his personal investments in the trade in enslaved Africans. Members of the Locke party were also among the most fervent supporters of England’s wars for imperial power, whose finance was the very raison d’être of the Bank of England—itself effectively a Whig institution, and one in which Locke was also an early investor. Here again we return to the integral link between money and blood. If capital does indeed come into the world “dripping in blood and dirt,” as Marx urged, then so did its intellectual companion, liberalism, in the form of its most famous English exponent. And this Lockean nexus of money–slavery–colonialism was at the heart of liberal political philosophy in England.”

— David McNally, Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire

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my favourite part of Orwell’s writing is when he described anime glasses flashing in 1945

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TIL that when testifying in court in 2009, Paris Hilton had to explain to a federal judge what “BFF” meant: “Best friend forever,” she said. He replied with “This will be my best case forever.” She then replied “You’re my best judge forever.”

via reddit.com