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The genius of racism and its succubus twin fascism—that genius is that any political structure can host that virus and virtually any country can become a suitable home. Fascism only talks ideology but it really is just marketing, marketing for power. It’s recognizable by its need to purge, the strategies it uses to purge and its terror of truly democratic goals. It changes citizens into taxpayers so individuals become rife with anger at the notion of the public good. It changes citizens into consumers so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity, nor our compassion, nor our generosity, none of the virtues that human beings aspire to claim. None of that but what we own. And in so doing produces the perfect capitalist. The one who is willing to kill a human being for a product—a sneaker, a jacket, a car, a company. That is the ideal situation for a consumer, lay capitalist society. You don’t have to advertise any more. It changes parenting into panicking so that we vote against the education, against the healthcare, against the safety from weapons, against the interest of our own children. It may wear a new dress, it may buy a new pair of boots, but fascism is not new.

Toni Morrison (via thesavagegirlwonder)

Been sifting for this truth.

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You're the Bruce Lee of tasteful drumming.

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That's why he's Cuban.

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WooPdedoo

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I didn't know my thoughts on U2 until someone talked about them in the form of a question.

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Talking to no one. I know I’ll be algorithmically removed from the ‘conversation’.

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This is a problem.

Tumblr, at least develop an effective means to sift through and manage old posts by type, and give us an effective archiving solution.

With all the unaccredited reblogging, Tumblr is a mire to begin, but people who post original content are the ones who add value to the platform.

I'm not saying it's rational, but I would probably leave Tumblr if Dear Coquette was terminated. That's not intended entirely as a threat. I say this because I know my own reading habits and how highly I value free thought and original content in my social media. If I ever felt those things were being seriously undermined or compromised, I'd just walk away.

This is the email I woke up to. Terrifying.

Honestly, I don’t know what to do at this point. Within ten minutes of sounding the alarm via Twitter, my account had been restored, but I’m one of the lucky ones. I have the privilege of asking tens of thousands of people to write into Tumblr on my behalf, and I can only imagine how helpless someone might feel who woke up to the same letter with no way to do anything about it.

I went back and searched through my old email address. Sure enough, under the “Social” tab of a gmail account that I never use anymore were a handful of Tumblr DMCA notices, all originating from some sniveling cunt stain named Jeremy Banks of the IFPI. I saw none of the notices until this morning, not that it would have mattered, because they were all for songs that I posted years ago.

I’ve been posting music for over half a damn decade. I have no idea what songs Jeremy Banks is suddenly going to give a shit about. Short of deleting every song I’ve ever posted, there’s nothing I can do to retroactively protect myself from this kind of arbitrary account termination.

Shit, we all post music. We all click the little box. We all know damn well that we don’t own the copyright, but we do it anyway. We’re not stealing. We’re not making money off the backs of musicians. We’re sharing our favorite songs with our friends.

God damn, I’m still shaking from all the adrenaline. I’m genuinely upset right now. People are suggesting that I export my blogs and migrate to independent hosting, but I don’t want to have to do that.

I love Tumblr. I love the community it fosters. I love my dashboard full of people I follow, and I love the interactions I have with all the people who follow me. I don’t want to leave Tumblr, but I don’t want to be so beholden to the whims of some DMCA termination robot either.

At the very least, I need to find a way to separate and protect Dear Coquette and my other blogs where I’ve never posted any music.

Ugh. This is not good. This is not good at all.

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Workers have a right to organize.

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Concerning a juggalo

"He knows that’s a V-neck, right? Unless he means it in the Latin sense ‘with’ as in Cum Laude, ‘with Loudness’."

Because: no one would get it.

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Dude, it's 'part if every day'.

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