#state repression

[nando161mando]

Unapologetic in tone, the programme includes interviews with members and supporters, who talk about their motivations, strategies and how State repression has ramped up since the start of Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/film-review-to-kill-a-war-machine/

[remembertheplunge]

He spent his last few hours writing

1/30/2002

The state put a man to death yesterday.

He spent his last few hours writing.

Odd, yesterday was independent thinker’s day.

The state loathes Poetry-party-ponder.

It kills it where ever and when ever it can. It’s goal is well behaved sterility and conformity."

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Note: Poetry-Party-Ponder is a phrase I used to describe my journal and or writing sessions.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Glinda really had an entire musical number expounding on the theme of "success in life is not about being highly qualified or even competent, but manipulating people's superficial perception of you." and then she went into POLITICS. truly the #girlboss representation the world has earned

[sillysiluriforme]

so high rn and just saw ur ml au God i love when ppl make it #real like yeah chloe wld ask about cocaine and yeah luka smokes weed and has an emo outfit U GET ME

Thank you !!! Things will only get weirder from now on

[taitavva]

Thus, Socrates says that "sophrosyne is something divine" (Carmides, 174b) and that "the sensible man is a philosopher" (Carmides, 174c).

[Enkrateia and sophrosyne in Plato: a comparative study of the dialogues Carmides, Gorgias, Republic, Politius and Laws - Juan Carlos Tellería Sebastián]

[themassespress]

On the FIR Against Student Activists for Wall Paintings on G.N. Saibaba

By Bhagat Singh Chatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) Image source: Bhagat Singh Chatra Ekta Manch Instagram page On 10th November, Delhi University student activists of Bhagat Singh Chatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) had done wall paintings across the North Campus for the late professor G.N. Saibaba. Professor Saibaba was an English professor in Delhi University who dedicated decades of his life engaged in various…

[readingsquotes]

May 4, 2024 What can history teach us about repression of student protests on college campuses in America?

We went to UC Berkeley, home of the Free Speech movement, to find out.

Spoiler Alert: Ronald Reagan is involved.

[eshithepetty]

Got your heart in a headlock (You know you're better than this)

aka my bestie and I finished season 2 today, and 100% ecstasy still gets me so. here's some art for it ^_^

[ID: Fully colored and shaded art of Shigeo Kageyama from Mob Psycho 100 in his 100% ecstasy form. The drawing is from the bust and up, him cast in a red light and grinning wildly, one arm curled at his side and the other thrown up by his face, and surrounding him, there is a vortex of blue-purple buildings, the vortex fading into abstract pink-orange strokes at the edges, and around him, there are red chains, some of which are breaking apart. End ID.]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Stephen Semler

Fully aware of the increasingly violent crackdowns on students and teachers protesting his enabling of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, Biden greenlit an even harsher police response this week.

Biden had already given police the greenlight to behave violently through his budgets. The 2020 protests against police brutality were met with rampant police brutality, but after entering office in 2021, Biden dramatically scaled up federal subsidies to police through regular appropriations legislation (for fiscal years 2022 through 2024), and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

[anghraine]

One of the weirder parts of being formally tested for autism as an adult—apart from the hellscape of hours of math hell—was that they kept asking me for my conclusions or opinions about things I had very little knowledge of. These weren't basic facts you'd expect someone to pick up in the course of a standard US education, and I kept repeating that I would have to do actual research to form opinions on subjects I had no significant information about.

Obviously, "not opinionated" isn't a major problem for me when I do have a reasonable amount of information, but my eventual diagnosis specifically mentioned that I kept repeating that I would have to do more research to acquire the necessary baseline of data for forming opinions on [whatever], and that the phrasing of my various refusals tended to be identical or very similar (I didn't see any need to alter my wording when I was simply repeating the same position over and over).

*cough*

Anyway this is also about Star Trek. (Surprise.) I knew Spock would be relatable before we started the grand TOS watch, but did not expect him to be the most relatable character on television ever, and his continual refusals to deliver opinions without enough data for informed theories was actually a big part of this.

[randomalistic]

I used to avoid watching wreck it Ralph bc turbo would make me feel new emotions that I couldn’t/refused to process

you and me brother... that's how i was for 7 years and then I let the floodgates open

> Hyperfixation trance state

> Wake up 9 months later in a parking lot

> I'm in a tracksuit covered in dirt and grass stains

> Strong urge to check my computer

> 2-hour video on my hard drive

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Hot take but I think persecuting racist and homophobic right-wing cultists is Good, Actually

[microwavesaferat]

I have such a soft spot for split personality characters, like yes, show me the duality of man! Show me someone with the inability to understand grey so everything must be either black or white! Show me a little guy so overwhelmed with decision that his psyche must split cleanly in two!!!!

Give me that creature who, with an inability to see themselves as flawed, must blame their actions on a fucked up evil guy in his head. Give me some guy who's just really repressed!

[readingsquotes]

"The university’s baseless charge of “threats” against SJP and JVP, like its subsequent creation of its Task Force on Antisemitism, fits into this pattern. The idea that protests against Israel’s actions constitute in themselves “threats” indulged an extreme ideological position, one whose function is to crush all criticism of that state.

The inauguration of this idea as de facto policy of the university—indeed, as our new de facto speech code—spoke to many of us. To the donors and politicians baying even in November for the punishment of protesters, it announced that the university would comply with those calls for discipline. To students and faculty, it promised that speech on behalf of Palestine would never be given a fair hearing on this campus. That promise was fulfilled in the doomed, bad-faith negotiations with encamped protesters that precipitated last week’s building occupation and subsequent police raid.

...in November, we got a new rulebook. All of the above would be superseded by a new directive: In the case of speech about Israel-Palestine that upsets those with strong commitments to the state of Israel, all feelings would be considered facts, and all perceptions of threat would be treated as real ones. If you feel a commitment to the state of Israel and you see a keffiyeh or the flag of Palestine and don’t like it, the full force of university discipline and policy will be at your disposal. ...I struggle to adequately state the extent of the university’s failing ...As the university abandoned students, faculty and staff stepped into the breach. ...It became undeniable that our duty of care toward our students obliged us to protect them not only from the university but where the university could or would not. It became apparent how badly eroded the moral authority of the university was by their politicization of speech and discipline and that the students were some of the few left on campus with clear principles—even in the face of vicious and racist attacks against them by lawmakers on our very campus that our leaders did nothing to refute.

..

We speak in the academy of the “Palestine exception” to free speech: that you can protest about any topic except Palestine. Our graduating students bid farewell to an institution now involved in what we might call the Palestine example: Israel-Palestine as one of those special causes, like police violence in 2020, against which the total force of suppression is brought to bear, and an example is to be made of any who dare protest. The Columbia and Barnard classes of 2024 have had the misfortune of an unusually clear education in the nature of power in and around the academy

[brucespringsteencomments]

[canisalbus]

To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?

Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.