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ur personal inability to imagine a way out of a political/economic system (or read books on the topic) doesn’t make activist theory that does materially impractical. don’t project ur lack of imagination + literacy + courage onto others who’ve devoted their lives to said activism.

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I love grindr images like this, they're so awesome sauced

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On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police & the anti-Black police state attacked the home of Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE with automatic weapons, then dropped a bomb on it, killing five adults and six children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.

Almost 500 police officers fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, which was filled with women and children, while other officers blew holes in the walls with explosives. The police commissioner then ordered the house to be bombed, which they did using an improvised device made from C4 given to them by the FBI.

Only two people survived the blast and ensuing fire: Ramona Africa, and Michael Ward, aged 13. While no officials were prosecuted, Ramona Africa was subsequently jailed for seven years on riot and conspiracy charges. The incident occurred during the tenure of Philadelphia's first Black mayor, a Democrat named Wilson Goode.

The children killed were named Katricia Dotson (Tree), Netta, Delitia, Phil, and Tomasa Africa and the adults were Rhonda, Teresa, Frank, CP, Conrad, and John Africa.

In April 2021, it was revealed that non-Black anthropologists at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania had the bones of one of the children, unbeknownst to the families.

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As a lesbian, it’s happened twice already that one “guy” stands out to me and I think “huh maybe they’re kinda cute and interesting, I wanna get to know them” and then I get to know them better and it’s a closeted trans girl who I somehow sniffed with my little nonbinary lesbian nose

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I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

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"The difference, of course, being that university students in the 1970s stood a good chance of being drafted, and therefore had a direct material interest in opposing the Vietnam war, because the war’s continuation could very well get them killed."

-students today have their tax dollars funding the genocide, have their futures affected by the geopolitical climate of forever war etc, will live in an environment ravaged by climate change to which Israel's actions are directly contributing, etc. So beyond the obvious "we don't support genocide" reasons, students DO have direct material interests in opposing this.

"These students, by contrast, are taking a conflict that fundamentally isn’t about them and doesn’t involve them (with the exception of Palestinian-Americans and others with familial relationships in the conflict area),"

-and how do you think students should support their Palestinian friends?

"and using it as an excuse to play-act their revolutionary fantasies in a setting they know they’re safe to do so in, secure in the knowledge that push won’t come to shove in the form of something like a draft."

-as we have repeatedly seen it is NOT a setting that is safe for them. Hundreds if not thousands of students have been violently beaten and arrested by the police by now. Push has already come to shove for them.

"It’s also worth pointing out that the Vietnam protests could legitimately be described as anti-war. Judging by the tenor of these particular protests (and rhetorically analyzing the content of chants, posters, signs, etc.), this round of protest could, at best, be described as a mixed bag: in a “some of them are anti-war, for sure, but a non-insignificant number of them are really just fine with war, they’re only upset their side isn’t winning” way."

-Are you fucking stupid??? One side has all the power and all the weapons and is genociding the other side. If you don't think protesting that is anti-war, then you clearly don't believe that Palestinians are human.

centrist guy in 1970 seeing university anti-vietnam war protests in the news

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I saw this question posed on tiktok, but I think Tumblr would really enjoy it too.

If a fae creature offered to give one million dollars for a bone chosen at random, how many bones would you allow them to take?

Light clarifications; The fae is not the one choosing the bones. The bone is taken at random. Each bone, no matter the size or importance, is worth a full million dollars. You must also declare the exact number first, you can't go bone-by-bone. You either say 2 or you say 10, you can't work your way up to a higher number. The bones are removed instantaneously, and the money is given immediately as well. You will not get in government trouble for acquiring the money.

Tell me in the tags/replies how many bones you'd let the fae take. And as always, reblog for bigger sample size.

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the people in the notes of that “have you seen a gun” poll really need to step back and analyze the varying reasons why people may have guns, and what guns they may own. because i know that the average liberal considers gun-owning to be a crime of the highest magnitude and all guns are assault rifles to them, but many people are actually quite normal and own guns for any number of the following reasons: they hunt and own hunting rifles, they collect antique guns, they have a handgun for protection, they just like guns, And More.

additionally, not all gun control laws are made equal and historically many of them are either targeted towards or are more strictly and consistently enforced against Black people, communities, and organizations (such as the black panther party).

it is not “weird” to own a gun, or to know about gun safety and laws. it is, in a world growing increasingly more dangerous, hostile, and reactive towards minority groups, an accessible and reasonable method of self-protection and self-defense, ESPECIALLY when a main force for oppression in the US (the police) are an armed group. a gun is a tool, and like most tools, it has no inherent moral weight. it is what you make of it. some people will do bad things with it. people will do bad things with every tool. but “doing something about school shootings and the accessibility of that kind of fire power” and “all guns are bad, and you are weird for having one” are two very different statements.

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*this includes if you've gone back and forth. so if you went from straight to bi to gay to bi to gay, that's 5 times

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Oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly, what a day. 🎶

Sir Hiss

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cis+ is stupid bc like. what's the fucking point of consciously thinking of gender and the way it shapes your life (and everyone's lives!) and coming to the conclusion that "yeah im actually my birth gender." at that point you've missed the point entirely. no one has a birth gender you dipshit it's made up. they made it up to fuck with you

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I think micro aggressions are real, but I also don’t think every interaction that looks like a micro aggression is one like

Sometimes I ask ppl where they’re from because I’m also an immigrant and wanna know if we’re from the same place. I don’t have an accent, so it may seem like I’m just another nosey white American.

Sometimes as a disabled person I ask other disabled ppl about their disability because I wanna pick their brain about their experiences with doctors or get local recommendations. You can’t always tell by looking at me that I’m disabled.

Like sometimes ppl aren’t being shitty, they’re just looking for connection and camaraderie. I don’t think it’s helpful going thru the world always assuming the worst in people. I think you miss out on knowing others who may be a positive addition to your life. Like we live in a world that wants to isolate us from each other, let’s not do its work for it. Let’s become more curious about each others experiences. Let’s encourage questions.

Like no one’s telling you to share everything freely. Be discerning. Use your judgement. But be curious.

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Yeah the sex was good but did it have themes and motifs

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preaching to the choir im sure but it's crazy to me how liberals say that being a revolutionary is doomerism/hopeless. it's communism or extinction and I have the optimism to believe that we can have communism before capitalism destroys the planet on which we live. it's communism or genocide and I have hope that genocide is not a necessary inevitable part of the world. it's communism or borders and I have the optimism to believe that we can have a world without borders. revolutionaries don't just say that hoping for the impossibility of our oppressors taking pity on us and enacting liberation in our behalf, is a fool's endeavour, we also say that we don't need it and oppressed people do have the power to emancipate ourselves and all humanity. I don't think that's hopeless at all, that challenges every doomerist assumption capitalism and liberal ideology is based upon. being a revolutionary means believing in what the powers that be claim is impossible, and having hope that oppression is not an inevitable part of the world. I think claiming that voting for small reforms that only benefit the ruling class and a minority of the oppressed, is the only realistic hope we have, and we can never set our sights higher than that, is an incredibly hopeless and bleak worldview. frankly I'd kms if I were a liberal tbh, I can't imagine being ok living in a world you believe to be so hopeless