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Had some art commissioned for a custom character I made in Soul Calibur VI, I've taken to calling her Anarkitty. Credit goes to Doober McGoober.

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Been playing a *bunch* of Soul Calibur VI recently and I got the idea to commison some fan art (something I've never done before) of my favorite character from the game. I think it turned out great! Credit goes to Eexad00.

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Me, shopping around the "market place of ideas": "Hmmmm, I think I'll take one communism please."

Store Owner: "Oooo, sorry bud that's the one idea we don't keep in stock here. But would you like to try another fine product of ours like say, capitalism?"

Me: "Nah I'm good thanks, I think I'll check out some other store."

Store Owner: "Ah but you get a free capitalism just by being a customer at this store."

Me: "Yeah ok, but I didn't want capitalism I came here for communism."

Store Owner: "Sorry, it's store policy to make sure everyone gets a free lifetime subscription to capitalism. No ifs ands or buts about it."

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anonymous leaked bolsonaro’s private info including his credit card number and someone on twitter bought a whole ass macbook pro with it. yes. a person bought an macbook pro with the president’s credit card. this country really isn’t for beginners

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Nah dude, some police are genuinely trying to make the world a better place. They go through a lot of shit so that they can try and help people. I hate most of the shit police do. I don't like being told what to do either. But people are fucking killing cops. That's people killin people and it's fucked. You're the death of your own cause if you condone violence and murder ya dumb fuck. Black lives matter, let's protect them by not murdering good people and giving nazis any sort of argument.

Gonna break down this response as clearly as possible. 

The origins of the police are evil. 

It has been shown repeatedly that the police were formed to oppress the working class and (1, 2) and enforce white supremacy (1, 2, 3). In fact, the early U.S. police grew directly out of slavery.

The police aren’t the people you think they are.

The police don’t care about you – they don’t even have a constitutional duty to protect you. They’re allowed to take your property without your consent (the NYPD seizes so much property they can’t even log it in their computers). In fact, cops are more likely to steal your property than burglars are. They commit hundreds of crimes and human rights violations against people like you & me and get away with it because they cover for each other.

Cops tend to be unusually aggressive, authoritarian, and secretive (Greene & Heilbrun, 2011). They are more than twice as likely to commit domestic violence than the rest of the population, and (once again) they cover for each other when doing so. The police are on the side of neo-Nazis (1, 2). In fact, many times the police themselves are the neo-Nazis/klansmen (1, 2, 3). And even besides all this, cops do all kinds of other shady shit – for instance, undercover police are used to instigate fights during protests and rallies.

The police terrorize those of us who are marginalized.

The police disproportionately arrest Black people for drugs even though white people use drugs more often. They disproportionately pull Black people over for traffic stops. The police terrorize people with disabilities.They are viciously anti-indigenous – and always have been. Police terrorize sex workers. There are countless examples of police brutalizing homeless people (1, 2, 3). The police have a lengthy history of brutality against the LGBT community (1, 2). They terrorize women of color and get away with it (1, 2, 3). They kill massive numbers of people each year – and a disproportionate number of their victims are Black and native. On top of that, recent data suggests cops may kill up to twice as many people as we even thought they did. And while police love to defend themselves by saying they have the most dangerous job, that’s not even close to being true.

The police’s best kept secret: We don’t need them! 

A world without the police is completely possible (1, 2, 3, 4). We have resources for resolving violence as communities without the need for state intervention (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 – as some examples). We as communities are better capable of resolving violence than the police are, because we don’t have the vested interest in the status quo that they have. Even if a few cops are well-intentioned here or there, it doesn’t change that the role of the police is to work against the vast majority of us in the interests of the (white) elite few. 

Why are you so invested in the police when they are complicit in your dehumanization?

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Pine, 1878, Arkhip Kuindzhi

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“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden

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Avenue of Poplars at Sunset, 1884, Vincent van Gogh

Medium: oil,canvas

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At the edge of a pine forest, 1882, Ivan Shishkin

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Meeting (Easter day), 1917, Boris Kustodiev

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“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…” – Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Dnieper in the morning, 1881, Arkhip Kuindzhi

https://www.wikiart.org/en/arkhip-kuindzhi/dnieper-in-the-morning-1881

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The path in the forest, 1886, Ivan Shishkin

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Untitled (Surrealist Angel), 1969, Salvador Dali