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decolonize-the-left · 29 minutes
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My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.
I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”
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decolonize-the-left · 36 minutes
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“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”
Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.
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decolonize-the-left · 59 minutes
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As a disabled person who's loved LEVERAGE and LEVERAGE REDEMPTION since the beginning - for the characters but also the whole ethos of performing acts that help people against crap systems, it's wonderful to be reminded that it springs from reality.
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also. fellow people of the autism. vital life skill to learn is when people are being polite in order to have an excuse for their abusive behavior. it can be so easy to get bullied, esp. by people with systemic power over you, as an autistic person if they can weaponize politeness in ways that make you feel crazy for being hurt. every time an autistic person (or any ND person) refuses to be gaslit about being targeted/hurt/abused an angel gets its wings. just because you struggle with social cues does not mean you cannot trust yourself and how others make you feel.
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There's a pattern right now of social media users accusing communists and leftists, including prominent Black communists, of "antiblackness" for extremely spurious shit like the Kamala song and the "rest in power" discourse over Aaron Bushnell and leading targeted harassment campaigns over it. I'm not saying it's an op but this is like a extremely conspicuous pattern that is being repeated across multiple social media platforms.
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I think we should just call them white supremacists
the phenomenon of zionist bloggers on here fitting the 2015 steven universe, passionate shipper, AO3 supernatural/dr who/our flag means death/hamilton etc cinnamon roll millennial cringe menace needs to be given a name and i think we should call this Smol Bean Zionism
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It has gotten so much worse since the ICJ ordered a ceasefire. 19 Palestinians were killed by the IOF at the Al-Kuwait aid distribution point, while in the West Bank up to 7,800 Palestinians have been detained. There are reports of Israeli forces taking the bodies of massacred Palestinians, to do god knows what with them. Reports of up to 25 Palestinians killed in Rafah, per Let’s Talk Palestine. Reports of 4 Palestinians bulldozed to death in central Gaza. Reports of Gaza closer and closer to famine. It’s horrific. This really feels like Israel going out of its way to murder more and more Palestinians, just to prove that the ICJ order means nothing (which it doesn’t).
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decolonize-the-left · 2 hours
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Days of Girlhood Out Now!
Directed by: Kajal
Here’s to 2 whole years of being a girl 💕💗🌸💄🎀👛🏳️‍⚧️
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decolonize-the-left · 2 hours
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Cis women on tiktok for the past like 4 years: "I'm girly pop, I do girl math and have girl dinner after going to my girl job ✌️😜"
Dylan Mulvaney: *makes a mediocre pop song that is literally just about that*
Those same cis women:
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decolonize-the-left · 4 hours
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The true face of Zionism: a group of Zionists gang up on Furusawa Yusuke-san, a protestor who has been speaking up for Gaza and standing in the Tokyo streets on his own for weeks, months even.
They harass a man who clearly doesn't speak English well enough to defend himself, bombard him with questions, ridicule him and accuse this single man of being paid by Palestine to protest.
In his own fucking country.
But Furusawa-san is strong, brave and kind, something these Zionists can never be
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decolonize-the-left · 4 hours
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March 3, 2024 - A woman in Toulouse, France, shows off her amazing shoe-throwing skills, shattering a cop car window, allegedly "injuring" a cop, before being arrested. God forbid women have hobbies 🙄 [link]/[video]
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decolonize-the-left · 5 hours
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Or we will be doing this forever. It's time for us to put our foot down.
My grandparents and theirs before mine were all protesting and fighting the same fights I am.
I don't want my daughter to do the same thing. This ends now. With us.
Reminder that boycotting is an accessible way to show you don't support something, but changing the system which allows genocide is the goal.
Yes boycott McDonald's and the TLOU and Stranger Things, yes keep donating.
And make sure you are also actively demanding systemic change. For the end to the occupation. That you are emailing and calling your reps. That you're signing petitions. That you're posting about it. That you participate in calls to action. That you show up to protests. That you convince others to do the same. That you are telling Democrats you Won't vote for them if they support Israel. Make sure people you elect aren't war criminals who support genocide and human rights violations.
Our system will not change any other way. It will not change if we continually manufacture our consent through our elections and online "harm reduction" arguments that ironically don't acknowledge that genocide is also a method of harm that should be reduced. Our demands are empty if we are electing people who spit on them.
There is a trade in safety being made: lives of domestic citizens for the lives of foreigners. But demands don't make compromises.
If we are demanding change then we must prove that it is a demand. That we won't settle for less. That we are standing firmly in our solidarity and principles and with our collective goal of building a better, safer world for everyone who lives here.
We have to make it happen because the privileged and powerful will not just let us have freedom or safety. They benefit too much from our pain. It's why liberation is always taken by the oppressed, never given by the oppressor.
So make sure that the system doesn't allow oppression. That the people within the system can't even have that power.
That laws change; to protect minorities, to ban aid to countries that commiting war crimes, that you can't run for any office if you believe that human rights should not be the law or that some people shouldn't have them, that everyone has a right to safety, food, shelter, water, self autonomy and sovereignty.
......or let their insistence on having second class citizens and suffering be their own destruction.
Friends don't let friends put fascists in power.
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decolonize-the-left · 6 hours
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Remember when the DNC won the lawsuit that said they can have backdoor meetings to choose who the Democratic candidate was gonna be?
I do.
And when Biden loses I hope nobody else ever forgets again.
They did this to themselves. They picked a loser and then tried to gaslight us into believing it's Our fault that they picked a fucking loser. And are pre-emptively blaming us for him losing a vote that hasn't happened yet when they Still have time to pick someone else.
biden should run on the nazi style mass migrant deportation deal he just signed to secure more bomb's for Israel's genocide. Since he's clearly so proud of both of those parts of his agenda they should be part of the central bid of his re-election. If you want me to vote for him I want to see you dancing like a circus monkey trying to sell me on more bombs and guns for Israel and more asylum seekers getting fed into a meat grinder. 4 more years baby come on vote blue no matter who get the cheerleading going
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Inuit button with seal image, 1880s-90s, Yukon.
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