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it has been validating to see folks broadly wake up to the fact that the Democratic Party doesn’t really do anything, and that the middle class is generally only on the side of black and poor people when Republicans are in power.

America is a festering corpse, with a gas bubble about to blow its rib cage out and launch whale viscera across the beach. the concept of “harm reduction” and putting Democrats in power is a fallacious idea that’s been identified for what it actually is - feminist imperialism seeking to preserve and maintain the privilege of the empire over its subsidiaries. This is done often through the cooptation of queer and black folk - who are literally not being helped but are being used as props to accrue tokens of diversity, equity, and inclusion which the upper middle class identifies as Ultimate Justice

and at the same time I couldn’t be more disgusted with my people who throw their heart into the Democratic Party in hope - out of naïveté or stupidity or callousness. what these people don’t know is that they won’t ever be loved by the system that they want to love them, and by doing so they have lost the love of the only people who would have given it to them

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Y'know, when the choice is between voting for one of two tyrannical war criminal genociders and overturning the government, the "lesser evil" is, in fact, overturning the government. That's the difficult but necessary choice, especially since your country is holding most of the world hostage to its interests. Libs just know that their own lives might be part of the collateral, and worse, that their comfort will definitely be. That's what this is all about. After decades on decades of sacrificing Black and brown people in exchange for the stability of their power structures, they've realized that it's finally their turn.

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ONE HOUR AGO: greg abbott, who i have the great displeasure of calling my governor, is calling for the expulsion and jailing of ut austin students exercising their first amendment right to freedom of speech an assembly. every single motherfucker on the right soooo concerned about the first amendment seems to be creaming their pants over college students being brutalized and arrested for protesting. its fucking reprehensible.

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Sleeping on the job

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"how can you like this objectively bad thing!" because i have bad taste. move on.

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Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

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On related note, a few years ago, the Entomological Society of America officially discontinued the use of "gypsy moth" and "gyspy ant" as common names for Lymantria dispar and Aphaenogaster araneoides. L. Dispar is now known as the "spongy moth," so named for the appearance of their eggs, but I don't think a new common name has caught on for the ant species yet.

These changes we brought about, in large part, by the advocacy of Romani people in academia. You might not think that bug names are a very serious issue, but I believe that language matters. These species became known as "gypsies" because their attributes were likened to certain stereotypes and negative perceptions of actual Roma, so the continued use of those names reaffirmed those negative associations in the public consciousness. Slurs and pejoratives can never be truly decontexualized.

In my mind, one of the biggest obstacles that Romani people face when we are trying to advocate for ourselves is a lack of recognition as a marginalized group that deserves the necessary consideration. Even for seemingly trivial matters, like bugs or comic book characters, the way that people talk about us-- and talk down to us, when we get involved-- is telling. So, I always think that changes like this are a win, because it means that people are willing to learn and grant us the dignity we deserve. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to effect change in your own field, even arts and science.

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This campaign for my uncle family ( brother of my mother) they are also displaced seeking the safety please help them by donating if you can or sharing the campaign.

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Pineapple head

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im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

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FUCK YEAH COLUMBIA UNI STUDENTS!!!!!!

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Discovered that amputations and amputated limbs in stories trigger me now because those pictures and videos of crying Palestnian children and babies with half their limbs amputated without anesthesia slam into me like a truck. I think I'm going to haunted by them for the rest of my life.

I'm never going to get over the fact that liberals want to vote for the Zionist who sent the bombs that did it, who's continuing to send the weapons that are still doing it. I didn't think anyone could be that much of a demon without breathing sulfur instead of air.

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anyone in or near nyc: the gaza solidarity encampment is in desperate need of support as columbia university president minouche shafik intends to have the camp swept (again) at midnight if an agreement cannot be reached with organizers. the escalation against activists has been ongoing all week long.

i have been in touch with students (who wish to remain anonymous for their own safety) and following others participating in the encampment and your support at this moment is absolutely crucial if you can spare it.

**i’ve seen various mentions of the national guard being dispatched but as of several hours ago ny governor kathy hochul said she had no plans to allow for it. this, however, does not keep the encampment safe from violence at the hands of the NYPD.

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The fossil is not the animal.

The fossil is not the bones of the animal.

The fossil is the stone's memory of the bones of the animal.

And that's a poetry older than words.

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I think the saddest thing about humans is how we accept and internalise all the ways that others find us misfit, wrong, too much, or not enough. And then cling to those self-perceptions for the rest of our lives like a security blanket.