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you know the drill, op disabled reblogs etc etc etc

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drm-free media is my passion

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i saw this image and thought you’d really like it. it reminded me of you

literally. this is it.

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What a terrible world we live in where you can google wild plants or bugs because you're interested in them and the first results are all "how do I kill this"

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I have a hard time talking about American law enforcement, because I have ptsd (like a therapist told me this and everything) from my own experiences with cops and because it's so balls quaking insane.

Like, a cop in the United States can pull you over for any reason. Which is a nice way of saying no reason, because literally anything can be used after the fact as justification. A cop can say its cuz you looked at him, or didnt look at him, or it looked like you were holding something, or looked like you were driving too perfectly for it to be natural. It's insane.

There are apparently no circumstances where a cop can't just kill you. The line the courts have applied is "reasonably believed" you were a threat, but that's such a nebulous nothing limit that people get shot for reaching for their license, having their phone in their hand, you're running away with no weapon, not being able to follow conflicting commands, like anything. And cops are almost never charged, because every court is going to believe he could "reasonably believe" he was threatened. Fuck, if you give me enough time, I can make any situation seem juuuuust plausibly threatening enough to pass that bar. It's insane.

A cop can just rob you. Like tell you to give him your wallet, take all the cash out, and just walk away with it. Exactly like you would imagine getting robbed in an alley would go, except no one can help. And he doesn't even have to hide it, he just drops it in a box at the station and they put it in their bank account. It's legal. You can't prove it wasn't drug money. I can't prove any money wasn't at some point drug money. It's insane.

If a cop just walks in your front door and says "I'm here to kill you and your entire family" YOU ARE GOING TO PRISON IF YOU STOP HIM. There is no positive defense for assaulting a police officer in the United States, and doubly so if you kill him. You have effectively no defense against a homicidal cop, which happens same as any other job. Unless for some reason you have cameras all thru your house and clearly caught the audio of him saying that he's there just to kill you, you have zero chance of not going to prison, probably for life. And that's assuming you aren't killed "resisting arrest" while being taken into custody. It is a crime, in this country, for you to defend yourself under any circumstances if the person you're defending yourself from is a cop. That's insane.

You don't have civil rights if a cop says so. You have the right to have a gun, right? A lot of states have open carry. A cop can shoot you if he sees you have a gun. Doesn't matter if you have a license and everything. So you effectively don't have the right to bear arms if a cop can shoot you for exercising it. You have the right to protest. Unless a cop tells you to stop. He doesn't need a real reason to tell you to stop. And if you don't stop, you can be arrested or shot. So you don't really have the right to protest, do you? A cop cant just search your car or house, right? Unless he claims he heard something, or smelled something, neither of which can be proven. So a cop can search whatever he wants, as long as he pretends there was a "reason". So you dont have protection from unreasonable search and seizure, do you? These are no longer rights- they're things the cops allow.. for now. But legally, those rights have already been found to not actually be rights, because any random cop can decide to take that right from you, for any reason. It's insane.

These aren't like crazy things that I'm just making up, these aren't some weird twisted way I'm looking at something, these are all very real things that we all just.. ignore? Police abolitionists and the media bring these things up all the time, and the overwhelming response to it is: so what? Don't break the law and it won't matter. Blue lives matter. More police funding. Cops should have tanks. It's insane. And I always feel like im just rambling and sound insane when I say this kind of stuff because if you wrote a book and had the dystopian government doing the stuff that the police in this country do every single day, those same people who "back the blue" would line up to say stuff like "*Books government* wouldnt have a chance before us real americans stopped them" on twitter and not even get a hint of the irony.

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mormons undoubtedly in the top 5 worst things the united states has ever invented which is really saying something

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when someone says "why would you want a physical copy of that? you can just stream it" i physically recoil. a feeling of dread comes over me like an evil spirit just passed through my body

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quintessential "Teh Liberals Ruining Everyone's Fun" take but WHY CANT WE JUST BAN FIREWORKS :(

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nobody:

the most obnoxious idiot on the planet: "what if we replaced the buttons with a touch interface"

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i love seam rippers so much, fuck you carhartt patch, fuck you company making me a billboard for ur product, fuck you to infinite im gonna replace all the brand patches on my clothes with patches that say dyke

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This is an excellent response

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so a trans girl can't post a fully clothed pic much less a nude without fear of getting banned because the advertisers, but THIS

THIS AD WITH A DILDO AND A JERKOFF MACHINE IS WHATS SPONSORING TUMBLR?

so- let's really break this down.

You ban porn. You ban trans girls because they're not "good for advertisers"

But you advertise... sex toys...

I. Fucking.. WHAT

@staff @humans you have some fucking explaining to do.

Spread this shit like wildfire. People need to know what a fucking dumpster fire this hellsite is. And the ones in charge need to be reminded, we aren't going to keep getting pushed around.

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if the TOS is transphobic and the site moderation is openly transmisogynistic and the CEO personally cyberstalked and sexually harassed a trans woman after wrongfully banning her and the site culture is strongly transmisogynistic between TERFs and rightwing chaser dudes and terminally online transmascs reviving "mens rights" discourse like just what the fuck is any transfem supposed to do here? i mean you can say it's just a blog but not only is it more than that in most cases -- a social connection point, a source of income or donations, an art gallery, a community news source -- it's just a mirror of what happens in irl spaces and I'm not going to be quiet about it. i don't want a community without trans women in it, if they go i go

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if the TOS is transphobic and the site moderation is openly transmisogynistic and the CEO personally cyberstalked and sexually harassed a trans woman after wrongfully banning her and the site culture is strongly transmisogynistic between TERFs and rightwing chaser dudes and terminally online transmascs reviving "mens rights" discourse like just what the fuck is any transfem supposed to do here? i mean you can say it's just a blog but not only is it more than that in most cases -- a social connection point, a source of income or donations, an art gallery, a community news source -- it's just a mirror of what happens in irl spaces and I'm not going to be quiet about it. i don't want a community without trans women in it, if they go i go