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galaxymagitech · 5 months ago

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Promises to Keep

For @jasontoddweek2025 Day 5:

Family | No Capes AU | Jason is a Literature Nerd

Summary: From the very beginning, it has been exceedingly clear that Jason was at Wayne Manor to be Robin. College was simply not in the cards. So, when Jason finds himself sneaking off to go to English Literature lectures at GothamU, it’s only a matter of time until it comes crashing down.

Characters: Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson

Warnings: Violations of privacy, paranoia, referenced drug overdose and underage drug use, vomiting

You can read it here or on AO3!

Jason steps into the lecture hall, wiping his palms against his jeans as he surveys the room. There are blackboards set up at the front, covered in the chalk residue of the day’s earlier classes. And then, in the seats, there’s a sea of students chatting and laughing as they take out their notebooks for their class. Can they tell that Jason doesn’t belong here? He’s fourteen, and it shows. But no one comes up to Jason to tell him to go away, so he slides into an empty seat near the back and takes out a new notebook from his bright red backpack.

Jason is not supposed to be here. In fact, he told Bruce that he would be at the library, reading some legal texts in a “less stuffy environment” than the Manor. But the last time he was sick, he saw a movie where the characters were in college, listening to a professor talk for hours about classic literature. And Jason just had to see if that’s what college lectures are like.

He knows he’s not going to college. From the very beginning, it has been exceedingly clear that Jason was at Wayne Manor to be Robin. In fact, Bruce had told Jason that he didn’t need to worry about CPP putting him in an abusive home in the same breath that he’d informed Jason of his new job. And Bruce had told Jason that he was going to adopt him shortly after his first big sting operation. So yeah. It’s always been obvious.

And that’s fine! It really is. In fact, it’s better than fine. When Batman had first told Jason to get in his car, he had—not expected the worst, but considered it, certainly. In comparison to that, room, board, protection from social services, and a high school diploma in exchange for a job that lets Jason help people is a sweet deal.

But Bruce has never once mentioned college. Bruce has told Jason he needs to pass his classes so that the state won’t get involved and look too deeply at Bruce Wayne. Beyond that, though, it’s obvious that there’s nothing for the Mission to gain from Jason’s continued education. In fact, college is probably counter-productive to vigilantism—there’s gotta be a reason why Dick Grayson didn’t go.

So, yeah. Jason knows that college isn’t going to happen. But he couldn’t help himself, and now he’s here in the lecture hall, panicking because he lied to Batman just to hear some old guy talk about books.

Professor Williams calls the room to attention and begins writing on the blackboard. “So,” he says. “Shakespeare.” He turns to the room. “Thoughts?”

Everyone laughs. Jason is too nervous to do anything but stare.

“Don’t be shy,” Prof. Williams says. Jason wonders how he’s managing to project his voice throughout this huge lecture hall. “Everyone has thoughts about Shakespeare. Yes!” He points enthusiastically out at the crowd. Heads turn. “Elle Woods!” Nothing. “That’s you over there, with the pink.”

“Oh, yeah.” Jason’s gaze falls on a young woman with a pink jacket, pink skirt, pink shirt, pink notebook, pink feathery pen, and pink backpack. Pink overload. “Uh, he’s old? And he’s pretty important. The Lion King was based on one of his plays, yeah?”

“Excellent.” Prof. Williams writes that down on the blackboard. ‘Old’ and ‘Lion King.’ The girl doesn’t even look embarrassed. “Anyone else? You!”

“He was probably bi, right?”

Prof. Williams writes that down on the board too. He takes a few more opinions, before drawing a line across the blackboard. “So, that’s a lot of thoughts. And I’ll bet a lot of you who didn’t raise their hands had thoughts on Shakespeare too. Even if it’s that he’s an old fuddy-duddy and you didn’t want to offend me by saying so. Now. Thoughts on Thomas Ingelend?”

Silence. Jason looks down at his notebook, feeling his cheeks go red. He’s heard of Shakespeare, of course, even read Shakespeare while sheltering from the cold or heat at the Gotham Public Library, but he has no idea who Thomas Ingelend is.

Prof. Williams writes the name on the board. “Thomas Ingelend, anyone? Of course, not. Well, he only wrote one play. Shakespeare wrote thirty-eight. That’s not all there is to it, though. You only keep writing plays if you’re good at it. Otherwise, you get fired, and you get a job teaching English Lit at a university.” That gets a laugh. “I would know.” Another laugh. “Now, Shakespeare is one of my favorite parts of this course. Brontë? Some of you are familiar, no doubt, but many of you are blank slates. But Shakespeare? Everyone has an opinion on Shakespeare. Remember, this course is not about learning books, or poems, or plays. It’s about learning analysis. So, you’re going to dive deeper into Shakespeare than you’ve ever done before. Discover something new. And by the end of this unit, I expect you every one of you to change at least one of those opinions.”

Jason spends the next hour with energy buzzing beneath his skin as he takes notes on anything and everything the professor says. He wishes he could raise his hand and participate in the discussion, but he can’t risk drawing attention to himself. So, he just listens. And even that is amazing.

Two days later, Jason goes back.

And the following Monday, Jason returns again.

Jason finds himself “going to the library” twice a week. He borrows various Shakespeare works from the school library and secrets them away to his room, not daring to use the Manor’s library—Jason learned early in life that if something is important to you, people will find a way to use it against you. So he hides the books underneath his bed and fills them to the brim with sticky notes, then ignores the wrenching of his heart as he removes his annotations and tears them into tiny scraps that no one can read.

Professor Williams finishes the Shakespeare unit and move onto a survey of English poetry. Jason writes the verses of “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” on the inside of his notebook, because that’s Robin, right there—Robin’s magic.

And he gets complacent. Because in late April, two months after Jason first entered that lecture hall, Bruce confronts him in the entryway to Wayne Manor, and Jason doesn’t have a plan.

“Where were you?” Bruce asks, face set in a stern grimace. Jason’s eyes flicker up to meet his, and he knows, instantly, that Bruce has caught him.

“The library,” Jason tries, just in case Bruce is bluffing.

Bruce steps forwards. Jason finds himself stumbling back until he’s leaning against the door. “Don’t lie to me, Jason.”

“I’m not!” Jason insists, even though he knows he’s digging himself deeper. What else can he do? Jason’s spent two months unofficially taking a college class, wasting hours a day reading, just…being completely irresponsible. He can’t admit that to Bruce. And yes, a lecture hall is one of the least bad things he could be doing when he snuck off, but if Bruce gets the sense that Jason is more trouble than he’s worth, that Jason won’t be a full-time vigilante when he graduates, that he won’t be a worthy investment…well, Jason is at Wayne Manor to be Robin. And if he’s not Robin, he has no place there.

Bruce kicked Dick out. Dick and Bruce think Jason doesn’t know that. They still say that Dick ‘left.’ But Jason has heard Dick screaming at Bruce for taking Jason on after firing him, and he’s not an idiot.

Dick was just like Jason. An orphan without a place to stay. A Robin who developed other priorities. (And spending too much time with the Teen Titans is still loads more dedicated to the Mission than a random English class. If Dick got fired, Jason doesn’t stand a chance.)

“You’ve been sneaking off for months, Jason. I think I deserve some answers.”

Jason bristles. You’re not my father, he thinks. You’re not in charge of me. But that’s wrong. Bruce has complete legal authority over Jason—he’s officially in charge of him, without even the CPP check-ins. And worse, Batman is in charge of Robin. Like a commanding officer. He forces his shoulders to relax. “I’m sorry,” he says, trying to put as much apology into his voice as possible. “It won’t happen again.”

He turns to leave, but Bruce’s hand catches Jason’s upper arm. Jason flinches.

Fuck. He hasn’t flinched from Bruce since that very first week, when Jason had known he was safe but his body hadn’t quite caught up yet.

A flinch looks weak, but more than that, it looks guilty. It looks like Jason’s body is saying Bruce will hurt mebecause Bruce should hurt him. Because Jason did something that deserves a smack in the face—or worse.

“What’s gotten into you, Jason?” Bruce asks. For a moment, Jason considers just telling Bruce. Sure, it’s bad, but he can promise never to visit GothamU again, promise not to go into the Manor library, spend extra time studying the law and doing casework to make up for skiving off. But before he can make up his mind, Bruce continues. “Sneaking around, hiding things, yelling—if I didn’t know better, I’d think you were doing drugs!”

Immediately, Jason’s eyes go wide with shock. Doing drugs. Doing drugs. How could Bruce even think that? Jason watched his mother waste away, administered naloxone as she overdosed, found her dead body on the bathroom floor. “Fuck you,” he whispers.

“Language,” Bruce says sternly.

“No,” Jason says, stumbling away towards the stairs as his heart pounds wildly in his chest. He knows he should be trying to convince Bruce, trying to defuse the situation, but—Fuck him. He can’t. “Fuck you! What the hell, B?” Shaking with rage, Jason takes one of the steps backwards, trying to gain some height, some control over the situation.

Bruce interprets it as an escape attempt. “Don’t you dare walk out on this conversation.”

Jason blinks the tears from his eyes. “It’s none of your fucking business where I went! I’ve been great on patrol and my grades are fine, so you don’t have to worry about your fucking cover!”

“That’s it!” Bruce storms forwards and Jason scrambles up the steps. “You’re grounded.”

Jason gasps for air. He can’t be grounded. Professor Williams is going to do Austen next. “You’re not in charge of me! I can go wherever I want and you’re just being controlling asshole!”

“Don’t you dare talk to me like that!” Bruce roars.

Jason flinches again. And then, he runs.

“You’re benched too!” Bruce screams, but Jason isn’t listening. Instead, he races into his room and slams the door behind him, locking it with trembling hands. “Don’t slam the door!” Bruce shouts as Jason slides down into a seated position, pulling his knees to his chest and covering his ears as he struggles to breathe.

It’s safe, Jason reminds himself, but it doesn’t help much. Bruce promised. Bruce promised. In fact, that had been one of the first things he said when they got to Wayne Manor. He’d shown Jason his room and promisedJason that he would never go in there without his express permission.

“Safe,” Jason whispers. “Safe, safe, safe.”

He doesn’t quite believe it.

***

The next morning, Alfred drives Jason to school. After catching a glimpse of the butler’s disappointed expression, Jason spends the rest of the ride looking down and avoiding Alfred’s gaze. He drifts through the school day, unable to pay attention but dreading his return to the Manor. Bruce is still mad at him, and Alfred is mad too, and Jason is benched, so he can’t even be useful. If Jason doesn’t fix this, and soon, he’ll be back out on the streets.

Sure, Jason was offended by Bruce’s accusation, but his pride isn’t worth giving up the best thing that’s happened to Jason since his mother died.

I’ll apologize when I get home, Jason decides. And explain. And offer to fix it. Extra work, giving up reading…whatever Bruce wants, if it means that this can be forgiven.

But only a couple of hours later, Jason walks into his room only to feel something odd prickling on the back of his neck. Immediately, Jason goes still. Something’s wrong.

On first glance, the room looks perfectly normal. But Bruce trained Jason to be a detective, and now that’s his downfall.

This morning, Jason tried to slam his shirt drawer shut in frustration, but it didn’t close all the way. He had just abandoned it, though, and run out of the room so that Alfred wouldn’t be even more upset with him for being late. It’s closed, now.

Jason always puts his tissue box on his dresser the same way. And the angle is perfect, but the distance from the box to the edge is ever so slightly off in the way that only someone who saw it every day would notice.

One of the paintings on Jason’s wall is crooked. The mirror is missing a smudge. The pair of shorts that fell from his laundry basket is sitting there in the corner—right-side out.

And the small things add up. Someone has been in Jason’s room.

Nausea rolls in his stomach, and before he knows it, Jason is bent over the toilet, vomiting. His throat burns and his eyes tear up with what he tells himself is just the acidic stench.

It was Bruce. It had to have been Bruce. And the man is so good at details that for him to make this many mistakes—enough for Jason to notice—he had to have been mad. Jason shudders.

But Bruce promised.

Jason’s stomach contracts again and he shuts his eyes tight as he throws up. His hands clench the toilet seat, knuckles turning white.

Bruce promised he wouldn’t go into Jason’s room. But he did. He broke that promise.

What other promises will Bruce break?

Jason is being stupid. Bruce—Bruce probably thought Jason’s anger was guilt, that Jason was taking drugs. And so he searched Jason’s room. Batman does it frequently enough, so why can’t Bruce?

But this is Jason’s room. And Bruce promised.

A horrifying thought occurs to Jason. When Batman and Robin search a room and don’t find anything, they often install bugs to monitor for criminal activity. Are there cameras in Jason’s bedroom now?

And then he’s puking again, and he can’t hold back the tears anymore. It isn’t fair. Jason just wanted to go to a college class. Was that really too much to ask? He never expected Bruce to let him go to college for real, he just—he was enjoying it. He loved it. In fact, he was planning to show up for GothamU’s Spanish Literature class over the summer.

And now, because Jason let himself have this one thing, Bruce thinks he’s doing drugs, he’s benched (probably fired, just like Dick), and there could be cameras in his room.

When he’s done throwing up, Jason curls up under the sink, buries his face in his knees, and sobs until his body has run out of tears.

***

Bruce isn’t at dinner. That’s good. Jason doesn’t think he could look the man in the eyes without crying.

Alfred serves Jason with a vaguely apologetic expression, and Jason thinks, Do you know what Bruce did? Is that what you’re apologizing for? But it’s probably just that Bruce didn’t bother to show up, and Jason is alone.

Good. Alone is safe.

Jason spends the next hour carefully unscrewing and checking every single one of his light fixtures. He finds nothing, but Bruce knows that Jason knows how to find bugs. He wouldn’t put them in the most obvious place.

By dawn, Jason has checked every single inch of his walls with a magnifying glass, removed every single screw from his furniture, and dismantled every single one of his pens. It’s not enough. When he lies in bed, all he can think of is how flimsy the wooden door is, how that lock can’t keep out a common thief (let alone Batman himself), how Bruce’s promise not to enter means nothing.

The next day, Jason is exhausted. He doesn’t run into Bruce that day either. At night, he lies in bed, his heart thundering away in his chest. This is an indefensible position—Bruce could sneak up on him so easily, and Jason would be lying prone, unable to fight. He rushes to the bathroom and locks that door behind him, but the tight space only makes him feel more trapped. Returning to his room, Jason paces until it’s time to go back to school.

He's pretty sure he fails his geometry test. The math is easy…until he’s gone over 48 hours without sleep, and all the obtuse angles look acute and csc might as well be cos for all he can read it.

When Jason gets home, he tries to make himself take a nap. It should be easy. He’s absolutely exhausted—he was falling asleep in class, after all. And Bruce is at work anyway. Only Alfred is in the house, and Alfred would never hurt Jason.

But lying in bed, Jason feels his skin crawl. His survival instincts, honed by two years in Crime Alley and two years fighting the worst of Gotham’s criminals, are screaming at him to run.

And so, he runs.

***

Jason ends up at the train station with no idea where to go. He packed his backpack full of the essentials—clothes, protein bars, the money from Bruce’s exorbitant “allowance.” Maybe it’s stealing—those things really belong to Bruce, and Jason’s just borrowing them, but, well…stealing from Batman is nothing new for him.

He needs to get away from Gotham, and fast. Jason knows a lot, and that’s dangerous. Even though Jason is basically proving with this stunt that he’s more trouble than he’s worth, Bruce will probably still want to hunt him down to wipe his memory. And with that wiped memory will go many of the survival skills that Jason needs. So, he needs to get into territory that’s unfamiliar to Batman.

Jason should’ve planned for this better. He knew Dick got kicked out. He knew the same thing could happen to him too. That’s how it goes.

Dick.

Jason doesn’t want to bother the older boy, but Dick did say to call if Jason ever needed him. And now, more than ever, Jason needs him.

Dick will understand what Bruce is like, right? He might not have a lot of money, but maybe he can keep Jason safe for a little while. Jason can buy his own food, and it won’t cost Dick anything to let Jason crash on his couch. Dick…Dick said they were brothers. Dick said that Jason could call.

Jason wasn’t stupid enough to bring his phone with him, so he finds a family on the train and convinces the mother to let him borrow her cellphone to call his brother. The phone rings for a long time before Dick picks up.

“Hi, who is this?”

“It’s Jason.” Jason hears his voice shake. He tells himself that’s just for show, so that the woman he borrowed the phone from will trust him.

There’s a pause on the other end. Then—“Jason Todd?”

“Yeah,” Jason says.

“Oh, cool. Sorry, it didn’t show up as you for some reason. Anyway, what’s up? You sound off—is everything okay?”

Jason takes a deep breath. “Can I stay with you for a bit?” He asks.

Another pause. “Yeah, Jason, of course. Is this a ‘sleepover at Titans Tower for the weekend’ sort of thing or a ‘drive out to Gotham to pick me up’ sort of thing? Because I totally can pick you up.”

“I’m on the train to New York,” Jason admits. “I’ll be there in twenty minutes.”

Immediately, Jason hears movement on the other end of the call. “I’ll pick you up from the station,” Dick says. “Whatever’s going on, I’ll help, okay? I promise.”

“’kay,” Jason whispers. Bruce broke his promise. What’s to say that Dick won’t too?

They’re different people, Jason reminds himself. And Dick hates Bruce. He’d probably help me just to stick it to B.

“Thanks,” Jason says, and hands the phone back to the woman.

“You’re welcome, sweetie,” she says. “Stay safe.”

Jason nods and goes back to his seat, wiping off his sweaty palms. Fuck, he probably sweated all over the phone didn’t he? Made it all gross. And the woman had been so nice, too.

Calm down, Jason tells himself, trying to slow his rapid breathing. Dick’s going to pick you up, and it’ll be okay. He can sleep at Dick’s apartment, and then plan how to survive on his own long-term. Jason’s fourteen, yeah, but he’s a far better fighter than he was at twelve, and Robin’s crimefighting skills could easily be used for crime. He can make it, now. He can.

Jason spends the remainder of the train ride counting out breaths in his head. When the train arrives, Jason enters the train station half-expecting to see Bruce waiting, his face lined by fury. So when he instead sees Dick, just as promised, he collapses into the older boy’s arms. Burying his head in Dick’s chest, Jason finally lets himself close his eyes.

“Whatever this is,” Dick says, “we’ll work it out.” And Jason—Jason almost believes him.

***

Dick’s eyes get wider and wider and wider as Jason tells his story. When Jason finishes his outpouring of fear and anxiety, Dick collapses back into the couch and buries his face in one of his hands. Jason stands in front of him like a man awaiting judgement.

Eventually, Dick gestures to the couch. Jason sits at the very end, wedging himself in the corner and curling up against the armrest.

“You can stay here as long as you want,” Dick says, and Jason nearly melts. “But—” Jason’s body tenses again, and suddenly he feels like a live wire. “Not but to staying here. You can stay, okay?” Dick looks at Jason like he’s expecting an answer, so Jason gives a tiny nod. “But I just—Bruce would be happy to hear you were going to college lectures.”

Jason shakes his head. “But I can’t go to college.”

“Why not?”

“Because everything!” Jason shakes his head. “I’m Robin, and if I want him to keep me I can’t waste time on college when I could be a full-time vigilante! I can’t—I don’t know how you did it, but if he kicks me out too then I—I just can’t do it.”

“Jason…” Dick meets his eyes. “Bruce didn’t kick me out.”

Jason crosses his arms. “You don’t have to lie to me.”

“I’m not lying,” Dick says firmly. “Bruce fired me. He had no right to do that, and he would’ve tried to stop me from being a vigilante, so I left. I was seventeen—I didn’t need an adult looking after me, anyway. I went to Titans Tower, became Nightwing, and never looked back. But Bruce never told me I had to leave the Manor.”

Jason shakes his head. Maybe Bruce didn’t say it, but it was implied in the firing. No Robin, no home. If Dick hadn’t fucked off of his own accord, Bruce would’ve eventually kicked him out. But if Dick wants to believe it was his own choice—Dick, who still visits the Manor for all the holidays even after the last visit resulted in a screaming match, who smiles in response to Bruce’s grunts, who gave Dick his phone number and his Robin suit—Jason doesn’t want to ruin that for him. So, he switches tactics. “You never went to college. And you were a mathlete, so you definitely had the smarts for it.”

“Jay, I didn’t want to go. I wanted to be a full-time hero. Bruce was against it. We fought a lot about it in that last year.”

“Bruce…wanted you to go to college?” That doesn’t make sense.

“Yeah, Little Wing.” Little Wing? Jason wrinkles his nose, and Dick smiles brightly in response before continuing. “So he’ll be thrilled one of his kids is cooperating. He probably just never said anything about college because he didn’t want to start an argument.”

Maybe Bruce just hadn’t realized he could get away with not sending a kid to college. Yeah, that’s it! Bruce was worried his public image would take a hit, but when Dick didn’t go and it was fine, Bruce was relieved.

“Look, I also wanted to talk about your room.”

Jason curls in on himself, his breaths suddenly ragged and panicked. And then, Dick’s crouched in front of him, reminding him to breathe. Jason breathes.

“You with me?” Dick asks. Jason nods. “Is it okay if we talk about this?”

Well. Dick probably knows Bruce pretty well. He might be able to reassure Jason or—or warn him. “I can’t sleep at all,” Jason says quietly. “It doesn’t—it doesn’t feel safe.”

“Bruce isn’t good at privacy,” Dick says.

“He just—he promised, Dick. He promised me he would never come in, and I believed him.”

“Did you know Bruce read my diary when I was little?”

Jason’s head snaps up. “N-no.”

Dick smiles. “Yeah, well, he did. I was eight. I would only eat chips, I was swinging from the chandeliers, sneaking out to hunt down Zucco—everything a kid could do wrong. He didn’t know how to help me. And he really wanted to help me. So then, he found the diary and…read it. That’s how he knew how to make the Robin costume. He saw my drawings of it. So, he made me the Robin costume, and I was upset with him, because that was my diary, but. He did it because he wanted to help. And I forgave him, because the costume was awesome. I guess, what I’m trying to say is—I get it. Bruce can be a nightmare sometimes, and he doesn’t really get boundaries. But he means well. Always. He would never go into your room to hurt you. Never, Jason. He—”

“I know,” Jason interrupts. “I know. I just—”

Dick puts a hand on Jason’s shoulder. “Yeah. It’s hard to sleep somewhere that doesn’t feel safe.”

Jason looks down. “Batman and Robin put bugs in the rooms they search.”

Dick pauses a second too long. “Bruce wouldn’t put cameras in your room.”

“Please don’t lie to me,” Jason says, voice small.

“I—I don’t know, Jason. But when you do go back—if you do go back, we’ll use Bat tech and Titans tech to scan your room, okay?”

“Okay.” Jason closes his eyes and leans back against the couch.

“You should sleep,” Dick says. “You must be exhausted.” Jason nods. “Is there anything I can do to h—” Dick’s phone rings. He glances at it and then freezes when he sees the caller ID. “Shit.”

“It’s Bruce, isn’t it?” Dick nods. “You should pick it up.” Dick nods again, but still doesn’t move. “He’ll get suspicious if you don’t.”

Grudgingly, Dick stands up to take the phone call to another room. Jason’s heart jolts with fear. “Please stay.” He doesn’t want to be out of the loop. He doesn’t think Dick will tell Bruce that Jason’s with him, but one can never be too careful.

Dick accepts the call and raises the phone to his ear. “What?” He snaps. A pause. “Huh? Why would he be?...No, of course I haven’t—…You put trackers in his shoes. What the fuck is wrong with you, Bruce?”

Jason stands up, eyes darting around the room. If Bruce put trackers in Jason’s shoes, he could be here any second. And Nightwing is good, but there’s no way he’s Batman good.

Dick meets Jason’s eyes from across the room. “It’s going to be okay, Jason,” he promises. Jason doesn’t think he’s lying, but that doesn’t mean Dick is right. “Bruce, your son is having a panic attack in my apartment because of your control issues…You promised him, okay? And now he’s freaking out, because you went into his room when you said you wouldn’t. You see why that scares him, right? Or does that not get through your thick head?”

Dick lowers the phone, breathing heavily. “Is he here?” Jason whispers.

“I don’t think so,” Dick says. “I think—I think he’s at home still, and he called me the second he knew where you were.”

“I can go,” Jason says.

“No. My baby brother is not going to go wandering around New York City because B is being an asshole.”

Jason pulls his knees to his chest and listens.

“Well, maybe next time try asking him without accusing him! …No, I don’t give a fuck about that,” Dick rants. “And what the hell does Roy have to do with this? …Fuck you. Fuck you, Bruce. Jason is staying here and if you get within ten feet of him I’m calling the Titans.” With that, Dick hangs up and collapses onto the couch, breathing heavily.

“Dick?” Jason asks quietly. “Are you okay?”

“Starfire can shoot energy beams from her eyes, Cyborg can hack into any computer in the known universe, and Donna Troy is Wonder Girl,” Dick says. “Go to sleep. You can take my room, or the couch if you prefer. We’ll make sure you’re safe, okay?”

Jason wants to protest, but he’s too tired. So, he lets Dick tuck him in and listens to the lock click and drifts away.

***

For the first five days, it’s amazing. Dick brings Jason to Titans Tower to hang out with his cool superhero friends and lets him take out whatever books he wants on Dick’s library card. Jason spends his days reading and talking to the Titans and keeping up with his math and biology homework on Dick’s computer. It’s great.

And then, on the sixth day, Bruce calls. Dick screams at him. Bruce insists on talking to Jason. Dick says that Bruce will talk to Jason when Jason is ready to talk, and not a moment before. Bruce says that Jason has to go to school. Dick says Babs hacked the school’s computer system, and fuck you, Bruce, and then hangs up.

Jason is hit by the realization that yes, Dick would let Jason stay forever if Jason never left, but it’s just not sustainable.

“I need to go back,” he tells Dick as they eat microwave mac and cheese and microwave peas. Dick has been making an effort to cook actual food. Jason is honestly kind of concerned for Dick, given that this is an improvement on his usual fare. As in, there is a vegetable present.

“No, you don’t,” Dick says.

“I’m—I want to be Robin. And Bruce adopted me. I’m supposed to live with him.”

“Are you sure, Jason?”

Jason’s heartrate doesn’t pick up at the thought of sleeping in his room anymore, so that’s something, at least. And Dick has said that Bruce wanted him to convey his apologies for searching Jason’s room. “If I tell him I don’t actually expect to go to college, he won’t be too mad at me, right?”

Dick sighs. “He’ll be thrilled that you want to college. But—”

“No, he won’t—”

“But. If for whatever reason he decides he’s against it, you’re still going to go. You want to go to college? You’ll go to college. The Wayne Foundation gives kids who are in foster care or were adopted full rides to Gotham universities.”

“Bruce is in charge of those, though,” Jason mutters. Bruce won’t want Robin leaving to go waste his time, so he can just deny the scholarship.

“That’s—it’s an automatic process, Jason,” Dick argues. “But, even if the scholarship was denied, I’d pay for it, okay? Bruce gave me a trust fund, and it has enough to pay for that.”

Jason stands up, sliding his chair back with a screech. “No way! I’m not taking your money!”

“It’s not my money, it’s Bruce’s. Trust me—” Dick winks and, despite himself, Jason groans. “—I’m not gonna use it. I don’t need his money. But my little brother going to college? Yeah, he’s totally paying for that.”

Jason lets himself smile, just a little. College. Even when he was a stupid kid, he hadn’t thought he was going to go to college. But if he can go now, can spend his days in lectures like the one he’d been attending and actually get to raise his hand and go to recitation and write essays and get feedback…

“I promise,” Dick says.

***

Dick offers to explain Jason’s side of the story to Bruce, and Jason gratefully takes him up on that offer. The next day, Bruce comes over to Dick’s apartment.

“If you want him to leave at any time, he leaves,” Dick says. “Literally any time. If Bruce makes a bad pun and you decide you want him to go, he’ll go. Got it?” Jason nods. The door opens.

Jason listens numbly as Bruce apologizes and Dick extracts a series of promises from Bruce that should probably be reassuring.

“Jason.” That’s Bruce’s voice. Dick taps Jason lightly on the shoulder, making Jason’s world snap back into focus. “I’m truly sorry. I never meant to make you feel unsafe.” Jason nods, not really sure what to say. “How can I make it up to you?”

Jason doesn’t—Jason doesn’t know, is the thing. He can’t think of a single way to secure his room so that Batman can’t enter without turning it into a prison cell. Bruce will always be able to get in, and Jason just has to live with that. “Just…don’t do it again,” Jason mumbles.

“I won’t,” Bruce says. “I promise.”

Jason doesn’t point out that he has promised that before, but it hangs in the air, heavy and unspoken.

In the car ride back to Wayne Manor, Bruce flips the rearview mirror so that he can better see Jason. “I’m not trying to buy your forgiveness,” Bruce says. “But I was thinking that we could take a tour of Ivy University this weekend.”

That makes Jason’s widen comically. “What?”

“It’s the best university in the country for English Literature. Dick says you were going to a Literature class, so I thought you might want to see your options.”

“But—Ivy University’s not in Gotham, is it?”

“You might have to take a break from Robin,” Bruce says. “But that would be alright, Jason.”

“Really?” Jason whispers.

“Really,” Bruce says. “Dick didn’t like the idea of juggling vigilante life with college, but that was…that was his decision, even if I disagreed with his choices. You can make your own decision, and whatever you decide, I’ll do whatever I can to make it happen.”

Maybe, Jason thinks, Dick was right.

***

That Friday, Bruce tells Jason that actually, there’s a drug deal going down on Saturday evening, and maybe they can visit Ivy University another time. Jason knows that means it’s not happening, but that doesn’t matter. Not when Alfred drives Jason to English Literature every Monday and Wednesday, and Jason has his own copies of the books to annotate to his heart’s content.

***

The second Jason climbs in through the window, he knows that someone is in his safehouse. He draws his handgun and clicks off the safety, scanning around the room. “Come out, and this will be easier for both of us.”

The light flickers on, and Jason whirls around, only to see Nightwing leaning against the wall, a grin on his face. Jason does not lower his gun, nor does he put the safety back on. Although it’s unlikely that Nightwing would come alone to hunt Red Hood down, Jason is not on particularly good terms with the Bats at the moment. “Why are you here?” Jason asks, voice level. “The Big Bad Bat needed a spy?”

“Actually,” Dick says, still smiling, “I’m here because I made a promise.”

Jason keeps the gun pointed straight at Dick’s chest. “What promise?”

Dick blinks. “Jason Peters got his GED last week. Congratulations.”

It takes Jason a moment to register Dick’s implication, but when it finally clicks, Jason turns the safety back on and lows his handgun with a sigh. “I’ll have you know that crime lording is a lucrative career.”

“Just thought I’d offer,” Dick says, pushing himself off the wall. It’s only then that Jason realizes Dick was making himself seem smaller and more casual on purpose. “The trust fund’s still sitting there, unused. It’d really stick it to B.”

For a moment, Jason is tempted. But then he remembers the whole mess that started this. “Yeah, no, Dickhead. You’re not the type to stalk my fake identity. So, who sent you? Bruce, or Tim?”

Dick sighs. “Bruce was going to come and offer to pay for your college himself. I talked him down from that. But I was going to offer from the moment he mentioned you got your GED.”

Jason wipes a hand across his face. “Last time I saw him, I shot at him.” Jason wasn’t kidding about being on bad terms with the Bats.

Dick shrugs. “It’s your love language. Just like Bruce’s is egregious violations of privacy.” He grins.

Jason remembers being fourteen and terrified of going to sleep in his own room. “It’s not funny.”

Dick sobers up quick. “Yeah. It’s not.”

Jason decides to throw him a bone. “I’m enrolling at GothamU this fall. Given the crime lord-ing, I need to be taking afternoon classes only. Wanna hack the scheduling system with me?”

***

Jason steps into the lecture hall, wiping his palms against his sweatpants as he surveys the room. There are screens set up in front, each with a dark blackboard-like background. And then, in the seats, there’s a sea of students, eighteen and nineteen and early twenties, and some younger and some older. Senior citizens and high schoolers on dual enrollment, all mixed into the rows of seats with tiny folding desks. Jason, at nineteen, can almost fool himself into thinking he belongs here.

Jason sits right up at the front and removes a new notebook from his bright red backpack.

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Post-Maoism and Dividing the Dragon

"There’s a certain tendency in the North American left to talk about the New People’s Army as the “good Maoists” on par with the Zapatistas. This is in part by a very effective publicity campaign by the US-based kasamas (or what National Democrats are called in the United States). I would not go as far to say that I support the CPP-NPA-NDF. I agree that the creation of red zones of autonomy are good, but I still reject the theory of National Democracy, their carcerality,[35] their bloody record in internal purge massacres, their assassinations of leftists,[36] and their shameful opportunist support for the fascist Rodrigo Duterte out of some false promises.

With that said, what the CPP-NPA-NDF does in terms of building autonomy in red areas—rebel peripheries—isn’t exactly wrong. The purpose of their construction in their intent is “National Democracy,” the protracted people’s war, the capture or creation of state power, and the formation of a Party-State apparatus. While this intention is disagreeable to anarchists, the praxis of building organs of autonomy isn’t wrong, and in fact, is to be celebrated.

“Insurrectionary libertarian post-Maoism” was a half-serious inside joke in our milieu that referred to the idea that the Maoist insurrection in the Philippines was essentially something to celebrate, but that anarchists in the Philippines needed to build on the revolutionary tradition and transcend Maoism on libertarian terms due to the anarchist disagreements on States. While great for shitposting, the idea is not disagreeable, especially when it comes to the autonomous and self-directed aspects of the communist insurgency today.

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Another aspect of taking insurrectionary libertarian post-Maoism seriously would be on critiquing its dragon aspect and fully committing to a hydra organizational form. Maoism has always had this tension between top-down centralization and bottom-up organizing, or a tension between the hybridization of its dragon and hydra aspects. In his essay, Shoatz’s example of the failures of dragon-type of organizing was revolutionary Haiti where the dragon-type forces of Toussaint L’Ouverture and his successors would betray their mass base time and time again like reimposing the plantation system:

Thus, we can clearly see how Haiti’s dragon forces played a very ambivalent role in the rebel fight for independence: They started out as tenacious and brilliant fighters against all of the European imperial and colonial elements, and the traitors amongst the Mulatto’s, who were all but bent on keeping the enslaved Africans underfoot. During the course of the revolutionary struggle, they all opportunistically switched to the French imperialist’s side, and went on to attempt to drown the still revolutionary masses and their decentralized group in blood; hoping that way the French would allow them to serve as a new elite class of African policemen against a re-enslaved African worker’s class. Failing to suppress the rebels, the dragon forces rejoined the hydra elements and lent their weigh to totally defeating the French, only to once again turn against the revolutionary masses by establishing themselves as a dictatorial and exploitative African elite.[37]

Outside the Black radical tradition, we can see too many of such examples, even if we avoid the obvious example with Joseph Stalin, the supposed wrecker of Lenin’s legacy, so let’s start with Nikita Khrushchev. Maoists are famously anti-revisionist, meaning they uphold the contributions of Stalin. They are anti-revisionist because they opposed the perceived revisions by Khrushchev who succeeded Stalin as paramount leader. But Stalin was the one who concentrated so much dragon power into his position. Khrushchev simply took over the dragon’s head and led the dragon. Stalin, and by extension, Stalinism, had allowed power to be structured in such a way that a “great betrayer” could simply take its place.

Thomas Sankara, another darling of the left, also tells us a lot of the dangers of the dragon. Unlike Toussaint L’Ouverture and his successors, we cannot perhaps fault Sankara for being a betrayer. His greatest “sin” is perhaps because he was assassinated and his project fallen apart—supposedly not a fault of his own—but this is crucial. Sankara’s revolution in Burkina Faso was largely top-down and State-led. Without the dragon’s head to protect the gains of his revolution, it simply fell apart. Had Sankara’s revolution seriously made an effort of promoting the revolutionary self-activity of the Burkinabè working class and creating a true monster of a hydra, his assassination would not have led to such an easily-won counterrevolution.

But perhaps let us look at a Marxist who did create a true monster of a hydra: Mao Zedong himself. The Cultural Revolution in China, initiated by Mao himself, was truly an unprecedented and unsurpassed marvel of social movement mobilization: so many untold millions were mobilized that the world has never seen a scale of mass mobilization as in China ever before or ever since. Many of those mobilized could not have been commanded to by above and really did practice a level of self-directed militancy. Yet as Wu Yiching shows in his The Cultural Revolution at the Margins, the Party-State acted as a demobilizer, jailer, and executioner of many Chinese communists.[38] Yu Luoke wrote and organized against bloodline theory that tried to formalize the creation of a privileged caste, but he was executed for it. Conservative red guards would win over radical red guards because the conservative red guards were the scions of the bureaucrats in the Party-State. The working class alliance Sheng-wu-lien organized against a reemergence of a “red capitalist class,” argued for a “People’s Commune of China” and agitated for the fullest conclusion of the Cultural Revolution.[39] For these sins, they were ruthlessly repressed by Mao and the Party-State. Innumerable other Cultural Revolutionary forces were co-opted and then integrated into the Party-State, their political lines moderating until they could be safely assimilated. And so the Cultural Revolution was demobilized.

Though he initiated the Cultural Revolution, Mao “is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells”[40] and rushed to crush or co-opt the very powers he unleashed. The last hurrah of the Cultural Revolution, in 1989 after Mao’s death and the rise of Deng Xiaoping, saw the communist youth who grew up in the Cultural Revolution march to protect their gains at Tiananmen Square and across China in the June 4th movement. We all know how that ended—a nominally “communist” government slaughtering workers and well-convinced communists,[41] their dragon no longer under their control. As Wu argued, the demobilization of the Cultural Revolution by the Party-State led to the post-socialist transition in China. “It is right to rebel,” but only within the allowances of the Party-State. The dragon may have unleashed a hydra, but it re-leashed some of its heads and killed others until the dragon’s head was taken over by yet another great betrayer in Deng Xiaoping and his “capitalist roader” successors. Long declared illegal by the heirs of Deng, the hydra of the Cultural Revolution is still alive, struggling against the Party-State and capitalism with Chinese characteristics, alive in the name of, in spite of, and not because of, Mao.

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Dragons, then, are alluring and appealing. But even on communist terms, they are dangerous beasts that bring about “revisionism” and the victory of “capitalist roaders.” Others, including Shoatz himself, suggest that a “revolutionary dragon” is still necessary to “consciously disarm and disperse the reactionary dragon,” but that this revolutionary dragon must be kept in “a cage” where it “cannot escape” with the keys in the hands of the hydra, where the hydra brings out the revolutionary dragon only when it is needed and kept in its cage otherwise.[42] But what does keeping the dragon in the hydra’s cage and leash even mean? Shoatz’s concession that hydras cannot defeat dragons and need their own dragon to protect them offers little solutions other than vague analogies to prevent the revolutionary dragon from betraying and decimating our hydra. Ultimately, Maoism, and by extension much of Marxism, has no answer to how to prevent a great betrayer from taking over the dragon’s head beyond some sophistry about the mass line, two-line struggle, and launching cultural revolutions or great rectifications.

Indeed, we’ve all been here before. Two-line struggle failed to remove “revisionists” and “capitalist-roaders” in the Maobadi movement in Nepal to the point where official Maobadis in government broke strikes and struck deals with multinationals.[43] Even in the Philippines, there was fierce two-line struggle in the CPP around fifteen years ago which some have framed as a “Sison–Tiamzon” conflict where Party rank-and-file, apparently self-directed, criticized the upper cadre for class collaboration with the Manny Villar candidacy for president (of which Bongbong Marcos was part of alongside National Democracy!).[44] Clearly these lower cadre failed in their two-line struggle and would probably have decried and protested the CPP fawning over Duterte six years later. No, not even two-line struggle in the Cultural Revolution succeeded. Dragons are just that dangerous and can only tolerate hydras at their pleasure.

Neither can purges be a necessary nor sufficient solution for preventing the capture of the dragon’s head. The Soviets, Chinese, and Vietnamese purged and purged and purged, but all three saw the restoration of capitalism in the end. The purges in the CPP were even more meaningless as the only result was self-inflicted decimation and demobilization. As we have seen, opportunists and capitalist-roaders survive purges all the time, often able to find refuge in the Party hierarchy."

-Simoun Magsalin, "Rebel Peripheries" (May 1, 2025)

#simoun magsalin #anarchism #maoism #communism

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year ago

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By: Leor Sapir

Published: Apr 4, 2024

Across the United States, thousands of parents have consented to having their children’s puberty stopped with a class of drugs called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists. Known colloquially as “puberty blockers,” these drugs overstimulate the pituitary gland to the point of preventing it from sending signals to the ovaries or testes to start producing the hormones responsible for puberty.

Parents who have consented to these drugs for their children love their kids dearly, but they’ve consented under entirely false pretenses. The doctors who’ve advised them say that puberty blockers are known to improve mental health — that they are even life-saving — and that they are fully reversible and just give kids “time to think.” None of this is true.

Major American medical associations say that “gender-affirming care” for kids is “medically necessary” and “life-saving.” Health authorities Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the U.K. disagree. Last month, the National Health Service of England decommissioned puberty blockers as a treatment of adolescent gender dysphoria. “We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of [puberty blockers] to make the treatment routinely available at this time,” the NHSE explained.

Imagine if American doctors told parents the following truths. The mental health benefits of puberty blockers are highly uncertain, according to multiple systematic reviews of the evidence, the bedrock of evidence-based medicine. The World Health Organization says the evidence is “limited and variable.” There is no research into long-term harms, but some evidence suggests decreased IQ and brittle bones. Permanent sterility is guaranteed for minors who go through full hormonal “transition.” Sexual dysfunction appears to be extremely common as well. Over 93 percent of kids who take these drugs go on to cross-sex hormones, which lead to permanent physical changes including excruciating genital growth, vaginal atrophy and tearing and much higher risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

There is no credible evidence that puberty blockers function as suicide-prevention measures. Finland’s top gender clinician has called the suicide narrative “purposeful disinformation” and “dangerous.” For all these reasons, health authorities in a growing number of countries, including some of the most LGBT-friendly, are now prioritizing talk therapy.

How many parents would consent to puberty blockers under these circumstances? Very few, if any.

It is common for drugs to enter pediatric use after evidence of their success in adult medicine. The opposite happened in gender medicine. It was the failure of “sex reassignment” in adult men to achieve satisfactory cosmetic outcomes and improve life functioning that led a group of clinicians in the Netherlands to propose starting the “reassignment” process in childhood.

Their hypothesis was as technologically appealing as it was ethically dubious: since males could not reverse the effects of testosterone-fueled puberty to pass as women, it would be beneficial to these men to have their puberty bypassed altogether.

The Dutch recognized the dilemma but thought they found a way around it. Relying on their experience using puberty blockers to treat a condition known as central precocious puberty (CPP), they argued that blockers were fully reversible and thus part of the diagnostic process. If it turned out that the kid wasn’t “truly trans,” the drugs would be discontinued and puberty allowed to resume.

Their argument was dubious from the get-go. First, CPP has an objective diagnosis, based on a blood sample, whereas gender transition is based on the adolescent’s feelings and experiences, which are subject to change. In a political climate such as ours, in which mere exploration of the reasons for rejecting one’s body can be labeled “conversion therapy,” differential diagnosis becomes impossible.

As Dr. Jason Rafferty, author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ current policy statement on “gender-affirming care,” has put it, “the child’s sense of reality and feeling of who they are is the navigational beacon to sort of orient treatment around.” The AAP statement has been witheringly critiqued, and Rafferty and the AAP are now defendants in lawsuits by former patients.

Second, in CPP puberty suppression is by definition temporary; the goal is to delay puberty to its appropriate developmental window. In gender dysphoria, a “successful” prescription is where puberty is bypassed altogether. The assumption about reversibility, never tested and highly questionable form the start, proved to be the ethical foundation for the entire Dutch experiment, and it quickly crumbled. Over 93 percent of adolescents who are put on puberty blockers for gender issues continue down the medical pathway to cross-sex hormones. Some go on to surgeries.

Gender clinicians do not see this suspiciously high figure as a reason to rethink their approach. They see no possibility of iatrogenesis — a medical intervention that unintentionally induces harm, in this case by causing gender distress or confusion to persist artificially. On the contrary, they regard the high persistence rate as proof of their own remarkable diagnostic abilities.

More modest and scientifically-minded clinicians and researchers see things very differently. “Blocking puberty,” writes Sallie Baxendale, a professor of neuropsychology and author of an important new study on puberty blockers, “prevents the critical rewiring in the brain that underpins the ability make complex decisions. Puberty blockers may give children time to think but they simultaneously rob them of their developing capacity to do so.”

What is likely happening is that an ongoing youth mental health crisis whose origins predate and have little to do with gender is being misdiagnosed and mistreated with harmful and experimental drugs. Puberty blockers are the definition of a “quick fix” solution.

Researchers incorrectly refer to what the Dutch did as an experiment. In an experiment, falsifiable hypotheses are proposed, alternative interventions are tested, outcomes are monitored and competing explanations for observed results are thoughtfully ruled out.

The Dutch did nothing of the sort, according to a comprehensive scholarly examination of their study. Further, the only attempt to replicate that study, which was done in the U.K., failed. The researchers had to be forced to disclose their disappointing findings. Any scientific-minded person willing to put in the effort and read the literature will come to the same conclusion: Pediatric gender medicine is an industry built on fraud.

During the 2000s and 2010s, the Dutch pseudo-experiment with puberty blockers “escaped the lab” and became entangled in a fast-growing international social movement for transgender recognition. In the U.S., the drugs are being prescribed at numbers far exceeding anything the Dutch could possibly have imagined. Most adolescents referred to pediatric gender clinics are teen girls who have no history of dysphoria in childhood but who do have other mental health challenges that predate their distress with their bodies.

American medicine is no stranger to scandal — lobotomy, “recovered memory” and OxyContin are just a few examples. What makes pediatric gender transition unique is that it has been framed as a nonnegotiable civil right and defended by powerful civil rights groups, the Democratic Party and their ideological allies in the mainstream media.

A key reason for the divergence between U.S. and European medical authorities, as I’ve explained in a previous essay, is the latter’s greater willingness to follow principles of evidence-based medicine, including reliance on systematic reviews. Jack Turban, a prominent American gender clinician, revealed in a deposition that he seems not to know what a systematic review of evidence is.

Another reason is that in the U.S., doctors who practice child “transition” demand and often receive deference as the experts on the evidence for their practices; abroad, such clinicians are seen as having conflicts of interest. When the National Health Service of England appointed the highly respected Dr. Hilary Cass to lead its review of its youth gender service, it did so precisely because she was “a senior clinician with no prior involvement or fixed views in this area.” Sweden and Finland delegated the evaluation of evidence to experts with no personal involvement or stake in pediatric gender medicine.

Parents should never have been put in the position of having to decide whether to “allow” their kids to go through puberty. Those who would put the onus on parents are letting charlatans in the medical profession off the hook. Puberty is difficult for all teens, and it is not a disease. Puberty blockers offer teens in distress — especially girls with history of sexual abuse, autistic kids and gay kids — false hope by casting puberty as optional.

Puberty is a rite of passage from childhood into adulthood, responsible for the development of the body’s major organs and systems and not just its external sexual features. Puberty blockers rob children of their right to an open future.

#Leor Sapir #puberty blockers #medical malpractice #medical scandal #puberty #gender pseudoscience #medical experimentation #gender lobotomy #gender thalidomide #medical corruption #religion is a mental illness

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finlaure13 · 3 months ago

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How can anyone believe a single word out of Poilievre's mouth?

Poilievre has been raging about the CBC for decades, and now he wants to keep French CBC because it will buy votes in Quebec.

Where are his convictions?

Further examples: dental care and affordable childcare. Poilievre voted against them, screamed against them, and raged against them, and now all of a sudden he's ok with it and will keep it????

Poilievre and Harper cut OAS to Canadians in the past and the Liberals fixed it when they got elected. Now Poilievre said he won't cut OAS or CPP again. Are Canadians supposed to just believe him when he had cut OAS in the past and defended it with fervor?

Just because of an election.

So is he lying now or was he lying then? Which is it?

A person with no convictions like Poilievre is running a platform of lies and will easily change his stance again with the wind.

What Poilievre says and what he does are completely different things.

Poilievre rages and screams against the Carbon tax, but Poilievre ran in favour of carbon taxes multiple times in his career.

He says he won't go after abortion and he gets his MP's to draft anti-abortion policies.

He says he’s not a racist but he proudly poses for selfies with racist groups like Diagolon and convoy truckers waving hates symbols and shouting death threats.

He says he wants to help Canadians with affordability but he rails against policies that help Canadian working class like affordable childcare, dental program and pharmacare.

He says he is progressive, but he goes on You tube and courts men's groups hating on women.

He says he is for reconciliation but says "former residential school students need a better work ethic, not compensation".

He says he's for international rule of order, but condones and fervently supports Israel killing children by the thousands and committing sex crimes against women.

Poilievre's words are worthless. He is a liar.

— Jason Scopelleti

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“The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), along with the Filipino working class and people, stands in solidarity with all democratic forces worldwide in their support of the revolutionary resistance of the Palestinian people as they mark one year in their fight against the aggression and occupation of their land by the US-supported Zionist forces in Israel.

The Party condemns the Zionist state of Israel for its indiscriminate and incessant bombing of homes and civilian infrastructure in Gaza. It has dropped thousands of tons of bombs, killing no fewer than 41,000 people, more than 27,000 of whom are women and children. At least 10,000 individuals remain missing and are believed to be buried in the rubble caused by the bombing. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced, with over 60% of homes destroyed. Public utilities and medical facilities have almost completely collapsed. The people of Gaza, especially children, are suffering from disease due to hunger, as well as lack of clean water and sanitation. Even the news media, sympathizers, humanitarian agencies and aid are not spared from attacks by Israel.

The year-long bombing and occupation of Gaza represent a disproportionate response to the October 7, 2023 armed uprising carried out by the freedom fighters of Palestine. On that day, they mounted armed offensives against military bases and facilities of the so-called Israeli Defense Forces and took prisoners. This was launched by a broad array of resistance groups in Palestine, including Islamic forces (Hamas), the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as well as other democratic, armed and unarmed revolutionary forces.

The uprising, known as the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, aimed to resist the escalating oppression and political repression by Zionist Israel against Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank. It now forms another historic chapter in the continuing struggle of the Palestinian people for national liberation and their right to self-determination.”

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C++ Programming Language – A Detailed Overview

C++ is a effective, high-overall performance programming language advanced as an extension of the C language. Created via Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in the early Eighties, C++ delivered object-orientated features to the procedural shape of C, making it appropriate for large-scale software program development. Over the years, it has emerge as a extensively used language for machine/software program improvement, game programming, embedded systems, real-time simulations, and extra.

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int a = 10, b = 0;

if (b == zero) throw "Division by means of 0!";

cout << a / b;

seize (const char* msg)

cout << "Error: " << msg;

Use attempt, capture, and throw for managing runtime errors.

15. File Handling

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ofstream out("information.Txt");

out << "Hello File";

out.Near();

ifstream in("records.Txt");

string line;

getline(in, line);

cout << line;

in.Near();

File I/O is achieved the usage of ifstream, ofstream, and fstream.

16. Applications of C++

Game Development: Unreal Engine is primarily based on C++.

System Software: Operating systems, compilers.

GUI Applications: Desktop software (e.G., Adobe merchandise).

Embedded Systems: Hardware-level applications.

Banking and Finance Software: High-speed buying and selling systems.

Real-Time Systems: Simulations, robotics, and so on.

17. Advantages of C++

Fast and efficient

Wide range of libraries

Suitable for each high-level and low-level programming

Strong item-orientated aid

Multi-paradigm: procedural + object-oriented

18. Limitations of C++

Manual reminiscence management can lead to mistakes

Lacks contemporary protection functions (in contrast to Java or Python)

Steeper studying curve for beginners

No built-in rubbish series

19. Modern C++ (C++11/14/17/20/23)

Modern C++ variations introduced capabilities like:

Smart recommendations (shared_ptr, unique_ptr)

Lambda expressions

Range-based totally for loops

car kind deduction

Multithreading support

Example:

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vector<int> v = 1, 2, three;

for (auto x : v)

cout << x << " ";

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C++ combines the efficiency and manage of C with functions like classes, items, inheritance, and polymorphism, permitting builders to construct complex, scalable programs.

2. Key Features of C++

Object-Oriented: C++ supports object-orientated programming (OOP), which include encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Compiled Language: Programs are compiled to machine code for overall performance and portability.

Platform Independent (with Compiler Support): Though not inherently platform-unbiased, C++ programs can run on a couple of structures when compiled therefore.

Low-Level Manipulation: Like C, C++ permits direct reminiscence get right of entry to thru suggestions.

Standard Template Library (STL): C++ consists of powerful libraries for facts systems and algorithms.

Rich Functionality: Supports functions like feature overloading, operator overloading, templates, and exception dealing with.

3. Structure of a C++ Program

Here’s a primary C++ program:

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#encompass <iostream>

the use of namespace std;

int important()

cout << "Hello, World!" << endl;

return zero;

Explanation:

#encompass <iostream> consists of the enter/output stream library.

Using namespace std; allows using standard capabilities like cout without prefixing std::.

Foremost() is the access point of every C++ program.

Cout prints textual content to the console.

Four. Data Types and Variables

C++ has both primitive and user-defined statistics types. Examples:

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int a = 10;

glide b = 3.14;

char c = 'A';

bool isReady = true;

Modifiers like short, lengthy, signed, and unsigned extend the information sorts’ range.

5. Operators

C++ supports, !

Assignment Operators: =, +=, -=, and many others.

Increment/Decrement: ++, --

Bitwise Operators: &,

cout << "a is greater";

else

cout << "b is extra";

Switch Case:

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transfer (desire)

case 1: cout << "One"; ruin;

case 2: cout << "Two"; smash;

default: cout << "Other";

Loops:

For Loop:

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for (int i = zero; i < five; i++)

cout << i << " ";

While Loop:

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int i = 0;

at the same time as (i < five)

cout << i << " ";

i++;

Do-While Loop:

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int i = zero;

cout << i << " ";

i++;

whilst (i < 5);

7. Functions

Functions in C++ growth modularity and reusability.

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int upload(int a, int b)

go back a + b;

int major()

cout << upload(three, 4);

return 0;

Functions may be overloaded via defining multiple variations with special parameters.

Eight. Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

OOP is a chief energy of C++. It makes use of instructions and objects to represent real-international entities.

Class and Object Example:

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magnificence Car

public:

string logo;

int pace;

void display()

cout << brand << " velocity: " << pace << " km/h" << endl;

int main()

Car myCar;

myCar.Emblem = "Toyota";

myCar.Pace = 120;

myCar.Show();

go back zero;

9. OOP Principles

1. Encapsulation:

Binding facts and features into a unmarried unit (elegance) and proscribing get admission to the usage of private, public, or blanketed.

2. Inheritance:

Allows one magnificence to inherit properties from another.

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elegance Animal

public:

void talk() cout << "Animal sound" << endl;

;

class Dog : public Animal

public:

void bark() cout << "Dog barks" << endl;

; three. Polymorphism:

Same characteristic behaves in a different way primarily based at the item or input.

Function Overloading: Same feature name, special parameters.

Function Overriding: Redefining base magnificence method in derived magnificence.

Four. Abstraction:

Hiding complicated information and showing handiest vital capabilities the usage of training and interfaces (abstract training).

10. Constructors and Destructors

Constructor: Special approach known as while an item is created.

Destructor: Called whilst an item is destroyed.

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magnificence Demo

public:

Demo()

cout << "Constructor calledn";

~Demo()

cout << "Destructor calledn";

;

11. Pointers and Dynamic Memory

C++ supports tips like C, and dynamic memory with new and delete.

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int* ptr = new int; // allocate reminiscence

*ptr = 5;

delete ptr; // deallocate memory

12. Arrays and Strings

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int nums[5] = 1, 2, three, 4, 5;

cout << nums[2]; // prints 3

string name = "Alice";

cout << call.Period();

C++ also supports STL boxes like vector, map, set, and many others.

Thirteen. Standard Template Library (STL)

STL offers established training and features:

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#consist of <vector>

#consist of <iostream>

using namespace std;

int important()

vector<int> v = 1, 2, 3;

v.Push_back(four);

for (int i : v)

cout << i << " ";

STL includes:

Containers: vector, list, set, map

Algorithms: sort, discover, rely

Iterators: for traversing containers

14. Exception Handling

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int a = 10, b = 0;

if (b == zero) throw "Division by means of 0!";

cout << a / b;

seize (const char* msg)

cout << "Error: " << msg;

Use attempt, capture, and throw for managing runtime errors.

15. File Handling

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#consist of <fstream>

ofstream out("information.Txt");

out << "Hello File";

out.Near();

ifstream in("records.Txt");

string line;

getline(in, line);

cout << line;

in.Near();

File I/O is achieved the usage of ifstream, ofstream, and fstream.

16. Applications of C++

Game Development: Unreal Engine is primarily based on C++.

System Software: Operating systems, compilers.

GUI Applications: Desktop software (e.G., Adobe merchandise).

Embedded Systems: Hardware-level applications.

Banking and Finance Software: High-speed buying and selling systems.

Real-Time Systems: Simulations, robotics, and so on.

17. Advantages of C++

Fast and efficient

Wide range of libraries

Suitable for each high-level and low-level programming

Strong item-orientated aid

Multi-paradigm: procedural + object-oriented

18. Limitations of C++

Manual reminiscence management can lead to mistakes

Lacks contemporary protection functions (in contrast to Java or Python)

Steeper studying curve for beginners

No built-in rubbish series

19. Modern C++ (C++11/14/17/20/23)

Modern C++ variations introduced capabilities like:

Smart recommendations (shared_ptr, unique_ptr)

Lambda expressions

Range-based totally for loops

car kind deduction

Multithreading support

Example:

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vector<int> v = 1, 2, three;

for (auto x : v)

cout << x << " ";

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