#united statesian

[void-galaxy-shenanigans]

Controversial (United States) opinion that shouldn’t be controversial, from someone that lives in the USA

on the Freedom of Speech amendment (USA):

“freedom of speech” protects your right to stand up to the government, to protest in ways that could otherwise be outlawed (such as burning the country flag or posting about what they’re doing wrong on social media).

“freedom of speech” does not mean you will be pardoned for every crime that involved you speaking about something unrelated to government protest.

“freedom of speech” does not mean that there won’t be consequences from your fellow citizens if you choose to use that ‘freedom’ to harm others.

it does not mean that you have the right to verbally abuse, verbally harass, threaten, or use your words in a hate crime against someone (especially under protected statuses, like gender identity, sexual/romantic orientation, race, etc.).

it does not mean that you can tell fellow voters you hope their queer/trans children die or get assaulted if they don’t want to vote for Biden, or Trump, or whomever*.

(* this has actually happened to our adoptive ren E (they/them) repeatedly about our little brother Q (he/they). yes, admitting they don’t like Biden due to the shit he’s allowing, doing, encouraging, etc. has actually gotten these kinds of comments...from democrat/“liberal” Biden supporters, of all people. they told ren E that they hope Q dies.)

it does NOT mean you can say whatever you want about everything, forever. it protects your speech against the government only.

so no, freedom of speech does not prevent you from being arrested for hate crime, harassment, abuse, etc.

no, it does not protect you from being kicked out of a business after verbally harassing/abusing or sexually harassing an employee (or many employees).

no, it does not protect you from fellow citizens counter-protesting or from them telling you that you are factually incorrect.

no, it does not protect you from legal repercussions if you use your online presence to bully, harass, abuse, etc. other people, or if you doxx people, or if you threaten someone or their child.

Freedom of Speech is part of Freedom to Protest. they go hand in hand.

you have the right to say ‘hey I don’t like the government doing [insert atrocity here (Palestine, Iraq, etc.)] / passing [insert a law or policy that hurts people]’.

you do not have the freedom to say ‘fuck you and your whole culture/country/gender/identity/etc.’ to another person.

I don’t expect this to go far but I wanted to say it...somewhere. and here is the best bet because FB would lose its mind & the algorithm might bite my ass if I openly call Palestine an atrocity or call out...anything, really. they repress content like this.

(Facebook is very anti free speech (/srs), funny enough (/sarcastic, frustrated); it suppresses pro Palestine content but doesn’t remove the most hateful bullshit spread all over its platform...and pro Palestine is, in fact, speaking up against the government.)

you (general/nbh) should be more angry about Facebook and TikTok and Twitter suppressing anti government anything (pro Palestine, pro LGBT+ progress, ‘we should actually fund schools’, etc.). you (general/nbh) should be less angry about laws that protect people from harm.

that is all.

(this was inspired by USA newspaper lash-back on Scotland’s new anti hate crime law. maybe the law isn’t perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction, & it is not an infringement on freedom of speech.)

(incase this breaks containment: hateful replies, reblogs, asks, etc. will be blocked)

~Nico (he/they)

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

"Horus" by international gothic rock act Hex of Western, with members out of Mexico City, Mexico and Los Angeles in the US, featured on the 2021 compilation album En Días Obscuros by We Are One Records

[kanna-kizuchi-enjoyer]

why are united states citizens called americans?? and why does the united states get called america?? its the united states of america so why not call it the united states all the time since america is two continents??

all of this is america. everyone who lives on these two continents are american

[alder-knight]

it feels so unforgivably bourgeois and middle class to be shopping for a laptop when the desktop computer I bought in 2012 still works just fine

[anxiousangerball]

I need to find that post that circulates occasionally about how the world was supposed to end with the end of the Mayan calendar (when was that? 2012? Meh. Anyway….), but it was so popular God kept it going and now the writers are scrambling and coming up with more and more ridiculous plots and yeah that’s why the world I crazy right now.

Because holy shit is this an insane timeline right now.

[nugothrhythms]

Music video to The Burning Woods by gothic rock project The Waning Moon off of their 2022, self-titled debut EP. The Waning Moon is an international team-up by Ariel Maniki of Ariel Maniki and the Black Halos from Costa Rica and Zac Campbell of The Kentucky Vampires from the USA.

[stupidstupidratcreatures]

i honestly think at some point kirkman noticed that the people writing in Just Weren't Fucking Getting It so he decided to do whatever

[z0mborb]

watching Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead. this is totally cromulent cinema. an entirely adequate zombie film

[bitchesgetriches]

I work in accounting in Canada and over the years I have realized just how many people aren’t aware of all the various government programs they can take advantage of so I was hoping you could post this on the chance someone who it could help sees it. The main one I see people missing out on is the disability tax credit. If you live in Canada and are disabled you may qualify for the disability tax credit. It’s a non refundable tax credit that’s relatively easy to apply for. All you need to do is get form t2201 from Canada.ca and fill out the first portion with your information then you take it to your doctors office and get them to fill out the remainder. Depending on your provinces medical coverage they might charge you a form fee. Once it’s filled out you can either mail it to the address Canada.ca tells you to or you can submit it online through MyCRA if you’ve set up access to it. If you have an accountant do your taxes for you they might be authorized to submit the form for you once it has been filled out by a medical professional. Processing time for the application is 8 weeks. They’ll mail you a letter letting you know if you qualify or not. It’s also available to people with temporary disabilities or illnesses depending on the disability. And if you do qualify that means you can open a registered disability savings plan. I think it’s similar to an IRA but I don’t actually know what an IRA is cause I’m Canadian lol. The registered disability savings plan is an account where you can put money to save for retirement. It’s different from a registered retirement savings plan because with an RDSP the government will give you grants and match your contributions up to a certain amount each year based on income. There are rules about how much you can take out of the account and when you can take it out but if you take the letter from the CRA saying you qualify for the disability tax credit to your bank they’ll help you set up the account and explain all the rules and everything else. Here ends my speech about federal disability benefits. Go forth and take the federal government for everything it’s worth my fellow disabled bitches.

You are doing the lord's work, my dove. Thank you so much for sharing with the whole class. Canadian bitchlings, take note of the above! Especially if you're a person with disabilities!

This might also help for our United Statesian readers:

How to Pay Hospital Bills When You’re Flat Broke 

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[polisena-art]

hii, ive been stuck in a three caballeros/zé carioca loop recently and been trying to find active ppl in the fandom ANYWAY I *LOVE* YOUR ART IT GIVES ME *LIFE* ! So, do u think Zé would be into funk carioca? In one of his comics he was against the rise of disco (it was the 80s) and kept being a samba fan but i feel like maybe 2000s funk or even phonk would sound good to him, watcha think? Xoxo

Hi!!! First of all, omg, Thank you!! And second, I'm glad you've fallen into the 3 Cabs/Zé Carioca pit kdjdndkm It's always great to see more people coming in. I don't think I have read this one comic you mentioned about Zé being against Disco but I'd love to read it if you have the name of it still!! This is also a thing I've come to notice on some Zé Carioca comics tho! Zé, and the narrative in general, tend to side against non-Brazilian genres of music... mainly Rock'n'Roll. Oh, so many jabs at rock and those noisy chords, hairy guitar players and those damn gringos trying to infiltrate our radios!!! It all reads as very boomeristic at times XD

I kinda get Zé as a "symbol" of Brazilian/carioca culture and him being protective of samba and wanting to praise it always, so I guess this was the take the writers chose for Zé to be ride or die for. And, yeah, we all know that Funk is a genre that was greatly influenced by United Statesians genres, but I think there's no way that the writers would make Zé Carioca be against Funk Carioca. Like,,, imagine the absurd… the character that is supposed to represent your marginalized favela dweller everyman, hating on one of the most marginalized, favela born, Brazilian rythms ever! There even is one story I remember reading where Zé goes to a Baile Funk and, admittedly, things don't really work out for him there, BUT there's no criticism of the music itself (differently from Rock...)!

I think it would be a great injustice to have a world where Zé Carioca didn't get to sing Bonde do Tigrão, Se Ela Dança Eu Danço, GLAMUROSA RAINHA DO FUNK, Tremendo Vacilão, Nosso Sonho and so many more funk hits we grew up with. So, sure Zé's main thing will aways be samba but, at the very least, I think he would be a fan of early 2000s Carioca Funk.

[rotzaprachim]

3 cardinal sins

"American" to mean solely "United Statesian"

"Caucasian" to mean "white" and not "from the Caucuses

Judeo-christian to mean "literally just christian. just christian."

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

Today’s video is on the 2023 album A Dream or a Vision by Costa Rica/US international gothic rock act The Waning Moon. This band was founded by members of Ariel Maniki and the Black Halos and The Kentucky Vampires.

[kneedecker]

I choose to believe that the “If David can do the accent??” script note is actually from the “I’m a lonely GI” scene. No USians were allowed on set (COVID conjecture) and we wouldn’t have been able to figure out what was wrong anyway (educated guess), because Crowley really does give cowboy vibes (quintessential United Statesian accent).

[elbiotipo]

I believe one big reason why United Statesians are Like That is because they've been confined to hellish suburbian enviroments and discord servers, when they should actually live like this:

[apelcini]

people who get annoyed by the term usamerican are so funny to me. like what else do you want to be called? united statesian? yankee doodle? gringo? maybe we should have tried having a less stupid country name and then we’d have something to fall back on when we get told we can’t make ourselves synonymous with two whole continents. ever thought about that?

[wetchickenbreast]

United Statesians! reblog and in the tags put famous people from your state i’m curious