rewatching steven universe and i keep seing FRIEND everywhere i feel like im going crazy. FRIEND how the hell did you get in greg’s storage. where am i.
this is so fucking sick and disgusting. i feel terrified as someone from an immigrant family living in america. this is not what america stands for, our government is growing more fascist by the minute and there’s nothing i can do about it as some random bystander teenager
the problem is that people from the global north think that having a marginalized identity precludes them from being complicit in the exploitation of the global south when that's not how it works. Some of u are monsters regardless of ur race, sexuality, or gender
The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:
https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ
never forget the democratic party had a chance to stop trans persecution here and instead chose to bomb palestinians and hand the government back to trump. this wasn’t a mistake, this is just late stage capitalism. neither of these parties care about you
let's break this down, because this really lays the strategy bare.
1) lumping in "pro-transgender" with terror threats, evoking words like Jihadi and ISIS, very unsubtly equating these things that have nothing to do with one another, to subconsciously affix it to things you fear.
2) once again using their neverending posthumous martyrdom of Charlie Kirk to make whatever the fuck statement they want.
3) insinuating that Charlie's killer's "pro-transgender" beliefs are to blame for what he did, tying it to a string of supposed violent left wing extremist attacks, furthering the agenda that leftism itself is a terrorist group, and to be pro-transgender is to be violent and a threat to society (how many shooters have been right wing btw?)
4) the term "pro-transgender" itself is layered in many ways. saying this makes it appear as though being trans is a belief system rather than an identity, and belief systems are easier to make into threats. and while it implies that being pro-transgender is something violent and scary, it also plants the idea that "wow if people who SUPPORT the trans 'ideology' are bad, imagine how bad actual trans people must be" without actually having to say "trans people are evil."
5) strategically not saying "we want to eradicate trans people" but instead saying "we want to eradicate all scary things that threaten our lives, and btw trans people are that"
it doesn't get much more blatant than this. it really doesn't. and i hope everyone can see this for what it is.
Keep your eyes on this as this is serious! Quit your bullshit ass distractions and start calling your fucking reps and emailing and fucking riot already!
Do NOT pass KOSA.
it’s VERY similar to the UK’s OSA, which is tirelessly being used to strip UK citizens of their freedom of speech.
You DO NOT want this. It’s literally a censorship bill disguised as “kids’ safety”.
the reason why Palestine isn’t getting seen anymore is because Israel has killed multiple Palestinian journalists. 2k people were killed in Lebanon. Russia launched one of its largest drone attacks to Ukraine. Sudan has around 12-14 million people displaced. Don’t stop talking.