Before you pick up that controller to invest hours into a game that will benefit your life in no way, shape, or form, ask yourself this:
Am I where I want or need to be at in life?
So many of you have invested more time into video games than you have into yourself. All of that time spent playing games could be time spent on improving yourself. You could spend that time on acquiring new skills, attaining new knowledge, setting and accomplishing goals, planning your future, getting yourself in shape. Yet you choose to play a video game and wonder why your life remains stagnant. Video games may be fun, but as an adult, a man especially, that fun should be deserved. If you are not where you want to be at in life, you don’t deserve that fun. Put that controller down and get your life and priorities in order!
More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.
TODAY: Hundreds of thousands in Minnesota braved -10°F weather to march through downtown Minneapolis as part of the statewide general strike demanding ICE out of the Twin Cities.
Minnesota believes in law and order. We believe in peace. And we believe that Trump needs to pull his 3,000 untrained agents out of Minnesota before they kill another American in the street.
Battle, B. P. (2022). The carceral logic of parental responsibility. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 30(1), 1–23.
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The carceral state is more than just bars and cells. It’s a sprawling system that punishes through policies disguised as help: surveillance in schools, coercion in welfare, and control in family courts. It doesn't just lock people up, it locks them into systems of control.
This is the real carceral state: not just a prison, but a logic of punishment. It reaches into homes, schools, welfare offices, and courtrooms. If we want true justice, we must dismantle every system where control is disguised as care and punishment hides in plain sight.