Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
last week, you were told that you should support a regime change war in Iran in part to support women's rights
this week, one of Israel's "preventative" air strikes in Iran hit a girls' elementary school killing 40 little girls and counting
Homelessness should make you uncomfortable, not because someone you don’t know is making you uncomfortable on a train for 20 minutes, but because we exist in a society that is so willing to let people suffer without any support system day after day until they die.
Shouldn’t have been filming! Shouldn’t have been defending yourself! Shouldn’t have protested per your right! Shouldn’t have used free speech! Shouldn’t have been carrying as per your right! Shouldn’t have exercised any of your rights! A true American does nothing!
charlie kirk died for what he believed in. in a literal sense: he believed in a world where gun deaths are inevitable and the solution to problems is violence. he excused his own death before it happened. if anyone else had died he'd already be weaponizing and relativizing it.
What I learned today on this app is that white ppl, regardless of how vitriolic they can be, are not supposed to suffer the consequences of their convictions. Black ppl, however, must face the harshest of consequences for anything they say or do regardless of how harmless it is.
a video of a white right wing talking head getting popped in the neck traumatised you but seeing videos of palestinian children being blown up daily doesn’t even phase you says a lot