American conservatism just doesn’t appeal to me because I’m not scared of everything.. not scared of immigrants, crime, using public transportation, cities. I’m interested in other people and like talking to them. Even if someone is weird it doesn’t really bother me.
all i can say is live. you have to live. if you’re trans, queer, a woman, bipoc, disabled, an immigrant: you must live. we have to support each other. we have to be visible and loud if and when we can. and above all else we have to live
I'm not doomering, but I am pissed. Dems ran a tepid, more-of-the-same, "but we're not the other guy" campaign, completely botched Israel-Palestine, should have pulled Biden WAY earlier and still cant handle Trump. Absolutely embarrassing we are in the position we're in.
regardless of the election’s results it’s obvious this country has gotten way more rightwing especially amongst men and i think a lot of that is what is fed to us online, we have to figure out a way to stop every dude under 35 from turning into crypto hitler
i just think of how little regard a state must have for human life when capital punishment cannot even be bothered to be shelved for as long as possible when there is even the slightest chance that you may executing someone wrongfully. what an irrational, killing machine
Right after the State Department admits Israel has “likely” used US-supplied weapons in violation of humanitarian law, right after Israeli forces attack a United Nations car in *Rafah*, killing an Indian worker...Biden moves to send $1 billion more of weapons to Israel:
The two stats I learned this week that blew me away were that the US federal govt gives more to Lockheed Martin than to the Dept of Education, and that some universities get more from Dept of War than they do from tuition. Upended my understanding of universities as warmakers.
Refaat Alareer wrote a poem called “If I Die,” asking people to fly a kite in his name if he’s killed to give hope to orphaned children.
He wrote it for his daughter, Shaima.
Israel killed him. Months later Shaima had a baby.
Israel killed Shaima.
And her husband and baby.
One thing about the call for divestment is that it forces us to confront just how naturalized the imperialist position is. It's considered a non-political issue for higher ed institutions to profit from war, genocide, and occupation. What's "political" is asking them to stop.
Today is one of those moments where we have to remember that the cops were not actually defunded in 2020. The ruling class actually doubled down on funding them, to repress us in moments like this.
📍CHICAGO: Northwestern (Evanston campus) has began their encampment Liberation Zone and they're already facing police threats. If you can go and support students on the quad please do.
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psychiatry pathologizes action as sane or insane depending on how it relates to the interests of power — in the American imagination it’s illness to choose to die to protest the violence of war, and perfectly sane to choose to die in service of the violence of war