but i am an american so i must kill. im order to survive. if i don't kill them i will die. i don't think surviving is wrong. do you think im wrong for surviving? they deserved to die too. so i could live. did you know how difficult it was to kill? if anything i am the victim. the person i killed is gone but i have to carry these scars for my whole life. my life is a blessing on the earth don't you know why aren't you celebrating it? you must be a terrible person. i just thought about killing you.
keep up the good work you guys inshallah the stress gets to be too much :)
No altar, no belief, no holy book, neither the Qurโan nor the Bible nor the others, have ever been able to reconcile the rich and and the poor, the exploiter and the exploited. And if Jesus himself had to take the whip to chase them from his temple, it is indeed because that is the only language they hear.
Thomas Sankara
No one wants to leave the country they grew up in, but news like this shows how difficult it is to live in Gaza with homes, schools and hospitals destroyed.
So I hope you can help me evacuate my family from Gaza so that my father can get treatment abroad. I beg everyone who sees this to either donate or participate so that we can get out of this nightmare.
It's nice that some people are very gentle, play with their dogs and praise them and take an interest in their individuality, but realistically not everyone has that kind of time. Poor people have fewer options for taking adequate care of their dogs, are under more day to day pressure and have less patience for training them, so they're more likely than rich people to resort to hitting them. It's not like it's unusual or necessarily traumatic for a dog to be smacked when it disobeys a command, and it is an effective teaching method, even if it's not strictly ideal. Half the time the dog knows what it's doing and it's acting up to be a little shit on purpose. Leaving the dog on its own and ignoring it until it stops crying is a viable alternative. You could also try taking away its toys, or stop taking it to the park for a week. Frankly, some dogs are born bad and beating them is the only way to make them behave. Other dogs have it worse anyway.
^ things people will say about small children without batting an eye
You don't have to like weed but I find people who are vehemently anti-weed but claim to be left leaning infuriating. If you go into a rage because you smelled someone smoking pot, how the fuck do you expect to form community with people addicted to meth? It's easier to say you hate smokers than to say you hate all drug users in leftist spaces because one makes you sound a bit like a square while the other is the writing on the wall. You aren't anti-weed, you're anti-drug user and anyone who uses substances is not safe around you.
I know dozens of people who use meth, coke, and fentanyl. While heroin is harder to get I do know some folks who use it when they can. Some of these drug users are my neighbors, some are my clients, and some are my friends & family. One does not cease to be human just because they use a substance you find scary.
Community doesn't mean you need to invite them to your home and look away if they smoke there. It means you don't call your property manager because you suspect your neighbor uses. It means you don't require drug tests for homeless shelters and housing services. It means the very idea of someone who smokes meth in your community doesn't make you go, "what the hell."
Genuinely kind of a wild thing to see in the replies as someone who has been professionally practicing harm reduction for years.
Considering recent events over here in the States, this seemed like a good time to bring this back. Over the next four years, expect an increase in discourse around "undesirables." This will include but not be limited to drug addicts.
It was really bad.
Cartoon from the 1990s:
I've probably said it before, but this is how y'all are treating covid right now. If you can see how it's stupid with smoke, why can't you see how it's stupid with a disease that damages your brain, heart, kidneys, immune system, and DNA with every infection?
The thing most on my mind about the Mangione trial is how effective this has been. For those five days, everybody had ideas. They saw you could just walk up to somebody on the street and shoot them dead, and that no amount of surveillance would mean anything if the shooter took simple precautions. Nabbing this poor guy and pinning it on him, plastering his face everywhere on the news and saying this is the shooter really worked to calm everyone down. There is no longer an imagined escape. Somebody's going down for it, even if it's the wrong guy. They'll stop at nothing.