If your goals basically amount to "after The Revolution everything will be great because people will all have the Good Ethics and work together in my Perfect System and the Evil People with Bad Morals and Bad Behaviour who are making this world bad will be gone (killed/imprisoned/exiled/all converted to agree with us when they see our Perfect System)" then that's just fascism. I hate to say it but you've put a gay socialist hat on fascism.

The MAGA people are still gonna be around in your Perfect System and a very large proportion of them are still gonna be Like That. We can discourage antisocial behaviour through laws and education and changing cultural norms, but if plans for future society involve [group I'm opposed to] magically not being part of it so the Good People can Do Things Right, well.

✨No Bad Guys Here✨ - how do you want to enforce that.

Honestly, I think this concept of The Revolution is to some leftists what Armageddon is to some Christians: an easy excuse to not try and grapple with difficult problems like hunger or poverty or injustice or climate, because any day now the Great Reckoning will come and wipe the slate clean.

#well you see america was founded on [original sin] which makes it irredeemable and any effort to improve it ultimately pointless#the only hope for salvation is to wait for [armageddon] to destroy it and cast down the unrighteous so the rest of us can [reach paradise]#voting for example is an act of interacting with and investing in this world which is too evil and tenporary to be worth it#not when The Great Reckoning is on its way to wipe the slate clean

@blujayonthewing you can't leave these in the tags

Faith. Her name alone invokes awe. ‘Faith.’ A set of principles or beliefs upon which you’re willing to devote your life. The Dark Slayer. A lethal combination of beauty, power, and death.

Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Oh god the bot army is back

#I misread the post and was like#dang what kind of bots with no titties are following op#all my bot followers have nothing but titties#can we trade

@recursiveallele we can trade, all this and they won't even show me a boob :(

Senator Cory Booker is holding the floor of the Senate and says he “will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis”.

Livestream here:

Did I do this right

Link here and here

Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.

Are you an American? Do you love our nation's national parks, our libraries, affordable health care, and essential checks and balances? DO YOU NOT WANT TO GO TO WAR WITH CANADA?

Fuck, are you just a European and you're highly emotionally invested in what's going on?

Well good news, help spread the news. Special elections April 1st and this is going to help break down the narrow majority Republicans hold on Congress.

Florida has two congressional seats up for election April 1st, and Wisconsin has a highly televised race for their supreme court Court that Elon Musk has invested millions into.

If you're Floridian, check to see if you're eligible to vote in either of the elections listed here.

If you're a Wisconsinite, for some ungodly reasons about half of your election information is buried in Google and hidden amongst government websites but, find your polling place now.

dean calling castiel the hamburglar is something that can be so personal

sam fighting for his life against this addiction and these two are bickering in the background

@spaghettinatural

Instead of using butter for your grilled cheese, you should switch to linux. You can set up a virtual machine to try out various distros to see which ones work best for your needs

imagine being so ignorant you think that women’s right to wear pants just fell out of the sky. women fought for it. they risked their jobs, reputations, relationships, and education for the right to wear functional clothing. women have always fought for the right to simply exist in public and you vile misogynists think that it’s a sign of privilege!!!!! eat glass!!!!!!!

I often think about the fight for pants specifically because it’s so mindblowing from our perspective today. We cant even imagine what women went through, and often knowing it wouldn’t pan out in their lifetimes. They did it for US. I was reading about Elizabeth Miller Smith and her movement for practical dress, how she actually abandoned it because it was too distracting from other elements of the movement. It was so controversial just to say “this clothing is uncomfortable and I don’t want to wear it.” It was so revolutionary she couldn’t even continue doing it out of fear for safety and progress. She knew it was important to keep it on the backburner for OUR sake and this quote will stay with me for life:

“All hail to the day when we shall have a reasonable and beautiful dress that shall encourage exercises on the road and in the field – that shall leave us the free use of our limbs – that shall help and not hinder, our perfect development.”

She knew it was over for her. She knew that day wouldn’t come while she was alive but she envisioned for ME to have that option someday, and I just cant let her be forgotten knowing how much she cared about me and other women who would come after her.

As late as the 1970s in Chile, women were physically abused for wearing pants. And the new Pinochet dictatorship no longer allowed women to wear pants. Pants was the symbol of defying gender roles and being a Marxist egalitarian subversive. A 1970s western country probably isn’t most people’s stereotype of where women are beaten for wearing pants.

Junta soldiers would tear the pants of women to shreds in the middle of the street, leaving them with the additional humiliation of public exposure in their underwear. Pants are considered indecent but tearing them to shreds is decency. It just shows patriarchal control of women’s fashion isn’t about “conservatism”. Revealing more or less of a woman’s body, the point is that men control it by force.

Source:

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

By Carmen Aguirre

Photos just months before under Allende of all the young women wearing pants-

Ooh I have a story for this! So my mom and I went to the same middle school (also high school) and at one point when I was in eighth grade I got in trouble for violating the dress code (this was ~2009). They said my skirt was too short in spite of the fact that I’d worn it before (their actual problem with my outfit was that I was wearing black lipstick but that wasn’t actually against the rules). So they went through the rigamarole: called my mom to tell her to come bring me a change of clothes, make me wait for her in the office in spite of the insistence that the problem with my outfit was that it was distracting from my studies.

Them having to call my mom for this is perhaps the best example I have of the phrase “you got the wrong one”. Not only had my mother attended the same middle school as me, but she had actually been dress coded in eighth grade as well, for wearing pants. (This was ~1969). She’d actually planned it purposely as a protest. The dress code didn’t allow girls to wear pants, and she’d had a custom pantsuit made—classy, good quality, well suited to any class president even if she was a Negro—and she wore it to school one day I think after mid winter break. She didn’t make it past first period before she was called into the office. Admin called her mother, who noted that she didn’t have an issue with her daughter’s outfit, so in order to reason with her, they called my moms friend’s (white) mother—one with a lot of pull in the pta and the wealthy neighborhood that fed the school—to try and convince her to side with them. This backfired spectacularly, as she also didn’t have a problem with the suit, and they were forced to drop it and, within a month, change the dress code, lest all the wrath of the Laurelhurst mothers reign down on them.

My mother is the reason Seattle Public Schools dress code allowed girls to wear pants, & she was very excited to bring this up when she was called to the office about my skirt which, needless to say, I was allowed to continue wearing. SPS dress code allowed for students of all genders to wear pants from ~1969 to ~2018, at which point the dress code was eliminated from the district entirely.