“Looting? I thought these were supposed to be nonviolent protests”
I know it’s incredible! People are literally coming out of the woodwork to comment on this photoset to focus on the looting headline with “well yes it is nice they were helping people hit with the tear gas, but stealing is still wrong uwu” as if they’re back to kindergarten morality.
Like everyone who’s gone to boot camp I’ve been tear gassed. They put about 50+ of you in a gas chamber and toss it in. You have to stay there until your rank is allowed to exit. Before that though, you have to say your name, rank, and social security number. You then exit and file into ranks (again) outside and are not allowed at any point to rinse your face or eyes for the entire day.
That right there? Easily the worst part of boot camp. My eyes were literally swollen shut. I was blinded for a good 30 minutes and my chest hurt for days.
I have zero problem and not and ounce of judgement for people raiding a mcdonalds that can easily afford to repair damage for ANYTHING to help ease the shittiness that is being tear gassed. Esp because every one of us in boot were medically sound to deal with tear gas. Children, asthmatics, people prone to panic and anxiety attacks, the elderly as sooo many more are NOT going to handle tear gas well at ALL.
Or that smoke the police use either.
It’s easy to sit there and judge someone from the safety of your home and say things like “it’s just tear gas” or “it can’t be that bad”.
Fuck you. As someone who HAS been gassed, you need to stfu.
I remember all the preparation they did to get us ready for the gas chamber in boot camp. We were taught how to handle ourselves, how to control our breathing, not to touch anything, how to avoid the worst of the gas. But it still didn’t matter. I remember taking in that first breath and feeling like I had just been kicked in the chest. I remember a few guys in my platoon falling down and vomiting. We knew the gas wasn’t as bad on the floor but we were the fifth platoon through and the vomit kept us from bending over more than absolutely necessary. I remember a few guys, guys in peak health training to be infantrymen, breaking ranks and running for the door only to be dragged back in kicking and screaming until they said name, rank and serial. They were expecting it, trained for it, bragging about how it wouldn’t bother them. I remember standing there with all of the mucus from my nasal cavity on the front of my ACUs and thinking to myself “This is the nonviolent option?” Covered head to toe and my skin still itching I looked down at the silver wedding band hanging next to my dog tags and realized that the gas had eaten little pits into its surface. I stood there and thought of all the news reports I had seen over the years. The uprisings and revolutionaries being gassed, the crowds running from men in masks. That’s the moment I got it, staring at my ruined wedding band, that’s the moment I realized terrorism isn’t about bombs or who is using them. It’s about controlling people through fear. It’s about removing their ability to act reasonably, to make them seem like the monsters. Terrorism is about triggering people to fight or flight then blaming them for not being rational. It’s about power. Remove someone’s power to act with reason, and you remove their humanity.
Oh fuck
My god this commentary is perfect. Also a reminder that it turned out this “looting” was not that at all, the police bust that window with a bullet and the staff were gracious enough to hand milk out it seems, the protestors did not break in but even if they did just look at what they were trying to do with that milk, look at what they went through. The immense endurance that’s been shown by the people of Ferguson in the face of all this is incredible.
nobody ever talks about how saying non-binary genders don’t exist is racist as fuck
How?
many many many indigenous cultures have historically included more than two genders and to say that those genders do not exist is to say that those cultural traditions are invalid, and that only the imperialist gender binary is correct. which is racism.
I thought that the dictionary records certain selected meaning of words as they are used, while ignoring others partially out of necessity, due to the speed of language evolution/progression and large variation of usage, and partially out of various biases (since the first English dictionary and subsequent ones have largely been made and edited by old educated white dudes). At least that’s what I learned from my linguistics classes
Amazon’s big deals event is being timed to coincide with the multinational strike action against them, so don’t get tempted when those start up
It’s on July 10th
The strikes were actually timed for the big deals event so when the high demand comes Amazon will realise how much it needs it workers.
I clarified my meaning in another post but I want to say here that the intent of the strike is not to show Amazon how much it needs its workers; Amazon knows full well that it needs its workers like any company does. The intent of strike action is to disrupt and damage Amazon’s ability to carry out its functions and force the bosses to make concessions.
wait, doesn’t that mean we SHOULD order from it, to increase demand?
Absolutely not
if we order from amazon, they will still find a way to get us our orders and make their money, which is what they really care about. they will get their end of the deal even if it’s harder than it normally is. they will think they don’t need their employees to make money, AND they won’t have as many people to split that money between.
if we refuse to buy from them, it’s a double punch of not only not having workers, but not even making money without them. they’ll be fucked six ways from sunday, and it will force them to give a hot fuck about how they treat their employees
Reblogging this again cause this is legit shit that happened in Germany between 1933 and 1939
Being German, I was hesitant to make Nazi comparisons because people (especially Americans) tend to make them quickly which imo takes away the gravity of that accusation and is something that should be said carefully and not just about anyone
But now, we’ve reached the point where I will make that comparison happily because apart from the organization of the government, this is all shit the Nazis did in the time leading up to war and genocide.
Between 1933 and 1939 the Nazi Government systematically took away citizenship from Jewish citizens and other minorities, they were let go from jobs, reporting Jews to the authorities was encouraged. The only difference is that Trump has already built concentration camps. A while ago there was a post going around with pictures from inside the camps with the murals of Trump and his quotes on the wall. I won’t lie, my first association when i saw them was of the words on the gate to Auschwitz “Arbeit macht frei” “work sets you free” or the words at Buchenwald “Jedem das Seine” “to each their own”
The US is too powerful a member of the UN to be held accountable even though it would be high time for that to happen by now. So it’s genuinely up to you guys to do everything in your power to not let this rise in your country.
I cannot tell you how disgusting and awful and insulting it is as a German – as someone from a nation that has worked so so hard to live with and learn from our legacy, to make sure it will never ever happen again – to see this kind of thinking and ideology being on the rise, being glorified and normalized and trivialized by another country. It’s hard to put into words
Please don’t leave babies, kids, or animals in hot cars this summer. “Just one minute” can feel like a lifetime when you’re being cooked alive. ☀️🚗
This could lead to heat stroke which is VERY DANGEROUS!!! Please don’t leave your kids or pets in the car!!
If the person wasn’t in the car, that baby would almost certainly be dead. At 90° outside, the inside of the car heats to 109° in just 10 minutes. In 95° weather, the inside of the car becomes 114° after 10 minutes, and climbs steadily. Babies and small children also overheat and dehydrate much faster than adults do.
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Disheveled Mess 