carry-on-my-wayward-butt:

no human being on this planet needs a fucking assault rifle for any reason

pyreo:

pyreo:

You grow up and you realise A Bug’s Life was the revolutionary Leftist masterpiece of our childhoods

I’m not even slightly kidding

Ants are the workforce doing the labour needed to survive, and they have to do it twice over to provide for both themselves and for a group of parasites who do nothing but consume the labour of others

The ants work themselves near to death trying to stay afloat

The grasshoppers don’t even need any food. They have tons to spare but still insist on taking the food the ants worked for because they ‘deserve’ it, despite actually contributing nothing of value. The only reason this works is by threatening ants with force and degrading them so they feel weak and worthless, and insisting that the grasshoppers deserve a cut for some vague service they claim to provide to society

In reality Hopper is desperate to stop the ants from thinking for themselves, keeping them ignorant of the fact that he has subjugated ants through threats of power while the ants actually overpower the grasshoppers through sheer numbers.

And should the ants ever realise that the grasshoppers take from them while providing nothing and that revolution is possible, the class system they’ve installed will be finished.

tl;dr feed the 1% to birds

ceriseal:

advanced-procrastination:

ceriseal:

ceriseal:

it’s so deeply telling how when trans women try to say ‘hey, you viewing us as abject freaks and men is transmisogyny’ or ‘trans lesbians are really lesbians’ that so many cis women will instantly go to ‘so you think it’s transphobic that I don’t like DICK?!!’

i just stumbled on a post that laid out this issue in very clear terms and explained it very nicely to cis people, yet _still_ a endless mass of people were responding by going ‘but i don’t want dick’. like, it’s physically impossible to get cis women to stop seeing us as a hybrid of sexual object with no personhood, secretly men, and innate rapist. you can talk till you’re blue in the face and they’ll just keep pretending it’s physically impossible to treat you like a human being or engage in good faith

In my neck of the woods those are called terfs

trans woman exterminatory radical feminists (twerfs/terfs) are a group with distinct tactics, talking points, and ideological basis for their violence. to dismiss this as ‘terf behavior’ dilutes the meaning of the term terf/twerf into meaninglessness and is a easy way out for cis people to avoid taking responsibility for their transmisogyny.

twerfs do a great deal of harm. but the transmisogynistic attitudes, views, and behaviors discussed above are a broader issue that cis people of all sorts coming from all sorts of places enact.

this isn’t twerf behavior, this is normalized cis behavior

@advanced-procrastination

cardozzza:

geekygenius:

kropotkhristian:

I don’t understand people who refuse to give money directly to the poor and hungry, but apparently give to charities, when they say “That way, I know where my money is going.” No you don’t. That is the quickest way to lose track of where your money went. You have no clue what that charity did with your money. You have no meaningful way to find out either. If you give directly to the poor and hungry, you know exactly where your money is going - to that person who needs it. You couldn’t be more sure about where your money ended up. It ended up in that hungry person’s pocket.

If you are worried about the person on the street spending the money on cigarettes or something else, you can always go into the store with them and buy them a loaf of bread or a sand which or whatever directly as well.

‘I’m sure glad I’m agreeing to let this person follow me and go to the store with me so I can get $20 from them. Sure, they might murder me or worse, and it’s dehumanizing and humiliating, but now I have a loaf of dry bread that will spoil quickly because of exposure to moisture and temperature fluctuations, will be smashed by whatever other meager possessions I have with me, is pretty bulky for as low calorie and nutrition it is, and I have no way to really store and have to carry along with me because there’s no way I can eat a whole ass loaf of bread.’

Look, giving someone money, there’s always a chance they might misuse it, or use it to not go into withdrawal, which depending on the addiction could kill them. You’re offering a very, very high risk situation to these people who are already targeted by murderers and rapists, for the benefit of like three pieces of bread and a lifetime of the memory of just another extremely humiliating situation where they were broken down even further to prove they’re Worthy of your pocket change.

I’m going to assume you’ve never living on the streets since you really don’t seem to get how things work, and I’m so glad! It’s terrible and no one should ever have to deal with that. But please keep in mind that whatever solution you can think of is unlikely to really be that great.

borderline-rat:

futurekami:

White terrorism isn’t a mental illness.

Stop trying to find a reason for killers to kill and stop stigmatizing mental illnesses by associating them with this fucking nonsense.