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the-anarcho-raver:

Police confiscated vinegar used to neutralize pepper spray and claimed it was a chemical used against them, they faked an injury (that is obviously paint, and the officer would have been in riot gear, not a uniform)
Released personal info on the people arrested, arrested journalists and legal observers, and broke a restaurant window and blamed protesters…

hearthfire-heartfire:

cartnsncreal:

they LOVE bringing black people into their BS. It’s like that cop who committed SUICIDE and tried to frame it as homicide by a black man. .

I just fucking wrote about this when that white supremacist stabbed himself and blamed it on antifa. Times this has happened before:

-Just last year, Sherry Hall, a cop, shot herself in the abdomen and had her department literally call out the dogs for a manhunt of a nonexistent black perpetrator: https://atlantadailyworld.com/2016/09/24/georgia-cop-charged-with-shooting-herself-then-blaming-it-on-black-man/

-When Barack Obama was elected president, a McCain campaign volunteer carved a “B” on her face and blamed it on a black man. The “B” was carved backwards because she was looking in the mirror to do it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080189/Young-Republican-claimed-Obama-supporter-carved-letter-B-face-robbery-story-police-say.html

-Do you remember the woman in the 90’s who drowned her kids by leaving them in a car that she then rolled into a lake? She originally claimed that she was carjacked by a black man and the entire nation was spreading her lies for nine days before anyone added up the inconsistencies in her story: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/susan-smith-mother-who-killed-kids-something-went-very-wrong-n397051

-The woman who claimed that 14-year-old Emmett Till whistled at her and sparked his brutal murder finally admitted, in 2007 in an interview for a book only released this year, that he had never made “physical or verbal advances toward her.”: https://www.vibe.com/2017/01/carolyn-bryant-fabricated-emmett-till-story/

unlimitedtrashworks:

the-daughters-of-eve:

atalantapendrag:

squidsqueen:

ladydrace:

Has anyone else noticed how, when you have a chronic condition of some kind, that there’s always the basic assumption from people around you that you’re not already doing everything you can?

It’s all about the illusion of control. People who are healthy like to believe they can always keep being healthy if they do the right things. They don’t want to think about how good people get struck with terrible circumstances for no reason. So they keep assuming that if they got sick, they could do something to make it better. And if you’re still sick, that must mean you’ve done something wrong or not done enough.

Nail. Head. The same attitude can be seen in how a lot of people talk about poverty.

And sexual assault. All they have to do is not go there not drink that not wear that not date them and they’ll be fine, right?

The Just World theory - that as long as I do everything right, I’m safe, and everybody who isn’t safe is at fault for not doing everything right - is perhaps the most harmful and widespread mindset today

if you ever see a conservative and wonder just how in the world they have so little compassion?  they are genuinely convinced that most - not all, but most - bad things that happen are the fault of the person affected, because then they don’t have to feel bad

somebody explaining this to me as a young adult was, quite literally, the start of me seeing the world in a new way and moving considerably to the left politically. by letting go of the just world mindset my conception of reality shifted considerably

sarahreesbrennan:

lavender-lily:

penfairy:

Today I found out we owe most of our punctuation to the medieval Irish. They’d had no experience with Latin before, so when these Latin manuscripts started showing up written in all caps with no spaces between the words looking like a brick wall of hot nonsense, the Irish sighed and said “give me that feckin quill” and they did such a good job of editing the texts and producing readable copies that their conventions kind of stuck with us through the ages

Irish pride woot

my isle of saints and scholars

… really pedantic saints