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You must provide your ID, but they can wear masks and conceal their identities.
You must comply with every order, even when they ignore the very laws they’re sworn to uphold.
You’re told to prioritize the officer’s “safety,” while his masked buddies surround your car armed to the teeth.
You can't be armed, but they’re armed with military-grade weapons and authorized to use them to enforce compliance.
You can't protest or "interfere", but they can enter your homes, detain your children, and kill your neighbors.
You can't film them, but they can monitor your movements, scan your license plate, and track your location in real time.
You can be fined and imprisoned for one wrong move, but they’re shielded by qualified immunity, and legally allowed to deceive you during questioning.
At some point, the power dynamic reversed.
Public servants became untouchable authorities, and abuse of power was rebranded as “order.” In the process, we’ve normalized state-sanctioned extortion, brutality, and subservience to law enforcement.
If these profound double standards don’t alarm you, it’s not because they aren’t there. It’s because you’ve been trained not to notice. That’s how we got here.
It's time to start noticing and say no more...
Cory Burns Barger retweeted
Being required to present proof of citizenship to someone not required to present proof they're actually law enforcement is one hell of a dichotomy
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People aren’t donating to the Democratic Party this year because they fundraised a billion dollars for them last year, then we lost the election, then Dems confirmed all of Trump’s cabinet, and then Dems did not have a real plan to fight authoritarianism.
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Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy goes right out the window when women ask for more of the revenue they generate.
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An important strategy is to learn to appear and disappear at a moment's notice, to move like water. Render their barricades and kettling tactics useless. Drain their resources and morale by forcing them to pack up and move their heavy equipment as often as possible.
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A dementia drug based on a chemical discovered in an exotic type of snail was just invented. Studying the reproductive habits of insects has allowed us to increase crop yields.
You think you’re making a good point but you don’t even have the capacity to realize how dumb you are.
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A reminder that the pull yourself up by the bootstraps story is Cardi B, not Elon Musk — whose family was worth well over a $100 million when he was a child. He grew up in apartheid, benefitting from a system that legally prioritized whiteness.
I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle…. PS fix my algorithm
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Does the tree waste its life if it stands still and feels the sun? Do the newts waste their lives sleeping under the leaves? Your purpose is to be, and you are excelling.
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Musicians Liang Wang and Matthew Muckey were fired from the New York Philharmonic for sexual misconduct. Why are they back playing with the orchestra? trib.al/ZctLY9C
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I've been asking my male friends to do something - *watch if the first response to everything a woman tells you is to refute, say no or something negative*
One texted me later: Holy f*ck
The problem is, constantly putting up with unwarranted resistance is bad for mental health.
Cory Burns Barger retweeted
hot tip: bonding through complaining is actually the first step to unionizing your workplace
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When people frame Black victims of racist violence in this way, it perpetuates a hierarchy of deservingness to live. Accolades, respectability, their relationships to others are not what determines their right to live; their humanity does. Black people deserve to live, period.
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Controversial opinion:
People self diagnosing themselves with ADHD from TikTok/Twitter/etc is mostly just people becoming aware of what ADHD actually is and realising they have it.
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A new Iowa bill would roll back child labor laws, allowing 14 to 17-year-olds to work in mining, meatpacking, demolition, operating guillotine shears, and other dangerous jobs. Under the business-backed bill, employers wouldn't be civilly liable if kids are injured or killed.
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"why do you support your tax dollars going to subsidized daycare if you don't have kids" because if other people can't afford to have kids the only staff at my nursing home when I'm old will be a pill organizer scotch-taped to a roomba
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Hot take:
Failure to hire coverage for stage managers and actors is an inherently coercive act.
If a worker showing up sick, hurt, or otherwise unable to do their job is the only thing standing between the curtain going up or not, that's coercion.
Period.
