in your recent post about abusive social systems, you mentioned NOI, and i havent heard of that before, so i was just wondering if you could clarify what that is
The Nation of Islam. It’s a black nationalist religion that’s very homophobic, sexist, antisemetic, and overall ahistorical. I put them as a placeholder for most black supremacist groups since they all believe roughly the same bs. Black people were the original Jews, black people were the original Native Americans, white people are the byproduct of an evil big headed scientist with the intended purpose of destroying the black race through the practice of “tricknology”. It’s a lot of right wing conspiracy theory. I mean, after over 400 years of slavery and abuse, there’s no surprise that there’d be people who truly believe that white people were created in a lab to hurt black people. I get that. But it’s still not correct.
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this post was recommended on my timeline from a carnivore recipe group i had not yet joined and i immediately joined it obviously
One of the hardest things to learn as a leftist is that there are a lot self proclaimed leftists that are actually totally cool with abusive social systems, they just don’t like that they’re the ones being abused. The solution to male supremacy isn’t woman supremacy, it’s no supremacy. The supremacy is the bad part. This line of thinking is how you get TERFS and the NOI
hol’ up do you really not see porn as having an overall unhealthy effect on society?? that’s the one industry (outside of maybe nicotine) that just consistently destroys the souls of people who consume it and create it like nothing else I’ve seen before
You’ve seen the destruction of numerous souls and did nothing to stop it?
People love to say things like “Hiding Anne Frank was illegal, turning her in would have been legal” without like fully grasping the modern implications properly. You have tons of folks like “if WW2 happened today id have __” that do not realize what is happening around them.
We have this idolized AND sanitized version of what happened then, and so we do not recognize it when it happens now.
Resistance fighters assassinated nazis and blew up weapons and infrastructure and destroyed records and forged paperwork and raised secret funds and smuggled people in vehicles and yes, hid them in their homes.
“Well it’s sad he got sent to an ICE camp but he faked his permit :/“
Whoever helped him fake his paperwork did what fighters in ww2 did. People who cut through chain link fences do what fighters in ww2 did, people who blow whistles chasing after ice cars do what fighters in ww2 did, people who destroy arms factories and cop city cranes do what fighters in ww2 did, people unmask agents do what fighters in ww2 did.
People are doing it now! They’ve been doing it now! You keep saying “oh if this happened here__” it HAS! It IS!
What are you doing about it?
The last time I played Puck, the director was a huge freak about not letting us wear shoes on stage because it would "ruin the look", but we all kept eating shit, and instead of just letting us wear skintone dance shoes or something with grip, motherfucker poured Pepsi on the floor so it'd be sticky and we had to schlorp around. I fucking hate you, David.
Why couldn't this have been a one time I dreamt
Coking the stage (mopping it with diluted soda so it's a little sticky) is a legitimate low-budget tactic for slick floors, but he just poured so much Pepsi on the floors that for about a whole week, it was audible.
Maybe the course of true love would run a little fucking smoother if we didn't have to ford your Pepsi river, DAVID.
I would just quit. Fuck people like that. It's easy to walk away
No it's not. Didn't you read the post? There was dried Pepsi everywhere.
Avelo Airlines, the only commercial carrier believed to have been operating full deportation flights on a regular basis for the Trump administration, is ending its relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and will no longer charter those deportations.
The budget carrier signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security in April 2025 to operate ICE flights out of Arizona, drawing immediate protests and calls to boycott.
At the time, the airline acknowledged the decision may be controversial but said it was expected to support company expansion and job protection. However, after less than a year since inking the deal, Avelo has admitted that the program became too costly and complex to continue.
CEO Andrew Levy acknowledged the backlash in an email to employees late Tuesday.
“We moved a portion of our fleet into a government program which promised more financial stability but placed us in the center of a political controversy,” Levy wrote in the email, obtained by CNBC.
“The program provided short-term benefits but ultimately did not deliver enough consistent and predictable revenue to overcome its operational complexity and costs.” (aph)
KEEP PROTESTING AND KEEP MOBILIZING. IT WORKS. IT IS NOT HOPELESS AND IT WORKS.
THAT'S MY STATE BBY I'M SO PROUD OF US DON'T STOP BEING LOUD!!!!!!
People act like voting compromising their morals but violent revolution wouldn’t are weird to me. Historically several violent uprisings did have to make morally complicated choices even when they turned out for the best.
Yeah, I don't trust people who think that engaging with the trolley problem is problematic to deal with a revolution.
Hey, why did you delete that Discord AI PSA?
Because it sucked ass and I fell for misinformation. I feel so dumb about it and really wish it wasn’t going around again. Hate it. Problem is, BECAUSE I deleted it I can’t turn off reblogs. I suggest looking at the comments and reblogs for accurate information + I denounced it in the comments, but there’s nothing more I can really do. Never forget that anyone (including you) can big fumble and all you can do is try and not have that happen again. If I could nuke that thing from orbit I would.
Extra psa: there’s now fear mongering going around about how that recent survey can steal your account and oh my FUCKING GOD NO IT CANNOT!!! STOP!!! YOU NEVER DO ANYTHING TO HAVE IT EVEN REMOTELY TOUCH YOUR DISCORD ACCOUNT IT CANNOT DO THAT. THAT IS NOT HOW BASIC CYBERSECURITY WORKS.
I HAVE BECOME A MALDING BASTARD OVER MY DUNCE CAP POST AND I CANNOT BE FREE OF IT!! HELP!!!!!!
"In recent years, there have been political movements to replace the current progressive tax system with a flat tax. In fact, many states have enacted a flat tax. One plan called for a 17% flat tax on income. Compared to the current system, the 17% flat tax would result in an increase in tax liability for taxpayers with income of less than $200,000 and a decrease in tax liability for taxpayers with income of more than $200,000."
I knew all of this already but it's something else to see it in my tax accounting textbook. Something that I wish I could burn into the brains of every middle class to working class conservative calling for a flat tax.
Check this out.
Under the current system the people actually paying the smallest average amount of taxes proportional to their income are lower middle class.
It's expensive to be poor. But also notice that people making over $200,000 are still paying less than a quarter of their income.
Instead of getting mad at the lower middle class, ask yourself. Should the tax rate on income under $30,000 even exist? If a person makes enough money already to be incredibly comfortable by anyone’s metrics, shouldn’t they be paying more than that? Why is the tax rate for those making $800,000 the same as for those making over two million?
it's usually morally correct to make fun of the usa but whenever i hear british people do it it feels kinda tone deaf. idk if we have the high ground here guys. its like your mom making fun of your mental illness like ma'am where do you think i got it from.
