ID: photo of someone holding up a cushion in a double-sided sequin cover where the sequins are a different colour or pattern depending on what direction they are laying.
Here the background sequins are blue, and a pattern has been brushed in the opposite direction in the shape of a slug's head complete with optical tentacles (eyes at the ends of antennae), to reveal Nicolas Cage's eyes and mouth perfectly fitting in to give the slug a face.
Good on you, keep at it as long as you are able, those who are in danger and stuck in the most dangerous places need to see someone sticking up for them the most. ✊
ID: Baby Yoda using a laptop, leaning back a little and staring at the monitor looking confused, above is text: "How tf a computer gone ask me if I'm a robot, mf u a robot"
ID: Xtremely Transbian, Online @ThisACoolPerson posted:
"i imagine being a liberal is much like having a cat on your lap, in that you have a comforting distraction from misery and can't stand up for anything"
E: before people derail the conversation to offer me the fallen arm from the title - I've tried many different combinations, and they all result in a wrong looking shruggy face. Deal with it lol
ID:
"Me: *stands up really fast*
My entire body:"
Bellow are 12 different engine warning lights that you would have on a car dashboard.
I've not read them all, so I can't really rank them, but I do share Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! often, and of course there are the renowned Bullshit Jobs and Debt. I'm sure other folks can add their own suggestions..
It’s 2025, $710 is pocket change for anyone who can still afford to eat.
That's seriously out of touch, check your privilege.
ID: Photo of a pink felt heart on a slightly paler pink background, overlaying is stylised text: "make the world a better place punch a nazi in their face"
ID: Photo of a white duck, next to it is plain text:
"I'm here to eat grapes and kick ass and the lemonade stand is fresh out of grapes"
for the ~~kids~~ uninitiated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q
I don't really watch much yt (E: but it's always good to have decent recommendations to make to those who do), but I'll give them a look, definitely made a good first impression 👍
That was good, as are many of the yt comments, which is unusual lol, thanks for sharing
ID: From a Comrade posted:
"In the coming year, things will pop off. When they do, someone will volunteer to do security. They will possibly show up with a lot of battle rattle and a take-charge, can-do attitude.
Do not let them do security. Ask them to read some bell hooks. Ask them how many women they know trust them. Ask them to do some reproductive labor first, like working in a kitchen. Talk to them in depth about political theory. Understand their motivations and their relationship to violence and power.
Over half of people who want to do security, are people who should never do security. The biggest red flag for weeding out bad security people, is that they are eager to do security."
a woman they don’t want to sleep with,
Sadly this isn't always the case, there's often a deeply incestuous vibe (and sometimes more than that) to that kind of ownership some men take of their daughters (I don't really feel like looking through the results for this search right now, but I remember several images of men wearing t shirts saying shit like "the only one who gets to touch my daughter is me" and creepy shit like that).
There are so many different layers of fucked up to a relationship between a misogynistic man and his daughter., it really is so unfortunate, but it's just one more way in which the patriarchy maintains itself.
In my experience that doesn't usually happen, instead they simply see the daughter as another piece of property theirs to control (which is often framed as "protect"), and draw validation of their (toxic) masculinity from (making themselves feel like "big men" by threatening to harm any guy who comes near her for example).
...And fuck those who actively uphold it to maintain their own comfort at the expense of those more marginalised.
ID: A drawing of two mildly anthropomorphised earthworms, one has sunglasses on and an otherwise straight face, the other is screaming, a look of panic on their face. Above them is text: "It's time to decide if you want what's familiar or what's better"
Credit: @RadicallySunny
ID: In each of the 4 corners of the image is a drawing of an open matchbook, on the inside is a heart, and one of the matches' heads is heart shaped, in the centre is text: "IF STANDING UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS BURNS A BRIDGE, I HAVE MATCHES."
Credit: @sheislimitless
ID: Is this a pigeon meme where the person is tagged "cis society", the butterfly in their hand is tagged "trans people having a backbone about anything at all", and they are asking "is this destroying my free speech?"
Fantastic. We can only hope that the lemm.ee team take a similar stance against this user, but I won't hold my breath.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37235684
Obviously reporting transphobic comments to a transphobic mod isn't going to result in any action, so I'm wondering if the admins are going to do anything about it?
(if someone needs an image description, please ask)
Obviously reporting transphobic comments to a transphobic mod isn't going to result in any action, so I'm wondering if the admins are going to do anything about it?
(if someone needs an image description, please ask)
Ew, eugenics.
No, you bootlickers can repeat the same bullshit party lines and shove your heads up your ass as far as you please to maintain your personal comfort and shield yourself from reality (and from those actually responsible for and who benefit from fascism, which you miraculously never confront or even hold accountable, and are freely willing to ~~compromise with~~ give in to), but that doesn't change it - participating in an oppressive system, and voting for one of either oppressive parties designated to you by those benefiting from that system to placate you with an illusion of choice is literally the opposite of protesting said system (E: never even mind that the idea that you can vote fascism away is beyond ignorant and laughable in its own right, it's demonstrably wrong)
TL;DR: your vote didn't protest shit, it was manufactured consent for the status quo, get off your fucking high horse
Welcome new admins, I can't get my brain to be friendly right now (not related to you or any of this at all), so I'll just leave it at I'm glad it isn't anyone I have blocked, and good luck.
I'm in a really bad headspace right now due to irl bullshit, so I've not got around to and honestly don't have the brain bandwidth to make my own post about this right now or even discuss it in any depth (nor to fully process what you've suggested in op), but this seems like an opportunity to bring it up if not as a general discussion, then at least for the admins of this specific instance to read and consider, I think it's really important and something I've seen (and personally experienced) get people who are organisers and run communities to end up acting against their own community members and make the latter feel excluded and even unsafe, so I'm just going to leave this here.
The essays are titled "tyranny of civility", they are a bit long, but yeah, I think really important especially on this instance where we (should) take abolishing oppressive structures, even within our selves, seriously:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
E: There is also Social Power and the Oppressive Potential of Civility which is a later discussion by the same author about the series of essays, and their observations since to, in their words "hopefully highlight some issues that I believe are created by maintaining civility as an unquestioned social norm in a society where institutionalized and social oppression operates along a variety of dimensions." as a kind of TL;DR (though still read the essays if you can)