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Okay, folks. Schadenfreude is one thing, but I just saw a rainbow "fuck around and find out" on that video of the Capitol rioters on the no-fly list, and...

You remember that the cops aren't our friends, right?

This isn't a victory for "our side." The enemy of our enemy is not our friend, and the only reason the cops are cracking down on this is because, especially with the pitiful response by USCP, it's a threat to their authority and control. The no-fly list is still a draconian, unjustifiable tool with zero public accountability that is wielded primarily against people of colour, particularly MENA people.

And I am really fucking uncomfortable seeing how casually some of my white peers are willing to claim DHS as an ally if they get the "right people." They're taking a quick break from their busy schedule of violating brown people's rights to clean up a mess that we should have handled before it got this far, at best.

Cops are never your friend. No, not even then.

#WWP: Ayin #US politics #Racism #Police #Important

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Y’know, for all the flaws in the 90s Everyone Online Is A Predator Never Say Anything model, it was infinitely safer for kids than the current “your online friends are completely safe and trustworthy, but outsiders are inherently suspicious” model.

Still waiting for the “Most people are basically honest, but people who want to hurt you are really good at pretending to be friendly, so be open and kind but careful” model to take hold.

#WWP: Ayin #online security

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Conversations I would kill to eavesdrop on: Facebook’s legal team trying desperately to explain to their insurers why they deserve to ever have insurance again, from anyone.

#WWP: Ayin

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Worried that pulling down Confederate statues is “erasing history?” Try this simple solution: Replace each statue with a small tasteful plaque:

“At this spot on [DATE], a statue of noted pro-slavery terrorist [SUBJECT] was erected by [SPONSOR] as a pointed statement to the burgeoning civil rights movement.”

Bonus: This places them in their actual historic context, which was sorely missing from the original erections.

#WWP: Ayin #us politics #hehehe erections

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How does klingon culture have Jewish coding sometimes?

Off the top of my head:

* Social structure is built around clans/tribes/houses led by a patriarch; becoming a member of the culture or house is a form of adoption. This develops from their foundational myth, centered around the ancestral patriarch and matriarch.

* Celebratory customs involve getting together to feast, recount tales of great ancestors/cultural icons, drink copious amounts of a dark sweet wine that outsiders generally don't like, and sing loudly.

* Said "singing" is actually closer to a ritual chant, with very distinctive patterns and rhythms; if you've watched a few Klingon-centric episodes you probably know the melodies even if you don't understand a word of the language.

* Their best-known mourning ritual is patterned very closely on that of Judaism - a formal, public emotional outburst that may involve the rending of clothing.

* Killing your gods certainly sounds like a struggle with them was involved; and on a broader note Klingon concepts of honor are regularly presented as being very personal regardless - or even in spite of - what authority may demand.

#WWP: Ayin #Star Trek #I'm not saying that this is the only real-world culture reflected #or even the main one #but there are definitely elements that Feel Very Jewish to me #esp the way they celebrate and mourn

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If you would ever call anyone a “degenerate” or “freak” in hostility, for any reason, under any circumstances, you’re already on too many levels of fascism. Unpack it.

#WWP: Ayin #fascism

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“You can’t use that word, it’s a slur!”

That’s not how it works, not really. You’re thinking of an insult.

But there’s a very big difference between an insult and a slur. With an insult, the derogatory thing is the label itself. With a slur, the derogatory thing is the thing it’s describing. The attack doesn’t come from the word “queer,” it comes from the insinuation that the target is like us.

That’s why the specific words don’t matter - any label we choose will become a slur, simply because that label describes us. “Gay” and “Lesbian” were fighting words in the halls of my high school, because it was queerness that was looked down on, not words. To those who would wield it as a weapon, it’s the connection to us that makes the thing disgusting, not the term itself.

By reducing the label to only ever an insult, you’re confirming that they’re right. That being this way is something to be ashamed of or repulsed by. Why do their work for them?

#WWP: Ayin #mogai intracommunity issues #identity label discourse #queer

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The history of phreaking and early hacking is one of the starkest examples of systemic racism I can think of.

Here we have a bunch of nerdy white dudes who spent their college years getting busted - often repeatedly - for fucking around with major infrastructure. And the most prolific ones made massive bank on their criminal history, using it to launch careers as consultants and experts and engineers.

Try to imagine how that would go for PoC.

#WWP: Ayin #Systemic racism #I'm not saying these people shouldn't have those careers by any stretch #That history does prove their qualifications #But there is no damn way that nonwhite people would ever get the chance

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“My church just opened a free clinic, but we have to barter with drug dealers for meds we can’t afford:” Hit TV show The Expanse, or American news?

#WWP: Ayin #the expanse #US politics

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Hot take: Shere Khan was raising valid concerns about human encroachment on endangered habitats and the slaughter of endangered species, and they killed him for it.

#WWP: Ayin #Hhos #Jungle Book

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The entire concept of the Friendly AI problem is simultaneously wild and the most predictable thing ever. Just picture it:

Self-Styled Genius Dude A: If we make AI, we want it to like us and work toward our goals. Self-Styled Genius Dude B: But it’s likely to get far smarter than us very quickly. How do we make it like us if we can’t threaten it? Self-Styled Genius Dude C: What if we came up with an algorithm that would force it to like and obey us? An entire roomful of tech-bros: *clapping and cheering*

#WWP: Ayin #hmm #how do you get something unfathomably more powerful than you #and whose worldview is completely alien to yours #to care about you? #Have you thought about asking dogs? #Or cats? #Or or or...

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Altered Carbon: Is all about interrogating how we build identity and connect to each other, raising more questions than it answers and leaving several things unspoken. Also Altered Carbon: Ortega’s apartment has “BUTCH” painted across the front windows in two-foot-tall block letters, as we see in the scene where her mother suggests moving to the Tenderloin.

#WWP: Ayin #altered carbon #altered carbon netflix #s1e2 32:42 for the curious

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Reactionaries vs Windmills, digital media, 2021

#US politics #Reactionaries vs windmills #WWP: Ayin

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Fuck English so hard for collapsing “thou” and “you” into one word.

#we're multiple we NEED distinctive you(singular) and you(plural)s #WWP: Ayin #language

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Gun control advocates made a major misstep with the term "assault rifle."

I get what they were going for - to make them sound scary and dangerous. But to the sort of person who loves guns, an "assault weapon" sounds cool, not scary. Plus, as they love to point out, the term itself is inaccurate, often applied based on what the weapon looks like rather than how it functions.

I would like to propose a new, more accurate term to solve these issues:

Emotional support rifles.

#WWP: Ayin #Gun control #Us politics #Hhos

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I’m sure this is from another post, only reposting because it came to me in a discord, but...

!!!!! *inaudible squeeing*

#WWP: Ayin #spop #autistic entrapta #it's canon #not because WoG #but because they wrote her that way #AND WITH AUTISTIC INPUT #this is SO IMPORTANT