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thatflatenedfrogontheroad · 2 days

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I made a tier list...

please make your own!! I need to see boomer nations opinions on our man!!!! I know the tiers are actually so vile so change them if you desire :)))

OK so my quick blurb on why they are their!! (working worst to best)

28. Identity Crisis #5 - HE WOULD KILL ME FOR THE FUN OF IT. It did bring about the most random rivalry between Tim drake’s fandom and boomer's which is very funny

27. Black Lantern - Oh no… he's back… like a boomerang. Ate his own son... RIP…. L skill issue

26. Sliver Age - Would actually call me a slur and say that I don't deserve rights. He would hate crime me and then solicit me for sex. He looks like he's wearing a dress… what a pretty lady.

25. Flash TV Show - EWWWWWWWW, he though he ate...

24. DC Online - He looks like he would punch me in face at a NYC bus stop

23. White Lantern - Don't look at me like that… stop. He's back from the dead like a boomerang?? Something about most of the New 52 boomerangs don't hit the same. the bride all in white :’)

22. Young Justice - Gave me the ick. You might be thinking... he looks identical to SS hell to pay, why is he down here?? Great question… HE WAS SO CREEPY TO ONE OF THE GIRLS IN YOUNG JUSTICE….. WHO IS A MINOR!

21. Injustice Movie - Just because your in the background… doesn't save you from this list!!!

20. New 52 - Ok he's kinda hot if you look through your peripherals…Why are you wearing skinny jeans… you millennial

19. Harley Quinn TV Show - He's fine… just fine. “We’ll stack out bingo… Boomer loves an older woman” NO HE MUST LOVE ME! I AM VERY VERY MATURE FOR MY AGE

18. Flash: Sins of the Father - Can you please stop talking in the 3rd person… you are starting to sound crazy.

17. Most Wanted - I know jack shit about him. That's probably because he is barely in a comic issues THATS NAMED AFTER HIM!

16. Flash Point Paradox - His fight scene actually ate. I'm a sucker for Boomer being with the Rogues. If cyborg can take his belt off… so can I

15. Suicide Squad 2021 - Wow they somehow gave him even less lines than his first movie. 1. He doesnt look like boomer. 2. His accent is so bad… and hes AUSTRALIAN 3. His acting low key kinda mid 4. They killed off two of the only OG suicide squad members they had on the cast 5. He dies in the first 20min and in the most disrespectful way

14. Suicide Squad 2016 - The only good thing to come from this man is the fanfiction he brought. THIS FUCKING MOVIE MADE HIM A CANON BRONY WHICH I CAN NOT FORGIVE. GET THIS OUT OF MY SMUT BEFORE FREAK THE FUCK OUT >:( Fuck him and pinky too, you son of a bitch!!!! (its not that serious lol... i just want him to stop fucking a toy horse... please guys)

13. This Goober Alien Guy - I know nothing. He just kinda showed up… and I'm not mad just a little confused. He looks like he needs a hot chocolate and a hug :))))

12. Lego Batman Movie - Low key an icon. What I would do to get my hands on one of these sets… I would come close to killing someone for it

11. DC Lego Super Villains - If he wasn't Lego I would propose (Shane Dawson style) Once again what I would do for the very discontinued Lego set tie in…

10. Batman: Brave and The Bold - Those cheekbones could cut someone. Why are you wear a mini skirt… take it off ;)

9. Suicide Squad (comic) - Yes I know he was drinking and driving but he's not real so it doesn't count!!! The beginning of the Boomer Mobile! THE GAP TOOTH DUDE!

8. Justice League Unlimited S1 - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Ok the hairline is… bad…. But so is mine twin!! I LOVE THAT THEY GAVE HIM PROPER CLOTHES AND NOT RAGS DUDE

7. Agent of Oz - is this picture is my school profile pic...yes… and??HE'S COVERED IN BLOOD AND IM GIGGLING!!!!!!!!!!!

6. Stjepan Sejic's Boomer - Choke hold and choke me... I want to hear his voice but he can't break his mewing streak…The ungodly things I would let him do to me

5. Dark: Apocalypse War - Constantine! Boomer! GIRLS! GIRLS!! ILL SLEEP WITH BOTH OF YOU!!! I was not expecting him in this movie so I started to freak out when he showed up DUDE. PLEASE LET ME SIT ON IT

4. Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay - I'm a ride he wouldn't survive… I DONT HAVE WORDS TO DECRIBE HOW I FEEL DUDE… I WOULD DO ANYTHING HE ASKED FOR NO JOKE. Dead on the floor

3. Justice League Unlimited S2 - The glow up in REAL... had me on my hands and knees as a 3rd grader… and still on my knees today. I have never wanted someone to fuck me in the back alleyway of a shit bar so bad in my life

2. Batman: Assault on Arkham - The one that started it all… he is the reason I am this way. no lube, no protection, all night, all day, from the kitchen floor to the toilet seat, from the dining table to the bedroom BUT GREG ELLIS IS PUBLIC ENIME NUMDER ONE. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!!!

AND THE BEST ONE!!!!!!!! WE ALL SAW IT COMING

1. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - I AM GNAWING ON THE IRON BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE!!!!!! He has it all, the face, the VOICE, the look, the character!!!!! It is hands down the most consistently good representation of captain boomerang out their… and its canon that's he has a big dick :D I would sell my first born to get one night…

Thank you all for reading this word vom, I am sick in the head <3

if any of the comic issues are off or something please let me know :)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make your our and tag me!! i need to see them <3<3<3

#captain boomerang #dc villains #digger harkness #george digger harkness #rouges #kill the justice league #captain boomerang x reader

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myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom · 5 months

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Some extracts:

"I see it almost daily. In the health communities I’m in, someone will say 'I need to get a disabled placard but I’m afraid to.' I see the images of awful notes left on the car of someone who uses a placard. You can find examples here, here, here and here. I could keep going"

"My doctor signed it without question. I still was not comfortable with the term “disabled” then and I was still trying to pretend I could physically do what I was longer able to do. “Passing” as able-bodied was significantly easier than trying to live with disability (or so I thought at the time), and I was coasting on denial as long as I could."

"But I was wrong. I was and am disabled. I got the [parking] placard and ended up using it every day because it was a life saver. I wished I had gotten it sooner when I needed it, long before I finally talked to my doctor about it."

"I imagine there are a variety of reasons people leave notes on cars or make discriminatory comments to the disabled…they may assume all disabilities are visible and that only individuals who require a mobility aid qualify as disabled."

"When someone leaves a note on a car or makes a comment, they are making rash judgments about someone they’ve never even met and enacting a gross injustice on someone who faces daily obstacles already.

This needs to stop."

"1. Most #disabilities and #chronicconditions are invisible. Often, you cannot “see” kidney disease, cognitive disabilities, neurological conditions, cancer, prosthetic limbs, etc. All of these and more qualify as disabilities, and these individuals are allowed access to a disabled placard to make their lives and the world that much easier to navigate."

"2. Police officers, parking attendants, etc. can ask someone to show them the permit people are required to carry when they use a placard. Other people do not need to enact their own form of vigilante justice. There is a system in place to make sure that those who use the placards are permitted to use them."

#Hiddendisabilities #invisibleillness #chronicillness #hidden illness #spoonies

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odessa-castle · 1 day

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From that ask meme, this probably doesn't count as 500 words but I would love to hear any commentary you have about scene where Wyll duels Lord Andoril from NLTS!

The duel itself, from the moment Wyll tells Lord Andoril to draw to the moment where Andoril yields, actually is about 500 words! So I'll break that down a bit.

"Wyll duels an asshole noble at a fancy ball over Astarion's honor" was one of the very first plot beats I came up with for NLTS, right after I got the idea for the premise, and I shaped a lot of the first half of the story around it. It’s a full-on romance novel hero moment, it’s exactly how seventeen-year-old Wyll would try to right an injustice, and it arguably created more problems than it solved. Good stuff. The duel was originally even more of a setpiece, with Wyll pulling out some real Errol Flynn shit, but while Wyll at 24 could disarm Lord Andoril in three moves and slash a Z into his clothes for good measure, Wyll at seventeen doesn’t have that level of skill or confidence. I reminded myself that Wyll could do plenty of swashbuckling in Part 2, and that said swashbuckling would be even more fun if readers could see how much he’d grown. And even though I knew Wyll was going to win, I didn’t want the duel itself to feel like a foregone conclusion, with Wyll clearly outclassing Lord Andoril from the very start. And, you know, it’s another fun opportunity for Wyll to compare himself to his father and feel, once again, like he’s fallen short of where he should be.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I based Wyll’s fighting style on destreza, a form of early modern Spanish fencing that focuses on mobility. It felt right both in terms of Wyll’s general toreador aesthetic and influence (which I believe is mentioned in the BG3 artbook) and in terms of his skill as a dancer. Lord Andoril fights more like an Italian fencer, with a heavy focus on lunges. I’m not super familiar with fencing texts and styles from that period, so I hunted down some exhibition matches on YouTube and used them as references when I essentially blocked out the fight. (Like I’ve mentioned before, the way I write is heavily theatrical. Heavily.)

Oh, and you gotta love Wyll ultimately gaining the upper hand because of how dang sincere he is. Lord Andoril isn’t prepared for Wyll to actually be angry on Astarion’s behalf. He’s caught off-guard when Wyll makes it clear that he is taking this seriously, and that this isn’t about soothing his own injured pride, as a lot of duels among the nobility tend to be. Wyll’s keeping to a code of honor here, but not in the way that’s expected of him. And there are consequences to that.

#the ask and the answer #jellyfishline #nothing like the sun

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aralenorimaki01 · 9 months

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The Sims 4 Supergirl (Sasha Calle)

I try to revisit my Supergirl suit thanks to better texture and mesh from Injustice 2 mobile games. She sure will be up up and away this Saturday! So be sure you don't miss em 😊

#the sims supergirl #the sims #ts4 supergirl #sasha calle #the flash #maxis match #ts4cc maxis match #the sims 4 #ts4cc #sims cc #female cc

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thosemintcookies · 1 year

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Okay so basically I think something to discuss about Daredevil in general is the underlying reason Matt is daredevil. I think a lot of post-DDTV fandom emphasizes Matt's character as one primarily concerned with righteousness and justice, where I am personally of the belief that successful and versions of Matt are primarily about the masked identity as escapism.

The problem with framing Matt's character to be one of justice is that it runs into two major roadblocks:

1. The Ableism.

When Matt's character is about righteousness and justice it frames his disability in a metaphorical way ("justice is blind"). This lets the narrative avoid really contending with actual ableism, as his disability becomes a thematic accessory to the real issue of justice. Coupled with a huge emphasis on matt's piety and upward mobility, it also plays into inspiration porn, as it becomes a rags-to-riches story where Matt is an overseer as Lady Justice is, venerated for being detached and pure, a figure of judgement apart from the rest of abled society, as opposed to a regular human who is a part of regular society.

2. The Morality Aspect.

When we have Matt as a symbol for justice, his views are reified as unquestionable; as a symbol and conduit for justice, he can't be wrong about things. That just sort of makes his character weaker overall in my opinion. We can't trust that he's an unreliable narrator and flawed human as is literally every single other person is in the cast.

(In the comics, this is explored way more. He is called out on multiple occasions for his shortsighted views on crime, which don't effectively get at the root of social ills associated with systemic and structural injustice associated with higher criminality. Luke Cage notably says he's not getting rid of crime, merely displacing it. The narrative also goes to great pains introducing other characters with other ideas of "doing what's right" (Milla, who works in housing, Ben, who serves justice through journalistic exposure, Foggy, who is loyal on a personal level while being pretty ambivalent about his methods, etc etc.) Introducing new perspectives is sort of the point. If the thesis of Daredevil is "justice exists outside the law" the answer isn't just to punch people.)

In addition, it sort of ignores the other ways Matt is privileged. Again, as Justice, he can't be wrong, which means we're encouraged to ignore the ways his status as a lawyer and as a white man play into his biases. He's not neutral. Volume 2 as a whole also emphasizes the way his being myopic and, honestly, sexist, ruins his marriage as he fails to consider his partner's needs and frames tragedy that falls onto the women in his life as primarily his own issues, rather than traumas his wife/friends are dealing with. In Soule's and Zdarsky's runs we have characters like Sam Chung and Cole North who challenge Matt's experiences with citizenship, and sense of neutral raciality. Again, this isn't an accident of the writing. We as the audience are being asked to consider other perspectives.

(Also having him be more prominently Catholic while having him be a symbol of justice is also implicitly a colonial message.)

The intent of DD as an escape from his regular identity, as it was originally conceived, serves a larger narrative purpose. He gets an escape from ableism and other systemic barriers to being able to serve his sense of justice (which, as previously stated, can be very flawed). It's fundamentally self-justified identity, not a selfless one. It's liberating for him personally, and something he pursues because he enjoys it (despite it being pointed out on multiple occasions that it is sometimes detrimental to his health and relationships.) (Also I think it makes him have a more fun personality, because it lets him be cocky rather than burdened.)

The duality of being a truer version of himself as a masked man allows him to be a complex messy character. Explorations of his character tensions (straddling poverty vs. status, marginalization vs. privilege, violence vs procedural justice, etc etc) are more interesting. His dynamic tensions with other characters (both on his side and antagonists) are made more rewarding as we see competing interests play out and we are encouraged and challenged to take a stance rather than assuming Matt's simply correct.

In addition, this also is why I'm overall not a fan of this idea that just anyone can take on the helm of Daredevil. Daredevil is, unlike some other marvel characters, not really a title so much as an escapist identity taken on by a very specific mentally and physically disabled man to contend with his specific feelings of impotence and marginalization, which doesn't really work unless we explore these themes in other characters, or they were established to similarly be preoccupied with this identity tension.

#daredevil #meta

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dailycass-cain · 10 months

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Cassandra Cain in Video Game Media

Tonight, I'm going to cover the various appearances Cassandra Cain has in video game media. Some might surprise you, even startle you, and even might get you interested in said game (that are available).

Now her first appearance in video game media is a rather infamous one, Batman Dark Tomorrow released for the Game Cube and X-Box. The game is rather infamous for being quite awful for its atrocious controls and camera angles.

Cass (along with Tim Drake Robin) show up after you defeat Stage 3 after beating Scarface & the Ventriloquist. And that's about it. Just a random appearance. 🙃

A fun little note is the game's story was written by Scott Peterson, who had a slight hand in Cass's Vol. 1 ongoing throughout the Puckett/Scott run. So it's highly probable he snuck her in for this scene.

The second appearance of Cass in a video game is one usually forgotten but released a few months after the first, Batman: Toxic Chill (2003). An educational game where you as Batman would solve various puzzles to progress.

The game's character design is HEAVILY influenced by BTAS. However, with a KEY difference, the Batgirl is Cass (and voiced by Christiane Crawford).

Later that same year, we'd get the game's sequel, Batman: Justice Unbalanced, and again Cass would be in the game (voiced again by Christiane Crawford).

Her roles in both games are relatively minor just showing up, and the vocal performance by Crawford is quite good.

After that three-prone assault in 2003, we'd have to wait until 2011 for the next time Cass as Batgirl would show up in a video game. This time in DC Universe Online.

Yeah, you read that date right in 2011, several years after she had abandoned the role (and would soon be wiped away with the New 52).

She appears in the game as a vendor for hero characters. Mindy Raymond voices her in the game.

There's just so great irony in the fact that this game has Cass walking around as Batgirl when DC was shoving Barbara Gordon everywhere else as THE Batgirl at this time.

Not only that, but when Cass was reintroduced as Orphan in 2016, she was still Batgirl here. And the game still exists to this day and she’s still the Batgirl in it!

Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure is our next surprising Cass appearance which came out in 2013 (at the HEIGHT of her being labeled "toxic" by DC).

Cass is one of MANY DC characters in the game. She's not just Batgirl in the game, but also her Black Bat persona is here too!

Fun little Easter Egg, if you type in Kasumi you'll get Cass instead (go figure 😝).

2013 would see the release of the mobile version of "Injustice Gods Amongst Us" a vastly different version of the fighting game on consoles and pcs.

However, Cass (a reskinned Babs Batgirl) is among the unlockables in the game. If I recall right from friends who played the game she's highly difficult to fully unlock.

As I said in my Alternate Universe reading guide not much is known about this version of Cass. But she was name-dropped in the last comic released (a prequel to the series, Injustice: Year Zero #2),

2020 would see Cass appear in another mobile game, DC Legends.

This would technically have her appear in her Orphan identity but it's never explicitly listed. In the game she's listed as "Cassandra Cain: The One Who is All".

Much like Injustice, she's hard to unlock buuuuut a bit easier to attain than that game. Once fully geared up and evolved into the game's "Rebirth" mode, she can be an absolute beast and bane to many players.

There is one tiny bits of note. In last year's Gotham Knights video game, it was revealed one of Barbara Gordon's rejected concept costumes was heavily inspired by Cassandra's Batgirl look.

In Batman: Arkham Origins (2013), Cass's pop is amongst the files of rejected assassins Black Mask was pondering to hire to kill Batman.

He's also listed in the game as an acquaintance of Lady Shiva (who does appear in it). Sadly, nothing ever comes of these little bits.

There you have it. Every single video game appearance of Cass. SO FAR...

#cassandra cain #video games #dc comics

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dcinjustice · 1 year

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Love is in the air! Happy Valentine's Day from your favorite devious duo! - Injustice2Go

#Injustice #Injustice game #injustice gods among us #injustice 2 #injustice mobile #injustice 2 mobile #DC Comics #Harley Quinn #Poison Ivy #Valentine's Day #Happy Valentine's Day

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shahinelected · 2 months

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Приключения Харли Квинн из игры INJUSTICE 2 Mobile.

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johnwarlockgaming · 2 years

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Upcoming chest

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xenosagaepisodeone · 9 months

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i've consumed a lot of media where a creator's breakdown drastically changed the trajectory of a series, but narutaru is the first i've seen where the entire story is suddenly taken apart in the last 3 volumes and reconfigured into the author's response to the iraq war. volume 10 opens with the wife of an iraq war veteran (this was published in the end of 2003, and this detail is actually the only thing in the entire story that would indicate it takes place in the distant future) accidentally hitting 2 kids with her truck (subtle), followed by a US cargo plane crash landing into japanese building, and then a reveal that this was orchestrated by the US government to mobilize american troops within japan. servicemen interrogate citizens at checkpoints, and a curfew is enforced. it's at this point that the looming anxiety of nuclear warfare is also introduced as a plot point.

the vet meets up with the protagonist and explains that the 'dragon child' mentioned above is actually her son, who the US military taken from her and experimented on under the pretense of treating his degenerative illness.

^ she walks this back immediately but it's still an interesting panel given the wider context. this was scanalated in 2007 so i'm not going to be a hater towards 'believe you me'.

the arc rounds off with the protagonist and the vet's son stopping the military from carpet bombing civilians.

narutaru is messy a series that mulls over societal ills and the consequences of violence. kitoh strives to reconcile the existence of injustice with his belief that harmony in our present society can exist, but is so pessimistic in his conception of human nature that he also struggles with imagining a society that can respond to injustice instead of placating it. it feels natural that the bleak turn of the 21st century would capture his attention, and that the irrational, truly irreconcilable reality of it would draw him further into despair. the antagonist maintains that dragon children are a superior species that are destined to cull the earth and create a new civilization. as the series goes on (very specifically around volume 10), dragon children and their abilities are likened to nuclear warheads. this becomes literal in the penultimate volume as the antagonist summons nuclear warheads to destroy the earth, a process that is depicted in harrowing detail.

^it goes on like this for a while and sporadically throughout the last volumes as society crumbles further. stakes fall apart, major characters die unceremoniously, and the protagonist ultimately succumbs to despair. I don't know if this really qualifies as a spoiler since it's 1 of the 2 things the series is known for.

now with all of this being said this series is like a 6/10 for me at best. the first 7 volumes aren't anything special, and the lack of tightness in the writing (the quality jump between narutaru and bokurano is enormous, whatever awards the latter got should have just gone straight to the editor) makes the less pleasing aspects of the series more tiresome (I fucking hate tsurumaru man I dont care about the jungian symbolism beneath his character everything about him in repulsive). there are aspects I love and found memorable (akira! NORIO! kuri! shiina's complex relationship with her parents! jungian duality! the dragons! fantastic page spreads! etc!), but the rubble they're buried under can make the series a tedious read.

if you somehow are now interested in reading this, please just torrent it off of nyaa. this series suffers from both Dark Horse absolutely shitting the bed with their official translation, and most manga reading sites somehow missing entire chapters (which consistently includes 2/3rds of volume 9, which had one of my favorite side stories...baba yaga and a nice babushka are there).

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nansheonearth · 7 months

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0:10Social movements fight for it.

0:12Politicians promise it.

0:14Police say they enforce it.

0:16And judges and courts claim to embody it.

0:19Yet in an age of intense polarization,

0:22stark divisions have emerged

0:23over exactly what justice looks like

0:26and how to enact it.

0:28So what is justice after all?

0:30And what do anarchists have to say about it?

0:33Justice is a fundamental ethical,

0:35philosophical,

0:36and political concept

0:37that shapes our lives

0:38in countless ways every single day.

0:41The decisions we make are influenced

0:42by our own inner sense of right and wrong,

0:45society's expectations,

0:47and the implicit threat of punishment.

0:49Children navigate justice on the playground,

0:51and when they're disciplined by their parents.

0:54These experiences shape their conceptions

0:56of what they think is fair.

0:59Individual and collective ideas around justice

1:01end up defining how we think society should work.

1:05Throughout history, human societies have developed

1:07their own interpretations of justice,

1:09often with the goal of consolidating power.

1:13The Code of Hammurabi in ancient Mesopotamia

1:15emphasized commensurate punishment,

1:18based on the principle of an eye for an eye.

1:21In ancient Greece,

1:22Socrates went from giving public lectures about justice

1:25and its essential role in maintaining public order

1:28to being put on trial and executed

1:29for corrupting the minds of the youth.

1:32Organized religions have mobilized notions of divine justice

1:36to enforce strict adherence to tradition,

1:39dogma,

1:41and established social hierarchies.

1:44Countless atrocities and acts of violence

1:46have been sanctified by religious decrees,

1:48edicts,

1:49fatwas,

1:50and doctrines.

1:52Religious wars of conquest have imposed ideologies

1:54on local populations,

1:56replacing indigenous forms of justice

1:59rooted in communal equilibrium

2:01with grand unifying myths of salvation,

2:04damnation, and submission.

2:07As European standards of justice

2:09evolved from witch trials and brutal acts of public torture

2:12to modern legal systems with judges, jurors, and courts,

2:17these features became standardized

2:18and incorporated into colonial legal frameworks

2:21in Africa,

2:23Asia,

2:24and the so-called New World.

2:28What we refer to as justice systems

2:31are formalized networks of power relations

2:33designed to serve the interests of a society's ruling class,

2:37but regulated, in part, by its local customs,

2:40culture,

2:41and political institutions.

2:44Today, the so-called justice system of capitalist society

2:48is characterized by the principles of individual rights,

2:51due process,

2:53and the sanctity of private property.

2:56It's a system whereby laws, police, courts, and prisons

3:00exist to enforce social control

3:02in the interest of capitalist economics.

3:06Anarchists see states, capitalism

3:08and their internal hierarchies such as race, caste, and gender

3:12as sources of injustice

3:14because they create inequalities,

3:16institutionalize exploitation,

3:18and restrict individual and collective freedoms.

3:21Most anarchist conceptions of justice

3:23involve fighting against these oppressive systems

3:27and building resilient, autonomous communities in their place,

3:31anchored by principles of solidarity, equity, and mutual aid.

3:34Any formalized system of justice

3:36aims to regulate behavior in accordance with the values

3:39of a given community or society.

3:42This necessarily entails addressing and discouraging behavior

3:45that contravenes or threatens these shared values.

3:50To do this, states employ a disciplinary process

3:53known as criminalization,

3:55through which certain acts are designated as crimes,

3:58and the perpetrators of those acts as criminals.

4:02From the moment of an individual's arrest

4:04to their trial and potential incarceration,

4:06the state assumes control and responsibility

4:09for investigating, judging, and punishing crimes.

4:12Punishment has proven itself over and over

4:14as an ineffective tool for reducing violence.

4:19On the contrary, it tends to reinforce systematic oppression

4:22and increase violence against targeted groups.

4:25On top of that,

4:26it fails to help perpetrators of violence

4:28understand how their actions affect others.

4:32Instead of encouraging people to change their behavior willingly,

4:35punishment fosters resentment.

4:38Many individuals simply refocus their violent actions

4:41where they know they won't be caught,

4:43often leading to increased rates and severity

4:45of domestic or intimate partner violence.

4:50The carceral logic of punishment represses certain actions,

4:53or entire black market industries,

4:56forcing them out of the public spotlight.

4:59However, it does nothing to address the underlying root causes

5:02of what states deem antisocial behavior.

5:05And in many cases, simply creates new opportunities for gangs,

5:08cartels, and other organized enterprises

5:11built to compete in the violent unregulated markets

5:14created by state decree.

5:17While the law claims to treat everyone equally,

5:19its application is used to disproportionately criminalize

5:22certain groups over others

5:23based on the operation of power in a given society.

5:27In some states, it may target certain religious or ethnic minorities.

5:31In others, it may be women or queers.

5:35In settler colonial societies,

5:37founded on slavery and genocide,

5:40it's Black and indigenous people.

5:44Those who find themselves subjected to a state's justice system

5:47face the traumatic experience of being violently

5:50cut off from society,

5:52then struggling to reintegrate.

5:55While most states cite rehabilitation as a primary goal

5:58of the criminal justice system,

5:59the reality is that processes of criminalization and incarceration

6:03primarily serve to perpetuate cycles of poverty,

6:06mental illness, and horizontal violence,

6:09creating a hyper-marginalized and disposable

6:11stratum of the population.

6:14Disproportionate criminalization among targeted communities

6:18doesn't just affect those who are incarcerated.

6:21It disrupts families

6:22and community relationships for generations.

6:25Prisons, often portrayed as housing dangerous anti-social monsters,

6:30predominantly house poor, traumatized individuals.

6:33So-called correctional officers subject these prisoners to further trauma,

6:37trapping them in toxic, overcrowded environments

6:40governed by strict hierarchies of gendered violence.

6:45These institutions do produce monsters

6:48... on either side of the bars.

6:50Even so, the capacity of prisoners to harm society is relatively minuscule

6:54when compared to the actions of CEOs, bankers, and politicians

6:59whose decisions affect the lives of millions.

7:02Anarchists reject the state's framework of criminalization

7:05and the police and prisons that underpin it.

7:08Yet in a world where trauma, alienation, and poverty are widespread,

7:13people all too often hurt each other.

7:16A world without prisons or police doesn't mean a world

7:18where harm isn't confronted and addressed.

7:20While anarchists hold a diversity of views on how best to do this,

7:24most solutions emphasize popular organizing of community defense

7:28and a community-based method of navigating conflict,

7:31identifying root causes of violence,

7:33and addressing them in a participatory framework.

7:37In some circles, this process is known as transformative justice.

7:42Transformative justice as an alternative to state-imposed justice

7:46aims to facilitate understanding between different parties of a conflict,

7:50encouraging them to directly participate in their own healing,

7:54and in determining what a just resolution looks like in a given situation.

7:59Often, it will look at what needs people were trying to address

8:02when they engaged in harmful behavior,

8:04and will try to seek out healthier solutions or outlets to this problem.

8:10Interpersonal violence is often conditioned by personal and collective histories of trauma.

8:15It is passed down across generations

8:17and shaped by our relationship to systems of exploitation and oppression,

8:20such as capitalism,

8:22colonialism,

8:23patriarchy,

8:24and white supremacy.

8:26Without discounting individual accountability,

8:29it's essential to recognize the ways in which the culture we're all soaked in

8:32feeds our tendency to harm one another.

8:35Properly coming to terms with this reality

8:37involves practicing self-accountability above all else.

8:40No one is above hurting others.

8:44In our alienated, hyper-atomized societies,

8:47the demands of capitalism and the constant burnout

8:49it imposes on our bodies

8:51often leave us without the time or energy needed to fully engage

8:54in transformative processes of healing and repair.

8:58Our communities often lack the ability or collective will

9:00to deal with severe trauma and mental illness effectively.

9:06To make matters worse, many of us did not grow up

9:08learning the values of navigating conflict and practicing empathy.

9:12Trusting state institutions to handle our conflicts for us

9:15has deprived our communities of vital conflict resolution skills,

9:18and instilled us with an anti-social thirst for punishment.

9:21Rather than putting in the work to try and resolve conflict,

9:24we all too frequently opt for the ease and impersonal nature of social media.

9:29And a voyeuristic call-out culture that further alienates our interactions

9:33and undermines our interests in building meaningful relationships.

9:37In the absence of strong communal bonds or kinship ties,

9:40there is often little incentive for people to participate in transformative justice processes,

9:45or to take accountability for their actions.

9:49Public call-outs are a tacit admission of this.

9:52And in practice, they often serve as little more than warnings

9:55for other members of an extended friend group, social network, or scene

9:59to avoid a particularly violent or abusive individual.

10:03Building capacity for transformative justice

10:06would entail helping communities resolve interpersonal conflict amongst themselves,

10:10thereby avoiding dynamics of exclusion and punishment that echo those of the state.

10:17When revolutionary movements manage to carve out territories of autonomy from the state,

10:21the stakes are raised.

10:23Security and safety are essential cornerstones of justice,

10:26and pushing the police or army out of a given territory

10:29creates a vacuum in which insecurity and injustice can flourish.

10:35If a revolutionary movement is unable or unwilling to fill this vacuum,

10:40they create paths to power for whoever can.

10:43This is a costly and often repeated lesson of history

10:47from the Spanish Civil War,

10:49where Stalinists rebuilt the Republican police forces

10:51and used them to smother the revolution from within.

10:55To war-torn Afghanistan,

10:57where the Taliban slowly re-consolidated their power

11:00by using their strict interpretation of Sharia law

11:03to settle local disputes in areas effectively abandoned by the state.

11:09Fighting for a new society

11:10means constructing and fostering alternatives in the here and now,

11:13that can spread as we build our collective power.

11:17Far too often, an inability to constructively navigate conflict

11:20and to take care of one another's needs

11:22has been the ruin of radical collectives and social movements.

11:28So long as we're living in an unjust world,

11:30any pursuit of justice will entail some level of discomfort, pain, and distress.

11:35Developing and popularizing anarchist conceptions of justice

11:39will mean breaking habits,

11:40taking risks,

11:42practicing,

11:43and critically experimenting wherever we can.

11:46If we desire a world without prisons and the police,

11:49we'll need to build it together.

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