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blorbodiaz · 2 years

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this CAN’T be real, but apparently it is.

i’m in tears of laughter and confusion

#CHANNEL 4????#politics tag #uk politics #liz truss #taylor swift #channel 4 #blank space

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m-ercutios · 26 days

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unfriendly reminder that reproductive rights have been and will always be connected to disability justice. the supreme court never overturned buck v bell.

#i want to scream #if i had to be reminded of that case today then so do you #politics tag #disability #mercutios.txt

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zeldahime · 9 months

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Uh, holy mother of god. I am not voting for you. "Don't call me another Tiffany G." girl you are worse. You are literally a Republican, and a stupidly naive one at that.

This is the Audrey R. that is running for the board of the OTW. Full unrolled thread (formatting cleaned up for readability) under the cut:

A 🧵To clear up misinformation spreading about me online: 1) I ran for office once as an Independent candidate, and once as a Republican.

2) I am not and never have been pro-censorship. I have been more vocal in my support for freedom of speech in schools than any candidate who has run in my elections. Public schools are the backbone of our society and I will support them until the end of time.

3) When I say in my Q&A responses that I do not understand a question, I spoke about it with fellow candidates, one of whom is a Fanlore member, and still did not understand the question.

4) Regarding EOTWR, I never said that they don’t have members who are also volunteers. I said they did not recruit people who are volunteers to run for the board. At the end of my statement I suggest that they do so and further engage with those people who are in positions to make change at this moment.

5) Regarding the criticism of my political choices, that is perfectly valid. There is not much you can say that has not been said to my face.

6) Accusing me of homophobia and transphobia is absurd. I worked within the party to push acceptance and a revision of the party platform to remove the language that marriage is exclusively between one man and one woman.

I stand in solidarity with queer Southwest Missourians and will continue to do so regardless of my party affiliation.

7) The harassment and vitriol and misinformation being spread about my workplace is untenable. You can insult me, call me names, whatever helps you sleep at night. At the end of the day, I work for a research institute that is one of the few places advocating for children to lead healthy lives in a digital world and working to protect their access to information in states like mine. Their work is important to me, and it should be important to all of you as well.

8) I am not withdrawing my candidacy. I will not concede to the loud voices who are insisting I am “pro-censorship,” “another Tiffany G,” or in any way homophobic / transphobic etc. If you care so much, volunteer.

If you care so much, run against me. Don’t vote for me if you don’t want to. I have no qualms about losing; I’ve done a lot of it. I know how to take an L, but I will not allow my workplace to take potshots on my behalf. Your beef is with me, not the Institute.

#otw board election #otw election #otw board #otw elections #otw #organization for transformative works #ao3 #archive of our own #audrey r #politics tag #like holy fucking shirtballs dude

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thaenatos · 1 year

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"Louis XVI, we beheaded him, Macron, we can do it again" in the Parisian metro today

#france #politics tag #frev #i felt like that might be of interest to some of you here lol

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polithicc · 2 months

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not now kitten mommy is busy doing electoral college math

#im shifting into election mode #jk I’ve been on election mode nonstop since 2012 #politics tag

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mswyrr · 6 months

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One of the most terrible things about this event is the sense of its inevitability. The violence of apartheid and colonialism begets more violence. Many people have struggled with the straightjacket of this inevitability, straining to articulate that its recognition does not mean its embrace. I am reminding myself that it was from Palestinians, many of them writing and speaking in these pages, that I learned to think of Palestine as a site of possibility—a place where the very idea of the nation-state, which has so harmed both peoples, could be remade or destroyed entirely. And it was Palestinians who opened my thinking to multiple visions of sharing the land. On the left, I hope we do not mistake the inevitability of the violence for an inescapable limit on our work or the quality of our thought. Even if our dreams for better have failed, they must accompany us through this moment to the other side. We need to imagine a movement for liberation better even than the Exodus—an exodus where neither people has to leave. Where people stay to pick up the pieces, rearranging themselves not just as Jews or Palestinians but as antifascists and workers and artists. I want what Puerto Rican Jewish poet and activist Aurora Levins Morales describes in her poem “Red Sea”:

We cannot cross until we carry each other,

all of us refugees, all of us prophets.

No more taking turns on history’s wheel,

trying to collect old debts no-one can pay.

The sea will not open that way.

This time that country

is what we promise each other,

our rage pressed cheek to cheek

until tears flood the space between,

until there are no enemies left,

because this time no one will be left to drown

and all of us must be chosen.

This time it’s all of us or none.

#us politics tag #politics tag #cw violence #cw war #cw current events #news tag #global politics tag

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serenityfails · 6 months

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it's like. nightmarish how much it feels like america reverted right back to post-9/11 warmongering islamophobia. i mean i know america is america and ultimately never really changed/stopped but watching democrats go full mask off about it is making me feel completely insane. self-proclaimed progressives with "love is love" signs in their yards just blanket labeling an entire culture as subhuman terrorists. what the fuck is wrong with people.

#politics tag #sorry nobody cares how i feel about this i just look at comments too often and it makes my brain leak out of my ears and i have to scream

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darkacademiaarchivist · 9 months

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i am endlessly frustrated with the whole drag queen story hour and book banning discourse because conservatives and homophobes and all those in favour of keeping all forms of queerness away from children ARE NOT FUCKING LISTENING EVER!!!!

Like why are people equating drag queens reading kids books to performances in clubs that are age restricted for a reason... I think most of us can agree that kids shouldn't be at performances for adults, it makes sense to have different age restrictions for different things. But can people not fathom that not all events with drag queens present are the same?

The comparison I came up with is that it's like how some authors write kids books and books for adults and you wouldn't forbid a child reading Coraline just because American Gods isn't appropriate for them. One artist can do multiple things. There are different things within one artform...

But it has never been about debating what is and isn't appropriate for children at different ages which is a discussion that can be had, some things are age restricted really weirdly*

And the amount of gender swapping in kids media that's played for laughs in kids media is fine but as soon as someone is like "hi this is how I'm most comfortable I'm also a human being please respect me" that's a problem? Make it make sense. You'd probably have to ban the entirety of Mulan by some conservatives logic.…. (I think Mushu even refers to Mulan dressing up as a man as a drag show at some point so that's that...)

At the end of the day it feels a lot like conservatives are mad about queer people taking up more space instead of just being the butt of the joke and it's so hard to explain to people why it's important for young queer people (not even small kids but they're also coming for books and stuff aimed at teenagers) to see happy queer people and stories with queer protagonists if you've never had to look for representation and if there never was a time in your life where you felt weird and out of place and alone because of your sexuality... And they're not listening, they're not even trying to understand I am so fucking tired...

*side rant that's not entirely relevant but I noticed that a lot of movies that are PG-13 in the US are rated age 6+ in Germany and that shows how the same standard isn't applied to everything. And if you're wondering why I'm thinking about this as a German person when recently this has been a very American debate, the German conservatives are copying American talking points all the time and I'm tired of it okay.

#tw homophobia #tw transphobes #tw transphobia #tw queerphobia #discourse #queer #drag queen story hour #politics #politics tag #my post #ramblings

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so0ppa · 4 months

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fuck finland still but hey at least we didn't do the coward move of abstaining on a vote for ending genocide again. which is like the bare minimum. jesus.

#critxt #politics tag #scuze me im angry queer and living in a country that currently has a right wing government im going to complain #have i mentioned the fact the aid id get as a student is 100% getting cut? hahaQHJAH and they say we have a ''welfare state'' fuck off #is it really if its so easy to remove the aid and money people really need. ugh rhis is why im an anarchist smh

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sofiaflorina2021 · 4 months

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Indonesia's Political Situation at The End of 2023, Oversimplified

The explanation of Indonesia's political situation at the end of 2023, oversimplified.

The context is that of the three presidential candidates in the 2024 Indonesian General Election, it appears that the most noisy is between Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan (including their supporters too). Ganjar Pranowo looks very relaxed.

As Indonesian citizens who will abstain from voting in next year's election, the debate between them is exciting.

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kentucky-fried-thea · 1 year

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#trump indictment #politics tag

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janiedean · 2 years

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Mi distrugge il fatto che la Meloni abbia vinto però, in un certo senso, l'operato del prossimo governo mi intriga parecchio. La nostra costituzione è dichiaratamente antifascista ed è stata redatta in maniera tale da evitare un mussolini bis. Sono molto curiosa di capire quanto e come riuscirà ad arginare le misure fasciste (*coffcoff* l'aliquota del 15% che già quell'altra mer*a aveva provato a far introdurre è stata dichiarata incostituzionale perchè l'articolo 53 stabilisce che il nostro sistema tributario è progressivo, chissà perchè a nessuno è venuto in mente di ricordarlo *coffcoff*). E' come se per 76 anni ci fossero state delle esercitazioni ed adesso è il momento dell'esibizione.

io onestamente spero solo che per una volta comincino a litigare come si fa così bene dal nostro lato e/o che sta cretina si bruci come una meteora e poi ci famo n’altro governo tecnico perché onestamente ho avuto abbastanza di leggi incostituzionali rimandate indietro dalla corte con berlusconi e i gialloverdi primo giro e il fatto che sta stronza abbia preso i voti che ha preso mi fa solo salire il vomito, ma d’altra parte che la gente si sia bevuta le cose che vende che palesemente non può fare per i motivi che dici (tra l’altro ma anche perché non sono sostenibili cioè lmao ma con che soldi ti pari il culo per fare l’aliquota al 15%) è pure tragico, detto ciò io spero solo che a sx si passino una mano sulla coscienza e si rendano conto che il voto di protesta intercettato dai fasci è un problema che non risolveranno mai presentandosi come fanno perché proprio non ci sta la percezione della realtà di cosa hanno fatto dal 2000 in giù vs la narrativa che se ne da e di sti tempi… non vai da nessuna parte se la gente ti percepisce come i parassiti che governano senza avere vinto le elezioni ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(potrei parlare per vent’anni del problema insito di ^^^ nel senso che all’epoca del referendum riforma costituzionale tutti LA COSTITUZIONE NON SI TOCCA HOW DARE WE e poi manco sanno che per come funziona si governano quelli che hai eletto dipende dalla maggioranza che si forma quindi nessun governo NON è eletto dal popolo ma se comincio li poi bestemmio solo quindi meglio che taccio)

#ask post #anonymous #politics tag #welcome to italy #not welcome but whatever #ste elezioni sono state uno schifo #neanche ne ho parlato che tanto che scelta c’era #se mi arrivano messaggi o risposte wrt voto utile che non serve o vi ignoro o tiro bestemmie btw #veramente non è giornata per dire quanto il piddi sia the worst #che lmao sicuro non li voto con gioia ma la narrativa attuale è veramente sconcertante #grazie e arrivedercicm

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m-ercutios · 4 months

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i am out of patience for walkable city advocates unless they’re upfront about accessibility. like what are we doing to make sure disabled people can exist in public? a fifteen minute walk to get groceries or whatever might be easy for you but it just isn’t feasible for everyone.

#like cool utopia too bad i can’t enjoy it #i may be particularly uncharitable rn but i’m peeved #politics tag

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zeldahime · 2 years

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