majael.bsky.social
GenX, agender (he/she/they). Location: NCR (unceded Algonquin territory). Other interests: Legion of Super-Heroes, Toronto Blue Jays, generational cycles, books, Warren Zevon, lists, Christmas music. Probably a crank.
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Again I feel like I must remind people that the saying is “A few bad apples spoils the bushel”, not “a few bad apples means most of the bushel is fine lol”.
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someone asked for the baseball (and softball) tees with the trans flag swapped in
posting 'em here too
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Put me down for Booker T and the MGs.
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"82 year old dies" is in a sense hardly news at all. "singular genius who transformed popular culture dies" is news, but also not uncommon. but "one-time symbol of bravura youth culture, trapped for decades by the fallout of the sixties, who fought free and became a widely beloved elder, dies," phew
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but they didn't go. they pulled through, and for both of them, in different ways, that very longevity, the ability to celebrate a new sense of freedom, of (fractured) wholeness, of outliving the demons was what they came to stand for, as much as the original peace love & joy of the transistor era
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I'm really sorry. I know he means a lot to you. Condolences. A giant.
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And your retort to fascism is… we must be civil
No
We must be just.
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the coolest thing about doing good is you don't need permission from anyone. you can just do it
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Bella Poarch - Build a Bitch
youtu.be/FLGCGc7sAUw
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anyway it's cool and good that no one's calling for the president to be removed from office for doing this, i'm sure very smart people with special secret knowledge are saying that is not the clever and politically strategic thing to do when the military arrives to subdue communitarian protest
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The less each of us is directly targeted for violence and threats by white supremacists and their official and unofficial brute squads, the more I encourage us to investigate the degree to which we do not consider protests to be violent until the moment those who are threatened start fighting back.
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It's the same today. As much as we might wish to avoid violence, fascists are extremely violent *already*.
The fight for democracy might become an actual fight sometimes, as fascists force it to be one. We may not all be fighters, but we'd do well not to abandon those who fascists force to fight.
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The Civil Rights struggle was *very* violent, it's just that the violence was almost entirely one-sided--in keeping with the expectation and comfort of white people. Those who faced down this violence deserve our praise, but if we would honor them, we'd remember that it was a very violent struggle.
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People who talk with somber reverence about how nonviolent the fight for Civil Rights was should consider that those who participated would not have experienced it as nonviolent, and ask themselves why those brave people had to exercise such extraordinary discipline in the face of extreme violence.
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I wonder if it's good. Doesn't seem to me like it could be, but what do I know.
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There's a difference between saying "I support the protesters no matter what" and "I want violence."
The idea that if violence enters the protests, then the protesters are the cause and deserve whatever happens to them—that's the frame of the fascists who intend violence regardless. Reject it.