If I see one more fucking guilt tripping ‘why are you sleeping on X’ posts about net neutrality, the tax bill, healthcare, the judiciary, Sinclair broadcasting or ANYTHING ELSE I’m gonna walk off a pier
Because honestly, what are you doing? What is your goal? People are angry, and scared, and feel hopeless, and your plan to get them to protest is to make them feel guilty for being angry and scared and feeling hopeless. That’s not fucking motivating, it’s crushing.
‘but I put in good info in that post too!’ Yah, but you made everyone reading it feel like shit first so now instead of feeling like ‘wow this is fucked up and it’s hard but here’s a tool I can use to do my part’ ppl think ‘everything is useless and I’m a bad person god I can’t believe how fucked we are there’s no hope anyway’ and then! Not only do some of us fall into the spiral of self loathing so hard we can’t protest, the content we do send out is flat, it doesn’t provide any sort of reinforcement, but it sets up activism in the same purity culture that’s debilitating to long-term engagement. It builds up our apathy, it makes protesting *that much harder* because no one is perfect and no one can protest 24/7, no one can corner every single issue, we will quite simply die if we do.
You gotta build people up. Shit is fucked, we all know that! We don’t need the reminders! Just give us the tools and point the direction and Build. People. Up.
God Damn.
Bless every square inch of this goddamn post. Because this and the whole ‘bet you won’t reblog this’ rhetoric actually violently makes me not only want to not reblog the thing, but to actually block it. I’m not pushing your guilt trip forward.
The aid I just spoke with for my Republican Rep was really nice and asked if I had any comments to pass along to her
EMPHASIZE THE FCC SHOULD NOT SET THE PRECEDENT THAT THEY CAN JUST DO WHAT THEY WANT WITH NO OVERSIGHT
I know you guys don’t wanna talk to people, god knows I didn’t want to either but for the good of us all, CALL THEM
BE HEARD
They can’t say ‘these are fake’ the way the FCC did
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#BOOST THIS
i dont live in the USA but i have friends that do so i’ll reblog the shit out of this for you guys
IF YOU DON’T LIVE IN THE USA AND YOU STILL HAVE NET NEUTRALITY THIS AFFECTS YOU TOO.
IF THE USA REPEALS NET NEUTRAILY THE COMPANIES IN YOUR COUNTRY WILL LIKELY WANT TO FOLLOW SUIT AND SAY “IF AMERICA CAN CHARGE FOR CONTROLLING THE INTERNET, WHY SHOULDNT WE?”
SO EVEN IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE OF AMERICA REBLOG FOR YOUR AMERICAN FOLLOWERS TO CALL THEIR REPS!!!
For all of you being childish and sharing memes about how the
internet will be the same if Net Neutrality is repealed; that isn’t the
issue here. The issue is that 83% of the ENTIRE population was against
this happening, yet it happened anyways.
The issue was that Ajit
Pai was a former Verizon employee who was paid over $100 million from
the telecom cooperation’s to repeal this, along with his two
constituents. The issue is that the fate of the entire country was
decided by 5 rich people and did not allow any hearing from the public.
The issue is that there were over 2 million identities stolen
(including the identity of dead people) to post comments in favor of
repealing Net Neutrality, 1.9 million of them which were confirmed fake
and have legal investigation cases being opened on them for being fraud
as well as identity theft.
The issue is that they were asked to
halt this vote because of the illegal happenings so that they could have
time to investigate it, INCLUDING Republican’s, and they were denied.
The issue is that when giving their ‘reasons’ as to why they thought
repealing it was needed, they gave no VALID reasons and did not even
acknowledge any of the reasons that the public was worried. In
extension, they made no attempts to quell them, they just called us
stupid. Instead they all made jokes and laughed, turning themselves into
the victims for being rightfully criticized for being sellouts.
The issue is that they constantly poked fun at how idiotic they thought
we were acting, even though we have legitimate, valid concerns. Even
though we’re mostly concerned about those of us who have our
livelihood’s of our businesses on the line, they instead pointed fun
saying ‘we can still watch cat videos and share memes’ (legit something
that was actually said in their ‘argument’ yesterday). And that was
literally all they said. The issue is that there wasn’t even a ‘debate’,
despite the corruption being brought to everyone’s attention, and the
evidence of the American people not wanting this.
The issue is
that this sets the stance that we are willing to let the cooperation’s
or anyone with money do whatever the fuck they want and get away with
it. This issue is more than just internet freedom. It’s about democracy.
And if you can’t see that, you’re beyond help. #SaveNetNeutrality
THESE ARE ELEMENTS OF TOTALITARIANISM INCASE SOME OF Y’ALL WERE WONDERING
FUCKING MONSTERS
is being able to censor specific words from official documents something new this fuckin administration is doing?? how is that even an option? how can any administration have the authority to do that?
weve all been asleep for far too long.
Might I suggest this as a good time to read 1984 if you haven’t already, and hey, look, I’m a banned word now. Joy.
1. A dark fairy tale as a metaphor for the effects of war on children, set in the midst of the Spanish Civil War 2. A superhero movie that features a war between mankind and magical creatures 3. An action movie where the heroes have to share their minds and bond emotionally so they can punch aliens from the sea better. Also Charlie Day is a scientist. 4. Basically what would happen if all three Bronte sisters got hammered and wrote a book with Lord Byron. and 5. An adorable woman falls in love with a fish man. Not a merman. A FISH MAN.
fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry
bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking
plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.
bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.
You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.
But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!
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