Jesse Joy

You weren’t lying- this is sure random!

For the uninitiated:

It’s just the BEST joke. 😂

The whole last year was rough on me. I’m trying to be gentle with myself right now, but I do feel like my tone as changed as well.

While none of these platforms actually enforce the rules that they purport to have in place, this public change will further embolden the hateful forces that have already gained so much ground in recent years.

Stand strong.

The tides will change again.

And we will be the ones that change them.

It’s where my friends are. My family. People I’ve known for decades. Online communities that are decidedly NOT far-right.

I have to admit, I really hate feeling like I’m having to flee from platform to platform.

I’d rather settle in to one place for a few decades. Build community.

But the CEO’s that be barely let me get settled before fuckin up the new place.

I’m tired.

why'd they name this app bluesky when Elders Scroll was right there

Nice.

It is interesting to me that you can’t imagine a justice system without slavery and violence and death.

As though no place has figured out better methods.

Welp. My family found my Threads account. 🙃

Are any of y’all my family?

If so, you have to tell me if you’re my family.

It’s the law.

Musk did for misery production what Henry Ford for car production.

Oh- absolutely not.

Rampant sexual assault
Legalized slavery
Physical abuse
Traumatization of inmates
State-sanctioned murder of innocent people

Our “justice” system is and has always been broken.

Sorry- you think our justice system “worked pretty good” prior to Trump?

The U.S. justice system?

And now I’ve seen it twice, which even makes it half price.

I truly hope that the white people who have had a problem with the Black Lives Matter movement but are now saying #freeluigimangione are having a good loooooong think.

I didn’t say anything about not taking breaks.

Not really. Marginalized people have had to remain informed while staying sane their whole lives. If they can do it while in active danger and fighting deadly oppression, we can do it from our relative safety.

And until this country treats this crisis with the seriousness that it warrants, Luigi will remain a folk hero to those under the heel of the empire.
10/10

Day in and day out they try and gaslight us into believing it’s not that serious. That lives aren’t on the line. That we aren’t dying unnecessary and cruel deaths.

Luigi treated this like the hostage situation it is.
9/10

Luigi would be inconsequential were it not for the evil he defies just as Neo would have been just an other office drone had there not been a Matrix to escape.
8/10

We’ve watched as our government has done NOTHING to stop the construction of this Death Star, each of us with a target on our back. Watching our friends and loved ones shot down one by one.

And they want us to pretend that Brian Thompson was Uncle Owen instead of Darth Vader.
7/10

It has culminated in recent years with the unchecked destruction of the lives of the sick, the injured, and the dying and that of their loved ones, all in the name of not only the almighty dollar- but of consolidating yet more power.
6/10

This romance with Luigi has been building up steam over decades - the entirety of his life, really- as insurance companies gathered unfathomable levels of power.
5/10

But the love for Luigi doesn’t originate in the act of violence he committed. Unlike Bundy or the Menendez brothers or Richard Ramirez, the murder is not where this story begins.
4/10

They try and categorize this fascination with the obsession over predators of innocent women - insulting those victim’s memories and ignoring the glorification of sexual violence and narcissism.
3/10

We root for them all.

They are a ubiquitous fantasy.

It is profoundly disingenuous for the ruling class to act confused as to why this country raised on heroes is so enraptured by #LuigiMangione.
2/10

So many of our books and films feature intrepid heroes defying an evil, deadly regime with little hope of success.

They’re rebels whose morality supersedes the system in place and requires them to take a stand, whatever the cost.

Neo. Luke Skywalker. John Wick. Robin Hood. Too many to name.
1/10