Leviticus (ia/he/him)

That beautiful frutiger-aero-esque image of a dolphin leaping out of water.

How it feels to not use twitter and its variations for nearly the 400th day in a row.

Well someone was trying to get fired.

#Theyknewwhattheyweredoing

Bluesky needs to make it so that I can turn off reposts from certain accounts that like to repost depressing stuff in the news.

And while I will not be voting for Genocide Joe (I live in a very safe blue state) I will not criticize anyone who does so in order to keep trump out of office.

Thank you for actually taking the time to understand, that's honestly a pretty rare gem on here at the moment.

And to think... America could've had a progressive house in the government by January.

It's a misinformation thing, ChatGPT is intentionally programmed to be vague.

Where do neo-nazis fit in to all this?

I know, I was consoling a trans protester the other day on the best way they can make themselves heard in the streets, and commending them for that, too. But I've also known plenty of trans people who know the real risks of Trump.

And to give credit, we're seeing a pretty robust #Uncommitted Movement across the country, so there's a good example of where voting CAN be a potent message to the Dems.

If you want to put pressure on the White House to stop, it's gonna take more than simply voting to stop that (funny that).

Fortunately, we're finally starting to see resistance to the Biden's Administration's cowardly appeasement of the Israeli Regime, and it's great to see.

Nobody here wants to downplay what is happening in Gaza, man. But that doesn't change the reality that the house and senate could pass as many progressive bills as they like and be meaningless if the president can just veto all of them.

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What's the matter? I thought you guys hated personal freedom!

I'm pretty sure telling people to vote for him rn pisses everyone off more, yeah.

And yes, if Biden loses it's absolutely on him. It would be in everyone's interests to try and collectively make sure he doesn't do that and potentially even avoid having to vote for ongoing genocide.

It didn't necessarily matter of course. It didn't matter for MLK when he came to the conclusion that the white moderates cared more about the absence of tension than the sight of justice, just like how it doesn't matter now that university students offend the senses of old white moderates now.

When I was doing the DEI segment of my sociology and psychology course on being a good ally, one of the fundamental things they taught us was that the rights of the oppressed don't exactly trump your right as a cishet white male to not be offended by their rhetoric.

Are they suggesting that? Or are they suggesting that some people are so caught up in the puritanism of not voting for genocide joe that they'll smugly stick their fingers in their ears as trans people cry out warning they'll be added to the mass graves alongside the children in Gaza?

Idk man, some people here seem pretty content with the possibility of letting thousands of trans people be genocided if it means not voting for genocide joe.

They're selfish for not wanting to be genocided along with people in Gaza?

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Be careful who you call a lib, dipshit.

Right. I am sorry if I brought up anything painful from those experiences, having gone through the things you have gone through, you're a brave person and I commend that.

those who dont study history are doomed to repeat it yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it

these words always ring in my ears like tinnitus

It’s about time to talk about how police brutality got to this point. It was a gradual process. I’m here to offer a historian’s perspective on these issues... How Police Brutality became a Problem in the USA

For more info on the problem of Police Brutality I'd recommend checking out this video and how it got this bad. It's a mouthful and deserves a trigger warning, so you don't have to watch if you don't want to. But important.

War Takes Rantings, ravings, shitposts, and analysis from a Leftist perspective on matters of war, security,...

It's a sad and unforgiving era of bad feelings. But it doesn't have to be forever, nothing does. If you're interested I'd recommend checking out wartakes which discusses a lot of the horrors we face today both across the seas and in the borders, and what we can do to fight them.

The problem is that even though it is totally legal to protest in America, Qualified Immunity makes it so that cops are practically above the law unless they admit that they fucked up, which as you can imagine doesn't happen very often.

What do you mean what does it have to do with literally anything? Do you know what happens to people who try any kind of protest in Russia or worse China? The current system in America is BAD, but it does not compare to countries where the remainder of people's rights are gone for good.

Try doing that in Russia.