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cosmictuesdays noxelementalist
ms-demeanor

Some of you have never been kicked out of the girl scouts because you were outed in math class and it shows.

ms-demeanor

Like, I have not faced a hell of a lot of orientation-based discrimination, but when I did a lot of it was perfectly legal.

I remember canvassing on campus for gay marriage, I remember the absolute vitriol that professors felt like it was completely okay to spew at the time, and I know I'm cis-straight-passing or whatever but no ackshually I have been queer bashed kind of a lot and have seen cops completely handwave child abuse because the child in question was gay and I'm lucky. I'm lucky I never dealt with more than what I dealt with, I'm lucky I wasn't trying to get married to a woman in 2008, I'm lucky I've only faced exclusion from clubs and organizations, not from public services like school or from employers, I'm lucky that I grew up in California where I had better protections than a lot of people a lot earlier than most people did.

I don't face the same discrimination that black people in America face, I don't face the same discrimination as migrants in America face, I don't face the same discrimination that unhoused people in America face, but FUCK.

This reflexive defense of law and order really tells me that you've never seen the law used against you.

I'm not saying that you need to go burn down a police station, but if you're incapable of recognizing that some people are going to be treated like criminals by the police *regardless of whether or not they have committed any crimes* then you need to take a huge step back and really explore what you think it means to be a criminal.

You think that in order to be a criminal you need to *DO* something, but in a lot of cases all you have to do be a criminal is to just *BE* something.

And I'm lucky. I'm white, I'm straight-cis-neurotypical-abled-passing. I'm probably never going to have to deal with a cop for simply BEING something ever again.

But there are a lot of people who don't have those same advantages and so as a lucky middle class white lady, one of the ways that I can use my privilege is to stand up in front of other middle class white people and say "PERHAPS IT IS BAD THAT COPS ARE BREAKING IN TO ENCRYPTED SYSTEMS AND SPYING ON PEOPLE WHEN THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THESE PEOPLE HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES OTHER THAN THEIR USE OF AN ENCRYPTED SYSTEM. PERHAPS COPS SHOULD, AT LEAST, NEED A WARRANT AND PROBABLE CAUSE TO READ SOMEONE'S EMAILS."

The school-to-prison pipeline doesn't exist because people sell drugs, it exists because we have systemically criminalized an entire race of people and in doing so have made it exceptionally difficult for them to function within our punitive system, in which you can get arrested for USING drugs as a teen, and can then face difficulties getting legal employment for the rest of your life.

Fucking. I don't even know. Kill the cop inside your head. Reexamine how you understand crime and what kinds of crimes you think are really worth prosecuting and throwing people in a cage for a decade for. Ask yourself why, on a post that is primarily about the right to privacy and police overreach, you have to step in for a second and say that maybe some people just deserve to get arrested.

noxelementalist

"This reflexive defense of law and order really tells me that you've never seen the law used against you."

morallydiseased viridescent-vinca
trashboat

why is he sitting like a 14th century monarch

slab-o-meat

he is one

snailgina

tell me why i found this ad in my local newspaper with this man on it

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its been over a year and i still dont understand

snailgina

it has been over two years and i still dont understand meat clown. i have been contacted and notified that this ad has appeared in other parts of the pacific northwest. i dont know who he is but he haunts me

carnival-phantasm

Can’t believe this legendary post managed to get better

morallydiseased viridescent-vinca
nominativecase

taking my brain out of my head and washing it in hot, soapy water

asphodeltheawkwardpanda

have you tried putting it in rice

nominativecase

in a comical turn of events, i, op of this post, have been a smartphone repair technician for five years and i am going to tell you that that never works like ever. it might turn on again afterward but it’s never the rice that made it happen. the damage is done and it can get worse if you don’t clean the thing properly. if you drop your phone in water, open it up and clean gently w a soft bristled toothbrush and 99% isopropyl alcohol. this has been a psa.

reve-nant

taking my brain out of my head and cleaning it gently with a soft bristled toothbrush and 99% isopropyl alcohol

morallydiseased viridescent-vinca
guerrillatech

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ms-elias-will-see-you-now

I swear I see something like this pop up every other day. People just won't let this one die. But here's what Douglas Adams has to say about it:

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.

Source:

Adams, Douglas (1985). Perkins, Geoffrey (ed.). The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-29288-9.

official-lucifers-child

i love it when this happens, like it could have a deep and meaningful reason behind it but it’s actually just “eh whatever”