BREONNA TAYLOR! BREONNA TAYLOR! BREONNA TAYLOR! BREONNA TAYLOR! BREONNA TAYLOR! BREONNA TAYLOR! BREONNA TAYLOR! Fuck the police! SAY HER FUCKING NAME! BREONNATAYLOR was murdered in her OWN home while fucking sleeping! There’s NO justification for this!
I am in disbelief and in utter disgust of what this country has come to, but please let’s not forget THIS HAPPENED. This is direct proof that the system hates black people, that the american government is discriminatory, that MAGA supporters are lunatic terrorists, that Donald Trump is a racist hypocrite and that the police has no real honor or devotion to protect the people.
Please get reminded that this is not even comparable to the BLM movement. One is about demanding human rights and the other is about being a lunatic hyporcritical asshole.
I’ve been trying to dive deeper into politics, discover the genuine roots of our society, the origins of our beliefs, and the consequences of our economic system. It’s a big, long, wide journey and through multiple sources such as articles, images, videos and multiple social media platforms, I’ve been trying to educate myself more on important subjects.
Communism, capitalism, libertarian, conservative, the left, the right, the history, the impact. It is scary to commit to everything because once you start, you simply cannot stop, once you start waking up your conscience about the horrible reality, the lies, the truths, you cannot put it back to sleep. You can’t just ignore prejudice, especially when you’re extremely conscious of it’s omnipresence. I have continually tried to build my own opinions all while actively creating bullet point arguments in my mind because I just know that at some point I will have to defend my thinking, and I want to do it right.
Now, I am so far from being enlightened, I am a beginner and an amateur in all of those themes, but I am trying, which is the only way to start and grow.
So to tell you about my beliefs, I am a militant human rights activist, I believe in equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, sex, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race and disability. This is a fact, not a belief, but the system was obviously not built to protect all people, its wasn’t created to serve everyone equally but to grant a privilege to some and harm others. The current state of the world is not a slip, an accident or a misfunction of our brilliant system but a testament of it operating remarkably well. I believe that equity leads to equality, and I believe that we cannot “fix” methodologies that were immorally created with absolutely no honor whatsoever. I believe in reproductive rights, in legal, safe abortions for anybody who needs one. I believe in the decriminalization of marijuana. I believe that the death penalty is a despicable punition that should be banned as soon as possible. I believe in defunding the police and the military. I believe that it is a shame that I even have to talk about police brutality, I don’t want to have to say that it is one of the most horrible things our world has originated, I feel extremely dense when I do because it seems like the most obvious certitude and I refuse to believe that this is a controversial statement. I believe that everything I have just stated, along with many more, isn’t anything grand but the bare minimum, the bar is low, and yet, we still have the fight for basic human decency.
Humanity has become an option. We have normalized supporting people that represent everything wrong in this world under the name of tolerance. The left has never claimed to be tolerant towards hateful beings, We have never accepted homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism and sexism. We cannot, for exemple, accept nazis, as too much tolerance inevitably leads to intolerance. This picture explains it perfectly:
I consider myself a communist/ socialist. The two terms still confuse me a little, some say they are the same, some say they differ quite a bit. What I know is that socialism is the transitional period between capitalism and communism. At the end of the day, the final result and goal is a stateless, moneyless and clasless society that will provide to each his need.
Our capitalistic society has brainwashed us way more than you may think. It is the root of so many of our issues, the underground demon of our problems. Every idea, thought, belief, and misconception of ours were all affected by our current economic system. It has sold us the billionnaire dream which is one of the most toxic things capitalism has offered. We have looked up to billionaires for way too long, why are they so idolized? Most of them come from high upper class families that can easily afford to invest in their inventions and creations. After starting up their companies and occasionnaly stealing other’s people ideas to ultimately get undeserved merit, they then can start to properly exploit their hardworking employees’s labour. And for unlimited hours and a minimum wage which probably won’t even suffice you to survive, you will have to either pick up more shifts or a second or even third job, especially if you have a family to support. All while the CEO barely does any of the work and gets all the praise and money. So no, they don’t all come from really poor families and have built everything for nothing.
The worst thing is that we’ve been so gaslit and brainwashed that we’re proud of our own exploitation, we are wired to think that to be successful we have to suffer, work 10 jobs we all hate, constantly pick up extra hours, have 2 hours of sleep, have no free time to do anything we love, waste our entire youth, be depressed our entire adulthood, to finally have a few pennies to spend when we’re eighty. We so strongly believe that this is the only right way to be successful that I don’t think many of us have dared to question it’s authority, and even if we do, we quickly accept that this a truth, a fact we cannot change and this is just the way things are.
We have capitalized water, food, land, forests, oceans, space, and everything in betweeen. Money is social construct and we have deliberately let it take over our lives. To think about the wasted opportunities and the misery that we have to endure so others can enjoy life truly angers me.
Also, communism is not an ideology that has every actually taken place. Despite what they say, there was never actually a communist country. However, every nation that has attempted a socialist system, for exemple Burkina Faso, has thrived. But of course, once capitalist countries noticed that, they decided to murder it’s leader. So in conclusion, the only reason socialism failed is because of capitalism and it’s interventions.
“As President (1983-1987), Sankara initiated economic reforms that shifted his country away from dependence on foreign aid and reduced the privileges of government officials; he cut salaries, including his own, decreed that there would be no more flying in first class or driving Mercedes as standard issue vehicles for Ministers and other government workers. He led a modest lifestyle and did not personally amass material wealth. President Sankara encouraged self-sufficiency, including the use of local resources to build clinics, schools and other needed infrastructure. […] President Sankara promoted land reform, childhood vaccination, tree planting, communal school building, and nation-wide literacy campaigns. He was committed to gender equity and women’s rights and was the first African leader to publicly recognize the AIDS pandemic as a threat to African countries. Although Sankara became somewhat more authoritarian during his Presidency, his ideas, and the possibility that they could spread, were viewed by many as posing the greatest threat. President Sankara was assassinated during a coup led by a French-backed politician, Blaise Compaoré, in October 1987. Compaoré served as the President of Burkina Faso from October 1987 through October 2014, when he himself was overthrown.”
I have been reading and watching some amazing human rights activists, notably Angela Davis, Malcolm X and James Baldwin. The people that were villainized, labeled as violent and radical, when every single word that came out of their mouhs were pure facts. They are probably some of the most eloquent people I have had the pleasure of hearing. Every sentence, every argument, every single detail made so much sense and opened my mind to so many new realizations. This is the perfect exemple of how the media tarnishes the reputation of wise black women and men. I would strongly advise you to research more about them.
“Socialism & communism are demonized in the west to the point of erasing influential individuals’ socialist advocacy. Heres a short list of people you may not have known were socialists/ communists:
MLK
Albert Einstein
Nelson Mandela
Frida Kahlo
Tupac Shakur
Mark Twain
Malcom X
Oscar Wilde
Bertrand Russell
Hellen Keller
Pablo Picasso
George Orwell
Shia LaBeouf
John Lennon
Woody Guthrie
Socialism & communism are not dirty words. Some of the most brilliant minds of our history were socialists and communists. Embrace it.” Via @sleepisocialist on twitter
So what else can I say, capitalism has ruined our society and the way we act and think. I know a lot of people refuse to support communism because they think it’s too much of a perfect ideal utopian world for it to ever actually exist. And to that I say, first of all, so you agree, it is a wonderful theory, and second of all, a world without racism, sexism, homophobia or any kind or discrimination could also be perceived as “too ideal to actually exist”, but does that mean I’m giving up on talking, educating myself and others, protesting and trying to build a better future? Absolutely not. This is the objective, it would be so dumb to think that we just couldn’t achieve that so let’s not even try.
I want to talk more in detail about communism, theory, human rights, etc… but I don’t want to make this post any longer. I will however be posting more about it soon enough.
I know this is a little different than what I usually post, but I want to speak, tell you all my own opinions, I don’t want to just repost activism related stuff. I’ll continue to do that, but not exclusively. I know it won’t get as many interactions as my other posts, but this is what I needed at some point in my life, and if I could make understanding some basic informations easier to some people, it’ll already be a great accomplishment.
“OnE bAd cOp DoEsN’T rEpReSeNt ThE wHoLe PoLiCe FoRcE”
Stfu Ku Klux Karen ur the same bitch who will go through the arduous task of switching cell phone providers because ONE 18 year old call center rep making minimum wage somehow represented the whole company when she didn’t give you a refund on ur $5 fuckin late fee.
My son wears a sign on his back that says “I’m just here to play with your dog”.
Anywayyyy
Passed a group of BLM on the way home. He asked what they were doing and I said “They’re protesting excessive violence by the police against minorities baby.” He rolled down his window and yelled “I love you! You’re all doing a great job and I love you!”
Hot damn.
Then he asked why we weren’t with them. I explained it’s dangerous for kids and if I get arrested there’s no one to take care of him and he’ll go into foster care. Simple enough.
I then spent the next half hour of the drive explaining to my blonde haired blue eyed Hitler’s Youth lookin ass of a kid his white privilege.
Y'all.
His response.
He didn’t say that his life was hard too, or he gets picked on too (the amount of times my boy’s been called a faggot because he does competitive figure skating), he didn’t make it about him.
He fuckin said “So it’s my job to make sure anyone who doesn’t have my privilege is protected right? I have to be good because not everyone who looks like me is good, even though their lives are better? Just because they got born white? I can do that, mama. I WILL do that. I promise.”
JUST AS EASY AS IT IS TO TEACH YOUR CHILD TO BE A RACIST, YOU CAN TEACH A CHILD THEIR WHITE PRIVILEGE AND THEY WILL FUCKING GET IT. FULL STOP.
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN BETTER THEY ARE THE NEXT ONES UP TO FIX THIS SHIT.
If MY son was taken down in such a violent, hateful, and unnecessary way I would absolutely 100% burn Seattle to the ground and I’d bring every person I’ve known since highschool with me.
And I’ve been saying that since the day he was born.
I’m lucky in the fact that my son is a white male and the chances of that are slim to none, and I recognize the privilege in that.
I cannot even imagine what it is like for POC to watch it happen day in and day out and live in fear for themselves and their children. A black young man was executed for jogging and then not even weeks later a man was choked to death by someone who is suppose to protect us. Suffocation is the most horrific way I can think of to die.
They wanna protest? Good. They wanna loot? Good. They wanna burn a police station down? My full fuckin support.
In the “Greatest nation on earth”, in a free country, in a First World Nation, no one should have to feel that kind of fear and anguish and helplessness.
And then to have a president who absolutely disregards that fear and tweets to the world that “when the looting starts the shooting starts” is beyond reprehensible. It furthers the belief that no one on any level of government respects their right to live, and attacks them when they begin their protests peacefully.
Fuck White Nationalism.
Fuck the authoritarian government.
Fuck the police.
Fucking unfollow me, there’s only 6,000 of you, and I don’t need any Blue Lives Matter bullshit on my dash.
There is something we have to do in order to support our black communities. Not only is our youth at stake because of the color and skin and features, but are told on a daily what we don’t have or need due to being black. This is rediculous and going too far. Something has to be done to protect our youth from future offensors.
People need to stop suing the police dept and the city and start suing the police union. The reason nothing ever happens most times is cause cops can and do have the union at their defense. If the police union had to start suffering financially due to police conduct and actions they would stop defending so many cops that dont deserve to wear the badge.
Alternatively what needs to be done is cops should be required to have degrees. Too many of these cops aren’t qualified to handle people and the situations they answer calls to. Having more qualified individuals won’t end the systematic racism but it would take those that are unqualified for the job in the first place outta rotation.
I had to call the cops on my mum the other day. She’s been abusing my younger siblings for years and CPS refuses to do anything. I’m still trying to get the kids out of there but I knew there was an incident happening in the moment so I called the cops.
The police showed up four hours late, told mum which kid contacted me about the incident, and left. Putting that kid in even more danger than before.
The moderator on the phone blamed me for not doing enough to help the kids. When I told her that I’m a disabled 20 year old who’s already reported to CPS many many times, who’s already made an official complaint to CPS when they didn’t listen, who’s already contacted a family hotline, a legal hotline, red cross, lifeline, Vinnies, Legal Aid, my local member of parliament, and the minister of CPS for our state, she told me to just try harder.
the only reason cops are at pride now is to intimidate gay people into not making it a riot again and i will stand by that fact until the day i die
If the occasion should arise and I attend a pride festival, I would also like it to not become a riot.
imagine being this guy
arent they there? to stop any attacks from the anti lgbt groups?? yknow the ones that ALWAYS gather there???
contrary to what this newer generation of lgbt people think, cops are a new addition to prides. only within the past 10/20 years have they actually started “protecting” pride. aka standing around and intimidating the general public. historically, lgbt people have protected ourselves and eachother during pride events. from police in a lot of cases actually. ive been to pride events where the anti lgbt protesters were the ones being “protected” from the pride crowd… the cops arent there for us. theyre there to boost the image of the police force and make us think they care. the only people who feel safe around cops are the classes that they are meant to protect and people who are uneducated about police. (theres a heavy overlap as well.) you may feel safe around cops but many people do not. theyre literally dogs to the upper class.
2018 Baltimore pride was crashed by terfs who marched with the cops. pigs protected them.
In hamilton ontario the cops let neo nazis attack people and said they didnt help because people didnt want them there
I was at NYC Pride a couple of years ago and a massive section of the main route was completely dedicated to cops. The sight of a prison bus driving by with rainbow flags on it made me sick. That was the year that Toronto Pride asked the police not to bring guns to pride. And so the NYPD invited them to our parade, marching through and proudly brandishing their guns. Back at the Stonewall Inn, people who were protesting the commercialization of Pride were beaten by police. I used to buy some of what the commenters above are saying about protection, but after seeing all of that Pride needs to be anti cop.
[Image description: The image right before the above link is of the linked article. It’s a Vice News article titled, “Cops Were Banned from NYC Pride. They Showed Up With Riot Gear.” The subtitle says, “Eight people were arrested on Sunday after skirmishes between the New York Police Department and people celebrating Pride in New York City.” The article has a photo of cops harassing civilians. One cop is pulling the arm of a pride attendee while other attendees try to stop him. Another cop has cuffed someone on the ground. End ID.]
what do y'all pro-cops-at-Pride people think the zeroth Pride, the Stonewall Riots, were about?
spoilers: it was police brutality against the queer community
and in any case, do y'all know who does the ACTUAL protecting against hate groups at these events? at my first pride over a decade ago, it was butches. it was trans people and bears and quite a few leather folks. it was volunteers who stood on that line and made themselves barriers between us and those that came to protest and hate us, because nobody else was going to do it, and that year the protesters outnumbered the attendees.
and as of the last pride i attended a few years ago in the same city, do you know who stood in the dead center, away entirely from protesters and violent people, openly brandishing RIFLES? it was the fucking cops.
your local butch will keep you twice as safe as a cop will, if the cops aren’t the very ones making it unsafe in the first place.
We can’t overnight stop cops from shooting people, but there’s a real and practical solution that can save a life: stop being so quick to involve the police in non-emergent situations. There are literally no consequences when a white person calls the cops and an unarmed Black person gets killed or arrested. So I’ve written this short list of questions to ask yourself the next time you feel the urge to call 911.
