I was never a Harry Potter fan (I remember reading the books to my son, years ago) but I have to applaud her words here:
J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues
I have to say that I totally agree.
Secret police, no way to complain against a single officer if they abuse you because they wont ID themselves.
THIS IS COMPLETELY FUCKED UP!!!!!
WHAT, WE HAVE OUR OWN SS NOW???
What are the chances Erik Prince has a hand in this?
Note: they were prison guards. Not far off from Nazi brown shirts.
“ANTIFA” has made a statement
Copied & pasted from my friend’s Facebook page:
“Antifa” has made a statement.
#Blacklivesmatter #Downwithfacism
Reposting:
“TO: ALL MEDIA
PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM “ANTIFA” IN RESPONSE TO THE THREATS ISSUED BY UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Dear Mr. Trump:
Let us be perfectly clear:
“Antifa” isn’t an organization. There’s no membership, no meetings, no dues, no rules, no leaders, no structure. It is, literally, an idea and nothing more. Even the claim of this author to represent “Antifa” is one made unilaterally for the purposes of this communication and nothing more; there is no governing body nor trademark owner to dispute the author’s right to represent “AntiFa.”
“Antifa” is a neologism constructed from a contraction of the phrase “anti-fascist.” The truth is, there’s no such thing as being “anti-Fascist.” Either you are a decent human being with a conscience, or you are a fascist.
The ostensible president of the United States has, today, openly declared that he is a fascist, and that he intends to turn the military power of the United States into a fascist tool.
Now there is no question, and we can stop pretending that this man represents anything but the worst in humanity, which his supporters embody.
And that is the only effect his words will have.
It will likely be no problem for LEO to identify the author of this document, who also has maintained the “AntiFa” page on Facebook since founding it in 2017.
The author of this document is unconcerned with that inevitability because neither that author, nor this document, has been involved in a crime of any sort in any way.
But, since both the “president” and the media insist on acting as though “AntiFa” is this big, scary organization, the author supposes it’s time for “AntiFa” to make a statement.
Thus:
“AntiFa supports and defends the right of all people to live free from oppressive abuse of power, whether that power is unjustly derived from wealth, status as an employer, or political popularity.
Particularly, AntiFa defends and supports the right of oppressed and marginalized people to protest, march, and engage in civil disobedience in pursuit of justice. While it is never our intent to engage in violent or destructive behavior, we cannot and will not take responsibility for telling people how they are allowed to be righteously outraged. We prefer and encourage non-violent action. We also understand that some people just aren’t feeling that nice anymore. Their feelings are entirely justified, and it is neither our role nor our privilege to tell them otherwise.
Mass civil disobedience is what happens when people say they’re hurting and whoever’s hurting them refuses to stop.
Stop hurting them. Fix your broken systems. Get real and meaningful psychological evaluations and background checks – police in some nations have to pass a more stringent test to carry pepper spray than any police department in the US, or the US military, have in place. As a direct and possibly deliberate consequence, our military and paramilitary personnel simply cannot be assumed to be fighting in the interests of the people of this country.
We’ve all seen the photos. This destruction and burning and looting is largely the behavior of outsiders; white people taking advantage of the situation both to enrich themselves by looting under cover of the protests, and to provide excuses for uncontrolled fascist elements within our military and police forces as plausible cover for killing more black, brown, and poor people without fear of sanction. The so-called “accellerationists” who have committed to ensuring that, any time a marginalized community stands up and demands justice, construct a narrative of criminality and destruction that white bigots and affluent oligarchs who benefit from our broken system to validate their bigotry and injustice retroactively. They are successful in this for two reasons: because people like you are easily manipulated in your banal, self-serving ignorance, and because people like you are more than happy to passive-aggressively reap the benefits of pretending to believe this destruction is the act of the oppressed.
This game has gone on for decades on an endless loop since the very dawn of the civil rights era, and we the people are saying ‘no more.’”
And that, “President” Trump, is your solution. No more. Get the dirt out of your law enforcement and your military. Get the dirt out of your government and administration. Ideally, resign now and take your VP and cabinet with you; Nancy Pelosi isn’t a great deal of improvement, but she’ll only be president for a few months.
You can’t arrest 100 million of us, sir, and you would be well-advised not to try. If you think that targeting and “making an example of” the author of this document will get you anywhere, you may rest assured that this author is more than prepared to allow his real name to be used as a rallying cry for justice and civil disobedience from coast to coast.
It is time for you and everyone who thinks like you to understand that whether black, red, brown, white, or any other color, Americans are done living in a nation of empty platitudes and broken promises.
Traditionally, this type of document is accompanied by a list of “demands.” Here are our demands:
-Universal single payer health care, without regard for citizenship status.
-Universal basic income WITH a federal job guarantee, under which the federal government becomes the “employer of last resort.” Involuntary unemployment is a function of profiteering by fascist capitalist oligarchs who are willing to sacrifice the lives of others for their own enrichment. It must end.
-The abolition of “right to work laws” which do exactly the opposite of ensuring anyone’s right to work.
-Publicly funded higher education.
-Robust and effective social welfare programs to include child care, education, employment training and counseling, parenting skills training, and life skills training including fiscal education.
-A requirement that functional proficiency in media, political, and economic literacy be demonstrated to graduate high school.
-The creation of a publicly funded non-partisan media source to serve as the primary source of government information, to be overseen and managed day to day by a coalition of well-known communicators, political scientists, and other experts in propaganda to strip ALL bias from official information before it is broadcast.
-Federal charges of treason filed against anyone willfully and knowingly attempting to minimize public perception of the impact and risks of the coronavirus.
-Reform of whistleblower laws to ensure they have teeth, and particularly to ensure that a whistleblower, acting in good faith, is not identified to the public, ever.
In the end, Mr. “President,” the simple reality is that “AntiFa” isn’t a thing. You can’t end it, you can’t arrest it, and you can’t silence it. Nor, in any decent nation, would the attempt even be made.
“Antifa” means “Anti-Fascism.” The only position that opposes that is fascism. In the end, there is no “organization” that you can “declare terrorists.”
You, sir, and yours, are the terrorists, and your victims are done putting up with it.
America is not, in spite of having an openly admitted fascist as “president,” a fascist nation. We’ve had wars about this. The fascists are 0-2.
Please, Mr. “President” – let’s not try to make it 0-3? Because it will never, ever be 1-2, and none of us wants to see the death toll from your attempt to make it so.
Currently, media and other actors wishing to contact this author may do so through the page. Should Mr. Zuckerberg, who has displayed plenty of authoritarian and fascist tendencies himself, decide not to host that page any longer, this document will be updated.
Best Regards,
“AntiFa.”
FOR YOUR EDIFICATION: ANTIFA IS NOT AN ORGANIZATION AND IS CERTAINLY NOT A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
WAKE THE F UP ALREADY
Can’t you see what’s happening?
Read this about how the protests are being high-jacked by white supremacist groups to promote civil war in the US ~~~ > https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/george-floyd-protests-hijacked-white-22116897?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_main
This picture from Rochester, NY:
You know as well I do that he doesn’t give a flying F about #BLM.
Protests turn into riots & it’s the surrounding neighborhoods that get trashed but it’s seldomly the entire city. I live in a neighborhood in Buffalo, NY that’s nowhere near downtown & there’s smashed storefronts but it’s like hit & miss. The two liquors stores. The bicycle shop & the hat shop. It’s the same in other neighborhoods. There’s no rhyme or reason to any of this, unless it was some kind of personal vendetta with whoever was welding the bat or the brick. Which isn’t out of the realm of possibility. But it also could have been planned ahead. It seems to me that it was planned ahead.
But it’s definitely about promoting civil war between the races. I see that clearly on my Facebook page. People I thought were tolerant are saying the most intolerant vile things. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. But when the bars reopen, I won’t be going back. Not only because I quit drinking. But because I don’t want to associate with any of those people.
WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!
Last week, it was about 100,000 people dying of COVID-19 virus & now it’s civil war! Don’t you think there’s a correlation between these two?
WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!
So now you want them to kneel
From Digby …
“Sure, we get it that black people are angry about decades of abuse and impunity,” said G. Scott Fitz, a Minnesotan and member of the white ethnic majority. “But going after a Target crosses the line. Can’t they find a more peaceful way, like kneeling in silence?”
GEE, WHEN THEY WERE KNEELING IN SILENCE, YOU ALL WERE PISSED OFF ABOUT HOW IT WAS FUCKING UP YOUR FOOTBALL SEASON & YOU WANTED THEM ALL FIRED.
(to read the entire article, go here ~~~>https://digbysblog.net/2020/05/a-failing-state/)
Saw this on Twitter
I haven’t posted since … January? Wow … but if you’re going to rant, you have to be angry & I haven’t been angry, I’ve been depressed. & nobody wants to hear that shit.
But I saw this today & I thought I’d share … get reasonably pissed off as you laugh
I’m assuming that “MKaplan” is the creator of this meme so credit to that person. Great meme!
Still, if you’re not totally outraged about the handling of this pandemic, there’s something wrong with you.
‘Unreasonable Ideas’ – A Reply to Alison Phipps
A long read but a good one! Fabulous points, all of them!
Yesterday Kathleen suggested that, rather than making endless dark subtweets about what an evil toxic force we are, Alison Phipps actually tried talking to us like human beings and engage in debate about the ideas at the heart of this conflict.
Of course, that offer was refused. On the grounds that “’Reasonable debate’ cannot counter unreasonable ideas.’ Which is both convenient, and, if taken at face value, a pretty staggering statement from someone who is supposedly in the business of dealing with ideas. If taken at face value, ‘unreasonable’ here would mean something like ‘lacking in reasoned argument,’ or ‘not capable of being justified with compelling reasons.’ Maybe this is what Phipps means, but if so, she would have to, y’know, actually demonstrate that the many reasons we have given for our position are not, in fact, reasonable. Which would, indeed, be the entire point of asking her to intellectually…
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TNR is the most important tool for dealing with the feral Christian problem
Brilliant snark.
Feral Christians are a greater risk than feral cats. Thus the importance of TNR — Trap, Neuter, Release. Plus give them their rabies and distemper vaccinations at that time. That should prevent the frothing at the mouth and brain damage that are so common in feral Christians, and should stabilize the population over time.
Unfortunately people keep throwing out their unwanted unneutered Christians so the job never ends, but as colony keepers we know it’s up to us to deal with these feral colonies because nobody else is going to do it. I just wish TNR wasn’t so expensive. The drop trap alone that we use to manage our colony was a significant expense, and a couple of live traps and a transfer fork make it even more out of reach of many would be feral Christian colony managers. Thankfully there’s charities out there that will lend the traps and…
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The TRA Trope Almanac
Brilliant
The argument proceeding from clownfish.
The argument proceeding from strawberries.
The argument proceeding from seahorses.
“Intersex people are as common as redheads, so sex does not exist.”
“Sex is a spectrum, so males are female.”
“Bio-essentialism!” (Is that like thinking horses and carrots exist?)
“It’s SO COMPLICATED.”
“Thinking women exist is like thinking women are livestock,” aka “Stop reducing women to their genitals!”
“Everything is a social construct.”
“Because women are Black, disabled, poor, gay, etc,. women do not exist.”
“Everyone who says they are trans is trans. Except destransitioners. And evil witches. (Ask Owen Jones. He decides. With his sorting hat.).”
“Men would never bother identifying as woman to abuse women and children.”
“Sex is assigned at birth based on arbitrary genital configurations.”
“Women can’t beat men at sports because they just aren’t trying hard enough.”
“Michael Phelps has got big feet so sport is never fair.”
“Cis women…
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Astroturfing: a brilliant article on the corporate funders of the trans trend
Great article here; a must-read. As a former paralegal, I have always said to “follow the money” … here is that adage laid out to the fullest. I would add that it’s not just Big Pharma that is profiting from the trans-team … Plastic Surgeons are also on this team & they are not going to be changing their tune any time soon. Vultures, all of them.
Astroturfing: “the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization… to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants. It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations credibility by withholding information about the source’s financial connection.” (Wikipedia)
The astroturf nature of the trans trend is discussed in the 2018 article Inauthentic selves: the modern LGBTQ+ movement is run by philanthropic astroturf and based on junk science – a tremendously useful if rather freewheeling piece, written by “Sue Donym”. Transgender organisations in the USA, the author says, operate not as grassroots bodies but top-down, funded and guided by major corporations and billionaires, usually connected to Big Pharma. Gender ideology thereby exerts a massive influence on academia and the health system, and on social media, all based on phony science. The effect of all this is to reinforce sex…
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