stonewolf99:

As a combat veteran, I’d like to add something. The original cartoonist clearly missed the fucking point of us defending the right to protest and then criticizing someone for exercising that right. Most of the veterans I’ve talked to are either unfazed by people protesting and exercising their First Amendment rights, or actively endorsing the protests. Dragging a wounded veteran in our reciting the name of a dead veteran and saying, “Look at what he/she/they suffered so that you can protest! Now stop protesting out of respect!” is disingenuous at best.

You want to kneel during the national anthem to protest the actions of your government and law enforcement? Go ahead, we fought so you could. Exercise that right!

You want to march in the street to inconvenience people who don’t know about or refuse to acknowledge your grievances? Go ahead, we fought so you could. Exercise that right!

You want to burn the nation’s flag as a symbol of protest against the action or inaction of this nation’s leaders? Go ahead, we fought so you could. Exercise that right!

We service members swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign AND domestic. We are patriots, reluctant or not. We recognize that a government must be answerable to all its citizens. Fascists, racists, and nationalists are not patriots. They are the domestic enemies, whether they occupy a high office in government or live down the street, for they want to tear that document up and forge their own, malignant chains to bind this nation.

TL;DR stop using veterans and the war dead as a smoke screen for your fearful hate- mongering, you Fascists and Fascist collaborators!

bunny-butch:

bunny-butch:

Having a halfway decent relationship with your abusive parent during adulthood is so weird. Its like, “oh mom, you’re so funny and cute! You violated me and made my childhood a living nightmare, causing trauma that I will never recover from, but nowadays you’re just a barrel of laughs!”

Like, its so great bc as parent and child you share a lot of mannerisms and personality traits, you’ve got a lot of in jokes, you just also have the heart wrenching awareness that this person will never, ever apologize for how they have victimized you, or even just admit to it

fahrlight:

ameerawritesstuff:

bipolar-bubbeleh:

thesaltyspice:

I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Nazi ones, which is great, but I felt like we needed one to show our support for the Jewish community.  

all you goyim I follow – I see you reblogging this and it warms me.

do not reblog this unless you mean it. I have dealt with so much anti-semitism in my life and the number of times I get it from “open-minded liberals” is disturbing. Remember this summer when the Dyke Marches banned people for having a rainbow flag with a Star of David on it? I was accused of playing my “Jew card” too much when I tried to get my shitty goy roommate to stop making Auschwitz jokes. 

Being anti-nazi does not equal support for the Jewish community. Do not claim you support Jews just because you recognize that Nazis are terrible. Surprise, we actually have more to us than the Holocaust!

If you DO support the Jewish community, reblog the crap out of this so people can feel safe!

Thank you for this!

DOJ: Businesses Can Discriminate Against Transgender Workers (1) (1)

elfwreck:

motelmachines:

whyyoustabbedme:

This is fucked up

Incredibly fucked up

also if this happens a lot of trans people may end up homeless and the. the government turns the other eye- proves how much they hate us!!!!!

For non-trans people who think, “eh, that’s sad, but it only affects a tiny fraction of the people,” NO IT DOESN’T – this is laying the groundwork for discrimination against women by declaring that it’s okay to treat the sexes differently. If everyone has the same rights, it doesn’t matter what gender someone is.

They’re claiming that it’s not discrimination to fire a trans woman for wearing skirts, because it’s not discrimination to say that only women can wear skirts and men must wear pants. They want to claim that sex-specific policies aren’t innately a form of discrimination – meaning they want to be able to say, “women must wear skirts; men must wear pants; this is equivalent treatment;” they want to be able to say, “women must smile at the customers; men don’t need to (oh maybe we can say men have to shake hands with customers if they’re receptionists),” and so on.

To erode women’s rights, first they have to erase trans rights, because their whole hierarchy is based on WHITE MEN ON TOP and they can’t establish that if the definition of “men” keeps changing on them. If someone who used to be labeled a “man” is now a woman, or vice versa, their claim that men are just innately more suited to be in charge, falls apart.

FIGHT THIS FIGHT THIS FIGHT THIS.

You can’t do anything to affect the courts, but you can:

  • VOTE next Tuesday (or before, if you have that option);
  • Treat trans women as women, trans men as men;
  • If you misgender someone, apologize and make an effort to remember the correct term;
  • Call out mistreatment when you see it, including in jokes – “I don’t think that’s funny; could you explain it to me?”
  • Refuse to help with mistreatment if it’s part of your job – delay getting things done, lose paperwork, correct people’s genders on forms if they’ve been switched, and so on.

DOJ: Businesses Can Discriminate Against Transgender Workers (1) (1)

xanaphia:

seconddoubt:

left-reminders:

calliope-lalonde:

someone: so what do you think is the solution to homelessness?

me, socialist:

Let homeless people occupy peopleless homes, build houses for use rather than exchange, 3D print comfortable houses in a day, convert corporate skyscrapers into housing and commercial malls into publicly-accessible community centers with living commons and entertainment

When you say it to people and they break

“But the money? … we can’t just? But, Money? We can’t just… help… people? Can we? The Money. We can’t just help people? Like that? We can’t just? Money?”

To really break them, tell them it’s cheaper to give homeless people homes than it is to leave them on the street.