what really gets me about the argument that “americans are so selfish they can’t even care about others enough to stop the virus” is that we fucking did. the vast majority of americans, at great personal and financial cost to ourselves, went inside and distanced and took precautions and isolated and changed our lives to slow the spread and keep our loved ones and strangers safe. we did that for months, even when the government offered piss poor assistance and unemployment skyrocketed and food bank lines lengthened and the death counts climbed and parents with young children reached a breaking point, we still did it. the polling still shows that the vast majority of americans are more worried about easing restrictions too soon even if it hurts the economy. americans give a shit. we care. we made the sacrifices to give our government the time to figure out and implement a plan — to find a way to keep us safe and as healthy as possible and to use the power of the federal government to protect small businesses and feed our children and put a roof over our heads and create education campaigns to get people to socially distance and wear a mask for fucks sake. we did that, and at the end of months of sacrifice they decided that it wasn’t worth the trouble and have left us at the whims of our governors and local officials, left us at the mercy of our employers, left us to die.
americans aren’t selfish — our minority-rule government is — and it’s left us to die.
Also, don’t mistake the minority of stupid and careless Americans for the majority just because they’re yelling really loudly. Because they prop up the narrative of the minority-rule government, they get more air time and more exposure than the rest of us. Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting for BLM across America and the news is cutting back coverage, but when these assholes went out protesting for haircuts? It was EVERYWHERE.
Even if you’re not IN America, please examine the narrative about America you’re being fed.
ppl who pit goth girls and barbie girls against each other are miniature-brained. we are two sides of the same coin
i get so many compliments from goth girls like i’ll literally be abt to tell them i love their outfit and they’ll beat me to it 😭they Get It
if i don’t know anyone/have anyone to talk to at a social function and i spot or am spotted by a goth girl we immediately gravitate toward each other and start a conversation. like every time
smth about the mutual recognition of choosing commitment to the concept over not getting looked at like you’re nuts lol. like okay clearly you have your priorities straight, what’s up
Ppl think the scale goes like this
But really it goes like this
This is so funny bc at first i just thought you were calling ppl clowns for not committing to one color and then I realized that literal actual clowns rly are on the end of the spectrum, wearing as many colors at a time as possible 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I love how all these reblogs from ableds are like “boxes of paper are 20 pounds GOTCHA” as if every single person in a 60-person workplace needs to be able to lift a box of paper.
“What’s that, James? You tore your rotator cuff? Sorry, we have to let you go. What if the printer needed to be refilled and the other 200 people in this building were home sick? It just wouldn’t be fair.”
I deserve more intellectually challenging low-effort justifications for bigotry. Please try harder next time. 1/10.
Now that the Terror Bill has been signed into law and will take effect in 15 days, a little reminder for my PH mutuals:
Set your social media to private
Do a clean up of your public posts
Block everyone of your friends who have voiced pro-government sentiments. You don’t know who will sell you out.
Do a check of your facebook groups. If you’re part of anti-admin groups, make sure it’s legit and not a fake group used to redtag.
Increase your email security
Stop signing petitions vs terror bill on change.org as this is what they’re using to redtag (remember the influx of fake accounts? Yeah)
Instead, send emails to your representatives using a vpn
Have your lawyer’s number on standby
Be aware of your rights (i will post a refresher here later on)
Look out for your friends and family
as a hker, I’d say, switch to protonmail, download signal (for personal msg) and telegram (for channels/large group chats), replace google with ducducgo, always use a vpn but switch to tor if its extra sensitive (or u can use both)
for anyone seeing this later: the original post was made on july 3rd, 2020. 15 days from now will be july 18th, 2020.
*You don’t need to donate to change.org, donate directly to the families. Also if there’s a problem with a petition, please dm me instead of reblogging so I can fix it faster. *
francisco de goya, saturn devouring his son (1819-1823) georges bataille, visions of excess: selcted writings (1927-1939) michelangelo merisi da caravaggio, sacrifice of isaac (1598) mirel wagner, dreamt of a wave (2014)
ocean vuong, always & forever (2016) // rembrandt van rijn, sacrifice of issac (1635) // ocean vuong, prayer for the newly damned (2016)