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this is the first 30 minutes after I take my vyvance energy lol but I was on my pro normie stance (aka the fact that I’ve just not been good this year at all kinds of intiatives because I’ve barely been holding myself down academically and it’s the SAME SKILLS) and on a wild drive to clean my room and texting my friend about MUTUAL AID BEGINS IN THE HOUSE and you know what I found??? The narcan and booklets about drug overdoses distributed by public health

#Thank you that is in fact very important

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one of the things in Life is that even the most radical or anti establishment of ventures, particularly anything involving “community” or “mutual aid” still relies on really normie skills to be accomplished if it wants to be effective for real human beings in the long run. Like a queer housing group or any kind of shelter is still a House that needs to be clean and have clean toilets. A radical off the grid farm is still a farm where the biological necessities of crops might very well require you to wake up at 5:00 AM for weeks on end in order to have a crop. A Union meeting still might need childcare from qualified individuals who can take care of a bunch of preschoolers for hours on end. An abortion fund is still a monetary operation with a flow of cash that needs to be taken care of. Any operation needs to have regularly scheduled meetings set up and attended in the long run. A lot of these things aren’t really negotiable based on vibe or ideology so much as things that need to be done here, in the real world, in order to make peoples lives better, and no amount of perfect buzzword ideology will change that.

#I think doing shit in real life makes you more of a normie like not less radical but more of a normie #The reality is a bunch of the things that last for a long time look and feel really normie because they are #And a lot of times other things flounder for really practical reasons that then get written off as The Whole Wide World was against us #There’s a real trend of it being specifically the people who want to run from [capitalist society] and [the institution] who #Want to start from scratch the things that will be in some way institutions or have normie issues if they’re successful

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Every time I advocate for voting people are like "no you shouldn't vote! Read this literature, it'll totally change the way you view voting!" And every single time it's the same fucking "you shouldn't vote because both parties are exactly the same so it won't make a difference who wins" bullshit wrapped up in some fancy language

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Something about having an universal translator, and learning to understand without it

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probably part of the current method of JUST SIC THE COPS OV EVERYONE it’s much easier for the university to send in feh fighting dogs who are often run by a whole different organization on a group that’s getting unruly rather than find out who the actual problem causer was (or hundred problem causes were) for disciplinary action. Which means again that like, idk if mr go back to Poland or the many one solution changers ever got comeuppance so much as the police just chose a couple appropriately terrorist-like (read: brown and/or middle eastern) suspicious actors. Again the really terrible ways universities have failed to handle everything aren’t mutually exclusive

one really uncomfortable realization I had re: protest discourse is that I DO think a) pretty big groups of people are engaging at some level in antisemitic actions and chanting and b) I ALSO think Muslims and Palestinian and Arab students are all being unfairly targeted and made examples of, and the thing is that these two realities aren’t inherently contradictory. I think a lot of universities don’t want to face the simple truth that a lot of their students are antisemitic - or at least, willing to turn a blind eye to a lot of the antisemitism going on around them. That would make the universities look Bad and it would also require them to lash out at far more students than they would probably like to - after all, students pay fees. So instead there’s a push towards emblematic responses - scapegoating in its truest form. Picking and choosing one or two *bad actor* students - many of whom have been Palestinian or Muslim or antizionst Jews - allows them to have symbolic action and punish a target who is already being punished by the structural racism and oppressions of society. There’s an expected target and an expected script and they’re playing the game to fed the lion, because it’s so much easier to punish one student with a River to the sea comment than the hundred shouting “there is only one solution.” Obviously this is all unbelievably horrific and I don’t condone any of it but I’ve been puzzling over the strangeness of the genuinely structurally antisemitic issues that have been the case for months now and the fact that universities are clearly targeting people who have not outright supported antisemitism and terror or whatnot and how unmatched those two facts seem to be, and i just want to encourage people to not think of a) and b) as contradictory but in fact Deeply Interrelated Facts that both have bearing on the situation.

#Can’t highlight enough the internally disciplining 100+ fee paying and possibly white students is the furthest thing that universities want #To do #it’s easier for THEM if they can just point to *vague terrroists* rather than *well a lot of our dear carefully handpicked munchkins or the #FUTURE were uncomfortably easily drawn into antisemitic chants! #No idea who those kids were but uh let’s slam down on Mohammed the med student who posted in favour of a free Palestine #Clealry he is the one and only issue here! Amirite donors???

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one really uncomfortable realization I had re: protest discourse is that I DO think a) pretty big groups of people are engaging at some level in antisemitic actions and chanting and b) I ALSO think Muslims and Palestinian and Arab students are all being unfairly targeted and made examples of, and the thing is that these two realities aren’t inherently contradictory. I think a lot of universities don’t want to face the simple truth that a lot of their students are antisemitic - or at least, willing to turn a blind eye to a lot of the antisemitism going on around them. That would make the universities look Bad and it would also require them to lash out at far more students than they would probably like to - after all, students pay fees. So instead there’s a push towards emblematic responses - scapegoating in its truest form. Picking and choosing one or two *bad actor* students - many of whom have been Palestinian or Muslim or antizionst Jews - allows them to have symbolic action and punish a target who is already being punished by the structural racism and oppressions of society. There’s an expected target and an expected script and they’re playing the game to fed the lion, because it’s so much easier to punish one student with a River to the sea comment than the hundred shouting “there is only one solution.” Obviously this is all unbelievably horrific and I don’t condone any of it but I’ve been puzzling over the strangeness of the genuinely structurally antisemitic issues that have been the case for months now and the fact that universities are clearly targeting people who have not outright supported antisemitism and terror or whatnot and how unmatched those two facts seem to be, and i just want to encourage people to not think of a) and b) as contradictory but in fact Deeply Interrelated Facts that both have bearing on the situation.

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the essential issue is that doordash isn’t a solution to any of the Discourse the responses brought back a really mean side in the *leftists who all wanted to make comments about how “[MY disabled relative] cooks their own meals from delivered groceries” and “anyone can just microwave frozen food and eat it it’s easy!” Like first off ok that’s assuming there’s a grocery store that will pick out and then deliver food from a list. That’s assuming that people have access to a freezer and microwave. Both these things are assuming rather a lot actually. Doordash won’t solve these problems but to see heaps of *progressives dogpiling with pull yourself up by the bootstraps!!’ Thinking about Problems that do exist for Many people?

I love when you see a Twitter thread that is removed from reality and wild and unhinged but then the response to it is equally so in the complete equal and opposite way

#I need to get to sleep and go back to doing things in real life lol

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So I binged the entirety of How To Build a Sex Room last night and this one scene just cracked me up

The designer's at a western leather/tack store looking for supplies to make a rustic-style sex swing and turns to one of the store employees for advice, which initially goes about as amusingly as you would expect

So then she pulls up some pictures to give him an idea of what she needs

And he's Immediately like

The professional disgust, I'm living

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”healthy food is a luxury that isn’t necessary for survival” and “you can just get your groceries delivered! (Unless you’re living in one of *those inhospitable food deserts)” was just a double whammy I can’t believe someone just had in sequence

#Sorry for being bitter af about consistent actual local problems lol

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I love when you see a Twitter thread that is removed from reality and wild and unhinged but then the response to it is equally so in the complete equal and opposite way

#Sorry for living in an inhospitable food desert like the literally billions of people who can’t easily get groceries delivered lol #Anyway not to draw my lines in the sand but a) fresh healthy groceries are not a luxury they are a bare minimum #Not for every meal no not necessarily for every week but in the long span of human life yes they are! #B) getting fresh healthy groceries is not something that is possible for many many many people #And if your solution is just ORDER GROCERIES TO BE DELIVERED you are JUST as glass towered

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Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor in Yentl (1983) dir. Barbra Streisand

#Previous #hashem pls

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like I got hit by a car and I don’t think I’ve ever felt cruelty like the two different Middle Aged women who framed me as a thief for months on end in order to get something like $30 extra bucks a week I’ll never get over how much I hate both of them and the system that put them there

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I hope no one alive has to feel the pure cruelty and rage exerted by waitresses in their mid fifties with two divorces and a son who overdosed upon the twenty something waitstaff who make fifty cents less per hour than they do and might finish an electrical degree at the local community college

#This is not in any way a hypothetical I ran into my former semi boss today and remembered someone framed me in order to steal $40 bucks a #Month

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real

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Happy Pesach wherever you are and however you sat it! Our unique cultural traditions are beautiful and worth celebrating!

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the go back to Poland one was obviously bad but the one I keep seeing that’s been going on for a while and is even more chilling imho is the “there is only one solution” thing. Idk how people don’t get that one can be really chilling to Jews no matter their political opinions

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ok jumblr yiddn let’s collectively stop reblogging g1rlactionfigure, the blog who has quite literally put Likud UK stuff on their blog