Brain Feces

This

>:)c

We’re experiencing the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S., and people are looking around and saying, “Where did this come from? How could this be happening?” They’re looking to Hungary and Germany and Russia, for example. The truth is, part of our government, since the founding, has been authoritarian. Part of our government has always governed people without their consent, without elections, without constitutional norms, without limits, without the kind of balance of power that we’re all used to. And it’s changed over time, but that first group of people that were governed that way here were Indigenous people. So much of what the current administration is doing isn’t borrowing from right-wing leaders from other parts of the globe or other parts of history; it’s just borrowing from this body of American law that’s always existed. That’s why it’s been so hard to fight: It’s baked into the system.

pro choice means youre pro choice even if the reason someone wants an abortion is morally wrong in your eyes

when i was getting trained as a welder the guys started playing sneaky grabass with each other and with me. i almost hit a few people while holding dangerous tools in my hand because they wouldn’t stop grabbing me from behind, then laughing that i ‘almost’ hit them, so i finally had to go to the instructor and say, look, i’ve had years and years of self defense training due the fact i’m a very small weirdo who is in legitimate danger of getting hatecrimed and at some point one of these guys is going to goose me again and im going to bury a wrench in his eye. get them to stop grabbing me, because i don’t want to get kicked out for hitting people.