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āVideos from targeted cities over the past few months have shown such reckless conduct by immigration agents that it understates it to call it bad policing. Itās just not policing at all. It occupies a new realm of use of force, with outside federal units detached from local communities and with tenuous cooperation from local law enforcement coming in to knock heads, often while masked and driving unmarked civilian vehicles. Incidents like the shooting in Minneapolis were not just foreseeable, but were foreseen and warned about, local officials angrily noted. Reckless conduct by immigration agents was already documented by a federal judge in Chicago, Chris Geidner reminds us. Two similar incidents occurred in Chicago involving vehicles, where the feds brought charges against the drivers, but the cases quickly fell apart and the charges were later dropped. Nationwide, it was the ninth ICE shooting since September.ā
ā ICE Shooting Forces Us to Confront the Reality of a Corrupted DOJ
ICE is not policing. It's the use of the flimsiest of official justifications to employ lawlessness, violence, and mayhem against non-Republican populations.
But this is only unprecedented in United States.
It is violence against the states which make up the aggressor state, deployed by people with some measure of power, and deployed with the aim of causing political change (via instant terror in the deployment zones themselves, and horror from afar via media reporting.)
There are words to describe this pattern: Federally-Sponsored Domestic Terrorism.
sometimes I go through my bookmarks and I get kind of sad when I see a bookmark where I've written something really funny or commented on how much I really liked it, but then there's the little "this work has been deleted, sorry!"
I'm sure it was deleted for a good reason, or at least I hope so, but it makes me a little sad to know that I very likely won't be able to read something I evidently really liked
Yeah. About the only thing a reader can do is download the story when they bookmark it. But then, why be on a social site at all if you're just going to have to create your own independent hoard?
I love this post so much I have done everything in my power to make sure I will never forget it via reblogging it every October 5th, in memory of discovering it for the first time
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Not only is having intergenerational friendships literally not creepy, imho it's actually essential. You NEED friends who are older to do things like help you when there's a problem with your taxes, and give you job advice, and relationship advice, and especially if you are part of a marginalized group, and especially if you're part of a marginalized group and don't have contact with a ton of other members of it, you need older friends to show you that there IS a future for you, for people like you, and what it looks like, and the way it doesn't even have to involve turning into your parents
conversely, you need friends who are younger to help introduce you to new ideas. You need friends who are younger to drag you out to try some adventure because they thought it looked cool. You need younger friends to help you fix problems, because they may have faced something similar in the past! You need younger friends to keep you up to date on slang so that you can embarrass your teenage family members by intentionally misusing it.
Cross-generational friendships are not some weird sin. My best friend is nineteen years older than I am - im closer in age to her children than I am to her. She's still my best fucking friend.
having friends who are older than you helps inoculate you against ageism towards older people.
having friends who are younger than you helps inoculate you against ageism towards younger people.
you need to be able to see people of all ages as peolle you live in a community with, people who are similar to how you once were or will be, people you can learn from and people you can teach.
im actually experiencing this right now as the older friend and honestly it's so fucking important to me because holy shit. My friend's a guy and he said to me that like I'm one of the few he talks to who talks about the deep stuff (he just turned 20) and I'm like baby boy sweetie...there's an eight year gap and years of therapy here....like your age group will get better.
My best friend is like 38. It's fantastic. It's a completely different perspective and it's so important to me.
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as an entire queer trans allosexual i think it's weird when other allosexuals don't like the term allosexual for themselves. it just means not asexual. smacks of cis people who scream and howl and pee their pants about being called cis
"it lumps me in with my oppressors I don't like it" cis does that too. lumps your lgbt ass right in with cishet people. so like. why are you ok being called cis but not allo
allosexual isn't a slur it isn't perjorative it's just a word for not asexual. so that ace people don't have to feel othered as hell when talking about people outside their community. what the fuck do you want them to call you? "normal"? your mask is slipping
ok im done with discourse now i prommy. please treat me really niceys
There's a few people in the notes complaining that allo- is a stupid prefix because it means other. They think that the categories should just be "asexual" and "sexual."
But, like, that's what we did. When I was first realizing my sexuality and hanging out on thr AVEN forums a decade ago, that's what the categories were.
And you know what? It didn't work. Virgin and celibate allos didn't appreciate being called a sexual being. Even those who have sex often don't like just being called "sexual."
So we needed an alternative. One of the earliest definitions of asexual is "self-contained sexuality." It's been put aside in favor of the current definition of lacking sexual attraction, but it still resonates with a lot of people. And especially did back when we were trying to figure out a better term for "not asexual."
So allosexual was proposed. It was chosen because allosexual means that you are sexually attracted to other people. To people not yourself.
So yes, the etymology does make sense. You just didn't bother to look into it.
(I hope the people complaining are doing so in good faith, but I'm not willing to test that by replying to anyone directly. Now the information is out there if anyone wants to bother to look.)
Concept: Depressing dystopian factory where everything is gray and samey and the workers are called by their employee numbers by an ominous deep voice.
But it's a really great place to work with high salaries, excellent benefits, and a flexible working schedule with plenty of paid leave. They just like the dystopian aesthetic.
Shadowy Board Member: Worker 11335. Do you know why you were summoned?
Worker 11335: Is it because I badmouthed the company during lunch?
Shadowy Board Member: That is correct. We are very displeased, Worker 11335...
Shadowy Board Member: ...with ourselves, that is. We hold ourselves to high standards of excellence which we clearly failed to meet. We were hoping you could advise us on necessary improvements. You will receive appropriate compensation, of course.
(2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications
(2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press
(2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books
(2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications
(2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press
Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Yearsā War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan
Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books
Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.
Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press
Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press
(2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
(2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press
Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)
Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press
Neve Gordon (2008) Israelās Occupation, University of California Press
Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House
Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:
Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)
Letters From Gaza ā¢ Protean Magazine
Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books
Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books
Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury
Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctorās Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury
Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books
The Works of Mahmoud Darwish
Human Rights Reports & Documents
Information on current International Court of Justice case on āLegal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalemā
UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022
UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022
Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022
Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021
Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflictā 2009 (āThe Goldstone Reportā)
Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004
Just so you know, the US government (as well as several US states) actually put legislation on the books to try to ban boycotts of Israeli products, because it was seen as the work of a foreign adversary to damage Israel's standing on the world stage.
The adversary? The Palestinian nonprofit organization Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, which is formed on the model of the anti-apartheid movement from South Africa. To quote Wikipedia on Israel's horrifically successful propaganda and international lobbying campaign against this movement (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions):
<blockquote>Some critics accuse the BDS movement of antisemitism,[15][16][17] a charge the movement denies, calling it an attempt to conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism. The Israel lobby in the United States has made opposing BDS one of its top priorities.[18] Since 2015, the Israeli government has spent millions of dollars to promote the view that BDS is antisemitic and have it legally banned in foreign countries.[19] Multiple countries and the majority of U.S. states have passed anti-BDS laws.</blockquote>
I refuse to let the US government and its member state governments tell me I can't choose to avoid a product based on its country of origin. Fortunately, since spending money (or not) is a method of political speech under the otherwise damaging Citizen's United ruling, it seems extremely difficult to prosecute anyone under those laws... but I am not a lawyer, and I'm not advising you to violate laws you may be subject to.
I haven't had much about Palestine show up on my dash lately. But I am still doing what little I can to reduce the net exports of thenation which has been found guilty of apartheid against Palestinians, and I encourage you to evaluate the legal climate where you live and, if you can do so, to avoid products from the perpetrating nation of that apartheid, unless the product is verifiably Palestinian-origin with the chain of provenance not going through any non-Palestinian Israeli hands.
The American Psychological Association says that it's "normal" (aka, neurotypical) to *not* have that much empathy, and that having that much empathy is literally a trait of autism.
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"What are you doing here?" Villain asked, walking behind Hero. Villain held an umbrella over Hero to stop them from getting more wet then they were already.
"What do you mean? Why I'm in a graveyard?" Hero asked rhetorically with a slight scoff, kneeling beside a grave. "That's question seems more fitting for you."
"I asked first." Villain said with venom in their tone, glaring at Hero.
Hero went quiet. It wasn't every day that they got to open up to someone, let alone to their mortal enemy.
"Well? Cat got your tongue?" Villain raised an eyebrow.
"Shut it. I'm not opening up to you." Hero responded, only briefly turning away from the gravestone to glare at Villain.
"I didn't say you had to open up, I asked why you were here. Surely, you don't know 53 people personally." Hero's eyes widened as Villain pointed out how many graves Hero had visited and left flowers at.
"And you intend to visit about 20 more, based on the amount of flowers left in the bouquet." Villain smirked, knowing they had cornered Hero to make them speak.
Hero hesitated for a second before speaking, "No... You're right. I didn't know these people personally."
"Then why are you paying your respects?"
"Because I killed these people."
Villain froze, completely shocked by Hero's words. They had never seen Hero even raise a finger to the worst of the civilians, let alone end someone's life. Hero was an angel, at least, that's what Villain thought.
"Why? How?" Villain asked, watching Hero stand up.
"They got caught in the cross-fire of my fights." Villain's eyes softened. Hero was still an angel, but one ridden with guilt for something they couldn't control.
"It's not your fault, you know..." Villain's tone raised, and they spoke slower, as if talking to a scared child.
"...what?" Hero didn't understand. They had killed them. They had gotten to reckless when fighting villains, and killed these people.
"It's not your fault. You didn't kill these people. Why are you holding yourself responsible?" Villain placed a hand on Hero's shoulder, silence filling the air, interrupted by only the sound of rain hitting the ground and umbrella.
"Because I did. I was to reckless with my power, I should have been more careful, I could haā"
"Hero." Villain cut them off. "You couldn't control it. It's not your fault. You were doing your job. Think about it. If you were more cautious, you couldn't have taken down some of the greatest villains, like Supervillain. These minor losses were simply the effects of saving many more people in the future. So please, calm down, and stop blaming yourself." Villain ended their speech with a sigh. "Please."
Ah, so I'm doing commentary on the content of a vignette. (I love the '#hero x villain' tag so much, and thank you OP for writing this that I can think about.and comment on!)
No life lost is ever minor.
In a war, you have to think in terms of "minor casualties" and "major casualties" because they affect and impact how future battles in the war can be fought. But the general Heroes and Villains framework tends not to be in wartime, instead in peace.
"minor", in terms of losses of life, tends to be a way of saying "I don't have a problem accepting this."
And conversely, "acceptable losses" tends to be a way of concealing how difficult it was for the speaker to conceptualize and integrate the fact that the people they speak of, those unique and priceless viewpoints, would no longer get to experience and impact the world they had existed within.
And yet, Villain dismisses them as "minor".
What is the difference between a villain and a general, if they can both sleep at night?
Basically, someone trying to profit off of the destruction of someone else's livelihood by tattling about what they've publicly talked about.
Doing this kind of tattling thing to anyone -- even someone whose politics you despise -- is reprehensible in wage-slavery capitalism. Profiteering from it should be considered extortion at best (obtaining money you have no right to by destroying someone else's life -- basically, you're doing blackmail but collecting from the person you have induced to destroy the person's life), and should also be privately actionable as the tort of malicious interference in the performance of a contract.
And any employer who lets themselves be manipulated this way needs to see their company go bankrupt for false termination.
(I make exceptions for targeting people who have a net worth over $2 million (i.e., those who are independently wealthy) and politicians, political appointees, and for disclosures of known lawbreaking by cops and judges.)
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