Rosie Witchs Cottage

A neighborhood in New Orleans did this. Shut down traffic for a day to throw the thing a block party.

The city said, “haha guys ok, bet you won’t do it again.”

The next year they had an even bigger birthday party for the pot hole. Disrupted even more traffic. Local bakery donated cake.

The city caved and fixed the road.

Not kidding.

Racism is to hate someone based on their race. So if you genuinely believe that only white people can be racist, you are automatically racist because you're hating on someone or slapping an identity onto them BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE.

Black people can be racist. Asians can be racist. Hispanics can be racist. Middle Eastern people can be racist, etc. Literally any group you can think of can be racist as well. So if you only think it's one group, you are racist for even believing that.

Fighting fire with fire never works---it literally only makes more fire. Being racist just because you've have bad experiences is like trying to fight fire by pouring gasoline on it.

Honestly, I laughed when I first heard this but it is a really dumb idea when France has so many real issues to deal with and this is their focus.

Man shut the fuck up you Reddit tier gaylord

“WhatABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT”, what’s stopping you from spending your own goddamn money on “condoms for the homeless”, you loser? Why aren’t you out there buying boxes of condoms and distributing them yourself, f that’s the pressing issue you think it is? Not fancying doing all that legwork or spending your own money on it? You’d rather spend the taxes France strongarms from African countries who pay them for the “privilege” of not being colonized anymore? How noble! What’s stopping you? I really want to know

“Punks support government initiatives”, god you’re a fucking cringe loser and your tags are even gayer than your poser ass screed. “REAL punks support taxes!!”, this is so simple and yet somehow you’ve managed to fuck it up - fuck the State and fuck taxes, it’s not your money.

It’s free to not be a whore, normal people can choose not to fuck when they know they don’t have protection. Pretty simple shit that doesn’t require some overfunded state initiative, definitely doesn’t require taxes nor do you have the right to tax people by threat of violence just because you can’t be bothered to give your own money.

>god is gay

Does that mean if the powers that be were suddenly not racist (they are but follow me with this one) would punks then be required to be racist?

Though there are some some songs that fall under the punk genre that I like, I just don't think I could commit myself to the way of dressing that punks tend to favor. It seems very involved.

But for the most part punk was a decidedly apolitical "fuck everyone in the government" working-class music. At least at inception.

And then it evolved and morphed, from commercial pop-punk, to horror punk which is more about romance and the gothic atmosphere, to psychobilly, which I don't even want to touch, to "music inside a labrador's head" that is ska-punk and so much more.

Saying "punk is what agrees with leftist politics" is reductive. It's a music genre and a fashion statement full of very diverse people from all walks of life.

I mean, if this was the 1950s, you might be into something.

but true authority haters know the secret third thing. and that's that authority is insidious and you have to fuck it everywhere you find it. when you know something is damn well wrong but the doctor tells you it's fine and you think well i'm no expert -- surprise! you have conformed to authority. when you see somebody acting a clown in public and everyone is uncomfortable but nobody says anything -- surprise! this too is a form of authority. when you see a consequence and think to yourself "it's fine, i just won't do [thing] and then i don't have to worry about it" you have altered your style of living because of -- surprise! authority.

when you tell yourself you can't be/do x or y because That's Not How It Works. when you refuse to believe someone's lived experience because apparently it shouldn't work like that. when you come up against something outside your understanding and ridicule it or assume it's a falsehood. guess what's behind all that! that's right. someone else's authority.

we realise this as teens because we're trapped 24/7 with teachers, parents, and guardians who have ultimate power over us and we recognise the inherent unfairness and injustice of many of their decisions. when we grow older and gain more authority ourselves many forget this fact and either think it's useless immature teenage rebellion or that the issues we must rebel against grow in proportion to our new responsibilities. we forget about our duty to root it out wherever we find it. and if you don't start small you'll never get the big shit. there's a reason people don't walk into the gym and start lifting 200lb on their first day.

This distinction feels really arbitrary.

Because you're not describing two separate categories here, and making one seem good (because it lets people do what they want) and the other seem bad (because it doesn't).

Plenty of times experience thinks people should be kept from making bad decisions that will harm those people and/or others.

That hypothetical doctor you mentioned is probably someone with both experience and authority. They're also likely to be overworked and tired and just as capable of making mistakes as the next person.

Sometimes authority absolutely is given to the wrong people for the wrong reasons and everyone suffers as a result.

But that's not universal. Authority in the best hands is a good thing, those who lead from the front.

There are people that we're willing to follow because they embrace responsibility. We know that either we'll get where we need to be, because he/she is good at finding the way, or, if he she messed up, we know that he/she will make sure it's sorted out.

A person can be in authority because of expertise. Yes, educated people can make mistakes, they're human like the rest of us.

But for the most part. We can trust the fact that they've learned to understand things that are a complete mystery to the rest of us.

And there's the experience of age. There's good reason behind why elders have a position of authority and respect in so many cultures.

Experience is as much about what you've got wrong and has to learn from, as it is about successes and achievements.

An older lady or gentleman advising against doing something absolutely could be doing so to spoil your fun. Not everyone has good intentions.

But many more are doing so because either they made that mistake themselves, or they've known other people who did, and they want to help you avoid it.

One thing that we learn with age is that just wanting to do something doesn't automatically make it a good idea.

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Granted our UK governments have tended towards being steaming piles of 'doings'. 🙄