"You are not watching the system fail, you are watching a system succeed at something you didn't realize it was designed to do."
- Tristan Johnson from Step Back

#ice #law #usa #weprotectus #system #machine #performative #takeitoffline #mutualaid #dualpower #panthers #decentralized #asphyxiatingcognitivedissonance

#sixteen is an age when legal terms chamge. Today, songs talking about #sweetsixteen produce micro-vomits. As a #collective, suddenly everyone understands. I will never forget, how the adults #laughed at me. How I was laughed at and made fun of. I was 8 years old. I should have known. That's what the adults said. Listen to how men and their supporters talk about #aspiringmodels? Most #outrage is #performative only.

#door #onesix

@kirkland I think learning a language is good to help bridge the gaps for ideas, but the act of learning #Spanish is more #performative without actually helping people understand their rights.
Also what Spanish are you learning, Spain Spanish? A dialect of Latin America?
@fist The STOLPERN project and its associated city walk #recontextualized #monuments and locations in Linz, clarified their #Nazi-era connections, pointed out #antisemitic, #racist, and/or ethnic-nationalist content, and highlighted #patriarchal content that has solidified in the city over time. Existing monuments, which tell stories of a fascist and patriarchal past and present, were #contrasted with monuments that do not yet exist, whose outlines were sketched through #performative exercises.
“we can now say definitively that the President’s signature geopolitical move is not withdrawing the #UnitedStates from the world but #performative displays of force to impose his will on it.” www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Why Donald Trump Wants Greenla...
Why Donald Trump Wants Greenland (and Everything Else)

Susan B. Glasser writes that Trump’s approach to the world, including Greenland and Venezuela, is not the isolationism that his supporters have celebrated—it’s a narcissistic form of unilateralism.

The New Yorker
Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint
Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint
Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint
Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint
Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint