The recurring theme of this era: Trump can do whatever he wants. Musk and other billionaires can do whatever they want. Israel can do whatever it wants.
But if you're a college freshman who goes to an anti-genocide rally, you can end up expelled and in jail. Even deported, depending on who you are.
Great system.
Young women and queer people are being systematically infantilized and stripped of autonomy by older, white, conservative people who have already stolen the opportunity to own homes, start families, and all the other traditional markers of adulthood.
But they're happy to put little kids to work in factories.
The explicit message being handed down by the powerful is none of us have value except to produce more (white) children and profit for our incompetent, aging overlords.
Well obviously! Women need to be coddled because they could never do REAL work, but Men should be men and it's best to start em young!
I started working my dad's farm at the age of 3. I was too small to drive the tractor so he made me plow fields with a Little Tykes bulldozer.
And if he caught me slacking you'd best believe I'd regret it. You know, because of the implications.
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@gwynnion There’s a name for this system: Conservatism.
It consists of exactly one premise: There is an in-group which the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group which the law binds but does not protect.
@punishmenthurts @gwynnion @simon_brooke You should pay close attention to what you just said.
The principle of #ruleoflaw, that is supposed to underpin democratic governance & liberty, requires exactly the opposite.
When you feel what you just felt, you are feeling a violation of the rule of law. A principle that the law applies equally to all, even a king, a president, a mayor or the police.
And you should feel enraged. You should fight for it!
@simon_brooke @punishmenthurts @gwynnion The same is true of democracy, is it not?
Yet, knowing that we will never reach it perfectly, we keep reaching. Why do we do that difficult thing, rather than something easier?
Because the easy thing is to let the great infallible leader take care of us. After all, they are perfect, in all ways, divine & beautiful.
"daddy's home" - what's at fucking stake in this election
Perhaps people need to carry a copy of the document that describes what antisemitism is, and that the definition of antisemitism does not include beign critical of Israel.
@gwynnion Nowhere girl, you are pro-genocide in Tigray, pro-genocide in Xinjiang, pro-atrocities by the Assad regime and Sudan militias, and you are working to defeat Harris and bring about a trumpist dictatorship in the most crucial country for democracy.
Get a life or spare us these nonsense.
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