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Systems of violence and authority will always be more organized than us, by their very nature.

We cannot out-organize these systems on their own terms.

This is why voting is ineffective.

But we are capable of something that these systems are not.

We are capable of understanding and empathizing with people, outside of how they relate to these larger systems.

We will not win over systems of violence and authority by exerting contrary violence and attempting to seize authority.

We win over these systems by building bonds and communities which exist outside the mediation of capital, violence, and authority, so that when those systems lean on us to exert leverage, they find that their leverage is void, because we're not playing those games anymore.

I found this unintentionally hilarious sidebar in a book from 1971

"TEEN-AGERS, BEWARE OF THE "FRIEND" OF YOUR OWN SEX WHO

1. Is too "nice" to be true.

2. Wants to spend time with you alone.

3. Proposes that you be room mates and sleep in the same bed.

4. Writes you love notes as to a sweetheart.

5. Directs the conversation to intimate matters.

6. Wants to touch the private parts of your body.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE TRADEMARKS OF HOMOSEXUALITY."

Shinobi 2.4 - Takashi Izawa

Schools in Florida have started to “alert” parents about openly LGBTQ kids in PE class and on trips.

Literal Nazi Germany shit in the name of “freedom”. https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/education/2022/06/29/leon-county-school-board-approves-lgbtq-guide-dont-say-gay-moms-for-liberty-parental-rights/7765205001/

@thomasfuchs Meanwhile, in Orange County, Florida (where the Pulse shooting happened, FYI):

"Teachers must report to parents if a student ‘comes out’ to them.
Teachers must use pronouns assigned at birth, regardless of what the parents allow, meaning teachers must misgender trans students in class.
Teachers must remove stickers denoting a particular classroom is a “safe space” for LGBTQ students and others.
Teachers cannot wear rainbows on their clothing, “including lanyards distributed by the district last year.”
Elementary-level teachers are discouraged from putting pictures of their same-sex spouse on their desk or talking about them to students. Teachers are not being discouraged from putting pictures of opposite-sex spouses on their desks."

The first one in particular makes my blood run cold.

I hate to be like this, but unless someone personally knows the Average Shit-Kicking Florida Right-Winger, you just don't realize what they're willing to do to their own kids -- let alone some other parent's gay kid the school told them about.

And "coming out" to a teacher, in practice, isn't going to mean a queer kid going up to a teacher and volunteering the information, because the kid wants to have a nice chat about it or something.

It could be the kid getting bullied to an inch of their life, and accused of being gay -- very common -- and the teacher hearing the child confess to it. Even obliquely.

Now the parent will have to know, too.

There isn't a very high rate of support at home down there. Ask me how I know.

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all cishet allies should be judged by this standard

Fireworks banned in your area? Try this fun alternative on July 4th this year!

The US: *literally abducts people from other countries because they committed a US crime*

Yes, this is fine. The land of the free, as they say!