Notices by Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net), page 4

If some of these names are suddenly very familiar to you, maybe you wanna see @timnitGebru going through their common philosophical foundation? (Content warning: they are all fucking nuts and extremely dangerous)
https://youtu.be/P7XT4TWLzJw?si=0BYLEt6mjzCFnSfc

The dog killer lady is head of DHS and Elon got a new department called DOGE.

Y’all, I think I’m going to check out of this timeline.

@veronica I think this might end up being worse than anything I can imagine 🙃

@sotolf I have many times felt like the space for being “a man” is a lot more narrow for men than the space for being “a woman” is for women today. I can have long hair, short hair, wear dresses or pants, have nail polish or not, climb walls or read books, cook or drive a tractor. None of these things make me less of a “woman”. Some are considered more “feminine” perhaps, but there is plenty of room today for a woman to not be feminine. But if the band of “acceptable” expression is very narrow I can understand how it can be very frustrating to be berated for existing even there.

I do think though, that it shouldn’t be that narrow. That the solution rather is to make being a man be wider. It seems very silly to force men to act out a stereotype.

It shouldn’t surprise me that black Americans have a much more profound and illuminating analysis.
https://youtu.be/YWmG96rdvu4?si=92HyIoUnuiHyDoY-

How on earth can they deconstruct this system if they refuse to learn about how it was constructed and maintained? American history can only really be understood through the perspective of black Americans.

Norwegian trying to parse the US: The more I learn about US systemic racism, the more it lands how it is a system created and maintained specifically to dehumanize. And that dehumanization is necessary to create a society and a financial and political order where exploitation and violence is rationalized and condoned.

Without that perspective it doesn’t make any sense. It’s just lies we tell children.

People voted for this. White women voted for this. For this. For the recreation of the part of the system that made it so their husbands couldn’t be convicted for raping them all the way to the early 90s. They chose that. I don’t understand.

Private sector prison companies’ stocks went up, because everyone knows what’s coming. They know, but they pretend not to.

I guess that’s why certain parts of society feel so threatened, because instinctively they know this. They feel the threat. They know that their children wouldn’t support this. So they must not be taught.

Black women are your allies, not the other way around. They are the ones fighting for your rights.

Whiteness is not a magic armor. You are a woman and in this system that will mean you will never be worth the same as a white man. Maintaining and perpetuating this system is maintaining and perpetuating your own subjugation, your own dehumanization, your own lack of full personhood.

There is no winning in fascism. They will come for you too. And white women: they already have. They’re not done. Their goal is to make you property.

I read a philosopher say two things the other day which really shook my perspective:

1. The US south, through gerrymandering and voter suppression is in essence not a democracy, but a single party system.
2. Jim Crow was a fascist system, within that non-democracy.

Since then I’ve been wondering if the US has been on this edge for a long time. That maybe large parts of the population has never lived in a democracy.

Black Americans have been trying to talk about US prisons in the framework of legalized slavery for decades, and nothing has been done. They have spoken about the over-policing of black people as a pipeline to that legalized slavery. They have also spoken about the systematic disenfranchisement of especially black men by this process. They have spoken about the financial incentives of this whole sector.

And since hardly anything has been done, by either party, to address this, the US already has in place the legal framework and physical infrastructure for what has the potential to be the most efficient and profitable genocide in generations.

It seems to me that the progressive side of white America never fully understood what “defund the police”, “police abolition”, “prison reform”, “bail reform” or “black lives matter” were fundamentally about. And now I’m afraid it’s too late.

Saw a YouTube short asking Kamala voters if they would date a Trump voter, and all the women go:

Eh, no. This is a person who has literally voted to put me at risk.

One white guy: sure! We need to tolerate that people have different opinions.

That right there.

Harm that doesn’t happen to you.
You can tolerate it because it doesn’t happen to you.

@FantasticalEconomics given how dangerous pregnancy is becoming I understand that sentiment, an accidental pregnancy could kill you

From now on I will block anyone crying about being cancelled for speech. Trump wants to shoot protestors, ban books, jail journalists, jail librarians, jail school teachers and defund media outlets that won’t play his game. That is what free speech was about, not that your gay neighbor has to put up with your bullshit or people not buying your books anymore.

Is it just me or does this feel like Brexit?