If ur arabic ur great
If ur arabic and muslim ur great
If ur arabic and queer ur great
If ur arabic and muslim and queer ur great
I know it seems hard to believe but you’re not bad you’re not awful
Hey if you’re not arabic can you reblog this? I hardly ever see any positivity towards us and I just wanna spread love to my Arab siblings
In a column for the Guardian on Monday, American writer Francine Prose called for a “nonviolent national general strike” to demonstrate “how many of us there are, how strong and committed we are, how much we can accomplish.”
She wrote: “Let’s designate a day on which no one (that is, anyone who can do so without being fired) goes to work, a day when no one shops or spends money, a day on which we truly make our economic and political power felt.”
Calls to do just that have been circulating online recently, with activists setting Feb. 17 — the Friday before President’s Day — as the day for a #nationalstrike against the presidency of Donald Trump. Read more
Even if you can’t not work, we can all not spend money for a day. I think this is a brilliant idea!
lets. lets not call donald trump ‘fuhrer trump’. im not saying this bc of the “is comparing donald trump to hitler minimizing the holocaust” discussion that we were having in early 2016 because i don’t think that rhetoric is relevant any more, at this point historical context is very important, but holy shit, please don’t call him führer trump!
i’m jewish and thats the most triggering antisemitism-related thing ive heard in ages, like fuck don’t do that? don’t tell me i’m living under a second nazi germany in such a casual, flippant, ironic way? he is the president, he is doing terrible things, and this isn’t time for your cute little jokes about how we’re all going to be as fucked as the germans were. don’t do that. DON’T call him hitler for cheap emphasis when i’m already trying so hard to feel anything but paralyzing terror
(edit: please if you tend to put SJ stuff on your blog reblog this post instead of just liking it, i really want it to get visibility)
Please spread this around, so that people aren’t reblogging inaccurate and misleading things from that account.
Let’s not jump to conclusions, and here the account out. It’s done no harm and are using a platform that allows 120 characters.
1. Twitter allows 140 characters.
2. Given everything that points to Russian influence in the government and Russian attempts to destabilize the United States, do you really think it’s a good idea to ‘hear out’ an account that is spreading disinformation and engendering fear and panic?
Information related to the tweets reblogged the other day
also trump pretty much spends his whole LIFE on twitter you dont think the best way to get him to fucking lose it would be spreading shit about him on his favourite website????
Squad. Gang. Team. Got the shivers and the shudders and the shakes after the election of President Toupee? My Aussie mates, it’s time we channelled that fear and frustration into something at home.
Peter Dutton, Human Brussel Sprout and Minister for Immigration, floated a plan that would leave asylum seekers banned from ever entering Australia. Dutton’s idea is that this will be backdated to people who had tried entering from July 2013. This is a massive dickhead move, and despite Labor and the Greens voting against it, the bill has passed through the Lower House and into the Senate.
That is fucked. We’re going to email all the crossbench Senators who may oppose this bill, and so hold the balance of power, and let them know that this is not on.
So what we’re going to do is email all these people a nice little note letting them know that this law is appalling and unaustralian. Only email the Senators for your state, because in theory you’ll be voting for them again in three or six years.
This bill cannot pass. It flouts international law and common decency. Let’s do this.
NEW SOUTH WALES
Senator David Leyonhjelm (Liberal Democrats) -senator.leyonhjelm@aph.gov.au + (02) 6277 3054
Senator the Honourable Nigel Scullion (Country Liberal Party) - senator.scullion@aph.gov.au + (08) 8948 3555
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
You guys really don’t like minor parties, do you. Hope you’re feeling better, Scotty Ludlam.
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Oh yeah you only have two senators suck it.
A sample message you can send -
Dear [SENATOR’S NAME],
My name is [YOUR NAME] and I live in [YOUR TOWN] in [YOUR STATE]. Recently I heard that Peter Dutton’s proposal to ban asylum seekers from ever settling or visiting Australia passed the Lower House.
The contents of this bill appall me and many of my friends and family. I feel it is a horrifying, unaustralian idea. If you support this bill you can be sure you will never receive my support as a voter ever again.
Please do not vote in favour of permanently banning asylum seekers from ever settling in Australia.
Thank you,
[YOUR NAME].
Keep it short, sharp and simple. Write your own email if that’s easier for you - the more voices they hear, the better. Go on and do some good in the world. It takes five minutes to send an email - I sent one last week to the Labor MP Shane Neumann, the Shadow Minister for Immigration, who replied and confirmed that Labor would not be supporting the bill. Send an email now. Call them on Monday morning.
this is a reminder not to support the australian government, not to ignore the australian government, and not to let major developed countries fall to a deeply fascist regime.
if you live in australia, please call up your local, state and federal members about this now.
Australia’s human rights-violating asylum seeker prison camps were cited as inspiration by senior Republicans, and they’re supported by both sides of politics. Calling representatives won’t achieve anything because Australia is already a proto-fascist nation comparable to Trump’s America as much as we like to deny it.
so first off id like to say that fuck this and fuck the australian governments immigration policies, for years they have been horrific and bipartisan and it really needs to change (the pregnant woman in detention who was being denied medical treatment in australia being the most recent horror in the detention of asylum seekers god its disgusting)
but i think a lot of people who are commenting on this misunderstand the way the system in australia works. we operate under the westminster system which has a few elements that are needed to produced stable governments, and one of these is the party system. australia has two major political parties, the Liberal party (currently holding a one seat majority congratz on that one lol) and the Labor party. i seriously cannot stress how these parties are not ideological. like they have policies that lean right and left but they are pragmatic mainly and therefore need to appeal to the widest voter base possible. so like. top down theres not gonna be anyone really winning favour with the libs or labor by being all fascist-y?? if fascism appealed to a large majority of australians then maybe but history suggests that fascism is more top down than a widespread movement.please remember also that australia is one of like two countries in the world which has compulsory voting. our voter turnout is like 94% im wildly proud of that. australia definitely doesnt have a system that could even be considered a “proto-fascist” country. right wing extremism is happening all over the world and its scary man, but drumkldee turnip was able to get into power thru hateful rhetoric but also like the united states system is really fucked up like thats a post for another day but wow thats some shit did u know they dont have an independent electoral commission?? fucks me up daily.
now pauline hanson and her party one nation is a fascist party. like i truly believe that and i want her and that climate change denier out of the senate immediately. but one nation is a minor party and the australian system tends to freeze out minor parties in the lower house, so the goverment for the forseeable future is either labor or liberal. in the senate the party has 3 seats, and the senate has equal power to the lower house (which whew thats a can of worms lemme tell ya god), but with 3 seats, any extreme legislation is bound to be shot down by like, everyone else, and while they might have some sway if they happen to hold a balance of power over some piece of legislation its… just unrealistic to call the australian parliament fascist.
i dont want to make light of one nation. i think its extremely concerning that this party exists. i think this represents the kind of extremism that australia is vulnerable to and it can also be seen in the reclaim australia movement, which.. is exactly what it sounds like.
and the response from that invertebrate turnbull and the libs abt dungle truffles racist ban has been disappointing and spineless (fuckin typical australian govt and its US arse kissing, one time during the cold war australia was like hey china were not just US puppets we wanna be bros with u and australia put so much effort into foreign policy with china and there was a visit from pres nixon or someone idk and good ole johnny gorton told him “we’ll go a waltzin’ with you” and undermined all diplomacy with china. fucking auspol,).
anyways so no one is safe from extreme racism and fascism at the moment. but seriously, calling australia a proto fascist country is just wrong, like i wont say “it wont happen here” but the united states as a democracy has been fucked up for a really long time and fascism gets into power thru exploitable systems, and australia at this very moment has stable foundation at least, like were having some shit issues with balances of power but if anything that means nothing is getting done in parliament, not that pauline hansons gonna become prime minister or some shit. its really important to me personally that people understand the australian system because i read up a lot about it and god its boring please for my sake if u have any questions please humour me and jump into my ask box
also please. PLEASE call your local member! find them here just type in ur suburb or postcode and click thru, send them letters, petition in ur local area. i live in bill shortens electorate and guess whose gonna #wastehistime2017 its me get ready william. ATTEND PROTESTS please attend protests, stay away from the socialist alternative, probably best to stay away from anything that says socialist unless uve done some research. JOIN AMNESTY here theyre doing some good work you can volunteer your time if you have it! stay vigilant, understand the system, dont buy the hearld sun
no offence, but this is a really ignorant post. sasuke uchiha, the inventor of Emo Chic™, is undoubtedly a fashion icon. everything he wears is a look™. the sleeves in question does not only protect his arms, but they also serve to protect his edginess. it’s His way of showing us that it’s possible to wear practical clothing without abandoning your emo aesthetic
