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jumpingjacktrash:

kropotkhristian:

This is a picture of the heroic students from the University of Virginia that stood up to hundreds of white supremacists in Charlottesville tonight. They were completely surrounded. They were beaten. They were maced. The police stood by and watched it all happen. But they stood firm, yelling “Black Lives Matter!” and “No Racists! No KKK! No Fascist USA!” until the Nazis left. They were then forcefully removed by the police, who called them an “unlawful assembly.”

These college kids bravely stood up in the face of evil tonight. And they are a shining light on what was otherwise an extremely dark thing. Fuck fascism. Fuck white supremacy. Celebrate these fucking heroes.

the more i read actual news about this event, the more misleading this post looks.

fights kept breaking out between the two sides all day; of course the police didn’t wade into the crowds, that would’ve made everything so much worse. the way this post is written – “they were beaten. they were maced.” – sounds like they stood there and took it, but all the reports say there were many scuffles, and a lot of the counter protesters came ready to kick ass and did so. there’s a reason you’re not supposed to use passive voice in journalism. there was full on brawling this morning.

the photo makes it seem like this little cluster of a dozen people was the sole holdout of human decency against an overwhelming tide of nazi horror. but there were a hell of a lot more than that, including a group of clergy and religious folks singing hymns to drown out the nazis.

you make it sound like the police were on the side of the nazis. according to fact sources, the whole city was pissed as hell at them, and in fact the nazis were protesting against the city’s decision to take down a confederate statue. the police were definitely not on the tiki torch assholes’ side.

two police are dead, by the way. a helicopter went down while on duty. no one has said why it crashed yet, which is concerning. two dead cops and you wanna think the police were defending the out-of-state agitators who brought a pitchfork mob to tell the city what to do with its statues?

you say “They were then forcefully removed by the police, who called them an “unlawful assembly.”“ – i found no news source describing counterprotesters being forcibly removed. it seems they were happy to leave once the nazis were kicked out of the park. and the final cherry on the misinformation cake: ‘unlawful assembly’ isn’t some mean name they got called. it’s the declaration that allowed the state to clear the park and streets, and they called it to make the nazis leave. by its nature it means everyone has to go home, but the governor and officials were very clear on the fact that they did it to give the police legal power to send the nazis home.

in short, charlottesville wasn’t the scene of an out-of-control fascist government beating up a small handful of nice people and letting the bastards run wild. it was the scene of a mostly left-leaning city universally furious at fascists, some psycho drove a car into the crowd (i notice you don’t mention that, the woman who died, the 20 injured), a police helicopter crashed, and you fucking better believe they’re 500% more committed to taking that goddamn statue down.

as are other cities. thanks to this fiasco, other cities are hastening to get rid of their own confederate decorations, lest they draw crowds of polo shirt wearing dick-wavers. so the nazis achieved the exact opposite of their goal.

tl;dr: i reject your narrative of a weak counter to an overwhelmingly strong white supremacist force. the truth is that this little tiki party was a huge defeat for american nazis. they got spanked and sent home crying, except for the one being tried for second degree murder.

ratherembarrassing:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

lgbt-aesthetics:

i know this isnt aesthetics but THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT!

i got an email from my mother (who is bi and proud) about this. australians will have 14 days to register to vote in the same-sex marriage postal vote. this means everyone needs to get on the electoral roll or check their enrolment is correct ASAP! students like myself are particularly likely to not be enrolled or have incorrect details on the electoral roll.

so if you are australian and you are over 18, please dear god, make sure you are on the electoral roll! if you are already enrolled, make sure your details are correct and up to date!

even if you arent australian, i would REALLY appreciate if you spread this!

im australian and i cannot marry my current partner without same-sex marriage being legal. i know without a doubt there are many other australians who are also unable to marry their partners too.

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Date: 10/08/2017

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onexfeatherxleft:

marieluc76:

gjmueller:

upworthy:

If your nude photos are posted online without your permission, Microsoft and Google want to know.

For years, most victims of revenge porn — people who have had their nude photos shared online without permission — basically couldn’t do anything about it.

According to one study, over 50% of all adults engage in sexting, and 70% admit to having received a nude photo online or over the phone.

And yet, despite the fact that we all (or at least more than half of us) do it, there’s still this weird, persistent, harmful notion that if your naked pictures get leaked or shared maliciously by an ex online, it’s your fault for taking them in the first place.

It’s completely backward, but sadly, the law seems to at least kind of agree.

As of September 2014, New Republic found, putting someone else’s illicit photos online without their consent was illegal in just 16 states, though laws have been proposed in more states. Not only is it typically impossible to prosecute the perpetrator, they note, it’s impossible to legally compel websites to take the images taken down most of the time.

But thankfully, Microsoft and Google — which operate two of the biggest search engines on the web — don’t think it’s your fault. And they’re finally saying “Enough is enough.”

Here’s how to
report a non-consensual image posting on Bing.

And here’s how to
do it on Google.

Boost!

Here’s another way to fight back from your friendly neighborhood law student! If you took these pictures yourself, you owe the copyrights to these pictures so in addition to taking down the pictures you can smack them with a lawsuit not only for intentional infliction of emotional distress BUT ALSO copyright infringement so he has to pay you anywhere from $750-$10,000 per photo posted, x5 damages if there’s willfulness/malice (which there always is). Bleed those creeps dry.