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Changing the culture: drunk driving and rape
Please note, I didn’t write this, but I really felt that more people need to read this. The author has given me permission to share it. This was written by Winskote. It appeared on another site. (He asked me not to link to it.)
I grew up in a culture where driving drunk was accepted, tolerated. Encouraged, in a way. A rite of passage. Laughed about. A family friend drove his car into a ditch, and the cops took him home and told his wife to let him sleep it off. I remember laying in bed. listening to the adult party break up with laughing banter about the roads being more dangerous for a while. Dean Martin went on the Carson show doing his drunk in public schtick, and told jokes about driving. The nation laughed.
I remember the resistance when people started working to change that. Laws targeting drunk drivers met with angry rejection of the concept of changing one’s behavior. Changes in law enforcement training and attitudes leading to stops and arrests and getting the drunk off the road, causing outrage about ruining someone’s life. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers as the target of televised humor. Those bitches.
And yet, by the time I was driving, the culture was changing. By the time I could legally drink, the culture had changed. Not completely, but substantially,and with momentum. Party hosts paid attention to sending their guests home. The jokes shifted from the funny things that happened behind the wheel while drunk, to the funny things that happened when taking your drunk friend’s car keys from him. The outrage shifted from ‘how could you ruin his life like that!’ to ‘What the fuck were you thinking ruining your own life like that!’
The culture changed because we went after the toxic damaging behavior. We stopped excusing a choice that puts other people’s lives at risk. We started putting the accountability on the person doing the bad thing. We shifted from - ‘It’s Saturday night - be careful driving out there with all the drunks,’ to ‘It’s Saturday night, get those fucking drunks off the road.’
We stopped putting the onus on the ones who would die and be maimed, and started putting it on those who took risks with other people’s lives.
Time to change the culture again.
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Liberals will say shit like “Yeah, well Trump would be doing so much worse right now” while Biden and the Democrats pull shit like this
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Fuck you and your lesser-evilism. I refuse to do the math you want me to. The appropriate level of fascism is zero. If you don’t believe that, line up with the fascists and follow your leader.
Always remember the ship of Theseus, when talking to far right agents trying to make you apathetic about your vote, “The Republican majority in the White House is proposing a far right bill” is rewritten from the news to “Biden’s White House is taking far right positions” and then the Russian loyalist who chimes in after changes it to “BIDEN IS PERSONALLY TORTURING CONGRESS TO TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS”.
The end goal is to make you not vote and let Trump win so he can literally remove ALL your rights. If it makes you angry, that’s because someone WANTS you to be angry, that’s the agenda. This is propaganda, and you are not immune to it.If the first few posts here don’t make much sesne to you, understand that is the reason they are written that way. The last comment is the one to read.
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Liberals will say shit like “Yeah, well Trump would be doing so much worse right now” while Biden and the Democrats pull shit like this
ALTFuck you and your lesser-evilism. I refuse to do the math you want me to. The appropriate level of fascism is zero. If you don’t believe that, line up with the fascists and follow your leader.
I’m not sure that the memo cited on Twitter actually exists. There is no source in QT. I logged into Twitter for the first time in years to look. There was legislation introduced by Senators Dick Durbin and Mike Lee that would reauthorize Section 702 with some reforms.
Here’s where you can look though all memos release by the White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/
None mention section 702.
You can read the legislation introduced for yourself here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/237
The ACLU released a statement on this bill: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/congress-passing-bill-that-massively-expands-the-governments-power-to-spy-on-americans-without-a-warrant
If someone has more information, please share. Spreading baseless claims only causes fear and confusion.
Read the last comment. There are several comments in the replies sugegsting this might be an entirely manufactured outrage to get Trump into the whitehouse. Don’t fall for it.
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It’s like this all the time
There are two pools of water. One is called “Thinking”, and the other is called “Doing”.
The Thinking pool is full of wriggling, live fish. And if you want to do anything, you have to carry that live fish over and release it into the Doing pool.
All you have is your cupped hands to carry that fish - a fish that does not want to be scooped up. A fish that resists, wriggles, and jumps while you try to carry it live and whole to the other pool. Every task you want to complete, every idea for inspiration, every action is one of those fish.
If you don’t catch the fish, it doesn’t get done.
If you drop the fish, it doesn’t get done.
If you accidentally smother the fish, it doesn’t get done. And then you feel terrible.
Some days, the pools are near each other. Some days, the fish aren’t as hard to catch. But some days, the pools are so far apart and the fish are fighting so much and it takes everything you have. But you do it, because you have to. It takes all your concentration to hold, carry, and anticipate the movement of that fish, and after you release that fish you’re so tired.
They only count how many fish are in your Doing pool at the end of the day. “You caught enough fish! You don’t need help! You’re doing fine!”, and you cry but they don’t understand why.
Everyone else has buckets and nets. They don’t understand why you think it’s so hard.
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The media favors Trump too much to call this an election interference case.
Also he has so many election interference cases that they need to distinguish between them. This is the hush money election interference case as opposed to the RICO election interference case or the January 6th election interference case.
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today was single handedly the best day of my life. i caught a cop stealing from the store i work at
literally watched him slide a candy bar into his sleeve and i literally felt like i was on top of the world. i felt like i could throw a car over my head. he walked around the store for a bit after that looking to see if we have any locally made pickles and then when he couldnt find any he was about to leave and im like ^__^ have a good night, are you going to pay for the candy bar you stole :3? and then i got to watch a grown ass pig shyly walk up to the counter to pay kinda just awkwardly laughing about it and was like “whoops forgot about it haha….” and then left without another word. this opportunity will never happen ever again. being able to tell a cop that he needs to pay for a candy bar he attempted to steal makes me feel incredibly powerful
courtesy of @imgonnafuckthetriangle
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One day in 2019, I had pain so bad I went to the ER.
My gut felt like there were red hot needles and knifes being stabbed into it. I felt nauseous. I felt faint. I very nearly threw up.
It was not the first time I felt this way but it was the worst I’d ever felt. I’d been getting increasingly bad pain for over a year and I had gone to countless doctors trying to determine what it was.
The doctors at the ER — thankfully — took me seriously. They determined I had a severely infected gallbladder and the only way to save my life was to have surgery to remove it.
I still had to give consent before the surgery.
I remember being terrified. I was alone. There was no one to help me. And somehow, even though the only course of action I could take was to consent to the surgery the fact that I had to before they could take action made it all the more terrifying. The consequences of the surgery would mean I would live, but I’d never quite be the same. I felt cheated by my own body. Why was it this way? Why couldn’t I be healthy? Functional? Why wasn’t my body working with me?
The nurses, doctors, and surgeons there were all incredibly kind to me.
One surgeon in particular — the one who ended up operating on me — said something that will stick with me for the rest of my life. “Your body is there to help you. Sometimes, when part of the body is no longer helping you, the best thing to do is cut it away. You’ll be so much happier after the surgery. You won’t be in pain anymore.”
I think about that a lot.
I think about it a lot when I see trans men begging for help to get top surgery and are met with resistance or well meaning but ignorant messages begging back to not “mutilate” their body.
I think about my surgeon, who was so kind to me and knew what to say when I was scared and crying and alone in my hospital bed.
Your body is there to help you.
Sometimes, when part of the body is no longer helping you, the best thing to do is cut it away.
You’ll be so much happier after the surgery.
You won’t be in pain anymore.
I hope you get your top surgery.
I hope you will be so much happier.
And I hope the pain will end.
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America is doomed to repeat history if Trump gets elected.
Democrats we cannot let this happen.
VOTE BLUE
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I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It’s price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.
Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.
Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.
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