*sigh* Dem presidential candidates talking about "culturally normal." 🤦🏿♂️
I don't want or need a president that silences the conversations that we need to protect people that aren't considered "culturally normal.🤡"
That's how fascists chip away at the base of good people.
I do want and need a president that will prioritize protecting the most vulnerable.
That's how you protect people.
C'mon y'all. This is the oldest trick in the fascist book. You agree to their pressure to only include those who are "culturally normal🤡." But then the definition changes over time.
One day you find that you yourself are not "culturally normal.🤡"
It's 2026. How are we still falling for this?
@mekkaokereke
I’ve been reading some of the many, many #SCOTUS decisions, and the majority of them in the last half-century have amounted to “no, you fuckwads, you can’t enshrine into law legal harms to anyone, especially minorities”
I’ve been thinking about that a lot in the last months, and I have no idea what the future holds.
The thing is, you absolutely can enshrine that into law, and SCOTUS is happy to recognize that reality.
As the line goes, government has the social monopoly on violence. That's core to what government IS, the entity that promises to commit acceptable acts of violence so members of the public hopefully won't.
So yes, we have laws enshrining everything for prisons through executions through use of military through taxation, and on and on.
In reality, yes, law is largely about violence or else, without penalties, they'd have no teeth.
We have to start with that realization before talking about how best to use that enshrined harm.
