thegreatsnarldearrested20170308:

secondary-primecrypt:

withgoldenfire:

lonelyapron:

di-a-man-te:

re: foucault’s pedophilia

jsyk that 1977 petition he signed calling for the repeal of several articles of the age of consent law and the decriminalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen was also signed by jean sartre, roland barthes, simonde de beauvoir and alain robbe-grillet. [x]

i have not read the book in this review but i don’t have trouble believing it:

For long periods, the couple became a “trio”, though the arrangement rarely worked out well for the third party: at least two of de Beauvoir’s former pupils found themselves becoming first her lover, then Sartre’s, only for the couple to close ranks against them once the fun wore off.

Was de Beauvoir passing lovers on to Sartre - who enjoyed taking girls’ virginities, though he could muster little enthusiasm for the sex act itself - to ensure the continuance of his relationship with her?

Seymour-Jones certainly thinks so, and she quotes various accounts to back up an increasingly monstrous vision of the couple. “Simone de Beauvoir was able to finish Sartre’s sentences and vice versa,” recounts the writer Olivier Todd. “There was even a kind of mimetism in their rasping voices.”

For Seymour-Jones, de Beauvoir’s affairs with her students were not lesbian but paedophiliac in origin: she was “grooming” them for Sartre, a form of “child abuse”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3672534/Simone-de-Beauvoir-Meet-Jean-Paul-Sartre.html

this was not just theoretical for them

One of de Beauvoir’s students, who she ‘seduced’ and passed on to Sarte, wrote a memoir about the ‘affair’ - worth noting that she was not only 16 at the time, but Jewish: they dumped her during the Nazi occupation and apparently never showed any concern for her safety during the war. de Beauvoir lost her teaching license permanently in 1943 for ‘seducing’ another pupil. God knows how many there were. 

@thegreatsnarldearrested20170308  hm.

holy shit I had no idea about this stuff outside of Foucault signing the petition what the fuck

scallioncreamcheesebagel:

fatehbaz:

arctic-hands:

Dakota Access Pipeline Activists Face 110 Years in Prison

The charges come two years after the activists publicly confessed to vandalizing the pipeline in an effort to halt construction.

The Intercept

TWO WOMEN WHO vandalized the Dakota Access pipeline in an effort to halt construction have been indicted on charges that carry up to 110 years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. They are among the harshest penalties environmental activists have faced in the last decade.

Civil liberties lawyers say the charges are in line with industry-inspired scare tactics meant to deter citizens from participating in direct-action protests or acts of sabotage against oil and gas companies. As the deadly impacts of carbon emissions grow ever clearer, the fossil fuel industry has increased pressure on lawmakers and government officials to penalize those who would inhibit their projects’ operations.

At the same time, a growing number of activists have demonstrated willingness to break laws in order to highlight the urgency of the climate emergency and other ecological crises. Ruby Montoya and Jessica Reznicek, who stand accused of damaging pipeline valve sites using a welding torch, “tires ignited by fire, and gasoline-soaked rags,” are part of that trend.

The arrests come more than two years after Montoya, 29, and Reznicek, 38, publicly took responsibility for a series of acts of sabotage that they said was necessary to protect the rivers and waterways under which the Dakota Access pipeline passes. Both women had been involved in the Indigenous-led struggle to stop the pipeline, which attracted thousands of people to opposition camps in North Dakota and Iowa in 2016 and 2017.

“We are speaking publicly to empower others to act boldly, with purity of heart, to dismantle the infrastructures which deny us our rights to water, land, and liberty,” Montoya and Reznicek stated at a press conference in July 2017.

They told The Intercept at the time that they planned to use a necessity defense to argue that they had no choice but to act. Civil liberties attorneys said they are not aware of such a defense being accepted in a federal case related to climate change or environmental issues. It has, however, begun to gain traction in lower courts, where a handful of pipeline protesters have successfully argued that they acted out of necessity.

…

“I wish the government would use the same resources to go after the oil companies and pipeline companies, but clearly they’re not interested in that,” said Bill Quigley, an attorney who previously represented Montoya and Reznicek. “They shouldn’t be prosecuted; they should be praised. They’re trying to stop the destruction of the human race.”

…

By the spring of 2017, however, the pipeline company had overcome the water protectors; construction was all but complete and the camps mostly cleared. It was then that a series of above-ground valves along the pipeline route were pierced by welding tools.

In response, the mercenary security company TigerSwan launched a multi-state dragnet in search of the saboteurs, who they referred to as eco-terrorists. Montoya and Reznicek were their primary suspects, but internal reports TigerSwan filed to Energy Transfer Partners also described how security personnel cast suspicion on an array of other activists. They reached out to pipeline opponents’ neighbors and local businesses for help in their search. They surveilled one Native couple’s private home and photographed their property. A TigerSwan contractor posing as a water protector sought information about Montoya and Reznicek from pipeline opponents who believed him to be a friend. The documents show repeated instances of the company attempting to feed information to local and federal investigators.

…

At an energy industry conference in 2018, Kelcy Warren, CEO and board chair of Energy Transfer, mentioned Reznicek and Montoya’s actions. “I think you’re talking about somebody who needs to be removed from the gene pool,” he said.

The oil industry used the acts of sabotage to push for a crackdown on pipeline opponents. In 2017, the American Legislative Exchange Council introduced model legislation that would increase penalties for anyone who interfered with oil industry operations. Iowa and at least seven other states have passed related anti-protest laws. More recently, industry lobbyists, as well as members of the Trump administration, have proposed federal legislation to make it a felony to inhibit pipeline operations. Most of the legislative proposals are broad enough to net individuals who commit no acts of property destruction.

Meanwhile, since it started operating, the Dakota Access pipeline has had at least 10 spills, and this past June, Energy Transfer announced plans to nearly double the pipeline’s capacity. A recent study indicated that current fossil fuel infrastructure leaves humanity with less than a 50 percent chance of avoiding unmanageable climate crises.

Energy Transfer did not respond to a request for comment.

In parallel to industry lobbying, fossil fuel opponents have advanced their own efforts to set legal precedents that protect dissent. “The state of the necessity defense in climate cases is emerging, and it is gaining acceptance in state courts across the country,” said Quigley.

Pipeline protesters in Massachusetts have had the most significant success in mounting the climate necessity defense. In March 2018, a judge found 13 opponents of a Spectra gas pipeline not responsible for civil charges related to their attempts to block construction, because the environmental risk posed by the pipeline made their actions necessary.

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Meanwhile, the most severe penalties for participants in the movement against the Dakota Access pipeline have been borne by Indigenous opponents. Red Fawn Fallis, for example, faced a potential life sentence after a gun in her possession went off as she was tackled to the ground by police. The Oglala Lakota Sioux water protector is serving a five-year sentence.

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It’s unclear why the investigation took more than two years, but a possible historical parallel can be found in a string of arrests in the mid-2000s, during a period known as the Green Scare. Law enforcement officers arrested environmental activists accused of involvement in arsons, years after they committed the alleged crimes. The FBI had used that time to build cases against an array of actors. “Based on past experience and based on some of the other clues that I’m seeing, I certainly have a concern that there may be more than two defendants, but that is real speculation,” said Regan, who represented many Green Scare defendants.

The indictment against Reznicek and Montoya claims that the acts were carried out “with other persons known and unknown by the Grand Jury.” In an interview shortly after their confession, Reznicek told The Intercept, “At no point was anyone else involved in these activities. Not even in consultation. Not in anything.”

A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Iowa declined to comment.

Regan called the charges against Reznicek and Montoya evidence that the industry’s legislative initiatives are a public relations stunt. “What these charges indicate to me is that the state does not need any of these gifts to the fossil fuel industry. The existing crimes are more than adequate, because obviously ‘malicious use of fire’ is not a crime that was drafted by ALEC,” Regan said.

Montoya remains in jail in Arizona, awaiting a hearing, while Reznicek was released on bail Tuesday, on house arrest with an ankle monitor. Her trial is scheduled for December 2.

[4 October 2019]

these women face over a century’s sentence while amber guyger, the cop who killed an innocent man in his own house, gets only 10.

closet-keys:

Hey y’all! We broke down these concept even further! We only support full decriminalization!

(✔️)decriminalization
(✖️)partial decriminalization
(✖️)legalization#decrimnow #decrimnowdc pic.twitter.com/pfJ5EvIKhr

— DECRIMNOW DC (@DecrimNowDC)

October 1, 2019

corbeau-corbeau:

Went on for a series of mountain drawings, miss it a lot lately.

driflloon:

mark fast ss20

sleepingpowder:

pardusnix:

sleepingpowder:

ive got some takes, get em while theyre hot

Humanz was shit because it was more cameos from other artists rather than the Gorillaz themselves. Only like, 2 songs are worth listening to. The newest album makes Humanz look like it was made by a 17 year old kid with a 30 day license of FL studio, and his older brother who thought he could rap

finding-my-culture:

People commenting on that post about how “some traditions aren’t sustainable anymore” as if indigenous people are dumb savages ignorant about modern ecosystems and how human actions affect the world around us, good and bad.

Spoiler alert: indigenous groups are more than aware of how their traditions need to change to fit this ever changing world. They lead movements to reintroduce species to their natural ecosystems. They use invasive animal species for food sources, hunting them excessively to try to get control over the populations. They fight to revive land destroyed by deforestation and climate change.

If you can’t acknowledge how indigenous people are at the forefront of pretty much every environmentalist movement, then uh. You’re a fucking racist lmao

racialized:

bitches be like I hate propaganda and then pay to watch marvel movies 😂😂😂

probablyasocialecologist:

“Since Hamilton’s debut, Miranda has become a household name and rock star to the NPR set. He used this reserve of cultural capital to advocate for the passing of PROMESA [Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act], which along with forming La Junta gutted social services in Puerto Rico, eliminated pensions for public-sector employees, and closed over 500 schools. The bill’s effect on the whole range of public programs and institutions in Puerto Rico rivals the violence of austerity measures imposed by the E.U. on the Greek people.”

— Disaster Act: Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda

closet-keys:

This might be a controversial take to some of you but here it goes–

Any narrative of ‘capitalists’/’ruling class’ being reptiles or aliens or otherwise inhuman beings, pretending to be human, hiding in plain sight, controlling things from behind the scenes, being greedy and parasitic, to be identified and exterminated– it’s antisemitic. It just is.

It is even when the speaker genuinely isn’t thinking about Jewish people. It is even when the speaker is leftist. It is a trope that is used to manipulate working class and oppressed people into being susceptible to more overt antisemitic narratives, and it’s been successful for a very long time. 

If you can convince people that capitalists are a small group of inherently inhuman other that are controlling everyone behind the scenes, the work of revolution is so simple! Just kill them all and suddenly everything will start whirring away unimpeded. We don’t need to figure out how to structure a new society to provide for everyone’s needs. We don’t need to go through the work of truly understanding and dismantling systems of oppression to ensure that those with influence won’t later enact their own systems of control after the revolution. We don’t need to think about how the structure of capitalism operates outside of its individual players. We don’t need to figure out when and how to use restorative justice systems. We just need to identify the inhuman parasites and exterminate them. 

Do you see how easy it is, once someone has accepted all of the above, to simply lead them the small step to “identifying” these parasites as Jewish people? You have a whole puzzle in front of you with only a few pieces missing. If you already believe that killing a particular other to purify the world and restore it to the way it should be is what the revolution consists of, then you’re basically a stone’s throw away from nazism.

There’s a reason why it’s called “the socialism of fools.” 

Capitalists are human beings, and we need to overthrow the system of capitalism and hold individuals accountable for their actions and atrocities. They aren’t a separate species that is inherently evil and subhuman. Our problems won’t be solved by a one-time mass slaughter. The “revolution” is not just killing people. We actually have to put in the work to build the world we want, and continuously put in the work to maintain structures of equity and accountability and restorative justice, forever. 

Leftists cannot let our snappy meme-leftism lead people down this path of dangerous analysis. We need to remember that leftists are not the only ones planning anti-capitalist revolution– fascists are too, and you need to be extremely careful that you’re not helping them recruit or we are completely fucked (and I don’t just mean Jewish people).