hey, full offense, but if you’re not black and you’re trying to tell us how to feel what with Taylor and what she’s been doing in response to everything as of late, shut the fuck up. y’all do not have the place or the right to speak over us. ever. just because her actions are enough for you doesn’t mean shit.
Be teachable. You’re not always right.
all of taylor’s famous friends are using their platforms better than she is right now. if she won’t listen to us, look to them! literally any of them! gigi has been posting links, reposting ways we can all help, and helping to raise money. selena has given anti-racism activists access to her instagram account to share their stories. shawn mendes has done the same. jack antonoff is matching donations to different organizations that are helping the black lives matter movement. camila cabello has linked multiple petitions and places to donate. martha hunt has linked ways for white/non-black people to educate themselves and posted many links for petitions and donations. taylor PLEASE. do more. do better.
Please keep this circulating. Cops are getting more and more brazen, know your rights!
good to know
So useful!!! Please read!
hey! in the midst of all this, spreading this information could potentially save LOTS of folks out there in protest! it costs Absolutely NOTHING to share. the original thread is on Twitter by strwbrrymew. the link to the thread is here, it contains more important information to note, including a video about how to do a proper eye flush should someone be teargassed.
halsey out here fighting the good fight
you could curse a police officer out, kick their car, throw a temper tantrum and throw trash. and that still doesnt mean they get to kill you. what the fuck is wrong with yall? why do you think police get some special license to kill when they get disrespected?
if they cant do their job without murdering unarmed people, they dont deserve their badge, or anyones respect.
Except it isn’t always that simple.
Except it literally is. I deal with verbal and emotional abuse daily at my job. I get disrespected daily. I’ve had customers throw things at me. Not one of those situations have I ever felt the need to pull a gun on them and shoot them. In fact, I am expected to tolerate that kind of abuse with a smile and often times those people get rewarded for their behavior.
If a cop can’t deal with being disrespected without murdering people then they don’t need to be a fucking cop.
paramedics & emergency room medical staff deal with people pulling the most disrespectful, violent, deranged shit and still continue to provide care. they shouldn’t have to put up with that but they fucking do, and they don’t fucking shoot people for being rude to them.
Add teachers to the list of professions that deal with some wild behavior and still manage not to kill people.
keep going t!!!
just voting is NOT enough. it makes me sad that taylor either doesn’t seem to realize that or doesn’t care, which would be worse. In Canada we have a Liberal government, police brutality still happens. a democratic government might be better, but the systemic issues are so much deeper than that. we need a law enforcement system reform. not just a better president.
Okay Bernie stans.
I need you all to prepare yourselves to vote for Biden in November.
I’m not happy about it either. I wanted Elizabeth Warren to destroy Trump on the debate floor. I wanted to watch her shatter the glass ceiling. I wanted student loan forgiveness, Medicare for All, and refugee and immigrant protections.
But I’m not going to get that. So I am going all in for Biden.
This can no longer be a matter of “well if I don’t get my way THEN I’M NOT VOTING”. I’d hoped you all learned your lessons four years ago, but from what I’ve seen on social media, that’s not been the case. Biden is not ideal but he is better than the alternative. He is a Democrat who will continue Obama’s legacy. And you have a shot in hell of getting progressive movements like Medicare for All under a blue majority Congress; we do not have that under Trump.
Biden is more willing to listen to the progressive factions of the Democrat party than Trump is. We will get shit done under him.
We cannot survive a second term of Trump. I need you all to hold your noses, put on your big girl pants, and deal with it. Prepare to vote for Biden.
Also, I’ve reviewed most of his plans and they are good. No, they are not as good as Warren’s plans. But he commits to LGBTQ+ protections, repealing the transgender in the military ban, and his refugee/immigration protections are way better than I expected (he actually has some culpability to the deportations under the Obama administration).
He is a good choice, guys. Maybe not the best. But he will get us to where we need to be and is a fucking return to SANITY in the government, which we badly fucking need.
Two, TWO Supreme Court justices are on the table for the next president, plus all the other federal judges McConnell has been stacking benches with the past three years. That’s Roe v. Wade, and a whole lot else, for the foreseeable future.
The reality is that we live in a two party system and while I do not want Biden, I am capable of recognizing nuance and shades of gray. If it comes down to Biden, as it very likely may he will not do as much damage as four more years of Trump, and that is an ethical imperative.
This is also why we all MUST vote down-ticket as well.
Biden’s win allows RBG and Stephen Breyer to retire.
Think about that.
Not voting isn’t a protest. It’s a surrender. If we want change, real change, then we have to drag our country to the left. One. Election. At. A time. It’s not an all-or-nothing scenario. So if it comes down to it, vote for Biden. Get on the bus headed away from fascism and the alt-right. If that bus isn’t heading directly to where we want to go, then we ride it until we have a chance to get on a different bus. Not voting is NOT an option.
I think this is all the more important to emphasize in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. Here’s Biden attending a protest in Wilmington, DE over the weekend and meeting with black church leaders to discuss responses to the protests
And here’s the White House going dark after protests breakout in front
register to vote, educate yourself, then turn in your fucking ballots like your life depends on it
NOT VOTING IS NOT A PROTEST. IT IS A SURRENDER.
for the love of god PLEASE vote for Biden even if you think he sucks because you know what sucks way worse? LITERAL FASCISM
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OH MY GOD MY SOUL JUST LEFT MY BODY. GOOD FOR HER! AND I CANNTO WAIT TO READ THESE!
I don’t know if it’s because I have Prime BUT the Kindle version was free for me just now (Jan. 9, 2018). GO CHECK IT OUT!!
The first six chapters are available for free as a sneak peek from Amazon
taylor and joe hiding away in her multimillion dollar mansion playing scrabble and drinking wine while the rest of the world is fighting for black people to be able to LIVE is genuinely infuriating. halsey is out there getting gassed and shot with rubber bullets and providing first aid for injured protestors and the most taylor can do is post a black square with 13 fucking hearts bc it’s ~her brand~???? so so so disappointing.
THIS THIS
