Kelli~
@helterskelliter.bsky.social
31. She|Her. NJ. Pisces. Ace. MSLIS. Offhand Poet. Cat mom. Community College employee hoping to be *softly* ground to dust~
if your party is most known for making life too expensive and for attracting n@zis, r@pists, & p€dos, I genuinely don’t think we need a thousand think pieces in the most prestigious publications trying to dissect why folk aren’t interested in supporting that party idk
You can tell AI is a very real industry by the way it implodes unless a sympathetic political party has totally unchecked power
Never ever ever forget that the moment they thought it was safe, they revealed fascist fever dreams of unbelievable cruelty
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 5d agolmao at all the tech billionaires who saw 2024 and went "mandate???" and tied themselves and their entire fucking industries inextricably to a sinking ship
man, the funniest thing about "now is not the time for revenge" is that revenge is probably the lowest common denominator in the big tent. like it'll be real work to get the libs and socialists to agree on affordability policies. everyone's cool with revenge, though
might be worth it for an unpopular party to try impeaching and/or imprisoning some fascists for, you know, the crimes & rampant, unfettered corruption & state sanctioned violence??? especially since NOT trying that hasn’t really worked
I am so fucking tired of "seeking justice" being framed as "getting even." Arresting and/or impeaching people who are legitimately guilty of actual crimes is not revenge. It is justice. Innocent people should be released from detention and guilty people should be in prison. Again, that is JUSTICE.
“We don’t want the blood of our enemies,” sorry bro I’m already drinking it for breakfast
lmao at all the tech billionaires who saw 2024 and went "mandate???" and tied themselves and their entire fucking industries inextricably to a sinking ship
yeah it turns out if you keep shooting people in the street and kidnapping children and making it impossible to get food or healthcare or education and then gloat about it, everybody hates you
America will not be healed by some unifying rhetoric. The country has been made materially worse by people who are openly vindictive, violent, and bigoted. It will be healed when those people are brought low.
Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 5d agoTonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.
can’t wait for all the cope from the sorest of sore losers
it feels truly insane that it’s not
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 2w agoI know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.
Of course republicans don’t have solutions for any of our problems—cause they aren’t problems to them. THIS is exactly what they wanted—unregulated markets & unmitigated power. Like all bullies and crooks and grifters and rapists, they just want to TAKE. There is nothing else.
It’s a subject that makes a lot of people uncomfortable and calling them corrupt and evil is easier. But the truth is that Republicans have a rape problem—one that they celebrate.
penbucket.bsky.social@penbucket.bsky.social · 2w agoExtraordinary. I can't believe your story may be the first time the Republican's acceptance of the rape and abuse of woman and children has been spoken of in such clear terms... considering how goddamn long it's been going on.
every day we’re reminded in some new, humiliating way that the federal government is now just a public jobs program for mediocre failchildren
despite what your local fb community group may want you to believe, there is a public threshold for watching r*pists & r*cists get away with heinous crimes—most folk don’t want to be aligned with a movement that hurts people
I wrote about Cornell, and the grim discursive cycle in which everyone says that they hate rape, but nobody does anything to stop it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal
theguardian.com
every day I’m reminded all of this suffering is because a few disaffected men wanted to say slurs and hurt women without consequences—as if there was ever a reality in which they couldn’t do that
For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?
every year for work I have to sit through no less than 5 training modules on SA & title 9–meanwhile the upper echelons of cornell are basically sanctioning r*pe on campus so long as you write an “I’m sorry you were offended” essay about it later
No no no its just a coincidence everyone suddenly has opinions of how to make our justice system less punitive when its a rapists being discussed and no other times
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
going to an ivy league university is a privilege not a right—and maybe it’s a privilege we don’t extend to fucking r*pists anymore???
every man who upholds the systems that not only protect men who hurt women but promote them too is culpable—we all have to share this world together and if half the population is making it unsafe for the other half, that’s obviously a huge problem
