NYT has been discouraging reporters from sharing photos of luigi mangione - not due to concerns for his safety but to dissuade sympathy - and refuses to post his alleged manifesto in full. and today, they published an opinion by bret stephens about how brian thompson is the "real working class hero" of this story.
reddit deleted luigi's account, which was completely innocuous and consisted mostly of him giving out advice in health subreddits. they're also deleting any post that includes his alleged manifesto and banning users for sharing it.
luigi yelled that this was "an insult to the intelligence of the american people" while he was being dragged by police and news pundits are framing it as a deranged and violent outburst. news media are picking apart details of his life to paint him as a cold-blooded and mentally ill individual. even something as innocent as playing "among us" with friends is being framed as some insidious look into an assassin's disturbed psyche, ffs.
news media are also capitalizing on luigi's supposed "bizarre and impossible to understand" politics as an obvious way to paint him as a scary individual when the guy is... a centrist, at most. whose views are similar to those of your average college-educated white guy.
multiple news media also keep harping on about how luigi comes from a rich family. an obvious attempt to break the class solidarity that's been formed around this case by continuously trying to tell us "oh he's not like you guys" while ignoring the now pretty well-documented accounts of his multiple health struggles throughout the years.
and all this, and he hasn't even been found guilty of the crime he's allegedly committed. luigi is, as of right now, still innocent until proven guilty. and the news are trying to tear him apart because they obviously fear the symbol he's becoming for low and middle class america.
If he comes from a rich family and still somehow understands how insurance companies gut and harm everyone who’s not rich, then I want him on my side anyway. What’s so hard to understand about that?
Anyone who uses their resources to shut down health care for profit is an ally. It’s a sin that disabled people get one wheelchair every five years, if that, and it takes a year to get to them. It’s a sin that these companies don’t cover nausea medication, special formulas, compounded drugs, psych hospital stays, chemotherapy, drug treatment, dental care, hearing aids, etc. So if someone with resources is going to help shut down the beast, they’re on my side, rich or not.
hey so protip for anyone considering firing a shit ton of massive fireworks in succession in a state that has been overrun by suv sized drones and military planes every night for weeks that’s also right next to the location of the country’s largest terrorist attack leaving everyone scared and paranoid….maybe just…don’t do that???
SoâŠ.learning you have mutual friends with the guy who shot a ceo is an absolutely insane and surreal experience lmao. He lived in philly the same time as me and went to penn when some friends went there. Itâs likely we crossed paths at penn. And he went down the shore to ocean city NJ, which is where I go. Genuinely fucking wild.
Also, fuck Altoona. Iâve literally hated Altoona my entire life and seeing the entire world finally come together to hate it as much as I do has been almost as incredible as learning the ceo of a health insurance company was killed in the streets like a dog. Iâll be riding this high for the rest of my life.
Yall know how fucking crazy that is??? I saw port o call (pink hotel in the background of that photo) and fucking screamedddd lmao like hello ??? My friends and I literally skinny dipped at like 3am in the ocean right in front of where heâs standing in that picture. I had my first kiss a three second walk from there. I got high for the first time on the boardwalk there. My whole damn life happened on that beach lol I genuinely cannot explain how surreal this is âŠ
Ok so I’ve been crying all day. But now I’m just mad. We need to organize. Now. Enough bullshit. Call it 4b or whatever else you want. They’re going to be doing mass deportations. Banning abortion and birth control. Checking women to see if they’re pregnant at state boarders. Getting rid of no fault divorce. Maybe even trying to repeal the 19th amendment - women’s right to vote.
Women - all women, but especially Black and Brown women, lesbians, poor women, refugee women, mothers and pregnant women, single women, and any woman who refuses to lay down and become a doormat - are now facing the backlash of decades of advancements in women’s rights. This is men reclaiming what they feel they’ve lost: a guaranteed fuck toy and free maid, mommy, and broodmare like their fathers and grandfathers and every generation of man before them has been entitled to.
This could be the patriarchy’s death rattle - one last desperate grab for power before it all crumbles beneath them. Or it could be the last little bit of rope they needed to secure the noose around our necks, the final nail in the coffin for women. We can’t let it happen. Our foremothers worked too fucking hard to get us to where we are right now.
It was less than a hundred years ago that women couldn’t open bank accounts or have credit cards in our own name. Our grandmothers were trapped in abusive marriages and forced to birth unwanted children. Women who are alive right now lived through that. That’s how much progress we’ve made in such a short time, and that’s how quickly it can be stolen from us.
But women don’t give up. We’ve never given up. Men have tried for millennia upon millennia. Burning us at the stake, using rape as a weapon, forced pregnancies, “comfort” women, child brides, inventing entire religions to oppress us. And we continue to fight. Because we aren’t inherently submissive, passive, fragile little things. We have so much power that THIS is what they need to resort to in order to attempt to control us.
Instead of being sad and depressed and feeling helpless, get angry. Start saving money - cash, not digital. Get your tubes tied. Start working out. Start talking to women in your community. Form female friendships. Read feminist books like Dworkin and have your friends read too. Get a VPN. Learn how to induce a miscarriage at home, safely. Learn how to shoot a gun. I’m dead serious, I fucking hate guns, but if you can get a gun safely, get one and take some classes. I have an M&P380 and recommend it. If you’re not comfortable with a gun, get a knife. Take self defense classes. And again, organize. Offline. Our foremothers didn’t need the internet in order to create entire underground abortion care systems. They did it in person, word of mouth.
Most importantly, don’t interact with men. Stop fucking them. Stop dating them. Stop marrying them. Stop birthing their children. I don’t care how badly you want a fucking boyfriend - buy a vibrator and get your emotional connection from female friends. Men do not care about you. They will not protect you. They don’t even see you as human. Stop giving yourself to them, it’s humiliating. To be blunt, at this point, it’s the most humiliating, degrading, dehumanizing thing you can do to willingly have sex with someone who sees you as subhuman. You aren’t just humiliating and harming yourself, you’re humiliating and harming all women.
Be careful, be smart. Channel your anger into change.
I voted this past Sunday. Was there maybe 10 minutes and there was 4 first time voters and the whole place burst out into applause each time. Everyone was smiling and excited. I’ve been super hopeful since then, until today. I woke up this morning with the worst feeling of dread. I literally feel like I’m gonna rip my hair out, burst into tears, set everything on fire, or some combo of the three.
I took the day off of work because there was no way in hell I’d be able to handle that shit mentally right now, so tomorrow is either gonna be hell or really great with no in between. I’ve deliberately avoided any and all news all day. The only time I’ve left my house today was when I felt myself going so insane and stir crazy that I went to my favorite thrift store to walk around for awhile and I ended up getting some cool stuff, but it literally felt like everyone was as nervous as I was. Like we were all just waiting for bad news. Or maybe it was all in my head, who knows.
I have zero clue what the results look like so far apart from when I got home from the thrift store and saw the news my housemate and her boyfriend were watching in the livingroom, which - from the quick glance I saw before turning away - it looked like that man was winning, so now my anxiety is even worse. I genuinely feel like I’m going to throw up. And now it’s 10:30 and I need to go to sleep but I can’t so I’m just laying here tossing and turning in dread, trying to force myself to play some stupid game on my phone or watch some dumb video on youtube but nothing is helping.
We’re not gonna last another 4 fucking years of this shit. Please let her win. She needs to win. I’m so fucking tired.
Ironically, while fighting for the accused maleâs reputation, society tends to create a smear-fest around the female survivors, reinforcing the toxic culture of victim blaming. Between âhe really is a gentlemanâ and âbut what about his exceptional career?â, himpathy enables a systemic gaslighting of female survivors: from claiming that they âmisunderstoodâ the intentions of the accused to calling them outright liars wanting to tarnish the reputation of noble, powerful men. Himpathy works at the crux of male privilege and entitlement, placing concern about a manâs reputation and career over the safety of women.
i honestly think only morons choose not to vote. sorry. you are beneath me. you are so unintelligent and ignorant there isn't a word for how stupid you are
I got a new suit for my friend’s wedding I have coming up and in an unfortunate turn of events as I stood there in the dressing room I realized that I look just fucking like my father
Being the only Gay at a straight wedding surely is an…experience lmao. I’ve been friends with the bride for over half our lives but her family is, for lack of a better word, ~Christian~. I was a bridesmaid and I told her I’d happily wear the dress the other bridesmaids were wearing (they were actually really pretty- a dark maroon silky gown) and she insisted I didn’t have to, so I just got the same suit the groomsmen wore, except I wore a more “feminine” (aka floral) tie that matched the bridesmaids dresses, plus maroon socks. I even let the makeup artist put a bit of mascara on me which I wasn’t happy about but hey, it’s not my wedding, it’s not about me. Although she did wanna pluck my brows and I said absolutely the fuck not lmao. I walked down the isle and I swear to god her ~Very Christian~ grandmother about keeled over.
At the reception I felt simultaneously a bit like a circus attraction and a plague- like I was to be either avoided or gawked at with no gray area. People either looked at me like 😬🫤😒 or like 😳😲😨 and nothing in between. Did I mention this wedding was in North Carolina? Yeah. I do get stares and stuff in PA/Jersey too sometimes, but never like this. The grooms family was more chill but still had that….vibe.
But, the way straight women my age who’ve never really interacted with (out) lesbians before act the moment they get like one single glass of champagne in them is crazy tho lol. Im not talking about the “spaghetti girl” bullshit or whatever, but it’s just like you can see them have that moment where they realize they don’t Have To be hyper feminine, if that makes sense? Like, I sit with my legs spread. I take up space. I talk over men who interrupt me. I took my jacket and tie off and unbuttoned a few buttons and rolled up the sleeves because it was hot in the room. I slouched and laughed loudly and didn’t care to be ~ladylike~ or whatever. And I’ll see them kinda watch me. And you can just see these women start to pick up the same traits. They’ll slouch a little bit more. They’ll kick off their heels. They’ll put their elbows on the table. They’ll laugh and smile without covering their mouths or trying to keep quiet. It’s really really cool. It reminds me of the first time I met a gender non conforming woman and realized there’s more to being a woman than just a rigid cage of femininity. And how fucking freeing that is. It’s cool to actually be that person for someone.
There was one girl who I found out was the grooms cousin, and the first words out of her mouth when she met me were “hi! What are your pronouns!” And I was just like “🙃oh!😃 I’m a woman!” Literally not meanly or bluntly or anything whatsoever, and she just went “…oh.” Like hello ?? You clearly know I’m a woman. You wouldn’t have asked if I was a man in a suit, and you wouldn’t have asked if I was a woman in a dress, so why tf are you asking me just because I’m a wearing a suit. I preferred the Christians.
Anyway. When I got back to Jersey this morning I was like “oh thank fuck I’m home” lol.
Oh!!! And!!! I didn’t drink a single thing!!! It was open bar! I even held up a glass of champagne for the toast and didn’t drink it!! I’m literally so proud of myself I can’t even put it into words. A year ago I wouldn’t have been able to do this, but I did. I fucking did it.
Thereâs literally hundreds of links to sources of violent MEN- excuse me, transâwomenâ (and, hey! even a few transâmenâ too!)- who have raped, assaulted, stalked, tortured, or murdered people. Its all right there at your fingertips. Many of these men are pedophiles. Many of them are now currently being transferred to female prisons. The ones that are already in female prisons are currently raping the vulnerable women- overwhelmingly women of color due to systemic, institutionalized racism- incarcerated with them. Again, keep in mind that this is literally the tip of the iceberg. This isnât even .01% of all the violent men who call themselves women who are being moved into female prisons.
These are a few tumblr posts about TIM predators and other various trans bullshit, which provide additional sources in their posts. Actually read the posts, and click the sources:
Transâwomanâ whose a known sexual predator, interrupts Rose McGowenâs speech, while Rose was speaking about her own experiences with rape in the movie industry:
Hereâs some lovely screenshots of trans activists nailing dead rats and spray painting death threats on the doors and windows of a Vancouver Rape Relief womenâs shelter! Also screenshots of a Black woman being told by Canadian politician transâwomanâ, Morgane Ogre, that talking about her being a victim of female genital mutilation is Evilâąïž because it hurts transâwomenâsâ feelings, some lovely misogynistic lynchings of âTERFsâ, a transâwomanâ bragging about his (male) privilege, and more! Iâm sure you still think this is all totally warranted behavior, right???
Is THAT good enough for you? Now do you understand why it is radical feminists want nothing to do with you monsters? Trans activism is nothing but the newest manifestation of the patriarchy. Itâs menâs rights activism in a wig. And at this point, anyone who sees all the shit theyâve done and all the shit theyâre doing, and still supports them, is just as fucking bad as they are. And remember, this barely touched on the lesbophobia (and homophobia in general) that runs rampant under the guise of trans âactivism.â This doesnât even go into the fact that transâwomenâ starting to take the very few places in businesses and governments reserved strictly for women, or them rolling back hard earned rights the suffragettes fought tooth and nail for. This doesnât even touch on the fact that young girls and women are now losing out on desperately needed sports scholarships to universities, losing hard earned and long standing titles, all because transâwomenâ are taking over real womenâs sports. If I were to go into all that, this post would be 10x as long as it is now, and the 35 minutes Iâve spent on this is too much as it is. So please. Tell me again how this sort of stuff ânever happensâ and how radfems are âjust as violentâ.
