this was some moment. when he starts listing all the women in his life you just know that he’s gonna follow that up with literal shit pouring out of his mouth
lol dude even had the balls to go “why not?”
I love how George Miller is all “what the hell?” Like, Max is his baby, who the hell is some lameass reporter to tell him he is supposed to make a “man’s movie”???
Six out of ten South American countries are currently controlled by the right wing. Let that sink in. Six out of ten. Fascists are having the time of their lives, and what’s happening in Brazil comes to validate their hate speech, homophobia, racism and misogyny. Six out of ten South American presidents think violence is the answer to all the problems we have over here. Violence in the form of dictatorships.
In case you didn’t know: we have a history with military dictatorships over here, and ALL of us are still living under their repercussions. People were kidnapped, tortured and killed just for opposing these regimes, and their families still don’t have the chance to give them a proper burial. And entire countries are being ruled with constitutions made under these periods.
It’s fucking scary, because this whole thing is coming back. But this is why it’s important to get involved and actually do something if we’re against what’s happening right now. Get informed. Find out ways you can help in your communities. And RESIST. I know it feels horrible, but you are not alone. The rest of the continent is with you. And we won’t let them win.
It’s important to note that every single one of those dictatorships we still haven’t recovered from yet, were engineered/supported by the United States.
Yes. It all started when Latin America started promoting developing policies connected to the left wing. The US got really scared with the Cuban Revolution and its repercussions, so they started to financiate a few military groups.
The US even gave chilean economy students scholarships at the Chicago University in the 50s and 60s, just so they would learn everything about Milton Friedman’s neoliberalism. Those students, then known as the “chicago boys”, went back to Chile and helped to build an economical plan for their countries dictatorship, ruled by Pinochet.
Although we have more evidences about it happening in Chile, it happened in all of South America. Most countries were under a violent dictatorship for around 20 years.
fuck every democrat who says the issue of trans rights is a “distraction.” fuck every single liberal who say that the threat of stripping every trans person of legal recognition is a red herring or a losing issue and if we focus on it too long we’ll throw the election. we’re talking about human rights, access to medical care, sex education, discrimination, citizenship, and a whole lot else, for millions of people.
trans people aren’t a “distraction.” we’re human beings. the fact that so many liberals turn their backs on trans people is fucking despicable.
Okay…but this, right here? This is exactly what the Republican party wants. Young voters turning against the Democratic party and either not voting at all, or voting in favor of some third party candidate that has literally zero chance of pulling in enough votes to win. They want division among the ranks. They want to split our vote.
In political terms, calling something a ‘distraction’ means it’s a distraction tactic, not that the issue itself isn’t important. The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting the “hot-headed liberals” all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves. They deliberately drop issues that they know are hot-button topics because these are the topics that have the potential to be the most divisive.
They’re awful but they’re not dumb. They know trans rights is an issue that could potentially split the democratic vote. It’s an issue that’s very heavily weighted toward the younger side of the party, which again, was a deliberate move on their part. If they can convinced you that the “big bad Democrats don’t care about you little trans and nonbinary kids so why bother,” then they’ve effectively won the election in a walk because the democrats went in divided–again.
Look, the democratic party isn’t perfect. Not by a long shot. But it’s literally the only party that has a snowball’s chance in hell at overtaking the republican majority right now. If we as trans and nonbinary individuals ever want our identities respected and protected, it’s the only party that’s going to be able to get us there, because it’s the party going in the direction we need to go. If you want to vote in favor of our rights, then vote Democrat. No number of videos with pennies is going to change the fact that right now, in this political climate, third party candidates are not going to have enough power to effect the changes we want.
Warning against something being a distraction doesn’t mean “don’t look at it or worry about it,” it means, “hey, I know this is majorly upsetting, and absolutely something needs to be done, but don’t let it divide us.” It’s literally because the issue is so important that democrats are warning against it as a distraction tactic–if we want to prevent that kind of change from happening under republican rule, we have to keep our heads and not let them keep us from voting as a unified party.
Please don’t let the political rhetoric make you think that the democratic party isn’t going to be fighting for us and our rights. That’s kind of exactly what the Republican party wants you to think. It’s a division tactic. Don’t fall for it.
The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting the “hot-headed liberals” all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
I’ve been voting since 1998. This is what they do every single election.
Rebellions are built on hope 