If you ever hear the phrase “fascism is aesthetics as politics,” that’s what this post is talking about.
It’s not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against “crime” as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.
It’s about performing “tough on crime” as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent “crime.” They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.
This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don’t want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against “crime” because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.
Not only did tumblr @staff get rid of the fast queue, now my iOS app doesn’t even have a button to slow queue posts! You have to use the reblog button and open a meatball menu to queue. Barbaric.
Bring back at least a slow queue button, you monsters.
Saying they might as well not even bother preparing for it, a study published Monday by Michigan State University found that the average American stands no chance against what’s coming. “Our data show unequivocally that the vast majority of Americans will be snuffed out immediately the moment it gets here,” read the report in part, adding that many Americans falsely believed they were ready for it when, in fact, they were not in any respect.
Things Morrowind has taught me: -Rest is important. -Practice makes perfect. -Solstheim is a terrible place, I’ve heard. There’s a boat from Khuul, if you have any reason to go.
I hate checking out a piece of media your mutuals love dearly and just being unmoved. Unimpressed. Like I’m getting a bad grade in mutual a thing that is normal to fear and possible to achieve
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