Hey guys! Some of you may know me from my blogs (including @thevoidfish) or my previous incarnations as socialjusticesummoner and ask-an-mra-anything (a url I stole from a violent misogynist). Long story short, I left my abuser two years ago and have been trying to care for my child as a single parent since then.
I have a job that makes decent money, but not enough. I’ve been trying to find extra work, but nothing has worked out so far for a lot of reasons (the shitty job market, the niche nature of my skillset, my availability, etc.) It’s tough trying to make it as a single parent, but especially considering I still have a lot of mental health issues with my PTSD. It is very, very expensive to get the help I need to take care of my child.
If you guys could help with donations or reblogs, I would appreciate it a lot. I’m trying to slowly get to a place where I can afford to write actual web content for this and some of my other blogs. I am going to still keep trying to make money outside of this website, but once I can eventually make enough money on this site, I can justify spending time here instead and generating good, original content that is informative and helpful.
Here are the blogs I would like to create original content for:
@swolerbear: health, fitness, and anti-fatphobia content
@transmascpregnancy:
resources, information, and general support for transmasculine people who get pregnant or are trying to become pregnant (this is one of the most difficult blogs to run because of the lack of information out there, so it’s pretty dead now and would benefit the most from financial support)
@fatfridayart: positive representations of fat people!
I also have other blogs that I would like to add more content to, although not necessarily original content: @theporgcollective (star wars), @thevoidfish (The Adventure Zone/McElroys), @garbagejock (art/aesthetic), @wholesomedads (wholesome dad content)
How to Help Financially:
One time donations help tremendously! My paypal is swolerbears@gmail.com, and here is a link to my ko-fi!
How to Help if You Don’t Have the Financial Means!
Because trust me, I understand. Reblogging this post is a HUGE HELP, but also if people could promo my blog to their followers so I could reach a greater audience, that would help so much! If you like the content I create across any of my blogs, please make a post letting your followers know! You have no idea how much it would mean to me!
Sam is a good dude. He runs many fun and informative blogs. I, personally, would love to see more original content from him. But original content is work, and not everyone can afford to do unpaid work.
All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.
-More than $22,000USD donated to 61 anti-fascists in eight countries to help them out of an antifa-related jam of one kind or another.
-80% of that money went to legal fees, court fines, and prisoner support; 14% covered medical bills & recovery-related expenses; 5% was used for emergency relocations.
-728 anti-fascists living in eighteen different countries are now in charge of running the Defence Fund and making the decisions about how it’s used. They = the largest international network of anti-fascists in the world!
Obviously, this is something that you should support. The Defence Fund is completely dependent on donations from anti-fascists, so if you’re opposed to fascism & bigotry, donating to it = one of the best actions you can take. Also, if you sign up to become a monthly contributor to the Defence Fund this month, you’ll be entered in a draw to win an author-signed copy of either
Mark Bray’s excellent book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook or Gord Hill’s amazing non-fiction graphic novelThe Antifa Comic Book.
I want you to know that your work doesn't just provide useful arguments against Nazis but dissuades some bigots as well. Your writings have really made me think and realize that a lot of the stuff I believed was racist propaganda, and Im glad to realize how much I was lied to regarding bigotry like transphobia/racism. Its not even that I wanted to hate people, its just that these people go around whipping up hatred by painting it like we are under fire and need to fight back, but its all bs!
This = probably the biggest compliment we could receive. When we started this blog, part of our intention of putting up solid arguments to counter the bullshit white supremacists & bigots rely on to recruit and radicalize people. None of their propaganda stands up to proper scrutiny and by blogging about it, we hoped we could make it easier for people to see.
We’re tremendously pleased to hear that we played a small part in helping you see through the lies that the bigots on the extreme right propagate to try to divide us against each other.
If you want to see some of the stuff we’ve put up to counter the nazi narrative, have a dig through the asks on our archive. Or if you prefer your arguments against “white nationalism” in comic form, we made a downloadable comic about that last year you could print out (and hand out to your friends!).
I
own firearms. I’m a leftist. Not a #feelthebern leftist. Bernie is too
far to the right for me. Because of my politics, men have come to my
home to kill me. This has happened more than once. When it did happen
the only things that saved my life, and the lives of my roommates, were
training and the physical possession of effective tools.
I’ll tell one story that will put the current clamor for more control
on everyone and everything in perspective. I was actively organizing
against the KKK and other white supremacists. So were my roommates and
my entire social circle. The FBI attempted to contact me but claimed
they could not find me. They got a call from a payphone via an
intermediary. The agent, tired and wishing he didnt have to do this said
“I am required by statute to inform you that we have credible threats
against your life from white power groups.” He got my lawyer’s phone
number. I was not going to talk to him.
It was really clear that the FBI would rather bungle the
investigation of my death than prevent it. We detected the surveillance
attempts by the white supremacists. We allowed their surveillance to see
that we were well armed. They went away. The FBI did not have us under
surveillance. There was a police precinct house three blocks away. The
police were never on our block. We were being set up to die.
The FBI knew what these guys were up to. The FBI knew where we were
because these nazis did. Planning to murder someone in conjunction with
another person and then putting your target under surveillance is a
felony. It is conspiracy to commit murder. The FBI could have arrested
and prosecuted these guys at any time. The FBI did not do so. The police
were actively not present. The FBI did what was the barest minimum. We
saved our own lives and we only could do so because we were armed.
This was not the only time in my life this happened. I was in
Mississippi once defending a Planned Parenthood Clinic from militant
pro-life activists. Planned Parenthood did not want our help. Both local
and national pro-choice groups did not want our help. On the very first
day of the protests somebody planted a fake bomb in the park where we
were. We marched against this violence. The police arrested some of us
for jaywalking.
We had our own house there. We rented it and filled it with
activists. We knew that to control our own actions, politics and message
we needed total control of our own logistics and safety. Our house had a
gun locker. It turned out we needed it.
We took great care not to be followed home by the pro-lifers. They
were not successful in finding us through direct surveillance. The
police did find us and they did watch us. On the last day of the
protests several car loads of pro-lifers came by and circled the block
constantly. The only way these people could have found the house was if
the police told them. The police were helping them to kill us. I was in
the house alone. I displayed that I was armed, and very well armed at
that. They’re circling stopped. They backed off.
In both situations I had the kind of firearms that people scream to
ban. Serious weapons with hi-capacity magazines. The kind of guns that
bounce their head off the glass ceiling of legality. I have never
discharged these weapons at anything more dangerous then a paper
silhouette. However, as soon as my enemies knew that I had this
capability, they fled, never to return. My enemies were planning on
killing unarmed liberals. The police and the FBI helped my enemies. Once
my enemies discovered I was not bringing a bong to a gun fight, they
left.
The police will never disarm white supremacists and other right wing
thugs. When people clamor for more background checks or denying firearm
ownership to people on terrorist watch lists, they fail to understand
the mentality of the people that make those lists.
In Minneapolis, now, today, the head of the Police Union is Bob
Kroll. He is a white supremacist. He is part of a law enforcement only
motorcycle club that openly displays neo-nazi imagery. He is not only
allowed, but required to be armed. He has called Black Lives Matters a
domestic terrorist organization. The perpetrator of the recent
homophobic massacre in Orlando was a prison guard, thus allowed and
required to be armed, and was trying to become a policeman. I grew up knowing policemen that I would not trust with anything more dangerous than a nail clipper.
When Bob Kroll calls Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists, he cites
a shooting that happened while the group was occupying the entrance to
the 4th precinct police station in Minneapolis. Three white supremacists
from the suburbs came to force a confrontation. When ejected they fired
on the crowd wounding several people. The White Supremacist Cop Union
Leader Bob Kroll calls people terrorists for being shot at a non-violent
protest by white supremacists while they were unarmed.
Gun Control is racist. We live in a society that is White
Supremacist. Liberal icon and gun control advocate Hillary Clinton has
called black teenagers “superpredators that need to be brought to heel.”
Dogs are brought to heel. That is where the expression comes from.
Hillary Clinton thinks that black people are dogs. Hillary Clinton wants
more police at home, more war abroad, fewer guns in the hands of the
people and she does not even think that black people are human beings.
Who will be disarmed by Hillary Clinton?
Diane Feinstein is
another leading liberal gun control advocate. Her husband is a
billionaire who has directly profited from drone strikes on schools all
over the middle east. Her core constituency is San Francisco, which has
seen a recent uptick in the shooting of unarmed black men by police. She
was mayor there before she was Senator. As Senator she is the head of
the intelligence committee. She makes the rules which govern who gets
put on what list.
The Orlando massacre was not an attack by ISIS. It was an attack by a
homophobic prison guard and domestic abuser licensed by the state to be
armed. The victims were majority black and brown. The victims friends
are being denied the right to even donate blood because the state
regulated hospitals and blood banks are officially homophobic by
regulation.
The news today, and everyday, brings me a parade of how society is
deeply racist, deeply sexist, and deeply homophobic. Nobody clamored for
a crackdown when some transphobic person bombed a Target store for not
conforming to their religiously based potty regulations. Indeed they
clamor for the same racist, sexist and homophobic murdering policemen to
guard bathrooms as if they were banks. Somehow, in all this, middle
class liberals who have comfort of protection from a white supremacist
state want the rest of us to be disarmed by that state. Their petitions
and lobbying did not save my life. I saved my life through my own
training and preparation. My life needed saving from people they hate
who were being helped by the people that protect them because I putting
it on the line for values and ideas they espouse. They can go back to
their guarded gated communities and watch the rest of us earn, win, and
live our own just society and decent lives.
This blog is mostly so I can vent my feelings and share my interests. Other than that, I am nothing special.
If you don't like Left Wing political thought and philosophy, all things related to horror, the supernatural, the grotesque, guns or the strange, then get the fuck out. I just warned you.
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