“According to Spencer, efforts to de-platform him in the wake of the rally have made fundraising difficult….’I was able to raise the money for [DiNucci’s] initial retainer over the course of a weekend,’ Spencer said. ‘But now, whenever I attempt to raise money, there are various groups that make it their life’s mission to get me kicked off the platform, and they’ve become quite successful over the last two years.’“
I want to go on BC when quarantine ends and I know I need a prescription for that but how? Do I have to call/email to schedule an appointment or do I just show up? How do I choose an OBGYN? Is it safe to go to the doctor now? How long do I have to be on BC in order for it to work?
Getting started on birth control is easy. Typically, here’s how it goes. (Keep in mind, things are NOT typical right now. More on that further down.)
Make an appointment at a health center that provides birth control — like a Planned Parenthood health center, a gynecologist’s office, or even your regular doctor. If you’re a college student, your student health services on campus may offer birth control, too. Some Planned Parenthood health centers offer walk-in appointments for birth control. Find out about your nearest Planned Parenthood health center.
A doctor or nurse will talk with you about your options. They may ask you about your health history and check your weight and blood pressure to figure out which types of birth control are best for you and your body.
You might walk out of there with a prescription for a birth control method like the pill, ring, or patch. Or, if you decide to get an IUD, implant, or the shot, your doctor or nurse will either give you your method then and there, or make an appointment with you to come back soon for it.
How long you need to take birth control before it starts working depends on what kind you take and what part of your menstrual cycle you’re in when you start it. The pill, the hormonal IUD, the ring, the shot, the patch, and the implant can take up to a week before they start preventing pregnancy. The Paragard IUD works as soon as you get it inserted. Your doctor or nurse will run through all of that with you at your appointment.
If you don’t want to wait until social distancing is over, some Planned Parenthood health centers are doing virtual visits. That means you can talk with a doctor or nurse about birth control over video chat or on the phone. They may be able to prescribe some methods like the pill, ring, or patch virtually and get it delivered to your door.
If it’s an IUD or implant that you want, visiting a health center is your only option. Some Planned Parenthood health centers have had to close for the time being. Still, many others are open and offering appointments for birth control. Those health centers that are open may have special instructions for keeping you and the health center staff safe from COVID-19, like requiring masks or limiting the number of appointments per day.
Ultimately, when it comes to deciding when to start birth control, what kind is right for you, and whether you feel safe visiting a health center, it’s up to you.
If your slogan requires a long “Well, actually, what we said isn’t true, this is what we really want” explanation, maybe your slogan, though easy to chant, is misleading and therefore worthless to your cause.
Maybe that should be a consideration.
No, because…that’s not what a slogan is. A slogan is SUPPOSED to short and just cover a basic point. If we just took police budgets and cut them in half, we are still “Defunding the Police”; what we do after doesn’t need to be included. A long slogan is a shitty slogan. BUT, if you want to be weirdly, obtusely literal, the full hashtag slogan was #defundthepolice #investincommunities
Except that’s not what everyone says the meaning of “Defund the Police” is, is it? Some, like the city counsel of Minneapolis, defined it as eliminating the police department all together. CNN ran stories about towns who had “defunded” and dismantled their police departments, reconstituting them under a different name. Some, like AOC, talked about reinvesting in communities. The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone demands specifically state the police department will be dissolved and their pensions rescinded. All of these ideas are being presented at the same time with the same “defunded” verbage, so it’s really not as cut and dry as you make it sound. If it were, there wouldn’t be so many politicians and media outlets having to go behind and explain. And honestly, yes, a movement should want to gather people to its side, and the best way to do that is to thoroughly explain your plan and what will happen after, so being able to explain what defining the police and nee services will specifically look like would be important towards that end.
A slogan should be short and cover a specific point, but if the point isn’t made clearly, it isn’t a good slogan. The Twitter hashtag is longer, but the greater majority of the country isn’t on Twitter, so a movement aiming for broader support has to aim for braoder appeal. If all people hear is the chant, then there will be confusion and room for interpretation, as it has happened. We agree to disagree if you like. I hope we would agree that the police are too militarized, with too much money spent on equipment that should not be necessary, so cuts to that end combined with serious reforms like descalation training, intervention alternatives to police/jail (especially for youth offenderss, mental health crises and drug addiction),and laws like the one being proposed to outlaw no-knock raids are necessary.
Reform the Police Police the Police
There.
So…
Who Watches the Watchmen?
It’s notable that the majority of Western media presents Internal Affairs as being bad guys, especially in light of how Western media habitually depicts cops (all of whom are varying degrees of corrupt) as being in the right unlesss explictly stated otherwise.
A Black man who went to Harvard law, a Mexican man, and a Jewish man singing about cops belonging to the KKK and these white assholes being like, “you guys used to be cool before you got political”
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