Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.
If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not "inalienable" and they're not "rights."
We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.
And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with.
Do you ever wish you could un-share yourself with someone. Like “you don’t deserve to know me anymore, byeeee” and they instantly forget
“I’m not on tiktok anyway so this does not affect me” no???? it’s not just about tiktok or whether or not you like the app??? it’s about them being able to censor and control what they want and what they don’t want people to see. it’s about them being able to keep people uneducated for the sake of their personal gain and benefits.
(it’s also about small businesses who relied on tiktok to gain customers / income.)
that being said, if the only thing you care about is the platforms you’re on, sorry to break it to you, but if they can ban tiktok, they can go after any other platforms too.
they can go after tumblr, archive of our own, instagram, youtube, facebook, etc, you name it.
it actually does affect you.
If Lena went to therapy x
Derry Girls – 2.03: The Concert
Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig
happy together (1997) dir. wong kar-wai
reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something
BE MAD BE SAD BUT DONT U DARE GIVE UP