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henriëtte ronner-knip (dutch–belgian, 1821–1909), "study of eleven cats" (details), 1904

Either you learn to pronounce "khuy" from hearing it directed your way so often in so many different circumstances, or you decide to stop trying to fucking learn Russian, the problem solves itself.

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did you know you can make a pride flag with solely the colors from ben's latest outfit

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This doesn't look like it was taken inside an Australian house, but there is an Australian store that makes pretty good ~alternative~ clothing that fits this spec. Depending on the exact seasonal collection and the buyer's taste, you can either avoid anything that looks like a blast from the 70s or you can do... pic above. I'm astonished the trousers aren't corduroy.

#i fucking hate corduroy texture alas

The Russian words for "salt", "pain/sickness", and "password" all rhyme. I can't pronounce any of them. When I try and I overcorrect, it sounds like I'm saying "oil". Liberalism win, I know the word for cooking oil and hence for sex lube, but not for the black gold the great powers kill for. I know how to say "black gold" though. Upon further inspection, the word for violence oil is not part of the same rhyme scheme and is fairly unpronounceable in its own right.

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"Antizionism isn't antisemitism. Oh, by the way, literally any public expression of Jewish culture whatsoever is Zionist propaganda."

Israel's atrocities in Gaza have changed the way we speak about Zionism and Jewish culture.

Lest you think I'm being uncharitable, the author literally claims that Fiddler on the Roof is Zionist.

I imagine that Professor Salaita genuinely doesn't believe he's an antisemite. He is incorrect, and he is not alone.

intimate-mirror

Some people believe that being against zionism is antisemitic.

This person seems to believe that if you aren't antisemitic, that makes you complicit in zionism.

I think the underlying worldview shared by these beliefs is incorrect.

moral-autism

If you think Israel should be dissolved as a state, and you post about how the US is on stolen land that needs to be returned, you are in fact antisemitic, because you want me to go "idk, somewhere, not important", or possibly you've thought about it more and you want me to go to Eastern Europe and face a higher risk of being assaulted for holding hands with my girlfriend or wearing a kippah in public or such.

If you support some kind of reasonable resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and you don't post paraglider memes, and you're fine with Jews living in the US, and you're just reasonably upset that the Israeli government is targeting civilians and failing to prosecute soldiers who commit rape and such, that's not antisemitic. But I see a lot more of the former view than of the latter view.

#the analogous view about russian culture is both correct and actually compatible with this #mazel tov i dont want to live in eastern europe either

That's the thing about butt stuff though, the insane argument back in my day was "anal sex causes fissures and is technically violent". And, like, imagine what has to go wrong that this feels logically correct. It's like, there's a kind of guy on the left who's at least passively decoupling sex and reproduction but is utterly perfectionist about health; and there's a kind of guy on the right who's passively linking sex to reproduction but when she's already pregnant the tie-breaker is... perfectionism about health. And fuck knows I find that tempting, and fuck knows the people who say "safetyism" are allied against bodily autonomy and attempting to avoid bad outcomes, but... ah. You know how if you drop the script handed down the hierarchy from Rome and stop even trying to be nice, you say "it's not your body"? A utilitarian or public health enjoyer would say there's a universal correct risk for everyone based on QALYs or community outcomes or some bullshit that can't possibly be what they really choose when no one's there to judge or to save them. A more reasonable pundit, I've noticed, says "your risk tolerance". And there it is. It's not your risk tolerance. That's why schools have to take out insurance and send consent forms home to the parents. The right-rats think people who talk like Aella are representative of the left and that normal Democrat-voting women head to the abortion clinic based on an outcome matrix that I assume would have Ayn Rand begging Margaret Sanger to do her over these tables with a roll of pencils right now. They blame us for her no matter how much the woke hate her. Well then. If they want a thin, pliable, "natural"-looking woman to act intelligent so fucking much, then it should be the one who advocates for a self-regulated adult industry with regular STI tests. College campus PSAs not good enough for them, fine.

Okay you know what if you're posting Twitter screencaps and I don't know who this cunt is and regret learning they exist, I shouldn't look at your posts for the same reason I avoid Twitter. Or at least, I should go look at an American smart enough to take down "women's asses are too delicate to take a big bad cock, men should only put their cocks safely inside other men" TERF talk

If only for the sake of trapped 16-year-old me who would have laughed alone in her cold room at the reductio ad absurdum of natural law and even, only jokingly haha, told her friends about it in an edgier moment. Unless this is TERFs attempting to recruit fujoshi at long last...

I mean, I knew growing up that my parents had never loved each other, but I had the hubris to assume I could do heterosexuality better, such that when I turned out to be bisexual I assumed I could do both better. You, however, tell children that "first comes love" when telling them where they're supposed to have come from.

Y'all have got to stop doing foreign policy so stupid that argumate successfully manages to make it look stupid instead of himself, c'mon

#hehehehe

argumate

war is over, etc.

argumate

war talks? in my day they called them peace talks, but it's good to know that every act of retaliation will be met with an act of retaliation on both sides, that will surely help.

argumate

hopefully there will be no retaliation for the retaliation to the retaliation

Someone who says "our culture" or "the culture" to attempt to force their view on all of society in the broadest sense has no right to complain about American patriots who only like some Americans. I'm not sure I could explain how I knew that if your choice is exile or staying in Russia with your passively pro-regime parents, you save yourself and keep alive your chance of making a Russia worth fighting for. Call it the stirrings of conscience, like those that tell me the God of Job is wrong. But slowly bolstered into "if there is a universal moral law that no thinking being can truly disobey without the prickings of conscience, then the one who is right about that law's ruling on this topic is me". You break bread with those who write off the entire Eastern Communion except at big papal ceremonies, but pat the Reformation's descendants on the head? You claim that your country was right to break from Britain, but also right to bring its own secessionists into line to enforce its true laws in every corner of the land? Then either your team failed in its mission, or... you have gravely misapprehended the mission.

A furry avatar trying to argue with the American anti-feminist election-denier is countering a "people in the past didn't tell each other about what they were into, keep it in the bedroom" with "the puritans were gossiping assholes and the McCarthy thing went sniffing all round the bedrooms". Furry avatar writes like an American. Meme poster writes like an American. Neither are amazingly compelling writers but they feel like a real, consistent person is behind the posts, and I feel pretty comfortable saying those people both think like Americans. If nationality has any bearing on who gets to tell who to shut up, Americans policing Americans is reasonable. Look, I'm pretty sure small-p puritan is a part of the English language that only a prescriptivist with early Soviet levels of ambition, or early American levels of ambition, could change. But if you want a term that gestures at people you're sort of allowed to hate if you don't get too excited, I say we revert to "religious nut", "bible-thumpers", "god-botherers", or something of that type. Especially since the furry avatar said "puritan settlers" (their writing has some standard English capitalisation, so I take the lack of proper noun designation to be the same thing as anyone who decapitalises "russian" when talking about the nation-state taking orders from the Kremlin). So if you're used to black Americans and Han Chinese calling white non-Americans "coloniser", you might not realise that "Israeli settlers" are not in fact "anyone descended from the people who settled modern Israel and are now just living on land that used to be someone else's", but people who could be living on actual established Israeli land and instead specifically go looking to either live in some burnt-out wasteland that recently got depopulated, or specifically go looking for a fight that will result in depopulation. Looked at this way, calling the Puritans "settlers" seems pretty accurate! ... Well. For the American Puritans. Black American identitarians love to tell you about how America got all its racism from Europe and Europe should not only be replaced by Africans from actual modern Africa, it should take orders from black Americans until then. Lots of white Americans believe in weaker versions of this and spread em around the Anglosphere at large. This is part of why you shouldn't be smug about European superiority unless you're actually right, because while you're out enjoying being European your countrymen who are trapped in nowheres with Americans on the net for company will cop the full force of those guys' self-hatred. But if Puritans, or Calvinism, or whatever crazy kind of Protestant the Germans and British kicked out because they sucked were also shitting up Europe, then either modern Europe successfully purged those tendencies or they have every right to complain about them. I don't mind that the pair of you are globalist enough to inflict your intra-American conflict on the rest of us, I care that you're wrong.

Anyway. The Catholic Church and American fundies high-five each other while threatening literally all pubescent children born with homosexual inclinations with expulsion and ostracism directly. Given how important a lockstep "community" based in physical place is to both of them, I'm sure that if they cared they'd understand that exile is death even now. Americans sometimes correctly name the thing that cursed their culture and that is their right to purge from it. Catholics point at Americans and their reds under the bed when they assign you "The Crucible" in school, rely on you being passively American-style racist enough not to notice that MLK was Protestant, and tell you to be grateful they taught you enough real biology to know what research pathways are banned. The Soviet snitching is exactly what every single one of these institutions operates under, and it is because some children raised Catholic put their friend's fear of expulsion above every rule that I want Nazis' children put in normal shitty orphanages and not specific camps. And if Americans want to claim the right to world police, if they want to talk about replacement of the English and also to talk about superior cultures' right to replace others, then if something that speaks English and treats the Pope with the deference you do the President exists then how about you arm the local patriots with the tools to finish the job. Oh, not guns, you don't need guns when you can just win an election. But there's a lot of deep state brush that needs clearing out of every state legislature. Don't speak to me of English blood until you can call Pell and Abbott traitors.

There are theoretical reasons that it's easier to get someone who's attracted to adult women to be interested in some things related to human reproduction than it is to get them to be attracted to kids. I mean, newborns aren't really people the way ambulant children often are, but we don't generally want to fuck animals either, for the same reason alien tentacle rapemonsters borrow features of octopi or squid but the real thing is kinda offputting. Yeah uh this sounds bad, it was really convenient that the punishment for asking a girl out under Catholicism is being cast out of God's light so there's no point pretending you're not like all the other perverts. You come up with a reason you're still better than George Pell despite being worse than all girls, and often it's a good enough reason to be getting on with.

While all modern manufacturing is cool as hell, that entire pack of needles seemed to snap real easy, sure wish I remembered brand name and reseller beyond them being uhhh thrifty in just selling the pointy bois stuck through thin plastic sheeting and not in something pretending to be a case.

I can't tell Americans what makes "you are our true president until we win the war, but if you don't let the anti-corruption bodies you promoted investigate your buddies then we Euromaidan again" work, but the American unbanking is so fucked that copying a pastiche of Europe might actually improve things. Normally, "halt all work until we figure out what's going on" ruins lives like the worst COVID lockdown, but if you've cleared out the government anyway... Okay, I kid. Europe takes consenting countries. You don't want to improve things so fast that you get actual organised factions among the poor little refugees, that's how we got America in the first place. Mexico can plausibly be secularised. Canada can plausibly be made to value people with English ancestry more than it values foreign priests. Mexicans don't deserve first shot at becoming American just due to physical proximity, but sometimes the deputy brings a trio of dimwits to county jail and says these guys really need to not be on the street, until and unless they either sober up or can be proven to be hanging material.

#half shitpost

Okay so I was considering hitting publish on a post banging the "right-pronatalists and Catholics are Nurgle worshippers" drum but the blog who posted it... is a real person, who has gotten worse in recent years because I remember that URL from the old days and yet we're not blocked to each other, and posts text with people who can tolerate the far right and posts commentary under some memes. But posts so many shitty rightoid memes that only Facebook AI slop from greater India and TPLACs is worse. (Okay, Truthsocial is probably worse, but that tends to get genuinely amusing dramatic readings. If you get to camp the electric guitar, we get to camp the eagle screech.) But I had been wondering if everyone who wasn't ideologically locked into having to have an opinion about transgenderism is willing to drop the explicit trans kids talk, either in the hope that if their guys win and Normality Is Restored good policy will happen or because they never cared lol. Like, one of the bad European Protestants, though good enough to choose London over the Vatican, had a post in 2022 about trans kids where he was on the right-wing side. But that could be a relic-- >sterilizing kids Ah, the election-denying kind of right-wing American is still on that drum.

Okay, so the thing is that if you had real objections about biological functionality and robustness against other people controlling such, we could talk, but you don't. But if a quietly functional solution is available, normies who might fall for it would just sigh in relief when the doctor they trust a little too much gives them the mandatory sperm bank form. That solution is harder to get on the table with the hullaboo the left has made for at least a decade about male villains using animal breeding and cutting-edge science to oppress women and girls, and how REAL WOMEN want to pass on their genetic disorders and get fat I guess. Still. If Ozempic allegations are even a thing... Oh, but the problem with America is that of course they don't have trustworthy sperm banks, they don't have banks. Trump is pretending to fix unbanking in the same way that medieval Christianity fed the poor: it might help a few people, but will forever cap their progress and entrench the bad system. The way the right lies about state welfare doing.

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