Originallonemagpie Goes Political

Because I want my regular blog - originallonemagpie.tumblr.com - to be positive, and a safe non-triggery space, but I still want to expose douchebags and fight misogyny and hatred, this will be the place to come for the political, egalitarian, and...

[originallonemagpie]

Presented Without Context, Here Is Captain America Smashing Some Fascists

I'm in the mood to watch Cap punch the crap out of some fascists. Not sure could possibly have inspired this desire lately.

Also Wonder Woman

[originallonemagpie]

‘Some very fine people on both sides.’ I guess we all remember that line from the orange Hutt, referring to Nazi/KKK/white supremacist protesters with automatic weapons, and those against them. Funny how he didn’t say 'there are some evil people on both sides.’ Of course he didn’t, cos that would have been a truth, and he’s incapable of it.

This week, 'some very fine people on both sides’ is notably absent. Because it’s a truth, and he’s congenitally incapable of stating one.

In the first circumstance, there were no fine people among the Nazis. In the second, well if I’d been in the mood last night I could have shared videos of cops gassing and assaulting not just peaceful protesters but also journalists and innocent bystanders watching from their own porches; other cops  siding with protestors; the Sherriff of Flint, Michigan, and another Latino police chief elsewhere, ordering their men to protect and side with protestors; protestors attacking cops and journalists - on one particular case Faux News journos - and other protestors shielding cops from harm, and delivering them cases of water and thanking them for their service. Or I could have shared  footage of peaceful marches in,  say, Portland.

And no, I’m not going to   say 'violence is never the  answer’ - because, because, while it USUALLY isn’t, it is just often enough to  keep people turning to it. If it was never the answer, nobody would bother, they’d do something more effective.

But I am going to take Fart’s words here, where it’s a truth, and therefore can never be said by him.

You might wonder  if I’m going to pull out an 'all lives matter’ hashtag. No,  I’m not. #BlackLivesMatter because nobody chose to be born black, but they still suffer for it. Same applies to women’s lives, gay lives, Jewish lives, yellow lives, trans lives, etc. Yes, even white lives in this context - basically the nature of you means you matter. When it  comes to choices…. Then it’s more complex. BlueLives, should matter - the concept of serve and protect is a valuable one, but then they interact  with other choices. Nazi Lives absolutely don’t matter. Because if youre a Nazi, you willingly waived that right when  you decided it meant that other people’s non-chosen rights to life didn’t  matter. Though just maybe you can change your mind and matter again  before it’s  too late.

Meanwhile Fart shows his true colours by making anti-fascism terrorism [presumably the paperwork can only really fit the US anarcho-communist activist 'group’ of folks with loosely shared interests - and  I doubt even that can be made to stick legally -  but we know what he means, and I imagine their membership  increased exponentially over the last couple of nights] and hiding in a bunker. Somebody needs to tell him that if he’s going to do the bunker  scene correctly, he has to poison his wife,  shoot his dog, then eat a bullet. That’s traditionally how it works.

[originallonemagpie]

Dear America, try this. It worked well for you before.

[curliestofcrowns]

Please, please double and triple check things before you spread them. It doesn’t take long. Remember that not only are there all kinds of troll accounts out there, we’re also dealing with hostile government actors from within and outside the US. Please be sure something is true before you hit reblog.

We’re Keeping A Running List Of Hoaxes And Misleading Posts About The Nationwide Police Brutality Protests

As thousands protest the death of George Floyd, BuzzFeed News is debunking the hoaxes and disinformation that have been spreading online.

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[whelvenwings]

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[lavender-sprinkles]

Pillowfort.social (An Updated Breakdown)

Alright, strap yourselves in because this post is going to be long, informative, and thorough.

Back in September 2018, I answered an ask with my thoughts on Pillowfort, but A LOT has changed since then and I’ve gone from clueless Pillowfort baby to experienced, knowledgeable user. Pillowfort has become my social media home after 11 years of being on the internet and I want everyone to have a chance to experience what I have experienced there. So I thought I’d make a new post for 2019 letting you guys know what’s up!

Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Pillowfort Staff in any way. I just have a special interest in Pillowfort and want to see it succeed!

In this post, I’ll be covering (in order):

The History of Pillowfort

An overview of its awesome features

A way you can join for FREE (with a Google Form)

And some helpful resources for getting started on Pillowfort

Btw, Pillowfort’s official Tumblr is @pillowfort-social​​​​. They also have a Twitter and a Facebook page.

Keep reading

[lagonegirl]

I hope he wins the lawsuit, a police officer was finally doing the right thing and they penalize him for not being a racist monster!

[theboykingofhell]

his name is stephen mader and not only did he refuse to shoot, he actively wanted to help the man (ronald ‘rj’ williams) because he could tell that he was only acting out because of mental illness. rj williams was suicidal and holding an unloaded gun and, while mader didn’t shoot him, a fellow officer (ryan kuzma) did and murdered him on the spot. here is the source and here’s to hoping rj williams gets justice

[socialistexan]

“Saying the words ‘Just shoot me’ sent up the red flag that he was just trying to harm himself and no one else … That’s what made me make my decision. He needed help” I hate this fucking world. The guy was actually trying to do his job by actually desculating the situation the right way (desculating these days apparently just means shoot them) and was fired for “failing to eliminate a threat.”

[critgemhero]

HE WON THE LAWSUIT AND GOT $175,000

[aphrican-aphrodite]

I read this whole story. It is wild !! The conversations between him and his ex coworkers about what went down that day 😧😶

Listen to it all here:

What Happened When A White Cop Decided Not to Shoot a Black Man

A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect.

[uncleromeo]

when I say there are no good cops, this is part of the reason why.

“good cops” lose their jobs for doing the right thing.

“good cops” die mysteriously after whistleblowing.

“good cops” are forced to choose between their livelihood and becoming just like the rest.

[polyversity]

Dunno if anyone outside the UK has noticed, but Britain in the last week has decided that tipping milkshakes over fascists is what we do now.

To the point that McDonalds were asked by the police to stop selling them, and it didn’t help at all.

Someone with a gourmet giant shake today just drenched Farage and he looks like a sad milky weasel. Blessed day.

[polyversity]

[hollypop235]

Would also like to add that Burger King got themselves involved with this beauty

[angrylonemagpie]

The so-called climate protestors still at it today? The idea should be to disrupt the people causing the problem, and get the public on-side, rather than disrupt the public and alienate them. These London protests strike me as strategically incompetent and will inhibit their own aims.

That tends to be the British way, mind you- cf our rail strikes fucking up the public vs the Paris Metro strikes that simply didn't collect ticket money from commuters. One harrasses t

Here they should be ignoring the Tube (it's fucking electric, which is good), and interfering with the workings of, say, oil company HQs or airline HQs...

And, no, none of the protests are affecting me, as I'm not in London (I'm not travelling anywhere until well into summer, which is a bit dull), but I do get frustrated when people who know what needs to change are so completely impractical and counterproductive about getting it done...

[nemfrog]

One month after controversial adult-content purge, far-right pages are thriving on Tumblr

White nationalist propaganda is still extremely easy to find.

Very detailed, well researched article.

[rrrick]

All the nazis without those annoying nipples!

[swampgallows]

An important excerpt:

“This subtle far-right creep echoes a 2017 study by the Institute of Strategic Dialogue which warned that the far-right had become extremely adapt at using internet platforms to normalize their ideas. “The weaponisation of internet culture is deliberately used by extreme-right influencers to bring about attitude and behavioural change, in particular among the younger generations,” the report warned.

This sort of normalization of white nationalist talking points was what tech companies were supposedly shocked by — and promised to stop — in the wake of Charlottesville, as they provided an easy way of “red-pilling,” or radicalizing and recruiting, new members, most of whom are young, white, disaffected men.

“Using ironic memes and terms that don’t mean anything to our enemies but normies find funny and actually lead people to develop a race-based political consciousness is what it is all about,” one 4chan poster explained in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

In this regard, the prevalence of far-right content on Tumblr is especially disturbing, as it provides as aesthetically pleasing way to subtly insert white nationalist ideas into the heads of potential recruits.”

Be ever vigilant about the context of the content you consume. This is how they get you.

[tenaflyviper]

So, @staff basically censors our freedom of expression and limits communication and resources for the LGBT community, content creators, and non-contact sex workers, but allows white supremacists to not only thrive, but grow in numbers. All while porn bots have become smarter and more active than ever, and their shit system continues to flag gifs of Bob Ross and pictures of jewelry.

[problematicparrot]

Finally, a sane celebrity who doesn’t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.

Source

[ren-of-rationality]

My god I love her.

[mango-thot-deactivated20190520]

I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God she’s RIGHT.

When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I’ve you’ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a “look”.

Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn’t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a “look”.

The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a “look”.

Why is this such a big deal? Because all these characters are considered physical goals for men. These are actual unobtainable physical standards for men. Male body image issues get swept under the rug so often that some people don’t even think they exist.

[da-boy-o-kultur]

You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carter’s actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted.

[eric-coldfire]

Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex.

[guyveranimefan87-blog]

If we are talking about unrealistic physical standards of male fitness given to us by movies, I would like to mention Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman here.

Yeah, he is ripped, isn’t he?

Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of “water weight”. 

Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.

As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, “If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ‘Roll it!”

It’s the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.

According to experts, healthy body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables. 

Fitness model and professional bodybuilder Helmut Strebl also known as “World’s Most Shredded Man” as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%…

… But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one’s body for longer periods of time.

I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then…

There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration…

And let’s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as “Megarexia” or “Bigarexia”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia

Yeah, it’s a thing, but it’s barely talked about, since it’s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorder…

So… Thanks Hollywood?

[fierceawakening]

I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this.

[brunhiddensmusings]

dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failure okay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says ‘thats not good enough’ and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting scenes without his shirt, after which he has to have recovery time before he is hospitalized because i am not joking about ‘one day away from organ failure’ thats the benchmark- look at chris hemsworth and process that he is told he isnt suitable for a shirtless scene without prepping for three days and nearly fainting

[shipperwolf1]

real feminism acknowledges the unhealthy standards that men are held to. radfems brush them off as non-existent

guys, feminism is for you, too. it’s for all of us.

[hamburgeroisie]

If you think feminism is only for women then you are not a feminist

[angrylonemagpie]

Er, way to miss the point of feminism, most of the posters at the top of this thread. he toxic masculinity that feminism's against is exactly what does objectify men, jus in a different way. Natalie's doing the feminism quite correctly, and as usual most guys are missing the point...It's like guys taking med with a swig of water and thinking the water is the medication..

[lemonbombsfjl]

[angrylonemagpie]

DPRK News Service on Twitter

“Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un does not fear rain.”

North Korea unexpectedly wins the internet this weekend!

[starlightomatic]

Saturday morning, on the 26th of October, a Nazi walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue, shouting “All Jews must die!” and opened fire. He killed eleven Jewish people, including grandparents, husbands, wives, and a doctor remembered for his compassionate care of his patients during the AIDs crisis. Several of them were there celebrating a baby-welcoming ceremony for a gay couple’s newly adopted twins.

This was the deadliest antisemitic attack in all 364 years of American Jewish history. Jews all over the world are shaken, upset, and scared. We know that this could have been any of us, but beyond that, this attack struck at the heart of our people. We were attacked in a place of safety and sanctity. We were reminded that as Jews, we are not safe in America. And we lost eleven Jewish souls.

Some of us are grieving, some of us are angry, some of us are devastated, some of us are numb, some of us are crying, some of us are terrified, some of us are anxious, and some of us can barely walk up the stairs because this doesn’t make any sense and yet it makes so much sense because we all, on some level, imagined this was coming. Our history has taught us that our safety is never guaranteed, and over the past two years we have watched the sickening rise of Nazism and antisemitism all over the world, including in America, where, despite our history, many of us had been lulled into believing it could never happen here.

We lost a third of the world’s Jewish population within living memory. So many Jewish families, in every country, fled antisemitic violence within the past few generations. The tragedy we just experienced is visceral, it’s terrifying, it’s devastating.

So please, check in on your Jewish friends and ask how they are doing. Please, take a moment to understand and absorb this tragedy. Please, understand how this is not just yet another mass shooting (that while theoretically tragic, you don’t really have the space for another one, what with compassion fatigue), but rather an attack that pierced the heart of a group of people already carrying centuries of pain and trauma. Please, make space for this one. Please, when you talk about this, don’t use generalized language about hate and about how no one should be killed for their religion. Please speak the words: Jewish. Antisemitic. Say this was an antisemitic attack, on Jewish people. And please, keep us in your thoughts today.

[starlightomatic]

Folks who aren’t Jewish, you can reblog this. In fact I’d be grateful if you did.

[liliana-von-k]

Don't Debate Fascists. Destroy Them.

When they go low, Michelle Obama wants us to "go high," but is that really going to solve the problem?

[angrylonemagpie]

She means when they aim for your nuts, hit them in the face. Historically there is only one way to defeat Nazism - kill more Nazis. We literally had a big war about it, everybody in the world got in on it.

[angrylonemagpie]

Last night I shared Baroness Tonge's UK entry in the Trump Award For Most Tasteless Massacre Response contest, but she's subsequently deleted it (including getting it deleted from Facebook) and praised Hamas for condemning the attack (And, seriously, Donald, the only way you could have your country be more racist is if you could get a surviving SS Gruppenfuhrer to say that this week's fans of yours would get kicked out of his unit for being too extreme). So here's a screencap of the tasteless antisemitic cuntery.