suffering wanderlust

🇭🇷🇷🇸 || she/her || in the usa || mainly languages, cultures, animals, social issues, memes, & travel || only the open minded welcome 🧿

[balkanica]

serbs of northern dalmatia, croatia

[balkanica]

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[shakespearesdaughters]

[balkanica]

this chorus from 1987 sounds suspiciously familiar to one from a 2010 song... "bejbe, bejbe, bejbe" 🤨

[kittykatninja321]

My hypothesis is that in like 10 years gen z is gonna have a big cult boom the way the boomers did in the 70s

[chazymandias]

It’s already happening on tik tok. There’s a fun new thing going round that’s citing common symptoms of depression and anxiety as signs you’re about to have your awakening and that you are actually an alien and the reason you don’t feel right is because you’re home sick for your own galaxy. So that’s fun.

[aleatoryw]

agreed, and i don't mean this in a "haha gen z is so dumb they're gonna join a tiktok cult lmao" i mean that conditions are perfect for the formation of cults right now.

high unemployment and a lot of underpaying, pointless jobs = people are looking for things to do with their life, a purpose

skyrocketing cost of living = most young people will not be able to live on their own, meaning some will end up in a group living situation with people interested in recruiting them

it's a time of great cultural and political upheaval, nothing feels real, people are desperate for meaning and human connection. cults promise that

there is a new wave of acceptance and understanding for ways of life outside the norm, which is great! ...except for when cult leaders tell you abusive and controlling practices are just their culture, their religion, their lifestyle, their beliefs, their tradition, and if you disrespect it you are the problem

social media influencers have already shown us how easy it is to build a cult of personality and attract people from anywhere in the world who are interested in the exact brand you are selling

spirtuality is having a boom, as are things like astrology, crystals, tarot, meditation, energy... those things aren't bad on their own but they are often used as tools of cult spaces

wellness. i think a lot of people are already in wellness cults. you can make people do a lot of things in the name of "wellness" and a big factor of maintaining a cult is keeping members in a state of decreased cognition..... like say, with regular fasting

i think people are just unaware in general of how cults function, especially because the satanic panic was a big stupid false alarm that convinced the youths that dungeons and dragons or doom were gateways to cults, which are scary evil child murdering, satan-worshipping gangs. people don't know how to spot them in real life.

[queersatanic]

[ID:  Spongebob wrestling meme format. Buff Patrick labeled "predatory cult" flexes and growls in a wrestling ring at a stern, buff Spongebob labeled "my intelligence". In his corner Mr Crabs is labeled "my education". Final panel shows Patrick and whistling Spongebob walking out hand-in-hand, both labeled "rationalizing why this isn't really a cult" /ID]

(This is actually more relevant here than standalone.) 

Our popular media has tended to portray people in cults as ignorant or as losers when that’s really not how they work. Cults don’t want dead weight they have to support; they want talented, clever, energetic people they can exploit to siphon wealth and labor out of.

Some are religious, but some are political. You find yourself moving into a house full of Maoist revolutionaries because capitalism really is that awful and ecological collapse is imminent—but for some reason, the leader of the self-crit sessions is also the person everyone else in the house is in a polyamorous relationship with, and they can’t see anyone else outside of the house without her approval. Or you need a little extra money and you get told you’d be so good at selling Keto products. You’re a natural, and after you get through these first tough months, the leg under you will be developed enough you only have to work if you wanna hit bigger goals. Etc.

Loneliness, a lack of purpose, and desperation all make you susceptible to cults no matter how smart you are. In fact, your very clever brain is also extremely capable of redirecting your thoughts away from realizing you’re being exploited and abused because, after all, you’re not some idiot, are you? 

We’ve got a ton of very clever young people fully aware that they’re going to have to suffer through decisions of the selfish dead, and they’re going to crave salvation of all different kinds because the future is going to suck, and it won’t have been their fault, and they won’t be able to do anything to stop it. 

[queersatanic]

How to spot when you're in a cult

How to recognize that you're in a cult seems so obvious and therefore unnecessary to ask that most people never even bother to do so. Conseq

[aristotels]

usamericans: oh, A COMMUNIST YOU ARE??? WHO SIMPS FOR USSR??? AND THINKS IT WAS A GREAT PLACE????????

me, a yugoslav who never talks about ussr because im yugoslavian and i talk about yugoslavia and yugoslavia was a part of the third world movement and not west or eastern bloc and i believe that yugoslav countries should realign themselves with global south and not be under influence of either big force because im yugoslavian and i live in an ex-yugoslavian country and my knowledge revolves around yugoslavia: im yugoslavian

usamericans: SO YOU THINK PUTIN IS GREAT!!!

[aristotels]

please stop asking me about ussr, im yugoslavian........??? .......,,,,?

[thememedaddy]

[itsays]

"life as a 22 year old mother of 3" "life as a married 19 year old couple" *video of mother daughter and grandma making reference to how they were both moms at like 16* *21 year old girl flex video about how she's a mother of 4* *couple whose entire personality is having 10 kids before turning 30* "married my highschool sweetheart at 18 and now i have 8 kids at age 25" "what i do in a day as a 19 year old housewife"

[intersectionalpraxis]

Take a good look at the countries leading/have started the legal battles to hold the IOF accountable -their fights to end IOF terrorism and war crimes, as this should have been done months ago, are now beginning.

So many Palestinian people have been genocided, and the rampant global government inaction has caused chaos, death, and destruction of Gaza... I just hope this leads to a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation. I truly do.

[el-shab-hussein]

Indonesia and Slovenia

Mexico and Chile

This is the result of South Africa's initiative.

[gothhabiba]

More complete ID for the last image: the tweet features a photo with text that reads “Slovenia and Indonesia will be taking Israel to the ICJ. The separate ICJ hearing in which Slovenia and Indonesia will participate will begin on 19 February.” End ID

[mioritic]

Portraits of villagers from Bătrâna, Hunedoara County, Transylvania, photographed in 1958 by Romanian academics for a physiognomic study

Horia Dumitrescu and Ștefan-Marius Milcu, Cercetări antropologice în Ținutul Pădurenilor: Satul Bătrîna (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, 1961)

[balkanica]

🇺🇲 moment 🦅

[balkanica]

Been thinking back to the me of 3 years ago... she's both changed so so much and yet not at all.. it's hard to describe tbh

[balkanica]

Grown up around chicago my life and still am not and will never be used to this goddamn fucking winter I swear I've never been more irritated than this week alone I'm so SICK of snow SICK of it

[dyingenigma]

POOR THINGS

Yorgos Lanthimos & Atsushi Nishijima. 🎞: Kodak Portra 400

[roadwhores]

i love how the millionaire mindset hustle culture spread through the balkans you got men posting how they're striving to be millionaires by 28 girl you're from serbia the only way you're going to be a millionaire by 28 is if you become a criminal

[sparkleclowns]

he just lays around being a big ham all day

[czto-nebud-blog]

Či razuměješ li medžuslovjansky? (To jest jezyk tutogo posta). I kaky jest tvoj rodimy jezyk?

Чи разумєјеш ли меджусловјанскы? (То јест језык тутого поста). И какы јест твој родимы језык?

(Do you understand interslavic? Ie the main language of this post. And what's your native language?)

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razuměju + zapadoslovjansky

don't understand + western slavic

разумєју + возходнословјанскы

don't understand + eastern slavic

razuměm + jugoslovjansky

don't understand + south slavic

I've learnt/tried to learn interslavic before

don't speak any slavic language/show results/vaniljovy ekstrakt

Voting ended onJan 16, 2024

[czto-nebud-blog]

Za kontekst, tuto jest mapa děljenja slovjanskyh jezykov iz wikipedije. Ne izznačene sut kašubsky (zapadny), slezsky (zapadny), srbolužičsky (zapadny) i rusinsky (vozhodny)

За контекст, туто јест мапа дєлјенја словјанскых језыков из википедије. Не иззначене сут кашубскы (западны), слезскы (западны), срболужичскы (западны) и русинскы (возходны)

[balkanica]

Tf is this shit?