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YOU ARE THE REASON
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@chainsawmac
My partner works for NASA and he said all the astronauts have set their teams away messages to be Very Normal things that Don't at all imply that they are In Space. Everyone at NASA knows they are in Space, but Microsoft Teams may never know.
His uncle sure wasn’t!
That man was barely fucking hanging on, he was literally disintegrating. He was also rumored to have prostate cancer at the end of his life.
I’m disabled too, chronically ill like JFK. I have an autoimmune disease, JFK showed signs of one. He was a frail house of cards of a man who survived on a mix of uppers, downers and steroids. I also need similar medication to survive. It is so fucking disgusting to see RFK jr. rewrite history and attack modern medicine when his own family has a loooooong history of severe physical and mental illness.
It’s worth noting many of JFK’s health issues started after he developed scarlet fever, a common childhood illness that often left victims with damage to their kidneys, heart, joints and brain and sometimes triggered arthritis. There is no vaccine against it but RFK jr is trying to undermine the vaccination schedules for other common childhood illnesses that can cause permanent lifelong damage to a child’s health.
“I don’t understand. How does this refute what RFK jr. said?” Because many of JFK’s ailments may have been preventable/treatable with modern medicine. Because he needed amphetamines to function. Because the average life expectancy for men in 1960 was 66.6. People lived harder lives and died younger. Public health campaigns and infectious disease control and education helped immensely. People were not healthier during his uncle’s presidency because they did not have the tools and knowledge necessary to address many major public health concerns, we have them now and he is firing vaccine experts and literally swimming in shit creek. The average state of health in the 1960s was not better than it is today.
Many do not know about the state of JFK’s health because it was taboo. Because disability and ill health were things that were spoken of in hushed whispers. The Kennedys buried JFK’s health problems like they hid Rosemary after she was lobotomized. RFK jr wants to continue his rose-tinted view of a past constructed through blood and pain and ignorance. He is rewriting history in a way that is so obvious and so vile.
Two Moons and a Squirrel, full comic:
Is kindness really a virtue? I'm personally wasting myself away trying to be kind, I have nothing left for myself, and I just give and give and get nothing
And is rudeness a vice if the mere thought of it scares me into a deep fear, I live in fear of the idea of being rude, to my own detriment
Something about mediation is probably in order, but like all rudeness that isn't blunt sarcastic jokes feels wrong and like I am doing the moral equivalent of stabbing my dear friend with a knife
Very true
fuck my stupid baka life I should have been a male black widow backflipping into death via wild cannibalistic sexual behavior
@pangur-and-grim
BEARS YOU MUST STAY STRONG IN OUR AGE OF WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS. BEARS IF YOU'RE READING THIS DON'T GO ON OZEMPIC BEING FAT AND HAIRY IS AWESOME. WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO
Sometimes “locking in” looks like sitting in the sun and remembering that your life is also meant to be lived, not just optimized, monetized, and turned into proof that you’re worthy.
Always always always tell people you love they are so smart and capable. I will die on this hill. More often than not people are raised in unforgiving environments that tell them they are inherently “stupid” and not good enough for things, whether that be parents or cruel bosses or unsupportive friends. An underrated way of supporting people is reminding them they are brilliant no matter what anyone has ever said about their intellect and potential. People can do wonders when it’s affirmed to them their limiting beliefs are just that: limiting beliefs.
I got curious and looked into the ‘you can only have sex one day of the year’ movie more and holy shit
for those not as invested in this shit as I am, the movie ends with the protagonists not having sex and deciding people who like having sex are shallow and weird. Yknow. Agreeing with the facist government banning them from having sex.
If you think about it for more than a second, yes it is.
paving the way for enthusiastic folks building faraday cages to fuck in, because always use protection, including from 5G
Talking about Rick and Morty...
I think whenever people start approaching their relationship through an “emotional incest” lens, the conversation immediately becomes: “I know the series better than you. I’ll compare them to Lolita. It’s obviously grooming. Rick is a pedophile and Morty is his victim.”
And honestly, I think that completely misreads what the series is doing.
First of all, Rick and Morty isn't trying to portray a realistic pedophilic relationship in the same way Lolita does. They're completely different fictional frameworks. Rick and Morty isn't even built around a normal psychological understanding of reality. It's a story about a human being who has essentially ascended to godhood. Rick is a god with the emotional wounds and psychological problems of a human being.
So if you're going to compare the two, you have to acknowledge that one is grounded in a realistic human world, while the other is deliberately operating on an absurd, godlike scale. They're simply different narrative environments.
Second, I don't think people are using the term “grooming” correctly. Grooming involves deliberately presenting an idealized version of yourself to gain someone's trust and manipulate or exploit them.
That's not what Rick does with Morty.
If anything, it's the opposite.
Rick is the person who shows Morty his ugliest side. Morty knows that Rick is cruel, selfish, manipulative, and capable of horrible things. He literally calls him a demon and a goddamn son of a bitch. He knows Rick could abandon him at any moment. He even believes that Rick may only keep him around because Morty is filling the emotional wound left by Diane.
Morty doesn't blindly trust Rick. He constantly questions whether Rick actually loves him. There is literally an entire episode built around that fear.
So I think you're severely underestimating Morty as a character. Just because Rick constantly calls him stupid doesn't mean Morty doesn't understand who Rick is or what to expect from him.
And this is fiction. You have to analyze it from a narrative perspective, not treat it like a clinical case study.
Rick and Morty is a black comedy that deliberately breaks basically every taboo imaginable. It has incest jokes, bizarre sexual situations, grotesque violence, and absurd scenarios that would make no sense if you tried to interpret all of them through a realistic psychological framework.
There's literally an episode where an adult impregnates Morty, and Rick responds by drowning the guy in a bucket. This is not a realistic depiction of human psychology.
To me, the relationship between Rick and Morty is much closer to this:
A god who is completely fucked up finds a toy that is incredibly fun to play with. But the “toy” slowly proves that it isn't a toy, or a dog, or a disposable object. It becomes genuinely important to Rick, and Rick becomes terrified of acknowledging that because doing so means becoming emotionally vulnerable again.
And that's where the power imbalance becomes especially important.
Rick isn't simply an adult who happens to have authority over a teenager. He can manipulate Morty's body however he wants. He can turn him into a car, a boat, or anything else. He can make him physically and mentally older. He can alter his memories. He can erase him from existence. He can clone himself, resurrect himself, replace bodies, and manipulate entire universes.
He can basically do whatever the fuck he wants with reality.
So the power imbalance isn't simply “adult vs. teenager.” Rick exists on an entirely different ontological level.
That doesn't make his behavior healthy. He's abusive, controlling, manipulative, and sometimes genuinely sadistic. But it does make the simple “pedophile + innocent victim” framework a very poor description of the narrative dynamic.
And there's another thing people seem to overlook: the series establishes that there are Rick and Morty variants whose relationships become romantic, passionate, and healthy. If the creators intended the combination of “Rick and Morty” itself to inherently represent a pedophile and his victim, that wouldn't really make sense.
If they wanted to portray that relationship as inherently abusive because of the age difference and family relationship, then those characters couldn't simply remain Rick and Morty while becoming a healthy romantic couple. The fact that the series allows those variants to exist tells us something about how the creators conceptualize the characters and their relationship.
So, yes, I absolutely agree that the relationship we usually see between Rick and Morty is abusive, toxic, codependent, and deeply fucked up.
What I don't agree with is reducing it to “Rick is a pedophile grooming an innocent, completely unaware Morty.”
That interpretation flattens a much stranger relationship into a simple victim/perpetrator dynamic and ignores how self-aware Morty actually is, how openly Rick exposes his own monstrosity to him, and what the series is actually interested in exploring.
The interesting question, to me, isn't simply “Is Rick grooming Morty?”
It's:
What does Morty actually mean to Rick, and why does Rick become so emotionally attached to someone he constantly insists is replaceable?
Because Rick has essentially unlimited power over Morty — and yet Morty is one of the few things he repeatedly chooses not to simply replace.
That's the contradiction I think the series is actually interested in.
i think the most upsetting thing about american-flavor puritanism is how fucking patronizing it is. it's 2026 but the whole world still has to deal with a cultural hegemony grown from the gnarled vestiges of victorian-era paternalism. tax-paying adults with passports and the right to vote are treated like wayward children because of the antiquated idea that authorities must protect the weak minds of the unwashed masses from depravity and corruption. the average american can send a fellow citizen to the chair, but they can't piss in a ditch without being declared an outlaw. american entertainment media is saturated with sex, but you can't talk about it online without getting your account suspended. it's such blatant censorship at a universal scale, but because sexual content is framed as inherently dangerous, this restriction on basic adult autonomy, this blanket denial of moral and intellectual adulthood, can be reframed as protection, an expression of care, a moral duty. "won't someone think of the children!" I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN!
thank god that the video game that features slow motion animations of graphic gunshot wounds and is rated 18+ has a profanity filter in single player offline mode. thank you for protecting this 33 year old mind from the corrupting influence that is a horse named apple slut
you are fifteen thousand generations removed from stone tools
to be clear you are fifteen thousand generations removed from the invention of stone tools. not from the end of stone tools. modern humans are still using stone tools.
Flawless tags, @baddywronglegs
I thought you meant we were descendents -of- stone tools
your father was a handaxe and your mother smelt of microliths
