[afurioushawk]

Having my area of historical study been the Founding is so frustrating. The number one thing you learned about them was that they were not a homogeneous group, and more than that, they were all a bunch of divas who very much knew they were going to be remembered and so spent a huge amount of time being catty to their political enemies. But, y'know, in a Gentleman's way.

[pagecommando]

Also the fact that they were legitimately revolutionary and the whole thing where the American Revolution actually DID inspire people all around the world as did the 'experimental' nature of both confederation and Constitution. "Oh well it wasn't much of a stretch they just should have waited and gotten the canada treatment and healthcare" MOTHERFUCKER CANADA IS CANADA AS WE KNOW IT BECAUSE OF THE AM REV! BECAUSE THE BRITISH HAD TO ADAPT. BECAUSE IT WAS A CIVIL WAR AND A SHITLOAD OF TORIES ENDED UP THERE. ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES! (I'm good. I'm good. I'm good)

[afurioushawk]

[changeling-droneco]

There's something so so intrinsically funny about trying to co-op Glacial Trail, what the fuck is going on

[morhath]

I hate when king arthur has all these fussy little steps in the instructions and you're like "no way do these fussy little steps matter" but you try it and they do. they matter so much.

[bookaddict7342]

I thought you meant Camelot quests and I was like "that's fair, 'never pick a four leaf clover on the last Wednesday of the month' IS a fussy little step that shouldn't matter" but then I was like "wait isn't that also a flour company"

[morhath]

nooo I am not a beleaguered knight of the round table I am making elaborate focaccia 😭

[demilypyro]

how dare a work challenge me. you think I can't understand your little metaphors and allegories? fuck you I totally can. give me that book. oh what the fuck this thing is full of words

[wickedsick]

[ravioliet]

similarly to how you should never trust gamers with a nonbinary character i feel like you can also never trust a fandom with an aroace character. whether it's explicitly canon or implied it just ends up the same

[frayed-wind]

[questions-within-questions]

I really wonder what the demographic outcome would be of trans people involuntarily getting "the body you'd have if practicality wasn't a concern" like what percentage of the resulting bodies would be obviously nonhuman?

[tparadox]

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed in her bed into a cyborg werewolf with dragonfly wings.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

there’s this very vocal very tradwifey subset of adult adoptees I keep seeing who are like. adoption is inherently immoral, a child belongs with its biological parents no matter what, sperm and egg donation is abuse and children will be traumatized if they do not share their parents’ dna. and on one hand it’s really sad because I’m sure these are people who were mistreated or unloved in ways they directly connect with their adoptions, and both the adoption and foster care industry are fucked. but jesus christ.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

When I say tradwife I do mean tradwife… I wrote this after seeing a Facebook post by a pregnant lesbian whose wife was her egg donor—the comments were flooded with top replies by adult adoptees telling her that the child she would give birth to would be inherently traumatized by growing up with a stranger in the house pretending at motherhood. I saw similar comments on a post by a woman talking about how anti-abortion laws forced her to go through the agonizing process of giving up her baby for adoption. The replies were filled with angry (Christian) adoptees essentially calling her a slut, child abuser, and a sinner for rejecting God’s will in ordaining her as a mother.

The adoption industry being a cesspit of exploitation and commodification that strips children of cultural and racial ties to place them with families ill-equipped or unwilling to meet those needs and away from family that would have raised them if they’d had better access to resources to remain together is a travesty. I think more often than not adoption does end up being traumatic or abusive. This however is not evidence for the inherent sanctity of DNA and the universally sacred nature of motherhood.

[gloombby]

i agree with you that there isn’t a universally sacred nature of motherhood and those adoptees being wrong

but also DNA is important?? 🫩

people seem to think adoption suddenly makes genetics not matter but thats not realistic. genetic mirroring is important, seeing and being with people who look and act like you is important.

which adds to the fact that abortion and adoption are not the same conversation. abortion is a solution to pregnancy, adoption is a solution to parenting. most adoptees are pro-abortion and advocate for better abortion rights.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Seeing people who look and act like you is important in the sense of race and culture. It’s also just not something guaranteed to be shared by natal family. Adoption can be a violent severing of context and personal identity but DNA does not actually inherently provide these things. Like I fully believe that transracial and transnational adoption are often or usually a form of (usually Christian) colonialism and adoptees deserve a right to those attachments. But the presence of the specific individual sources of gametes is not inherently and biologically a good thing.

[standwithdaanes]

Turkish court sentences 15-year-old boy from Rojava to 80 years in prison based on FSA allegations

A verdict has been issued in the case against Hussein Mohammad, who was abducted for ransom by factions of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in 202

A verdict has been issued in the case against Hussein Mohammad, who was abducted for ransom by factions of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in 2022 from the city of Serêkaniyê in North and East Syria. After failing to obtain a ransom, the armed group handed him over to Turkey, where he has stood trial since. The case, which was based on the FSA’s allegations, was retried before the 2nd High Criminal Court in Urfa after the Court of Cassation overturned the previous ruling. During the retrial, Hussein Mohammad was recognized as being under the age of 18. The court rejected the defense lawyers’ requests for further examination of the evidence and found Mohammad responsible for the deaths of three Turkish soldiers, sentencing him to four separate prison terms of 20 years each, totaling 80 years in prison. According to Yeni Yaşam newspaper, Hussein Mohammad, who is currently held in Erzincan High Security Prison, was accused of being responsible for the deaths of three Turkish soldiers allegedly killed by sniper fire. Mohammad was prosecuted on the basis of reports prepared by the FSA. His age had previously been officially increased, while official birth records submitted by his lawyers to the court showed that he was approximately 14 years old at the time of the incident. The Court of Cassation had previously overturned the original verdict on procedural grounds and instructed the retrial court to reconcile the age assessments provided by the Council of Forensic Medicine and hospital reports.

The Free Syrian Army is backed by Turkey, which has colluded with Syria in its genocidal violence against the Kurdish people of Rojava.

They have sentenced a kidnapped child to prison for 80 years based on the account of the people who kidnapped him and held him for ransom, after initially trying to pretend he was older than he actually is.

[uncle-fruity]

I wish some of y'all would spend as much time harassing your deeply right wing government officials as you do harassing trans, nonbinary, and intersex folks. But you can actually feel the satisfaction in your cruelty when you don't have to face any consequences from the people you target, so I'm not gonna hold my breath.

[helenvaughans]

tbh it is kind of crazy to me that pre trump, nobody on either side of the aisle would ever DREAM of contesting the 14th amendment and now today you have all these chuds having full-on apocalyptic meltdowns about it. like it’s hard for me to believe that such a large proportion of the population always hated the 14th amendment this much, and in this case, i do think trump basically created this political coalition out of whole cloth

[helenvaughans]

[sprinkledsalt]

I think it’s a combination of two things: Trump as a cult leader and Trump as an accelerationist. The first one is easy, Republicans simply line up to viciously defend anything their Dear Leader shits out. There is no line he could cross, he’s their special boi. With the second one, Republicans have always been terrible, which is why they took so quickly to Trump’s mask-off bigotry, but something that distinguished Trump from a lot of other Republicans is that he wasn’t a regular politician who was trained how to wrap up his bigotry in coded language, he’s just a reality show star that says whatever he wants (he also never had a filter because he’s genuinely one of the stupidest people alive). MAGA voters since 2016 have gone “he just says what everyone is thinking!” They’re wrong that everyone thinks it, but every Republican thinks it. The way he was/is totally unfiltered and not afraid to be proudly bigoted is what drew shit stain voters to him, and it had a radicalizing effect. Having the leader of the party openly, unabashedly embrace naked white supremacy (and not face any real consequences for it!) made Republican voters and politicians embrace thoughts that had only been kept private before, or maybe things they didn’t think possible until their Dear Leader told them that their wildest racist fantasies were righteous, true, and within their grasp. So when you have the leader of the party, one who stacked SCOTUS in his favor and has been given insanely preferential treatment after doing outrageous shit, come out and say “yes of course birthright citizenship is a disgrace and we should get rid of it and we can totally do it because fuck the Constitution”, it just opens a door that was previously closed.

This is why people like Trump should never be given a platform to begin with; shitty people can become totally unhinged when thoughts that are typically shunned out of polite society are given a megaphone. We see this with radicalization all the time, like with anti-vaxxers getting a seat at the table with RFK Jr. instead of laughed out of the room

[apolladay]

there are two buttons in front of you. if you press the magenta one, you will receive 1million usd (or equivalent in the currency most convenient to you), no strings attached. if you press the jade green one, everyone in the world will receive 1000usd (or equivalent, same as before), no strings attached. you may only press once. (the buttons will self destruct with a very minor explosion 5 seconds after you press them) which button do you press?

magenta

jade green

i will not press a button

there are two buttons in front of you. if you press the magenta one, you will receive 1million usd (or equivalent in the currency most convenient to you), no strings attached. if you press the jade green one, everyone in the world will receive 1000usd (or equivalent, same as before), no strings attached. you may only press once. (the buttons will self destruct with a very minor explosion 5 seconds after you press them) which button do you press?

magenta

jade green

i will not press a button

Remaining time: 6 days 16 hours

[punkitt-is-here]

my deltarune fanart, ultimate strategic brilliance one billion

[sceptixfakemon]

this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this

[thisgingerisareallybadwriter]

There is something deeply fucked about goyische anti-Zionists expecting Jews to modify all our rituals and remove certain aspects of it (such as “Next Year in Jerusalem” or “Am Yisrael Chai”), simply because any reminder of our ties to Eretz Yisrael makes them uncomfortable. Sorry, but if we’re only welcome when we allow goyim full freedom to steal and gate-keep whatever parts of our culture they want, then that’s not acceptance, that’s cultural erasure and appropriation.

It’s almost, dare I say it, colonialist.

[thisgingerisareallybadwriter]

Actually, I’m adding onto this—if your argument for “freeing Palestine” is such that you have to completely erase entire parts of Jewishness and Jewish culture/history in order to make it work, then your argument is both shitty and hypocritical.

It’s also genocidally anti-Jew, but I know none of you care about that.

[shiyowa]

drawing i made in a daze

[rara-aviarius]

I LOVE PLAYING GAMES OPTIMALLY