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[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[hotcrossedfangs]

[shounenchild]

my favorite part of this whole thing tbh

[mevil]

[toskarin]

[northern-punk-lad]

The guardian trying to find who’s responsible for increased transphobia in this country

[petulantpony]

i’ve said it before but i wish vaginas didn’t cost money

[petulantpony]

you literally can not have a vagina without paying for it. vaginoplasty for some, period products for others, if you want to stop buying period products that’s gonna be expensive medicine or an expensive procedure, recovery from surgery requires time off work and vaginoplasty specifically requires money spent on dilators. our bodies shouldnt cost us this much on baseline. having a vagina shouldnt have such a hefty tax on it. it makes me feel like i’m in a fictional dystopia written for middle school classrooms when i think about it.

[kushandwizdom]

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

[shez-a-b0mbshell]

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

[teddybearnova]

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

[2ollux-double-bulge]

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

[the-collecting-turnip-deactivat]

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

[fgsshinyhoard]

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

[hockey-trash]

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

[cricketcat9]

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures. 

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

[justgot1]

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

[lettingitoutabit-deactivated202]

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

[for-southendgirls]

Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

[goingtiny]

Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?

[hogwartsconsultingtimelady]

This photoset proves you can make anywhere look great or terrible. It’s all framing and more people should know about that

[gamebird]

Worth a reblog. I don’t think the US version was on there when I first reblogged.

[holyfudgebuckets]

All of this is true, and also- those stick and mud houses are actually amazing examples of indigenous African knowledge. They are being studied for their thermal properties and sustainability.

Of course traditional African homes look different from homes in the US or Europe- they’ve started from different climates and resources. It’s such racist hubris to assume different means lesser-than.

[moniquill]

Do you still sleep in Grass thatched houses ‼️😳

Hey Fam Thank you for coming by Another video here answering why we sleep in grass thatched houses Hahahha some people clearly don’t know wh

https://share.google/MCbqIYkdTvWZ3TgTA

[aetherograph]

also also, the racism of saying “oh they build with sticks and mud” like we don’t do the same thing. Stick-built is a fucking category of Victorian house! Stucco is just mud! Plaster is just mud! Adobe is just mud! Clay is just mud! EVERYONE builds with sticks and mud! It’s very telling that people only use words like “sticks” and “mud” when they’re being insulting. Buddy I live in a house made of sticks and mud too.

[mr-leach]

My own son??? Happy to see ME??? For real?!?

[bacteriumphage]

Thought that post was cute so i drew it

[negativeresponse]

WHAT omg i love them holy shit 💜💜💜💜

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[r0zeclawz]

god adoptables really are the funniest fucking thing the more i think about them. imagine youre so excited to get a character and draw them so good with all your ocs but someone else wins the bid and proceeds to only do shitty ms paint drawings of them smoking fat joints

[lowhitpointspuppyplagueharpylady]

Noooo,, n-n... no, no no no, noooo..... can you? No, I-I don't think so, no, that, that can't be possible.

[r0zeclawz]

i tried once and thorns of dark force materialized agonizingly around my wrist

[r0zeclawz]

we gotta save these kids from copyright furry hell this cant continue. its just no good

[komainucomplex]

I HATE BEIGN THIS KIND OF PIGSHIT ANIMAL

[maidthings]

can you quiet down please

[komainucomplex]

okay sorry but someone told me i should talk about my feelings and unforchies this is just waht its like for me honestly and i dont think it can get better any imm just basically goign to be sitting on this plinth until the day i die whcih is fine because its my job and its what i have 2 do which is nice to have some purpose @ the end of the day plus id ont actually think i can die so theres never any freedom for me

[maidthings]

???????

[chrliekclly]

confuse spell

[troutreznor]

hey can we be fucking honest with each other for a sec? the endless cyberstalking and sexual harassment that people on this website subject transfems to - building documents of information and networks of rumors and public harassment campaigns against trans women - is directly responsible for the kinds of suicides we're mourning today on trans day of remembrance -- this is not "discourse" this is not "infighting" this is real life or death shit

[strawberry-crocodile]

if you are on the side of cyberstalking random trans women (typically autistic, often twoc, often victims of SA), then we are not "in the same community" you are my fucking enemy. trans mras will often evoke the threat of "conservatives who want us dead" to gesture at unity (and try to shut up transfeminism); if you participate in or just support and agree with these disgusting fucking campaigns, YOU are the conservative who wants trans women dead.

[complexkomainu]

what are you made of inside

sister its nothing good

[hbmmaster]

if you call a meme fascist people will defend it by saying we can't culturally defeat fascism by letting them have everything they claim for themselves and the meme in question is "reject modernity embrace tradition"

[aurora-eos]

Who says the tradition has to be fascist? Embrace the tradition of organizing strong unions and civil rights organizations to fight back against all the tyrannical corporations and governments that want to oppress you! Embrace the tradition of having Nuremberg trials!

[hbmmaster]

so this is not the first post I've made about this meme (it is, in fact, a direct response to a common way people replied to a previous post I made about this meme) and it still baffles me how hard people seem to want to try to come up with ways this fascist slogan (which I remind you is stating, directly, that problems with modernity should be solved by returning to tradition, meaning that things were better in The Past and we should reverse progress as a solution to current problems) is Fine And Good Actually.

and like. what do you think you're accomplishing by presenting your beliefs within the framework of political regressivism. do you actually believe that, in general, modern problems can be solved by looking to The Past? that the best possible world is one that has been left behind and that we must RETVRN to it?

because that's what this meme is saying. that's what "reject modernity embrace tradition" means. it's not implied by it, it's not a secret hidden origin that you need to be in the know to recognize, that's the literal surface level meaning of the sequence of words. that's the idea that this meme communicates and normalizes.

[nazrintouhouinegg]

That addition may have been true 15 years ago, but we unfortunately have to live in the material reality of the year 2026. If you were ever someone who supported socially progressive ideals like feminism, transgender rights, anti-racism, or any of that sort, then something you need to know is that we lost on those issues. We lost hard, and have seen practically nothing but regression to forms of oppression progressives naively thought were dead and burried in the past, on top of increasingly new and disturbing methods of system oppression. In this sense, anyone against where the reactionary right is steering the future towards has no choice but to try to return society to where it was several years ago. If progress towards social equality has nowhere left to go but backwards, then the best anyone can do now is prevent it from regressing even further to back to the 19th century.

[eccentricecologist]

This kind of defeatist call to some sort of "reactionary progressivism" is genuinely some of the most lowkey dangerous shit I've ever heard from a so-called communist.

One of the most basic principles of historical materialism is that the rise of class antagonisms leads to increasing violence on the part of the ruling class, and somehow, you're arguing to give up and let them try and turn back the wheel of time, rather than fight tooth and nail to protect our class and sharpen those contradictions until we can achieve a proletarian revolution ? Why call yourself a marxist-leninist, then ?

And for the record, German communists suffered a lot more setbacks and faced way more violence than we do right now, and they still managed to fight back against the Nazi regime. Wherever you live, I'm sure there is at least one thing you can do to further the cause

[nazrintouhouinegg]

I wasn't going to reply originally, but seeing others, where in that post where I warned that groundbreaking (as in not brand new) social change is fundamentally impossible under a reactionary regime did it say the reactionaries winning is Good? Believing that the moral arc of history bends towards justice in spite of all contrary evidence isn't Marxist at all either!

[hbmmaster]

so I'm gonna be honest I don't think "better things are not possible" is a very progressive thing to say. if you want to come across as someone who is against regressivism you should maybe consider not saying this

[radiofreederry]

Cool

[am-josie]

Uhm,, sorry sweatie, but we have no principles and are glad to abandon your human rights for a handful of votes that we're not gonna get anyway bc we don't believe in offering anything to anyone either 😍🥰😘

[quasi-normalcy]

It seems like if you’re concerned about literal fascism, mass demonization and rollback of the human rights of unpopular subaltern groups is something that should the fucking well concern you.

[regicide1997]

first they came for the trans people, but I did not speak up, because I was too concerned with the abstract concept of opposing fascism to actually do anything

[regicide1997]