A What Now?

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[digitalvampyr]

i’d rather be waterboarded than realize i don’t mean as much as i thought i did to someone again

[that-stone-butch]

stockholm syndrome is so funny to me. 'oh you're critical of how incompetently the police handle hostage situations? you think they're being reckless? you must have Stupid Moron Loves Criminals disease'

authority only has one way of handling dissent and it's 'if you are critical of us then you must be brainwashed' and it's wild to me that the term is so prominent in casual conversation

[that-stone-butch]

people love to point to Patty Hearst as the posterchild for stockholm syndrome as if she wasn't the victim of intense abuse and torture. as if that didn't heavily influence what she did to survive the situation she was put in. like 'nah it was brainwashing actually. brainwashing is real and it's when women are tricked into denouncing authority and capital, haven't you heard?'

[that-stone-butch]

there is something meaningful to be taken from this kind of pop psychology when you're living in a political climate where donald trump will say something like 'laziness is a trait in blacks' and if you say 'hey man the president of the united states said this thing. it's in print. he published it' you have sycophants claiming you have 'trump derangement syndrome'

'soy is poisoning men and making them leftist'

'women are too emotional/hysterical to be taken seriously as rational actors. it's science'

this trick has been around awhile. pathologizing dissent by any other name

[hungry-skeleton]

Why isn't "too scary" a good enough reason to never drive a car

[mydeddyalabama]

what does turkish delight taste like and is it worth the events that occurred in chronicle of narnia: the lion the witch and the wardrobe

[musicalhell]

So the first thing you must understand is that there are two basic types of Turkish delight. The first kind is what most people are familiar with, which are these gelatinous cubes covered in powdered sugar. They are, by most metrics, an acquired taste:

This is usually the stuff people try and say, “Yeah, I don’t get it, Edmund.” But if you go to a good Turkish confectioner (or just any of the bazillion stores that sell it in the Istanbul markets) you’ll see a second kind of Turkish delight, in a rolled shape:

This is the good stuff. The sell-your-soul-and-your-family stuff. It’s nutty and chewy and creamy and comes in all sorts of flavors, and I highly recommend it to anyone. (Especially hazelnut. It’s not a traditional flavor but I’m convinced the White Witch dipped into the future to get some for Edmund, it is that delicious.)

[eruvadhril]

The second thing you need to understand is that the turkish delight was laced with mind-control drugs.

[cameoamalthea]

The third thing you need to understand is Edmond was living under WWII sugar rationing

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you actually don't have to hand it to the catholic church ever, like under any circumstances

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

"heehoo chicago man beefing with trump!!!" okay. I hope they both explode

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I think some of you had too much fun making memes about Conclave and forgot about the genocide and colonialism and imperialism and misogyny and homophobia and transphobia and

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I hate trump too but this is who you're cheering for

[animentality]

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

[depsidase]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

top notch interaction I had with the ambulance crew after my accident a couple years back:

paramedic: hi, I'm Allan

me: you told me. and your colleague is Jim, and the man who found me is Peter. guess my short-term memory is okay

Allan: ..are you doing a cognitive function test on yourself

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Allan, two minutes later, putting a third blanket around me: okay, how's that feeling now

me: well my feet are still freezing but it's okay, I know you need to focus on getting my core temperature up first

Allan: how many times has this happened to you

[dragon-in-a-fez]

noteworthy that they literally had a mask on me hooked up to a tank pumping narcotics into my lungs through all this, and my body temperature was like 34°. I would have been doing well to just have both eyes pointed in the same direction

[supreme-leader-stoat]

"This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in post-accident cognition."

[dramatic-dolphin]

sometimes it genuinely feels like other people don't remember being children. "omg if a 13 year old is looking at porn there is something deeply wrong 😨 they shouldn't even be thinking about sex!!" they are going through puberty and their hormones are going crazy. do you remember being 13 years old.

[drtanner]

They absolutely do remember, but this is a particularly stupid Emperor's New Clothes situation where they not only parrot the popular Morally Pure™ opinion that teenagers never get horny or look at porn or have sex ever because they're Minors™, but then also pretend that they themselves also never did those things, because if they admitted that they did, some batshit freak would probably call them a paedophile.

[dramatic-dolphin]

as the op of this post, i can confirm batshit freaks in my inbox calling me a pedophile for this 😔

[wutheringheightsfilm]

democrats when trump is threatening to destroy entire countries and civilizations:

[wutheringheightsfilm]

there isnt going to be impeachment. theres not going to be an arrest. like the democrats are not going to do anything because this ultimately once again serves their imperial, capitalist, and white supremacist interests. the entire government has to go like none of these ppl r going to fucking help anyone but themselves

[ayeforscotland]

This is what Donald Trump posted on Truth Social - Which in and of itself is apocalyptic and disgusting.

From a UK standpoint, I do not understand why King Charles is heading to the US later this month for a state visit.

And I don't know how people can want to attend the World Cup in the US in a couple of months time.

[ayeforscotland]

For the record - I really do hope that tomorrow we wake up and nothing has happened, and we can laugh and talk about 'TACO Trump' and breathe in.

But that first line is deeply evil and threatening, and we don't know what the actual plan is.

[orangepenguino]

No. I'm fine, really. I'm just ugly crying about Carroll crater. A bright spot on the far side of the moon. I'm fine. I'll stop crying eventually.

[socialistexan]

I'm glad I'm old enough to clearly remember the lead up to Iraq and all the ghouls involved in pushing it and manufacturing consent.

And wouldn't you know it, the overlap of people of people doing that in 2003 and people pushing for the Iran War is a nearly a circle.

[ms-demeanor]

Hey by the way if you're an American and you're against the war, it's your duty to call out the shit that is insane and monstrous and wrong.

If someone says something that you know to be wrong, say something. Push back on it. Iran didn't start this war. They haven't been at war with the US for forty seven years. The US didn't have to support Israel's strikes with this kind of escalation (we haven't in the past, in fact Trump hasn't in the past). The Iranian people are not looking to the US as liberators. The Strait of Hormuz was always going to be used tactically in this way, it is absurd to suggest that the Iran would open it because it is the single best method of leverage they have to resist annihilation from a superpower. Bombing civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Saying that an entire culture will be destroyed is genocidal.

There is no moral reason for the US to do this, the reasons that the US is doing this are oil and to destabilize the region. Hubris, cruelty, and a vile old man who wants to give himself a hero's legacy play a part as well.

You should be saying out loud to the people around you "This war is unjust, unnecessary, and cruel, and every reason our leaders are giving us to tell us why we're doing it is a lie."

People should know you feel this way. Some people will feel the same way, and it will be good for you and for them to know that you're not alone. Some people will NOT feel this way and it will be good for them to know that there are people all around them who haven't bought into the violent propaganda of empire.

[ms-demeanor]

Simple things to say to push back:

There is no justification for bombing water and power infrastructure for ninety million people; that will kill thousands of civilians and is a war crime.

Iran was bombed while they were negotiating with the countries that bombed them; they were willing to make the agreements requested by the US and Israel before they were bombed.

The Strait was open in February. If the US and Israel hadn't attacked Iran there would have been no reason for Iran to close it.

You can't be an "imminent threat" for forty seven years, so either Trump is lying about the immanency or is lying about Iran being at war with us for half a century.

[ms-demeanor]

Correct! If you are enlisted you made one really bad decision already, you don't have to make more. You can become a conscientious objector if possible, but if that's not possible it is better to refuse orders and go to prison than to participate in atrocity.

[pocketseizure]

Princess Zelda one-hand wielding a greatsword my beloved

[mesothelihomo]

[mesothelihomo]