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Is there a word for a specific brand of Christians who use toxic positivity? I’m tired of being told I lack faith whenever I’m being realistic about a bad situation. Yes through God all things are possible but that doesn’t mean God will give you the results you want 🙄🙄🙄
'Prosperity Gospel,' more or less.
I thought that was more the “God will reward you in the material world as in Heaven if you live by His word and donate generously to my megachurch” types?
It's amazing when you look at the Middle Ages, and when it comes to monarch's power, there was actually a lot of to-ing and fro-ing between a king and his vassals on a lot of things.
A king had to rely heavily on his vassal lords to pay homage to him, due to how fragmented and decentralized the Middle Ages was, so lesser lords could get a bit of wriggle room in various ways.
King wants to go on campaign abroad? Okay, so he's calling up muster from your lands, but you don't want to get rid of all the men of fighting age. You live in an agrarian society after all; you need to keep some men back so they can work the fields. So you haggle the amount of men you will send on campaign in your name, either under your own personal banner or sending a knight banneret to fight in your name.
King needs food? All right, but obviously you've got your own manor to support and feed too, so you can't send him all the bushels and cattle and pigs he's requested. But you can send some.
This obviously doesn't mean a king was powerless: the response to the Hotspur Rebellion in 1402/03 against the new Henry IV shows that just because some lords might chose to fully withdraw their support from their king doesn't mean that all would.
Because a king's power is as much about the projection of physical and political power and strength, through armed forces loyal to the king and also through laws, but there's also that a lot of the king's power comes from a place of reputation and trust; about a vassal keeping faith with his king because said king, who he has met personally, has bestowed upon him his rank and title, deserves his support and his trust.
Yeah. I feel like a lot of people have this perception of a feudal monarchy as like "This is the king and he has absolute power and these are all the people he owns and tells what to do :)" without really understanding how this system actually worked at all or any of the logistics involved at like every stage, but as with anything, the more you look into it the more complex it gets Like there are so many moving parts and it seems kinda fascinating. I'm half-remembering this, but supposedly, you also needed to worry about these kinds of meetings at the lower ranks of society as well. So like a Serf family was entitled to periodic meetings with the lord of their land to discuss matters such as the management of work and taxation, marriage and if the lord would approve of them (since Serfs were tied to land and the like,) to seek aid and charity in times of famine, etc. Obviously the power was generally more with the lord here, but there is management and negotiation and relationship management going on with that even so. So like... I dunno. A feudal monarchy seems like it's sort of a constant balancing act of meetings and negotiation and continued good relations at like every level of society you could possibly interact with. It's neat to think about it like that.
Someone on Twitter did a meme that describes EXACTLY this:
Ya'll are gonna hate me for saying this, but this is something Game of Thrones gets right.
While I agree, I think it’s important to note that Game of Thrones’ story takes place after a centuries-long political period that did operate under that fantastical ‘the king has absolute power and his vassals kinda just have to sit there and eat it’ millieu. However, it only operated under that millieu because the king and his lineage had exclusive control over airborne, fire-breathing superweapons that made stone castles look about as defensible as the first couple pigs’ houses when they tried to hide from the big bad wolf and could ruin swathes of land with little to no fear of reprisal, thus nullifying the military leverage vassals would normally hold over their liege lords.
Once the Dance went down and the dragons weren’t a factor anymore, the Targaryens’ inordinate political power was only sustained by their existing reputation and certain kings’ willingness to do horrible shit to their vassals to sustain that reputation - and even that didn’t last them forever, as Aerys II learned the hard way. Looking at the story through this lens, the War of Five Kings comes across as a sharp and sudden rebound of Westerosi society from complete Targaryen dominance back to the more realistic give-and-take nature of allegiance and homage that we see in the real world’s history, and the inevitable bloody consequences thereof.
you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect
is it worth it?
yes!!
the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT
meh it's okay
the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it
Results/option I didn't think of
Talking to animals, AND it kills me when I use it?
That's just killing me quickly if I ever go outside.
…okay, this kind of depends on exactly how the power and drawback interact. If the shapeshifting is completely cancelled out and I return to my normal body when I lose my privacy, that’s kind of useless beyond being something to idly play around with on my own time. If I only lose the ability to actively shapeshift when I lose privacy, but I keep whatever form I settled on, that’s much better as long I put in a bit of forethought to what form I use or to where I can quickly hide and change.
💬 71 🔁 9599 ❤️ 14801 · ... buddy if you respond that badly to a single word used for humorous intent, I'm seriously better off just laughi
Context. OP of post linked? Blocked EVERYONE who didn't agree with the propaganda in their post, and literally framed it as just a 'shitpost to amuse their friends'. And turned off reblogs because criticism bad I guess?
So it's now just a circlejerk!
But the problem with the Berkley study is actually kinda important because the entire source for Berkey's data is the website Glassdoor.
If I have to explain why that's an issue, I will, but jesus fuck. Imagine trying to say 'everything's fine, my proof is this website!'
*makes a strong claim using an article as a source*
“Hey the article you’re basing this strong claim on doesn’t line up with reality and is too narrow in scope to do so, and also isn’t really saying what you think it does”
“OMG I was just jokingggg, stopppl!!”
Is there a term for this particular sort of annoying exchange? I’d call it motte-and-bailey but it feels more like fleeing the whole fort at the first sign of siege.
Honestly? It's the result of agitprop. They don't have an actual position, they have a counter-position. It's why it's just a 'joke', because they think that what they're posting is just making fun of economists.
Instead of... Well, people claiming 'everything is fine really, we looked at this website full of ghost jobs and corpo pandering and THEY said everything is fine as long as you have a job! So everything is fine!'
Like, there is 'you are not immune to propaganda' and all but this is more 'you are suspiciously vulnerable to propaganda' levels.
Not just that, but they’re vulnerable to corporate propaganda, the kind of source you’d expect them to treat as bullshit out of hand regardless of validity. But I guess as long as they think the source agrees with them, that little tidbit doesn’t matter.
💬 71 🔁 9599 ❤️ 14801 · ... buddy if you respond that badly to a single word used for humorous intent, I'm seriously better off just laughi
Context. OP of post linked? Blocked EVERYONE who didn't agree with the propaganda in their post, and literally framed it as just a 'shitpost to amuse their friends'. And turned off reblogs because criticism bad I guess?
So it's now just a circlejerk!
But the problem with the Berkley study is actually kinda important because the entire source for Berkey's data is the website Glassdoor.
If I have to explain why that's an issue, I will, but jesus fuck. Imagine trying to say 'everything's fine, my proof is this website!'
*makes a strong claim using an article as a source*
“Hey the article you’re basing this strong claim on doesn’t line up with reality and is too narrow in scope to do so, and also isn’t really saying what you think it does”
“OMG I was just jokingggg, stopppl!!”
Is there a term for this particular sort of annoying exchange? I’d call it motte-and-bailey but it feels more like fleeing the whole fort at the first sign of siege.
You can only drink the drink you get from this wheel for a month!
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how're you feeling?
Great!
okay, I could do it
okay, I couldn't do it
dead
horrible
im allergic/intolerant
Results
I think I will be happy for like, a day or two, and then the rest of the month miserable.
It was this close to rolling 'river water,' compared to that I'll gladly fucking take it
duality of man
walking around with a sword in the mall
Inadequately protecting the leader of a female only desert town. Although I died in the process...so no jail for me! Yay!
Being a horrible horrible little dinosaur
Killing Xenos
Well uh... Does killing a whole town full of goblins count as genocide or pest control?
With your dick?
Biochemical experimentation gone wrong
Shooting people with arrows
Arrested for danmaku crimes
Zombie Hunting. And tending to bees. Same game.
Last game I played was WH40K Darktide, and in that game the PC is a former prisoner who could have gotten locked up for:
Being accused of abandoning their post (the accuser's testimony was suspect, so the PC only got sentenced to hard labor instead of just being killed)
Being accused of unfaithfulness by a deacon (the PC was actually just criticizing said deacon's lavish lifestyle)
Failing to move out of a magistrate's way fast enough
Complaining about the taste of their food
...so it's kind of a crapshoot why exactly I would get arrested, really. The WH40K menial life is just like that.
the crow thing is so funny, are all you're enemies this djinn brained?
This is how they look like so yes
meanwhile this is how your "God's chosen people" look. you worship not The Lord but a demon.
Looks like a nice dude!
“you worship not The Lord but a demon” Well, your entire religion is derived from Judaism and its teachings, so what does that say about y’all?
Bean counter anime is arguanly the first anime to have a mc who is a meth addict trying to suck cock for more meth
I genuinely love your manga review posts
The mc gets isekaied and discovers fatigue tonics
He ODs like twice because the relief and productivity outweighs death to him due to being a japanese salaryman
He basically has no immune system for magic so this guy decides to help him by "filling him with his magic"
The mc agrees because he will eventually be able to get more potions
Absolutely fantastic. 10/10, no notes.
He's also the country's only accountant
...suddenly I understand why he'd suck cock for meth. That sounds like straight hell.
They're gonna put me in a shock collar and make me read tarot cards in a tent. Ffuck this shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit man.
Fixed that for ya
Are you cheering on Trump's war in Venezuela, bootlicker? So are Russia and China.
I don't know if you call kidnapping a dictator in the middle of the night to hold him accountable for basically killing his people for years.
Hard to be in a war when the person orchestrating that war is now in our custody. And good luck finding any Venezuelans who have fleed the country or who are there outside of maduro's party who are actually upset about this. Especially considering what Maduro did to his political opponents.
And personally, I would say anybody defending Maduro is the bootlegger because you worship dictators.
I'd be very surprised if Russia and China were actually cheering for Maduro's capture, considering he was on their side of global politics and was helping Russia get past all those pesky oil sanctions.
I'm fucking dying at the misogyny in the pluri/bus fandom (stay out of the tag and away from other fans). There's a literal rapist, but he's niceys so it's okay and actually you're racist if you think his rapes are an issue. And the lesbian main character is a bitchcuntdyke who drinks too much and really needs to get the fuck over her wife dying in front of her. Also SHE is the metaphor for imperialism, and not the alien virus that took over the world, killed millions, and will eventually kill every human on earth. The hive is like, really nice, so they can't be a metaphor for something bad.
Like I love this fucking show, but I hate everyone else who watches it lmao.
omg yes it’s such insane misogyny, i heard a lot about it bc my gf is a pluribus fan and sees the takes people have on reddit. reddit focuses more on her being an unpleasant bitch while tumblr calls her an imperialist individualist etc (which is insane. how is she imperialist for opposing the humanity destroying hivemind. glad the most recent episode made it explicit that the hivemind was the “colonial” one with the line manuosos says about how everything they have is stolen.) media literacy for both sites is 0 while their misogyny is 100.
i love carol so much and i think she is such a relatable character as a fellow mean pessimistic blonde dyke with a fuckass bob. so it is really soul crushing (yet unsurprising) to see how much everyone hates her :(
I don't understand anyone who views Carol as an unpleasant person because she literally has the sanest, most normal reaction to the entire situation. Like if I were put in that position "unpleasant" would be an understatement lmao
Considering that the fandom for Vince Gilligan's last work hated a major woman character's guts and regularly called her a bitch for having the perfectly reasonable reaction of being extremely uncomfortable with her husband acting as a drug lord and wanting to talk him down from that life or at least separate her family from him before they got hurt by association... I dunno, I feel like there's some kind of common denominator there.
it used to be “she’s a witch,” now it’s “terf.” you’re traceable too, btw.
me when I'm in a narcissiric victim complex competition and my opponents are radfems
Pretty sure it wasnt a mental illness thing. The Salem Witch Trials were for ANY "wierd" behavior through the eyes of super judgy/religious puritans. That included normal things that just werent religious enough and even (or especially) paranoid settlers lying to get other people accused before they were accused.
Did Sally-Mae talk to a man who wasnt her husband just a *little* too long? WITCH!
Did John hum a tune where non-religious music is seen as inappropriate? Must be the devil's influence. WITCH!
Did you see Margaret out of the corner of your eye? Maybe she's spying on you to accuse you. Better accuse her first. WITCH!
You don't want to join in killing people we randomly accuse of being possessed? Well then YOU must be possessed. WITCH!
At least that's how my school taught it.
Don’t forget the religious disagreements and neighborly feuds thinly disguised as fear for each other’s immortal souls.
>mfw when Americans call Beef Wellington ensemble with lettuce a "hamburger"
Probably wise of you to send this on anon, might have ended badly for you if you hadn't.
Beef wellington is a solid or sliced piece of tenderloin packed in with vegetable mince and covered and baked in shortcrust; hamburger is minced beef set between two separately-prepared buns with sliced vegetables as toppings.
They're both wonderful dishes but they really don't have much to do with each other besides having similar ingredients at a glance. It's like if you tried to say calzones are just thicker burritos.
Hey, I wanted to give you a quick heads up about someone on anon going around telling people you're a pedophile, in case you weren't already aware of that happening. Obviously I don't believe it and I wanted to warn you of a potentially incoming wave of harassment.
people are weird and have no lives. Worse, I can't even guess what this is even about because I am excessively open about the fact that I find kids to be creepy as fuck to be around.
It's probably someone upset that I reblogged something commenting on how often the Anti community share actual real CSEM amongst each other.
Who knows what it could actually be? People throw pedophile accusations over disagreeing with them. I've seen people be called a pedophile because they fucking liked anime. 🤣 It is an accusation rarely thrown with real weight behind it these days. They have successfully made it so every time it's thrown, anyone with sense has to wonder which fictional character was too short this time.
Oh, hm. This now is looking to be an outbreak of this. One more to confirm it's an organized operation.
Yep. Roxy is the second I've seen now accused of being a pedophile recently. And both blogs are Zionist. I doubt that's a coincidence.
And I'm not even in defense of the state of Israel, they've done some absolute shit over the past twenty years. I'm just not willing to whitewash the actions of anyone in the region. xO
Yeah, well, those types consider anything short of verbally fellating Hamas to be proof of Zionist beliefs, so there's really no winning with them.
Did your family move from Germany to Argentina by chance?
No. They move from Mexico to America.
Do you speak any Spanish? What's your opinion on Taco Bell?
These are the real questions to ask a Latina.
Seriously tho. 🤣
To take the questions seriously:
My grandpa spoke to it to me all the time, but he died when I was little. Other than him? My family is around 4th generation in America, and many of us are mixed (with native American and yes, some white Americans), so I didn't grow up with the part of my family that spoke Spanish. Tho I did ace it in highschool. Just never used it so I never retained it.
And Taco Bell is okay, but I prefer burgers over Tacos. 🤣 I'm American, sue me.
You like burgers????? YOU PREFER BURGERS OVER TACOS???????
What the hell is wrong with you. Tacos are gifts from GOD and burgers are ffucking DISGUSTING.
You were really like:
🤣 Yeah, don't get me wrong, I love tacos too. I just like burgers more.
I'm still gonna place a curse on your bloodline for that one, girlie.
One of my ancestors was a conquistador. 🤣 A major one too. Pretty sure the side of my family that he uh, "married into" already cursed my bloodline.
Ah... My condolences on that.
Eh, to be fair, at this point in the bloodline it's just a fascinating fact about my ancestry. I doubt my ancestors who actually lived closer to that time period were all that thrilled tho.
He wasn't Cortez or anything, but he apparently did play a major part in the fall of the Incan Empire.
This is my ancestor. :P at least according to my great grandparents. They could be lying for all I know, but I doubt it.
Edit: okay, gonna have to self-correct here, just asked my mom and I'm not Mexican, but our ancestors were Central American (specifically in what would be modern day Nicuragua).
@blurrymango as a Mexican from Mexico that lives in Mexico, the kindest way I can express the general impression of taco bell: it's the theme park version of tacos, made to appeal to the sensibilities of our northern neighbors
It's the barest idea of tacos without managing to be Mexican, basically
Now I'm craving some tacos de adobada! My diet is ruined! Hope you're happy...
I mean yeah that's what I figured about the general opinion of Taco Bell.
It's not Mexican food, it's not even trying to be.
But goddamn it tastes GOOD.
*pulls your tongue out with forceps and runs a gentle finger along your taste buds* who did this to you...
No but seriously, Taco Bell's not that bad. I just wouldn't take it over any halfway-authentic taco place if I had the choice. We've got this place near my hometown called Fiesta Time Amigos, they've got the real good shit over there.
