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arrimorr

have-you-been-here

Jerf el Ahmar, Syria

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Voting ended onJul 3, 2025

heylsgowt

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A building that has since been torn down, Anywhere, Earth

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Voting ended onJun 24, 2025

greggaraki

Running on Empty | 1988 | dir. Sidney Lumet

hona-hona

they'll have many more tomorrows

thestrangerinyourmidst

I really, truly, can't stress enough how much the constant use of the word 'martyr' bothers me.

Martyrdom, dying for a cause that you believe in, implies that the individual who died has agency in what caused their death. Civillians caught up in warfare do not have agency in the matter. They are not martyrs, they are VICTIMS. And it is frankly insulting to imply otherwise, especially about children.

The phrase "glory to the martyrs" is a celebration of death, it has been said by Hamas officials themselves that they want more women children and elderly people to die because it fuels the "revelutionary spirit." This is a death cult, who actively encourage their members to get themselves and as many people around them killed as possible. It's reprehensible, and you only encourage it by buying into their martyrdom narrative.

If you value human life, you cannot run with this narrative. Live for what you believe in.

teaboot

So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently

teaboot

Breaking the law, even an unjust law, has consequences that not all can afford. But also a very large number of us are also very stupid, or very confused, or very lazy, and so it’s not unreasonable that someone at the bottom of the chain of command might make a typo, or misplace some paperwork, or leave a Friday afternoon email for Monday morning.

When something goes wrong, or an operation slows down, because a low-level worker somewhere sent a package to the wrong address or left someone on hold for an hour or didn’t fill out a particular form correctly- Do you immediately assume malicious intent? Or do you usually just brush it off as some underpaid idiot being bad at their job?

teaboot

You also gotta not brag about it. Keep your political opinions on the down low. Be noncommittal or ignorant or undecided. Say things like “I’ve never heard of that”, “where did you hear that?” or “that’s interesting, I heard a conflicting story from here, how weird”. Never be outwardly confidant of what you know. When there is a silence, don’t fill it- leave the space and let the other fill it for you. That’s how you get information, that’s how you find sources, that’s how you reduce the value of anything others get out of you.

Virtue signalling by wearing pins and ribbons and loudly declaring your place is not safe in some environments. It will place scrutiny on you and everything you touch. Nobody believes the guy who says “fuck my boss and everything he stands for” scratches the boss’s car by accident, even if it is an accident.

If you want to slow the march of a tank, filling the path with mud is going do more than laying down in front of it.

prickly-porcupine-memes

what-even-is-thiss

My language learning mindset swings wildly between “I’m learning a lot and this is fun I can do this” and lying facedown on the floor sobbing and asking God why he allowed man to speak

what-even-is-thiss

“Do you have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset?”

My mindset is that of a weeping mourner tearing at their clothes and gnashing their teeth followed by a short popsicle break.

weaponwifer

My favorite jokes are about mispronouncing philosophers' names but I'm afraid it's a nietzsche subgenre

queerbuwan

Well if you wish to diogenes that hill so be it

bryophytefanclub

Hey you Kant do that

'am I my brother's keeper?' ALSO please go listen to my band's new song, no saying no by feels like catharsis (it's perfect to take this qui

#uquiz #talkingellenbogen

listen to this song for good luck!

https://open.spotify.com/track/1oCuN8ak3mYEmDLcwJbduq?si=QDYrml5MRx-bMbNbNFsdlA&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A1oCuN8ak3mYEmDLcwJbduq

#Music #rock #pop #talkingellenbogen #Spotify

barneycalhounslutmoments

as a white person i can confirm that cheese is basically like god and life to me. i can be baited with cheese 100% of the time. i will tunnelvision a wedge of sharp cheddar from the other side of the room in any and every setting

sqwirrl

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derellenbogen

@sqwirrl you'RE LACTOSE INTOLERANT

#talkingellenbogen #Dude just admit it. Accept it. Cheese isn't everything

barneycalhounslutmoments

as a white person i can confirm that cheese is basically like god and life to me. i can be baited with cheese 100% of the time. i will tunnelvision a wedge of sharp cheddar from the other side of the room in any and every setting

sqwirrl

@derellenbogen