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[eelmskid]

Sir the Israeli ambassador would like to announce that if you do not take back the mean things you said about Israel, he will be forced to throw a big tantrum

[eelmskid]

I like the idea that the west is meant to be the guys who are against all forms of war crime unless you do something that pisses them off enough then they're all like ''y'all did it now kid y'all boutta get a whoopin jus like what we did to al quaeda yeehaw gonna turn ur whole city into a crater''

[spacelazarwolf]

Also isn't the C word a slur in itself? At least in North America, it's like, the worst thing you can call a woman. Even as someone who's okay calling herself a crazy tranny dyke, I still don't feel entirely comfortable saying that word, as I uh don't have one (and also I lived most of my life as a dude and still spend a lot of time in boymode, so it'll take a while to adjust).

i believe you mean cunt? in which case yeah, it's definitely one you don't often hear in daily conversation in north america, and if you use it in a derogatory way toward someone you'd better be ready for them to fight you.

it's used a lot in erotica, and to me that kind of adds an extra layer to when you call someone a cunt as an insult. like it's almost specifically intended to be sexually degrading? which is why it's extra fucking gross to use it specifically to target a group that is very likely to have dysphoria about the body part you're callously referencing. i just cannot believe this is even a conversation we have to have. it's wild.

[spacelazarwolf]

hi if ur not from north america i need u to shut the fuck up abt what is and isn’t offensive in north america. thanks.

[eelmskid]

It may not be a big deal in other English speaking countries but it is to Americans and I don't get how this is so difficult for people to wrap their heads around, it's not a nice thing to call someone in any case

[eelmskid]

Internet social justice has just become a tool for abuse, at this point people are avoiding these spaces for their own mental health. There's this pervasive attitude that it's okay to bully or be cruel to some people and if that person is upset about it it's because they have to 'unlearn' something and just put up with it. That's just the mentality of an abuser. If I could just go back in time and pull the plug on any of this weird internet politics developing, where identity alone marks how you should be treated and where some people's feelings are simply not important, then I would. Nothing good has come of this, i'm glad it's dying out

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[eelmskid]

If it makes you guys feel better, most writers do this in some ways, they just have to come up with more and more creative ways to write those tropes. Every writer has some general 'theme' that they are known for

[soljos2023]

[destroyscythe-heck]

There’s a branch of the Medicis that moved to Ireland and now are running a successful chain of fried chicken restaurants which is a very different vinbe from when they were like buying popes and stuff

[memecucker]

The current heir to the main branch of the Hapsburg family is an endurance race car driver

[solipseismic]

#if he got rid of some middle names i bet he would be more aerodynamic and better at racing via @/honeyseller

[kylo-ren-jepsen]

If they don't call their WhatsApp group chat "WhatsHabs" what even is the point?

[the-haiku-bot]

If they don’t call their

WhatsApp group chat “WhatsHabs” what

even is the point?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[eelmskid]

I've met a few people called Rothschild who are apparently descended from the rich famous family but are totally normal ordinary guys

[spacelazarwolf]

i need all gentiles to watch this video immediately.

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by: @hidinginmyhands

RATING: MOSTLY RELIABLE

In 1933, it is correct that there were 2 million Brownshirts (a paramilitary group). However, I cannot find any source suggesting that they outnumbered the police and army 10 times over - only that they were double the size of the army.

Source: 'The Brownshirts, recruited from various rough elements of society, were founded by Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1921. Fitted out in brown uniforms reminiscent of Mussolini's Blackshirts, they figured prominently in organized marches and rallies. Their violent intimidation of political opponents and of Jews played a key role in Hitler's rise to power. From 1931 the SA was led by a radical anti-capitalist, Ernst Röhm. By 1933 it numbered some two million, double the size of the army, which was hostile to them.'

Estimates vary, but most reliable sources put the population of Germany in 1933 at 66 or 67 million according to my sources, rather than 65 million. Wikipedia however does list it at 65.4 million.

Source: 'According to the census of June 16, 1933, [...] a total population of 67 million.'

Source: 'Germany Population 1933: 66,000,000+'

2 out of 65 million does work out at 3.08% of the population. If using a population estimate of 67 million, this works out at 2.99%, which still rounds up to 3%.

The current US population is 335 million. 3% of this would be 10.05 million, as correctly stated in the video.

In 2018, the FBI estimated that there were 686,665 full time officers in the US. Census.gov estimates 784,029 US police officers in total in 2021. I could not find any reliable source more up to date than 2021, although Wikipedia estimates that there are currently over 800,000 US police officers, which is what OP stated.

[lil-tumbles]

If I may add- the video did mention people like the KKK and the proud boys, who haven't been included in this 800k figure. However, if they had, I still doubt they'd all together get to 3% of the US population.

Nevertheless, there is one thing we don't talk about enough: Concentration or "internment" camps do still exist in the US. Not to the level they did in 1939, but it is still notable.

[spacelazarwolf]

it’s correct that concentration/internment camps do still exist, but one thing that really frustrates me when people try to compare things to nazi death camps is that death camps existed solely to exterminate jews and roma. during the holocaust, the nazis engineered these camps to systematically murder up to 15,000 jews and roma per day. these kinds of camps simply do not exist in the modern day. we can still talk about things like the cruel conditions of asylum seekers at the southern us border without comparing them to something they’re not comparable to. two tragedies don’t have to be exactly alike to both matter.

[eelmskid]

I'd be far, far more tolerant of people co-opting the holocaust if they were actually sensitive to Jewish issues or listened to Jewish people when we talk about it.

[charlesoberonn]

Sumerian Veteran: *has severe PTSD but doesn't know it because the term won't be invented for another 5000 years* I fight the same battle in my dreams every night and my relationship with my family has fallen apart.

Sumerian Healer: *saw hundreds of veterans with the exact same affliction before* You're cursed by desert demons.

[mr-elementle]

actually we have recorded texts of sumerian warriors describing symptoms that closely match ptsd, and the diagnoses was not desert demons, but rather "Those dudes you killed are still attacking you with their ghosts because you killed them"

[eelmskid]

There's also stories about medieval English knights suffering from what they called ''melancholy'' where they would start panicking if they heard the sound of metal clanging.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[eelmskid]

It literally isn't to do with being a minority either, most white families do this too

[eelmskid]

On people who 'leave the left'

People often say ''if they stopped supporting us because of x reason then they probably never truly supported us at all'' but is that really true? is everyone who has ever been turned off your political position ''not really a true believer in the first place''? That just doesn't sound likely, it's simply not possible nor true that once someone agrees with your views that they are unable to ever change their mind again. People really need to just accept that it is entirely possible for your own behaviour to damage your cause, we can talk about 'tone policing' and 'we dont have to be nice to our oppressors' all you want. But it doesn't change the fact that if someone's experience of a cause or a community is that the people advocating that cause tried to make them feel bad, or bully them, or laugh at them, they're unlikely to engage with that cause again. People are ultimately only human and these people aren't bad for not wanting to be bullied, you can't seriously expect people's belief in your cause to be so strong that they will withstand abuse from you. People also don't all come from the same background as you, when you speak to them about a cause it may be the first time they're learning about it or even heard about it - do you want that first encounter to be a bad one? We need to move on from just seeing activism as a way to let off steam and we need to move on from assuming the worst of our opponents, this shit hasn't helped us at all. Many of the causes the left cares about are actually in a worse position then they were 10 years ago and all I see is people doubling down on this behaviour. It's a luxury we can't afford and it's not something we should have done in the first place

[spacelazarwolf]

“ur just mad bc testosterone turned u into an ugly hairy bald fatty and not an anime twink”

i wonder why young impressionable trans ppl who want to go on t would be afraid of being hairy and bald and fat. i wonder if it’s maybe bc they’ve watched the queer community treat fat queer people in general, but particularly fat queer ppl who are hairy, bald, and/or not feminine, like absolute fucking shit. i wonder if it’s bc our society assigns morality to looks and fat hairy bald ppl get literally treated like predators simply because of the way they look. i wonder if it’s because they watched the rest of the queer community idolize and prioritize white thinness. i wonder if maybe, just maybe, there are deeply seated issues in the queer community that we might wanna address when they make themselves obvious instead of falling back on mocking individuals for the way they look.

[spacelazarwolf]

do not tag this post or any of my posts “q slur.” if you don’t want the word queer on your blog, do not reblog from me. thanks.

[spacelazarwolf]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[transscottie]

reblogging for the replies about ‘queer’

[spacelazarwolf]

YEAH like it’s interesting that user tagged “q slur” but didn’t tag “fatphobia.” really shows what some ppl’s priorities are.

[eelmskid]

If im tbh being made fun of for my appearance by queer people hurt much, much more than it ever did from cishets and frankly it made me feel lied to. Everyone is constantly talking about how 'accepting' the queer community is, but it's literally not accepting at all, it's an extremely judgemental and nasty community. That needs to change

[tonyzaret]

“It seems to me / that all you see / is Bidens in Movies and Woke on TV”

-Woke Family Guy

[eelmskid]

What happened to the times before 1993, hot chip and lie?

[eelmskid]

thinking of all the times I got told off for ''dirty deleting'' by people on twitter and now none of it is going to matter at all anyway lmao soon it all will be gone and we will truly be free

[whitepeopletwitter]

[beemovieerotica]

it's so funny to me that conservatives think the reason university students become more liberal is because of the actual course material and not like. the fact that universities in the US introduce are oftentimes the first place Americans are introduced to a walkable environment with affordable health care, with community spaces for any affiliation under the sun where they give you free resources and cheap food. with included public transit and opportunities for training in your field of choice. and you realize that for how much you're spending on tuition/taxes, yeah, you do deserve these things, it would be insane not to have those. and then you graduate and go back to having to buy a car to drive 20 minutes to the grocery store.

[chibisketches]

It's also one of the first places a lot of people raised in insular, conservative areas meet "the other". People of other ethnicities and cultures, people of other religions, other gender presentations, sexualities, etc. You get to know them and start realizing how much of what you "knew" about them was myth or straight-up propaganda.

It's a lot harder to demonize queer people when the person helping you pass calculus is a trans woman, or your lab partner talks about his boyfriend exactly the same way you talk about yours. It's a lot harder to believe that immigrants are out to get you when your Hindu roommate cheerfully shares a care package of homemade goodies from home, or Malia down the hall covers your lunch because you forgot to bring your wallet to study group. You start rethinking some assumptions when the 6 foot spike-encrusted goth who sits behind you in lecture hall shows everyone photos of his baby niece dressed like a puppy for Halloween with all the pride of a new parent, and you remember when your flannel and camo-wearing uncle did the same thing at work last year with photos of your little sister.

Suddenly all those "others" are just people. They're your friends, classmates, coworkers, and maybe even romantic interests. And that's a lot harder to hate or fear.

[eelmskid]

Whilst it is true that at least a sizeable amount of people do become more left-leaning in university, the idea that universities are always hotbeds of radical leftist ideas isn't quite true. It's more like universities are the places where people who believe in those ideas are more likely to encounter eachother. I can't speak for the US but in the UK, a lot of people will go to university and stay just as conservative as they were before and leave just as conservative and university campuses really don't fit this 'leftist activist hotbed' definition which exists in the brains of right wingers. In the UK the more elite universities have done much more to further conservative thought than to dismantle it. I mean the University of Oxford has a statue of Cecil Rhodes, I don't know how more blatant you can get than that. Yes there was a campaign to remove it, but there was also a lot of people who defended the statue and it still stands today.

[silentwalrus1]

“FMA is bad because it portrays war criminals as sympathetic, likable people” bro that’s the point. That’s the whole point. That is THE point. Did you think Ethnic Cleanser is some kind of special category of person that gets separated away from all the Good People at birth? Did you think there’s some kind of barn full of Genocide Doers that only gets deployed into the general public during world wars? Did you think assholes who do terrible shit in real life are never charming or likable or capable of doing good things and helping people? One of the best parts of FMA is how we the audience realize that some of our core protags have made irredeemable choices, and we have to reckon with the fact that they’re still people, with the unalienable rights and qualities thereof. Sorry if the Problematics aren’t constantly wearing a dunce cap and a list of all their crimes and this makes the media incomprehensible to you  

[astraltrickster]

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