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[coolthingsguyslike]

[cannibal-rainbow]

as a leftist tumblr my most upsetting encounters here have been with tankies/stalinists who have down right denied the mass murder of many ethnic minorities during the great purges. don’t cry about “usa propaganda” to us when the censorship in our countries was done by the soviet union. the fucking nerve of these people who have never lived in ex-russian or ex-soviet countries. do you have any idea how much research it has taken to even find these mass graves or do the actual identification of the victims? it’s still on-going progress and there are still many whose families haven’t gotten the closure.

[cannibal-rainbow]

“it’s so funny when people have intergenerational trauma bc of genocides and war, let me demostrate how many eastern europeans I have met in my life (0) as an american stalinist. I know how it really is, I was there when the great purges happened, unlike your dead family members.”

[pussyphoric]

Im gonna be soooo angry rn so my apologies in advance. I literally scrolled through your tumblr page yesterday, reading and someone mentioned that Gerard used actual footage of poor people from the Soviet Union in his visuals for aesthetic purposes, and you can’t make this shit up, I hop on insta this morning and the first thing I see is a meme ‘Accidentally put my vpn in draag look at my Instagram feed now dawg’ and the picture below is a screenshot of two Serbian children singing traditional chant for the feast of st Nicholas with a raw (probably cold-smoked) fish and a special type of bread. It’s obviously not much but the father (who’s also filming the vid) is trying his best. And holy shit. Why wonder how Gerard is able to get away with casual racism, casual sexism with sprinkles of casual fascism on top if this is his main fanbase, his primary audience?

They see a REAL poor but happy Eastern European family having a traditional meal and their first thought is to be like ‘lmaooo this shit is draag irl’ ‘this is so draag coded’. They see disadvantage and turn their noses up, they see poverty and laugh, they see simplicity and mock. But when their token American millionaire decides to cosplay as one of us then it’s a total shutdown and a vision and he’s a genius and lord knows what else. Because it’s nothing more than a costume to discard at the end of yet another show, a temporary toy to play with and happily forget once something new comes around.

Btw, for the ‘it’s just a mcr meme’ crowd. Idgaf, it is that serious. You preach that the curtains are just blue and then wonder why the world around you crumbles to dust.

And you know what? Yk how USamericans bemoan the poor state of their country, how they refuse to believe that what is going on right now is America? Oh, silly yanks, but it is America. It is America manifest and by god each and every single one of them deserves to experience the kind of treatment and suffering they’ve been inflicting on other nations and other countries for decades. Tr*mp is a succinct representation of who Americans are at their core.

Okay, yeah, let it out lmao😂😂😩 honestly…when Trump won the first time, I remember a teacher saying, “well, Americans finally showed the world who they really are!!” and I pushed back hard, claiming it was narrow, unfair, pessimistic to say that— that he barely won, that it didn’t represent everyone.

But then he won again😗. And at some point you have to stop calling it an anomaly and start calling it a reflection.

Not of everyone, but of a dominant worldview that keeps reproducing itself: indifference, spectacle over substance, power without accountability.

And that’s exactly why this whole Gerard-as-lore-master thing leaves such a bad taste in my mouth.

What bothers me most isn’t aesthetics in isolation— it’s the lack of care for real people harmed by real systems of violence. There’s something deeply unsettling about how he seems to hoard references to war, authoritarianism, and geopolitical trauma as if they’re just narrative skins in a massive RPG. Like: is this a critique of Russia, militarism, empire? Or is it just fascination? World-building for fun?

Also why would he think it’s more relevant to critique Russia instead of 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🍔🍔👹👹👹???

idk man, I think when war becomes a costume change, when authoritarian imagery becomes “concept,” when suffering is flattened into drama-club theatrics for a tour cycle, it stops being commentary and starts being extraction. Inspiration pulled from other people’s trauma, repackaged for spectacle, merch, and fan engagement.

And that feels especially capricious coming from someone who is old, wealthy, well-read, and ABSOLUTELY AWARE of the historical weight of the symbols he plays with.

It’s this plain avoidance and refusal to take a clear ethical position while still benefiting from the aesthetic charge of violence.

It’s not that artists can’t engage with dark history. It’s that how they do it matters.

There’s a difference between confronting horror and stylizing it. Between critique and indulgence. Between solidarity and aesthetic tourism.

Buuuut!!!! I guess points for growth thooooo, he’s not wearing the German flag anymore!! 🤪

But the bar is literally underground.

[andletforsakendidodie]

working full time, doing a difficult ma course and being autistic

[koxette]

I would like to share a cigarette with ilya rozanov

[apricustar]

i’m not sure if anyone has brought this up before, but i think it’s super important to note that robby’s heavily implied eastern european/slavic background plays a massive role in his outlook on mental health and emotional expression.

in many eastern european households, mental health isn't just stigmatized—it is often treated as nonexistent. depression? anxiety? god forbid you ever mention therapy—that american lie all about money? nope! all of it is largely inconceivable.

the expectations are ingrained early: work, work, work. if you have time to feel sad, you are clearly not working hard enough, not keeping as busy as you ought to. there is no reason for you to be depressed—you have a family who loves you, a roof over your head, a bed! our family doesn't have problems like that. go for a walk, get some fresh air, and don't bring this up again.

in these environments, emotional struggle is rendered illegitimate. and yet, the older generation—the ones largely enforcing these standards—were themselves deeply shaped by trauma, scarcity, and upheaval. stoicism, repression, and endurance began as survival strategies, but over time, they hardened into behavioral blueprints. emotional denial is passed down; children grow up learning to bottle everything up, to push through, to measure their worth by productivity rather than feeling. they inherit not only the trauma of their elders but also the implicit rules about what they are allowed—or not allowed—to feel. the result: anxiety, stress, burnout—and culturally, these feelings are repeatedly framed as weakness. this cycle perpetuates across generations.

robby embodies this perfectly. his relentlessness, hyper-responsibility, and inability to step away from crises aren’t just professional habits—they are his cultural inheritance made flesh. he feels everything, yet has been taught to feel nothing. though we don’t know the totality of his early life, the patterns are evident: repression and dogged perseverance—common in these families—converge in him through both cultural and epigenetic transmission. the rules he was raised within—alongside broader societal scripts about strength—shape the man we see: intensely competent, endlessly driven, and profoundly isolated. he demonstrates what happens when trauma and emotional repression are passed down unexamined and never healed.

his struggles are layered and complex. internally, he experiences these intense emotions; externally, expressing them is nearly impossible—those feelings have no real language or legitimacy within the framework he was given. depression and anxiety don’t exist; if mentioned, they are largely dismissed or minimized, especially against the backdrop of family members who endured far greater hardships. in that context, mental health becomes inconsequential: push through, get up; what you feel means nothing next to what came before.

and this is not even touching on his jewish heritage, which undoubtedly adds another layer of historical and cultural weight—a web of inherited narratives about survival, identity, and resilience that continually shapes how he navigates both emotion and responsibility

[eunhakkaji]

hot take but not everything is about palestine.

dude no way i saw comments abt palestine on posts about the russo-ukraine war.

talk abt palestine somewhere else, not under a post about the russo-ukrainian war :/

[zephyrins]

A Short and Easy Guide on How to Help Ukrainians for our Foreign Friends

No, it's not a typical "Here is a list of organizations where you can donate money" guide (even tho it would be very appreciated if you have the opportunity)

My Guide has only two steps:

be curious about us. No, I'm not asking to monitor the news or become an expert in our history, etc. But you have hobbies, right?

- Do you like watching movies? You can find some of our best films online - Do you like playing video games? We have many developers of different genres - Do you like cooking? Try some of our recipes

If you have a profession, why don't you ask "Hey, how do Ukrainians do it?" If you have a hyperfixation on a fandom, why don't you follow our artists?

Make it about yourself. Explore more of what interests you, just through our perspective.

2. share what you found. Drop facts during dinner conversations. Tell friends what you learned. "Did you know that Ukrainians have cool banking apps and even an official app for documents? Now you know." Repost info.

Why should you do this?

We are not just news about war.

You have no idea how happy we are when we see someone being interested in us. Hell, we even have the meme about it

When you are interested in something, you begin to empathize.

When you empathize, you see us as people. People just like you, with the same hobbies or dreams.

And only then you begin to care.

Extra Steps:

learn more about imperialism and decolonization

find some info about other post-soviet countries (like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan etc)

use tag #ukrart and follow at least 5 artists in any fandom you like

[gorskivijenac]

Portrait of two Šokac girls in traditional festive costumes, Sonta, Bačka district, Serbia, 1894. János Jankó, Museum of Ethnography

[radosne]

fuck "slavic doll", fuck "slavic bimbo", fuck "oooh slavs are so mean and cold they got the scary Slavic Stare", fuck you romanticizing our pain and generational trauma, fuck off with only representing our countries with those old post-soviet dilapidated housing as if no time has passed since the 90s and we didn't progress at all, fuck off with reducing us all to some old Russian stereotypes, fuck off with your fetishising aesthetic build off of 5 emaciated models from the 2000s, some photos of fur coats and ushankas thrown in the mix and the usual coquette bullshit you just try to rewrite in cyrillic because it' "different" and "exotic", yet still fits a white supremacist beauty standard.

Tying your bullshit anorexia and starvation romanticisation to an ethnic group that has experienced so many famines, crisises, wars, back to back poverty for generations is disgusting.

[infinitysisters]

In 2016, a film student exploring a rural Moldovan village found over 4,000 soviet-era photographs in the attic of an abandoned house. they were all taken by Zaharia Cusnir in the 1950s-60s, an unknown alcoholic who died forgotten. He captured the life of an entire community.

When the film student spoke to the surviving daughter of Zaharia Cusnir, she was uninterested in the collection and dismissed it as "garbage that no one needs".

[kazhanko-art]

Someone from central or eastern Europe: “yeah my grandparents hoard a lot of food because when they were kids during the soviet era, they frequently didn’t have enough food”

random western leftist: “hm :/ you didn’t provide a university level essay complete with at least 15 citations (approved by me) nor specified what era you were talking about. Yeah I think this is anti-communist, US propaganda :/ you should kys”

[folkfashion]

Belarusian woman's clothes, from Belarus, by Volya Dzemka Productions

[padurenii]

Romanian embroidery details

[bubbtub]

Germany: We've legalized prostitution! We take a cut of the money made from commercialized rape through taxes! We keep the lights on with rape money! That's not dystopian at all! Women are so free here! Yayyy

Meanwhile, there are thousands of women from my country and surrounding ones trafficked into this industry and specifically to Germany. Which I know not a soul amongst western libfems gives a tweedle about because they fetishize Eastern European women too (all those cringey trends were they dress up as caricatures of us, the "Slavic Stare", etc.) and think our natural state is to be hypersexualized and exploited.

[alex-dante]

An actor from the US: * is in 5 movies *

People: woah!!! the range!!!!!

An eastern european actor: * is in 738482 movies *

People: NOT THIS FUCKING GUY AGAIN

[eunhakkaji]

the american privilige 🤢

[engin-program]

Ever caught yourself saying "the Ukraine" or "Kiev"?

These aren't just pronunciation tweaks. Every time we use russified versions of Ukrainian words, we're accidentally echoing centuries of colonial erasure. Language is identity and Ukraine's identity deserves to be pronounced correctly.

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