[4filen0tfound4]

Damn girl the power of love and friendship aren’t working :/ time to kill someone or whatever

[l0s3r-g0r3-d3s7r0y4]

[catgirlcaliphate]

How much violence it takes to decolonize will always be a function of how much violence the colonizers bring to the process.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

happy pride month to the fuck tree I guess

[loveamongthesailors]

*walking down main street sweeping my scythe back and forth in front of me* watch out bitch! watch out bitch! 

[teathattast]

[saccharine-mutt]

[transhuman-priestess]

Ngl “don’t assume someone is queer based on their appearance” is a very frustrating and norm core stance when you’re someone like me who prefers to dress like a faggot for the express purpose of signaling to other faggots that I am a faggot.

[groupthinker]

[edwardianvictorianera]

Dressmaking in Paris, 1907.

[marzipanandminutiae]

I would like to point out what these women are wearing themselves. Because "what did WORKING women wear?!" is a refrain I hear a lot re: recreations of even the most basic historical clothing that has any visual interest at all

the lady on the far right has a brooch and a necklace! and some insertion lace on her blouse! the center-right lady in the plaid shirtwaist seems to be wearing a decorative necktie of some sort! all of them have sleeve puffs that are maybe a few years out of date, but not by much!

and these are working seamstresses! literally At Work!

working-class people have always loved beauty just as much as the rich. and found ways to incorporate it into their lives

[suzannahnatters]

Virginia Postrel in her book THE SUBSTANCE OF STYLE specifically points out that ornamentation is always possible no matter how limited your resources. You might not have quite enough food, but you can still put your hair in a braid more easily than you can buy a milk cow for your family. You might have to whittle your spoons yourself from a branch foraged in the wood, but you can still carve a knotwork pattern into the handle more easily than you can learn the craft of forging metal.

A thirst for beauty isn't something limited to the rich and knowledgeable. It's something that makes us human, and I worry that people who can't accept that working class or disadvantaged people from history might have appreciated and prioritised beauty and style in their lives are also failing to accept that these people were fully human. I mean think for just a moment where this trope of the filth encrusted medieval peasant came from - it wasn't from people who respected their dignity and personhood.

Cleanliness, style, and ornament are all ways that as humans we express our dignity, and attributing filth and squalor to people is a pretty common way to deny their dignity.

Yes. Of course their lives contained beauty.

[beggars-opera]

"Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence" - A Christmas Carol

This woman literally took her gown apart, turned it inside-out, and remade it into a more modern style. TWICE. And then managed to dress it up with some silk ribbons.

[ladyknight33]

Hey. International people.

Keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico or whatever your term is for it. Do not allow the Republican regime to label that body of water the Gulf of America to the world. The name came from a the term Mexica, what the Aztecs called themselves. It’s been called the Gulf of Mexico since the 1600s.

Keep calling it Denali. The original name before it was Mount McKinley. Don’t let the Indigenous Peoples/First Nations be erased.

It may sound stupid and petty. But it is an attempt to rewrite history and make us forget the origins. It is a literal white washing of history. This type of censorship is a beginning to greater evils.

[charlesoberonn]

Me, experiencing a sort of specific dissatisfaction with life I can't name: I bet Karl Marx came up with a term for it already 150 years ago

[vee-dmsr]

[trans-lunarinjection]

talking to any american (both on here and offline) about anything political is genuinely worse than trying to talk to a toddler. You have to dumb dowm your language to get them to listen, cuz most of the language we as marxists use to describe very specific things are either words that are "too complicated" and their eyes glaze over and they start saying "buzzword buzzword" to it, or have been bastardized completely and are unusable in their presence. ive genuinely had to drop convos with ppl in my life who were interested in talking about this stuff cuz i tried to explain what bourgeois meant and they reply with "isnt bougie a positive thing" or what materialism is and they go "isnt materialism when youre greedy and you like having stuff too much" and the convo completely derails. At least toddlers ask what words mean when you say something they dont understand.

[left-reminders]

[queeringhope]

Rethinking the meaning of “poverty.”

[xxcosmicaura]

remember kids

Artist 🎨: @vhsdogs

[a-violet-riot]

Definitely

[magess]

These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.

Akash Bobba

Edward Coristine

Luke Farritor

Gautier Cole Killian

Gavin Kliger

Ethan Shaotran

Spread their names!

[saywhat-politics]

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

[seabassapologist]

elon is really mad about this so it would be a shame if people kept spreading the names around

[nikkoliferous]

Why Liberals Hate Leftists

Liberals hate leftists. Hate them, hate them, hate them.

Liberals hate leftists because while both purport to support the working class and disempowered groups, only one of them actually does so.

Liberals hate leftists for the same reason someone telling a bogus self-aggrandizing story at a party would hate somebody who caught them in one of their lies in front of everyone.

Liberals hate leftists because leftists are a constant reminder that liberals are not the thing they pretend to be.

Liberals hate leftists for the same reason you’d hate someone who keeps yelling out “This is all fake! Those are actors!” at a theater: they disrupt a pleasant illusion the liberals are trying to enjoy about villains being fought by heroic protagonists.

Liberals hate leftists for the same reason a wife who is informed that her husband is cheating on her will often turn her anger upon the person who told her: they made it hard to hold onto the delusion that their setup is working out fine.