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magic-memester

what a dandy crown 🌼🌻

wolfy-gecko

Anybody know how to do this? Im dumb an I dont know how

jeep-truck

Yeah can someone tell me how to make flower crowns I’ve always wanted to learn how

patton-deserves-the-universe-de

Oh I would love to make flower crowns and give them to all of my friends for pride month, if someone could tell me how!

vangoghsmoonchild

Have it, sweet people. I love you.

Btw, if you have questions tell me uwu

patton-deserves-the-universe-de

YOU ARE AN ANGEL THANK YOU

working at an airport must be so whack!!! I just saw a man throw his phone away!! Someone next to me on the plane was writing straight up erotica!! Ppl are doing shots at the bar at 10:00 AM

#wow #airport #whack #travel #exhaustion

Gosh imagine how nice the world would be if men had the ability to be good people

#yikes #dumb #men are whack #everyone i know is problematic

next person who says the U.S. doesn't use capitalism just because it doesn't use pure capitalism Frickin Dies

#economics #capitalism #communism #socialism #marxism #politics #zoinks #tired

Unfortunately I will be forever doomed to being hit on by men who don't even know not to wear white socks with a suit

#gay #lgbt #tired #men are whack

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“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!”“

- Jean - Jacques Rousseau

oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019

Explaining Communism Part 1: “Classless”

Communism is most simply defined as a classless, stateless, moneyless society. However, that simple definition leaves room for a lot of questions and confusion. I’m going to do my best to explain each part of this definition, but do check out my resources page.

Under capitalism we live in what is called a class society, and a heavily stratified one at that. Class society is divided by socioeconomic classes that differ around the world, the highest being the upper class, and lowest being those who live below the poverty line. Today, 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, almost half the world’s population.

So, what does “classless” mean? It does not mean “everyone gets the same amount of income regardless of profession” (skipping over the moneyless part are we?). The goal of eliminating class society is to eliminate the concept and existence of separate socioeconomic classes and hierarchy altogether.

This is where statelessness ties in. In Vladimir Lenin’s State and Revolution, Lenin discusses Engels’ position on the state existing to “hold class antagonisms in check”. So, while class society exists, it relies on a state or some sort of de facto hierarchal organization if we’re going down ancap lane. In the absence of class society, a state is no longer of use. That ever-present conflict has been put to a stop.

Questions? Comments? Feel free to add!

prismatic-bell

So You’re A Gentile Who’s Realized We Have A Problem: Now What?

Tumblr likes to spin its wheels and spend time yelling at each other, so here’s a nice comprehensive guide. Five Things You Can Do Now That You Know We Were Serious About The Antisemitism:

1) Accept that if you’re in this to be an ally, you’re going to have a tough road ahead of you. We’re traditionally very wary of outsiders in our spaces because when we welcome them, well … this happens. In fact, if you want to convert to Judaism, you traditionally get rejected three times, just to make sure you’re serious and not shitting with us. Expect wariness. Expect to get your feelings hurt, because a lot of us are very raw right now. Stick with us anyway–once we know you’re not just bandwagoning us, you’re going to end up with a lot of friends who are relying on you. Nobody said allyship was easy.

2) Learn about Judaism. Note that I DO NOT MEAN LEARNING WITH INTENTION TO CONVERT. We don’t proselytize and it would be against Torah for me to even suggest it. What I mean here is, you can’t call bullshit if you don’t know what we’re about. Some good basic resources are The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred Kolatch; My Jewish Learning; and for a strict Orthodox standpoint, Chabad. You’ll find that some things in these sources contradict each other. That’s pretty par for the course in Judaism; we don’t have a single dogma or point of view.

3) Consider calling a local synagogue and asking if they have volunteer work for a gentile ally. Introduce yourself, explain (briefly) what got your attention, and offer your services–to stand outside during services, to walk folks to and from shul (this is particularly important in Orthodox communities, where driving on Shabbat is forbidden), hell, to help stuff envelopes for whatever vigil or service they may be holding in memoriam. Anything will help.

4) You may wish to make a donation to a local synagogue or Jewish charity. I strongly recommend the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), which is a Jewish charity focused on combating antisemitism. Jews traditionally give monetary gifts in sums of $18, which corresponds to the numeric value of the word “chai,” or “life.” The last time this happened I made a post about this tradition and got accused of being a Nazi because of the whole 1-8 A-H thing, so let’s just nip that right in the bud: yes, we know. It’s a horrible coincidence. We’re not giving up a few-thousand-year-old tradition because of some dipshit with a bad moustache. If you can’t afford $18, consider moving the decimal over and donating in multiples of 18, like $3.60. Your meaning will still be perfectly clear, and anything helps. If you wish to make a donation in memory/in honor (which many synagogues appreciate), I suggest either choosing the name of one of the shooting victims–giving tzedakah, or charity, in their names is considered a great mitzvah and a blessing to their families–or using the phrase “am Yisrael chai.” It means “Israel lives.” Although the country in the MENA region is called Israel, this is not what the phrase refers to–the traditional patriarch of Judaism was named Jacob, and renamed as Israel following a wrestling match with a messenger of G-d. To say “am Yisrael chai” is to say his people, that is, the Jewish people, live.

And on that note …

5) In the coming days and weeks, you’re going to see a lot of people making this about Israel or Zionism. Please tell them to shut the fuck up. Israel, Zionism, and Jews are three completely different, albeit related, things. To wit: Israel is a geopolitical country situated on the site of our ancestral homeland and currently headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Zionism is the belief that Jews deserve a safe homeland; and Jews are a group of people spread across six continents and most countries who are united by a common group of ancestors from the Levant (the part of the world now occupied by the geopolitical entity known as Israel). Saying the victims of this shooting had anything to do with the political situation in Israel would be like saying I, personally, am responsible for Vladimir Putin because I have a Russian ancestor. I speak exactly two words of Russian, have never been to Russia, have no family left living there (and haven’t for four generations), but I’m totally responsible for Russia. You see how ridiculous that sounds? The same applies to Jews and Israel. Please, please, PLEASE do not conflate this event with Israeli politics. I’m not saying Israeli politics aren’t a topic worth discussing–I’m saying this is not a discussion they belong in. Don’t let the powers that be (or the alt-right sleaze that sucks the dicks of the powers that be) distract from the topic at hand, which is “out of control guns meet out of control xenophobia and antisemitism,” by throwing OMG ISRAEL AND ZIONISM AND GLOBALISM into the mix.

And finally: yes, gentiles, this is okay for you to reblog. In fact I encourage it. And I will answer any questions you have to the best of my ability, if they’re asked in good faith. Please just follow the most basic tenet of Judaism, which is: don’t be a dick.

If you’re ready to stand and help, now is the time.

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"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

misandryapologist

hey!! can you explain more on your post where it says pansexuality is biphobic? i just don’t really understand how that works. best of days to you, friend!

I’m a lesbian so I’m not the best source for this, but from what I’ve seen bi people say is that pansexuality comes from a basic misunderstanding of what bisexuality is. Pansexuality is synonymous with bisexuality but it has bad roots basically. If you want a more in depth answer I would ask a bi person.

Off the top of my head some of the bi people I follow are @pegsephone @nonbicanary @knightbisexual @biphobique

knightbisexual-deactivated20190

hello sylvan soothsayer

essentially bisexuality has always included every gender, as was recorded in the 1990 Bisexual manifest in which the authors write

“Bisexuality is a whole, fluid identity. Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have “two” sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings. In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders. “

bisexuality has always had the definition people gave pansexual before the label of pansexual existed.

The reason it’s called bisexual is because non-straight identities were pathologized by doctors and psychologists, and being as those doctors were cis and straight, claimed there were only two genders, male and female, thus called us bisexual. It’s for this reason that many people are uncomfortable with the term homosexual, because it was regarded as a mental illness, not a sexuality. Bisexuals took a different route and reclaimed the name of their “mental illness” and in doing so became the Bisexual community.

The pan label is not only misconstruing what bisexuality is, (as you might see, many people say bi is attraction to two, usually cis man and woman, and Pan is attracted to all) which is and always has been untrue. this definition of pansexual enforces biphobic stereotypes and disregards a rich and beautiful history of bisexuals.

And in doing so, people have come to believe that ONLY Pan people can love trans/nonbinary people, which is both untrue and very uncomfortable for many trans people such as myself. In the earlier definition bisexuality I gave, which many many people use, have separated trans men from men and trans women from women, implying that if one is attracted only to cis men and women, trans men and women are somehow a different gender from them, which they are not. Cis and trans are adjectives to describe ones gender, not a part of it (at least in the binary sence)

Additionally, the slogan “hearts not parts” and “gender blind” imply that anyone who isn’t bisexual only cares about their partners genitals which is untrue and kind of disgusting. The phrase “gender blind” is also really uncomfortable for lots of trans people because our gender is a really big part of who we are, and being “blind” to is or “not caring” about it isn’t something we think of as a good thing.

The creation of pansexuality as an lgbt label (it also used to be a mental illness, but unlike gay and bi people it described a condition in which a person was attracted to things and not people), was a way to escape biphobic stereotypes, and in doing so does not dispel them but rather implies their truth and enforces them.

anyways that was really long but like. pansexuality is just bisexuality with people who think they’re Too Woke to be bi and it’s like. really uncomfortable for trans people and really dismissive of LGBT history which is why I do not like Pan/poly/omni-sexual identities

itched

what he said ^^

mamoru

I am an old sage…listen closely to my wisdom before my soul withers away…

thedoomcard11

Teach us, o wise one

mamoru

you are not an anime character. your actions impact others and do not only exist in theory. nobody is required to stick around for your tragic backstory or to learn the reasons behind your actions. if you treat people like garbage, they are allowed to think of you as a jerk and nothing more. nobody is obligated to analyze you or think twice when you hurt them. similarly, you are not required to stick around to listen to other people’s reasons for treating you like trash. you can call them a jerk, cut them out of your life, and call it a day.

cornbread21actual

https://iww.org/

falsejuxtaposition-blog

I mean I hate capitalism too but the top right trap? Unless someone like,,,,, throws it down the stairs or something it's a relatively safe and humane catch and release trap.

diablocodys

me: i love the pacific northwest

also me: i will move out this hellscape the moment i can

demilypyro

Want to hear a hot take?

demilypyro

Despite what modern core nihilism will tell you, the accidental nature and inherent meaninglessness of life as a biological phenomenon does not mean that our efforts are pointless but instead allows us all to determine what we personally desire out of life. It means we are free to pursue what our hearts desire, and so enables each of us to find our own unique meaning.

Also love is real.

And the majority of people in the world are inherently good-natured.

simonalkenmayer

Well said.

bogleech

OR, maybe, just maybe, and hear me out here, MAYBE the actual reason is that not as many people in this day and age feel a pressing urge to spend money on mediocre food at an exploitative business just because some boobs are under a t-shirt in the same room? This promise was an exciting novelty only to a pre-internet and wealthier generation which simultaneously felt far less shame in leering at or catcalling women but far more shame in looking at porn. Hooters was softcore pseudo burlesque for married Christian men and the culture permitting its success will likely never be repeated and shouldn’t be.

sideshowcomics

Hooters always seemed really weird for me for this exact reason. It’s like this bizarre fusion of strip club and family restaurant that no one asked for. The food isnt great, everyone is fully clothed, even the staff exists in a creepy limbo where they’re not actually strippers, but they’re only there because of their tits. Its like if someone decided to turn exploitation into a chain restaurant.

fetus-cakes

Millennials go to an actual strip club or burlesque show if that’s what they’re into, and then to a good wings bar after. There’s no need for a completely mediocre combination of the two

fieldbears

How dare they accuse us of not liking boobs. How dare