FirestormNeos

She/her/hers | Lesbian | 21 Interests include Video Games, Politics, Film and Storywriting.

[firestormneos]

As of August 14th, 2020, this account will no longer be posting content due to the website and app both making it pretty much impossible for me to interact with the only people on this site i give a shit about.

So... yeah...

[uchidachi]

After reading the responses to my earlier post on the subject, I am officially revoking all benefit of the doubt on the following antisemitic dogwhistles:

- lizard people memes

- “goyim is a slur”

- “but Jews are white”

- playing oppression olympics with the Shoah

- “Judeo-Christian” or anything else interpreting Judaism through a Christian lens

Going forward, anyone saying these things is automatically classed as a bigot; ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse. This list may be added to as necessary.

Thank you for listening.

[firestormneos]

Thanks for the list.

[shitwaitno]

My grandparents left their home country as children when they heard the whispering of antisemitism starting in their home town. They got out and fled to America so I and future generations could be safe from persecution and mass murder. Only 2 generations ago.

And now America is becoming that country that they probably would have fled.

If you are not resisting, you are part of the problem.

And yes, I want non-Jews to reblog

[firestormneos]

ask and ye shall receive.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[firestormneos]

https://youtu.be/DV1fUwKMdAI

[laneigh]

[ur-local-pair-of-binoculars-dea]

This only applies to non-POC. As a black person, I can 100% tell you that racism, especially slavery, is touchy and makes me uncomfortable. The thought of my ancestors in shackles, being thrown off boats, crammed together by the hundreds, whipped because the White Man thought they couldn't feel, being raped, beaten, forced to work in the harsh sun and cold winters at all hours, starved and so much more and worse makes me uncomfortable. Because it is a horrific thought. I will openly discuss race issues with anyone, but the lingering thought that I would've been a slave if I was born not even 250 years ago greatly upsets me. And it should upset you.

[rainofaugustsith]

One more thing: please spare me this “all Sith are evil and self-serving and only care about themselves” nonsense. In the pre-Darth Bane era that’s ridiculous, as much as it is to say all Jedi are good.  This is the Sith code. There’s nothing here about being selfish, racist or not caring about others. Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. It’s notable that there seems to be some leave in Sith society for Sith to interpret the Code as they will - there is a scene in the Inquisitor story where Ashara Zavros is frustrated with that lack of a unified philosophy. This isn’t “self serving,” in real-world religions there are often those who question, study and interpret differently.  This is the Jedi code. There’s nothing here about being selfless, being nice or caring for others. There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force

From what is said, there’s less leave for Jedi to question and interpret the Code as they will, and more of a unified message. We see this in major world religions too.  Neither one is wrong.  We meet plenty of Sith who are horrible people, but the stories also show us numerous examples of Sith busting their asses to protect the Empire or the galaxy.

- Satele Shan accuses Scourge of helping defeat Vitiate for “selfish reasons.” She never gives any indication what these reasons are, of course. Scourge sacrificed everything to help defeat Vitiate. He had a position of extreme power in the Empire - not even the Dark Council could stop him, and he answered only to Vitiate. He gave that up to help the Jedi that wanted his people dead, made himself a traitor to his own faction, and was risking his own immortality. That doesn’t seem at all selfish to me.   - Darth Marr volunteers his own resources defeat Revan in a Coalition with the Republic to save the galaxy. He later leads another coalition into Wild Space with the same goal. And when the ship goes down he doesn’t save his own ass, he’s running around literally trying to put out the fires himself.     - Lana Beniko risks her neck multiple times to save the Empire and later to save the Alliance, to the point of literally jumping in front of the player to take a blaster shot in the stomach. There are several occasions in KOTFE and KOTET where she offers to sacrifice herself so the PC can get away.  -  The Sith Empire led by Acina puts themselves on the line to support the Alliance against Zakuul, when they could have easily sat back like the Republic. Defying Zakuul could have brought the Eternal Fleet down on their heads, and they did it anyway.   - Khem Val, while technically not a Sith but still ‘dark sided’ literally sacrfices himself to stop Darth Zash from hollowing out the Sith Inquisitor and taking their body. If the Inquisitor died, he would have been free.   - Darth Silthar on Tatooine doesn’t send his men out into the dangerous field, he does it himself, and uses his last breath to utter a warning to the PC.   - When the Sith Empire realizes that releasing the Dread Masters was actually a very, VERY bad idea, they clean up their own mess and devote their own troops to it. The Sith commander on Oricon is on the surface, doing everything he can to shield everyone else, even at his own expense.   So where is this “all Sith are selfish and care only for themselves” thing coming from? Maybe the answer isn’t in the Sith, but with the Jedi and how they operate.   The Jedi serve the Republic for life. In SWTOR you are told that they serve the Republic even if they don’t agree. They are not given a choice. In the newest update there is talk from General Daerunn of tracking down Jedi and making them come back to fight for the Republic even if they don’t want to. The Jedis’ duty is to serve, without question. The Sixth Line even puts this ethos into their modified code: There is no contemplation, but duty. The Jedi hammer this philosophy into their recruits from a young age: they are there to serve unquestionably. The Jedi’s duty is to do the Republic’s bidding. They are expected to forego love, relationships, families or their own personal lives to fulfill this mandate, and it is seen as noble and good.   What about anyone who doesn’t want to do that? What about anyone who wants to have some life of their own? Easy! You make emotions and dissent “the dark side.” You make the dark side evil. You make it a Very Bad Thing for a Force sensitive to have any other goal in life than to unquestioningly serve their government. There’s no other way to preserve the status quo of the Jedi as the Republic’s eternal unpaid servants. If they go off and do what they want, or get to think about it, they might leave!   Hammering this point home, the Jedi consider any other Force creed to be dark-sided, which isn’t unlike some evangelical religions that think that they are the only ones going to Heaven. For example, there are a few exchanges in the Jedi class stories where Satele makes this claim about the Voss. The Voss, who use their Force sensitives to heal others through self-sacrifice in the Shrine of Healing (watch the Sith Warrior story - the Mystic takes her own strength and gives it to a sick person, and it’s painful enough to make her cry), have precognitive visions and interpret them to help their people. There really doesn’t seem much that is evil about that.  Satele Shan says nothing about the Voss’s practice of apartheid against the Gormak, but she’s concerned about their use of the Force. 

Point being, claiming that every action taken by a Sith is for their own benefit is as silly as saying that every action taken by a Jedi is out of the goodness of their own heart or free will. 

[anchanted-one]

Regarding the Rule of Two, my opinion

It’s a selective distillation of Sith philosophy. Bane made a choice of giving up everything else in order to hyper focus on his perceived missions that go hand-in-hand with being Sith: kill the Jedi, rule the Galaxy. The other things that came from a millennia-long Empire, like art, culture, scientific advancement, non-Force related philosophy, etc? He gave them all up.

What happens after they’ve wiped out the Jedi? What did they plan for it? “Rule the Galaxy” is a vague objective, and can mean anything from benign dictatorship to Bolshevik communism, to the Magocracy Palpatine chose, to any other way of ruling. But as we saw, even Palpatine had only the narrow vision of ruling which amounted to “Jealously guard my throne/rule by fear”. In fact his prize pupil was a guy who literally did not care for ruling. Their rule was never going to be sustainable. I see the Rule of Two as a murder-suicide declaration.

It’s something of an inbreeding philosophy. Similar to the point about the distillation, but what happens when you find your apprentices at impressionable ages and make them think of nothing but murder, genocide, and domination? Each Sith spends years gobbling up the same kool-aid, and stewing in their own stagnant ill feelings. I bet that it affects the way their mind works on some fundamental level.

And this is the ultimate flaw of the Rule of Two. It erases all hints that the Sith were anything more than a bitter exclusive club with a massive chip on their shoulders, and an ego the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

[rainofaugustsith]

Yes exactly.  Darth Bane essentially picked up some texts from an ancient religion/culture - which nobody was around to clarify or explain, and from which the entire body of work had been expunged  - discarded most of what was there, and warped the remainder into his own views focusing on genocide and galactic conquest. Saying that his version of the Sith was in any way a representation of the Sith of the Old Republic era or before would be like saying that eccentric fringe cult down the block somehow represents mainstream religious beliefs.  The Sith Empire of the Old Republic was a working civilization run largely by the Sith - with education, housing for citizens, and a lot of other things that could not have happened if they had been operating under a Rule of Two sort of ethos.  The Sith of the Old Republic wanted more people to be Sith, not fewer. And the Sith of the Old Republic did have a genuine reason to be wary of the Jedi, namely the repeated acts of genocide that the Jedi and Republic had previously carried out and their stated desire to continue wiping out the Sith. It’s always interesting to me that in the Republic-side stories in SWTOR you hear a lot of “kill all the Imps! Destroy all the Sith!” talk, but on the Imperial side they’re usually too busy dealing with their own disasters to worry about that sort of shit. Which again does not mitigate the fact that every single faction in the Old Republic did horrible things, but the Sith focus seemed to be largely on keeping the Republic away from them. Even in Onslaught, their focus is destroying the Republic ships that are coming to attack them. Yes, the Old Republic-era Empire tries to get other planets into their fold, but so does the Republic - and BOTH factions try to get planets to stay when they don’t want to, even to the point of military force, as on Ord Mantell. 

[rainofaugustsith]

One more thing: please spare me this “all Sith are evil and self-serving and only care about themselves” nonsense. In the pre-Darth Bane era that’s ridiculous, as much as it is to say all Jedi are good.  This is the Sith code. There’s nothing here about being selfish, racist or not caring about others. Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. It’s notable that there seems to be some leave in Sith society for Sith to interpret the Code as they will - there is a scene in the Inquisitor story where Ashara Zavros is frustrated with that lack of a unified philosophy. This isn’t “self serving,” in real-world religions there are often those who question, study and interpret differently.  This is the Jedi code. There’s nothing here about being selfless, being nice or caring for others. There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force

From what is said, there’s less leave for Jedi to question and interpret the Code as they will, and more of a unified message. We see this in major world religions too.  Neither one is wrong.  We meet plenty of Sith who are horrible people, but the stories also show us numerous examples of Sith busting their asses to protect the Empire or the galaxy.

- Satele Shan accuses Scourge of helping defeat Vitiate for “selfish reasons.” She never gives any indication what these reasons are, of course. Scourge sacrificed everything to help defeat Vitiate. He had a position of extreme power in the Empire - not even the Dark Council could stop him, and he answered only to Vitiate. He gave that up to help the Jedi that wanted his people dead, made himself a traitor to his own faction, and was risking his own immortality. That doesn’t seem at all selfish to me.   - Darth Marr volunteers his own resources defeat Revan in a Coalition with the Republic to save the galaxy. He later leads another coalition into Wild Space with the same goal. And when the ship goes down he doesn’t save his own ass, he’s running around literally trying to put out the fires himself.     - Lana Beniko risks her neck multiple times to save the Empire and later to save the Alliance, to the point of literally jumping in front of the player to take a blaster shot in the stomach. There are several occasions in KOTFE and KOTET where she offers to sacrifice herself so the PC can get away.  -  The Sith Empire led by Acina puts themselves on the line to support the Alliance against Zakuul, when they could have easily sat back like the Republic. Defying Zakuul could have brought the Eternal Fleet down on their heads, and they did it anyway.   - Khem Val, while technically not a Sith but still ‘dark sided’ literally sacrfices himself to stop Darth Zash from hollowing out the Sith Inquisitor and taking their body. If the Inquisitor died, he would have been free.   - Darth Silthar on Tatooine doesn’t send his men out into the dangerous field, he does it himself, and uses his last breath to utter a warning to the PC.   - When the Sith Empire realizes that releasing the Dread Masters was actually a very, VERY bad idea, they clean up their own mess and devote their own troops to it. The Sith commander on Oricon is on the surface, doing everything he can to shield everyone else, even at his own expense.   So where is this “all Sith are selfish and care only for themselves” thing coming from? Maybe the answer isn’t in the Sith, but with the Jedi and how they operate.   The Jedi serve the Republic for life. In SWTOR you are told that they serve the Republic even if they don’t agree. They are not given a choice. In the newest update there is talk from General Daerunn of tracking down Jedi and making them come back to fight for the Republic even if they don’t want to. The Jedis’ duty is to serve, without question. The Sixth Line even puts this ethos into their modified code: There is no contemplation, but duty. The Jedi hammer this philosophy into their recruits from a young age: they are there to serve unquestionably. The Jedi’s duty is to do the Republic’s bidding. They are expected to forego love, relationships, families or their own personal lives to fulfill this mandate, and it is seen as noble and good.   What about anyone who doesn’t want to do that? What about anyone who wants to have some life of their own? Easy! You make emotions and dissent “the dark side.” You make the dark side evil. You make it a Very Bad Thing for a Force sensitive to have any other goal in life than to unquestioningly serve their government. There’s no other way to preserve the status quo of the Jedi as the Republic’s eternal unpaid servants. If they go off and do what they want, or get to think about it, they might leave!   Hammering this point home, the Jedi consider any other Force creed to be dark-sided, which isn’t unlike some evangelical religions that think that they are the only ones going to Heaven. For example, there are a few exchanges in the Jedi class stories where Satele makes this claim about the Voss. The Voss, who use their Force sensitives to heal others through self-sacrifice in the Shrine of Healing (watch the Sith Warrior story - the Mystic takes her own strength and gives it to a sick person, and it’s painful enough to make her cry), have precognitive visions and interpret them to help their people. There really doesn’t seem much that is evil about that.  Satele Shan says nothing about the Voss’s practice of apartheid against the Gormak, but she’s concerned about their use of the Force. 

Point being, claiming that every action taken by a Sith is for their own benefit is as silly as saying that every action taken by a Jedi is out of the goodness of their own heart or free will. 

[anchanted-one]

Regarding the Rule of Two, my opinion

It’s a selective distillation of Sith philosophy. Bane made a choice of giving up everything else in order to hyper focus on his perceived missions that go hand-in-hand with being Sith: kill the Jedi, rule the Galaxy. The other things that came from a millennia-long Empire, like art, culture, scientific advancement, non-Force related philosophy, etc? He gave them all up.

What happens after they’ve wiped out the Jedi? What did they plan for it? “Rule the Galaxy” is a vague objective, and can mean anything from benign dictatorship to Bolshevik communism, to the Magocracy Palpatine chose, to any other way of ruling. But as we saw, even Palpatine had only the narrow vision of ruling which amounted to “Jealously guard my throne/rule by fear”. In fact his prize pupil was a guy who literally did not care for ruling. Their rule was never going to be sustainable. I see the Rule of Two as a murder-suicide declaration.

It’s something of an inbreeding philosophy. Similar to the point about the distillation, but what happens when you find your apprentices at impressionable ages and make them think of nothing but murder, genocide, and domination? Each Sith spends years gobbling up the same kool-aid, and stewing in their own stagnant ill feelings. I bet that it affects the way their mind works on some fundamental level.

And this is the ultimate flaw of the Rule of Two. It erases all hints that the Sith were anything more than a bitter exclusive club with a massive chip on their shoulders, and an ego the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

[rainofaugustsith]

Yes exactly.  Darth Bane essentially picked up some texts from an ancient religion/culture - which nobody was around to clarify or explain, and from which the entire body of work had been expunged  - discarded most of what was there, and warped the remainder into his own views focusing on genocide and galactic conquest. Saying that his version of the Sith was in any way a representation of the Sith of the Old Republic era or before would be like saying that eccentric fringe cult down the block somehow represents mainstream religious beliefs.  The Sith Empire of the Old Republic was a working civilization run largely by the Sith - with education, housing for citizens, and a lot of other things that could not have happened if they had been operating under a Rule of Two sort of ethos.  The Sith of the Old Republic wanted more people to be Sith, not fewer. And the Sith of the Old Republic did have a genuine reason to be wary of the Jedi, namely the repeated acts of genocide that the Jedi and Republic had previously carried out and their stated desire to continue wiping out the Sith. It’s always interesting to me that in the Republic-side stories in SWTOR you hear a lot of “kill all the Imps! Destroy all the Sith!” talk, but on the Imperial side they’re usually too busy dealing with their own disasters to worry about that sort of shit. Which again does not mitigate the fact that every single faction in the Old Republic did horrible things, but the Sith focus seemed to be largely on keeping the Republic away from them. Even in Onslaught, their focus is destroying the Republic ships that are coming to attack them. Yes, the Old Republic-era Empire tries to get other planets into their fold, but so does the Republic - and BOTH factions try to get planets to stay when they don’t want to, even to the point of military force, as on Ord Mantell. 

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[firestormneos]

>“lizard people”

[bellwitchfaggot]

Abled gays celebrating marriage equality: well we sure do have nowhere to go from here when it comes to marriage rights. Gay rights!

Me, a disabled lesbian trying to get on ssi thinking about how I will not be able to marry my girlfriend if I do because I can't have more than $2000 to my name at a time and they count a spouse's income towards that: wow .. gay rights ...

[bellwitchfaggot]

Just wanna say if you fought for and support marriage equality for gay people its your responsibility to do the same for disabled people. Abled people can and should rb this

[arceus-insanity]

This is the next step, is preventing abuse to the less lucky LGBT+ members, trans and don’t ‘pass’ disabled anyone, etc

[firestormneos]

y’all are so used to the performative communist “tear it down and start over” attitude, that the notion of “okay, we put a bullet in explicit homophobia in society. now it’s time to go after an implicitly homophobic but explicitly ableist institution” is completely fucking foreign to you politically ignorant jackasses.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[historyofshipping]

I AM A HISTORIAN AND I DON’T LIKE LIVING IN THIS TIME EITHER 

[firestormneos]

https://youtu.be/-een123G4l8

[whitepeopletwitter]

[firestormneos]

stop 👏 hiding 👏 gems 👏 in 👏 the 👏 replies

[ilovepeppers-deactivated2019122]

When will banksy

[briarin]

When will anonymous

[luzialowe]

always reblog, this is fucking activism folks

[digitaldiscipline]

if you don’t have access to poorly-secured and un-backed-up debt records, you can help do this via legitimate means by donating to rollingjubilee.org - they buy debt (the way debt collectors do, for steeply discounted prices - like $20 to buy $500 in outstanding debt owed by someone) and just… forgive it, so it doesn’t need to be paid by the person on whom it’s a burden.

[sourcedposts]

As of November 22, 2018, this information is outdated. Rolling Jubilee is no longer accepting donations. The organization has migrated to https://debtcollective.org/, the next stage in their fight against predatory debt. There is also more information under the “resources” tab on their homepage.

https://tools.debtcollective.org/?donate  Here is their donation page

The Debt Resistor’s Operations Manual - This is a book written by StrikeDebt, which is a branch of the Debt Collective. It covers the predatory nature of the debt system, as well as strategies to organize and fight it. It is free to read online at the link.

[theepoetrygod]

y’all saying BLM for one situation just don’t sit right with me, it goes beyond police brutality!!! it’s Black women dying at a higher rate during childbirth. it’s Black people being exposed to COVID-19 at a higher rate. it’s Black people being forced into low income communities. it's Black people being denied job opportunities due to the name on their applications. it's Black people being denied into higher institutions despite having the same qualifications as their non-Black counterparts. it's Black people having their creations and ideas stolen without being given credit simply because a good percentage of society still believes in 2020 that Black people are not creative enough or smart enough or skilled enough. it's the decrease of federal funding for schools in predominantly Black neighborhoods due to gerrymandering. it's the kidnapping and murders of Black people that don't make it on the news. it's Black trans women having a life expectancy of 23 YEARS OLD. it's Black people, especially Black trans people, being incarcerated at disproportionately high rates. it's Black people with criminal records who can't find jobs to turn their lives around because they're stuck in one spot after being released from the incarceration system. it's every single Black life that has been lost to racially motivated killings, whether it be the police or by citizens. this isn't just about police brutality. this is deeper than that.

All Black Lives Matter. Not just the ones you specifically are a fan of.

[nflstreet]

[theyoungestwhateleydaughter-dea]

Str8 guys think that’s generous instead of default. Sad!

[firestormneos]

😂😂😂😂

[whitepeopletwitter]

[raptortooth]

[thenightling]

This meme always just makes me curious and I looked. It appears most of the trouble is 1.  People freaking out about Paw Patrol being “Cop-propaganda” and 2.  One psychotic and racist TERF ranting about someone of the wrong race using a grammatically incorrect variation of “Going to” and calling people half-devil.

[firestormneos]

i thought paw patrol being copaganda was just a meme.

[caesoxfan04-blog]

Anderson Cooper saving a boy in Haiti during a shooting. A slab of concrete was dropped of the boys head.

[the-awful-rowing]

Anderson fucking Cooper, everyone. 

Some journalists like to be strictly observers. they don’t intervene, they don’t participate. they just document what they see, even if what they see is terrible. But the way I see it, journalists don’t exist in a vacuum. They are human beings, living and working in a very human environment. And that humanity is essential in relating to their stories. When you lose your humanity, you lose any kind of journalistic integrity you have left. 

[localufologist]

#nevernotreblog

[gin-and-eschatonic]

this is the guy who found out one of his ancestors was killed by one of his slaves and was like “he had it coming”

[pangeen]

^^

[firestormneos]

Star Wars Episode 9 should’ve just been these two polar bears going at it for an hour or two with those lightsabers.

bonus if it then ended with the two ending the confrontation on good terms with eachother.