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If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:

The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.

The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.

The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.

The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.

The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.

Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.

The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.

If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.

You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.

The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.

Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.

Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.

Veterans' benefits suck these days.

Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.

The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.

The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.

A lot can change in four years.

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All of this!

If you want an organization who WILL tell you the truth about your rights to conscientiously object, how to legally get out of the DEP (Delayed Entry Program) or about any of your other rights in the military (whether you’re enlisted, thinking about enlisting, or a family member or friend of someone enlisted (or thinking about enlisting)), who will do it confidentially & for free, you want the

GI Rights Hotline

run by NGOs & non-profits, which has been counseling folks for DECADES now:

Are you in the military or thinking about joining? Are you unsure of where to get reliable answers? Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-

Or by phone:

1-877-447-4487

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Even if all the person you're speaking to cares about is the money, the money sucks.

Minimum wage in California just went up to $16.90. You need to be rank E4 or be E3 with at least 3 years of service before you're making more than the CA minimum wage in the military.

You will literally get better pay and benefits working at a costco. (And that's not even accounting for the fact that the military isn't a 40 hour work week, your entire life is on the clock)

I cannot emphasize this enough, if you're a desperate young queer person you will make better money, get better healthcare, and have more affordable options for school if you move to California, get a job at costco, live with roommates, and go to community college than you will have if you join the US military.

forpseanna

For the arguments

zkyeline

Maybe this therapy shit is working

zkyeline

Made me wheeze. Adopting this tag into my brain, thank you

vagathathegreat

Always remember who started to fight back first. Intersectionalty is so important!

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Annie Stegg - "The Axolotl Parade"

(14x18 inches, oils on copper panel)

Store — Gallery Gerard

forpseanna

For the bean

queeraang

fascinating thing about sinners is how absolutely doomed the narrative is.

like okay if sammie hadn't gone to the juke joint, remmick probably wouldn't have shown up. but then the klan would have. okay smoke took those assholes out solo, if it was him and stack maybe they could have handled it. well the juke joint would have shut down in a month because no one had any real fucking money because of the sharecropping scrip. not to mention two seperate mobs are on their way to fuck the twins up (what do you MEAN you robbed al capone??). okay maybe they covered their tracks, well they're still in the fucking jim crow south and stack and mary have a cool 35 years until loving v virginia so best case scenario is he's broke and watching the love of his life from afar until he's 70. plus annie implied the twins were on borrowed time anyway since she'd been quietly protecting them the whole time they were gone.

idk it both adds to the horror that there was no way out and just solidifies sammie saying it was the best day of his life, like that one little perfect moment was all they were going to get anyway

theereinawrites

invisiblequeen

Smoke: but why do I need to wear blue

Stack: cause I’m wearing red!! We can’t both wear red!!

Smoke: why tf not, who gives a damn

Stack: smh NO VISION

saucefunk

preacher boy

manichewitz

we gotta find that girl who saw black panther and clenched her jaw so hard at the sight of shirtless michael b jordan that she broke her retainer, i need her opinion on sinners (2025)

cassandrathevampyre

thinking about the vampire remmick in sinners coming from a same place of oppression as the people he's terrorizing, thinking about him using the music that his oppressed ancestors played to perpetuate the cycle of domination that they were a victim of, thinking about him trying to use his background to make sammie think they're on the same side when he's trying to take his gift for himself and use it for evil, thinking about him using his talents to destroy communities instead of healing them and bond his people together the way sammie does, music as the vessel of love through generations of black people against a white man that wants to take it for himself, vampirism in the movie being represented as a continuation of the south's racism, one that wants to appropriate the culture ("your memories become my memories") by using it to destroy the community, ryan coogler... genius i'm afraid

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let’s take a bath with mama

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queenoftheimps

Saw Sinners today and absolutely loved it, and there’s one detail I really liked that I haven’t seen talked about elsewhere:

There’s a fantastic sequence where we see Jack O’Connell surrounded by other vampires and leading a jig while singing “The Rocky Road to Dublin”. The song is a traditional Irish folk standard about a man traveling for work and being treated poorly at every turn for being an outsider — for his accent, for his clothes, and then for just simply being an Irishman in Liverpool.

So it’s a song about discrimination against an Irishman, sung by an Irishman who is trying to compare his history of oppression to that of the black Americans he wants to recruit. Except instead of sharing his music freely, like Sammie does — he forces everyone around him to dance to his tune, in his style, assimilating them all even while trying to present himself as sympathetic to their struggle.

chillinglikeashilling

Sinners spoilers

There's something so compelling to me about how much the Vampires in sinners will just openly attempt to gaslight the protagonists. You don't see a dead body there- that guy's just sleeping.

Lying just comes so easily to them from the moment they 'awaken'. Stack acts like Smoke didn't just hold his dying body in his arms. Bo asks Grace to come out to the car as if there was ever a chance in hell she hadn't noticed that everyone who left that building came back a vampire.

There's no staying power in it either which is also interesting. They drop the lie immediately and then pick it up when the aggressive approach doesn't work. Cornbread would have been satisfied just getting a bite of Smoke, Bo makes all of these threats about going to get Lisa from town but no one actually gets into or starts up a car.

It loops back around to being so infuriating that the frustration itself seems to be the goal. These faces of people you know and love taunting you, playing in your face while your grief is struggling to take hold because they're dead but they're also right there- they're speaking to you, this isn't some stranger in your brother's body, that's still your brother.

buggotbrain

saw a theory that the SmokeStack twins were posing as one man in Chicago, which helped them get away with stealing from both sides. i'm poised to believe that because visually their clothing was very clearly of the two mobs. smoke was full irish— tweed, bowler hat. while stack had the full mafia look. yk italian leather shoes, fedora etc etc . like the details!!

misshinson

🤔🤔I like this theory and it makes more sense as to how they would’ve been able to pull it off.

freedelusionshere

Annie and the depiction of faith and its rewards in Sinners.

Still thinking about how Annie is the spiritual center and the strongest example of faith in Sinners. It’s also reinforced by Annie, like the Choctaw, being the only ones spiritually aware enough to immediately understand Remmick represents something unnatural.

Smoke, on the other hand, and the idea of Annie coming in between him and Stack, is because Stack is corrupted by capitalism (plays out all the way through, even him vibing to Remmick’s music LOL).

Smoke is sucked along because he is always trying to protect Stack, fathering, just like he protected him from their abusive father. (The way they immediately want to know if Sammie’s dad beats him).

Annie doesn’t share Smoke’s views of what true power is; she believes in the communal. Smoke lost his way after they lost their baby and went off to war. He had a massive crisis of faith and identity.

Annie calls Smoke by his real name and makes him come home to himself. He tried to stay away, but couldn’t. She still receives him with love and his heart immediately starts to turn towards her and he starts to become more himself. He gets to reunite with his family and his ancestors while Stack gets to inherit Remmick’s longing and endless death.

The Christianity portrayed throughout Sinners is hollow and contains empty messages and symbols about love, while doing the opposite. Sammie’s father, for example, instead of rejoicing his son returned to him, uses him as an example to his congregation to “repent” for being sinners.