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when people say "death to america" they mean they want the communist death army to storm every city in america and kill everyone there including babies and old people and animals too and then they are going to take a bunch of bulldozers and dynamite and such and demolish all of the buildings and trees and mountains and everything until the entire country is just a smoldering crater. just wanted to clear that up
I hope I donât sound rude, and please correct me if Iâm wrong. But I was reading some of your fic, and based on your writing, you are clearly pro Sasuke and pro Uchiha. So I was wondering, is there anything you do dislike about Sasuke and the Uchiha clan
I mean I believe they have flaws, but I *like* their flaws. To me I've always headcanoned the Uchiha as conservative, but as with irl persecuted groups the conservatism of the oppressed is often a natural state of being under threat. To preserve "traditional values" is different when your culture is under threat of eradication. Likewise Sasukes flaws (self-absorption, mostly) is a product of being the last of his kind, the only one who can deliver justice for the Uchiha. And like at the same time Sasuke is still naturally considerate, and the Uchiha are still warm.
I guess what frustrates me (though I don't know if I'd call it a dislike) is that the self-absorption of the Uchiha means they sort of exceptionalize their persecution when they should have been able to connect it to wider clan cullings + persecutions.
"KILL ALL PEDOPHILES" in bio is about the same to me as "RACISTS DNI!!" in bio. Like, a kind of meaningless statement not meant to indicate your willingness to protect anybody but rather signal nothing meaningful about your politics beyond "I'M AGAINST THE BAD GUYS"
Frankly if you were truly so militantly for the cause of csa victims you'd be like "KILL ALL FATHERS, UNCLES, PIANO TEACHERS WHO ALMOST BUT DIDN'T QUITE MANAGE TO BECOME AN LPN, ANYBODY IN PRETTY MUCH ANY RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION" etc etc
and honestly it's just fucking insane that every time we try to talk about harm to children in particular we have to talk circles around the fact that these things are very, very overwhelmingly done by parents/family members/teachers/religious leaders/known and trusted adults in a position of power over a child, to the extent that many people's suggested solution to child abuse is "give the people most likely to abuse a child EVEN MORE strangling legal and material power over the kid"
you're not supposed to actually address who is abusing children and what can be done to give those children recourse and the ability to leave abusive situations because nobody actually gives a shit about child abuse beyond the familial property rights violation it represents to them and the cudgel against minorities which it can be turned into
You see something broadly similar in nursing where you have to tip toe round the fact that nurses can directly and intentionally harm patients; one of the most common phrases you'll hear when trying to address an issue is something like "well no nurse is coming to work deliberately wanting to hurt their patients". I don't say this to derail from the issue of protecting children from their parents/guardians, i say it because i think it highlights the consistent problems that not offending the sensibilities of people in positions of power over vulnerable people is seen as more important then actually protecting those vulnerable people. "How dare you suggest I'm a bad parent, I'm not going to listen to anything you say because clearly you just hate me, and my feelings are clearly the real issue now" type mindset that means you end you talking circles around issues trying not offend anyone instead of directly addressing what is wrong
Idk if this is going to sound stupid, but Iâm curious: what is it about Iron Man, aka Tony Stark, that you like? Scrolling through your Tumblr blog, one would assume you would dislike a character like Tony Stark.
I mean if he was a real guy I'd be the one conspiracy truther that Tony Stark is on the Epstein list because, and I cannot emphasize this enough, all billionaires are demons.
Short answer: the medieval knight imagery combined with explorations of responsibility that is different than usual in the superhero genre. Also, I'm so sorry to confess this, but discussing the politics of Iron Man is what made teenage me interested in politics, and 2016 Civil War discourse exposed (again, teenage me, give me some grace) to a broader understanding of how evil the US has been to the world. It made me curious, made me expand my knowledge. I believe it was during this period where I came to understand "the CIA killed them" wasn't just a meme. That the US legitimately was killing people...and no one seemed to care? I mean you can also attribute this to Hillary Clinton losing to Donald Trump, the Bernie shock or whatever, but my interest in learning about American intervention (especially in the "middle east") did, unfortunately, stem from Iron Man. I learned about Abu Ghraib through this. Can you believe that.
a longer rant about the artistic merit to Iron man below the cut. I am not succinct.
Whereas most popular superheroes start as underdogs (either materially poor or whatever gothic/tragic prince thing batman has going on) Tony Stark's despair is like, the clichĂŠ despair of the uber rich where his life is meaningless because he ultimately has no drive and subsists off his riches that he understands is ill-gotten, and has thus developed a nihilism to justify his passivity to this reality ("the world is horrible, horrible people would still be doing horrible things with or without me, I'm just a cog in a machine - thus not truly responsible for my actions"). I would say this sentiment is probably why I still have a huge attachment to this character, because this stupid ass privileged ass perspective is something I see constantly from people both around me but especially from Americans. This passivity and shrugging in the face of cruelty to pursue impulsive, frivolous luxuries pisses me off. You can't even boycott a chic-fil-a.
Then Tony Stark is kidnapped and tortured by an ethnically-diverse "terrorist" group (I'll talk about this fucking trust me) and is essentially killed and reborn. For the very first time in his life his death is right there, and due to the nature of the shrapnel in his chest death is consistently right there. It's a position sometimes I wish upon the placid who laugh and scoff at the idea of going without Mcdonalds. We have quite literally built this billionaire loser a new heart to stave off death. It's a huge power fantasy where you take someone with a powerful position in America's capitalist imperialism and literally give them a change of heart. His first order of business was to stop producing weapons. Can you imagine America's #1 weapons provider just, simply, backing out? The idea gives me a huge high, and now I think that guy who did that is fucking funny. Literally rug-pulled the US government. From that change on luxuries and glamour are treated as shallow distractions (and associated with poor mental health).
I would say he is perpetually irredeemed, yet striving for redemption. It's the best position for a redemption arc imo, where he gets (initially) no praise or social grace for his moral rise (in fact the exact opposite) but does it anyways. Again, this is my desire for people to understand that becoming an actively good person sometimes makes you annoying to the people around you, but it is absolutely essential that you do. Later on in the universe when he butts heads with other heroes where he's positioned as "in the wrong," he's uniquely right. He gets to act as the character that pushes back on whatever dumbass "moral" point the writers churn out and embodies a truer, less passive, less imperial version of heroism where you give up your power for the sake of justice. Can you even imagine.
There really is a lot to like about mcu iron man I have to say. Ultimately the character's subservience to the irl military industrial complex that financially supports these films means I've cooled on talking about it outside specific buddies (and no I absolutely did not know this was happening initially (the folly of being a child), then #coped for a spell, then cut the MCU loose). Tbh any US military film is absolutely nauseating to consider now. I genuinely cannot believe people saw Oppenheimer. That being said I clearly still have passion about this character so it's really frustrating to come back to the material after all I've learned and see western fundamental assumptions and racist stereotypes I didn't initially clock. The ten rings is, meh. I would say as a portrayal they avoid any discussion of Islam or religious crusades which I think is fucking huge. It becomes clear they are an expansionist group that simply wants power, and fundamentally irl "terrorist" groups that are legitimately evil do just that. Obviously they also have a brown guy foil to show humanity, which is a plus, only for him to die to propel the white guy through his narrative, which is bad. There's a lot of give and take in Iron Man, a lot of shockingly humanizing choices, enmeshed with undeniably american perspectives. Why the FUCK are the terrorists from Afghanistan wearing kufiyas.
BUT you know what's really fun about 60s Iron Man? The fact it was anti communist propaganda 𼴠like there's so much fun to be had discussing Iron Man re ideology and propaganda that I just can't let it go.
Someone: *posts about how horrible it is to be the underprivileged party in a certain power dynamic*
Everyone for some fucking reason: but have you considered that privileged people suffer too? They often have to use their privilege responsibly, and that can be suuuuper emotionally taxing. We really need to be considering the suffering of the privileged and vulnerable equally, when you really think about it đ¤
I also âď¸ think it's important to tell the difference between "the author's barely-disguised fetish" and "the audience member's unrealised kink that they're projecting onto the author because seeing a character tied up is making them feel funny in their Audience Member Parts"
I'm going to *remembers how many times in my life I didn't tell anyone I was suicidal* you know, I'm not going to, but I honestly think even joking about it is better than never talking about it, and I think people who have dealt with such a difficult thing deserve to be able to joke about our own experiences without getting lectured about some knock-off CBT that's been ground up and shat out of the online pop psychology void, and also you know this format in itself is a suicide joke right it's just euphemistic
the fact that many liberals care more about whether a state is "authoritarian" than whether it lifted massive swathes of its population out of poverty says a lot about their politics. they say China is bad because it's authoritarian and brush aside the 800 million people it's lifted out of abject poverty. they complain that Cuba is "authoritarian", while ignoring that it brought healthcare and education to the masses, who were left to suffer under the Batista regime. at some point you have to realize that you're condemning a country that's run in the interests of the working masses of its population
the kicker is that the marxist-leninist countries being criticised are more democratic than the liberal democracies the critics are comparing them too
Every single feminist should be anti Israel what do you mean a woman is doing a podcast in full athleisure with the camera pointed between her spread legs as she says Ilhan Omar married her brother.
Israel is doing year 2000s burger add levels of objectification of women and we're all just supposed to think it's normal discourse
The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.
A few things of note:
This is why people to your left have been chiding you about the "pedo" panic: now, the government can accuse you of being a "pedo" to justify committing crimes against you.
This is why people to your left have been chiding you about the "terrorist" moniker: for the last half century, the government can accuse you of being a "terrorist" to justify committing crimes against you.
Tunick was involved with a group called Defend the Atlanta Forest, which opposed the construction of an enormous law enforcement training facility in the area often known as Cop City. What Tunick didnât know, according to his lawyers, was that heâd been placed on a watch list for his actions and that Customs and Border Protection had discussed over email plans to detain him upon his arrival back in the US for âsuspected terrorism activities.â
During the interrogation, CBP agents told Tunick they wanted to search his phone for evidence of child sexual abuse, and if he didnât unlock the device, it would be confiscated. The government has long asserted broad authority to examine and seize electronic devices at the border for virtually any reason. Tunick claims he was never read his rights and requested legal counsel several times, but the requests were denied.
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone
Bill Budington, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Runa Sandvik, a digital security expert who works to protect at-risk people as the founder of security consultancy firm Granitt, told TechCrunch that they had not seen similar cases involving the use of duress passwords.
âI have not seen this before, though Iâve discussed the potential scenario with activists and journalists over the years,â said Sandvik. âI think this case serves as a reminder that authorities may argue you knowingly destroyed data, so itâs better to not have that data on you when you cross certain borders.âÂ
âWith a little planning ahead of time, you can always download the data you need once you get to where youâre going,â said Sandvik.Â
just realised us foreign policy is mostly responsible for the last 5 years of post covid inflation in the entire world. well first the complicated sanctions on russian oil. this one russia is at fault ofc. then the nordstream pipeline. then the insane, randomly decided tariff regime. then hormuz.
the rupee for example has decreased in value by 20% in said time period because of this.
every time trump gambles for corruption and shocks various sectors of the economy, he prices volatility into various parts of the supply chain -> someone somewhere cannot afford something they need -> someone who was doing fine isn't employed anymore -> someone dies. this isn't doge killing millions of the most vulnerable through cutting aid; this is just making the precarious vulnerable.
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