*Muffled Sounds of Gorilla Violence*

Patrick | 25 | Canada Any Pronouns OK

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 29, 2023 - Kissinger has finally died! 🦀🦀🦀

[leviathan-supersystem]

sorry but this post is really silly. people didn't just randomly out of nowhere start saying right-wingers are mad because they get no women, a massive right-wing movement emerged that said, overtly, "we are right wing and angry because we get no women". (and no, i do not think that women will magically appear to suck your dick if you're a good person, but there are a lot of cases where someone is romantically unsuccessful in ways that are pretty clearly tied to them not being good person. and right wing men *specifically* complain that women reject them for their politics!)

is the idea that, what, no one is allowed to comment on the existence of incel ideology? because it night hurt the feelings of lonely men who definitely aren't into incel ideology but get personally offended when you criticize incel ideology For Some Reason? frankly I think this kind of oversensitive language policing does a lot more to push people away from the left than critiquing incel ideology does.

[miraclemaya]

i think it's so funny wehave like letters and whatever from Tolkien talking about how he fucked up with the orcs. it's ao funny

[sackboy166]

[dogpuppy]

[kirbytripledeluxe]

you are ADDICTED to kitties.

I like kittiesa reasonable amount

[your-worst-boy]

Praying Mantis costume by Imile Wepener

[xanaxfarts]

A tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper

[thesensitivepervert]

I just purchssed the rights to the deltarune musical for 850,000$

[antlord325]

Thank you sensitive pervert. This will save Tenna’s odds of winning the sexyman poll

[thesensitivepervert]

Dont know who/what that is, this was purely a business decision to extract money from children

[itscolossal]

International Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the World from Above

[mars-gallavanger]

Kamille and Fa

[laurapalmergraduates]

It is easy to forget just how central military violence has been and remains to business as usual. More than 5 per cent of annual CO2 emissions stem from the militaries around the world. We often talk about flying and how bad it is for the climate, and it is bad, but civil aviation accounts for about 3 per cent of the total. And the 5 per cent that comes from militaries precede actual war: these are peacetime emissions, made in the process of maintaining the logistical apparatuses and fighting capacities of armies before they go to war. When they do go into battle, the fuel is set on fire and the bombs rain down in bursts of concentrated additional emissions. The US, of course, is at the centre of all this. The emissions from the occupation army during the war on Gaza might be counted as just another category of American emissions. The US outweighs every other country; indeed, as Neta C. Crawford notes, 'the US military is the single largest institutional fossil fuel user in the world and thus the world's single largest greenhouse gas emitter In her book The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War, she brilliantly charts the development of what she calls 'the deep cycle' The militaries of first the UK and then the US found coal, followed by oil, to be indispensable for waging war: for manufacturing weapons, transporting soldiers into the battlefield, providing mobility once engaged, bringing firepower to bear on the enemy. By basing its operations on fossil fuels, the US military contributed to their spread throughout the economy; and when both the military and economy were thoroughly dependent on them, the protection of this essential commodity itself became an imperative of war. No part of the world has been so deeply formed and scarred by this cycle as the Middle East. Although Palestine is at its centre, the devastation clearly extends to other countries too: think only of Iraq and Yemen.

— The Destruction of Palestine is The Destruction of the Earth, Andreas Malm

[anglaised]

Ariana Grande is wealthier than you in terms of looks and wealth 🤭

im having a delicious piece of cake now

[weenie-hunter]

[artdepo]

Bacteriophage - modern glass sculpture by Luke Jerram

[northirish]

Are you a badass enough of a motherfucker to give me a hug

[draculaflowdaily]

The bugs are back.

[ayeaye00]

Ritual Forms / Wave Eye Ring: Masonic Psychedelic

[elbiotipo]

Basically, if you say "this historical thing is a human universal", ask yourself, did it also happen in the Americas? Because the Americas developed thousands of years of civilization completely independent from Eurasia. Many of those broad claims about earliest "human" history and civilization are based on the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Not even China or India are considered most of the time, let alone Africa or the Americas or Oceania, which had multiple different independent origins of agriculture and social organization.

[elbiotipo]

As a practical example, any theory of the origin of writing cannot only study the Sumerians. You need at least to consider the origin of writing in China and India. Even if you operate with the assumption (highly debatable) that writing from the Middle East influenced them, you cannot just assign the same factors to it.

And you ESPECIALLY have to take into account the invention of writing (Maya scripts) and proto-writing in the Americas. These were created completely differently from other writing systems, sometimes radically differently (Andean quipus). You cannot ignore them.

This is the same with everything: the origin of agriculture, cities, social organization, warfare, anything you consider a "human universal". You cannot only work with Eurasia. You cannot ignore Africa and you cannot ignore Oceania. But America, in particular, is the key to understanding history in a complete picture.