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@geekandmisandry
As I say in my bio, please don't send me donation reblog requests unless I know you. There are too many to vet, and I would not reblog them unless I could vet them.
I am just going to start blocking when I get these messages. Previously, I have sent private responses letting them know, and I have gotten the same messages from different accounts, so I suspect botting.
It sucks, but it is what it is.
I hope you will understand your worthlessness before they wash the remains of your decomposing corpse and blackened organs down the drain in your cat-pee stained apartment. You are a burden on everyone who has ever known you, your parents despise you, friend tolerate you, and strangers cast stares of pity and disgust. It would have been better for your abortion to happen twice over, the forceps around your corrupt torso and ripped into pieces. May your regrets never heal and your mind fade to the black pool of evil you have designed for yourself. God hates you.
I don't live in an apartment, I live in a house.
”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media
Great example
He is ok
Gotta look both ways first.
When people get weird about Islamic and Jewish modesty standards I suspect they don’t realize how recent it was that the Christian world had “covered hair” as a modesty standard
people are especially weird about sheitels in particular, because even when they are familiar with head coverings, it's always just the hijab.
"oh they're trying to trick g-d" or "oh they're finding loopholes" or "what's the point of covering hair with hair" are things i hear about wigs and it's just like. dude if you don't get it, it's obviously not for you
It also feels like if I want to try and trick G-d that is between G-d and me.
I really like listening to ppls organs when I cuddle
I thought this was CatholicPosting at first.
Y'all keep this up, and I will personally resurrect the monosexual discourse, I swear.
Thinking about Fray Bigotón (brother moustache), mascot of the Franciscan Monastery of Cochabamba in Bolivia who was adopted after being found as a stray
Is this a burger?
This is a burger - American
This is a burger - Non-American
This is a sandwich - American
This is a sandwich - Non-American
Other
Thanks, Anon!
-submit your poll!-
dude as an American in what world is this not a burger?? Yes I know it’s called a Chicken sandwich but a red panda is called a red panda?? It is a burger, which is a type of sandwich.
It's not burger-shaped.
Burgers have ground meat patties (or fake ground meat patties)
That's why they're still burgers if you get them without the bun. The bun isn't what makes something a burger
DING DING DING
Nah, that's a chicken burger. I have only ever heard Americans call burgers things that have to have ground meat patties in them.
McDonalds will sell me a McChicken and I'll be firey hot in my grave and still won't agree to McDonald's selling me a "sandwich".
I feel like America has a violence brain rot. Like so many states have stand your ground laws that it becomes normalised so that any argy bargy of any kind that results in someone stabbing or shooting someone else it becomes so normal to blame whoever started it.
Shove is an assault, they should have known they would get shot. Banging on a door is trying to break in they deserve to get stabbed. They knew the person had guns so if they trespassed they deserved to get blown up with a grenade.
And it kind of, sorry, crosses political, gender, racial biases as well. Generally speaking, from only observation.
Like if the subject is a white man there will be people automatically for or against them who will completely reverse their views when the race or gender or "optics" of the person killed changes. Like, don't get me wrong, this is not just a race thing, there is so much class and hatred of any crime or criminal wrongdoing tied up in it.
If the victim is even just an under-age white kid with a background in petty criminal theft there is likely to be a chorus of people who think they deserved it. Unless shot by someone black obviously, then that introduces a whole new dynamic.
But the fact that it seems like people of any creed in the USA are sort of...never in a "let's wait for more information" mode and always in a rush to pick a side mode (generalisation, obviously, #notallamericans) can't help but feel....really sad.
It feels like the trauma response of a people who are SO used to violence that this is how they cope now. Assuming, at least in part, that a fist fight or a verbal conflict resulting in a stabbing or a shooting is....fine.
And like, in other countries you can imagine a scenario where it happens. Where someone is being ganged up on and grabs a weapon because they genuinely fear for their own life.
But in large parts of the US there is no responsibility to retreat, to try and diffuse, even if it seems reasonable. And I'm not sure if that is where it leaks into people's mind.
And like, sure, in my country, there would still be people who might comment online that some young punk deserved it. But they aren't that common, and if you pushed them, they probably aren't that strict on their stance.
Maybe it is just my wrong take, but it feels like in the US violence is so normal that everyone eventually begins to take it on, but only for the cases they feel are worthy.
And I'm not talking about violence against systems of power or the people that represent it. I'm talking like....two neighbours who's names we never knew until one of them dies at the hands of the other kind of deal.
Bonjour
What kind of evil genius move is this??
How I imagine this going down
Wait-made it better
*le gasp* Oh mon dieu! Le fantome est un francais!
-fin-
Bonjour
What kind of evil genius move is this??
Gèrard Depardieu has been found guilty of asexually assaulting two women. There are more cases against him.
Also, in a 1991 interview, he said that he had committed many rapes in his youth, though he later says this was a mistranslation, even though the interview was conducted in French and recorded.
Politicians have defended him, claimed it is a conspiracy against the French and blamed American cultural imperialism for any backlash against him. Because the French are not known for any cultural imperialism whatsoever and when you want to defend anything sexually criminal, just blame American prudish Puritanism.
Anyway, I'm glad he was found guilty in this case, I'm glad these women have been heard, and I hope there is more to come.
Tried to delete Chrome from my tablet and I literally can't. I do not know when they started pre-installing it, but it is now bloatware. Great.
At least when women chose the bear, they were admitting a potential defeat either way.
Men claiming 100 of them unarmed can defeat a gorilla is the absolute opposite energy. Delusions of ferocity and organisation on a whole other scale.
Idk, I feel like the 100 v gorilla comes with the acknowledgment that the first 30-80 guys are sacrifices to wear down the gorilla
The thing is, that these guys keep insisting that they will fall, but work together and insist that history shows they will work together and numbers have it. When I pointed out that large groups need a leader and that, historically, when the leader is taken out the army is routed....one of them told me he would use THE BONES of the fallen as a weapon.
Taking the most logical and generous interpretation of that, I told him that a human leg weighs a lot, would be covered in blood and unless you are good with a slippery club it is not helpful.
But no no, he wrote back to tell me he would just USE THE BONE.
I had to, somehow because he should surely know this, inform him that uh....if someone had a leg ripped off it would be attached to muscle and flesh and you would need a tool to remove those things. And then it would still be bloody. And then you would need to dry out the bone because wet bones are actually not good weapons.
He seemed surprised by this.
Hence me feeling there is a false sense of security in numbers and the average human man deeply overestimating the combat organisation skills of the average human man.
It reminds me of the fact that there have been MULTIPLE men in my life who have told me, very seriously, that if they were in a fight they would "sweep the leg".
Once a man has watched the karate kid....it is too late. Dunning Kruger has taken him and will not release the grip.
I want to address some common comments here.
"You are heartless, people are suffering".
Yes, people are. But those people do NOT have the time and recourse to spend all day sending thousands upon thousands of messages to total strangers, which has a very known low-return rate.
Those that do are scam centres.
Think of it like a call centre. Why are they profitable? If you spent ALL day trying to get clients for your business on the phone it would be fruitless, a waste of time.
But we have all had messages from call centres. Why? Economy of scale.
If you have 1 person, that is simply not a wide enough net for a return. 100, 1000, 10,000? Now we are getting somewhere.
It isn't about if people in Gaza have the internet, many do. But there are obviously better and more helpful ways for them to spend their time trying to get resources. There are lines for organisations and charities they can get in contact with that can help them far, far more.
"I do not believe they have the time, they need help NOW"
They do need help now, but you giving money is not any guarantee of help. Charities are not charging for food and medical help in Gaza, those are the organisations that need money to keep helping them. The most common use scenario, that I have seen, for Gazans wanting money is in order to get OUT of the area to safety. Which is, heartbreakingly, not something you should give to. Because those are RIFE with scammers and traffickers. Were, best case if you get grifted, you just lose all the money you have. Worst case is ending up in a contract that you have no way to get out of and no documentation.
When there is a natural disaster we do not start by giving people impacted some money, because it is not the most useful or helpful way to do things. We have to fund people giving rescue, giving food, giving medical supplies, the doctors without borders who go there to help.
These are charities that struggle for funding because people do not want to give to organisations because there are costs associated with running an organisation and WRONGLY insist that direct giving is better in a situation like this.
It isn't. These are strangers reaching out to strangers. It does not make sense for them to spend their time doing that, it does not make sense for you to spend your money doing that.
The only benefit it seems to have is making some people feel really good about themselves and calling it direct action. Which is not the goal.
"There are blogs that vet them though!"
And who are the vetters? What process do they use? Why has every scam blog that has messaged me ended up on one of the vet lists I have seen?
"Well...Some of them offer to FaceTime with you and prove they are Palestinian!"
I am once again begging you to ask who is more likely to have the time and resources for that: Someone who is in a precarious position in Gaza, or someone working in a scam centre?
Put aside the fact that, without religious garb, how would you TELL a Palestinian from an Israeli? From someone in the more central east? From Pakistan? From India? From Turkey? How do they verify they are Palestinian? How does that even make sense?
And, again, if they are sending out at least HUNDREDS of messages per day (a d that is a very conservative number) how on earth could they possibly have the time to verify themselves to even a percentage of the people who are asking? Is this something that is likely to happen?
Or
Is it more likely that this is a common scam strategy, because people are more likely to trust someone who OFFERS to validate themselves?
I had to turn off all asks at all because the scammers keep adapting. They are now sending out anonymous messages that just has a link to the bio so that they can't be reported and blocked as easily.
Why would someone want to send an ask to me? I have in my bio not to, my pinned post says not to, and my literal ask button says that I will report people as spammers if they do.
Despite having all those things, my flow of messages did not slow. Because they aren't a single real person. It is a tonne of people playing the numbers game.
"You just do not care about this as much as I do"
Why would a Nigerian prince send your grandmother an email asking to pay her money? There must be other, more logical solutions for his dilemma, right?
That is also the case for these scams. Just because they use a REAL WORLD tragedy as a front does not mean that it is not a scam. In fact, there have been other EXTREMELY direct situations in Gaza before and I have never EVER seen this many scammers.
Because it was not as well known before. The average person might have known "something" was going on over there, but you are absolutely kidding yourself if you think it has ever had this much social prominence.
That means there are more people caring than there were before. More people caring means more scammers looking to make money from this situation.
I have posted before, scam centres very often use human trafficking to get people to work on these scams. They exploit and manipulate to get people sending thousands and thousands of messages a day. A single account that says to be one man trying to find help for his child will actually be 2, 20, 30, 100 people all interacting in messages, depending how many responses they get.
Please do not mistake your naivety and refusal to give to charities that can actually make LARGE differences as you caring more. When you are told repeatedly that your actions are extremely likely to do more harm but you refuse to listen and just lash out at people I am going to assume you are either 1. Fairly self involved and feel more strongly about FEELING helpful rather than BEING helpful. Or 2. Some kind of bot account that is becoming extremely common on these sites just to create discourse. We are living on a dead internet.
"So, I just shouldn't do anything?"
Not at all, here are some charities I have given to or been recommended. Please, of course, do your own research. Giving is meant to be easy, but is has become less and less so. Please make sure you know and trust who you are giving.
Anera
World Kitchen
International Rescue
Red Crescent (like the Red Cross, but Crescent)
I'm sure there are many more. Please look into them. Every dollar you give to scammers is bad. Because it could go to organisations and people who need it, and it could be funding human trafficking. Do not let scammers exploit your kindness.
"But I know someone in Palestine personally, I have known them for years and I have given them money"
Then this is not about you. This is about cold message scammers. Make your own soup without beans.
Give better.
