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I will listen, but I am not obligated to agree.

[herowyn]

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[closetocanada]

Happy Moon Landing Day! ❤️👩‍🚀🌛

[paxamericana]

[aritany]

[hunter-rodrigez]

[freetheshit-outofyou]

[heatandapathy]

[jaxsonwolf]

Almost July 4th, time for all of the ridiculous Freedom posts to begin…

Ah yes, 11:59pm…only one more minut-

…what the fuck?

wHAT DA FUCK??

HOLY SHI-

I…wha…well maybe I can work with this. Hey, you wanna have a rousing discussion about truth? Honor? Patriotism? God bless-

AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!!

[redbloodedamerica]

I would be remiss if I did not forward this amazing thing.

[cisnowflake]

It’s almost here!

[firstdegreeliberty]

Happy Independence Day, you fucks. Lol.

[shadows-ember]

Happy birthday America.

[ancaporado]

[feminist-space]

[johanna-swann]

[everydayconman]

The ancient texts were true… They DO have a reaction image for everything…

[ckret2]

getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.

[ckret2]

the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.

[macmanx]

Please be aware of common scams, and follow @changes for updates!

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

God you really don’t understand. Trump does not like you. I understand that fascist propaganda is so widespread but we (trans people) are not your enemies. We are not trying to harm children, we are not trying to tear apart nuclear families, we simply want to live. And we cannot do that. Gay and trans people do not have the same rights as straight people, legally or otherwise. Some places around the world will kill you for even mentioning who you are. (This is not me being anti-immigrant, don’t twist my words, the homophobia of many countries was brought there by British Colonialism, and was not there prior.) Do as you please, but if you decide to change and support your queer brothers, sisters and siblings, we will welcome you.

Man, you really drunk the whole pitcher kool-aid, didn't you?

Anyway, as the Representative of the Gays I've officially made supporting MAGA mandatory for any kind of "queer" identity. Either get with the program, or, to paraphrase the shuffling husk of your last president, "you ain't queer".

[animentality]

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[powerfulwizard]

Joe Russo when Tony Stark said “billionaire, playboy, philanthropist” in the first avengers

[powerfulwizard]

[karpad]

so far, I have quotes from the russos on how they think Cap is old fashioned and needed to go, how black widow was damaged and needed to “complete herself” how tony “needs to go.” they clearly don’t care for thor or ant man, thinking them idiots. They don’t seem to respect Falcon or War machine (I wonder why) so who DO they like?

Why were they given control over a movie franchise where they hate all the characters?

[powerfulwizard]

Completely agree. Here are the quotes they’re referencing btw

[dark-angel-be-thirsty-af-deacti]

This really freaking annoys me. If you’re in charge of a movie franchise then it is your job to embrace every character, to help them grow and overcome their differences. But no, NO! These asshats kill off every single character that they hate and are acting like complete babies just because they don’t like them. If you don’t like them so much then fuck off! Go and work on something else! Just stop ruining the MCU!!!

[powerfulwizard]

They both literally just hated everyone. Here is another quote I haven’t heard a lot of people mention either

[powerfulwizard]

Loki: h-

Joe Russo:

[wet-raccoon]

this is so funny tho

[biofomission]

Oh they hated everyone that explains why the movies are like that

[rose---child]

No wonder the mcu feels like a slightly better Michael bay franchise

[kaladork]

On the bright side, knowing the directors actively hated half the characters they were working with leaves me feeling 0% hesitant to ignore every single bullshit character move they made! 😜

[ford-ye-fiji]

I don’t know why people do this… for example they did it with Star Trek and jj abrams…

[fairy-anon-godmother]

Look, I have my differences with the LOTR movies, but you can see in every frame the sheer overwhelming love for the story that went into those movies. On genuinely every level. Every person involved with the production of those movies loved what they were doing and were working passionately, and it shows. 

The disregard that leaks through parts of the MCU, two of the new Star Trek movies, and the new Star Wars trilogy really is baffling to me. So many people love these franchises and would have lovingly poured their heart and soul into them. And filmmakers who just didn’t care were handed these films?? Imagine what we could have gotten if actual fans had been allowed to make these movies. 

Oh wait, I don’t have to imagine. People who love these franchises and these characters put their tiny amounts of free time and overwhelming effort into producing fanfiction and fanart for these characters every day. I could go on AO3 right now and in half a dozen clicks get sweeping, beautiful, poetic treatises on the human condition written through these ‘Verses. Vast arrays of adventures starring these characters, and the characters themselves would be lovingly adored by their writers. I could enjoy content made by people who care. 

These directors and producers don’t deserve to be handed these franchises and they don’t deserve the paychecks they receive for half-assing their way through them. Not when fans produce outstanding content every day for free, just out of passion alone. This is ridiculous, can Hollywood please start putting people who actually care about the characters in charge of the movies? Please? I promise I’ll go back to buying movie tickets if I think the characters will be treated fairly by their narratives. 

[sewickedthread]

That explains why, despite my incredible geekiness, I’ve been meh about seeing these movies. The contempt showed.

[lady-byleth]

I’m not even a fan of the mcu but I’m fucking livid right now

[winterphile]

Star Trek was too smart for JJ Abrams, and the Marvel characters were too nuanced and heroic for the Russo bros.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

And this is what happens in almost all film adaptations these days. They’re handed off to people who don’t like or care about the source material, want to “fix” it, and/or want to “put their own stamp” on someone else’s work. And when you do accidentally get someone who cares about the thing they’re adapting, it gets canceled for “not having broad appeal beyond fans of the source material” like the new Stargate show Amazon just axed in the womb.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

I just read something that Elon Musk's goal is to hit $10 trillion. I don't strongly know him that much, but I do know people strongly hate him. Anyway, obviously people were mad that his goal is to reach that much money, calling him greedy and stuff.

Now without adding Elon Musk into this, it's really strange why hating someone for having a goal to make a lot of money is considered greedy? It's more like saving, to get more money, you gotta save, and leave some other money to the side to buy food and clothes and ect.. People can do whatever they want with their money, it's not like they're tax money, it's hard earn money from working. Not like liberals will understand hard work because they sure as heck understand complaining.

I always hear "Why do they need that much money?" Well, because some rich people have a family, that money can go down for generations, provide those families and more. It's really laughable that these people will hate on the rich for not giving their money away but also ask the question as to why they need that much money.

Being rich is basically a dream, mostly every kid would like to be, but it's also hard work. If someone doesn't want to struggle anymore with money, working hard and learn to save will help them. It will take years but.. To the people who are working and struggling with money, I have faith in you! You can do this, make it your goal to earn hard work cash! You are loved and you are amazing! Don't let people talk down on you for becoming rich! Yet also, don't let money change you for the worse! God bless!❤️

It's because they believe in the made up nonsense philosophies of people like Karl Marx that say wealth is finite and any wealth made by someone else is money taken directly out of your pocket. It's insane, and obviously false, but they cling to the idea anyway because it gives them a ready made excuse for their own failings and it gives them permission to be violent towards the rich people "stealing" their money.

In reality, wealth can always be generated. Anyone can increase their wealth without lessening the wealth of anyone else. Even if Elon Musk had $10 trillion sitting in a bank (which he doesn't, because net worth is a thing these people also don't understand) that doesn't mean that $10 trillion would be in anyone else's pocket if Elon didn't have it. In fact, if Elon's entire net worth was confiscated and made liquid, the government would have enough money to either fund itself for maybe 6 months, or give everyone in the country a check for maybe a few hundred dollars. But the trade off would be hundreds of thousands of his employees out of work, the death of the electric car industry in the US, and probably the destruction of the space program as well.

[anamericangirl]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Four kings of horror.

Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and John Carradine -

House of the Long Shadows (1983)

[sawbuckplus]

Far-left Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Klan members for cross-burnings: feds

The SPLC paid reluctant white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands of dollars in donor money to remain in the notorious hate grou

[the-davest-of-uncles]

Racism isn't nearly as prevalent as the left says it is.

[winterphile]

Meanwhile MECHA, ACORN, and LA RAZA were getting federal money for being "community organizations".

[beardedmrbean]

Watching various members of congress grill the leadership of the splc over all of this is just beautiful to see.

[brazenautomaton]

how do you guys think undercover sources work? do you think undercover sources do it for free?

you cannot make a judgment about how important this money is without having a number to compare it to. the fact that they paid some amount of money to undercover agents does not prove they were significant funders of organized hate groups unless you can compare that amount to how much money the hate groups got from other sources. if the SPLC comprised 25% of their funding, that is a huge deal; if they comprised .05% it doesn't matter.

[cookingwithroxy]

Brazen, why are you focusing on the amount of money, instead of what the money is being paid FOR?

It doesn't matter if they're being paid five grand or fifty grand, what matters is what, specifically, they were being paid to do. Well, that and if the SPLC broke wire transfer laws in doing it.

Because even if their actions were specifically not immoral, (which is actually the giant question you're ignoring) the wire fraud and money laundering elements are NOT things you can just go 'well, confidential informants!' to.

But 'I may have paid them five thousand dollars to kill a man, but that shouldn't matter because they gained fifty thousand in drug deals!' is not a rejoinder just because the amount of money is trivial compared to other things they did.

[brazenautomaton]

It is a rejoinder when the argument you are making is "Racism isn't nearly as prevalent as the left says it is." based on this.

Do you think it is immoral to have undercover agents?

Do you think undercover agents work for free?

It is unavoidable that someone who employs undercover agents in a bad organization will wind up providing a nonzero amount of money to them. That is a fact about the world. "Employ undercover agents" is isomorphic to "provide a nonzero amount of money to the organizations they are undercover in." Therefore, the relative proportion of money matters a lot. Providing enough money that they are able to do things they would not otherwise be able to do is bad. Providing not enough money to do that is an unavoidable cost of employing undercover agents.

It is the difference between "I paid five thousand dollars to a guy to kill someone" and "I paid five dollars to a guy, who ended up using that $5 bill to buy bullets for the assassination someone else paid him $50,000 for."

[cookingwithroxy]

Yes, Brazen, but it seems you don't seem to offer the possibility that there was, at any point, any actual payment to specifically cause events to have happened.

That is not an option you are allowing yourself to consider.

[brazenautomaton]

That would be "providing enough money that they are able to do things they would not otherwise be able to do."

Nobody has provided any evidence to believe in that. They have just asserted that since a nonzero amount of money was paid to undercover agents, that must have been a payment to cause specific events to happen (that would not have otherwise happened).

[cookingwithroxy]

is this a thing where you didn't read the article or any documents within?

[brazenautomaton]

I did! I do!

These articles keep mentioning things next to each other, but not actually linking them.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

Brazen. Buddy. You are better than this. We know they paid reimbursement for cross burning as of current reporting. And we also know good well that money creates the ability to "Campaign". Charlottesville just so happened to happen after a specific donation. A donation that was given to one of the top members. Not just "a mole". Not, "Just some investigator". Because if he was a mole, he should have been working with the FBI. The SPLC isn't law enforcement.

They straight up paid people in these groups. Do you find it SO IMPOSSIBLE that this group who was co founded by someone attached to the Klan, that it would not use it's reach to stay relevant? When we know that literally every other charity out there does not care to put themselves out of work. Most charities, as it happen love to live the, "We are better than everyone and moral just keep giving us money" lifestyle. And "Rich" people can donate to a "Moral" Cause. Never you mind they don't care to solve it because if they do the money dries up.

This case however is extremely dangerous however because they put CHRISTIAN GROUPS on the "Hate Map" that the FBI and other groups used to target normal people. Don't be fucking brainwashed. It's not a matter of, "The money didn't mean they couldn't do it before~", Bruh. It's FUNDING. The KKK once upon a time was 6-10 old scraggly fucks in lawn chairs getting yelled at by everyone passing them. Then MAGICALLY "White nationalism" goes on the rise? If you are as intelligent as I'm sure you are, think critically about that for a moment.

Conspiracy isn't about something not being true. As I'm sure you know the history of why that word even came into being. But really. Do you truly find it hard to believe that a group with that amount of funding, moral grandstanding, and influence would just go quietly to the wayside? Or do you think they'd be willing to fund shit to scare people into staying relevant? And if you can't imagine that, I'm going to have to question your ability to think critically without bias. Even if the SPLC has done good in the past doesn't imply they will or have in the recent past or present. If anything their org has been a net negative. And they have actively been used to harass and debank NORMAL people. Which is disgusting. And the Gov and it's agencies gave them power to make those designations.

Use your head.

[anamericangirl]

Brazen’s argument is right up there with “abortion is only 3% of what planned parenthood does so it’s a good organization, actually.”

[theconstitutionisgayculture]