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Little masters and their demons
Owning a black cat is awesome because you’ll leave the bathroom and The Shape will be waiting for you
“your partner isn’t responsible for your wellbeing”
“go tell this to a therapist”
“omg stop traumadumping” (after hearing a mild complaint)
can you guys hear yourselves? we are human beings. part of being in relationships (including friendships) with each other means looking after each other. we are responsible for each other. I look after your emotional needs when you need it, and you look after mine. sometimes things will be difficult and sometimes they’ll be outside my paygrade, and I’m allowed to step back from that. but you have to stop acting like it’s some massive toxic imposition on you to have to listen to someone talk about their feelings
"Why are you supporting X group when you know that they would hate you for being X?" is such an odd take to me. Are you only capable of caring for the people who care for you? Skill issue. Luke 6:32.
I don’t think you’re ready to have an adult conversation about politics until you’re able to admit that there are things you love and enjoy that would not and should not exist in a just world. $8 billion dollar budget movies every other month don’t exist in a just world. New 900 GB AAA video games every year don’t exist in a just world. Next day delivery doesn’t exist in a just world. 80 different soda brands don’t exist in a just world.
All of those things come from exploitation on some level, and if you wouldn’t trade those for a world where everyone can eat and have a home no matter who they are or what they do, I don’t know what to tell you.
Man, this post makes me feel conflicted, because on the one hand, of the things listed, next-day delivery is the only one that DOES actually exist in the world today. The others are exaggerations, and while I understand the point being made, they do detract from it.
I understand—and agree with—that sentiment of, “I want slower deliveries by drivers who are paid better,” as one recent tumblr post put it. I absolutely agree with the idea that we need to produce and consume less as a culture, and that an actual substantive conversation about politics should involve willingness to relinquish the many modern luxuries that are built on exploitation.
I don’t think these are good examples of those luxuries, though.
Large budget movies are possible because consumers (and investors) are willing to pay for them. A large budget is actually a necessary component in making sure workers are being adequately compensated; the fact that they currently are often exploited by studios is a result of deliberate misallocation of resources, not anything intrinsic to the size of the production. Same thing goes with high-quality video games. As for releasing a new film/game every month/year, that’s only unsustainable because there’s only a handful of monopolistic studios doing it. In a well-regulated industry that encourages growth and competition, we could see tens, if not hundreds of studios producing big-budget films and games. And, with a well-compensated and socially-supported citizenry, consumers would have enough disposable income to support it.
Similarly, the problem with soda isn’t that we have 80 brands; it’s that we have two. And those two brands each own 800 different labels. In a healthy economy, these monopolies would be dissolved, and we could support well over 80 moderately-sized independent beverage companies producing their own sodas.
Same-day delivery, again, could be easily supported with proper allocation of resources. Currently, we have huge centralized distributors like Amazon exploiting gig-workers with slave-wages to ferry cheap mass-produced crap to people, and that’s what makes it bad, not the speed at which they do it. If instead, we had something like a super-robust USPS, with well-compensated deliverypeople working reasonable hours within a decentralized network of independent-but-cooperative suppliers, there would be absolutely no reason why you couldn’t get something delivered to you from the distro ten miles down the road within a day.
When we critique capitalism, and they respond, “Yeah, well capitalism made the cell phone you’re using!” our response shouldn’t be, “Oh shit u right,” it should be, “No, capitalism made the cell phone I’m using break after a year so I’ll buy a new one, and they use slave labor to do it while they pocket the rest.”
There are luxuries, and there are artificially-valued, mass-produced, built-to-break trash that are marketed as luxuries. But we don’t solve the problems of fast-fashion by saying, “Welp I guess I shouldn’t wear clothes.”
the human urge to ask the people around you a question you have before googling it
it's about the process of reasoning through a question and connecting with the people around you but it's also about seeing who's right. good sportsmanlike fun.
"Vegan leather" babygirl that is plastic
I don't know what you straight women are on but your man not having a single close female friend is a not a good thing or something to brag about.
“available with premium subscription” “will be removed on the 31st” “available free with ads” “rent 4.99 buy 20.00″ “not available in your country” “not available on this device” what if every streaming service fucking killed itself and films ran around their fields free and organic in their natural state
Can 2024 be the year we stop using stupid fucking terms like ‘unaliving’?
Self-censorship is still censorship, and mature conversations should use mature language.
Same can be said of ‘grape’ instead of ‘rape’, ‘corn’ instead of ‘porn’.
We need to be able to discuss these things, and we also need to use that language so people who want to avoid these conversations can block the tags. Using silly language like that circumvents the space that people curate for themselves.
when i was younger i used to think the choice of a trumpet as the instrument to herald the apocalypse was bizarre. like really? the tumpet? bwaaa? but then i heard a hunting horn while out on a walk and understood just how hair-raisingly eerie a lone trumpet could sound carried on the wind.
hearing trumpets in an orchestral symphony: beautiful, impressive, moving
hearing a trumpet unexpectedly without any accompaniment or context:
Can’t wait for this utter horseshit to be in my video games.
This is the company SAG-AFTRA has just signed an agreement with. Fucking grim.
I assume it's trying to say "kannay"/"kinnae" however you spell that vernacular thing for cannot, but it comes out sounding like "handy". And then followed up with a request for a golden shower…
See I thought it was cannae but the AI says 'hannae no' which isn't a thing as far as I'm aware. "Gonnae no (dae that)" as in "Go and not do that" = "Don't do that" is a thing. But I'm almost positive 'hannae' isn't a Scots word.
Public transportation is humbling, by which I don't mean there's anything lesser about it, but that it reminds you in the best possible way that you're not the main character of the universe. Even in a world class public transportation system you're occasionally going to encounter people begging, crying babies, people talking loudly or emoting, people wearing outfits you may consider weird, body odor, delays and inconveniences. I'm not saying you need to put up with straight up harassment or anything like that, but you need to accept that the world exists outside of you. If your entire world is your workplace, your car and your nuclear family, that is going to impact your politics and your perspective. It's no wonder so much of the US is designed to this exact end, and how so many suburban Americans who value comfort and convenience over all else are losing their damn minds. The US is an international embarrassment when it comes to transit, but even in sophisticated networks you still have to share a space with other human beings and you need to act like an adult about it.
we shouldnt be mean to usamericans, its not their fault. the first time theyre allowed to see the world map is on a very special day - their 25th birthday, when their parents take them to their old study room and pull out an incredible thing - a dusty old globe. thats the first time an usamerican learns other countries exist. their eye sparkle full of awe as they read names like argentina, laos, nigeria, serbia, croatia, tunis, china, turkey, mexico, finland, etc. however, the spell doesnt last long - their parents quickly put away the globe. they dont want their child to get hurt from this realization of other people living on the earth. from now on, it will be their special birthday tradition - seeing that amazing thing once a year.
there are some funny usamerican reblogs in the notes but i absolutely love people going like "LAOS MENTIONED" "NIGERIA WIN" like yes my friends, i feel the same when i see my country mentioned in wild once a year. we are connected. i will watch movie credits just to see if a person with my-nationality-sounding name is mentioned at the end of it, at least as a coffee-bringer. if somehow a foreign movie includes a trace of my country, the news media here literally make articles about it and share it for the next month. invisible countries lets stick together
I'm not actually sure what Very Online types think should happen in Palestine and I don't think they're sure either bc what is this
We shouldn't praise a teenager resisting the draft too hard bc. Bc...? I struggle to even parse what's being said here. It's guff about how "the bar is really this low" and then a reminder of how "we are seeing what is happening to Palestinians...and this is what people are uplifting?" but like. What does that mean though
They want Israeli oppression of Palestine to cease, but we can't be happy that a teenager refused to join in that oppression? So what should we do. Should we not encourage teens to resist the draft in a country with mandatory military service, heavy propaganda, and that has organized society to heavily stigmatize resisting military service? No, genuinely, what do they want people to do? We need the occupation to end, but also can't support anyone who's fighting for that to happen, since uhhh is the bar really this low??? Would it have been better if he joined the IDF
(do people not know Israel has mandatory military service? I've seen people agreeing with this by saying "refusing to join is the bare minimum, deciding to enlist is horrific". But they're not enlisting, it's conscription. Do they think this person enlisted then withdrew or something...? And why would that not be worth celebrating???)
The answer is ofc this person hasn't really thought about any of this. It's just raging id and an idea that engaging in online discourse is what's truly helpful. It's like the people who treated Hozier as if he was some pro-genocide goon for saying there needs to be "peace" in a statement far more condemnatory than most, since...I still don't know. "How can you talk about peace when one side's oppressing the other?" Well ending that is what peace is, definitionally speaking. How else will it end but with a treaty
The scenario here seems to be, we need the genocide and occupation to end. But also we can't support any Israelis trying to stop it, and should be sus of activism in general. Also we can't talk about "peace" in any way. We just need to post about how it should happen
Anyway when people pointed this out they instantly locked replies and said the "kumbaya libs found it 💔"
It reminds me of those people who swarm any story about Russian anti-war activists by saying it doesn't matter unless they personally assassinate Putin. Like cool. I guess people in the oppressor state should just do nothing to oppose it then if they can't fix anything. Screaming at someone who refuses to join the military that it's actually very problematic that they aren't joining in the oppression, when there's so much oppression to oppose instead of praising them for refusing to join the oppression
Anyway, that teenager is a gd hero and is doing more to actually oppose the genocide than most Very Online Leftists.
I wouldn't go so far as to say hero, but what she is doing takes Hutzpah like you could not believe. And yeah, she IS doing more than any single American politician has done. She's not alone either. There are organizations in Israel specifically dedicated to helping youth avoid the draft.
If you dry to draft dodge, the army sends people to your house multiple times to harass you. You get endless threatening mail. Many workplaces will not hire you, ever. You can and will be rejected by colleges. You'll serve months of jail time while King Bibi hadn't served a day for his crimes. People in the street will call you a coward, a failure, accuse you of supporting terrorism. This shit is hard.
And a reminder: she and others like her are just barely out of high school. Some peoples' induction day is a week or two post graduation. When you start the first tests and check-ins for the drafting procedure you're usually sixteen! How many sixteen year olds do you know who are openly opposing government policy at risk of arrest and blacklisting? Not a lot.
Happy Hogmanay folks💙🏴💙🏴
Christmas as a cultural icon is starting to get really dystopian in a climate sense, december has historically been a time of year in which there would be snow in a significant portion of europe and north america, and the fact that its not even icy this time of year and all the christmas songs and decorations reference a time of year that will likely never exist in the same way again in my life time is so strange.
(Stares in bewildered Australian) And?
I swear to fucking god if I see another post about someone from the southern hemisphere saying shit like this. No one on Tumblr is capable of understanding when someone is talking about their own experience and be normal about it. I don't even really give a shit about the Christmas side of this just that climate change has gotten so bad that there is no longer ice in Scotland in December and you should be worried about that actually. Imagine if people came on here being like I don't give a shit about Australian wildfires because it doesn't effect me
Just saying, while I share the sentiment of being weirded out by increasingly warm winters, the idea of "snowy Christmas" is profoundly anglocentric, even within Europe.
The concept of a "white Christmas" is pretty rare to experience anywhere in Europe southern than Amsterdam (so 3/4ths of Europe, population-wise). Hell, even some of the nordic capitals (Copenhagen and Stockholm) only get white Christmas maybe once per decade or so. Sure, it can snow everywhere, but in December? It's rarely enough for the snow to actually settle.
So yeah, not really a very significant portion of Europe, really.
Oh my god you people can't read anything without being mad that it's not about you.
there's two different things at play here.
is that to say that not snowing on christmas makes it dystopian while half of the world had been so culturally colonized by the north that despite being summer all of our christmas decorations are still about snow and cold. It has always been like that to us.
yeah climate change sucks, you know who has been suffering with this in the last few years? every single country that is near the equator. Brazil has been dealing with non-stop rains and out of normal heatwaves for the last few years, for example (although it's been really worse this year).
We do care about climate change. We've been dealing with it far longer than you and dealing with actual catastrophes because of it, so I'm sorry that we think it sounds stupid when you complain about it especially when it's this "christmas is dystopian because it's not snowing" thing
My post: hey doesn't climate change suck
You fuckers: your post wasn't about me so you don't care about climate change actually
Anyway, we went on a dog walk on Christmas Day and it's been so warm that I saw a rowan tree that has started producing its spring leaves, something it shouldn't be doing until April. On getting back to my aunt's house, I noticed her neighbour's forsythia is producing its spring flowers, something it traditionally does around Easter.
On going into the house, my aunt turned on the radio, and we were treated to a deluge of Christmas songs about snow that were mostly written 20-40 years ago.
