Only Idealists Try To Build The Future On A Mountain of Dead

28. She/Her. Cynical Pessimist. Maladjusted Misanthrope. Personal Sideblog of @kyliafanfiction.

[apolladay]

In your opinion which of these is the most boring setting for a tv show/book/etc?

Tokyo

London

Shanghai

USA

Paris

Fictional Chinese city

Generic Fantasy Europe

Fictional British town

Other

Remaining time: 1 day 4 hours

[bubobubosibericus]

"White people have no culture" is such a fascinating insult to me because it kind of implies that the person making the insult is so enmeshed in white (american) culture that they have become completely unable to recognize it as something other communities do not do, forest for the trees-style; and has never bothered to expand that perspective.

[kyliaquilor]

I keep getting this ad on youtube for what I assume is some kind of AI coding tool or w/e, and it opens with some guy saying "there's a lot of the job that's not fun that I've now automated away" because you know, how dare a job have any aspect that's not fun?

[afurioushawk]

Don't forget how leftists backed a candidate who said he enlisted to kill brown people for the thrill of it. He is literally exactly what they accuse every other service member of being.

[kyliaquilor]

Given that at this point, the other option is Susan Collins, who is, like every other Republican in office, a Trump Enabler?

Yes, my fellow Maine Democrats are shitty ass idiots for flocking to Platner over Mills. But he's the choice we have now. And Platner is thus better than Collins.

Also, while I'm fully willing to believe that his intention was 'to kill brown people' or even just 'to kill people', that's not what these sections say? It reads like an idiot teenager who had a romanticized idea of what war was, which is like, one of the most common things in human history.

Platner is a raging piece of shit who somehow manages to be both uselessly extreme in terms taking ACAB stuff too far *and* manages to be racist against black people (quite a feat, but also common in the far left), antisemitic and misgynistic.

Susan Collins, though is pretty much effectively all of those things (except ACAB, I suppose) in the net effect of her policies and affiliations and also Pro-billionaires, pro-Trump and pro-Trump's wars.

[kyliaquilor]

Susan collins, your campaign can ask me in as many push polls as you want. Graham Planter sucks, but he still sucks less than you.

Short of announcing that you're changing parties, voting to impeach Donald Trump and defund the war in Iran and voting to raise taxes on rich people, you will never have my vote, Senator Collins.

If there is any justice in the world, I will be celebrating you getting kicked out of office after election day.

[kyliaquilor]

This is not a new thing to say but like

Antisemites have gotten way way *way* too comfortable lately, in being naked about it. And like, that's been true since 2016, but it's uh... especially been true since 2023.

I wonder why.

Oh right, it's that they can use Anti-zionism as a backdoor to launder their antisemitism.

Anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemetic. But it can be a great dogwhistle and laundry service *for* antisemitism. And a great recruiting tool for it, a 'step one' to get people in the door, the same way TERFs and Radfems will start with low-hanging fruit, like being against 'boys in girls locker rooms' or speaking out against certain kinks that most people think are weird/gross/etc.

[kyliaquilor]

A psychopath, a narcissist and a dementia patient walk into a bar.

"What can I get you, Mister President?"

[kyliaquilor]

You know, what also gets me about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki discourse is like... none of the people screeching about it ever bring up the firebombing of Dresden, say, or the normal bombing we subjected Tokyo and other japanese cities to before the Atomic bombs.

Like, like, if the Atomic bombs were some horrible vile evil sin, presumably the other ones were too, right?

Why do the nukes get singled out?

[kyliaquilor]

If you want to call the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 'War Crimes', fine. That's... I don't agree, but I can see the argument.

If you say that they are 'on par' with the fucking HOLOCAUST you're no longer having a serious conversation.

[kyliaquilor]

The greatest trick conservatives of all stripes, including fascists, have been playing on leftists since 1848 is to convince them that liberals are the real enemy.

They keep doing it, and leftists keep falling for it.

Now, to be fair, they also play the inverse trick on liberals, and we fall for it a lot too, but the leftists these days jump on that like trump on a fillet-o-fish.

[kyliaquilor]

One thing that bugs me about people who say 'real communism has never been tried' is like... sure, technically they're not wrong, but Marx himself was very much 'we need to pass through these interval steps to get to communism' and every communist regime that has existed - and done all the bad things that you want to say can't be the fault of communism - were explicitly aspiring to get to the ideal communist society. It's kind of a requirement to call oneself communist as opposed to something else.

So maybe you can say Communism never killed anyone.

But the quest for it sure killed a metric tone.

[kyliaquilor]

I am less cynical than I was, say, 10 years ago, in a lot of ways, and honestly less bitter, though it doesn't always show.

But one thing I've learned is that not only is hypocrisy everywhere and inherent in people... a little hypocrisy is honestly good for the soul.

[kyliaquilor]

Striking Iran like this was not moral, nor a particularly good idea, nor especially helpful, nor really rooted in a genuine objection to the crimes of the Iranian regime against their own people. Certainly not based on any desire to help the Iranian people, given the civilian deaths.

But to say that the Ayatollah did 'nothing' wrong is patently absurd on the face of it. You can decry the actions of the Trump administration without carrying water for the Iranian regime.

If you want to say the Trump Administration/the US is worse, well I would disagree, but that's a discussion that exists inside the realm of reality. Saying that the Ayatollah did 'nothing' wrong does not.

[kyliaquilor]

That Robespierre still has his defenders even today is... not surprising, but definitely disappointing.

[le-vieux-cordelier]

(ooc: you're quoting thermidorian propaganda against him. He was neither a leader nor in charge of the terror—the white terror killed more than the supposed reign of terror before it. He was just well known and was used as a scapegoat by people that had blood on their hands. I recommend expanding your horizons beyond anglo historians that were always hostile to the revolution.)

[vanitasyshame]

I hope you could read a bit more about the subject.... Sorry but it seems that you just heard about some propaganda and trusted it. Like said @le-vieux-cordelier, I REALLY, REALLY recommend you to expand a bit more your knowledge about the french revolution and Robespierre and not to limit your reading and research only to the ideas of biased historians. Maybe he did wrong choices, but it does not only stop to that mistakes, Robespierre is actually a really interesting character. Not telling you to become a " defender " of him, but just to know him better because Robespierre does not only limit by his mistakes. Now, in the moment you read enough about him but you still think he was totally wrong.... Well, i'll not agree with you but that YOUR opinion : i can't judge your opinion.

[kyliaquilor]

I didn't robespierre wasn't interesting, nor did I say he is only defined by his mistakes. I made one post out of context on a website that is defined by people making their random brain-droppings into contextless posts that you are deciding to make a capital case over.

Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean I haven't read enough on the subject. I have read historians who have different opinions of him. I drew the conclusions I did. I am comfortable with my conclusions.

If you are not, and want to continue to think poorly of my opinion of him, fine, do so. I have neither the time, nor interest in engaging in a long, debated source-citing debate with you or anyone else on the subject of Robespierre, especially not here on Tumblr.

Kindly let the door hit your ass on the way out.

[kyliaquilor]

That Robespierre still has his defenders even today is... not surprising, but definitely disappointing.

[le-vieux-cordelier]

(ooc: you're quoting thermidorian propaganda against him. He was neither a leader nor in charge of the terror—the white terror killed more than the supposed reign of terror before it. He was just well known and was used as a scapegoat by people that had blood on their hands. I recommend expanding your horizons beyond anglo historians that were always hostile to the revolution.)

[kyliaquilor]

I am perfectly comfortable with the range of historians I have read and the sources they used, and the opinions I have drawn from them.

You have a different view of the man. I think your view is wrong. You think mine is wrong. I have neither the time nor the interest to debate the subject in detail with you.

I never said the Thermidorians were innocent of anything, and the Thermidorians also shouldn't have defenders. But my post wasn't about them. It was about him.

Kindly let the door hit your ass on the way out.

[kyliaquilor]

That Robespierre still has his defenders even today is... not surprising, but definitely disappointing.

[kyliaquilor]

One of the things that comes up in studying history is you'll see a law being passed to ban Action or Behavior or Idea X, and historians will often conclude that there was a lot of X happening in order for people to care to ban it but like

Sharia Law has been banned in how many US states? How many times have State Legislatures in the US banned Critical Race Theory from being taught in Elementary or Middle or High School when it wasn't being?

Sometimes, the people who make the laws just get weird bugaboos.