LatinaGabi

[northstareclipse]

Hyper-individualist cultures go, “Your emotions are your personal responsibility. Don’t burden others. Regulate privately. Maintain functionality. If you’re upset, process it offstage so the machine keeps moving.” Meanwhile certain collectivist or harmony-focused frameworks go, “Your emotions disrupt group cohesion. Don’t create discomfort. Don’t impose disharmony. Transcend or contain your reactions for the sake of the whole.”

Different mythology, same trembling fear that one person saying “actually, I feel terrible” will cause civilization to peel apart like wet drywall.

[livinces]

[trans-girl-hank-hill]

this website is always finding new and exciting ways to prove this image true

[otherside-picnic]

If criminals don't get to have human rights, then the people in charge of deciding what a criminal is get to decide who is and is not human. Do you understand? Is this not blindingly obvious? Do you care?

Or do you assume you will always be "one of the good ones"?

[mankillercalledbunny]

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

[mankillercalledbunny]

"I'm not calling the people who believe in this conspiracy theory racist" I am. They're racist. Maybe not out of malice, but the fact that they believe in this is in itself racist. These conspiracies are always about brown people. Machu Pichu, the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, it is ALWAYS POC. It's never the Parthenon, it's never the Colliseum, despite the fact that these were built around the same time as some of the other sites these conspiracy chucklefucks like to throw around, it's never something fucking European. It's always "primitive people" with "stone tools" and "no understanding of modern engineering" so "clearly someone must have taught them this or given them the technology because CLEARLY they were just too Primitive and Savage to figure it out themselves." Fuck off with that shit.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[xerserise]

What even is "Purity Politics", besides a phrase that's useful in thought-terminating cliches?

Some people play purity politics by judging the purity of the people who are being served. "Nope, you made bad choices, so you don't qualify for help."

And some people play purity politics by judging the purity of the people making the rules. "Nope, they want to do harmful things, so I won't vote for them."

And some people play purity politics by doing things in addition to (or even instead of) voting, because they judge the nation-state they live in to be an illegitimate government that could not do good even if it tried. "Nope, it's still in service to property and capital, I don't want better trained cops with more funding, I want community-based restorative systems of justice."

And yet... "You gotta vote for Our Candidate, the one I support despite every bad thing I've ever heard-and-ignored about them. What do you mean you won't vote for them, just like you and others warned everyone for the past two years before the primaries ever came up that you wouldn't ever vote for them for well-explained reasons that I ignored or brushed off? Your Purity Politics is why we'll lose! You are to blame for all bad things from this point forward!"

[animentality]

[pineappleciders]

everyone should watch this video. just learned something new. the usa is still genociding indigenous people and they won't stop.

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[read-marx-and-lenin]

Why are so many completely inane things/media banned in China?

Because Western media equivocates "not selected for mass distribution" with "banned" in an effort to portray the Chinese government as more censorial than it actually is. For example, the 2018 release of the Disney movie "Christopher Robin" was claimed by Western news outlets to have been banned in China and speculated to be related to social media sites in China banning far-right memes using Winnie the Pooh as a stand-in for Xi Jinping.

However, the idea that the movie was banned comes from a distortion of how the film industry works in China. Put simply, China places a limit on how many foreign films can be distributed in Chinese movie theaters per year, and foreign film companies will bid for access to these coveted slots. Films that make the cut are able to earn their foreign rights holders per-ticket sales in China. All other foreign films must be sold to Chinese distributors for a flat fee, making them far less profitable.

Disney simply did not choose to bid for a slot for "Christopher Robin", prioritizing other films for release in China that year. It wasn't banned, it wasn't censored, it was just not one of the few dozen foreign films to appear in Chinese theaters in 2018. But because the West wanted to make folks think Winnie the Pooh was being banned in China, they turned a relatively uneventful business decision on the part of Disney into an example of "ridiculous Chinese censorship".

[politijohn]

Source

[gokucat]

feeding her stuffie must live on....

[escuerzoresucitado]

[melyzard]

Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines

Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, recently noted that when the company's robotaxis encounter unusual situations, they may switch

[blignick]

[bunjywunjy]

this is actually HILARIOUS because both domestic rabbits and domestic cats practice dominance-related social grooming but for wildly different reasons.

if you're a rabbit, the boss rabbit is the one who gets groomed by its subordinate rabbits.

but if you're a cat... the boss cat is the one that grooms the other cats.

BOTH these idiots are going "aw yeah, it's good to be on top >:) "

[enki2]

[liminalstrands]

Good news! It gets worse!

I think it's the galactic orbit thing that really did me in

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHARKS HAVE BEEN AROUND THE GALAXY TWICE

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s a very good design

[tiredyke]

can’t even criticize the diet industry or the recent wave in misogyny and return of thinspo with the rise of ozempic as a weight loss drug without everyone having this knee jerk reaction to defend “women’s rights” to be malnourished and conform to white patriarchal beauty standards in the name of feminism. god forbid we not encourage eating disorders and unhealthy body image in women. choice feminism is a disease and everyone is licking the rats it’s driving me crazy

[socialistexan]

This coming out just days after it was revealed in the Jeffrey Epstein email dump that powerful people manipulated American and British news, political figures and forums to push transphobia to distract from people looking at their child abuse ring.

This includes chief anti-Corbyn-ite in Labour Peter Mandelson, directly feeding anti-trans stories to UK and US newspapers, actively bullshiting "biological studies" that trans people are idk ontologically evil (we have proof of Epstein pitching this exact thing), and creating /pol/ and then feeding anti-trans conspiracy theories for years until it all boiled over.

And over and over we found out each plank of this argument was rotten from the start but people are choosing to keep the bigotry.

[anti-terf-posts]

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