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Hi.

[producedbyarca]

I think it’s really insulting that westerners talk about communism. y'all had it too good and now y'all are being spoiled little brats. let me talk to you about the women and men executed and how their bodies were thrown out of trains and the basic food being rationed so harshly that we actually started black markets for fucking sugar and oil and let me talk to you about how they used to spy on everyone, we had mikes in our homes, how they made kids rat on each other and how controlled the education was. lights went out at 7. my parents used to study by a candle. everything. was. controlled. everyone. was. oppressed.

[saintjoan]

# DESTROY TUMBLR’S UNAPOLOGETIC ROMANTICISING OF COMMUNISM 2K15 TBH

[alchemistique]

#the fastest way to make me lose all respect for you is if you’re one of the tumblr shitbabies who romanticizes communism #my grandfather was the only member of his family who survived the russian revolution #he hid in the family crypt and had to listen to the sounds of the bolsheviks slaughtering his whole family #women and children too #all shot execution style because they owned a tiny farm in what is now ukraine #the members of his extended family were all sent to gulags and we only know they were even there because we found records of their deaths #so don’t fucking come in here with your pop communism nonsense #not when my family has suffered under it #not when the families of millions #billions of people #have suffered for something you think is a cute and edgy way to rebel #go fuck yourselves honestly you ignorant pieces of shit #i consider myself a socialist but there is a huge fucking difference between socialist policies as implemented today in sweden etc. #and the utter living horror that was life under communism #stay classy tumblr 

[chookeepsitreal]

Not to mention it undermines all the people who had to flee their homes in order to avoid persecution.

You know.

That thing Tumblr constantly goes on and on about. About cultural erasure. But I guess when the USSR decided to effectively wipe out a the cultures of millions of people that’s somehow different.

That’s somehow excusable, to punish people for staying true to their roots. To torture them, starve them, have their families and children die because they didn’t adhere to these foreign ideals forced upon them.

I guess all of the people who had to leave their beloved homeland due to forced takeover, due to Imperialistic takeover just by another name, because it was ‘in the name of communism’ that makes it okay?

Fuck people who romanticize Communism.

[androginking]

the communist manifesto literally says violence is a must in order to achieve “that utopia” problem is the violence never leaves because the governments are never satisfied because COMMUNISM NEVER WORKS. If you support communism you don’t support the ideal it wants to be, but the dictatorships they actually are, and you’re a misinformed piece of shit

[jennierolan-moved]

What's my artist Trademark?™

What about my art immediately makes you know it’s mine? (I can’t find the original so posting this here lmao)

[sixshotstothedome-deactivated20]

send some in!!

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

[yourownpetard]

>Being a collectivist and pretending to care about human rights.

[odinoco-deactivated20190531]

do they even know what a commodity is?

[vaporwavevocap]

Nope.

[cisnowflake]

Yeah, communist regimes are really well known for protecting human rights.

[hedgehogian]

In Defense of Holden Caulfield

I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever understand why exactly people hate Holden Caulfield from “The Catcher in the Rye”.

I mean, sure, you could defend your dislike with a classic gem such as, “Oh, he’s just a whiny, pretentious f***boy! He’s so boring, all he does is complain!”

But at that I’m just like

okay, wow, I’m sorry the incredibly depressed mentally ill teenager who has no true friends and is constantly being ignored by the people he tries to reach out to and is constantly being told he’s useless and a bad influence by his peers and has alluded to being sexually molested by multiple people as a little kid and has to deal with the pain and hardship of growing up in a world he can’t help but see as superficial and hypocritical and WHOSE CLASSMATE FRICKIN’ COMMITTED SUICIDE IN FRONT OF HIM isn’t a conventionally cheerful or likeable protagonist????

I don’t understand why that’s so hard for people to grasp; it just straight up BAFFLES me. I mean, people eke out all sorts of ways to like downright villains like Alex (DeLarge) or Loki or Ramsay Snow/Bolton, or antiheros like Jaime/Cersei Lannister, Sherlock Holmes, etc.

Why is it so hard to dole out a little sympathy for Holden, who, ultimately, just wants to protect children from the evils of the world—arguably one of the noblest and most heartbreakingly tender aspirations of all?

[jc2413]

There are so many things wrong with this post that it actually makes me shake with anger. I hate Holden Caulfield so much that I forget to breathe when I think about how terrible he is.

[left-eye-right]

^^^

Same 😂 I’m reading the book in my English class rn and we’re on chapter like 17 and he’s nothing but a whiny shit. Like the whole book could be summarized as “Holden goes to X place, he whines or calls things/people phony and terrible, something happens (usually nothing big) and he goes back to wherever he was” like I don’t see the appeal of an edgy 11 who complains about everything and kinda objectives woman in a 16 year old’s body.

[bigskydreaming]

Guys, please be careful to vet that what you choose to signal boost is actually accurate. I’m seeing a lot of well-intentioned posts today about Net Neutrality that are likely to do just as much harm as good due to misinformation in them.

For instance, we are not all suddenly shouting that the sky is falling because the FCC has PASSED the bill abolishing Net Neutrality and the changes are to be put in place some time this month. As claimed by one post I just saw with over 5,000 notes already. This is simply, unequivocally NOT true, and it can actually get in the way of the call to action that very post made, asking people to call and email their congressmen, because a lot of people who see that might think “what’s the point, if its already passed?”

It hasn’t. Chairman Ajit Pai of the FCC unveiled in April his proposed plan to strike back the Net Neutrality regulations Obama’s administration passed in 2015, and which have since 2015 been upheld by the courts in the face of Republican opposition’s attempts to claim they overreached. What has people shouting the sky is falling NOW is because yesterday (November 21st) is when the date of the official vote on this proposed plan was announced. That date is December 14th.

Which means there IS still time to affect the outcome of the vote. People are pessimistic about the chances of this vote because the FCC board is held by a Republican majority at the moment, but make the passing of this bill seem toxic enough to other Republican interests and there is still a chance to keep it from passing. 

Which is still a hell of a lot better than assuming the bill has already passed and that there’s really no point.

We have until December 14th to kick up enough of a fuss that the Republicans on the FCC board think twice about voting for this bill. And even after that, there are still legal recourses. The courts have refused to uphold other bills Trump’s administration has attempted to pass as overreaching, unconstitutional, and/or in opposition of the true will of the people - just as the Republicans attempted to do back in 2015 when the FCC under Obama passed the Net Neutrality laws in the first place.

This does not mean be complacent. This does not mean assume enough other people will raise enough of a fuss without adding your voice to the mix. It simply means THERE IS STILL TIME TO ACT. The sky may be falling, but until it finishes falling, there’s still a chance to catch it instead. 

[afishtrap]

We have until December 14th to kick up enough of a fuss that the Republicans on the FCC board think twice about voting for this bill. 

there IS still time to affect the outcome of the vote.

[auwa]

thank you

[killushawn]

If you're not scared right now about losing net neutrality; You should be. Study up folks, or 2018 is going to fucking suck.

[bitchasskillua-blog]

This isn’t my type of post but Net Neutrality is so important.

Forget your page’s aesthetic, share this with everyone you know. Without Net Neutrality, the internet itself would change.

Companies would be able to charge websites if they want them to load faster than others on your computer. This means that they would purposefully bottleneck speeds on every website that doesn’t have the funding to pay for it faster speed. There’s NO reason for this. Are you a small business with a website and can’t afford to pay enough to get faster speeds? Too bad. Are you someone with a personal blog? Slow page loading. Do you want to view a website written by a nonprofit organization for your school project? You’ll have to wait until the page loads because, since they’re nonprofit, they can’t afford to pay enough to cable companies so that their page loads faster.

An alternative to this would be having to pay for faster internet. Internet service should be priced by usage, not speed. For home internet, unlimited use isn’t all that expensive so it’s really common. You wouldn’t want to pay extra for more speed.

This would possibly affect the way that the internet works on other devices such as your phone, gaming system, laptop, tablet, etc.

We NEED Net Neutrality.

If a company doesn’t agree with a specific website, they could purposefully limit traffic to their site. This would be censorship, something that nobody likes.

There are many other reason as to why you should protect Net Neutrality.

This is an issue whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, Left-wing, Right-wing, young, old, male, female, rich, poor, etc.

EVERYONE SHOULD ADVOCATE FOR NET NEUTRALITY.

[killushawn]

^

[dinovia-grant]

Guys, also think about he wider costs. Every business, school, hospital, pharmacy, first responder, government service—every single one uses the Internet. So, yes, the individual user will pay more for access, but so will the institutional users. The thing is, the institutional users aren’t just going to eat the increase in costs. They will pass them on to the consumer. They always do.

Education, healthcare, every single product and service, plus your local, state, and Federal taxes, will all GO UP.

Losing net neutrality will affect the cost of every single product and service offered in this country. Every. Single. One.

[abandoned-library]

So what do we do?

[killushawn]

Call Congress - https://www.battleforthenet.com/ 

If you don’t want to or can’t call, text RESIST to 50409 to directly fax them a letter!

[i-peed-so-hard-i-laughed-deacti]

Tips to help others vote for Net Neutrality via twitter tag #NetNeutrality

battleforthenet.com

savetheinternet.com

contactingcongress.org

resistbot.io

[theshyreader]

DON’T SCROLL PASS! FOUND THIS ON GOOGLE+ AND I FEEL LIKE IT IS IMPORTANT!

Edit: This post almost has 500 notes! The more people who sees this, the more help the Internet receives!

[ithelpstodream]

COPY PASTE, SHARE AND ACTUALLY E-MAIL THESE FOLKS:

These are the emails of the 5 people on the FCC roster. These are the five people deciding the future of the internet.

The two women have come out as No votes. We need only to convince ONE of the other members to flip to a No vote to save Net Neutrality. Blow up their inboxes!

Ajit Pai - [email protected]

Mignon Clyburn - [email protected]

Michael O'Rielly - Mike.O'[email protected]

Brendan Carr - [email protected]

Jessica Rosenworcel - [email protected]

Spread this comment around! We need to go straight to the source. Be civil, be concise, and make sure they understand that what they’re about to do is wholly undemocratic.

[deactivated-blog]

This isn’t art-related, but this is EXTREMELY SERIOUS IF YOU LIVE IN THE US.  The following message is pasted from Reddit user DrDreamtime. I did not write this, but it contains all the most important information you should know. It should be spread as far and wide as possible.

For those that do not know or understand what net neutrality is and would rather see a video instead of a LOT of text, here is a good video by John Oliver on Net Neutrality.

Don’t want to do that? Understandable, it’s a 15 minute video. So heres a simple picture to highlight what things could look like

Please take the time to at least do the first easy step, either of the two options work and take very little time.

If this fails, the possibility of actually having to pay more to access reddit, facebook, and any other website or face massive loading speed increases or even a straight out site-block by your ISP.

Tell him how you feel.

Ajit Pai, FCC Chairman: 1-202-418-1000

Reddit won’t let me post the rest of the FCC contact information, something with the formatting and the automod, I think. You can click here, to go to the FCC’s official contact page.

You need to contact your representatives and senators about Net Neutrality even if they already support it, but especially if they don’t.

Remember that this very thread is only possible because of a free and open internet; kill net neutrality and threads like this might be a thing of the past.

Easy way:

Step 1: Go to BattleForTheNet.com. Step 2: Do what BattleForTheNet.com tells you to do.

-OR-

Text RESIST to 50409 to get help from RESIST Bot. It helps you find your reps, write letters to them, and sends them faxes FOR FREE. Everyone who cares about Net Neutrality should take 5 minutes to write to your representatives, once a week (or a day). Be heard.

The harder, but still very easy way:

Step 1: Find out who your Representative and Senator is/are.

Find your Representative.

Find your Senator.

Local elected officials.

Step 2: Find your Representative and Senator’s contact information.

5calls.org has a decent repository of Representatives and Senators contact information, though the site is a bit difficult to navigate.

Call My Congress just asks for your zip code and tells you what district you live in, who your Representatives are, and how to contact them.

DailyKos has a list of all of our Senator’s phone numbers, not just the DC office. (Current as of February, 2017.)

FaxZero has a system set up allowing you to fax your Representatives and Senators for free! (Faxes are good if you can’t get through on the phone lines, or just if you want congressional staffers to listen to fax machine noises until Net Neutrality is safe.)

Fax Congress

Fax Senators

Step 3: Call, write, or fax to express your feelings on this.

A lot of people are nervous about calling their elected officials for the first time, maybe you don’t know what to say, or how to say it, or even who you’ll be talking to, so here’s what you’ll need to know.

There’s a 75% chance your call will be answered by a Secretary who is specifically there to listen to your concerns, there’s a 25% chance your call will be bumped into a voicemail box which is specifically there to listen to your concerns, there is a ~0% chance you’ll find yourself on the phone with your Senator or Representative.

You may be asked for your name and address or zip code, it’s okay not to tell them if you don’t want to, but the information is useful for your elected officials. I usually just give my first name, zip code, and the name of my town.

Don’t worry about a script, don’t worry about being eloquent, you’re not writing Shakespeare here, you’re a concerned citizen voicing their frustrations, fears, and hopes. “I’m really scared of Ajit Pai’s plans to roll back net neutrality, a free and open internet is important to me because [Your reason here. Some suggestions: An open internet is important to democracy/I worry what Donald Trump might do with more power/Cable bills are already too high/etc.]. Please tell [Senator or Representative] that I support a free and open internet, I support Net Neutrality, and I vote.” The only hard and fast rule is that you need to be polite; these folks are getting dozens, if not hundreds of calls a day, they don’t need you bitching and swearing at them for something they have no control over. Be passionate, but be polite.

Reminder: Only call YOUR OWN elected officials! Calling Mitch McConnell from sunny Florida won’t do anyone any good, and might actually harm the cause. Only call your own elected officials, period.

Source

[mwuhhahahaha]

We need to take action!!

If you don’t know about Net Neutrality well you need to know about it now. This is no joke or a game because if we don’t do something living expenses are going be harder to meet.

If you thought being a college student is expensive bc of books and tuition imagine what you’ll be paying just to do a research paper.

If you were against paying for YouTube red well it won’t matter bc you’ll have to pay just to access the website. This goes for all social media sites as well. You’ll have to pay to access your email.

Forget paying for basic internet speed you’ll be paying for packages that will only allow you to access certain websites. It’s these packages is the reason why many cut cable and only pay for Netflix. To access the internet will become more expensive and controlled. Let that sink in if it hasn’t already.

That is why we need to take action. And this post will make it easy for you to do that.

Sign this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/save-net-neutrality-netneutrality

Send Letters to your Representatives:

This site will do all the work all you have to do is fill in your information.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-quit-trying-to-sabotage-net-neutrality

You can also use Resistbot. Follow the steps.

https://resistbot.io/index.html

Don’t know what to write in the letter well I got you covered this site has it all written out and all have to do is sign your name.

https://www.battleforthenet.com/letter/

Or copy n paste this statement:

“Net Neutrality is the cornerstone of innovation, free speech and democracy on the Internet.Control over the Internet should remain in the hands of the people who use it every day. The ability to share information without impediment is critical to the progression of technology, science, small business, and culture. Please stand with the public by protecting Net Neutrality once and for all.”

Call:

Not only does this site gives you all you need to know about Net Neutrality but helps you contact Congress and gives you a script on what to say.

https://www.battleforthenet.com

Not a talk on the phone type of person well fear not you can pre record your message by downloading the STANCE APP

If you’re not from US:

Singal boost this. Reblog this and spread it like wildfire. Because if they get rid of Net Neutrality it will affect you as well.

We only have until December 14th, 2017. You have no excuse not to take action I’ve gave you different options how to take action. This is important and for the best results contact daily.

Singal boost this! Spread this like wildfire. Take action!!

[weavemama]

IF YOU ARE READING THIS, CHANCES ARE YOU GO ON THE INTERNET EVERYDAY. THE FCC IS NOW PLANNING ON REPEALING NET NEUTRALITY. THIS MEANS THAT POPULAR WEBSITES WILL RUN SLOWLY UNTIL YOU PAY AN EXTRA FEE. WE WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF USING WEBSITES AND RESEARCHING FOR FREE. 

TEXT ‘RESIST’ AT 50409 AND TELL YOUR SENATORS THAT NET NEUTRALITY NEEDS TO STAY.

[systlin]

Seriously. Resistbot is great. Text it. It lets you write a letter it then faxes to the offices of your congresspeople and senators. If you keep getting told that ‘messages are full’ when you try to call on the phone, try Resistbot. 

Also, if you have anxiety about speaking to people on the phone, Resistbot requires no human interaction. You write a letter via text, resistbot does the rest. 

[weavemama]

I just did mine!!! It took less than 3 minutes. seriously guys, taking 3-5 minutes out of your day to contact your senator or congressman for FREE can help save the internet.

[systlin]

It’s so easy, you guys, seriously. 

[peacockbluey]

The only thing I want to add, from my own experience in a Congressional office, is: PERSONALIZE YOUR CONTENT. Volume is important, but it is shockingly easy to dismiss it if it feels completely automated and impersonal. You don’t have to do much–change the wording a little, add a sentence or two that’s specific to your concerns–but please do take a minute to make it clear there’s a real person behind your contacting them. It matters.

[camdenleisurepirates]

Don’t TL;DR this. Or at least skim it - and *listen to our Bluey* (I didn’t know she knew from experience, but I guess she does, and she’s OUR BLUEY so you better listen up!!) Also this is sooo damn important I can’t even stress. Do you want to pay extra for TUMBLR? This could happen! This is not a mutha-lickin’ drill!! CALL TEXT FAX GET ON IT GET ON IT

[campcamp-harrison]

Hey, me again.

To my fellow Americans, the FCC just approved the bill to roll back Net Neutrality rights. That means you have to pay more just to use most websites.

If the internet is divided, it will be harder to gather and resist, which is their plan. Once this is put into action (which is supposed to be this month), then it will be even harder to stop these people from doing whatever they want to us without repercussions. This may seriously be our last chance to stop them.

Please text ‘resist’ to 50409. Then, you can write a message to a senator, governor, whatever. Someone who can directly help change this. There is not an age limit on who can do this, and you need to take advantage of that. Now is the time for change, everybody.

Text ‘resist’ to 50409 to write a letter to your senator, and make a difference in the lives of everybody in America.

[imtiredalwaysworld]

Stop what you’re doing and save net neutrality

This is a big deal guys. Net neutrality is set to be killed any day now. But we can still fight back. By texting “resist” to 504-09, you can send an email and fax for free to your congressmen. This is absolutely *free* to do and a bot will even assist you with the message. Don’t know what to say? No problem! I found this posted elsewhere and used it myself:

“Net Neutrality is the cornerstone of innovation, free speech and democracy on the Internet.Control over the Internet should remain in the hands of the people who use it every day. The ability to share information without impediment is critical to the progression of technology, science, small business, and culture. Please stand with the public by protecting Net Neutrality once and for all.”

This is so incredibly easy to do, it took me less than 5 minutes. We are the only thing that stands in the way of the FCC, let your voice be heard!

[gildorsonofinglor]

I just Googled my state’s senators’ emails and sent them this:

Net Neutrality is the cornerstone of innovation, free speech and democracy on the Internet.  Control over the Internet should remain in the hands of the people who use it every day.  The ability to share information without impediment is critical to the progression of technology, science, small business, and culture.  Please stand with the public by protecting Net Neutrality once and for all. I in no way mean this as a threat, but your decision on this matter will severely affect my voting decision next November.  Please remember your constituents when you are being bombarded by businesses who are only looking out for their bottom line.  Your duty is to the people only. Thank you for your time, (enter name)

Adding in that this will affect your vote next year is incredibly important; this is what politicians look at.

[halfblessedhalfcursed]

Reblogging and I hope you don’t mind, because I’m the type of nervous wreck who really needs someone else to give me a script so I don’t sound like maniac… Or you know so every third word isn’t “fuck”.

[weavemama]

IF YOU ARE READING THIS, CHANCES ARE YOU GO ON THE INTERNET EVERYDAY. THE FCC IS NOW PLANNING ON REPEALING NET NEUTRALITY. THIS MEANS THAT POPULAR WEBSITES WILL RUN SLOWLY UNTIL YOU PAY AN EXTRA FEE. WE WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF USING WEBSITES AND RESEARCHING FOR FREE. 

TEXT ‘RESIST’ AT 50409 AND TELL YOUR SENATORS THAT NET NEUTRALITY NEEDS TO STAY.

[staff]

🚨 The internet needs you 🚨

You’re up again, Tumblr. 

Back in 2015 you demanded that the FCC adopt strict net neutrality rules and establish a free and open internet. And you won. 

That should’ve been the end of it. But apparently not.

The new head of the FCC wants to undo the net neutrality protections you fought so hard for.

His proposed changes open the door to your web traffic being slowed down, or even blocked altogether. You could be forced to pay extra to use your favorite apps. You could even be prevented from getting news from the sources you trust.

Title II protects consumers and democracy by ensuring all voices can be heard.

You know the drill. Here’s what to do:

The FCC is taking comments from the public, and dearfcc.org is making it as simple as possible for you to make your voice heard.

Go there now 👉 dearfcc.org ✌️

You’ll just need to provide a name, an address, and then say a little bit about why rolling back Title II protections is a bad idea. If you’re not quite sure what to write, here’s something to get you started:

I’m writing to urge you to keep our Open Internet rules based on Title II in place. Without them, we could lose the internet as we know it.

The proposed changes to FCC rules would allow fast lanes for sites that pay, and force everyone else into slow lanes. We’ve already seen access to streaming services like Netflix, popular games like League of Legends, and communication platforms like FaceTime slowed down, or even blocked. Conditions like this hurt businesses large and small, and penalize the users who patronize them. 

The changes also open the door to unfair taxes on internet users, and could also make it harder for blogs, nonprofits, artists, and others who can’t pay up to have their voices heard.

Please leave the existing net neutrality rules based on Title II in place.

Thank you!

If you need more ammo, feel free to quote these experts from our net neutrality Issue Time. TechCrunch and Battle for the Net also have some good starters.

Everyone is counting on everyone else here. Do your part and tell the FCC to keep a free and open internet under Title II. 

[lordsmaf]

When you encounter another NieR fan