brain dump

Kirstin | ♀ | 28 | Don't mind me, just thinking outloud...

[philosophicalconservatism]

May freedom be seen, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity..to do what is right.

Peter Marshall. (via philosophicalconservatism)

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

The Demonization of Male Ambition

We’ve spent decades treating male ambition not as a force that built civilization, but as a problem to be solved. It’s time to stop.

[emmaubler]

It's ridiculous to treat ambition and success as a zero-sum game, as if girls can't possibly succeed unless boys are forcefully subdued.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

IE: They wasted money they didn't need to over moral panic. And it ended up being a massive fucking virtue signal. IMAGINE MY SHOCK >.>

[unaffiliatedpangolin]

The story claiming there were hundreds of bodies, circulated internationally for weeks.

The news about how they found nothing? No major headlines, you basically have to find out on your own.

[evilsoup]

"centrism" is simply not a respectable position. Base your politics on an analysis of concrete reality rather than triangulating between left and right.

[evilsoup]

i mean of course "centrism" is mostly just an ideological veil worn by people who for some reason of cultural legitimacy don't want to admit that they actually have a right-wing politics

[official-torfmoor]

Counterpoint:

[brazenautomaton]

communists cannot understand that other people think they are wrong or that they might adopt positions based on what they think is correct or incorrect

[cookingwithroxy]

Actual centrist position: 'I want to have a robust safety net for people in need, but I want it to keep itself reasonable and cost effective, punishing people who defraud it.'

What these yahoos think Centrism is: 'I put five points into capitalism so I have to assert some communist points to balance out the stat sheet!'

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

This really does seem to be the mainstream position of most Democrat voters today.

[vrabia]

ambitious indie project this, surprise box-office hit that, iron lung (production budget: $3mil) is the 'someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying' tweet.

[vrabia]

set construction: $800

cast & crew wages: $1,200 + uber eats

fake blood (assuming generous discount on bulk purchase): $2,000,000 i am so not kidding i did the math this is nuts

editing: average adult body-weight equivalent in monster energy drinks

[vrabia]

update when markiplier announced he's producing the dvd/blu-ray himself i was like cool he's personally supervising the process and then he was like no i mean i'm making them myself at my house and i imagined some kind of complicated gargantuan contraption dutifully chugging along 24/7 blowing up this man's electricity bill and then he was like

anyway if you buy an iron lung dvd/blu-ray: it was made on a printer-sized machine. at markiplier's house.

[femme-foucault]

Gentiles/non-Jews of Tumblr, how well did you do in the quiz on Judaism 101 linked below?

0

1-4

5-9

10-14

15-20

21-25

26-31

32 :)

I’m Jewish/show results

Voting ended onMay 20

This is the quiz and I did not come up with it, credit goes to @iswearbyalltheflowers on this post.

Absolutely no judgment, I’m genuinely really curious and I figured more people would answer anonymously here than on the original post.

[citadelofthestars]

Where's that meme about experts in the field wildly overestimating the average person's knowledge? 😂😂 This question is in the "basic, everyone knows this" section and I've never seen any of those words before in my life, much less know what they mean. 😂😂

[crazy-brazilian]

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[leviathangourmet]

by lordkamar

[spanishsongs]

"What is happening now in left and progressive spaces quietly reverses that progress. It teaches people, often without realizing it, that some identities can be treated as morally contingent. It reshapes how people think about other groups. It lowers the threshold for dehumanization. It makes it easier, over time, to more broadly justify dismissing suffering, othering, acts of discrimination anywhere it becomes politically inconvenient.

That is exactly how prejudice evolves itself into something systemic. By changing the rules of who is allowed to be seen clearly. And this is where it becomes personal.

Most people reading this do not think of themselves as antisemitic. They would never use a slur. They would never straight out and openly deny someone’s humanity. But that is not how this shows up anymore. It shows up in smaller decisions we make as progressive and left leaders these days. In what we excuse. In what we scroll past. In which deaths feel complicated instead of tragic and unacceptable. In whether we instinctively see a person or a position when we hear the word “Zionist” or “anti-Zionist.”

You can oppose Israeli policy. You can reject Zionism. You can defend it. None of those positions require you to sort Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs or Muslims into categories that determine whether they deserve empathy. If your framework depends on deciding which Jews are acceptable and which are not, or which civilians matter and which do not, then the issue is not that your politics are controversial. It is that your reasoning has already crossed a line that civil rights traditions were meant to prevent. The civil rights standard was never agreement. It was consistency. No collective guilt. No dehumanization. No conditional empathy.

We already know how to apply these principles. We are watching what happens when we fail to. The only question is whether we are willing to apply them when it challenges our own assumptions. Because if we cannot, then all we have really done is learn how to recognize injustice selectively.

And selective justice is not justice for all."

The Return of the “Good Jew” and the “Bad Jew”

How We Learned to Sort Jews Into “Acceptable” and “Unacceptable” Again and Why No One Wants to Admit It

[syabm]

>It teaches people, often without realizing it, that some identities can be treated as morally contingent.

That's been a thing for a while. Plenty of black people have been accused of being "Oreos" or "Uncle Toms" just because they disagree with progressives on one issue.

Or are outright conservative, like Clarence Thomas.

Heck, I've personally been accused of being an American white supremacist who lies about being a black immigrant from a developed country.

Not to my face, of course.

Similarly, many progressive left-wingers quietly decide Jews are oppressive white people the second the other side is Muslims with skin darker than a-

-actually, I don't have a good simile. Just "brown" Arabic Muslims in general, I guess?

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I love reading about pre-20th century married couples who loved and enjoyed each other's company because it definitively dispells the obvious myth that absolutely no married couple in the entire history of humanity ever genuinely loved each other, that every married woman was miserable and battered and that every married man was an abusive control freak.

[shaftking]

>”capitalism”

>*looks inside*

>government intervention

[miss-rum-hee]

[bloody-monstrous-wolf]

[unaffiliatedpangolin]

This isn’t backfiring, it’s working as intended.

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

It was backfiring in that it revealed the bias that they refused to believe in.

[oldinfidel]

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

people have this tendency to believe that fandom discourse exists because people in fandoms are Stupid Nerdy Losers, but in fact fandom discourse exists because anytime you get a group of more than 100 people together, they will start creating interpersonal bullshit. fandom is not special in this regard

[lyricwritesprose]

There is sports discourse. There is yarn discourse. There is food discourse. There is academic discourse (dear sweet god is there academic discourse). If there are people out there collecting brass buttons specifically from 1921, they are going to have discourse about which buttons are trash and whether Person A cheated person B. To be human is to engage in pointless wankery sometimes.

[numberlover1729]

If you locked people in a box for a year with 500 still frames of Joe Biden eating a sandwich, by the end they'd be adamant that some were great and some terrible.