[xenosaurus]

this may be my age showing but I am a passionate supporter of wires. earbuds? put a leash on those things. wireless keyboard? no, it needs to hold hands with the computer. the ps5 controller I forgot to charge has the staying power of a wealthy nonagenarian with a much younger wife and 14 life insurance policies, but the controller plugged into my pc? that baby will outlive my bloodline. my ethernet cable is like a son to me.

[loymain]

??? I feel like your romanticizing cables. These fuckers would find a way to tangle themselves in anything that comes near them, and would absolutely stop working after short usage. I used to have to change my earbuds every 6 months or so, for the sole reason that i dared to go jogging while listening to music. Then i had to hold the wire in juuust the right angle or the left earbud would go bye bye. I also use a 3rd party Gamecube controller (blame my smash bros competitor nature) and the first thing to get busted is always the fucking cable, of course. Had to change it a few times just cause of that. Seriously, i love being old man yelling at cloud but Bluetooth is the best invention of the century. I cant remember a single time a device that had any sort of wires didnt cause me any issues primarily because of those wires and connections.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #14,440:

It's fucking 2025 and there are still grown ass adults going around saying "you can't like [evil character] because they're a bad person!" I'm sorry that your ability to separate fiction from reality is dogshit but I'm not gonna stop liking something just to please some randos I've never met

[anartificialsatellite]

People feel extremely entitled to the Holocaust

[anartificialsatellite]

I have a lot of issues with the way "Holocaust envy" as a term is used but it is absolutely fucking bizarre the way non-Jewish and non-Roma people want to center themselves in the Holocaust and act like anyone pointing out that Nazi ideology was centered on antisemitism at its core are like, gatekeeping??

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[hero-israel]

Not letting those quality tags go to waste.

[vettir]

Antisemites looking at the Holocaust.

[blairhumphrey]

[sprinkledsalt]

Tumblr post: “it’s so disgusting and idiotic to think any group of people is inherently, ontologically evil. You should be very suspicious of someone telling you an entire ass group of people is all bad or inherently anything because no person is born as inherently anything. No one is born bad, humans start out neutral. People just want an excuse to oppress others so they creature categories of people who are deemed socially acceptable to dehumanize and subsequently brutalize. We’re all creatures feeling the breeze and sunshine on our faces, be free~”

Follow-up reblog from OP: “oh my GOD guys i can’t believe this needs to said but ofc this doesn’t apply to Jews because they really ARE bad and evil and bloodthirsty 🙄”

[adventuresofanotsoteenagewitch]

Credit to @perfectlyvalid49

Genuinely seen like 4 different versions of this exact thing, it's ridiculous.

[jackkdaniels]

when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil

[aa-400]

this is such a thoughtless post but thankfully other people have addressed the core issue in few simple words (ty @raksha-the-demon for the screenshotted tags in particular:)

[some-israeli-guy]

The good old "everything would be perfect if everyone thought and acted like me" with absolutely 0 accounting for what if they don't.

[weirdtranssexual]

if you can’t condemn antisemitism as it occurs today then you have no business using the holocaust as a metaphor for anything. this should not be controversial.

[orionnco]

If you see a community of people missing from a chunk of history (Queer/trans/religious ect) and your immediate thought is "oh they didnt exist then" instead of "oh shit these people had a bunch of their history erased" you have fallen for genocidal propaganda.

[thatjewishteen]

the irony of this being tagged free palestine while the pro palestinian movement actively seeks to erase every single aspect of jewish connection to the land of israel.

my guy, you have fallen for genocidal propoganda.

[orionnco]

No, they havent. If you think isreals genocide agaisnt Palestinians has ANYTHING to do with Judaism and not the fact that isreal wants to literally flatten palestine to the ground for their own zionistic gain then I promise its not me who has fallen for propaganda. Isreal as a country did not exist pre 1948, palestine has been mentioned in ancient Greek texts. Jewish people have never had a specific homeland, thats... kinda the whole point as "gods chosen exiles" (source my ashkenazi Jewish girlfriend).

[loymain]

maybe learn how to spell israel before you repeat genocidal propaganda points

[givingblood]

Ive been deep in cyberpunk and I love when you go on the reddit and people are role playing and being like "my v takes no prisoners and if paid will kill anyone"

And im gunna join in here goes :

This is my V, she will take any mission possible because she can barely drive and keeps smashing her cars up and has to pay the insurance fee almost every time. She will take stealth missions but if caught is so fucken giga cringed out that that she has to kill everyone in the room so no one can say anything.

She always gets into the wrong side of the fucking car because she's australian

[slyandthefamilybook]

Democracy is a Western idea, and wanting non-Western countries to follow it is imperialism. That's why we must ensure these countries maintain their original, cultural values, like Marxism

[whitager]

i used to buy into that online leftist black-and-white Glorious Revolution stuff and what i remember about my mindset at that time. stresses me out tbh. i couldn't see the viability of anything short of full-scale revolution so i constantly felt helpless. i viewed the revolution as necessary to address any and all societal problems, but i was also, privately, terrified of it. i didn't want to die for the cause, but i told myself that if that was what happened when the revolution came it would be worth it, that my blood could move us that much faster toward perfect socialist utopia.

in this mindset, the only useful thing i could do was die. i didn't want to. i wasn't generally suicidal (although i do consider this mindset a form of... abstract suicidal thought). but i believed my life was the only meaningful thing i had to offer.

now i'm a member of a community who values me and values my contributions even if i can't contribute as much as i'd like -- a community that emphasizes that every single good deed matters, every compassionate act changes the world. a community where just showing up is enough.

now i know that i can change so much more while i'm alive than i'd ever be able to as a corpse on a battlefield. i know that if i keep showing up, i will find or someone will show me a way to make a difference. i know that i am valued as more than a hypothetical martyr in some grand final battle. i know that i am missed when i'm gone. i know that the actual work is done by regular people with a goal in mind, and i know that that work is unglamorous. i know the unglamorous work is often the most meaningful and the most fulfilling.

the "revolution or nothing" mindset is rendering my generation hopeless. a very loud portion of gen z now believes the only contribution they have to offer is their life. this belief effectively nullifies a person's capacity to create meaningful change; any action they could take while alive is not worthwhile because it won't fix the world's myriad problems in one fell swoop -- better to burn it all down and yourself with it.

if they weren't actively fucking over the rest of us to feed their own suicidal hopelessness, i'd feel sorry for them.

[whitager]

there's a phenomenon i've observed wherein a person stews in their own misery, hopelessness, anger, fear, to the point that they can no longer fathom that something might exist outside of that, and so they reject any effort to improve their situation because they no longer believe it can be improved.

i am not blaming the people who are in this place. it's a terrifying, dark place to be in, and when you're there it really does feel like it's the only thing that exists. this is the place where people kill themselves.

i think, though, that this phenomenon, scaled up to apply to politics and activism, undergirds so much of what we see from the left now -- the world is dark and terrifying, and in the 24-hour news cycle, social media doomscrolling era we live in it's so so easy to only see the bad, and when you surround yourself with other scared, overwhelmed people, it can form a sort of 2014-tumblr-depression-tag echo chamber where that hopelessness is glorified and lauded and propped up as Correct And Enlightened.

and then they commit hate crimes about it and my sympathy shuts all the way off.

[megpie71]

Boosting signal

[lonelyroommp3]

exiting a uquiz halfway through when it becomes clear the creator's narrow and immature world view and cultural knowledge leaves them totally unequipped to tell me which peanuts character i am with any degree of accuracy or insight

[bdalak]

a trend ive noticed a lot ever since the boom in antizionism's popularity is that if anything ever happens to align with israeli interests, it's immediately part of a conspiracy in which the israelis manipulated X into doing their dirty work for them. i've seen this a lot in how american and british antizionists blame israel for america invading iraq after 9/11, despite sharon advising bush against it, because bibi happened to be in favor of it. trump cracking down on student protestors who are non-citizens was also treated like israel's doing despite this being something trump planned on doing from the get go. now ppl are blaming israel for civil unrest and protests in iran because israel is also against iran's current leadership so surely this must be their fault!!!

[a-radical-throwaway]

I wonder why, could it be because it almost always gets found out Mossad is involved somehow? Y'know, the Zionist Entity's equivalent to the CIA/FBI/NSA? That acts on the Entity's interests through infiltration and psyops the way the FBI and CIA do?

Shit they aren't even being subtle about it these days or they're getting sloppy, who knows, what I know is if something is in the Zionist Entity's interest then you should be very suspicious

[bdalak]

lol

[loymain]

We found candace owens' account

[despazito]

petition to relabel "strong sense of justice" in autism and adhd to "strong personal convictions"

[loymain]

every day i wake up, go on this hell site, and see takes made by full grown adults that are so mind numbingly dumb i take psychic damage

[tockthewatchdog]

i really think this tweet is onto something

[salkousblog]

90 hours without any news from my family and friends in Iran. I don’t know what I can do to help them. I just wish I could hear their voices or that I were there. My heart is full of grief for all the brave people the Islamic regime is killing. I believe the regime is massacring people in silence.

In 2022, during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, I saw how brutally they were blindly shooting and beating people. These images come back to me even when I’m trying to do my daily tasks.

I’m really angry and deeply sad inside. The regime kills massively to survive, then labels people as “terrorists” to manipulate the media and justify the number of lives it has taken.

[shirzan140102]

Updates from Iran

Some major updates from people in Iran and leaks:

While the official number of deaths is stated to be between 2,000-3,000, people estimate that the actual number of deaths is estimated to be at least 12,000. Videos show bodies all over the streets and body bags just lying on the ground.

Doctors are reporting being overwhelmed by the casualties.

The regime is trying to arrest injured protesters in the hospital.

The regime is charging money to return the bodies of murdered protesters to their families. (This practice is already disgusting, but imagine charging money at their rates in Iran's current economic status when people can barely afford bread.)

People are reporting that people from the regime's affiliates and proxy groups in the region have already been brought in to help with the suppression.

Messages being sent from Iran are saying that curfews are being enforced and that the regime's forces, including these proxies, are shooting indiscriminately at will.

Executions will really start tomorrow.

The regime is doing whatever it can to cut off people from the world. It's very difficult for people to contact family in Iran. There is still an internet blackout.

Despite this, there is still some footage coming out that people are still willing to risk it all and fight.

This is a humanitarian crisis. The people of Iran need your support more than ever. Amplify their voices, and don't let the regime get away with its crimes in darkness. Hold your governments and media to account to make sure that they support the people of Iran and not support the regime.

All eyes on Iran.

[wyf-of-bathe]

It should be said: these killings are not the result of unintentional, unplanned clashes between protesters and security forces. These are organized, systemic, deliberate mass killings.

You do not kill 12,000 people in a handful of days unless you do it deliberately.