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shipping incest or pedophilia is not an “unpopular opinion” it is fucking disgusting and fundamentally wrong and anyone who disagrees with this post can just unfollow me right now

tabine

i’ve lost four followers already since posting this so in the spirit of weeding out the trash i’m going to reblog this again

me addressing serious topics: yo that's wild

shisasan

David Bowie - Space Oddity live Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles I’m feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

ispyspookymansion

yall ever heard about the wave

were-thing

???? like the thing you do at sport events??

ispyspookymansion

no, i mean this social experiment started by a history teacher in calofornia in 1967

were-thing

im Intrigued

ispyspookymansion

it’s creepy not so much like paranormal but as in it’s a scary look at human nature. hang on a sec ill explain it

ispyspookymansion

alright so. in 1967, a new history teacher at Cubberly High School in Northern California named Ron Jones was teaching his class about the Holocaust and Hitler’s rise to power. At some point during the lesson, many of his students began to ask why the rest of Germany had stood by and done nothing, and how afterwards they could have said they didn’t know. Many said that they would never allow something like that to happen, but most simply couldn’t understand how the population had allowed it back then. This made Ron curious: what was the answer? Why had so many Germans joined and tolerated the Nazis as their neighbors were dragged away? He realized there was no way of knowing, not without being there, and certainly no way of teaching it - unless, maybe, they could experience something similar.

The next day, Ron came in and began to command his class differently than usual. He had stricter rules, making students stand when asking or answering questions and having them fix their posture. He said it was a lesson on discipline and the phrase “strength through discipline” was written on the board.

The students, shockingly responded positively to the stricter rules; it was as if they had just been waiting for this and wanted more. They worked as a team and answered questions correctly, even sitting quietly until Ron dismissed them at the end of class.

In the next two days, the phrases “strength through community” and “action” appeared on the board. Ron announced to the class that their new rules and ideas were now the cornerstones of the group called the Wave. Their mottos were the three phrases on the board, and he introduced them to a salute (made by curling one’s right hand into the shape of a wave and tapping one’s left shoulder with it). The kids practiced both the motto and the salute that day.

Everything was going well in this experiment: Ron was increasingly seen as an incredibly important leader, the kids were being more well behaved, they were ahead in their studies, all good things, so Ron decided to continue the Wave. In class, he gave the students Wave membership cards, some of which had red x’s on the back. The x’s indicated that those people were to monitor the other members of the Wave and report directly to Ron if someone broke a rule.

Additionally that day, Ron gave the instruction to recruit members to the Wave; all were invited and all were equal in the Wave.

And recruit they did.

Later that week, there were over 200 members of the Wave. The pep rally became an official Wave rally where dozens of new members were sworn in. As the group grew, most everyone joined. However, if someone did not join, they were likely to find themselves very alone and possibly being threatened or hurt by Wave members.

By the 5th day, Ron knew things had spiraled out of control. He had grown into a mythical leader, and the students carried out his orders without hesitation, even if these orders never existed in the first place and were grown from within the Wave. He decided to tell the students that there would be a televised announcement of the Wave’s candidate announcement for the presidential election, and that all members should attend the rally later that day.

When they arrived, the hundreds of students were greeted with a blank screen and Ron. He told them the true nature of the Wave; how it had been born as an experiment that had grown exponentially until he had to end it. The students were shocked, and some even cried. They had all believed in the Wave wholeheartedly after just 5 short days.

The Wave is terrifying because it is real. Not so long ago, a history teacher fresh out from college was able to turn a school into a military state in just 5 days. We as humans are so easily led into fascist dictatorships and we so rarely question what goes on around us. The Wave is a testament to that, and a scary one.

were-thing

bumblebeebats

There’s a really great German film of the same name (“Die Welle” - The Wave) based on this experiment - rather than stopping after 5 days however, the teacher lets it continue and things get much, MUCH worse. It’s a terrifying movie, but fascinating too.

justsomeantifas

lol

republicansareahategroup

Reblog in 30 seconds for good luck

skitten219

being interested in serial killers and their motives and what drove them to kill but understanding that they were awful people who did awful things and not normalizing/romanticizing them

romanticizing/being attracted to/admiring/shipping serial killers

bedahmerized-deactivated2017090

Do you think being attracted by them is a choice? Like if I am a lesbian I can’t choose it, right? Same thing. Also don’t tag every fucking serial killer on this world to get attention

skitten219

Honestly I was going to argue with you but the fact that you compare being a lesbian to being attracted to actual serial killers tells me that it isn’t worth my time

tcc-drags

THE SQUARE ROOT OF Y I K E S

daggers-drawn

thewolveswithin

vintagesalt-deactivated20181115

Christian Slater and Winona Ryder || 1988

sunnybot

assflash newshole

scenesandscreens

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

Director - Edgar Wright, Cinematography - Bill Pope

“We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff.”

grubsludge

I don’t understand the whole “no one wants to hear about the dream you had last night” thing like??? dreams are so cool I love hearing people describe their dreams

dimabilan

so i work at a retirement home and one of the residents heard me saying “mood” all the time and she asked what it meant and now she won’t stop saying it

another resident fell over and she was just like “mood”