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bodytothefifthpower

911 I WOULD LIKE TO REPORT A MURDER.

scottandhiskind

You mean you want to report an Axe Murderer

whatbigotspost

Well I for one certainly didn’t ever expect to post something positive that AXE body spray had to say.

thoughts-of-an-x-factor

Normally, I think that this whole sort of “Company is being funny on twitter” thing is bad… but, AXE is a product which is extremely strongly linked with teenage boys. Teenage boys, who are a key demographic for AXE, are also key targets for radicalization by alt-right/neo-nazi/white supremacist groups. Maybe… just maybe, companies like AXE, which are seen as “cool” to these kids, standing up and saying “You know what’s super lame? Being a fucking homophobe”, just might get a few of them to not follow the path some dark corners of the internet want to lead them down. I don’t know.

geekghoulsmash

Axe more recently has had an entire ad campaign based on being the real you, targeted at young men, that included gay, and gender non-conforming boys.

They haven’t been utilizing their old “har har get the girls” advertising in years.

This isn’t at all surprising.

korrasera

Until such a time as we can dismantle capitalism completely, encouraging brands like AXE to support progressive causes and fight the normalization of fascism is something to aim for.

yayfeminism

Very informative thread -source

geekremix

Oh no I’ve been duped. Shit…

whenidiehallelujahbyandby

people are “gay” and “trans” because we naturally resist unnatural impositions . “gay” doesn’t exist until it’s in opposition to something ; the coercive framework of heterosexuality . “trans” doesn’t exist until it’s designated as outside the violent institution of gender . people are gay and trans because heterosexuality and gender are imperialist constructs which will never encompass the full possibilities of the human experience

profeminist

destinyrush

A genuine question - how can you wake up and think to yourself “I’m hella proud to be American”?

joethejohnston

That moment when your screen is dark and you realize you’re Jabba the Hutt https://www.instagram.com/p/BqTLpxIBNIr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d5tvbgveo26h

ororomunroedontpullout

I know it’s funny to act like Trump is a big dumb idiot oblivious to everything but that actually takes away intentionality from the evil shit he’s done. The policy that ripped migrant children from their families was done explicitly to discourage asylum seekers and to make them give up their right to asylum. Children were used as bargaining chips to deter migration. With the government shut down, he knows exactly what he’s doing. There was no formal tracking system in place to immediately identify the children that were separated not because they were inconmpetent but because they purposely did it in the most callous and traumatic way possible to harm both parents and child alike.

He knows that he’s hurting Americans and federal workers(including peoole who support him) because he wants the wall. He knows that forcing people into destitution by not paying them is good leverage that’s why republicans refuse to sign bills that would disconnect border wall funding from the rest of the government, a relatively quick fix for the issue at hand.

When Trump makes a patently false claim about crime and immigration, he’s not doing it because he’s too stupid to look up the facts. He’s deliberately storming xenophobic and racist fears to gain support from his base. His not just mindlessly lying because he’s a racist idiot, he’s using nationalistic rhetoric to strengthen his supporter base and also justify the ends to his means.

By saying that Trump is a fool that can be tricked or whatever is all good laughs but it makes it seem like he’s not deliberately doing all of this. I don’t believe in Trump exceptionalism because it obscures our ability to look at systems of imperialism and neocolonialism but what he’s doing isn’t just him having an unreasonable melt down. It’s all very specific and intentional strategies to get what he wants.

It’s not helpful or witty to be like “lol just lie and say the walls there!” Or constantly call him idiot in chief etc. He is purposely lying, purposely using heinous tactics to hurt people. We can’t tackle the problem of the Trump administration if everyone is convinced it’s just incompetence. No, it’s working exactly as intended.

nismorack

“Down here - he said - you will find people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.”

Guards Guards! - Terry Pratchett

tastefullyoffensive

oscarwetnwilde

“I grew up in an age when people were routinely being arrested for any kind of intimate congress that might have taken place including private sometimes.”

Stephen Fry on the Jonathan Ross Show in 2015, shortly after his marriage to Elliott Spencer.

auckie

biganimetiddiesbitch

ambulance in my neighborhood: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

My dog: Oh shit! Oh shit it’s a bop

kitfoxart

I’ve just discovered my new favorite painter, Vittorio Reggianini - those smarter than myself probably already know of him as an Italian painter from the 1800s who made satin look even satiny-er than satin. I just cannot get over how much he loved painting women who were NOT. HAVING. A. MAN’S. SHIT.

But there was one hottie that everyone seemed to like, and I can’t blame them…

Vittorio knows what the ladies like.

chainsaw-to-the-heart

I’m pretty sure that the women in the background of the third picture are looking at a “lewd” painting. They were sometimes kept by upper class homes in the 1800s. They were kept hidden behind a curtain and only viewed for *ahem* “recreational purposes”. So basically, those ladies are looking at porn while their friend blithely humours Bouffant McShinypants.

pandavalkyrie

This dude was an art god at 2 things:

1. Satin

1. Ladies leaning on a chair making a “can you believe this shit?” face

and I’m here to admire both

sailor-kat

This looks like the same group of ladies who are constantly chilling laughing at men I love it

tail-feathers

Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.

Terry Pratchett

surprise-adoption

Bottle rocket under ice

overtheunderpass

rad

edwardspoonhands

I’m pretty sure that the reason the ice fractured into six slices is the same reason snowflakes are often six sided and it has to do with the shape of a molecule of water and I just think that’s so freaking cool.

opulene-archive

How would it even stay lit though?

orangejuiceaholic-deactivated20

!!!!! it IS actually because of the structure of water molecules! Water molecules are fuckin weird, as are lots of other liquid substance molecules, because theyre shaped like fuckin HEXAGONS! hexagons are those weird, six-sided shapes that re very sturdy, but they dont tend to sit very well when stacked together. thats why, when you fill up a glass of water to its full capacity, it can go OVER the brim a little and not spill over. It’s also why water beads.

anyway, so since water is essentially made up of a gazillion little hexagons, it tends to gather into larger hexagons as it shapes together. this is not visible unless the water is in a solid form, aka ice. when the water is split, it tends to crack around the established hexagons. that bottle rocket exploded in the PERFECT place to show this phenomenon and its geeking me out.

ALSO! the bottle rocket stays lit because the fuse was definitely waterproof and made with magnesium and an oxidizer of some sort. this means that they will burn underwater because they dont need the oxygen from the air to stay lit. thats so fucking weird isnt it. im tipsy and its the 4th of july. sorry for the science haha

inside-us-only-stars

Don’t you dare apologize for science

dimetrodone

I wish A Christmas Carol had an even stronger influence on Christmas tradition and ghosts became a symbol of the holiday

efoxgirl

Even better if terrorising the rich into acts of kindness also became a part of Christmas

defydamage

Start the Christmas traditions you want to see in the world

hymnsofheresy

have y’all ever had communion bread that was just so….nasty? like i know we have to suffer as christians, but do we really need to have whole wheat bread as the body of christ?

hymnsofheresy

my old church used hawaiian bread. my standards are high

missweber

Some old housemates of mine were Syrian Orthodox. At their church different members of the church took turns baking the bread that would be consecrated for the Eucharist. This was all well and good until one woman baked raisin bread. This led to the memorable occasion of a rather flustered priest, who had not seen the bread until that moment, declaring, “This - except for the raisins - is the Body of Christ.”