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@mintitack
new pinned post (i deleted my last one and never made a new one... so here's this)
hi, i'm mintitack (pronounced mint-a-tack), i'm agender & i use he/they/it
i'm just a silly little lurker who sometimes posts fanfics on ao3 and might eventually post here if i get past my social anxiety :)
check out my card for more info on me such as my other socials and my dni
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DELTARUNE WEIRD ROUTE SPOILERS GO AWAY IF YOU DONT WANT THAT
Flowery said a lot of interesting things huh.....Wait a moment
....GUYS I HAVE A CRACK THEORY
DELTARUNE TOMORROW !!
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having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.
It's also okay to have been pro-death penalty before you knew better.
When I was younger I was pro-death penalty. And I won't beat myself up too much about that. I was a hurt, damaged abused person who wanted to believe there could be a measure of justice for the things that were done to me.
But, here are some of the reasons I changed my mind
1.) Death by lethal injection is not as painless as we are led to believe.
2.) The death penalty is disproportionately applied to inmates of color and
3.) People with mental or learning disabilities are unfairly sentenced to death row without proper access to reasonable accommodations in their defense. (There has been a significant effort to vacate the death row sentences of those with learning disabilities.
4.) (No articles for this one. This is just a deeply held belief that has formed over the years for me.) Our government should not be allowed to execute its citizens. There should be no class of people that any government is allowed to sentence to death. Because if you give them a class of people they are allowed to kill - they will find a reason to legally kill anyone they want.
Lethal injection is just some pseudoscientific bullshit made up by people who want the death penalty to remain while understanding that people hate being confronted with death and will turn on it given time. If it was about ensuring a quick reliable death the US would be using the guillotine, but then people would realise how fucked up it is and WE CAN'T HAVE THAT.
Do some people deserve to die? I think so, yes. My abuser is one of them.
Does the government deserve the power to kill us? Absolutely not.
The reason some of these measures have functioned to support a healthy social order in the past has been because there was an absence of institutions that claim higher moral ground than the individual can. They worked. Within the context. If you follow David Graeber's and others' conclusions about the origins of money as being the blood feud, then you can connect these two dynamics and place into perspective the nature of the growth and actualization of the state as an institution. The dissonance and dysfunction begin to arise when you examine how money is actually affecting society presently-- and when you question the state and its institutions presently. The state was able to arise out of the peace, stability, and surplus that these cultural practices enabled. And so it nursed from them until it grew to its bloated capacity of today. Unfortunately now its blindspots, inefficiencies and contradictions are magnified to the point where anyone can see the hypocrisy and deception the state represents. People do often get unfairly punished, jailed, or killed. And the arbiters of such injustice are mere people who feel emboldened in dressing up and representing something allegedly bigger and more important that the sum of its parts. But rather than grow ashamed and more reserved, the state has now brazenly adopted and accepted that as fuel to its continued growth just as well as whatever pretense of actual deliberation of justice. The image of the state and the elevation of its entitlements are lorded over the populace like a parasitic being that demands blood sacrifice, the humiliation and demoralization and indignities of its constituents. Less and less duty is shouldered by the state, and less and less returns for the social contract are afforded to the citizens-- through ever increasing conditional arrangements and commitments. The priority of the state returns to a primitive state that is much like the logic of pre-institutional brutality and tit-for-tat justice, because the only behemoths of the same lethargic egomaniacal capacity as the state are other states, and they'd often rather befriend each other and come to amicable mutual understandings. So while the North American "Wild West" benefited greatly from such types of "frontier Justice," as may have been seen during the paleolithic, the gains were lost when the state grew so bloated and unchecked to return to the wild West of the modern era. Favoring capital, financial capriciousness and ego and selfish self-interest. It's easy for such a state and the culture it relies upon to be able to spin a cultural narrative that makes us sympathize with it. Copaganda media like police tv shows, or Dirty Harry films in which we are encouraged to believe something like "damn those laws that get in the way of justice!" And you hear it now with the far-right anti-immigrant nationalist rhetoric. "Human rights are getting in the way of doing what's right!" But if you have large and strong institutions, your peace should be supported by a greater capacity for justice and humanity, not lower. Measures such as the death penalty should be seen as primitive and cowardly. Even the prison system of incarceration now largely has become a source for the state to create feedback loops of criminality it then uses to justify increasing law enforcement budgets and militarization as well as the increased surveillance of the public. Prevention of harms and damage to the rest of society should be the purpose of those institutions-- but it will never be so long as there exists a way for the state to benefit from dysfunction as well as the pretense and illusion of function. Edison Murk continues to gloat that countries like EL Salvador are shining examples-- while avoiding the explanation of how such high levels of crime began or were sustained in the first place. The purpose of the system is what it does; TPOTSIWID. And those systems are brutal authoritarian police states with centralized unaccountable militaristic rule.
reblog to give a trans woman a yummy burger
glad i reached my target audience of ppl showing love to their trans gfs/wives through the power of burger
okay so since making this post i've become the target audience
Repost, now do your honors.
Trans people just existing is no more sexual than when cis people just exist.
Israel passed a death penalty law that will allow them to execute Palestinian detainees many of which have been detained without due process and many of which were kids when they were detained.
This is the equivalent to camp executions the Nazis did. It's exactly the same thing
This death penalty law doesn't apply to Israelis of course because Israel is a violent apartheid
The Bill's Wording Creates a Distinction Designating It Almost Exclusively for Palestinian Terror, While the Ideological Burden of Proof It
Israel's Knesset passed a bill on Monday mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terrorism. The bill stipulates that the death penalty will be imposed on a terrorist who killed a person "with the intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel."
In doing so, the bill's wording creates a distinction designating it almost exclusively for Palestinian terror, while the ideological burden of proof it sets is expected to make its application to Jewish nationalist terror nearly impossible.
Sixty-two lawmakers voted in favor of the contentious bill, including several opposition members; 48 voted against it, and one abstained. The law is now applicable in any territory that Israel functionally controls, including the West Bank and 53 percent of the Gaza Strip.
10 years already... time flies by, and as someone who heavily self-inserted as Frisk when I was 12, I can't help but feel like they must have been growing alongside me. I'm already 22, I can no longer wear stripes...
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I work with kids and I've had two occasions where a little boy straight up won't listen to anything I say because I'm a woman. and like yeah he's gonna continue to be raised by terrible role models and probably grow up to be a sexist douchebag but I have three hours a week to get through to him and so far I'm crushing it. I got six year old boys who previously didn't listen to a word I said telling their shitty dads to not speak to me like that. yeah that's right I'm the teacher making your kid woke. go fuck yourself about it.
you left your kid with me and I taught him that women are people. and also to question authority. and also how to kick someone in the nuts. have fun with that.
Do you have advice for people wishing to also learn the skill of getting through to little boys who've been taught not to listen to women?
honestly there's nothing that's going to work for every kid but I've found just turning kid behavior back on them usually works pretty well. like if they say something about "girls are like this and boys are like that" be like why. why. why. why. exactly the way little kids do. they'll try to come up with an answer but usually after like five rounds of me asking why they'll eventually be like huh. idk.
in my case it definitely helps that I teach kids martial arts classes at a boxing gym with a lot of women. so little boys just factually cannot tell me that girls can't fight or aren't strong or something, because they're constantly surrounded by proof that isn't true. also rules are very different in a boxing gym so if a kid is being a little shit I'm allowed to pick them up and put them in upside down air jail. you probably can't do this in most contexts.
I think the biggest thing is that they need to see men and other boys listening to women. they're following the example that's been set for that. at home maybe their dad never listens to their mom, but when they show up at my class all the other boys are following my instructions. peer pressure is real and you can use it to your advantage. I make a point to tell the biggest buffest manliest dudes what to do in front of the little boys. now this works because those dudes already listen to me, but getting any dudes to follow your instructions could probably work.
the best punishment is the natural consequences of your behavior. if a kid isn't going to listen to me, he doesn't get to do class. this works because class is fun and he wants to kick stuff and hit people with noodles. kids want to have fun more than they want to misbehave. as long as listening to me is more fun than misbehaving, they'll listen.
because these boys are learning this behavior from their dads, the dads also tend to be the kind of tough strict emotionally distant parents that would yell at "girly" behavior or crying. even when I'm strict with the kids, I never yell, I obviously never hurt them, and I always listen. they want to yap at me about pokemon or youtubers. it can be tough when they're really sexist at the beginning but eventually they will show you something that their dad wouldn't approve of, whether they want a pink noodle or quietly mention they like a girly show. this is the part where you simultaneously act like it's no big deal while encouraging it. you need show it's completely normal for a boy to want or like that. if you can, bring up another boy or man they know who likes the same thing. I always show off my nails to the kids and bring over the guy who also paints his nails. you'll probably get "boys can do that?" comments and I usually just go "well he's a boy and he did it, so unless his hand falls off right now I think it's okay"
for me, it's always eventually gotten to a point where the boys realize that everyone else thinks it's normal to listen to women, and that if they want to have fun they need to listen too. they also realize that these people and these women are nicer and listen to them more than their dad does. they notice how all these nice people that make them happy talk to women very differently than their dad does. when those boys yelled at their dads for being rude to me, I made a point to thank them and say that they were right and their dads were rude.
encouraging the behavior you want to see is even more important than punishing the behavior you don't want to see. you can't tell kids what not to do without giving them something to replace the behavior with.
If you're fifteen or older an still sleep with a stuffed animal please reblog this.
Cueball
someone give this man access to video essays
inspo tweet ⬇️
the lesbian computer from portal was right. given the circumstances ive been shockingly nice
insane like/reblog parity on this post btw
Because I'm ME!! (4,565 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Deltarune (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cat Mike/Cowboy Hat Mike/Small Mike (Deltarune)
Characters: Small Mike (Deltarune), Cat Mike (Deltarune). Cowboy Hat Mike (Deltarune), & Ramb (Deltarune)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Love Confessions, Badly Written Love Confessions, (author is aroaceflux so don't blame them if this sucks), Autistic Small Mike (Deltarune), Autistic Cat Mike (Deltarune), Autistic Cowboy Hat Mike (Deltarune), (above are headcanons but influence some of the behaviours in the fic), Unreliable Narrator, (its battat dont believe a word he says bc he lies to himself and others a lot), Small Mike Uses He/Xe/It Pronouns, Cat Mike Uses They/She/He/Meow Pronouns, Cowboy Hat Mikes Uses They/Them Pronouns, Ramb Uses He/They Pronouns, Fuck AI You Can Prey the Emdash Out of my Cold Dead Hands, (new tag bc i overuse a lot of things that ai also uses in its "fics" so i just wanted to make it clear), & No AI Was Used to Make this Fic
Summary:
"(We like you...)" Pluey started.
Battat cautiously said, "Yeah...? I would hope so, we've been friends for ages..."
"(Oh, for Angel's sake...)"
"No, Batts... She means that we like youse, romantically." Jongler corrected.
"What."
"We—"
"No, no, I heard you. I just... What?"
"(We like you, have a crush on you. It's okay if you don't like us like that, but we had to tell you directly, since you weren't picking up on the hints we've been dropping. We decided to just be direct and honest because it seemed like you weren't noticing our advances...)"
"Wait what? H-Hints...?!"
"(Wow, Ramb was right about you being oblivious...)"
"Hey! That's not— Okay, okay, whatever... I'm putting that aside for the time being... And anyways, I thought you two were together?" Battat said, before he incredulously snapped, "If I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying that you two... like me of all people?!"
"(We are, but... we also like you... And Battat... don't be like that. If you don't feel—)"
"Look, I'm sorry. It's just— I just don't get it! I'm not... I mean, I'm me?!"
Or: Polymikes confession
