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[tilthat]

TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”

via reddit.com

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

so you’re telling me that “stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” would be like saying “wrote a G on his belt and called it gucci”

[beggars-opera]

that’s…a pretty good analogy actually

[ti-bae-rius]

US moron came to town

Hunting for some coochie

Wrote a G up on his belt

And this bitch called it Gucci

[ti-bae-rius]

Seeing my notifications get flooded with this every July 4th is the only thing I respect about America

[grungekitty-77]

Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

[grungekitty-77]

Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!

[n1-adora-fan]

[maidthings]

"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox

[fake-lancelot]

[metanarrates]

the response to "your demographic is full of people who are ugly and weird and undesirable" should not ever be "not true! some of us are in fact hot and normal and desireable." you should stand with weird ugly bitches bc otherwise you're just playing a losing game with bigots.

[junglejim4322]

This person wrote a manifesto I ain’t reading all that but this is literally the type of behavior im talking about the idea hobbies all cost money is so removed from reality if you have the time to pick up your phone and write 7 paragraphs on how im victimizing you with my offhanded post you have the time to watch a movie on YouTube with your very same phone instead come on now. How is you freaking out on the internet helping any of these issues

[turbozarky]

things that dont cost money: hiking, walking, birdwatching, identifying plants, drawing (you have a pen, reading (library), collecting rocks, dancing, singing.... etc wtc etc

if you cant find a hobby you can afford, thats a you problem. and if youre posting online, you have a device to do that, get some free games, trawl wikipedia, study something. stop picking fights online and do something else.

[theonceandfutureharpy]

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

if you can write an essay about it on your phone you can write fanfic or poetry or something on your phone also and it will be much nicer for everyone involved, including you

[prismatic-bell]

You can also make a hobby out of volunteering. One of my favorite things is the one day a month I get to go work with my nonprofit.

Pick up trash in the park or along the road! (Make sculptures with it!) Visit people in the nursing home! Take a free online course! Hell--make a podcast! Host a PowerPoint party! Write letters to old people!

You! Have! Options!

[lizardsfromspace]

Look, every other time we've introduced some kind of framework for finding the people it's okay - even good - to hate, haters just adopted it and claimed that whoever they already hated qualified. But maybe this time...they won't

[lizardsfromspace]

We went through years of "punching up/down" debates and when Dave Chappelle was criticized for transphobia, it made him take stock, re-evaluate what he was doing, and start off his jokes by framing trans people as white so it's actually punching up and we can't get mad about it

[rostekhorn]

The ur-example to me will always be when I started seeing #MeToo supporters retweeting the following analogy:

"Imagine someone gives you a bowl of skittles, and tells you some of them are poisoned, but don't worry about it, it's only ten percent. Go ahead. Take a handful."

It was meant to be a response to the #NotAllMen type caterwauling, but it was really hard not to notice that the analogy they were using was literally - in the original sense of literally - the same one that had been in use for years by teabaggers and Trumpists to explain why we couldn't allow a single person from a Muslim country to immigrate.

Still, y'know. "Men," unlike "Muslims" or "immigrants," aren't actually a targeted category, are they? A lot of women really are trying like hell to shed light on real problems that society really wants to ignore. If sometimes they're a little artless in expressing that, we don't have to make a big deal of it, right?

And then a few years after that, the TERF moral panic really went through the roof, and it turned out that a lot of women - and men - who were retweeting bigoted shit like that weren't actually talking about men. They were talking about trans women.

Whoops.

[highonlife22-deactivated2026021]

using your city as a personality trait is such a funny phenomenon thats only allowed when you're from like 5 super well known american cities. imagine if like.. a polish person was like thats how we do it in kędzierzyn koźle

[syrenki]

you know that excitement when you realized you're in a location from a famous song. this is how i feel right now

[whitepeopletwitter]

[queen-mihai]

Reblogging this again now because DON’T GODDAMN FORGET

[april]

women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open

[gayluigi]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

"I would have hidden Anne Frank from the Nazis!" "I would have supported the Civil Rights Movement!" an uncomfortably high number of you would have cheered on a lynching if you thought that the victim was guilty of a bad enough crime be so fucking for real

[whitealbum]

when you see the words girlhood girlie pop girl’s girl female experience and you immediately know you’re about to see something so completely unrelatable that it makes you feel like you’re on a different planet

[cliffsecord]

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[mxjackparker]

some of you need to re-learn the word "selfish" and stop calling everyone a fucking narcissist

[luulapants]

If you or someone you know has enrolled in an ROTC college program where you will end up owing money if you choose to drop out and not enlist in the military, you CAN pay the money back the same as you would a loan. The rates will probably be better than the loan rates you would have gotten for normal student loans. You are not "locked in." You have a choice. You do not have to join the military.

[indo-dyke]

also, if you are in ROTC and haven't yet gotten scholarships/completed field training/signed on the dotted line, you are free to leave without owing anything. You can drop your ROTC classes Right Now and there will be no consequences from the military (now depending on when you drop, you might end up with a withdrawal on your transcript, but that doesn't really have any consequences outside of the school)

[luulapants]

You can drop out of JROTC at any time!! ROTC is NOT a military contract, you are NOT bound by anything except maybe a student loan if they've paid for some of your college. Paying off a loan leaves you with WAY better options than staying in the program.

I know multiple people who incurred permanent disabilities in ROTC that prevented them from going into the military, so they ended up having to pay the loan back anyway. They wish they had dropped out before they got hurt!

[biohorror-human]

If you tell a yankee "its never okay to kill people for the US no matter how poor you are" you can trigger secret dialogue that makes you understand why Malcolm X hated liberals the way he did

[halfbloodfanboy]

it's actually impressive how after almost 3 months this post just keeps catching yankees who are dying to show you what their secret dialogue is

[pekkhum]

Americans need to turn that despair toward fighting America and its capitalist abuses. Then, not only will your life actually be better, you won't have to murder and oppress innocent people to get there!

[crazy-pages]

Understanding how the US exploits poverty and a childhood full of propaganda to fuel its war machine: Necessary to effectively combating the military industrial complex.

Morally absolving people of the decision to join the US military: Not something you have to do, actually.

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D