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I do think that anyone could have become a fascist if their life circumstances were different, but I also know that, when I was five years old, my mother briefly explained the history of slavery, emancipation, segregation, civil rights, and apartheid to me, and I think overt racism would have been an instant turn-off for me from any political movement after that point.
#that's why they're trying 2 take it out of the curriculum YUP!
I met someone at like... Age 10? That was almost a copy of me. Adults that had known me for years got the two of us mixed up. We only looked passingly similar, but we ACTED identically. My own brother mistook that person for me once.
I heard after the fact that it was extremely unsettling.
Anyway we went to different schools blah blah, fast forward to I'm 18. I'd run away from home and grown up some and who do I run into? My copy! I recognize them, but I was going by a different name so they don't recognize me.
I was waiting for the funniest time to reveal our connection when, uhhhhhhh, they revealed they were a neonazi.
It was a striking and terrifying realization of what I could have become.
i know in my heart of hearts that within the pokémon universe it’s all the really cute popular marketable pokémon that have the most irresponsible trainers. small dog syndrome ramped up to a whole new level. that is not a toy that is a lifelong commitment. ma’am please keep your untrained sylveon in its pokéball inside the store. no that is not a service pokémon it wouldn’t be using moonblast on everything if it was
sir! sir!!! your pikachu is decimating the ducklett population at the pond and you aren’t even looking! you are NOT ash ketchum you are NOT gonna catch ‘em all because that involves trade evolutions and you have NO friends!!!
ok literally. that palafinstagram mom who posts pictures of her rowlet not understanding it’s displaying distress behaviors making fun of the cool person whose best friend is a solosis or rellor or unown letter f
if one more middle aged mom tells me that i should’ve kept my raichu a pikachu because ‘she’s much cuter that way’ i’m sending out my full team and throwing hands right there in the starbucks
reblog if you are ASEXUAL, support ASEXUAL PEOPLE, or SECRETLY A DRAGON IN HUMAN FORM
saying that native americans are 'yankees' and privileged more than they're oppressed and benefit from american imperialism (absolutely batshit insane take) is fine. but if you ever bring up the fact that she's a white french woman then you're evil and transmisogynistic and literally powerjacketing transfems
Yankees refers to all Americans. Why would it be wrong to use that word on them. Articulate your response. American citizens of all ethnicities occupy the exact same position in relation to the global periphery. Your dollar costs more than their ruble, you drive on their gas, you eat their tropical fruit, and you pay taxes to your military.
All of that is imperial privilege. It doesn't matter how much your life sucks or how poor you are compared to other American citizens.
You are a citizen with equal rights within the American nation. That is all qualification needed.
And the same goes to french, i don't think she would deny it.
native americans are not american citizens. as, they are not Just american citizens, even if they do hold a US passport/citizenship or vote in US elections (WHICH IS A HUGE IF BECAUSE NATIVE AMERICANS ARE NOT A MONOLITH) there is literally hundreds of tribal nations with their own land, police, medical systems, laws and statutes, they all determine membership and manage resources differently. there are dozens of different Kinds of native nations, degrees to which they have independence from the US or whether they have independence or whether they're recognized as nations at all. Reservations are not just towns and they are not just Regular Places Americans Live. it is a brutal system most comparable to the salute system of the British Raj crossed with the jewish ghetto of Prague.
The US didnt create this system to be nice or give native people ""equal rights"", but to specifically segregate native peoples and force them onto lands with rampant pollution and little resources.
And while yes there are many native people who dont live in tribally controlled areas/reservations (though every native person ive ever met has a connection to one) to pick out these as a representation of native americans as a whole is disingenuous. the notion that native people havent been the most consistent and virulent acters against the US project since before its inception is historically illiterate.
"you are citizens with equal rights within the american nation"
except when the ""american nation"" in question has complete control over whether or not your nations water has uranium in it or your police can arrest a non-native US citizen or you get a passport. except when that nation has been committing the longest genocide in history against you. except when that nation made your religion illegal to practice until the 80s in most places (later in others and some aspects are still illegal).
cmon man. pull your head out of your ass and think about the reality of being one of >4000 Passamaquoddy living in Indian Township for a fucking second.
i hate that nonbinary people can't be, like, nonbinary.
whatever we do, we can't win. we can't be seen as actually nonbinary. people binarize us and often mock us or get aggressive or dismiss and ignore our nonbinaryhood or something else.
if we don't medically transition, we are "just cis trenders."
if we do medically transition, we are "just [binary trans] eggs."
we are "technically transmasc or transfem anyways" if we don't use these terms.
we are lumped together with binary trans men and trans women if we do use these terms. our nonbinaryhood is ignored or seen as some kind of "gender-lite."
we are aggressively pressured to disclose if we're AFAB or AMAB, TMA or TME, transmasc or transfem, "boy nonbinary" or "girl nonbinary." and if we refuse to answer, people get double mad at us and pick something for us anyways.
if we show the slightest hint of something that could be interpreted as binary gendered, we are immediately binarised.
if we put a lot of effort into looking the most ambiguous or androgynous or neutral, people still try to find something. and they become aggressive. people often EXPLODE [PT: explode] when they can't gender someone by glance.
our ways of expression are constantly mocked and ignored (like neopronouns, nonbinary-centering labels for gender and orientation, basically all things that are associated with nonbinary people).
but if we choose more typical ways of expression (for example, use "he/him" or "she/her" pronouns), people use it to ignore and dismiss our nonbinaryhood.
we just can't win, and it's upsetting.
OMG I CAN HAZ TUMBLR
so yea, i made a blog and now i need to post stuff XD
omg finally
i’m going to blow up everything forever.
This is a perfect time to read the brilliant and unforgettable graphic novel(s) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, about growing up in Iran during and after the Iranian Revolution, and the rise of the oppressive theocracy that persists to this day.
Both graphic novels are available free online (Persepolis vol. 1, Persepolis vol. 2)
It also was adapted to a wonderful film (co-directed and co-written by the author) which is available to watch for free on Sundance Now (sign up for the free trial)
Im in so much i wanna fucking scream ahshathehdhdhwjwjwg
Thank god I have a high pain tolerance but this shit is agony
Tumblr staff just terminated 3 of my friends
@analog-delight, @sapphireh3art, and @puppiesthoughtsgobrrrr, in the span of a few minutes.
They aren't even hiding it this time, they claimed no reason for the termination. "For any reason, or none at all."
Staff is transmisogynistic and is targetting trans women and their allies on purpose. They are all but admitting to this here.
By my count we're at 6 accounts (overwhelmingly transfems) terminated in the last ten minutes, most if not all with the same "For any reason, or none at all", bullshit justification.
Tumblr staff is currently running a banwave of trans women, terminating them without justification.
I've been told of more than ten more girls banned, in the same timeframe. @yay-bunnies was banned too.
I've been told that all followers of a now terminated blogs were banned, so it's safe to assume that someone on staff just went down the list of a tgirl's blog and banned all of them.
@staff is transmisogynistic and currently mass banning trans women. Make sure they never hear the end of it. Raise hell like yall did a few days ago. Staff is mass banning transfems without reason.
I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"
you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku
Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.
You are so right actually
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I always know its getting toasty out in the world because girls start reblogging this post like crazy
awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.
that’s not the whole flag, now is it
hey staff what the fuck
hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose
HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE
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