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@radiates-confusion
Intro???
Hi! I'm RadiatesConfusion, Artenbyconfusion, and any and all variations on those, I do not mind! I use He/They pronouns and I am always open to asks!
This is now 1 of 2 blogs I have. I have made a proper art blog, in which I cannit promise regular content, but I can promise consistent content type!
You can find that over at @art-enby-confusion in which things will getting started soon!
idk perhaps this is too early 2000s internet safety module of me but the amount of information you guys demand from each other is weird
A stoat changing coats. âď¸đˇ
reblog to boop prev
These kinds of responses are my FAVORITE. Some examples to answers to this question I have heard:
1.
âOkay, and whoâs the president?â
âObama, no wait, shit *vehemently* fuck, I hate him⌠whatâs his nameâŚâ
âItâs okay, you know who he is.â
2.
âWhoâs the president?â
â*drunkenly angry and confused* ..uhhhhhhhâŚOrange⌠damn it whatâs the fuckâs nameâŚ.
âYup, good enough.â
3.
âAnd whoâs the president,â
âNot fuckinâ Obama!â
âI feel ya.â
4.
âWhoâs the president- wait, nevermind youâre from Korea you said, right? So whoâs-â
âEverybody knows that Trump-bitch.â
âOh, well, alright then.â
5. (My personal favorite)
âWhoâs the president?â
âEw.â
âGood enough.â
My roommate is a neurologist and has to do this check all the time. Her all-time favorite so far has been âay dios mioâ during which the woman was vigorously crossing herself.
lol me too , lady
One time I got âthat orange fuckâ from a very cute little old lady with urosepsis
I have - quite unintentionally - contributed to this phenomenon.
I was waking up from surgery in the post-op observation room, where they kept people before sending them off to the ICU. The nurse was talking to me as I was semi-awake, telling me that as soon as it was ready, I would be sent to room 2008.
I did not hear the word âroomâ.
I started trying to sit up and get out of bed (entirely unsuccessfully), shouting (mumbling forcefully), âHeâs not president yet! I have to warn everyone!â
Thatâs awesome. Thank you for trying to warn us
iâve been looking for this post for ages and it finally crossed my dash again
(( *smiles* the post is back))
Paramedics had to stop asking âwhoâs the prime minister?â in Australia because it changed so often that not knowing the answer wasnât really all that indicative of anything.
One paramedic reported receiving the answer âI havenât watched the news todayâ.
Meanwhile in Germany, the joke goes that a teenager is waking up in a hospital bed, the nurse asks them who the chancellor is and they say, âhang on are you telling me that can change?â
This is the only acceptable item that can poke through between my seats (via)
OLLIE HAS RAT PIANO
I didn't know bucket toothpaste was only a thing here!
WAIT! How do people in other countries put toothpaste on their toothbrushes??? You d-don't use your toothpaste spoon????
You keep your toothpaste in condiment tubes???
This whole thread is making me so sad đđ
For the americans out there, 1kg is about 2lbs. Rewriting this bost gives:
"To answer a lot of people's question: this package is [4lbs] there's also, [10lbs] and [20lbs] ones (which used to be sold in most stores, but you can find them only in specialized ones nowadays). There are some tiny ones, like 1lb! Those are the ones you buy to carry when you travel."
Croatians apparently take a pound of toothpast with them when they travel.
I now live in fear of the Croatians.
Apparently the reason I've never gotten carpel tunnel despite being an artist for 24 years is I hold my pencil wrong
So, you know how certain Christian missionaries are trained to act in a very obnoxious way, so that most people they preach to will reject them outright, so they feel like the world hates them for being Christian and they can only be friends with fellow Christians? You know that thing?
I think as activists, we sometimes need to stop and ask ourselves whether we're acting like those missionaries. I think this type of behavior is a little more ingrained into our society than some of us realize, and some of us have internalized it without realizing what it's actually meant to do.
OP I know that this is probably a different direction than you were going, but genuinely this advice would do so so much to help people not fall into secular political cults.
A lot of high control groups use this tactic to isolate their members. Itâs absolutely not just evangelizing Christians. New age wellness cults often encourage their members to make outlandish and offensive accusations regarding the mental and physical health of other people or their children, because they know that the backlash their members receive will reinforce the idea that the âmainstreamâ simply has no room for people who like crystals and essential oils. White supremacist cults will seed the vocabulary of new recruits with Nazi dog whistles that fly over those recruits heads, specifically so that they will get clocked as possible neo-Nazis and shunned by anyone who might offer them another perspective and help them to get out before itâs too late. And a lot of left-leaning political cults strongly encourage members to share their views in the most inflammatory ways possible, and then say âyou see? everyone outside of this small circle is evil and cannot be relied onâ when, inevitably, that produces bad results.
Sometimes I think that activists fall into these patterns completely accidentally, either because they were raised in culturally Christian evangelical environments and never unpacked it, or else because they just arenât any good at approaching things in a non-inflammatory way and no oneâs shown them how.
âŚBut sometimes, these structures emerge in activist circles because those circles are legitimately becoming high control groups.
I think some things to watch out for especially in this regard are:
Are you being directed to behave in an extremely hostile and alienating way? (even if itâs by someone who you trust!)
Does the group you are in immediately shut down any conversation about the effectiveness of an antagonistic strategy? In particular, do they shut that conversation down using in-group stock phrases?
Is experiencing harsh rejection seen as something of a rite of passage?
Do you receive more validation from the group you are in after you have been rejected by someone outside the group than at any other time?
Have you ever been concerned that the antagonistic strategy you are using hurt someone you cared about, only to be quickly advised by members of the group that that person was toxic and that you should actually completely cut them out of your life?
These to me are all pretty significant red flags about the group in question, whatever the specific thing that brings people together there is. If you start noticing them in a group that you are a part of, be that an in-person activist circle or a Discord server or anything in between, take a step back and seriously consider the possibility that the good thing that you joined is turning into something different, and possibly dangerous.
In the words of Jonestown survivor Deborah Layton, âNobody joins a cult. You join a self-help group, a religious movement, a political organization. They change so gradually, by the time you realize youâre entrapped â and almost everybody does â you canât figure a safe way back out.â
this is a pdf detailing the BITE model of authoritarian control, a method for determining whether or not you're in a cult.
even if you feel confident you are not and have never been in a cult, it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with the signs, just in case one begins to sneak up on you in the future.
Ok, I actually want to talk about this for a moment.
Jonestown, one of the most infamous cults in history, with a mass suicide / mass murder that left more than 900 people dead of cyanide poisoning, hundreds of whom were children⌠was a leftist political cult. That fact is an unambiguous and completely undebatable matter of historical record.
This isnât a footnote in the story of Jonestown, and it isnât a weird anti-leftist gotcha either. Jonestown attracted people to their cause with anti-segregation and anti-poverty activist work, and they did actual, meaningful good for those causes. The Peopleâs Temple was a leftist org, unambiguously. They created mutual aid networks for food aid, and rent assistance, and job placement services, and clothing donations, and winter heating. They leaned heavily on the Indianapolis Human Rights Commission in order to push desegregation, and led sit-ins and boycotts and protests. They participated in significant voter registration efforts. They led the fight against the eviction of tenants from San Francisco's International Hotel.
People joined The Peopleâs Temple because it was a good thing when they joined it. They didnât start out as brainwashed cultists, and they didnât gravitate towards the leadership of Jim Jones out of masochism, or inherent submissiveness, or a perverse love of creeping authoritarianism. They fell in line under Jim Jones because heâd built a community that was genuinely helping people, and was advancing a political cause that seemed worth fighting. They followed Jim Jones because he earned their trust.
Jim Jones then used the trust and the social capital that he had gained from all of the above in order to elevate himself to the status of a messianic figure, and abuse and profit off of his followers. Slowly but surely, he boiled the frog. It was all good â and then it was mostly good â and then, well there was some abuse, but it wasnât that bad, and it wasnât really his fault â and then there was a lot of abuse, but the outside world would destroy them if given the chance, so wasnât it the lesser of the two evils? And then, eventually, it got so bad that hundreds of people poisoned themselves and their children at his command, and murdered everyone in the compound who refused and resisted.
Your cause of choice is not immune from abusers taking advantage of it!
It doesnât matter if youâre right. It doesnât matter if your cause is just. It does not matter if your good thing really is a good thing, because there is always the possibility that it will one day be co-opted by a monster. And if the fact that it started good is enough for you to ignore that gradual, subtle change, you could end up in a truly horrible situation.
One of my best friends in undergrad got sucked into a cult. Years later, we talked about it, and he told me something that Iâll never forget which is, itâs only when you look all the way back at things that they seem crazy. You start off with things that are totally normal and innocuous: âweâre stronger togetherâ; âoppression is badâ; âyou can accomplish more if you believe in yourselfâ; âempathy is important and we should all try to bring more of it into our livesâ; etc. Then, you move to something thatâs just a little step away from that. And then again. And then again. And then again. But it never feels like a big jump, because itâs not! A -> Z is crazy, but A -> B wasnât, and B -> C wasnât, and C -> D wasnât, andâŚ
This friend was smart, and rational, and independent, and normal, and by the time he and his wife left, theyâd gone from just thinking that we should all practice more emotional mindfulness, to being terrified that leaving the cult and the cult leader would literally kill them, via the cult leader having magical powers.
If your only analysis is âWhere I started was good, and no single step since then has been crazyâ that is utterly insufficient to keep you safe.
âThis canât possibly be a cult, because when I joined it was a leftist political org and thereâs never been a single instance where it suddenly changedâ is literally the exact logic that kept people in Jonestown until it was too late.
Ragnar before and after we told him his favorite place is closed
...dog beer?
is this another toothpaste bucket
liquid chicken
Finally
i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy
reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy
Poll: if your mom remarries when youâre 26 years old is that guy still your stepdad or is he just your momâs husband.
The poll winner seems to be âdepends on whether you like himâ which is super valid.
Mine watches fox news so âmomâs husbandâ it is!
My family has a great way of distinguishing between a new spouse you like and new spouse you disdain!
Your mom/aunt/grandma/etc remarries and they are actually a cool person, you use their first name. So if you were to introduce them they would be: Aunt Jane and Bob.
If your mom/aunt/grandma/etc remarries and they are a fuckwad you introduce them as: this is Aunt Jane and her second husband. The implication being that they are very replaceable and that weâre all just waiting for her to wise up to the situation and serve you divorce papers, she did it once, she can do it again.
MAGNIFICENT
Alright, but what if my mom on her third marriage found a decent man, but my mother herself is shitty
"my stepdad's wife"
@sapphic-sargent your tags omg
You are doing Godâs work
this post is a good honeypot for people that think their country's access to cheap fossil fuels is more important than the lives of anyone living in the middle east
op turned off reblogs from this post and i am so fucking heartbroken bc how else will people know about quacking in my boobs. what the helley
one man's hyperfixation is another man's blocked tag
