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[starlightomatic]

They hate us so much

[hyperrbolic-orange]

Cool.... cool cool cool

And like, the people being like "oh i bet they said Zionists" or "they were probably going after the zionists" like, do you think they were targeting some mythical "zionist only" synagogue that only let in "bad jews," so when these girls like, rammed their car into the building only the evil terrible Jews everyone hates would be killed? Even if that HAD actually been their intention and the distinction actually mattered in any way???

No, it was just a regular fucking synagogue filled with a mix of Jews with various opinions that these Nazis did not give a shit about, just like the Nazis in the comments dont either. Because were all the same to them.

Second last comment sums it up. They see as vermin. Always have, apparently always will.

[thottybrucewayne]

For as much as I love Paris Is Burning (1990) (It was foundational in my getting into ballroom history and learning more about the ballroom scene in my area when I was in my early 20s), I feel like we barely mention its spiritual sequel How Do I Look (2006) even though it gives a much better look into ballroom and how the popularity of Paris Is Burning affected the scene. It also touches on the issues participants of the og Paris Is Burning doc had with the handling of the og doc and the way the mainstream has been trying to exploit the ballroom scene since the second they found out about what it is. While Paris Is Buring is a deeply important part of our history, it should NOT be your first and last stop when learning about ballroom culture.

How Do I Look documentary, 2006

Director Wolfgang Busch is going deep into the Harlem Ballroom scene, connecting history, trends and culture. The “Ball” culture created num

[vogelpsittacines]

Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

[freakgirly]

Well you made your whole personality being Jewish like your pinned post is about how you love being Jewish your url is about your Jewishness and your bio and also pfp and also banner is. Yeah you get the picture. then you get so seethingly angry when someone dares to assume you’re a Zionist holy shit

[diamondsandphoenixfire]

“This person is a Zionist! Evidence: Jew”

Thank you for making it clear that “antizionism” is purely based on racial hatred and nothing else. I want to frame this post. This is a flawless rendition of how the USSR and Iraq, among others, persecuted Jews on racial/ethnic grounds.

[frustratedasatruar]

#op sounds like conservatives circa 2002 saying “well that person is a proud muslim so why are they mad people think they're a terrorist”

(@knight-of-skyloft's tags)

[freakgirly]

you people make me want to join hamas

[frustratedasatruar]

OP chooses not to use punctuation of any kind because if they did, someone might ask about the triple-parenthetical around "you people."

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

Every single day, someone on here proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that their protestations of "antizionism isn't antisemitism" are absolute bullshit.

[agam-shel-barvadim]

This is how the USSR and Iraq persecuted Jews on racial/ethnic grounds.

[rhube]

Is Tumblr aware of Count Binface, current hope for our nation?

Let me explain:

Grotesque fascist grifter, Nigel Farage, is the leader of Reform, the racist far right party he created because UKIP got what it wanted (Brexit) and it sucked.

Having tried and failed to be an MP many times (but somehow getting more screentime than any Liberal Democrat or Green politician), he finally succeeded in the last election because people were so overwhelmingly pissed off with the Conservatives, and many right-wing people saw Reform as the new Conservative Party; partly because it's full of rejects from the Conservative Party.

Speculation: he doesn't really want to be an MP, he wants to be a fascist grifter. He's annoyed by suggestions he do things like Be In His Constituency and Serve His Constituents.

He's recently been caught having accepted a VERY large amount of money from some unsavory people that he insists was a totally legitimate 'donation' and not breaking any rules.

Only it did break the rules and it's very clear that it did and things are in motion to hold him to account.

To avoid this, he has resigned as an MP, saying this is a protest at his treatment by the 'establisment' (he is a rich fascist grifter, but he likes to cosplay as a Man of the People). This has triggered a by-election, in which he is standing, with the hope that the people of his constituency will either elect him in a resounding win, indicating they don't care that he's corrupt (having not heard everything the investigation is uncovering), or someone from Labour or the Conservatives will win and he can swan off to America, free to grift again because of what the 'establishment' did to him.

Only, all the major political parties have agreed not to stand, stating openly that this is an obvious stunt and they won't legitimise it. So if he doesn't win, he can't say it was because he was too much of a rebel and the Establishment went against him, he'll just be a loser, which doesn't play too well with the right-wingers he wants to grift. And if he does get back in the investigation will go forward without any kind of 'mandate' from his constituency buoying him up.

But. There is another option.

COUNT BINFACE IS RUNNING.

Count Binface is part of the grand British tradition of joke candidates who stand as a protest option. They usually don't get enough votes to get their deposit back (which is supposed to deter unserious people) but they don't care, because DEMOCRACY.

Of course, Count Binface has never won, but it is hilarious to see a completely serious pathetic fascist concede defeat while standing next to a man with a bin on his head to whom they are democratically equal.

But if nobody else is standing. And if enough people in Clacton-on-Sea are finally cheesed off enough with Farage not doing anything for them, there is just a chance that one of the funniest things to ever happen in politics will happen.

Imagine. Imagine for just a moment that the Grotesque Fascist not only loses, but loses to Count Binface.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Also, for reference, Farage resigning won't actually stop the investigation against him. The investigation will just be paused while the by-election is going on.

If he wins, the investigation will no longer be paused. It looks very likely that Farage will be found to have breached parliamentary disclosure rules which, considered the severity (5 million quid ain't nothing), could get Farage suspended from parliament.

And if Farage is suspended for 10 days or more, it could trigger a recall petition which can trigger a new by-election that Nigel would have to stand in again if he wants to keep his seat.

But if he loses, the investigation may be picked up again. Not being an MP does not mean the investigation can't continue. If it's considered appropriate, it will carry on.

I say this for anyone in Clacton-on-Sea who worries voting for the Count would let Nigel off scot-free. Farage does not have a get-out-of-jail-free-card for this investigation. Especially because there's at least another four Reform donations that were reported by bankers as suspicious.

[queeranarchism]

If you're a leftist who finds inspiration in the stories of the anarchist and communist revolutions, you also need to find wisdom in its excesses, it's cruelty and it's vulnerability to corruption. If you find pride in the history of the resistance movements against nazism, you also need to find introspection in the fact that many resistance members ended up raping the wives and abusing the youngest children of nazis the moment the power was reversed.

I don't trust people who only explore the pretty parts of leftist history. It doesn't lead to a realistic understanding of our past movements and it doesn't make us prepared to see the flawed, vulnerable and ugly in our current movements. Will you recognize and confront the rapist in your local group? How can you, if you won't even recognize and confront him across 80 years of distance?

[standwithdaanes]

Criticism should be an act of mutual respect, love, and genuine belief. If you want socialism / anarchism / leftism to improve and become stronger, you must critically engage with it in full.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[noname-human-being]

"why are you proship" I'm going to hold your hand when I say this.

No self respecting or genuine feminist theorist or advocate is in favour of censorship.

If they're telling you that someone deserves to be arrested for her art, that's a poser. It isn't just fandom bullshit. Laws being imposed that crack down on artistic depictions of things you don't like affect everyone. You included.

Why would I, as a queer disabled person, advocate for MORE censorship. Unless I was a fed.

[lost-in-frog-land]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an insane show because the first 4 seasons as we experience them are technically no longer canon by season 5. To the characters, those first 4 seasons were different in ways that we will never get to see, which is such a wild storytelling choice that i am literally always thinking about

[redstonedust]

its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.

[folkfashion]

Chaoui woman's dress, from Algeria, by linshiny_

[chutefullofholes]

every time there’s a viral post about Magnus Hirschfeld that fails to mention he was jewish and nazi hatred of his work (and queerness as a whole) was a cause and effect of nazis blaming jews for any and all ‘degeneracy’ i want to Scream Yell Scream. you cannot should not separate what happened to him from that what do you mean ‘remember! they didn’t just hate jews they also-‘ HE WAS JEWISHHHH !!!! he was openly jewish and that’s a large part of why he was persecuted so heavily!!!! why are you leaving that out!!! he is not fodder for your ‘ugh those meanie jews are always so greedy and make the holocaust all about them 😠’ inversion

[mousidy]

some of you never let go of the binary you just say "amab" and "afab" instead of "man" and "woman"

[mousidy]

[mousidy]

if you've medically transitioned at all, including by taking HRT, you probably don't have a body that fits into the male/female sex binary, and slapping "amab" and "afab" over it isn't gonna change that

I can't answer whether we should call that intersex or a "nonbinary sex" or what, but I'm begging you people to understand that TRANSITION CHANGES YOUR SEX

[mousidy]

TRANSITION CHANGES YOUR SEX

[monster2003]

I’m putting in my too weak notice.

[thegentlemanstar]

this site gets accused of being way too usamerican a lot but i wonder what the actual proportion is

are you usamerican

yes

no

some other nuanced answer (pls elaborate in the tags i’m nosy)

Voting ended onJun 5

[shitter]

absolute gold on Reddit today

[recklesslyinfatuated2]

This has to be a man.

The average woman has periods for 40 years, give or take, so at around 12 periods per year, that would be 480 eggs laid over her years of fertility.

Presumably they hatch into babies? There's no way on earth a woman is going to want to care for that many babies/hatchings, and is sitting on the eggs required as well? Is she ever able to leave the house or, you know, get her damn body and life back?

What a fucking dismal existence that would be. JFC.

[tributary]

[technologistrevolution]

even without the neopets solution I am Fascinated by the implication all eggs are fertile and this would result in every woman being the poultry virgin mary with 480 babies

[shabbytigers]

in other developments re german/anglo cultural exchange on breadstuffs, this image was posted to a facebook group yesterday

the following events ensued:

1. predictable lively discussion on the preparation of Wienerschnitzel, in which natives and wurstaboos are pro-puff and everybody else is like *confused dog head tilt* why wouldn’t you want the crust to stay ~attached to the thing you put it on? as with other fried foods?

2. thirty “Bad Schnitzel is my band name” jokes

3. thirty “Bad Schnitzel is my stripper name” jokes

4. one “ah yes, Bad Schnitzel! a lovely spa town” joke

5. this absolute masterpiece:

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Odd. Every schnitzel I've ever had at German restaurants has had no puff. Might be a regional thing as I'm really only familiar with Eastern German cuisine.