All Empires Fall

Sam 23 they/them

[thoughtportal]

[smilecapsules-deactivated202106]

fleabag confessional scene → requested by @viseriyen

Okay, now you say “bless me, Father, for I have sinned”- I’m not going to say that. Very good, “it’s been [enter days/years/months] since my last confession”. Then I say, “that’s okay, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, tell me what’s on your mind. Tell me your sins…”

[neckkiss]

The Hours (2002)

[micdotcom]

Related: Albuquerque is also providing mobile showers to the homeless — and they’re doing it in a wonderfully sustainable way.

[aprilnutter]

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[theawesomeadventurer]

oh gosh this is so wonderful

[milfsagainstroadhead-deactivate]

Really hate how “mommy and daddy issues” just a jab at the child and not the parent

[tiffanarchyforever]

Oh, so your parent(s) traumatized you when you were vulnerable and defenseless, and they let you down when you were reliant on them for your emotional needs? Lol idiot.

[phinarei]

My ENTIRE world just shifted to the left a bit. Thanks.

[cuntess-carmilla]

Speaking as someone who lives in the global south, having seen Biden promising that he’ll basically be much more effective at perpetuating US imperialism than inept, lazy Trump + considering everything that happened while he was Obama’s vice-president, Biden actually terrifies me even more than Trump does, especially with what happened in Bolivia last year. 😂🔫

[cuntess-carmilla]

I mean, shit. My country is in the process of getting a new constitution that we hope will get rid of the violent neoliberalism that the US installed here using us as guinea pigs for their little economic experiment.

What if whatever we end up with doesn’t make the US all too happy? Are we gonna get couped again? Are they gonna help Piñera crush the constitutional process or some shit? Are we gonna get sanctioned?

Seeing that apparently US military (? or whatever) leaders aren’t happy with Trump because the dude is such a pissbaby that he gets bored by that talk, makes me think maybe the reason why it was possible for the coup in Bolivia to be overturned in such a short time (besides of course the tremendous active resistance and sacrifice by Indigenous and working class Bolivians), and why the variety of attempts in Venezuela recently failed, is because Trump’s an inept lazy dumbass.

What if Biden truly changes that? The global south is FUCKED fucked in that case.

[fcxhole]

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[hi-karii]

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[justsomeantifas]

[full article]

An Ohio public school has been giving students extra credit for watching videos from PragerU, a right-wing website that produces clips of talking heads such as Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro discussing conservative viewpoints, HuffPost has learned.

The PragerU videos — with titles such as “Build the Wall,” “Why the Right Was Right” and “The Left Ruins Everything” — were assigned to a 10th-grade history class at Maumee High School, along with a series of questions about the videos’ “most important messages.”

The assignment came at the same time that the website has tried to gain further influence in K-12 classrooms. Earlier this month, the organization launched a program directly aimed at parents and educators, complete with study guides with sections such as “Conservatives Are the Real Environmentalists” and “The Ferguson Lie,” based on a HuffPost review of the materials.

…

The homework assignment appeared unrelated to PragerU’s latest venture, called PragerU Educators and Parents, or PREP, which launched several weeks ago. The inception of such a program suggested that these types of assignments may become more prevalent in schools. 

Already, “2,000 parents and educators have already signed up for PREP,” Craig Strazzeri, chief marketing officer of PragerU, said in an email to HuffPost.

“We constantly hear from educators and teachers who use our videos in the classroom,” Strazzeri said. He declined to disclose how many public school teachers specifically joined the new program. “Ideally, every school in America would show PragerU videos in the classroom on a regular basis to help educate the next generation.

”PragerU started the PREP program in response to COVID-19-related school shutdowns, which “forced us to take a closer look at what is being taught and not taught across the country,” said Adrienne Johnson, PragerU’s chief of staff and lead of the PREP platform, in a video interview with conservative news channel One America News Network. “America is not being fairly portrayed.

If your teacher seriously assigns you a PragerU video please dunk of their ass so hard 

[call-me-bitchmael]

Hi, social studies teacher here: if your teacher assigns you one of these videos in any context except for the following, drag them to hell. Call your principal, sure, but also. Ruin them on twitter. Make it a big public stink the whole district has to scramble to hush up. Complain to your local news if you have to. Complain to the ACLU– they have a whooooole department on education. Make that teacher a liability to the school. See how fast their shit changes.

Now, exceptions include:

- you are studying propaganda and these videos are an example of such

- you are studying conservatism (alone or as compared to other ideology) and the videos are a case study in alt right thought

- you’re studying things like media literacy and critical media consumption and this is one of the examples you have to deconstruct

- you’re making comparisons between the message of the videos and other messages in history and whether they’re coming from the same root

- basically ask “am I being given this video to inform me or have I been given this video to analyze?” and if the answer is inform, as in your teacher is using this shit as part of introducing new info, FUCK that. Drag them to hell. This shit cannot be used as direct instruction. But if the answer is “critically analyze the video” or “the video is an example of something really happening that we are learning about” then that’s actually very useful to you to learn because it will help you identify this thinking when you see it and understand how conservatives you’re up against are coming to their conclusions.

Basically, videos like this are only good for studying the alt right like the wacked out, neurotic, inbred lab rats that they are at heart. Teachers trying to use them as factual direct instruction need to get as fucked as possible as soon as possible.

[advanced-procrastination]

Don’t forget, public school teachers are *~*strictly prohibited*~* from anything that might be deemed political indoctrination. If your teacher tries to use PragerU as a legitimate, credible source that you should parrot all your opinions from, DRAG. THEM. AND. THE. DISTRICT. THROUGH. THE. MUD.

[politijohn]

[saxxxology]

CNN referred to Native Americans as “something else” on their voter demographic poll last night. The poll on the screen read like this:

White

Black

Latino

Something else

Asian

We weren’t declared as citizens of our own stolen land until 1924. We didn’t get the right to vote (in all states) until the early 1960’s.

And yet non-natives can’t even refer us as Indigenous people when we’re a part of the electoral process.

[saxxxology]

Y’all wanna know why Arizona flipped blue?

The Navajo and Pima/O’Odham (one of my tribes!!!) communities have been crucial in flipping this state. the Native vote in Arizona was MASSIVE - no doubt to the impact Covid has had on our communities there. I’m going to look at other blue-flipped states but what I’m seeing so far is that Natives have been critical for the Democratic vote regardless of voter suppression tactics designed to keep Natives away from the polls.

I also noticed that CNN started running ads raising awareness for Covid impact on Navajo territories and my thoughts are: 1) it doesn’t fix the mistake you made by calling us “something else” 2) the Navajo/Diné are not the only natives on that territory and the other tribes (including mine) deserve to be officially recognized.

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

[maeples-remade-deactivated20201]

[ID: a screenshot of a tweet from @dabi_hawks that says, “hate when people are like ‘haha fiction doesnt impact reality bc GTA didn’t make me steal cars and cod didn’t make me shoot people’ and it’s like okay no they didn’t but GTA did impact how ppl view the humanity of sex workers and cod does encourage islamophobia/millitary worship”. The timestamp is 4:26 PM on May 17, 2020 with 493 retweets and 1.5K likes. End ID.]

[kropotkindersurprise]

April 2020 - A Lakota woman tears down a confederate flag in South Dakota. [video]

[peoplesroguestate]

Always repost folks taking out the trash.

[ip2lb]

[honestherring]

Please sign this petition to stop this clown-looking motherfucker. 

[kieradoe]

A July 21, 2020 update on signatures.

[chi1dishdevi1]

All the outfits of Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way

Somehow I survived doing this.I present to you a low quality fanart of the ultimate Mary Sue queen. If you haven’t read My Immortal Fanfic you can bleach your eyes here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5835837/1/My-Immortal-The-Return

Notes: If is a different day, I opted to only draw what Tara described of the outfit, if she didn’t mention her make-up or shoes I believe Ebony didn’t wear any.

Unless the fic says explicitly that it’s a different day I tried to keep some of the aspects of the last outfit that Tara didn’t change or didn’t mention. (Like her make-up or shoes).

The little icons that appear in like three of the outfits are the earrings she was wearing that chapter.

Doing this was beyond confusing but fun.

[monsieurenjlolras]

I’m so fucking happy this exists this is hilarious

[bipolar-bisexual69]

My only criticism is that she should be putting up her middle finger at us

[meteor-falls]

[springfieldstills]

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass … / I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone. / I am to wait. I do not doubt I am to meet you again. / I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”

— Walt Whitman, from “To a Stranger,” Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition (BOMC, 1992)