Ash the Strange

Age:33 Pronouns: He/Him, they/them is also good, Bisexual, aspiring writer, crazy fool

[calvinandhobbescomic]

[under-the-arch]

No, Calvin was right

[distributing-direwolves]

Calvin was 100% right.

[turtletotem]

You’ll notice Miss Wormwood didn’t disagree, just gave him advice on how to handle the pain.

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

advertising strategy for Hepatior, a 1930s medicine to treat liver ailments

[depsidase]

[our-lady-of-haymakers]

Knowing about the monstrosity that is the US Empire allows you to see many kinds of horrors in daily life that can never be overlooked, but one of the most mundane yet weird ones is scrolling through feeds and seeing art of a character in a US-flag themed shirt or bikini or whatever. It really is like the equivalent of getting jumpscared by art of someone on a vacation or at the beach strolling around with an SS armband or an Iron Cross while everyone acts like this is normal. Abolish and purge all US related imagery, iconography and merchandise from public life asap!

[silent-t0n]

And it's against US flag code to use the US flag as clothing or for advertising, but nobody enforces.

[madmonksandmaenads]

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

[draconym]

It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.

[dduane]

The Onion says it won’t wait for the courts, will launch Infowars to pay Sandy Hook families

The Onion’s staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones’ brand, so the new Infowars will launch ne

Now The Onion says it isn’t waiting on the courts anymore.  “Alex is holding Infowars.com hostage,” Collins said in a phone interview. “He’s trying to intentionally degrade the assets so these families can never sell them, and the courts have largely obliged. We’re tired of waiting around.” “We are allowed, and even more, these families are entitled to this stuff,” Collins added. “Somebody’s got to do this, or else he’ll get away with it.”

[byjove]

One of the most fucked up parts of America’s for-profit medical system and insurance often being tied to your work is that you cannot work if you are sick and if you are not working, you have no insurance. People are fired in the middle of cancer treatment or a severe mental health episode and suddenly there is no way to pay the hospital and buy the medicine you need. Republicans will outright say “You don’t deserve free healthcare if you’re lazy and unemployed.” anytime someone mentions this, actively ignoring the fact that you often cannot work when you are sick and shouldn’t be forced to work when you’re sick to be able to afford to get better.

[crazysodomite]

The popularity of the "incompetent stupid piece of shit husband and competent wife who loves him anyways" trope in media is a psyop to make women believe its normal to settle for an incompetent stupid piece of shit husband

[crazysodomite]

But if a woman acted incompetent once then she will be literally crucified in the street and she's evil for manipulating her husband into settling for less and suddenly it's not a silly endearing sitcom trope 🤔

[alphauke]

you can always tell how little people actually care about art based on how much they hate modern/contemporary art

[alphauke]

''bring back renaissance art'' I bet your ass you can't even definitively tell that movement apart from others

[alphauke]

"posing next to art we think we can do'' can you though. can you

[bixels]

>sees a post about the superiority of renaissance art.

>it's baroque.

[silent-t0n]

Modern art isn't baroque, so it doesn't need fixing.

[republicansaretheproblem]

[beardedmrbean]

[liberalsarecool]

Read every line. Pedophiles incite pedophiles. Pedophiles attract pedophiles. #MAGA

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 18 June 2017, a new sculpture in Midleton, Ireland, was dedicated to the Native American Choctaw nation, in recognition of support from the Choctaw people during the great famine in 1847. In the early 1830s, most of the Choctaw people were ethnically cleansed from their land in the present-day deep South in the Choctaw Trail of Tears, in which around 2,500 people died. Despite the resulting intense hardship, in 1847 upon hearing of mass starvation in Ireland, individual Choctaws collected $170 of their own money (worth around $5,300 in 2020) to send to Ireland to try to alleviate the suffering. While the great famine is sometimes spoken about as if it were a natural disaster, in reality like most famines it was man-made. In this instance, food in Ireland continued to be exported to Britain by the colonial power. One Choctaw person who visited the sculpture, designed by Alex Pentek, later reflected: "The monument was so much bigger than it looked like in the pictures. The feathers are absolutely stunning. The detail in each feather is meticulous. They are built to look like they will blow over, but in reality their steel construction represents the strength and resilience of the Choctaw people. The backdrop of the monument is a small lake that is surrounded by greenery and I was overcome and brought to tears by the honor I felt being a part of a tribe that cares about people as much as Choctaw Nation does." Learn more about Native American resistance in episodes 88-89 of our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e88-89-indigenous-resistance-since-1992/

[stillnaomi]

let's be clear about why Tucker Carlson and co are speaking out against Israel's genocide of the Palestinians. the genocide is massively unpopular and these rightwing propagandists are trying to capture people's outrage and funnel it into America First nationalism. they're trying to keep everyone's political consciousness low by directing all that anger and frustration into criticism of Israel, instead of criticism of the wider US led imperialist system that Israel is part of. if they didn't, the only people explaining why the genocide is happening would be us pesky communists, who'll link it to the people being impoverished in Cuba by the US blockade, to the people being bombed in Iran, and to all the other people in the world who are being violently oppressed due to capitalist imperialism

[sail-to-live]

[beardedmrbean]