My Salty Ramblings

My name is Andi and I'm a sociocultural anthropologist with an MA in the Social Sciences who can usually be found shrieking about the bourgeoisie and the proletariat being alienated from their labor. Formerly thorsgoddess and sashathespudqueenbraus. 25. Taken. ISFJ. MASS (Anthropology) from the University of Chicago and BA in German (minor in anthropology) from Austin College. 

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[cockyhorror]

I keep going back to watch this video it just captures my sense of humour perfectly

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Ben Wyatt got balls

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When you accidentally put “king shaming” instead of “kink shaming”

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Witch King on vacation at ColossalCon! With thanks to @ahsokatweeto for pics and @cowbuttcrunchies for room space!!

[palaeofail]

Today is Palaeofail’s fifth birthday! In honour of this hallowed(?) day, I’m sharing some of the best and worst fails from over the years.

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[apersnicketylemon]

Christianity and conservatism are not compatible ideologies. Conservatives, socially, are against refugees, against equality, and fiscally are against social programs and financial aid to those in need.

Jesus demanded they help refugees, demanded equality, and demanded aid to the poor.

To be conservative means to not be Christian, and to claim you are both is to be a hypocrite.

Something Jesus also condemned.

[obliviousfloral]

I don’t think you know much about either ideology

Sincerely, a conservative Christian

[apersnicketylemon]

I’ve read the bible six times, I know what it says.

I’m also a polisci student, and pay attention to what conservatives do. In fact I’ve studied conservatism, in addition to the other political ideologies that exist in our world.

Jesus said:

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. (Leviticus 19:33-34)

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. (Leviticus 19:9-10)

He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:18-19)

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. (Matthew 25:25-36)

Just to quote a very, very few.

Conservatives repeatedly repeal and cut back programs that feed the poor ,including poor children, cut back education, and cut back healthcare, all things vital to the poor. Conservatives repeatedly want no refugees, want no immigrants (travelers), including children. In fact, many conservatives want to throw the existing immagrants (travelers) out of the country (and need I remind you, Jesus was not a “legal” immagrant, so to claim ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ immigrants are any different is still to ignore what the bible has commanded of you.

I know exactly what each ideology is about. You are a hypocrite, and not a Christian. You only call yourself one while flaunting what was commanded of you.

[sirensofthesevenseas]

Sociocultural anthropologist here and you nailed it. I’m going to add in that Conservative politics does not allow for a universal ascription of agency and I believe that Christianity would allow for it, but I’m not a Christian theology scholar. The denial of universal agency is the primary motivation for most of the Conservative ideology and MO.

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hi everyone tell me your archetypes, these are mine

[sirensofthesevenseas]

58% Intellectual 32% Advocate 10% Explorer

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[boostergold78]

I didn’t know Mr. T pityed fool’s that weren’t woke, but that’s awesome. #respect

[lordxeras]

“I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’. So I questioned myself: “What does a black man have to do before he’s given the respect as a man?” So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is “Mr.” That’s a sign of respect that my father didn’t get, that my brother didn’t get, that my mother didn’t get.“

-Mr. T on the subject of his name

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[vergak]

Honestly god bless vine for introducing so many young black people to cinematography I can’t wait until black people take over the movie industry.

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Idk who started the randomly start dancing as a reaction scene but its keeping me alive and curing my depression

[whitepeopletwitter]

life is back pain

[dynastylnoire]

Do you have big breasts? Your back hurts now

[sirensofthesevenseas]

This is due to the trajectory we took in our evolutionary path to become bipedal instead of quadrupedal. Quadrupeds have the pressure more evenly spread across their four limbs that they use for walking and standing stationary while we only have two. Our backs have to compensate for the extra pressure and strain as a result.

[sirensofthesevenseas]

I’m back from the dead with an MA degree in the Social Sciences and a hankering for a proletariat revolution.

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SEND HELP

I have to pee for an hour now 😱

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[moonlight-eternallove]

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Beef and Broccoli Ramen

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

“Remember his name: Mr. Philando Castile. He was a school cafeteria supervisor who not only memorized names of the 500 children he served, he remembered all of his students’ allergies.”

[kny111]

i'm white. does that make me bad?

yea

[lisawithabee-blog-deactivated20]

p much

[grrspit]

Why do white people ask questions like this?  Whenever I get this question, or the thematically similar “Do you hate white people” I just answer with “yes”.

Because that’s the only answer they want to hear.

[atchka-blog]

In context, it makes sense. To a lot of white people, being black IS bad. You can see this evident when a white person tells a black person that they’re “one of the good ones.”

Whites allow for nuances in character for their own race. Rarely are white people grouped into “good” and “bad” categories. You can be a white person who is mostly good, then makes a terrible, terrible decision, but your lifetime of goodness mitigates that bad decision. In other words, white people accept that other white people are complicated and people are the sum of their choices, not merely a reflection of a “good” or “bad” moment.

But Whites LOVE to categorize Blacks as “good” and “bad.” You just have to look at the coverage of Trayvon Martin to see that the fact that he was arrested for smoking pot clearly put him in the “bad” camp right away. After that, Martin’s death was framed as him being the “bad” guy and Zimmerman was helpless but to defend himself.

So, when white people ask “I’m white. Does that make me bad?” what they are REALLY saying is, “I’m white. Are you going to hold me to same simplistic, binary judgement system I hold you to?”

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Bolding for truth

[harlemgirl643]

^^^Everything that atchka so eloquently said…

[certainlyunsure]

Commentary is spot on.