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I think Tumblr in general would appreciate the newest back-of-bus advertising campaign in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
So-called "free thinkers" when a bus is traveling between Strathmore Park and Newtown:
please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.
you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.
first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.
now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:
in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.
and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.
and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.
it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:
⢠infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.
⢠youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.
⢠only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.
⢠manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.
⢠journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.
⢠even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.
and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.
what i'm asking:
if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.
if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.
india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.
we can still save her. but only loudly.
reblog. share. don't scroll past.
It just really gets to me that 10 year old Mob walked into Reigenâs office looking for anyone who could give him advice about his powers that are scaring him. And Reigen looked at him and went âThis baby child is absolutely delusional, but he looks like he needs someone to say something important to him right now.â And Reigen spun up some bullshit on the spot that became the guiding compass of Mobâs life.
And itâs very important to clarify that Reigen did not -accidentally- give Mob good advice. Because one of Reigenâs most distinct traits is his ability to come up with genuine advice and tell people what they need to be told. But heâll do this on the spot. Heâll do it wrapped in bullshit. Heâll camp it alongside some conman string. Heâll go along with anything. Heâll pretend anything is true. The grift is, in fact, integral of it.
And I love this dichotomy in him because heâs so precariously set up at all moments to topple. For anyone to call him on his bullshit and use that to dismantle everything heâs said. He was lying. He was scamming you. He was using you.
And yes, he was. But it wasnât really for service of the con. It was for service of the customer, who needed to hear something important.
A terrified 10 year old walked in because his powers had just hurt his little brother and he was feeling so alone in the world and so dangerous and so scared. And Reigen saved him the way Reigen does best.
Reigen is a special guy nobody does it like him. What's he doing, you ask? Nobody knows. Including Reigen. but heck if he's not putting his heart and soul into it.
There's a line he gives Mob right after the LOL arc that sticks with me, it comes on the tail of him confirming that Mob is catastrophically inept at reading the room and hearing him out about the "damage" he caused by spoiling the mood of a happy cult.
âToday you saved some people that only you could have saved.â
Pointing out that the weird and inconvenient and frustrating parts of himself are what allowed him to be a hero to people who couldn't be saved by normal means. His inability to match the energy of the cultists led to Dimple showing his true nature, and ultimately to his downfall. It wasn't just Mob's psychic powers that made rescuing them possible, it was his social incompetence.
Reigen on the other hand, is socially overcompetent. Every interaction, no matter how absurd and outlandish and unbelievable and hysterical and stupid, gets his full attention and is treated with the same level of seriousness and gravitas as buying a used car. He makes people feel heard, because he is, in fact, listening with the utmost care. So he can sell them the top-of-the-line century-old jalopy of their dreams for a ridiculously reasonable price. Which will bring them peace and happiness because it's exactly what they need.
Reigen's ability to bullshit just what people need to hear is what allowed him to help Mob in his time of crisis. He thought this little kid was utterly bananas, but he recognized that the distress was very real, and cooked up a rudimentary life lesson on the spot to comfort him that was specifically, perfectly crafted to fit his imaginary psychic situation.
And when the situation ended up being entirely real, the fake advice Reigen cobbled together on a whim is what stopped Mob from spiraling. Nobody else could have done this, because nobody else would have treated his "absurd" fears seriously.
He was in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills to save someone that only he could save.
Reigen is a special guy.
Reigen is a master of headology.
How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.
As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.
The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.
He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.
He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.
Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.
REMEMBER: you can´t break NDA by speaking out about something illegal. This??
Gaiman denied that heâd abused Wallner and told New York that it was she who had initiated their sexual encounters, but in 2021, Gaiman paid Wallner $275,000 in exchange for signing an extensive nondisclosure agreement that prevents her from suing Gaiman or telling anyone about her alleged experiences with him.
Has no legal basis whatsoever. This is bribing someone to keep them quiet and it's also a very typical way rich people hide their abuses, assuming their victims won't have the ability or knowledge to protect themselves. This is a textbook SLAPP suit. So yeah, she did nothing wrong, and fuck this loser.
Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.
Why is measles back in America?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.
Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.
Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.
What contributed to the Covid outbreak?
Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.
âAmerica firstâ sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you donât, itâll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.
âWhat if poor people abuse the system?â
The system intrinsically abuses poor people.
Hope this helps.
"What if poor people abuse the system?"
Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that
When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.
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kinda glad that disney has largely abandoned the act of straightfowardly adapting well known fairytales since frozen (not counting their live action remakes obviously but those are ones they already have done) because I was really tired of the fact that the moment disney touched any given fairytale that became like the definitive version in people's heads to the point where they just kinda believe disney created half of them.
Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.
Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.
Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.
"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you
Free service with no ads: Okay so these guys are stealing my data
I think people should be able to exist in public without worrying about being recorded and posted online, even if they're being "weird", and I also think that if you see someone recording you without your consent then you should be able to legally spray paint their camera lens.
the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.
btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.
they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.
Strong contender for "dumbest inter-trans discourse argument" is "talking about how your assigned sex at birth impacts you means you're misgendering yourself"
"Sex =/= gender" is like the whole core conceit of being trans I genuinely cannot understand how people are missing the point so fucking hard
âItâs easier for trans women to pass/be stealth!!â
âItâs easier for trans men to pass/be stealth!!â
Actually itâs easier for people with very specific bodies (white, thin, average height) with large incomes and supportive families to transition medically in a way which is more likely to conform to strict ideas of âmanâ and âwomanâ
I swear every time I see someone try to make the argument for one of us having it better they exclusively either cite celebrities (again, see white, rich, thin) or assume that the people they know irl are representative of every trans person.
It also begs the point that YOU DO NOT KNOW IF SOMEONE IS STEALTH UNLESS THEY TELL YOU. No one actually knows how many trans people successfully live as stealth.
Most of the passing trans people I know personally are women, but most of the trans people I know to be stealth are men. I also know far more trans women than I do trans men. Not to ignore the fact that these arguments completely erase non binary people who are pressured to just pick a binary gender to âpassâ as because it is functionally impossible to be a âstealthâ non binary person.
It is completely possible to have important conversations about the specific oppressions that different kinds of trans people face without framing one group as being completely objectively better off. Stop trying to pit us against each other. It isnât easy for *anyone* to be trans in this world.
There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees
Above is the Jacaranda tree. Huell Howser did a wonderful episode on California's Gold (sort of a travel/history/general interest show about things in California- from someone with an interesting juice shop, to historical districts, to the drains of LA, to a train museum, to a 'museum' run out of someone's home that's all about rabbits etc etc...) on the trees and how differently people feel about them, and it's a wonderful watch. The guy got away with the OP's post as a TV show, more or less, it's wonderful.
