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this blog is a shitfest because i'm old and unimaginative but i'm too tired and busy to clean up pls dont judge

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[queerism1969]

[lookinggoodinplaid]

THIS. Also, to prevent people from misquoting this poem in the future, here's the whole thing, written by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller in 1946:

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—      Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—      Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—      Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

What's more Niemoller was a national conservative. He originally supported the Nazi Party, hoping it would bring about a national revival (as did many Germans), until Hitler proclaimed the supremacy of state over religion and Protestant churches, at which point he allied with other pastors and Lutheran organizations against Nazification. He was also anti-Semitic, making many pejorative remarks about Jews, such as them deserving persecution for crucifying Jesus and believing they should be kept out of any positions in the government. He was imprisoned from 1937-1945, during which time he reconsidered his earlier views.

This poem is a warning, not because Niemoller saw it happen. It is because this is his story. This poem is him saying "don't be how I was, because for however much you support a regime and the hate it doles onto the people marginalized and labelled for extermination, they will one day come for you, like they came for me". No one is immune from the prejudice of the state - there is never only one scapegoat.

[aspiring-weird-old-man]

The leopards will eat your face too

[everythingfox]

“Take your grandchild 😾”

[everythingfox]

Acrobatic kitty

[taxus-fraud]

Hey guys, my opponent just fused their entire side of the board into a gestalt entity, which is currently dissecting and calcifying my pieces such that they fit into its twisted vision of an eternal, perfect state of the universe. What's the best counter in this situation?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

The perfect response

[socialistexan]

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[missabnormal]

imagine being a Korean person awake at like one in the morning trying to accept that the president of South Korea actually just tried to go full dictatorship by way of an emergency martial law because he was basically having a political temper tantrum and every agency and corporation in the country is all hands on deck, code red mode on everything and the military is being deployed and then the assembly revokes the martial law and then the president is like lol nevermind and now you have to get ready to work at your shitty job on a Wednesday

[the-reynolds-pamphlet]

can americans in the notes please stop comparing this to trump. we're not america. yoon seok-yeol isn't donald trump. this is a national emergency in south korea that has nothing to do with american politics. stop making everything about you for once.

[californiannostalgia]

anyway just so you know many Korean citizens were not sitting still at home they threw on their winter coats (our winters are very cold) and got to the parliament building however they could (there was a traffic jam, so people got out of the taxis to ride bikes) to go physically stand in front of guns

(some background: it wasn't 30 years ago that the military of a dictatorship massacred protesting civilians by railgunning them from tanks and helicopters. not only is the democratic revolution still in living memory, but there was also a popular movie this year about the military coup. Han Kang became a nobel laureate last month for writing about the people who died in those protests.)

the special ops team's guns on the night of were loaded with rubbers, but there were reports that real bullets had been handed out ready to be used if the order came down (south korea bans the use of guns. it is also treason if you fire at parliament.)

what helped was the speed with which people rushed to take action against this middle-of-the-night onslaught. soldiers had been sent to politicians' homes to arrest them before they could gather in assembly, but the politicians had already headed to parliament for an emergency meeting.

a lot more Koreans were tracking the situation via social media, news reports, radio channels, and personal streamings. night shift workers at parliament barricaded the doors. the scrutiny and pressure put on the military troops attacking parliament was not insignificant. it bought us the ten minutes required for parliament to slapdash a martial law cancellation motion and vote on it, even as the strike team was breaking the windows and pushing in to the assembly hall.

this could all have gone really fucking wrong. we were saved by every civilian who put themselves in front of gunmen (including disabled human rights protestors), every councilor who jumped a wall to go vote, every reporter who shared breaking news on-site, every single audience member of live streams and social media, every police or soldier who tried not to escalate violence against civilians.

this was very much a group effort. and we were very lucky it didn't go sideways, but at the same time, it had nothing to do with luck.

[alascene]

[soberscientistlife]

[uncahier]

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[wizardarchetypes]

my mom was very attentive to the media we consumed as kids. she listened to me infodump about naruto and sonic etc. while i was forming memories that would inevitably be lost to the haze of my youth, she was taking it all in and now i'll be 30 years old and say something and my mom will be like, "this is just like that thing Eggman said once...what was it....." and she'll quote sonic adventure 2 & I'm like WHAT are you FUCKINGGGGG TALKING about right now!!!!!!!!

[wizardarchetypes]

trash pickup at my mom's house has always been wednesday morning so when i still lived there we had to get all the trash out on tuesday night & once in like 2011 my mom heard us say "it's tuesday you fat nasty trash" so to this day when i'm visiting and we have to get the trash out my mom still calls it "fat nasty trash night." this woman has been quoting sweet bro and hella jeff for 13 years.

[poisonedfate]

bbc merlin - 04x05 His Father's Son

one of my favourite scenes in the entire show. arthur doesn't need to ask merlin, you can even see merlin himself be taken back by it too, but he does. it's arthur's special little ways of showing off his love and his trust. he does it a lot - merlin will say something (or will attempt to, before arthur makes a joke, makes him smile) and arthur will do this. merlin can't show a lot so instead he speaks his mind and arthur, well, arthur does the opposite. two sides of the same coin strikes again.

though, for me, this one is the favourite because, yeah, they often do this in life or death situations, but there's just something so intricate about asking merlin for the final confirmation. it's arthur's life on the line and he's probably as ready as one can be, but to have someone else be the smoking gun of "well, this is it"? it's a lot

[byjove]

Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can “feel normal” actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.

[byjove]

The amount of times I’ve heard a parent say something like “I’m just not going to tell my son he has ADHD, I want him to feel normal.” HE DOES NOT. HE DOES NOT FEEL NORMAL. HE IS WONDERING WHY HE IS STRUGGLING AND COMING TO THE CONCLUSION HE IS AN IRREDEEMABLE FAILURE.

[holybeings]

[myfootyrthroat]

I'm sorry, but I'm just too fucking old to pretend that the presidential ticket of "Person who performed some of the first gay marriages in her state while it was still federally illegal" and "governor who created a trans refuge state while other states were making it illegal to transition" is somehow 'jUsT aS bAd foR QuEer pEopLe' as the ticket promising to reverse marriage equality and make trans healthcare next to impossible.

That is such a monumentally stupid opinion that I'm going to have a hard time believing that you're actually that stupid, and I'll probably just assume you're malicious.

[myfootyrthroat]

Especially sick of hearing this from really young people. Like, sorry girl, the reason you could get HRT at 16 in this state is because one party is significantly better than the other.

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[gracefreakdean]