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Side blog. Vote-shamer <3 Aggressively pragmatic. Got called out because I bravely said people should wash their butts every day. (No TERFs)

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MAGA: Abuse as Politics

How does abuse function as a model of politics for Trump and his millions of followers?

Well, here it is. I'm not the first person to make this observation, but I believe Trumpism/MAGA can best be understood as abuse functioning as a model of politics, and this could make things much easier to understand for people who experienced abuse and feel like Trump's presidency is eerily similar to what they've gone through, and for people still wondering, "Oh my god, how could people still support Trump? How could he be so constantly terrible? What is wrong with these people and what are they getting out of this?"

This is not a short or lighthearted read (and it wasn't really lighthearted to write either, honestly), but I tried my best to organize my thoughts. I think a lot more could be written on this topic than this single piece, too, so this is by no means everything there is to say about this, but I tried to condense everything into a single essay that wasn't like, novella-length lol, so I couldn’t go into detail over every little thing. Please be nice in your feedback.

I'm going to tag folks under the cut who said they wanted to be notified once this was published:

@whosaysromanceisdead, @thegayhimbo, @damnfine-dalecooper, @genderteflon, @pagecommando, @nottoogeeky, @spidersmiceandeverythingnice, @myloveistoblame, @ara-line, @betwixtyiff, @acceptableduraz, @ourchampionofthesun, @krivi, @short-wooloo, @whatisthismath, @countesspetofi, @gluten-free-pussy @thefunkypenguinus @stripedroseandsketchpads

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"Well I asked ChatGPT and it said--"

Stop. I am tired of being expected to pretend this isn't stupid as fuck. I do not care about the text that the chatbot generated. It can be inaccurate as hell as a search engine but it's especially idiotic to say you asked for ShitGPT's advice or take on a real-life situation. It has no authority. It has no brain. It has no sentience. It has no life experience. It is a computer program merely designed to sound like a human. I don't have to listen to what the fuck text it spits out about a real life situation when it cannot live a real life, nor do I have take you seriously because you fell for a human-sounding computer. If you want people to take you seriously, start by not earnestly telling them what the digital Magic 8 Ball shit out.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

I feel a bit impatient with the way leftists criticize USAID when you point out that defunding it will have and has already had devastating consequences. "Yes, literally millions of people have died, but have you considered that USAID also was the funding vehicle for stupid and ineffectual schemes to overthrow the Cuban government." Like okay. Which of these things do you think I'm sad about losing? It's just like this absurd tendency to pick at some "ummm actually" in the face of a humanitarian catastrophe.

[mariacallous]

#I read an article that wholeheartedly argued that USAID literacy programs for women in a highly patriarchal country was imperialist#because that country traditionally had a strong oral tradition of which women were the primary keepers.#And teaching them literacy led to the decline and erasure of that culture.#I shit you not I read this on JSTOR with mine own two eyeballs.#God forbid non-Western women.... read?? And work?? And escape patriarchal abuse??

[thestuckylibrary]

#a lot of ppl think women’s rights is a western imperialist concept it’s crazy

[makingqueerhistory]

World’s First Chinese LGBTQ Museum Opens in San Francisco’s Chinatown | Hotspots Magazine

Hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Chinatown as city leaders and community members celebrated the opening of the world’s first Chinese LGB

Hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Chinatown as city leaders and community members celebrated the opening of the world’s first Chinese LGBTQ museum. Mayor Daniel Lurie joined supporters for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the OUT Museum, a space dedicated to preserving and sharing Chinese queer history and culture. The museum was founded by Chinese artist and LGBTQ advocate Xiangqi Chen, who spent more than 20 years promoting queer visibility in China before moving to the United States in 2023.

June 5, 2026

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I think the short answer for why there were regretful Nader voters but not regretful '16 or '24 Stein voters or anti-voters is online radicalization tbh. Back in 2000, you didn't have the entire internet constantly blasting "Dems suck shit" in your face for years on end, or an online community of self-righteous assholes constantly reassuring you that your indefensible, immoral decision on Election Day was akshewally radically progressive praxis and that you're a poor little meow meow who couldn't ever do anything wrong. It's just a daily echo chamber where people can be insulated from the consequences of their bad choices to a certain extent and coddled that they were sooooo right and everyone else is just a filthy [insert leftist buzzwords here] for pointing to the blood on their hands. Relatedly, you could say Republicans sucked in 2000 without all the cool kids immediately feeling the need to reassure everyone they still thought Democrats were Cringe, too. The culture was just different back then, and current, modern internet culture dictates that Republicans aren’t great but they’re a force of nature who can’t really be held accountable, but Democrats are the ultimate force of Cringe and evil in the world who must be taken down at all costs and you’re the ultimate genocidal cringe lord if you voice any support for them in any way. I also think internet echo chambers encourage people to double down and never admit they were wrong across the political spectrum

[mariacallous]

this image is so relevant in so many fucking ways

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Every fucking day, men log on and loudly say with their full chests that they support rapists and abusers for positions of power because they associate the Democratic Party with evil, cringe, nagging women who might hold them accountable (as creepy men are reported to HR), and yet all the pearl-clutching is reserved for women who are fed up and aren't niceys to men online. mhm. ok.

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I'm going to say something controversial yet brave but, the fact that so much of tumblr culture revolves around dunking on Cringe moments from like a solid 10-15 years ago, whether they came from individual bloggers or collective tumblr communities like fandoms or shippers within a fandom, is the tumblr version of having lolcows. Spending years dunking on people isn't normal, still mocking people and fan communities from the early 2010s in the mid-2020s isn’t normal, having a website culture revolve around years of telephone about users and laughing at previous harassment campaigns isn't normal, a site collectively driving a YA author away for years due to deranged harassment isn't normal, and treating this kind of harassment as an eternal funnee meme isn't normal. Tumblr engaging in this kind of 4chan/kiwifarms adjacent behavior really since its inception explains so much about why this site is genuinely awful, and this site will justify it like "well no this is different we HAD to bully those shippers off tumblr because they were being cringe!" As if this isn’t the classic troll mentality. The early days of tumblr also had hate fanwikis dedicated to some users on here, and again, this is very reminiscent of kiwifarms (which started out as a website to harass an infamous “lolcow”)

It’s also similar to kiwifarms in that those trolls are pathetic irl, because you have to be a pathetic person to sit around and essentially join a hate fandom for people. Well tumblr’s general user base is just that meme about the nerd in school finally getting to be the bully this time. Anti-fandom is so much more terminally online than fandom, but like the trolls mocking lolcows, tumblr bloggers think dunking on people empowers them and makes them cool. It’s all a way to gain social capital for very mean-spirited people who are trying to differentiate themselves from other, Cringe bloggers on this fringe, bizarre website lol

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This is a strange nitpick because first of all, no most people do not join online hate fandoms for years against individuals or do things like obsessively mock fandoms from 15 years ago. The fact that it’s been normalized on fringe internet spaces doesn’t mean it’s common overall irl (whenever I tell people irl about tumblr, they’re like ??????? And your average irl mockery tends to look different from the dedicated online bullshit I’m talking about) but more importantly, I think it’s pretty clear by the context that this isn’t even the definition of “normal” I’m using. “Normal” isn’t only synonymous with “common”:

Harassing and mocking people for years is not mentally healthy. It is exhibiting defect, in character and healthy social behavior in this case. It is not behavior considered safe, healthy, or optimal. It is maladjusted. It is bizarre. It is suboptimal. It is dysfunctional. It is abnormal lol. I said what I meant and meant what I said. Words have many meanings.

[sprinkledsalt]

I'm going to say something controversial yet brave but, the fact that so much of tumblr culture revolves around dunking on Cringe moments from like a solid 10-15 years ago, whether they came from individual bloggers or collective tumblr communities like fandoms or shippers within a fandom, is the tumblr version of having lolcows. Spending years dunking on people isn't normal, still mocking people and fan communities from the early 2010s in the mid-2020s isn’t normal, having a website culture revolve around years of telephone about users and laughing at previous harassment campaigns isn't normal, a site collectively driving a YA author away for years due to deranged harassment isn't normal, and treating this kind of harassment as an eternal funnee meme isn't normal. Tumblr engaging in this kind of 4chan/kiwifarms adjacent behavior really since its inception explains so much about why this site is genuinely awful, and this site will justify it like "well no this is different we HAD to bully those shippers off tumblr because they were being cringe!" As if this isn’t the classic troll mentality. The early days of tumblr also had hate fanwikis dedicated to some users on here, and again, this is very reminiscent of kiwifarms (which started out as a website to harass an infamous “lolcow”)

It’s also similar to kiwifarms in that those trolls are pathetic irl, because you have to be a pathetic person to sit around and essentially join a hate fandom for people. Well tumblr’s general user base is just that meme about the nerd in school finally getting to be the bully this time. Anti-fandom is so much more terminally online than fandom, but like the trolls mocking lolcows, tumblr bloggers think dunking on people empowers them and makes them cool. It’s all a way to gain social capital for very mean-spirited people who are trying to differentiate themselves from other, Cringe bloggers on this fringe, bizarre website lol

[roycohn]

the thing about being a homeschool abolition hardliner is that people always want to come to you with some bullshit sob story about how you hate disabled people because they were bullied for being autistic and homeschooling was so amazing for them. and it's just like well unfortunately homeschooling is also a widespread tool of coercive control in child abuse used by christofascists to raise kids without the tools they need to function in the world so that they will always be afraid, dependent, and unable to think critically and discern right from wrong and truth from lies. so unfortunately i do think this is a situation where in order to prevent enormous harm to untold numbers of children those bullied kids who just don't wanna go to school are going to have to suck it up. (and in reality what i always propose is a more robust system of alternative/magnet public schooling set up for kids who are basically on grade level but who DO struggle to thrive in a mainstream setting, but nobody ever wants to hear that, they just want to guilt you for not thinking anyone who ever gets picked on should just get to stay home and play vidya and do all their lessons on zoom. and it's like honestly i don't think you're having this argument in good faith bc you are very much centering hypothetical discomfort you MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY have experienced over, again, widespread child abuse and neglect. so.)

[roycohn]

so i watched the netflix documentary about piper rockelle yesterday and i would like to once again humbly suggest that homeschooling be permanently abolished and perhaps even criminalized

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It’s so frustrating that when there’s an overwhelmingly common and dangerous phenomenon related to something so you say “Hm, seems like a sane and responsible society should ban or regulate this.” And you get hit by a million responses that amount to…

“Oh? [X thing] has a documented extremely negative impact on a large group of people?? And you’re critiquing it? Well I did [x thing] and that horrible thing never happened. I guess you’re just PERSONALLY ATTACKING me.”

“Have you considered the nuanced reality that if something is beneficial to me in any way then everyone who has been deeply harmed by it should simply eat shit? Also if they criticize it it’s because they hate me specifically?”

“What about those of us who actually ENJOY AND LIKE [x thing] and also feel entitled to never have access to something that I like restricted? Hmm? What about us?”

It’s not actually possible to have a functioning society where everyone does whatever they want all the time. You can’t just trust that your populace is going to do the best possible version of everything. I’m absolutely sure there’s a lot of responsible gun owners in the US — unfortunately, the negative societal impact of guns means that in a sane, effective society (which ofc the US isn’t) they’d still be banned. There are some things that are more important than you and what you like and what is beneficial to you. Some things are worse than other things, like objectively worse. Some things are more important than you.

This is the very definition of hyper-individualism. If something is working for you, it must continue. No one else matters. No one’s suffering could ever be more important than your own.

[hillsofspices]

so this is insane

Canada is failing the Jewish community and Jews are being targeted, Prime Minister Carney says

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is failing Jewish Canadians and the community is being brutally targeted by hate.

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I think a lot of people on here have seen conservatives say some version of this: "What, you're saying white people?? Have some kind of privilege?? Umm but white people can be poor, so how can white people have privilege just for being white??? Aren’t all races supposed to be equal? 😂 And isn't race a social construct?? How can white privilege be a thing if race isn't real? Systemic racism isn't real because race doesn't exist and you can't say white people in general have certain attitudes towards minorities because that's stereotyping. Sounds like YOU'RE the real racist for saying racism is real and white privilege is real 😂 Checkmate, lib"

And people on here will generally agree* that's a gross oversimplification at best and deliberately missing the point at worst. Okay well now try saying that despite gender being a social construct and there being no inherent, fundamental difference between men and women, the patriarchy is still real, men are part of an oppressor class who benefit from male privilege and have been conditioned to view women as inferior, and women are an oppressed class. Now you’re on a block list lol

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She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have fai

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Yep I'm not shutting up about the fact that women--including Hillary Clinton--warned everyone things like this would happen 10 years ago, and were screamed at for "scaremongering" over SCOTUS. And now we keep seeing stories like this and the only people who seem to care are those very same women who knew this would happen way back in 2016, because everyone else a.) can't face what they did during that election and b.) genuinely does not care, because they don't view misogyny as a real form of oppression. Young women today have fewer rights than their mothers but are treated as hysterical bitches for daring to be outraged about that, as men scream and cry that Democrats don't coddle them and their uwu needs uwu enough

(The article isn't shy about mentioning the fact that the woman featured in the story is a Republican who couldn't believe the ban applied to her, too. This is necessary context, but soooo many left-leaning men will respond by saying "bitch deserved it!!!" because too many men fundamentally think brutalizing a woman's body is an acceptable form of punishment. Anyway I both loathe Republican women and think no woman should have her body controlled/denied necessary medical care by the state)

[hiddurmitzvah]

The Joy of Hating Jews - Tablet Magazine

Why antisemites always have a blast—and how Jews enhance the experience

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Today’s digital culture has monetized these pleasures. Online platforms are engineered to maximize engagement by maximizing emotional reward. Antisemitism is extraordinarily well suited to such systems. Platforms amplify the thrill of forbidden knowledge, insider language, memes, and collective outrage while making them instantly accessible and endlessly repeatable. The digital dogpile—coordinated mass attack on a single Jewish target—is the mob made digital. Like the analogue mobs that preceded them, these too are often gleeful and public. But unlike earlier forms, participation no longer requires gathering in the street or much physical effort at all. The mob no longer needs to gather, it simply needs to log on.

Flooding Jewish journalists’ social media feeds with Holocaust jokes and “oven” memes; defacing synagogues, menorahs, or Jewish community centers with swastikas—often timed to holidays; filming antisemitic taunts of visibly Jewish people and posting them online for laughs; turning classic antisemitic tropes into viral “ironic” content or remix videos—none of these are coherent responses to a supposedly sophisticated international cabal controlling the world’s economy, politics, media, migration, and satellites. They are rituals of humiliation. The point is not resistance. The point is pleasure.

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"The third pleasure is moral. Antisemitism allows its adherents to experience hate as virtue. The antisemite does not feel like a bully. His experience is one of courage. He is exposing hidden power. Defending society. Cruelty becomes public service. This framing—hating Jews as just and right—has proved infinitely adaptable. Medieval violence against Jews was 'defense of Christendom.' In the medieval Islamic world, Jewish subjugation under dhimmi law was framed as righteous social order and mercy. Soviet purges were coded as 'anti-cosmopolitan virtue.' Nazi propaganda framed persecution as national hygiene. In much of the world today, antisemitism travels under the banner of anti-Zionism and resistance, repackaging eliminationist sentiment as liberation theology. The vocabulary shifts—anti-colonialism, anti-globalism, anti-elitism—but the emotional architecture remains. The antisemite gets to feel good. He is a whistleblower. A truth teller. A patriot. A freedom fighter. It is remarkable how stable the narrative structure remains. The blood libel accusations that convulsed medieval Europe—murdered innocents, monstrous perpetrators, the righteous community that exposes them—have proven durable and portable. Dress the accusation in the language of human rights reporting rather than theology and the structure barely changes."

[animentality]

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Yes, I am talking about this subject once again, because it fucking matters:

It is April 2026. One of the nation's top doctors is openly saying the president is showing signs of dementia. Because the president is a Republican, the press continues to shrug and move on. Under two years ago, that same press got together to end Joe Biden's presidency because he had a stutter and a cold during a debate, despite the fact that 1) Biden's lifelong stutter is well-documented 2) he was able to perform several public events in the weeks after and was fine 3) he's still fine 2 years later and wouldn't be able to make speeches in 2026 if he had been dying of dementia in 2024.

The press never provided any proof of their accusations, and no, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's tell-all book didn't actually tell anything:

But it didn't matter that the book didn't provide any evidence that Biden had dementia, because the narrative had been set--actually all the way back during the 2020 campaign, first by Fox News, and like a lot of right-wing narratives, it gradually took hold and became the mainstream narrative. I said it before and I'm saying it again: if the media had actually been concerned about the president having dementia, instead of them knowing that they were full of shit and deliberately pushing Biden out of the White House to enable Trump, they would be having wall-to-wall, nonstop coverage about Trump's decline. They're not doing that because they like Trump and will never admit to what they did, in a similar way to how they've never owned up to the role they played in downplaying Trump in 2016 and focusing on "HeR EmAAAAAAiiiiiLLLLLsssss" instead.

People should care about the truth, and the fact that too many members of the press lined up to lie to the public and enable Trump's victory (again). I will never stop being angry about the entire second half of 2024, and I'm right about that!

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It's been almost exactly 2 years since the same media killed Biden's presidency over the debate btw (the same debate where Trump babbled like a lunatic, but that's ok cuz he was sooo funneeeeee and not cringeeee like stutter icky old man :///)

[midnightssea]

men: systemically oppress and control women for thousands of years, regularly insult women’s bodies and assert that we only exist for their sexual pleasure

some random woman: haha that guy is bald 👉

the most sanctimonious, irony-blind weirdos on earth: we have to do something about the routine dehumanization of bald men. Men should not be made to feel ashamed for existing in their natural state. Feminism has gone too far.