[stopsignsworstenemy]

“billionaires are bad unless its my favorite billionaire”

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

“If voting did anything they would outlaw it.” Is such an insane take to me, because literally all of human politics for recorded history has centered around Outlawing the Vote.

[beezelbubbles]

Big tiem agreed. The problem is due to loss of ciritical thinking skills, people don't understand that "outlawing voting" doesn't come with a big announcement of "voting is now illegal" delivered by a mustache twirling villain on tv and now nobody at all can vote.

Outlawing voting looks like th SAVE act requiring the name on your ID to match your birth certificate making it illegal for millions of married people (primarily women, but this would have affected my former husband) and trans people to vote.

Outlawing voting looks like increasing restrictions on mail-in ballots, making it illegal for millions of disabled people and people without access to voting locations to vote. It looks like voting locations being hosted in buildings that don't have to comply with ADA. It looks like closing polling places so that high population areas don't have the capacity to get everyone through in a timely manner. It looks like requiring state ID and then restricting the number of available places to get that ID and making it expensive, because that technically isn't a poll tax.

It looks like absurd redistricting. It looks like "accidentally" purging active voters from the voting rolls a few days before the election. It looks like piling as many restrictions onto voter registration as they can.

Outlawing voting looks like voter suppression. But it really is the same damned thing.

[short-wooloo]

The big "voting is now illegal" announcement only comes when it has already been made impossible, when it is already de facto illegal

Also they never say "voting is illegal", they say something like "you no longer need to vote, you don't have to vote" etc, they frame voting as a chore or inconvenience

[ibetteracethatinterview]

[ulyssessimpsongrant]

It’s 2026 and getting frothing at the mouth angry at rainbow capitalism is still stupid because it’s always been a neutral barometer for the social climate around LGBT+ stuff by the way.

[curiousrecluse]

[cordycepsfem]

This is why rich people, like really rich people, like Musk and Zuckerberg level people, don’t let their kids have screens. And they send them to schools without screens. They already know this. They’re counting on screens making the masses dumber, but they don’t want that for their kids.

[fastwalker]

that's why the nordics are rolling back digitalization.

crazy people need a ted talk from an "important" person like this to listen, this is basic child development stuff you learn when studying education. obv it's been known for years if it's part of current curriculum. but no one listens to teachers and social workers without a tiktok. social media creates authority somehow.

[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.

[theroguefeminist]

How did a radical leftist and unapologetic fascist get over their differences and become friends? The story of their shared antisemitism will warm your heart…

[leonardo-nierman]

[werewolf-cuddles]

tfw Pride Month starts tomorrow

[werewolf-cuddles]

tfw it’s now pride month

[senatortedcruz]

Happy pride lgbts who’s ready for the same discourse we’ve been litigating for 10+ years to hit the internet?

[stopsignsworstenemy]

how iconic would it be if it happened during pride month

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[candycoloredwolf]

Anyone gonna mention how this guy actually preformed live with Carly Rae Jepsen?

[restfromthestreets]

I’m gonna scream is2g

[galaxa-13]

I was thinking of reblogging this again just because the original video is still amazing, but then I see the second video and lost my mind. The upgraded fan, the body glitter, the sheer fact that he got to do this with the actual singer.

[ceasarslegion]

The tumblr experience is having politics that make the most left leaning progressive you know irl blush and then logging on here and getting called a bootlicker fascist because you said that you dont think we should make the reign of terror happen again

[ceasarslegion]

Me irl: the problem isnt taxes, youre thinking too small. The problem is that the federal government isnt taxing the right people the right amount. Theyre taking all our extra cash in our measly little wealth bracket and letting the billionaires hang on to more money than they can ever spend in a lifetime. The only way anybody gets a single billion is either through exploitation or inheriting it from someone else who did the exploitation, nobody who has that kind of money earned it legitimately. Not only do we need to strip that back into social safety nets for those of us theyre bleeding dry instead, but they need to establish hard laws and regulations to prevent that kind of exploitation from happening in the first place!

My coworkers: man, youre a real red-card commie, aren’t you? You gonna start telling us to vote NDP and that healtcare isnt a scam too? Jesus christ go give someone else your goddamn revolution pamphlets, lenin.

Me on tumblr: while i appreciate the animosity towards billionaires, i dont think literally dragging a guillotine into the streets and beheading people as a public spectacle is going to actually solve the problems inherent in the system considering the french already tried that and it didnt work out well for them. Also i dont think anybody has the right to decide who lives and who dies, im pretty anti death penalt-

Tumblr users: how does that boot taste, fascist?

[afurioushawk]

The way the left is going for the "Look, we have scummy candidates, too!" angle, you'd almost think Trump didn't lose three times in Maine.

[sprinkledsalt]

I was reading a really long essay recently about the sheer incomprehensible scale of violence that happened during World War II, and among other things, it reminded me that this isn’t the worst time to be alive for the general human population. I can very much picture people during WWII thinking it was the end of days, and for millions of people, it was. Up to 60-75 million people died during WWII, and that doesn’t count those who survived injuries, starvation, occupation, bombings, etc. Millions upon millions of people killed or mentally fucked up for the rest of their lives, and this was after the first World War! Imagine the psychological toll of going through two world wars. None of us really can, nor can we comprehend that body count. WWII was so bad that, just in terms of numbers regarding the death count, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a drop in the bucket. Even the Holocaust didn't make up the majority of the death count, despite killing an insanely high amount of people at an insanely fast pace. It's hard to quantify the worst events in human history, but WWII has to be up there.

Obviously, a shit ton of scholarship has been written on the long-term effects of WWII both on individual societies and the world as a whole, so it's not like the war ended and then everything was fine and dandy, but the fact that human society continued to exist after that at all, and even thrive in some cases, is insane. It's just something to keep in mind as you're inundated with a constant stream of "nothing will ever get better" posts from people clinical depression posting on main. Things were so, so, so much worse not even 100 years ago.

[pagecommando]

The thing that I keep coming back to as regards WWI and WWII is that not only are they mostly (Flawed) democracies going head to head with (Worse) and aggressive authoritarian forces and winning, you can see authoritarians cynically boosting more authoritarianism to prolong the war with drastic down-the road effects. And EVEN THEN the less bad guys won because it turns out liberal democracies are pretty damn good at training, supply chains, and industrial production vs having "the Warrior spirit" and getting really into autarky and warlord style looting in the 19fucking 40s. (Germany allowing Lenin back into Russia in the hopes he'd take it out of the war. THAT SURE WORKED WELL) It's that in a lot of ways they're a single conflict separated by a generation to enable another tranche of draftees and soldiers to be born. This isn't to say there weren't other causes or that WWII was ABSOLUTELY inevitable... but World War I didn't 'end' in 1919. A bunch of shit wasn't solved.

If the US Civil War and Franco Prussian war are 'previews' of industrial war... the end of WWI looks a LOT like what the early part of WWII looked like. Tactical and strategic air power, tanks, mechanized forces, aerial resupply, coordinated mixed-arms offensives... And the kind of populism and bigotry that drove WWII fascism and imperialism was birthed before WWI and during WWI as well. (the political technology is worth paying attention to as well)

The Great War channel is reasonable pop history that goes in depth, and the creators did another entire channel discussing the wars between the wars. (all kinds of shit around the world that just kept on going) It's worth a watch and has some great cultural and political content. It's not just "MUH DAD WAR STUFF"

The Great War

The Great War covers the era of the First World War from its causes and origins to its violent aftermath. Jesse Alexander covers the importa

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[sprinkledsalt]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hFA.c_7w.BM1p5fn0zxmL&smid=bs-share

Excerpts:

Hundreds of thousands of lives already lost with more to come because rotten fucks couldn't vote for a liberal black woman over a raping white supremacist and continue to scream and shit blood in defense of their actions in 2024 so you won't notice the blood on their hands.

[luck-system-shenanigans]

i feel like im a weird age where i got just a blurry glimpse at the world Before. it used to be cold in the mornings and websites had fun games and the search results showed you what you searched for. covid wasn't a thing. can anybody fucking hear me. did i dream it all????