[xvisualtreasure09x]

[videogame-fake-brands]

soda soda pop & enjoy - Half Life (1998)

[silvermoon424]

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

[sacred-portal]

[ouilavie-deactivated20191107]

Harry Gruyaert. Yemen. Sanaa. Street scene. 1995.

[thenwearedecided]

fuckkkk my sacrificial lamb has started hanging out with the scapegoat

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[vampfuneralpyre]

[totaldowner]

I’ll need to run it by the black mold first before making any major decisions

[the-professional-loather]

This entire site:

[papayajuan2019]

i'm close ☹️

[papayajuan2019]

[timotaychalamet]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry

[ryebreadgf]

loveryoushouldvecomeover.org/careers

[innerchildabortionclinic]

seeing a new pasta shape is memorable and exciting

[deathmagnetic]

i’m in tears over this

[gideonisms]

I think it's so important and crucial for 20 year olds to witness older people who are genuinely bad at some aspects of being a person but are still living lives they find meaningful and enjoyable. Not just "oh I got married and you can too" but like. sometimes you cannot for the life of you finish college or find a good job or stay in a relationship or arrive to locations on time or whatever it is you think when you're 20 that you HAVE to be able to do. But you wind up finding a place in the world anyway. It happens!

[neverwonderneverremember]

[person918x]