#be critical

[girlfailure-poetics]

david lynch’s body of work constantly dwells on how much of society is built atop violence against women and some people get online and call Twin Peaks misogynistic or w/e because a man made it instead of critiquing its overwhelming whiteness (and the whiteness of his body of work as a whole).

[yennas-stuff]

There is a certain connection to be made between the rise of the mediocre booktok literature, the overwhelming number of e/riels on that platform, the decay of reading comprehension among the younger generation, and their shortened attention span. In this essay, I will...

[dyrdeer]

Horror YouTubers stop covering borderline queerphobic/antisemitic conspiracy theories challenge

[stonebutchcowboy]

I'm tired of soft butch being slapped all over qweer community shit as a cover-all baind-aid for representation. Bring in the stone butches, butches of color, studs, diesel dykes, leather dykes, stone femmes, and hard femmes.

Truly allow for the spectrum of lesbian identity to distillate and diffuse. Sift through every particle. Let each person speak with the understanding theynonly speak for one, not all. Their story is important. It holds shades of gray and may be a new perspectice on wlw but it will invigorate us.

We have nothing to lose.

this post is includes trans women

[whathefuckshappening]

According to this artcle: https://kesq.com/news/news-headlines/2020/10/22/missing-woman-erika-lloyds-case-leads-detectives-to-search-for-another-missing-person/

The remains were actually found in Oct. if you search for the missing mom, Erika Lloyd, artcle from 2020 will come up. And they all say the same thing that skeletal remains were found. So that ‘new artcle’ from Feb. 2021 isn’t true in the sense that, they’ve been found long before. Someone just seems to be trying to write their own narrative. Not trying to defend him I’m just saying that trying to pin something on someone just because they were in the area, is stupid. Wait to see what the investigations turn up first.

No, thank you, anon. We want to ensure we aren’t driving erroneous or misleading narratives around anything as serious as this. Let’s all just see what comes out this week to understand. Casting a critical eye over any article claiming to know the ‘truth’ about Armie is vital!! I pulled a face at a few of these pieces when they landed in my inbox, but they were hard to ignore as they’re all over the internet.

Link of interest:

Missing woman Erika Lloyd's case leads detectives to search for another missing person - KESQ

The search for missing Northern California Woman, Erika Lloyd in the High Desert has led to a possible break in another missing person's cas

[culverton]

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[genesisrhapsodyoffire]

Hi. I had a really upsetting but eye opening experience on Facebook I'd like to share with some of you guys.

As many know I'm Chinese. I was adopted from a poor town in South Central China. It is a fishing and rice town. I have Chinese relatives in the US, not biological, but adopted immigrants who've married into my family. Through them and through attending Chinese church as a kid and a Chinese language class and through visiting China later in life and by visiting places with a large Chinese population (such as Australia) and of course by a lot of research through a variety of sources, I've learned a lot about China by both talking to people and reading.

China is a beautiful country with an ancient culture and rich history. It predates many civilizations, is rumored to be Italy's rival in noodle invention, created paper and gunpowder, has an amazing cuisine, and is a frontrunner in many industries while holding dear many lovely traditions, mythologies, and festivals.

But it has many skeletons. In the bloody aftermath of World War 2, my home country was revolutionized by Mao and in his attempt to make China an economical leader, he seized farmland from a nation of people that for years had been an agrarian leader in many regions (rice in the south and barley and wheat in the north, among many fruits and vegetables and poultry and beef), and converted it to land for industrialization and factories. Between 1959 and 1961, insects, typhoons, floods, as well as a drought plagued the land. These disasters had occurred before. China is a biodiverse landmass, larger than the main United States, and covering more climate regions, going from borderline sub-arctic in the northernmost provinces to tropical in Guangdong and Hainan Island and semi arid in the west. Famines are bound to happen. Over a 2000 or so year period from 108 BCE to 1911 CE 1828 famines occurred. But none of them hit the catastrophic levels or happened as rapidly as this one did. In two short years, low estimates say 30 and high say 55, and averages come to around 42.5 million Chinese perished in the Great Famine.

This, of course was not due to just climate occasion. The Chinese were industrious, adaptable people, used to weathering the harshness of the land, harvesting crops near the tumultuous Yangtze and Yellow Rivers and weathering the South China Sea monsoons/typhoons. No, the famine of 1959-1961 was a result of Mao's Great Leap Forward, in which he deprived farms of their caretakers and relegated them to factories, meaning no one harvested crops. No one could feed their families. No one could provide for villages. Tens of millions died.

This is awful, Alex! But... Why are you saying this?

Well, it's because there's a trend in certain spaces online that seems to be going around in this political clime. Many people in the far far left, as in the Marxist left, are praising certain Communist regimes and revolutions, and Mao's is one. I want it to be known that if anyone on my page is a Mao supporter they need to get right out of here. China did not need Mao to recover. China did not need for forty million plus of her people to suffer and die in abject poverty to catch up with the world. Were they struggling after the World War? Yes. But they did not deserve a dictator to take over and destroy the freedoms of their people.

What you see now in China is an authoritarian regime. They do not have freedom of speech. They do not have the ability to research online or in what books they choose. They cannot protest if they are unhappy. They cannot worship freely. They cannot love freely. Is this the regime you praise? Is this your God, Communists? Because this is what Mao started with his "glorious" revolution. I have friends my age from China, and they have told me it is terrifying there. They deny Tianamen Square, and the hauling away of people in cars is common. Phones are tracked, and the internet is censored. This is the future in an authoritarian regime.

Thank you for reading. I hope you have learned something.

Please DM me for literary citations. A lot of this I just know off the top of my head because as a kid I liked to memorize statistics about natural disasters and death tolls.