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[gordiemeow]

Without fail, I always have at least one freshman a semester who insists on being very formal in their emails to me... I thought teaching a 300-level course would prevent that but nope. 😂❤️

[jessaerys]

i have to do adhd catch-up for the past week or so that i just straight up failed at my responsabilities and so help me god i am going to blog through the whole thing. sir this is my emotional support tumblr sideblog

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Theresa May just said she’s open to the possibility of a second referendum as MPs can’t agree on the deal after all this Brexit delay, and let me tell you if it happens, I will so happy to lose the office bet.

[foxanddana]

patron: can you help me? I've had this movie on hold for months. Someone was supposed to return it back in september and it still hasn't showed up.

me: oh i'm so sorry some people just aren't very good with the due dates. unfortunately there's no way to know for certain when that will be getting to you, but if you tell me the name of the movie i can tell you how many copies we've got floating around and when the other copies are due

patron: sure it's fire walk with me, that twin peaks movie

me, realizing i'm the asshole who has that copy checked out: uh............yeah....like i said, no way to know for sure but i have a good feeling it should be getting around to you soon

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As someone watching Brexit from the outside as a News Curator since the day it happened, I feel sorry for May, because no matter what she’s going to go down as a terrible Prime Minister.

And people will conveniently forget that the main engineers of Brexit jumped ship and pushed the full burden on to her, only coming onboard occasionally for their fifteen minutes of fame.

[foxanddana]

This guy at the library the other day really walked up to the desk and all in one breath was like “How are you good fine pharmacy” and tossed his card at me before I could even respond like…?

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So my organisation is covering the Ram Rahim violence, (as you do because we’re a news agency). But there’s this email going around with info gathering that’s not treating his followers like a cult, but actually goes into his history of work before he became famous without being apologetic for Ram Rahim either.

And I did not know he and his organisation fucking did so much for backward castes? Like suddenly every thing about this makes so much sense.

He is a rapist, through and through, but the people he’s working for are low on the social class roll, constantly exploited, and he gave them a way out.

As one of them puts it:

DSS has given thousands of people across north india an identity away from the historical oppression they've known. It's given them safety. a huge number of its members are from backwards castes, who had converted to Sikhism, but found the same upper caste oppression there too. Sikhism is, in theory, casteless. The ground realities, however, are sobering and unfortunate. The jat-khatri coterie has taken over religious politicking, especially representation in sgpc and other gurudwara committee. They've systematically kept new converts out of the loop and have actively oppressed them because they represent a status quo shakeup.

This (along with other factors) has led to people being angry, helpless, disillusioned. They see no way out, no way up. They turn to drugs. Punjab and nasha have become synonymous, and this has been worsened by economic insecurity+lack of education. They're a lost people. So when the dera sachha sauda comes up as a saviour organisation, they're interested. Of course they are. The dera promises them dignity. they dera educates its people, feeds them, keeps them off drugs, gives them jobs, gives them a purpose. It gives them a dignity of being. A lost man doesn't care if a rapist gives him direction. A hungry man will take food from a murderer's hand. Never forget this.

What you see isn't *just* an expression of misogyny and religious fervour. That too, yes, but it's actively an expression of insecurity too. What you and i see as justice, a large number of people see as a possible slide down to the pits they've barely emerged from. What you see on the today has been simmering over a generation and a half. In our race to *appear* developed, we forgot that development, as understood by very rudimentary economics, is unfair, unjust, unequal, and problematic. If nothing else, this should serve as a lesson. If we try to climb up by stepping on someone else's broken back, those people will rise.

Politicians understand this. They know a votebank when they see one, that's why they're politicians. they've been allowing these deras to flourish and mutate. Think of this as a very messed up, but immensely effective delegation system. They support the deras in their bullshit knowing the votebank will be appeased by them. this allows deras a free reign. The deras will fight each other, they will fight within themselves, and they will go to any lengths to 'win'. The politicians allow this because it also makes deras comfortably indebted to them. Think of divine right of rule. Same principle applies.

What you have is a reckless product that feeds off people's insecurities and replaces their drugs with a more potent one- faith&security. Religion might be an opiate, but faith? Man, that's a trip if i ever saw one. DSS has a veritable army of people willing to kill for it. And we made this. We allowed this with our apathy. When you look down on the protestors, remember this. We're culpable too, massively so.

[twisted-tales-told]

With my lovely old ppl again<3