a warm and loving trans day of remembrance to everyone out there who sees the losses in our community and is afraid for their individual future and the future of all of us.
today and every day i will think of those ripped from us and i will continue to fight and live my life for all of us who are still here. we are a part of our larger communities. and we are important to them. every one of us.
hey do you guys remember when green day released the explicitly anti-war anthem 'american idiot' back in 2004 as a direct response to all the post-9/11 jingoistic AMERICA HOORAH songs flooding the radio at the time and how it contained the lyrics:
Well, maybe I'm the faggot, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
and the point was to use a slur that got right to the core of the conservative propaganda that framed being anti-war as effeminate, weak, un-american? and to take that slur and be like fuck yeah i am and this faggot is going to stand up for what they believe in fuck you
and gay rights activists were mad about it? like how dare this straight man use a gay slur green day is homophobic actually and we should make that the dominant narrative in the discourse and never ever talk about the war stuff
and meanwhile all three members of green day weren't even straight? the lead singer was openly bisexual. billie joe armstrong is very much a faggot. fuck you.
When somebody shares a quote by a famous author like it's something the author personally said and believed, but you know it was actually spoken by a character you're not supposed to like... 😐
one time I saw on Pinterest a cutesy little pink flowery image with the quote “‘as soon as I entered the house, I had singled you out as the companion of my future life’ -Pride and Prejudice” and like
“I’m not going to do the thing because I don’t view it as important.” ← Conscious decision made of your own free will.
“I want to do the thing because I view it as important, but trying to get myself to do the thing creates the same reaction as trying to put my hand on a hot stove would.” ← Executive dysfunction, a physical health problem that doesn’t answer to your own free will.
“Trying to get myself to do the thing creates the same reaction as trying to put my hand on a hot stove would. This must mean I don’t actually want to do the thing and I’m just tricking myself into thinking I do.” ← No, that’s still executive dysfunction, but you’re having brainworms about it.
and yeah. if 99.9% of jews denounce jvp and refuse to engage with them maybe they aren’t representative of us in any way and what you have on your hands, ladies and gentlemen, is internalised antisemitism and gross tokenism.
important edition: there’s a photo going around of a jvp activist wearing a talit like cape, tied at the front and all. these people do not know a thing about being jewish and they’re quite simply using a part of their identity (they probably don’t feel strongly about) to promote their own views “in the name” of a religion they cannot respect. for shame.
sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium
Francium IS a stupid element. It has a half life of 22 minutes and barely exists at all, only naturally occurring as a product of the extremely rare alpha decay series ²³⁵U ➝ ²³¹Th ➝ ²³¹Pa (𝜷 decay) ➝ ²²⁷Ac ➝ ²²³Fr (1.38% chance). There’s less than a gram of it on earth at any given moment. It has no uses to anybody and it isn’t even the most reactive group 1A element due to relativistic effects fucking up its electron binding energies. Stupid substance.
If you somehow asked a genie to get you a gram of Francium in a sealed vial so you could do an experiment with it, the genie would just give it to you because the enormous amount of radioactivity it produces would instantly vaporize the sample and cook you alive. Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse
fun fact: the labia is also homologous to the testicles, and the paraurethral/"Skene's" gland is homologous to the prostate, even being called the female prostate!
A visitor came up to me at work and thanked me for wearing a he/him pin and “being an ally to the trans community” and “how important it is that cis people normalize sharing pronouns” and BRUH I am SOARING rn
And transphobes still be out here saying “wE CaN aLWaYs tEll”
This just in: “Trans Man Rolls a Nat 20 For Stealth”
Parenting hack via my father: He was a single father and very stressed all the time. We were pretty crazy kids and getting us to do anything was a hassle. He made up a game to get us to eat veggies/try new things, where my siblings and I were bunnies and he was a farmer protecting his crops.
We would have to sneak into the kitchen and ‘steal’ his crops (cut up veggies that he put out for us), while he wasn’t looking (ie: making dinner/getting work done)
If he saw us, he would get really theatrical and ‘chase’ us with a broom, hollerin’ about pesky rabbits and all that, while we would run away and scarf down the veggies in hiding. Then the game would start again.
A carrot has never tasted so good.
(As an aside, I don’t know how he got any work done in the end, but I don’t know if he actually cared so long as we ate lol)
where the actual fuck has tiktok been to jump to the conclusion that the social benefits we have in israel as a country come from us tax payer dollars? we… also pay taxes. we pay a lot in taxes, like a whole lot. and we do not have subsidised groceries or housing if you live in a city and not a kibbutz. i know some of you haven’t heard the word kibbutz before october 7th but they were founded under a socialist outlook. if you live in tel aviv or haifa you don’t get those things unless you’re on social benefits like most countries have. our health care is socialised, meaning you pay a health tax each month and then get some things subsidies but not all. you pay money. you know.. for things. that’s how life works. i know it’s really really cute and trendy to start using antisemitic conspiracy theories again but why lie? find actual things israel does wrong and criticise them?? it’s really not that difficult i can give you a whole list of things israel does wrong. but “tAkinG mY hArd eArned MonEY” is not one of them.
the uk (a country that actually colonised others) has free health care. FREE. no money paid at all. in israel i personally pay about $40 a month for my basic health needs as a sick person and that’s on a good month i didn’t need to see myself to an emergency room. last month i paid $95 in health care alone not including health tax i paid off my paycheck that month. in the uk i would pay NOTHING. why aren’t you concerned the uk is stealing canada’s tax payer money to allow this to happen? oh because that’s completely ridiculous and not how tax money works?
almost every country offers public housing, each with their own bureaucracy and process to go through to get accepted. why aren’t you asking why your american tax paying dollars are going there? because that’s fucking stupid right?
you live in america. get your head out of your ass and stop a) inserting yourself into a situation that does not concern you and b) using nazi values and talking points on ur cute little tiktoks.
It’s worth putting some numbers to this. The top recepients of US foreign aid in the last fiscal year, in order of amount:
Afghanistan ($4.89 billion)
Israel ($3.3 billion)
Jordan ($1.72 billion)
Egypt ($1.46 billion)
Iraq ($960 million)
Ethiopia ($922 million)
Yemen ($809 million)
Colombia ($800 million)
Nigeria ($793 million)
Lebanon ($790 million)
This is separate from emergency aid packages, including whatever extra aid may go to Israel, which may be $0. (As of November 17 we have not made an emergency appropriation to Israel for the current situation. The bill which passed the House for it was rejected by the Senate.)
In any case, the regular annual appropriation for foreign aid is about $47 billion dollars from a budget that totals over $6.3 trillion dollars.
47 billion / 6.3 trillion = 0.07%
0.07% is less than 1¢ on the dollar.
If you pay $500 a year in federal taxes, 35¢ goes to other countries — all of the other countries we assist.
Foreign aid couldn’t buy a candy bar, let alone a healthcare program for anyone, including Americans.
Blocking the haters who have opened up their assholes to express the wet fart of an opinion that Jews are an unrealistic addition to a children's comic fantasy series whose major initial premise was a dude being turned into a llama ✌️
I would like to state that the Incan Empire lasted until the mid 1500s, and the Spanish Inquisition / expulsion of Jewish people from Spain and Portugal occurred in the 1400s, after which a contingent of migrants could have reasonably fled to the Americas on Portuguese trading vessels that were already operational in the region and moved to inland South America / Qusqu where the story took place.
Kronk CAN VERY WELL be not only Jewish but also a survivor of the Inquisition itself.
This is completely historically feasible and haters can eat my toes.
Boiling Frogs; I Think Leftist Conversation Is Headed Towards Riots
YOU AREN'T AS NORMAL ABOUT JEWS AS YOU THOUGHT
You're Giving Me Deja Vu
Wog, A Bad Word Made Good |Australia News - The Guardian Australia 13/OCT/2005
I don't know how to stress more strongly, and with more urgency, that in 2005 my country went from the GUARDIAN saying 'wogs are people Australians envy, because they have good jobs, food, houses and community... So much so that "wog" is a compliment now' ...
Second Night Of Race Riots | Australia News - The Guardian Australia 13/DEC/2005
To a multi-day pogrom, in the span of three months.
2005 is two years AFTER the release of Finding Nemo. Two years after you first heard "42 Wallaby Way, Sydney" Sydney had a Pogrom. The movie of that December was The Lion The witch And The Wardrobe.
All it took was a war in the news overseas, an altercation between some teens on a beach and the surf lifeguards, a false rumour spread by email, text messages and print... and a call to action.
I think about the misinformation landscape now compared to then, how much faster and how much more easily it would be to light the proverbial spark today.
Thousands came out to enact violence on "the wogs" they felt did not belong in "their country".
I cannot help but be constantly reminded right now, of what the atmosphere was like before the the tension broke back then. Your discussion of Jews in your home countries and internationally is the same...
Unless you take action to remove fuel from the conversation, then all it takes is the spark that ignites this fire.
i don’t care if when you say “zionist” you don’t mean jews. making fucking MERCH like this is gonna get you a LOT of revenue from people who DO mean jews. i am not being snarky when i say that there WILL be nazis buying and wearing this shirt.
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