Freak of the week

I may post some random bullshit here.

[brattylikestoeat]

[canarycontessa]

I couldn’t stop thinking about this cucumber salad, so I finally caved and made it 😋

I subbed the white sugar for local honey, added some fish sauce and rice vinegar (in addition to the white)

Imma let it chill in the fridge for a few hours while I do my workout, a castor treatment on my scalp and some chores.

[canarycontessa]

I say this with no exaggeration:

THIS SHIT SLAPS.

Still has great crunch, not at all soggy, it's got that umami flavor going. The only thing is I should have been more heavy handed with the chili pepper.

[eminentsound]

Recipe in text form:

8 persian cucumbers

0.5 cup green onions

2 tbsp garlic

1.5 tbsp white vinegar

2 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp sesame oil

1 tbsp korean chili flakes

1 tbsp sesame seeds

1 tsp sugar

Slice the cucumbers, pat dry, and toss with salt. Let sit for 15 minutes, then rinse off salt and pat dry again. Combine ingredients in a bowl, toss, and store overnight in the fridge.

[emeraldmercury]

I want to make this

[ig-88r]

Jesús H Christ, look at the time it is

[king-cracker]

i dont get it

[callmebliss]

[paxamericana]

[cookingwithroxy]

At this point, I’m certain it’s because that the people in question don’t REALLY think their arguments are convincing on their own, so it’s just an excuse to dodge out of the situation.

[askinnyblackman]

dems were like “$2000 checks, immediately” then they were like “okay so not IMMEDIATELY immediately. first we’re gonna put on a big show to impeach trump even though he’s not even in office any more. also those checks are gonna be $1400 now. also we failed to convict trump. also we forgot about the checks. you good though, right? anyway we’re going on vacation now. please keep voting for us :)”

[askinnyblackman]

also remember when we said we were gonna help you out with your student loans? yeah we’re not doing that either

[askinnyblackman]

hey i know we said we were gonna fight for a $15 minimum wage but see what had happened was is that we decided that we are going to not do that. but what we DID decide to do was give huge subsidies to private health insurance companies that are already making record profits. can’t afford medicare for all or paid sick leave though, sorry :( y’all be easy!

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

“Hey I know you wanted us to pull out of the Middle East but this one guy called me a bitch so I drone striked a whole province ;) anyway how are you? You guys like our dogs?? No, they don’t have dirt on them! (Yet)”

[golden-toast-99]

I don’t get why US presidents love bombing the Middle East.. like they just start bombing us and then hope people don’t notice. Honestly I’ve lost all my respect for Biden at this point. 

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

You had respect for Biden? Wack

[mornington-the-crescent]

[phydwyck]

Post like this are designed specifically to make you think that your participation in the system doesn’t matter. Then that happens, it allows the people with money and influence to get what they want.

1. Learn how government actually works. Not how it should work in a perfect world, but how it works today, in reality. Get educated and consider the bigger picture.

2. Don’t just complain about things, do things.

3. Winning an election isn’t the end of the game. It’s the beginning.

4. Maybe the politician you supported isn’t 100% aligned with your goals. Maybe they are only 60% aligned. Keep in mind that they candidate they beat was 0% aligned and was actively trying to pull back on your 60%.

5. Don’t get hung up on the people that made a compromise to get something done and focus instead on the ones who forced them to compromise.

[gholateg]

Or to... you know.. point out how a political body has repeatedly promised things and walked them back once they’ve gotten in power and to not lick their taint every chance you get.

Maybe to not hold these people up as some kind of savior when they’re literally bombing people into the ground and eroding your civil liberties.

But yeah no. That couldn’t be it.

[plebeiantologist]

ok but have any of you thought about pacific rim from the perspective of the precursors 

it’s like. you just bought a new house, but it’s infested with termites, so you call the exterminator thinking “alright, yeah, just get those termites gone and then we can get moved in” 

the exterminator drops off the face of the planet. you never hear from them again. so you send in another, and you just keep sending them, and it’s always the same. you’re wondering if there’s something up by this point. 

and then one of them comes back, battle-torn and bedraggled like “THE TERMITES HAVE BUILT HUMAN-SIZED CONSTRUCTS OUT OF SAWDUST AND SCRAP WIRING AND ONE ESTABLISHED A PSYCHIC LINK WITH ME.” 

by this point you’re saying “what the entire fuck.” 

so you call in the best of the best, the Elite exterminators, and guess what? the termites slaughter them all in a coordinated assault, and then come to your house disguised as one of the exterminators and set off a pipe bomb in your garage. 

man, that’d be a trip and a half

[kyidyl]

Yeah but I’d probably leave the termites alone after that tho.

[squaredcirclebaby-deactivated20]

[drst]

Don’t forget a whole lot of the people who worked for Reagan (who understood very little of any of his policies, between being not very bright and the dementia) also worked for both Bush White Houses.

[thefreakynigga]

This man’s grave deserves to be pissed on for the rest of eternity

[memescomedy]

[necrobob]

That’s not quite true. The reporter behind the story, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was murdered.

[bigger-and-sharper]

Not just murdered, that could have been coincidence.

She was murdered with a fucking car bomb.

That’s not a botched robbery or a serial killer, that’s a professional assassination. Someone with money and political power, someone you might have voted for, planned and paid for this homicide.

An international group of journalists still collaborate to continue her work. It’s called The Daphne Project.

[brazenautomaton]

Communism is the ideology whose adherents are wrong every single time about every single thing and interact only with their own smug posturing and their own bloodthirst, but nobody’s actually allowed to notice that, and you must be a bad person if you notice that, and the only reasonable thing is to keep taking the things Communists say at face value no matter how many times they have been proven liars, bullshitters, and idiots

because they will not stop and will not be made to stop

social power is burning us from both ends and we cannot form the intent to put the fire out

[cookingwithroxy]

The major flaw with Communism is that it’s a Utopian world view. And Utopias are, by definition, impossible. They all require some form of a perfect world to exist before they can even be tried.

The issue with communists is that they presume that the world can be perfect if everyone just TRIED and it’s your fault that it’s not.

[sindri42]

Honestly, Communism would work perfectly if everyone just tried. The problem is, if even 5% of the population isn’t willing to make this work, you need violent enforcers to keep it running. And if even 0.1% of the population wants to exploit the situation for personal gain, the communist system is set up for them to make the rest of the population into their slaves with virtually zero effort.

That’s why every successful communist community has been less than 200 people, and every nation-scale attempt at communism has led to genocide within a decade.

[yokelfelonking]

Even the majority of communism’s supporters aren’t willing to make it work.  How rarely do you see socialists say “I know I’ll have to work hard under the new system, but it’ll be worth it because I know the fruits of my labor will go to people who actually need it”?  (Pro tip: it won’t.)  And how often do you see socialists say “we need socialism because the fact that I actually need to do work in order to live is bullshit”?

[sindri42]

Yeah the mentality of the typical upper class american communist is a big part of why communism won’t work on a large scale, because they’re the exact kind of people who will refuse to put in any effort to support their comrades unless forced to at gunpoint. If you’re unwilling to work now, when that effort immediately and directly results in rewards for you, why would you be willing to break your back toiling away for strangers with no clear reward?

The secret is of course that they don’t expect to be in the farms or the factories, they expect to be the top party officials, living a life of luxury on the backs of the millions of slaves they’re exploiting.

And really that’s the refrain we keep coming back to with american “activists”. The politician who’s preaching Black Power one day will turn around and call somebody on the n-word on television the next because he dared to vote for somebody else. The pundit who’s 100% in favor of the “peaceful protesters” burning down the houses of poor people will flip around and call for them to be shot if the mob approaches his own gated community. The same mayor will campaign as “tough on crime” one year, and then make speeches about how all cops are bastards the next, all while standing behind a dozen armed officers. They’ll say whatever it takes to make you feel all empowered when you support them, so long as you never question their authority and keep giving them wealth and power at your own expense, because they honestly believe that they are superior to the unwashed masses and deserve to be on top of everything.

[thefoxof86-deactivated20220707]

[evetheealien]

You all have brain worms

[evetheealien]

Look you cant. hate children. Theyre some of the least autonomous people on the planet. They have very little control over their surroundings and what ppl do to them. Theyre scared and annoyed and the really short ones cant even open doors, so you can imagine the stress theyre under. And the younger the child the freakier it is to hate them. Oh an uncomfortable and hungry baby cried on the bus? You cried in the second floor girls bathroom in highschool every day whats the difference? A baby doesnt know shit. Its a BABY. Do you think its going out of its way to bother you or to smell funny? Its. a baby.

Also like. if youre an adult chances are kids think youre some kind of genius especially if youre in a leadership role. I was a girl scout jr troop leader for years and the girls thought I was president or some shit.

And if you still cant wrap your mind around it just think like. every time youre mean to a kid you sound like Harry Potters mean uncle or whatever

[evetheealien]

You are not “baby” you are a 26 year old loser with a negligent parent related trauma that needs unpacking

[theliterarywolf]

A whole lot of people in the notes who don’t realize that while you very well can dislike being around misbehaving children, basing an entire aspect of your personality on detesting them and blaming others for not going along with it is pretty...not great...

[tranarchist]

Remember the TERF group that spent £40,000 on a full page ad attacking trans rights in the Metro newspaper, which was apparently funded by US-based conservative Christian groups?

Now they’re boasting on fb about encouraging random men and “gangs of lads” to commit violence against trans women.

TERFs will claim in one breath to be against male violence, while with the other they incite this very same violence against the women they hate.

[bintilleil-deactivated20200510]

handing out propaganda to men and encouraging them to enact violence upon already oppressed people in order to supposedly “protect their wives and children”… not like that’s such a common and exclusive tactic of reactionary hate groups that it’s a hallmark of fascist organising or anything 😬

[radicalecks]

TERFs aren’t just silly internet weirdos with regressive beliefs; they’re a hate group with a very clear mission statement in removing trans people totally from the public sphere if not eradicating them entirely. Their politics are inherently violent and they will seek to enact that violence whenever they get the chance.

It’s not just internet discourse. This shit has a bodycount and they’re looking to increase it.

[butch-with-a-tortoise-deactivat]

THIS

Also it’s worth noting especially given that they worked with conservative groups

That there is a 14 word sentence on the front :/

[hazeldomain]

Uhhhh so if you’re out telling men that they need to beath the shit out of women who aren’t feminine enough, you’re not pro-woman.

[whoisshe777]

[thefreakynigga]

I went and checked in the new so-called furry website upon hearing of the new drama and

furry antis are some of the most hypocritical people in the planet: Exhibit A 

[shadewriter13]

What drama are we talking about?

[thefreakynigga]

new furry site says they’ll ban all feral porn from it, this fucking disaster of a poll happens and the people vote to not ban 90% of that content lmao

bonus: the admins apparently refused to ban a group of literal nazis because they didn’t do anything (yet) and got ventilated by the mob

[thefreakynigga]

I went and checked in the new so-called furry website upon hearing of the new drama and

furry antis are some of the most hypocritical people in the planet: Exhibit A 

[above-average-gravy-deactivated]

Wait, what’s the drama now? Just more anti BS?

[thefreakynigga]

>FA admin says that fictional zoophilia is allowed in FA >people have a collective meltdown >this new furry site called Furry Life Online comes up and says they will ban “feral content” >people flock to it as if it’s the second coming of Christ >they make a poll to see what should be included on the ban >this fucking disaster happens because people apparently think “feral” isn’t just a quadrupedal body type

Bonus: Apparently the admins said they wouldn’t ban literal nazis, thus causing all the people who were happy about the feral porn ban to turn on them instantly and eat them alive.

Valuable lesson: Your actions have consequences

[disclaymore-deactivated20230920]

trump said eat the rich

i cannot believe

[disclaymore-deactivated20230920]

hello????

[takineko]

The left staring to realize Trump is the most left leaning conservative president we’ve ever had

[fonchi262]

What dimension of chess is this???

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

This isn’t chess anymore it’s darts and he’s just throwing them everywhere on the politcal compass

[rrraaalllllllllyyy]

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

I don’t know how to tell you guys this, but it IS possible to dislike income inequality and have a desire to raise people to a higher standard of living WITHOUT seeing the solution as “eat the rich”

[mint-corset]

You’d be surprised how many people would be confused by this statement….

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

it’s the same kind of shit with “climate change”.

You can agree with the science without coming to the conclusion that the only possible solution is fully dismantling our current economic and political systems.

it’s like a classic “bait n switch”: You’re concerned about X, right? Then you must realize Y is the only way forward. Wait, you don’t think so? Then you must really not care about X after all!

[buuuluska]

Dude kids have been so brainwashed to believe socialism is the answer that they get offended over a simple statement.

[sindri42]

If you look at the exit polls on presidential elections, the lowest income brackets and the highest always vote democrat, while the middle of the income scale votes republican. The super-rich almost always vote blue. If people thought about the reasons behind that a little more…

well, if people actually thought about politics we would have a third party in office by now.

[politijohn]

[thefreakynigga]

abolish private prisons please

[gowongeef]

hey since louis tomlinson admitted that larries made him and harry’s friendship fall apart and dan howell said phannies digging into his relationship w phil made him experience ptsd symptoms and brought him to a terrible place, can u all stop w the shipping bullshit now

[lavender-luke]

psa: shipping real people is not only harmful to their mental state, but also harmful to their personal relationships, and writing sexually explicit fanfiction about people that exist in real life is creepy as well, and needs to stop. celebrities do not exist for your fetishization of them, and we need to start realizing that. you would not be comfortable if someone wrote a sexually explicit story about you, so why would a celebrity be comfortable with it? just because they’re famous does not mean you’re allowed to sexualize them and violate their privacy. 

[belles--rose]

Save this shit for fictional characters. Don’t treat real people as if they’re just constructs for our amusment.