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White Zoomers were raised with more exposure to other people's cultures than literally every single white generation in history before them, and they chose to be white supremacists (both of the Republican and DSA variety) for the clout.

afurioushawk

Why is the Arab guy pulling crowds 98% white? Why is he especially having a problem with Black voters?

shofarsogood

His crowds are overwhelmingly white in DETROIT. In a very Black city, his fans continue to be white people who don't live in the area. I'm not going to say that they're astroturfed or anything, but it's super suspicious when all the fans are white in a city that is so Black.

littlegoythings

Attacker discussed 'violent jihad' with friend from mosque who is now convicted of espionage, plotting to storm UK Defence Academy on assump

The terrorist who carried out a deadly ramming and stabbing at a Manchester synagogue last year also planned to attack a UK military academy, believing Israeli soldiers were studying there, British outlets have reported, citing prosecutors.

It is unclear whether any Israeli officers were studying at the school at the time of the plot.

This dude had his brain fried by conspiracies, gauranteed.

trangoldin

starcrier

and you know what? i am REALLY sick of these ads that are openly mocking people for being concerned about the products they’re selling.

Amazon’s super bowl ad where the Alexa mocks Chris Hemsworth for being worried about giving spy software control over his entire life. Waymo’s ad with the intro “the robots are coming!” mocking people who are rightfully extremely concerned about sharing the road with, or riding in, self-driving cars.

i don’t know, it’s just genuinely insane to me. “Oh, you have legitimate concerns about our shitty product? sounds like you’re just lame!!!” like what kind of “quiet part out loud” marketing is that?

starcrier

so this post blew the hell up — which is i’m sure a sign that things are very normal and fine and none of us are remotely frustrated by this kind of thing — but it’s given me time to think about how to articulate the SECOND thing that pisses me off about these ads, which is that they don’t even bother to address the concerns.

i feel like any normal ad would go, for example, “i know you’ve heard that this shaving cream might give you cancer. but it doesn’t! and also it smells nice!”

but THESE ads mock you, and then go “anyway, your concerns are invalid because our self-driving cars that run over children at crosswalks have heated seats!”

it reminds me, in a much less comical way, of that scene from Emperors New Groove when the angel and devil on Kronk’s shoulders are having a debate, and the devil goes “don’t listen to that guy, because look what i can do” and then does a handstand. Only these are real-life commercials. That they expect you to take seriously.

dollbandcry

how do people hatewatch things, i can barely find the time to read and watch all the things i actively want to, how the fuck are you putting time aside to watch an entire season of dogshit telly thats just gonna make you mad

thekalpar

My spouse and I were talking last night and the jeans problem came up so I want to talk about it with tumblr here.

The jeans problem was the favorite lecture one of my philosophy professors in college gave about the history of jeans and how it ties into capitalism/mainstream culture absorbing and monetizing any counterculture it encounters. So prior to the 1950s jeans were mostly an item of work-wear that you wore on the job as a farmer or factory worker or miner because they were cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. If you were off the job you'd wear what we'd call now dress pants or slacks. This changes in the 1950s when youth culture start wearing jeans as regular clothing, again because they're cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. But then jeans get absorbed by the culture and we start getting designer jeans, acid-washed jeans, pre-ripped jeans, and now we got people shelling out hundreds of dollars for "povertycore" aesthetic. And now jeans aren't even cheap, durable, and hard-wearing.

This came up because my spouse was talking about thrifting and spooky things (two of her favorite things) and how there was this trend of buying a landscape painting from a thrift store which was probably going to end up in a garbage dump and painting a sheet ghost on it to make it art millennials would like. But now you can go to Michael's or Home Goods or wherever and just buy a landscape painting with a sheet ghost on it, mass-manufactured by a corporation. The counter-culture once again being monetized and absorbed by the culture. It's the jeans problem again.

littlegoythings

Inscription outside Nazi leader's family home in Braunau am Inn reads: 'Never again fascism. Millions of dead remind us'

onlytiktoks

random-fandom-place

Get this lovely info to the homeowner and any others that very well could be impacted by this. Reblog to cast. Like to charge. Reblog to cast.

fuckthisshit-ugh

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

roczath

Supporters of India’s youth-led Cockroach movement demanding educational reforms and government accountability say they will continue their

AP News coverage as of July 21.

elaienar

An alleged paper leak, an unprecedented nationwide retest and mounting political pressure have thrust NEET, India's medical entrance examina

Millions of candidates face biometric checks and frisking as air force deployed to secure exam papers.

More than two million aspiring doctors took India’s NEET examination. However, the test was compromised and cancelled.

Here's some reporting on the NEET.

pippastrelle

The more I hear people "reject" redemption arcs, the more... genuinely uncomfortable I get? Sometimes people hurt you and you want to stay angry at them and that's a completely human response but "If you've hurt someone else, there is no way to make things better and you need to die" is actually a horrifying opinion for people to say so casually.

chutzpahchesed

theresherhymes:

I watched Mamdani's video last night, and I honestly haven't been able to stop thinking about it.

I'm scared.

I don't think people understand what it feels like to watch an elected American leader speak about the Jewish state the way he did, repeating some of the worst accusations imaginable as if they're simply accepted truth.

History didn't start with violence.

It started with people believing libels and conspiracies about Jews.

The Nazis convinced people that Jews were a racial threat. Today, I see people convinced that the Jewish state represents a unique moral evil. Those ideas don't stay confined to Israel. They shape how people see Jews.

That's what scares me.

I have kids. I never thought I'd look at the world they're growing up in and wonder if history is starting to rhyme in ways I never imagined I'd see in America.

Maybe that's hard for some people to understand. But for Jews, it's impossible to ignore.

This isn't the kind of fear you just talk yourself out of. It's the kind that settles in your stomach because you've spent your whole life learning how quickly hatred can spread once people become convinced that Jews are uniquely evil.

8nin

"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

chutzpahchesed

Alex Ryvchin's visit to the Bondi massacre site turned controversial when he faced abuse. Discover the details of the incident.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin was allegedly called an “evil Zionist” while visiting the site of the Bondi terrorist attack with Sydney Swans players and club leaders.

The confrontation occurred at about 4.15 pm on Wednesday at Archer Park, where the group had gone to meet members of the Jewish community and hear from one of Ryvchin’s colleagues who survived the 14 December 2025 massacre.

The incident was first reported by The Daily Telegraph, whose reporter witnessed part of the exchange.

Writing on Instagram, Ryvchin said the woman recognised him and asked: “Why are there Zionists here?”

When he asked her to repeat the comment, she demanded to know what an “evil Zionist” was doing at the site.

Ryvchin said he challenged the woman over her behaviour and asked whether she understood where she was standing. He said the abuse continued in front of his colleague, who had been shot at that location during the attack.

Police officers who were patrolling the park noticed the confrontation and intervened.

NSW Police told The Daily Telegraph that officers spoke to those involved and that no further police action would be taken.

The woman told the newspaper’s reporter that she was a local and recognised Ryvchin from his television and media appearances. The reporter described the confrontation as “quite hostile”.

Ryvchin said the incident was particularly disturbing because it occurred at the massacre site, in front of a survivor and within sight of police.

He said it was a reminder of the experience of Jewish Australians and the increasingly brazen nature of antisemitism.

The Swans representatives had visited Archer Park to engage with the Jewish community and hear a first-hand account of the terrorist attack.

During his evidence to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion today, Peter Wertheim, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, referred to the incident. He described it as an example of the current climate facing Jewish Australians.

He said two colleagues were at Archer Park, Bondi, when one was subjected to verbal abuse “right at the site where 15 innocent people were massacred”, despite police and media being present.

“That’s the kind of social environment we are living in at the moment,” Wertheim told the commission, adding that public commentary by some elected members of the Australian Senate was feeding sentiments that lead to such incidents.

alexryvchin:

I encountered this woman today at Archer Park, the scene of the Bondi massacre. My team and I arrived with players and leadership from the mighty Sydney Swans who wanted to engage with the Jewish community and learn more about the terror attack from my colleague, who survived the massacre. Upon seeing me, the lady declared, “why are there Zionists here?” I asked her what she said and she responded that she wanted to know “what an evil Zionist was doing here.” I asked her if she knew where she was standing (she did) and how she could be so stupid and inhumane. And on she went in the place of a Jewish bloodbath in front of my colleague who was shot at that very place. The fact that this occurred at the massacre site and in view of police who were patrolling the area is a fresh reminder of the Jewish experience in Australia in our time and the brazen nature of degenerate antisemitism.

sprinkledsalt

Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-secu

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And I can already picture the anti-anti-AI people saying “but racism existed before AI—!” No shit, but it’s bad to have AI models spit out shit based on the biased data that it’s fed (this isn’t the first time AI models have fed into prejudice due to being given biased data, either), and the issue is that when AI is seen as this objective, infallible truth that you can’t question, it validates prejudice in the minds of idiots.

redstonedust

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

melanqueerly

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

phinarei

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

joyandotherstories

Reblogging to keep the accurate definition and examples of queerbaiting circulating in the world

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