A Door on Other Time

Title is from Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories". Handle means "storyteller" in Nahuatl. This'll mostly be about pop culture, linguistics, philosophy, history, and other things that interest me, but also about writing.

[tlaquetzqui]

[miss-rum-hee]

Half the quote tweets on this tweet are just dragging her ass for saying this. Love to see it.

[miss-rum-hee]

It is Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Heck, men and women who try to talk about men's issues in a non-mainstream feminist way get a lot of harassment and death threats.

Including actual feminists.

They have for decades.

[moderncincinnatus]

It’s odd to me how much black people focus on having black people portrayed in such a such way etc

Growing up I never cared who was what race in media

Mace windu was cool as shit, I didn’t care that he didn’t look like me. Jackie Chan was great and funny and everyone in my very white school would talk about his new episode Monday morning

It’s just odd

[the-davest-of-uncles]

Hell, the characters I liked didn't even have to be human. Yoda. Artoo. Spock. HAL-9000.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Samuel L Jackson, Wesley Snipes, Jackie Chan and Jet Li made up about 30% of my childhood. I never cared that they didn't look like me. None of the white actors looked like me either. I was a kid. Adults were these giant things that were separate from me. I never watched a Lethal Weapon movie and thought, "All these white characters should be dorky and love Star Wars and have parents who work for a corporation because I can't relate to them any other way". This obsession with seeing yourself in all fiction is narcissism on a cultural scale.

[tlaquetzqui]

I can think of exactly one exception—Dr. Radek Zalenka, Stargate Atlantis—to the rule that Slavs are portrayed as drunken losers, communist spies, or gangsters.

[mapsontheweb]

Soviet concentration camps in East Germany, 1945-1949

Soviet concentration camps in East Germany, 1945-1949

[generallemarc]

Reblog to trigger a tankie

[tlaquetzqui]

Or anyone else who labors under the delusion the Allies were any less bad guys than the Axis. (“How can you expect us to say that about our veterans?!” The same way we expect Japanese and German people to say it about theirs.)

[unaffiliatedpangolin]

The only reason why socialists want to defund/abolish the police is because they view it as an obstacle to acquiring power.

They don’t have a problem with police, they just want the cops to be ideologically aligned with their ideology.

It’s why we saw them immediately set up borders and cops in places like the CHAZ/CHOP and set up checkpoints in Minneapolis when the actual cops moved out.

[tlaquetzqui]

Marxism 101: the non-socialist state serves capital. The workers must create parallel institutions—“workers’ states”, the dictatorship of the proletariat—in order to wage the class war and defeat capital.

[percival895]

“I am not a conservative. I’ve never been a conservative. Hayek was not a conservative.” “We are liberals in the true meaning of that term: concerned with freedom. We are not liberals in the current distorted sense—those liberal with other people’s money.” Milton Friedman

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

This is why terms like conservative and liberal are ultimately meaningless. Hydrogen is hydrogen, no matter where in the universe you are, no matter when in time you are. An electron is an electron. Conservative and liberal, however, mean radically different things depending on where and when you're discussing. There's no consistent definition. Even allowing for the fact that they're relative terms, it's still difficult to get a consistent definition. Even within a fixed and definite context, they mean different things to different people and so without further qualifications, they are useless.

[torix-gaming]

There is, in fact, a very concrete definition of liberalism.

This was, at one point, a separate from ai definition. But alas, here we are.

The same does not apply for conservatism.

This one is specific to the US in the here and now. Liberalism never changed.

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

But if you say liberal, people think leftist. At some point, we need to recognize the definitions people use.

We still need to add a qualifier like Classical Liberalism to make it a meaningful term. Liberalism basically means wanting to change the established order. When the established order was the divine right of kings, liberals believed in consent of the governed. Since the 20th Century, however, the liberals were commie scum devoted to getting rid of individual rights and limited government.

[torix-gaming]

People being retarded doesn't mean the definition doesn't apply.

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

Your definition is still valid, but the vast majority of people will be thinking of leftists, not Classical Liberals. I do try to speak in a manner that people will understand what I mean.

Also, the imprecision bothers my neurospicy.

[torix-gaming]

But that's just it, this isn't my definition, this is the definition. And that's why I refuse to call leftists liberals and regularly make posts reminding others that they're not.

I believe the quote is "Be the change you want to see in the world"

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

Messrs. Merriam and Webster say there are multiple definitions.

Definition of LIBERAL

inclined to be open to ideas and ways of behaving that are not conventional or traditional : broad-minded, tolerant; of, relating to, or fav

[tlaquetzqui]

Classical Liberalism murdered more people for being monarchists than Franco and Chiang Kai-shek combined murdered for being Marxists. You do not want to be a liberal, by any definition.

[severeobjectfun]

Dear teen girls,

Stop abusing your boyfriends and yes what you are doing is abuse.

Stop:

Yelling at him in front of his friends 

Hitting or slapping him when he does or says something you don’t like

Telling him he doesn’t have a choice when it comes to decisions that involve both of you 

Telling him he can’t hang out with friends because you don’t like him

Telling him to not talk to other girls even if they are his friend

Forcing him to spend every moment with you 

Belittling him and pointing out all his flaws

Calling him stupid or making fun of him for making a mistake

Threatening to break up with him if he doesn’t do what you want

Being emotionally manipulative and crying until he does what you want

Accusing him of cheating every time he’s not with you

Blow up is phone if he doesn’t text you every five minutes 

Telling him you are the must thing that has ever happened to him and no one else will love

Physically attacking him when ever you are mad

Forcing him to have sex despite that fact that he said he didn’t want to

Invading his privacy by going through his phone

Getting mad at him for changing his password and demanding he tell you what it is

If a guy did any of these things to a girl it would be considered abuse but since its the other way around its considered normal. Throughout High school I saw many girl treating their boyfriends like shit. Sometime even physically abusing them in the hallways and no one trying to stop it because its a girl attacking a boy. 

Boys: If your girlfriend does anything on this list leave her. It is abuse and you deserve better.

Girls: if you find your self doing anything on this list to your boyfriend you need to knock it off because you are being abusive. 

[dynastylnoire]

!!!!!!!! My brother was abused by his babies mom and it started like this and escalated to child abuse and neglect.

You don’t deserve to be screamed at, ignored, or assaulted.

Not showing affection when she wants or not hugging her before class) or missing a phone call doesn’t warrant getting cussed out or hit.

[fvlani]

Lol, I lost 5 followers from reblogging this. That’s fine, y'all can go

[onlyblackgirl]

Whole lot of grown women do this too.

[engel-tier-deactivated20180213]

Just wanna throw these in too

Being passive aggressive with him when he wants to spend time with friends or doing other things 

controlling when he’s able to go out with friends

Breaking up his friendships with other girls just because you’re insecure

Making him feel like his opinions in decisions that affect the both of you are irrelevant and don’t matter

SENDING HIS NUMBER TO STRANGERS TO TEST IF HE’S LOYAL OR NOT

testing him in anyway in general without his knowledge or permission (example: catfishing! it’s manipulative and weird don’t fucking do that)

taking money/credit cards without permission to spend on things without his knowledge ( had an ex friend do this constantly to her boyfriend and she’d always condone it because “he’ll get over it” )

guilting him for hanging out with friends/family over you  and making him choose between you and friends/family

telling him “you don’t love me if you *insert harmless activity he wants to do here* “

being rude or mean to him in front of others to assert dominance or power over him

downloading apps to spy on his phone activity (yes, this is a thing “”regular”” people do) or snooping on his social media to see who he’s talking to

hitting him, slapping him, punching him, shoving him. literally how do people not understand slapping your male partner is bad. people tend to find this funny in media and society and its weird. KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF YOUR PARTNER WITHOUT PERMISSION. 

I come from a family of very forward and manipulative women and i see it in media all the time. it’s fucked and people need to not be accepting of young girls acting like snot-nosed, abusive shit heads that think they can get away with manipulation and cruelty because they happen to be girls.

[alwaysbewoke]

and let me add this. ABUSIVE TEEN GIRLFRIENDS TURN INTO ABUSIVE GROWN ASS WOMEN GIRLFRIENDS WHO TURN INTO ABUSIVE WIVES.

if you have an abusive teen or young adult gf right now fellas, leave. don’t let her use you to get her shit right. you’ll be so fucked up by the time she gets it together if she ever does and believe that most likely she won’t.  

[spoonmeb]

Can i just add that ive seen young queer girls do this to their girlfriends. Girls can be abusers and you are right to leave. 

[purpleandpinkhouses]

Women/young girls can definitely be just as abusive. I knew a young man that got ran over and had his leg broken by his girlfriend because (in her words he annoyed her) He refused to press charges. Another young lady started to hit her ex boyfriend because he wouldn’t take her back because of the abuse. He called the cops on her and they literally started laughing at him because she was very petite in comparison to him. Anyone can be abusive and I wish more people understood that.

[madhattey-deactivated20211019]

dammit I’d spam my blog if i reblog this more than once but dude this is really important.

[ayeshapoptropica]

Oh my god. This is so important.

[papi-chulo-bucky]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[stormstone42]

If you actually think that women can’t abuse men, you’re a threat to society and to yourself, and you need to be dealt with.

[tlaquetzqui]

Statistically, girls/women are much more abusive—probably not because of some intrinsic trait, but just because boys are the only ones who ever really get told not to be.

[houstontiger]

[xxx-theartofsuicide-xxx]

The idea that children are expensive luxuries is elitist propaganda. If you have one friend with a child just slightly older than yours, you have a hand-me-down connection. Me? I have three of those. My child wants for nothing. Mountains and mountains of clothes and toys, everything she needs. Even if you don't have a hookup, people give away bags and bags of free children's items all the time all over the internet.

The figure that elites throw around to scare the peasants out of reproducing is based on the assumption that you are going to outsource the entire parenting process to institutions (the way many of them do); daycare, private school, tutors, nannies, college. It is a figure that removes the mother (both parents, but mostly the mother) from the equation completely and treats the child as if it is a nuisance that can only be neutralized by throwing money.

[cringey-queer]

capitalists: ‘you just hate capitalism just cause you’re lazy and dont wanna work’

me:

crazy thought - i DONT wanna labor away and never truly experience living my own life?

[anarcho-skeletonism]

[bransrath]

[emmaubler]

These are always funny to me because they don't want communism--they want to be royalty. They don't want this life of leisure for everyone, because their electricity, food, plumbing, appliances, medicine, etc., aren't going to just drop out the sky. Someone is going to have to work and work hard to provide for them while they contribute nothing to anyone, like the indolent spare heir of monarchy. They're just trying to cloak their parasitic desires in benevolent mask.

[the-grey-tribe]

Simone Weil pointed out that the soul-crushing, alienating nature of assembly line factory work persists when the factory is worker-owned.

[tlaquetzqui]

I mean…sure in the sense that doctors and lawyers still have days when they’d rather not get out of bed and go to work, but that’s what status “the factory is worker-owned” actually represents: the professional. The professional and the proletarian may do the same work but their statuses are as different as the sharecropper and the rancher.

[susanoos-wife]

The average leftist is more likely to punch a jew than they are to punch a nazi and that's why leftism will never succeed in producing anything of value.

[tlaquetzqui]

Also leftists murdered a literal order of magnitude more people than Nazis.

[1americanconservative]

[itsthebrokenheartthatdecides]

I'm making a "Babylon Bee has gone legit" tag this is happening all the time now.

[generallemarc]

No, this is just bigotry. "People hate this demographic because this demographic is inherently evil" is always retarded, no matter what.

[justinccase]

It’s not bigotry if it it’s pattern recognition.

[generallemarc]

The first line of defense used to justify bigotry. "No, it's different, this time the entire demographic really is inherently evil, look at the dozen or so examples I've got to prove the inherent immorality of over a billion people!" They said the same thing about blacks and crime, and they're saying the same thing right now about Jews and whatever tankie propaganda is being churned out this week. You're no different.

[tlaquetzqui]

“Make war upon the unbeliever, even the Christian and Jew, until they either convert or pay tribute and are subjugated.”—Quran, 9:29.

The terrorists aren’t fringe, they’re mainstream. The Islamic Great Commission is a call to genocidal imperialism. “Muslims are murderous conquerors” is no more a bigoted statement than “Catholics believe the bread and wine actually become Jesus”. A Muslim who is not a murderous imperialist is like a Catholic who denies the Eucharist.

Arabs are not inherently evil. Neither are Germans. But Muslims are evil, or they are bad Muslims: just like Nazis are evil, or they are bad at Nazism. Because Islam is not an immutable characteristic, it’s an ideology. The only difference between Islam and Nazism is Nazis weren’t pedophiles and their race-purity rules precluded using the women of groups they were genociding for captive breeding.

Anyone who does not hate Islam like the NAMBLA for Nazis vileness that it is, is a genocide-denying rape apologist.

[greek-mythologies]

Adding to that his statements that he wanted actual modern Greek to sound like a foreign language to people who are (supposedly) Greek, do we have to make it clearer why we demand Greek representation at this point?

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,383:

Ngl, ever since I've discovered how to add images to AO3 comments, I've had to resist the urge to take screenshots of tags to use as replies to someone bitching about a ship or topic in the fic

[nerdylibertarian928]

[oldgayjew]

While the West moves slowly towards Sharia Law ... ...Christians around the world die at the hands of Pseudo-Islam infidels ...

[tlaquetzqui]

“Pseudo-Islam”? They’re 100% mainstream.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,395:

"Proship just means anti-censorship and anti-harassment!"

Then just say you're the latter two, because at this point, proship is just synonymous with pedophile.

[nerdylibertarian928]

The only people who call proshippers pedophiles are antis, who are often predators themselves way to tell on yourself

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,394:

When the writers are so focused on their female character being in a commanding/leadership role, but make her into an abusive/domineering prat or have the commands she issue so self-absorb and/or stupid that if they were to occur in real life, people would have DIED. AND she gets no punishment for it.

Is this on purpose? Are you doing this on purpose? Are you trying to poison the well? 😭

[tlaquetzqui]

“If this character were a misogynistic satire on the idea of women as leaders…how would it be different?”

[uhzzurago]

바보세마리

[tlaquetzqui]

If you wondered, the sound effects say, top to bottom, “shuk shuk shuk”, “shu shuk”, and “shu shu shu shuk”.