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18 and unsure

[segamascott]

democrats in congress are currently berating trump for signing a ceasefire agreement because A. we shouldn't have given up just because we lost and B. how dare we be forced to pay reparations to the country we attacked for no reason just in case you had any hope left they aren't just as bloodthirsty and depraved as republicans

[lordnot]

Counting down the hours until the Twitter thread arguing how Kamala would have won the war if she was President.

[wingupingu]

when my parents ask how i impregnated that white trans woman and i have to explain what the great replacement theory is

[wingupingu]

crying

[prokopetz]

BRB, writing an essay arguing that, since the number of people doing character build theorycrafting is anecdotally much greater than the number of people engaged in active group-based play at any given time, Dungeons & Dragons in its modern form should properly be classified as a solo journalling game.

[wolf-paws]

oh. when i asked how big you were and you said "8 inches" i assumed you were just lying about having a huge cock or something. no no im not disappointed. the doll thing is cute. why would i back out of our date now. yeah you can ride in the front pocket of my pinnafore for the trip back to my place, of course :)

[armoredprincess]

preening an angel's wings feels precisely as good, and no better, than detangling their hair. of course anyone with long hair knows this is profoundly orgasmic

[plaidos]

i think everyone who likes you is poor

ok based as fuck

[plaidos]

reblog if you're poor and love trans women

[txttletale]

like i just think frontex is the best point of comparison for why ice/cbp under trump 2 are in fact like a significant departure and inducing mass opposition. and to be crystal clear i am not saying this to be like oh ice is Worse, murdering brown people is only bad when orange man does it. but like, frontex is responsible for huge amounts of death and torture, but because they are an efficiently managed organization with clear goals they are doing all that where well-heeled french and german people don't ever have to see it or more importantly be personally inconvenienced by it & that is in fact as far as political organization goes a very major and important difference.

when people say "kamala would have done the same" i just don't think that's true at all, i think harris would certainly have ramped up the brutality and violence, yes, but in a way that follows the european example--the reasons for, in the abstract, increasing this sort of violence are material factors driving the whole of the US bourgeoisie, but the choice to attempt to do so by deploying goon squads to random urban areas based on tiktoks is very obviously ideological, primarily driven by producing sizzle reels on X The Everything App for a very narrow circle of white nationalists even at the expense of radicalizing swathes of the population who would have been completely fine with the government doing the same thing out of sight and out of mind.

& again i think a lot of communists on here have overcorrected against the vocal liberal viewpoint by insisting that what's going on in the US is congruent or continuinous with US or global bourgeoisie policies and i just think that's obviously not true--frontex has not invaded amsterdam in the thousands to randomly smash car windows and tear gas middle schools, because the people in charge of it are intelligent enough to know this would in fact be a catastrophic setback to the (deeply evil) "fortress europe" agenda and mobilize a popular pushback against something which over half of europeans could likely not even currently name.

[meshugenist]

the funny thing is that from an political and artistic point of view the james cameron avatar franchise is actually significantly better than the nickelodeon avatar franchise

from a political perspective, both feature unresearched orientalist facsimile mashups of existing nonwhite cultures, but only the blue people movies take the explicit stance that engaging in anticolonial warfare and ecoterrorism against an invading settler colonial force and its imperialist extractivism is epic and righteous and justified, whereas the cartoon spends most of the first show being wishy washy and clutching pearls about revolutionary violence and then spends most of the next show caricaturing various left-wing ideologies and continuing to wag the finger at revolutionary violence

from an artistic perspective, the production of the blue people movies pioneered and developed genuinely revolutionary cgi/vfx techniques and underwater film techniques, the former in particular influencing the filmmaking industry to a massive degree, whereas the cartoons, uh, idk, showed western millennials that magic kung fu is cool? i genuinely can't think of anything legitimately artistically impressive abt the cartoon, the fight choreography isn't even very good compared to many examples of the wuxia and battle anime it's so heavily inspired by

lastly, from a reception perspective, while both media are very popular, it's rather difficult to find [ostensibly or actually] left-wing fans who are uncritical of the avatar movies. the dominant opinion seems to be that the films are a racist trainwreck in terms of their portrayals of native ppl, which is a much better basis for actually talking abt the content than the cartoon's inescapable reputation as some kind of diverse masterpiece. from this perspective, the ubiquitous crowing about how atla's impact and cultural presence (maybe for you!) eclipse's avatar's becomes hilariously ironic. i regret to inform you that your thing also sucks balls

this post is dedicated to the brave tulkun fighters of the eastern sea

[citizen-zero]

WIBTA for taking advantage of my boss’ possible manic episode?

I know this already sounds bad but hear me out.

So I (30M) am the sole employee of this guy (62M) who’s honestly just a miserable boss and an even more miserable person. It sucks so bad working for him—the pay is horrendous, he’s verbally abusive, and the working conditions are awful (in the winter I literally have to stay bundled up the whole work day because he refuses to put the heat on in the office). He wouldn’t even give me holidays off if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s basically nothing to do those days because everywhere else is closed. I’m almost positive he unironically thinks poor people should die if they can’t work. His nephew (aka his only living relative and just the nicest guy) came by yesterday to invite him to Christmas dinner and he told him he’d see him in hell.

I cannot stress this enough—it’s BAD. I’d quit, but it’s been hard finding a better job and I’ve got four kids at home, including one with special needs.

Anyway, so here’s where I’m wondering if I’d be the asshole. Today was Christmas Day and he showed up at my house out of nowhere (huge red flag, I know). At first I thought he’d forgotten I had the day off and he was here to chew me out, which was worrying enough, but then his whole demeanor changed and he was super happy and excited and talking about how he was going to raise my salary. He even mentioned possibly making me a partner in the firm.

Now if that was it, I’d feel a little weird about the suddenness of it but it’d be fine. I’m not going to complain about having more money to feed my family. But then he started talking about how he wanted to pay our mortgage off. He talked about wanting to pay for our son to get the very expensive medical care that’s probably going to save his life. He mentioned at one point that he was going to be donating a huge amount of money to charity too—I knew he was rich but it staggered me. All this from a guy who doesn’t (didn’t?) even want to turn on the heat or the lights because it costs too much money.

It was such a sudden and drastic change that happened very literally overnight and now I’m kind of concerned he’s having a manic episode or something. I really, really want to accept his sudden generosity (I probably will; my wife is all for it and thinks he owes it to us), and I would love to believe that he’s truly had a sudden change of heart (an actual Christmas miracle lol) but I’m just worried about the possible consequences of accepting huge financial gifts like this from someone who I believe might be experiencing some kind of break from reality. Even if there’s nothing legally wrong with it, I’m worried about the ethics of it.

TLDR, my asshole boss might be in the middle of a mental breakdown. WIBTA if I accepted his offer to pay off my mortgage and my son’s medical expenses?

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Update: I got the courage up to ask him about his sudden change of heart while my special needs child was napping in his lap (what), and he told me he was visited by three ghosts. So. Definitely not well. Still not sure I won't take the money.

[bunniope]

made this to own myself badly

[cross-entropy-dollthing-deactiv]

Wake up. Go to work. Pass by moron neighbours' ring doorbell cameras automatically connected to amazon sidewalk exchanging data freely within cameras that automatically zoom in on you. Get yelled at by someone over a ring camera's speaker for loitering in one spot for a little too long while looking out at the sunrise. Get to work. Get yelled by the manager for clocking in precisely 1 minute late. Get stalked by the manager and yelled at for taking too many bathroom breaks or for going 2 minutes over my 10 minute lunch break. Clock out. Go home. Check tumblr and see that strangers have amassed google docs detailing my friends' posting habits in an attempt to triangulate their locations, dozens of tgirls I knew terminated by targeted harassment campaigns. See my own self shared to who knows how many ultra-reactionary blogs run by labour aristocrats intent on securing their own class position at the expense of me and my friends. Check bsky, I'm not actually allowed to see anything on my feed because the laws where I live require me to enter in my state ID to use the site. Check the news. Random Venezuelan fishermen, mere dots in the sea, attacked and murdered by the USA for the purpose of provoking a response which can "justify" a full invasion, identified using the most advanced surveillance and detection technology in the world.

This is what a surveillance state really looks like, constructed at the grass-roots, corporate, and state levels to protect and advance imperialism and its capitalist base and patriarchy, especially in its current rabidly transmisogynistic form.

[soup-mother]

When the harpygirl protection militia forms you know I'm going to be illegally sending them money despite their official designation as a terrorist organisation.

[soup-mother]

When the harpygirl protection militia forms you know I'm going to be illegally sending them money despite their official designation as a terrorist organisation.

[maidthings]

settling into bluesky well

[sailatina2-deactivated20251222]

Here's a thing you whiteys like to do. You minimize racism to only its most obvious form. The only true racism is when you wear a Klan hood or when you say the N word. Addressing more subtle forms of racism? That's just silly! Actually, you're the one who's minimizing it here, because as we know racism is only its most extreme self.

Surely, I have nothing to gain by implying I cant be racist if im just polite enough.

[sailatina2-deactivated20251222]

You have to let a brown girl age regress. Give her a better childhood.

[blxxxp]

Raiding your sisters secret stash of hentai manga every day when you’re home and she’s at her after-school job, making sure to replace whatever you’ve taken the next day so she won’t know. You’ve taken and read through the volumes of siscon yuri so many times that some of their spines are becoming worn. Hopefully big sis isn’t paying enough attention to notice that.

This afternoon when you open the dresser drawer big sis uses as a hiding place and remove the layer of never used blankets that hide her stash you seen a new volume lying on top of the others. Recognizing the title you snatch it excitedly. It’s a new volume of an all sister x sister anthology. You take care not to let your excitement get ahead of you as you replace the blankets, shut the door, and quickly exist your sisters room. Once you’ve made it to your room, closed your curtain and shut your door you lie down on the bed and open the volume. Before you’re able to start flipping through something by falls out of the book onto you. You look down to see your chest is covered in Polaroids. Your heads skips a beat, does big sis have a hidden camera collecting evidence of you plumbing her spank bank? No that’s ridiculous, but what else could it be? You pick up one of the photos and steel yourself to look. Your mouth falls open as you see a picture of your sister, shirt pulled up with one hand in her bra. Another shows her clad only in panties, teasing their hem with her fingers. The dozen photos get lewder from there, and mixed in with them is a small notecard reading “Enjoy little sis <3”.