ICE fucking abandoned the scene in a Minneapolis neighborhood and left their battle plans and designs on the city, fake license plates, and challenge tokens which they reward themselves for arrests. Looney Tunes shit.
"Demonstrators investigating the abandoned ICE vehicles apparently retrieved these “challenge coins” that ICE mercenaries receive when they kidnap people. This “coin” is decorated with a skull wearing a crown. ICE mercenaries serve king death."
hello whta the everloving fuck is this are ICE just cult members who believe themselves to be some kinda assassin creed shit?
It’s Nazi paraphernalia
Rashmi at the start of ucbg is too real because you have this huge realisation about yourself, the key that unlocks the door to self love. you can finally accept that the life you always wanted is actually possible after all, that you are not doomed to always hate yourself and per reflex reject anything that seems good out of fear for corrupting it with your abominable touch.
you are ready to actually begin to live, for everyone to see you for who you really are and for them to understand that the weight that's been crushing you for your whole life has finally been lifted. hello world! i am free! i'm a woman! don't you see? i'm not doomed to misery after all! everything is alright now.
but of course your life did not actually begin just now with this realisation. and all the people that you've shut out, that you've been cold and cruel to in the fog that was your life until now, are not unhurt by your realisation. and they do not understand that the person that you were yesterday might as well be dead, because he wasn't you. that was just a shade that carried you to this moment of rebirth. and now you have to shoulder the burden that your past self set up through negligence and self-loathing.
and you want to go "please! can't you see that all that stuff doesn't matter?? I'm a woman! do you understand what this means??" but you never let anyone in close enough to understand this. you're not starting over from zero, you're indebted to your past.
...fuck
Something so disgusting about how the original Haitian zombie folklore is "the zombies are victims of a sorcerer who exploits them as slaves" and then modern zombie media is "the zombies just appear from an infection that turns Real People into a rampaging horde serving no other purpose than to threaten Civilization" like.
The Haitian zombie is very clearly metaphorical for the very real horrors of slavery, while the viral zombie is fundamentally about "what if there was a type of guy it was completely okay to kill and you got to exist in a survivalist fantasy as a Badass, also when infrastructure collapses it's every man for himself and altruism goes away"
And isn't it super interesting to think about that in the context of historical US-Haiti relations?
Also there's many of them and they spread and become innumerable hordes who invade your town but also you can kill hundreds of them because they're individually weak and stupid
A completely disorganized horde of weak, uncoordinated, literally feral humans that a Real Badass can take out by the thousands, but they somehow overwhelm all the regular people and cause the collapse of society. It's up to the Great Men to fix the problem. This totally isn't a fascist fever dream.
And this is what we get instead of stories that go something along the lines of an evil, powerful individual or group of individuals turning people into zombies, while a resistance movement fights back. Which would be rad as hell actually.
This is why "zombie apocalypse" stories are so popular among conservative men.
Personally I always thought that the zombie story was a metaphor for toxic, exploitative group psychology, just like vampirism. When there are only a few of them, they're vampires; when they are everywhere, they're zombies.
Like, we're surrounded by all these people. Are they...
- neighbors,
- friends,
- co-workers/comrades,
- lovers, or
- a resource to be exploited, i.e. food
Treating other people as food is a complete net negative, because at the end of every interaction you have less people (or you have a shell of a person, a thrall) but sadly many people are so desperate and incapable that they can't engage in any kind of net-positive mutual interaction.
So, they resort to predation - eating people, either a little at a time or wholesale.
Zombies can't feed themselves because they're too animalistic to make any kind of long-term planning. And, interestingly, while vampires are charming and clever, they also can't feed themselves - they can't do anything useful enough to another person that they could get blood via trade.
And you don't see the problem with regarding whole groups of people as "too animalistic" to be "useful" to other people, which makes them ok to shoot in the head? You don't see the inherent fascistic nature of that view?
Something so disgusting about how the original Haitian zombie folklore is "the zombies are victims of a sorcerer who exploits them as slaves" and then modern zombie media is "the zombies just appear from an infection that turns Real People into a rampaging horde serving no other purpose than to threaten Civilization" like.
The Haitian zombie is very clearly metaphorical for the very real horrors of slavery, while the viral zombie is fundamentally about "what if there was a type of guy it was completely okay to kill and you got to exist in a survivalist fantasy as a Badass, also when infrastructure collapses it's every man for himself and altruism goes away"
And isn't it super interesting to think about that in the context of historical US-Haiti relations?
Also there's many of them and they spread and become innumerable hordes who invade your town but also you can kill hundreds of them because they're individually weak and stupid
A completely disorganized horde of weak, uncoordinated, literally feral humans that a Real Badass can take out by the thousands, but they somehow overwhelm all the regular people and cause the collapse of society. It's up to the Great Men to fix the problem. This totally isn't a fascist fever dream.
And this is what we get instead of stories that go something along the lines of an evil, powerful individual or group of individuals turning people into zombies, while a resistance movement fights back. Which would be rad as hell actually.
This is why "zombie apocalypse" stories are so popular among conservative men.
Every douch that upholds the "egg prime directive" needs to watch the episode "Homeward."
Of course, if you think Nikolai is in the wrong then you're hopeless.
If you think that you can't reach out to save someone, even if your inaction would result in their death, then you beleive some people are destined to be killed and it's wrong to save them. And that makes you a monster.
I NEED TO SHOW THIS
INTOLERANCE
god, I hate bluesky. It really is just twitter 2.0 (derogatory)
Not that tumblr is any better. Only reason I'm still here is because my account is smaller so I don't have to deal with as much of this bullshit.
I think we're missing something about abstraction.
Like, we don't really know anything about the previous people to abstract; Ribbit, Kaufmo, Kinger's wife, or Stitch. But, we can see who's the only one abstracting right now: Jax
The one that's maliciously sarcastic, intentionally isolationist, and mean. He's the only one that's abstracting right now. Despite having been in the Circus at least as long as the others, except Kinger whose actually been there longer than anyone else.
Like, sure, Kinger's mind has clearly been damaged. He has memory issues and often is kinda like a child. But he's not abstracting. He's also the kindest person there. Despite losing his wife, despite losing his mind, he still has absolutely no malice in his heart. He only feels compassion for everyone around him, his heart is open to them.
And we know that at least 2 of the previous people to abstract were freinds with Jax; Ribbit and Kaufmo. So it's at least safe to assume they were probably just as jaded and emotionally withdrawn as Jax.
Its safe to say that the Circus does damage a person's mind eventually, like it clearly has to Kinger. But I think theres at least a possibility that the key factor that causes people to abstract is emotional isolation.
What I'm getting at is: I think The Amazing Digital Circus is saying that the only way we can survive is with the support of others. None of us can do this on our own.
Y'all gotta stop painting bigotry and xenophobia as being rooted just in "stupidity."
Malice and stupidity go hand-in-hand, they're conjoined twins. One cannot exist without the other.
But in the case of bigotry, malice always comes first. The stupidity only follows because the malice doesn't make sense, but the bigot needs it to make sense. So they willfully choose stupid ideas to justify it. But they know these ideas are stupid, they just don't care. Because it's their malice that is important.
So pointing out how stupid it is to ban the teaching of Plato because of "gender ideology" is pointless. They know it's stupid, they don't care. Relying on pointing out how stupid it is doesn't accomplish anything. Because malice is very comfortable with stupidity.
I'm really gonna need people who claim to care about gender inclusion on sports to stop saying "trans people" or "trans kids" when they mean trans women and girls.
Just for example before anyone gets annoying about this:
These are direct from the WKF (world karate federation) "Transgender Rules" document.
Here are there requirements for trans men to compete in men's divisions:
Obviously annoying but basically they're asking for a doctor's note that says go for it and that's it.
In contrast, these are the rules for trans women:
(yes it spans 2 pages) They are demanding that any trans woman who ever wants to compete at any level have transitioned hormonally before the age of TWELVE. They're looking for invasive information about someone's puberty stages (which if any girl was able to transition that young, what are the odds she can prove it??). They require regular testosterone testing and require you to be at a level under that of some cis women FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. This policy clearly is designed to make sure that trans women will never be able to compete in women's divisions; these standards are simply unrealistic and absurd. And I didn't even include all the rhetorical justifications earlier in the document about all the biological advantages "males" supposedly have.
By the way, this doesn't only apply to the sparring competition (which is "skin contact" not full contact fighting), but also to the kata (forms) competition which is entirely non-contact and truly has no need to be gender divided in the first place. And this isn't even a professional league—it's all amateur except for an handful of people with sponsorships. It's not even an Olympic sport except for once in 2021.
If you truly cannot see a disparity here or you feel like justifying this in any possible way then you are not an ally to trans women and you don't actually believe in gender inclusive sports. This is what structural transmisogyny looks like, and this is why we need to be fighting specifically for trans women and girls and not just "trans people" generally.
Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.
I was thinking this yesterday as I was scrolling youtube. A video from one of thos horrible "AI" """"archeology""""" accounts was recomended despite me clicking the "do not recomend this channel" on that account twice before.
'femboy' is just a slur for trans women. it is a term only for us to reclaim if we so choose. if you're TME and calling yourself a femboy youre ignorant and a transmisogynist. not only are we not allowed our own culture, we don't even fucking get the right to our own hateful and reductive caricatures. they're not 'femboy programmer socks' for fucks sake.
can we please acknowledge that tma/tme is a meaningful distinction? a justice of the US supreme court is openly saying that it's legal to discriminate against trans women because the same laws do not target trans men. the transmisogyny is what makes it permissible. your transphobia is fine as long as it has carveouts for men.
I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.
I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.
reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world
I didn't have a smartphone until I was an adult with a mortgage because they didn't exist before then.
I'm 39 years old.
This shit is so incredibly new.