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@ragnarokascendant

for reasons

Exhaustion. Anger. Heartbreak. And, yes, fear. But so much love. So much joy. So much laughter, even in such a scary time.

When I arrived at Powderhorn Park earlier today, the first thing I noticed was the sheer number of people pouring into the park from every direction.

The second thing I noticed was the voices and the chanting that was already happening at the other end of the park from the top of the hill.

The third was the method of…transport? For so many people who were arriving. You see, it’s Minneapolis. It’s Minnesota, in the winter, after multiple weeks of freezing rain and snow, melting ice banks and re-freezing puddles. So the hill was, ironically, covered in ice.

And they were sliding.

Dozens of people were sliding down the hill on their way to the protest today in honor of Renee Nicole Good. Even in the wake of so much rage and righteous anger, there was a moment for joy.

From the top of the hill in the distance, the cheers could be heard, “Say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here! Say it once, say it twice, we will not put up with ICE!”

And from the bottom of the hill behind us, we could hear laughter.

This is Minnesota. This is Minneapolis. We are love. We are laughter. We are community.

We are Good.

"Battle stations!", the starship captain cries. All of the translucent touch-screen control panels immediately retract to reveal synthetic wood-grain consoles covered in plastic toggles directly behind them.

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

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mormonfries

reblog if attacking fascism is really the hill you want to die on

this is literally like one of the most justified and honorable hills you could die on??? lol??

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lilithtransrights

Quick someone reply with the gif™️

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momusu-saval

Always reblog this if you are cool

Attacking fascism is 800% a hill I will proudly die on.

caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that's our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.

You know I hadn’t made this exact connection at first but something in my gut told me that people comparing ice to the gestapo didn’t quite feel right. This comparison does fit a lot better.

Exactly what I was gunna say, all the comparisons of this administration to Nazism has been striking me as Not Quite Right since the beginning. Something about it all has been giving me a bad gut feeling that couldn’t be addressed by all the comparisons to Nazi Germany. It’s been a gut feeling I’m sure has been passed down through the centuries by my native ancestors.

And I can see where they are coming from with the nazi comparisons, the playbook seems to be unchanged thus far, but thats just fascism. This administration with its talking points and actions are lacking the fundamental element that makes Nazis, Nazis. And thats the unashamed, unrelenting and overwhelming antisemitism. We aren’t seeing them blame all our problems and everything they view as a problem on jews, they’re blaming it on black and brown people; they’re blaming it on immigrants and political enemies instead of Jews and Judaism. To the point where they are trying to deport indigenous Americans off our own reservations. Thats a hate we’ve had here since Europe decided the Americas were for the taking.

This administration and its actions are MUCH closer to the violence and hatred that allowed this country to be built off of the backs of slaves and the deaths of indigenous peoples. This is a much closer and more familiar, and that’s because it’s our very own hatred that’s been festering in the background ever since we failed to properly punish the confederates. This feels like the hate that brought about the Nazis because it’s the hate that’s inspired them.

Theres a difference here, even if it all feels similar. We have to treat it like the home grown fascism it is and stop using comparisons to Nazi Germany so heavily to sum up what’s happening here, because there are some very key differences.

I love this blog so much for basically being an enormous library of interior background references but MAN. There is something Vile and Poetic about that saying being painted on the wall of one of the bleakest-looking school hallways I've seen in a long time. It's like that poem about the stars being painted over in landlord white. Incredible.

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

if the "Complaint" links are not visible for you:

  • Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn't track your data!)
  • Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints--and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" featuring the media you're looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).

personally, i'm a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.

^^^^what they said. I'm surprised people are still reblogging this post now that google's flushed itself down the toilet. so here is your

2026 UPDATE:

just go to r/FreeMediaHeckYeah and r/Piracy. it's easier, more reliable, and will take care of all your piracy needs!

In case people don't realize the full extent of what's going on, we are under siege in Minnesota. I live in an affluent, majority white suburb of Minneapolis, and ICE is all over the place terrorizing people. They showed up at the library, kitted out in their Temu tactical gear, and stormed it.

The library. Please let that sink in.

They've pulled weapons on legal observers and physically attacked them. They're threatening teenagers and children with death. One woman told a story at my, again, affluent, majority white suburban town's city council meeting this week of being shoved from behind so hard that she fell down by an ICE agent, who then said to her, "Stop touching me." A man, in tears and begging for our city government to do something to help our neighbors, described having a baton pulled on him. They're luring people out of their workplaces with lies about "hitting someone's car in the parking lot" and then abducting them. Citizens and legal residents are being detained. People are being racially profiled and snatched. A teenager (a US citizen) working at Target got dragged out and shoved in a car, then dumped a mile away in a Wal-mart parking lot, beaten up and crying. And all of this is after they murdered Renee Good.

I don't emphasize the demographics of my particular suburb to say "but this shouldn't be happening here, we have money!" but to illustrate that the Trump administration has declared war on a US state. Even if you stick your head in the sand because you're white and won't be directly targeted, ICE is running traffic lights, speeding, tearing the wrong way on one way streets, and causing nasty accidents because they think they're above the law. They think it doesn't matter who they hurt or kill, because they're being told straight from the top that they can do whatever they want to whoever they want.

We are all under attack, and this is coming to a city near you if we don't stand up to it. Please stand with Minnesota, as well as LA, Portland, Chicago, and every other place DHS has sent their COD cosplay gestapo. I don't know what that looks like for you but please, please, don't ignore this.

The bad driving is a form of terrorism. They want to cause accidents so they can blame it on the victims, and potentially cause more unrest. It really is just random acts against anyone in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Hey mootie 🫶 I just wanted to let you know that "-slop" has antisemitic origins

https://www.thereportergroup.org/features/on-the-jewish-food-scene-goyslop

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Smh 🤦🏾‍♀️ thank you for letting me know friend! will amend my post where I used it + quit using it going forward! 🩷

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oh damn ofc its 4chan again i cant speak for meriam webster but this one def slid under my radar even tho i had heard the term before i hadnt ever made the connection between goyslop and ai slop when everyone started using it to talk abt ai generated content damn antisemitism be everywhere i swear and the language for it always comes from the same handful of fetid rotten internet trenches

Ok, just gonne put this in the reblogs too, but it's probably already too late to stop the misinfornation train.

I'm sorry but the cause and effect in this are completely backwards. The word "slop" is derived from Middle English "sloppes" (ca 1440) and has been around several hundret years before the invention of fast food and also several hundret years before the first known usage of the word "goyim" (1841). The word "slop" does not originate from a recent conspiracy term, it is obviously the fact that this recent conspiracy term has utelized the preexisting word "slop". By the logic that "slop" is antisemitic, because it alledgedly is derived from the term "goyslop", the word "goyim" would also be antisemitic, which it clearly is not.

There is also nothing in this article that points to the idea that the term "slop" in general is antisemitic or even objectionable. The article only talks about the compound term "goyslop" and the conspiracy it references and makes no remark on the term "slop" whatsoever.

We should definitely make sure to not propagate or normalize hatespeak by accident, but we should do that by confirming where the words we use come from and not based on vibes.

I didn't say slop, I said "-slop," as in compound meme words that end in it. It is not based on "vibes." I listen to my Jewish friends and to Jewish people who’ve explained that these newer “-slop” meme terms are antisemitic, as it's used to imply degeneracy. I have confirmed it, by speaking with Jewish individuals. As a goy, I’m not going to argue that something isn’t antisemitic when the people affected are saying it is. Pushing back against minorities about the bigotry they identify is itself bigoted as hell

I sent the ask after one of my Jewish friends felt uncomfortable upon seeing someone respected saying it.

As a tip, willfully ignorant and misreading folks like @assortedinsanities can benefit from asking themselves a really simple question.

See, English has a word for shitty, cheap garbage that clogs up space and wastes resources to market ineffectually, and it's SPAM.

So!

Why is it being called "slop" all of a sudden, when it was called "spam" for decades without issue?

The answer is, of course, the deranged 4chan goyslop conspiracy about how Jews are making media worse to make to erode the ~naturally dominant intellect of the white gentile~.

4chan popularized "slop" as another word for "spam" specifically to encourage widespread hatred of Jews, and to create a new dogwhistle for recruitment.

Stop doing their work for them.

It's SPAM.

YOU CAN CALL IT SPAM.

The thing is, even ignoring etymology, in practice, the conspiratorial connotation of “goyslop” is still retained in the modern use of the shortened version.

The idea that goyslop communicates is that the Jews have conspired to feed you garbage to degenerate society and keep you down because they don’t see you as anything more than livestock and you’re going to take it because you’re a good little piggy. It’s the “goy = chattel” from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, trying to trigger the same aggrieved humiliation as calling people “cuck”.

That doesn’t go away if you change Jew/goy to something else or just leave it as an ambiguous “They”. “ai slop” etc. is still invoking the same conspiratorial, reactionary idea of a cultural degeneracy pushed by a cabal of “elites” feeding trash to their human livestock; it still creates the same humiliated aggrievement of “you’re a cuck/chattel if you accept it” that the far right rhetoric is trying to trigger, that they can use to funnel people down the pipeline.

The framing of this garbage as an intentional humiliation that compares you to livestock is not a neutral framing. It brings with it connotations and implications.

By switching from “The Jews” to “Them” this rhetoric isn’t actually divested from the antisemitic conspiracy theory. It’s still pushing the same conspiracist belief, while leaving a conspicuously Jew-shaped hole in the framing that can be used to manufacture an “a-ha!” moment where people start “Noticing” that maybe the Jews might fit into that Jew-shaped hole in the narrative.

also, no, “the first known usage of the word goyim” was not anywhere near as late as 1841. it’s literally in the Torah, where it meant the (non-Jewish) nations, and the modern meaning of just “non-Jews” had already solidified by the Hellenistic period, 300-30 BCE.

"the first known usage of the word goyim (1841)" is fucking SENDING MEEEE HELP

Maybe 1841 BCE is what they meant? *bitter joking*

“The protesters in Iran are burning MOSQUES!!”

Islam isn’t the indigenous religion of Iran. Zoroastrianism is. Islam only arrived in the 7th century due to violent conquests. Persians didn’t choose to convert from the faith of their ancestors, they were violently forced to.

What’s wrong, “free Palestine” crowd? I thought you guys supported decolonization???

Don't be silly. Everyone knows colonialism is only colonialism if it involves white people and boats. Otherwise it's just sparkling nationalism.

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. O 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”.

Power is a funny thing.

[attempting to flirt] if i was stuck in a timeloop id desperately explain my situation to you every single reset

Ever since reading my first time loop-based book as a preteen, I’ve had a Secret Time Loop Code Word. It’s been the same word all these years. I’ve never written it down anywhere or told anyone what it is, just kept it tucked away in my brain. That way, if someone I know ever confided in me that they were stuck in a time loop, I would have a way to confirm it: I would tell them the time loop code word and instruct them to find and talk to me again on the next loop. Of course, if it’s a time loop, I wouldn’t remember telling them the code word. But they’d remember it. So if someone ever came to me and said “I’m stuck in a time loop, and the time loop code word is [X],” and it was indeed the word I’ve secretly held onto for most of my life, I would know that we had had this conversation in a previous loop and that they were telling the truth.

Will this ever be useful? Almost certainly not. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with having a completely absurd contingency plan. In case of time loops.

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