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I am Stephen, master of cool! Gaze upon my posts, ye mighty, and say “wow, good taste!” Check out my about/interests pages! Bigots/TERFS/etc do not interact!

it's very interesting to me how much Tumblr users seem to love cowboys while generally having less-than-zero familiarity with westerns as a genre or the history of "cowboys" themselves. Like most of the read seems to come from rdr2 and overwatch and brokeback mountain gifsets. Which is essentially how American culture at large handles the open-ended and vague symbol of the Cowboy. And that vague, baseless, open-ended pretend-playing is gaining in broad cultural popularity at the same time as the sprint into abject fascism and country music taking its revenge on rap for being American Music for two decades. Also think it's interesting that people are doing that with "knights" while our "secretary of war" has a giant Jerusalem cross in his chest. That's a separate conversation but covers most of the same points.

There's this thing I keep seeing people do on here where they talk about European revisionist westerns (spaghetti westerns) as being these brutally racist genocidal fairy tales and it drives me crazy. Because they don't know the difference between westerns and revisionist westerns. Like yeah they're largely cheap italian-produced movies from the 60s. They can be crass and tasteless and problematique. But they're also movies where the "Indian" is the protagonist, and getting revenge for his people being brutalized. These are movies where the villains are industry-barons, plotting to steal land. Army officers up to no good. Post-confederate pseudo-klansmen. They deliberately create a complicated world to contrast classic westerns, and do so as external commentary on American culture. Americans didn't get it, but the so-marketed man with no name trilogy is a satire making fun of how brutal Americans are. These are super interesting movies. Sergio Corbucci was a fucking communist. He did Django. He did Navajo Joe. He wrote The Great Silence after he heard the news of Malcolm X's murder.

And I keep seeing people lumping them in with the fucking Searchers and Rio Bravo cuz they can't bother to learn the fucking difference, let alone ever watch any of the fucking things.

Wonder if someone said “Sweet Christmas” as an expression before Luke Cage existed.

I haven’t been on this app in a while, but I know a Black man, Keith Porter, was murdered by ICE on New Year’s Eve (Rest in Power) in Cali. Just one of the countless Black people who’ve been murdered by ICE and other agents of the state.

I log back into this app and see the conversations around the white woman, Renee Good, who was just recently killed. And I can’t help but notice the stark difference in circulation of news and boosting of stories between both of them across this app…

Shit has BEEN happening to Black people across administrations and is currently happening to Black people under this administration, and is met by crickets. Yet when it starts touching white people, I see real anger start being felt from the gen pop followed by amplification and co-opting of Black terms and memorialization… I stg it takes everything in me to give af about yall.

**Edited: linking a gfm for Keith

***update: the gfm is unavailable. Will post an updated link as soon as I have one (removing the link until then for less confusion)

*** updated gfm link verified by Keith Porter Jr’s grandfather

What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for the other 2 million people to die, including me, my family, and everyone I love?

Is there no one on this planet who can stop the Zionist army? Is there no one to speak out? Is there no one to help the two million people dying in all sorts of ways before everyone's eyes? Imagine yourself in my place, your country, and your family being killed, starved, and besieged by this land-stealing state. What would you do if you were in my place?

I don't blame one person; I blame the entire world. I will not forgive anyone who failed to help us, whether by speaking out for justice, supporting us, or in any other way. Her life doesn't belong to anyone. We deserve to live like the rest of the world's people, and Israel and America have no right to control us whatsoever.

I am one of two million people struggling to survive this genocide, along with my loved ones, and to live a peaceful life. Therefore, I implore you to help me. Donate without hesitation; your donation will help me more than you can imagine. I live in rented accommodation, and the monthly rent is very high, not to mention the cost of food and drink. Please, give me a donation that will help me achieve my dream. Please help me.

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ok real quick one more time. i know this is gonna get me shit again but i have to say it.

we all understand what will happen if we continue to use pedophillia as a gotcha for things we dont like, right?

we all understand that we are reinforcing the same ideology that gets queer people killed right?

RIGHT???

All im saying is: when the JLA goes back to not having everyone be a member again, id like for Terrific to be a member.

Sometimes i rewatch the Mr Terrific action scene from Superman just to feel something.

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