#Western bullshit

[slicedblackolives]

i love how the west's stance on covid is that it no longer exist or demands accessibility provisions or prevention measures or equitable vaccine distribution UNLESS it's to make China look like a biological warfare faring comic book villain

it's the word of one CIA dude (which is """classified"""") against peer reviewed biology studies btw :)

which us government? the one that thinks asking people to wear masks is conspiracy theory or a human rights violation? that wants to think lockdowns and prevention measures caused every bad thing to happen and not millions of people dying or becoming disabled from a pandemic? "US government does not have a consensus on the origin of covid" THE US GOVERNMENT DOESNT HAVE A CONSENSUS ON THE EXISTENCE OF COVID LMFAO

#America #western bullshit #covid #jesus fucking christ #if i were china id just nuke america at this point #i have not forgotten how they were reporting china's prevention measures #IS COVID REAL AND DANGEROUS OR NOT!!!!! #china is evil for spreading covid #so covid exists? #no 😏

[crowley1990]

I fucking hate the phrase expat. Why are we not just fucking immigrants like everyone else?

#western bullshit #jb

[driftingvoid-155]

I love thinking of fnaf 3 of Michael just using the intercom system to roast the shit outta his dad/ springtrap and that’s why he always looks so unimpressed by time he gets to the office. Like seriously Mike?? Really?? Calling me an ugly bitch was the best you could do? Have you looked in a mirror recently?

#fnaf 3 like a western where they shoot insults at each other instead of bullets #some sort of fucked up family therapy #they both hate each other but they’re also so used to each others bullshit #Michael’s finally just letting his mouth run free and say all the things he’s wanted to for years #and William finally gets to try and kill Michael without having to worry about the law #they both see it as a win #alls well in the Afton family #just a normal Tuesday for them #five nights at freddy's #michael afton #fnaf #William Afton #my hcs

[crazycatsiren]

The "pagans were one big happy family who loved one another before Christianity" crowd will be asked if they remember that an entire eastern half of the earth has always existed and no, they do not remember.

#witches of color #religious people of color #white supremacy #racism #westerners' bullshit #pagan persecution complex #pagan victim complex #witchblr #paganblr #white people's bullshit

[redtail-lol]

Hey

If you're Jewish, this post is about you

I know it's gotta be shit right now. Antisemitism is on the rise. People are using Israel's genocide as an excuse to perpetuate antisemitic ideas. If you acknowledge that you're Jewish, someone will take that as an excuse to accuse you of Zionism and supporting the genocide. Celebrating your holidays? Same result.

And then on the other side, if you try to speak out against the genocide, to stick up for and show your support of the Palestinian people, your own people label you as an Enemy, and an antisemite. Your own Jewish identity is ignored or denied.

If you say nothing because you've realized nothing you say seems to be the right thing, you're accused by everyone of not caring, or secretly supporting one side - any maybe you do, but you can't say anything because you can't win no matter what side you're on.

The entire world has been equating Judaism with Israel on both sides and it isn't fair. It isn't fair when Jewish people are being arrested for antisemitic crimes in Germany - making up 37% of arrests despite making up a significantly smaller part of the population - because they weren't going to be quiet about genocide after their own people were met with silence during the Holocaust. It isn't fair when Jewish people are vocally denouncing the actions of Israel and calling for an end to the ruthless bombing. It isn't fair when even some Israelis risk everything to speak out against the state and their horrible crimes. It isn't fair when Jewish people are simply existing as Jewish people, either. Even when they aren't "proving" their support, it's still unfair to make such assumptions about someone because they're Jewish

And if you're one of these people who's shown hostility towards Jewish people over Palestine when they hadn't indicated they supported Israel at all, fuck you.

#to specifically address one idea: #the jews control the media is bullshit and israel-palestine doesn't “prove” it #y'know who controls the media? The West. Especially America #the USA benefits from Israel's existence. the UK benefits from Israel's existence. Most major Western nations do #That's who controls the media #They're pushing Israel's propaganda #there is no secret top jewish society that controls everything #israel just asks the usa for help and we do so as a fellow imperialist state #jewish #judaism #israel #anti israel #palestine #free palestine #anti zionisim #jewish antizionism #antisemetism #if you're making leftist spaces hostile to Jewish people I'm biting you. don't do that

[y-rhywbeth2]

Previous mini rant brought on by me trying to make sense of how a Bhaalspawn can carry a divine essence, be stripped of that divine essence, and still be tainted by Bhaal but no longer have his divine essence or qualify as a Bhaalspawn anymore.

The definition of Bhaalspawn is a bit odd. The qualifier seems to be that you have a fragment (of varying size) of Bhaal himself hitching a ride within you, latching onto your soul like a parasite. When that's removed, you no longer qualify. Bhaal no longer whispers in your ear or haunts your dreams, or threatens to pilot your body. You can't become his avatar, or harness his divinity and channel it into divine magic. You cannot hijack that fragment and claim the Throne of Blood.

When Bhaal is removed, you are no longer a Bhaalspawn.

But you still fall into the same box as cambions and pre-4e tieflings: "Tieflings are aware at an early age that they are different from the people around them, and often have strange urges, desires, or needs because of their heritage." You're still "genetically" half-god: Bhaal's taint runs in your veins, and will pass onto your offspring. The "violent rage [still] pollutes [your] tainted blood" and you want to kill everything. On the alignment chart you are instinctually "pushed" towards the evil end. Sorcery seems to remain intact, so I guess that's falling more on the "genetic" side, like if your sorcerous ancestor was a dragon or demon. And this "genetic" divine component was kind of necessary, because fully mortal hosts tend to start dying when they're used to house Bhaal.

Bhaalspawn are not actually supposed to be able to exist/survive without that fragment. One who is separated this way is fundamentally aberrant and wrong to those with the senses to pick up on it (and their own): "[They] exist; [they] do not live. [...] [They] are nothing." Theoretically, the Gods can remove Bhaal from the Bhaalspawn, but as of 5e canon this is not entirely foolproof because Jergal and the Dead Three don't actually follow any of the goddamn rules, and Bhaal has tricked everybody into thinking one of his spawn was cleansed of him when they weren't before: "Bhaal’s vestige [is] still lurking in [their] mind" and able to exert some influence over their choices (which is apparently "canonically" what happens if Charname remains mortal at the end of BG2).

Also, weirdly, the fact that Orin and Durge's future hypothetical offspring count as Bhaalspawn carries the implication that Bhaal is involving himself with the babymaking process and placing fragments of his being into them. And why. Why do you make everything unclean, Bhaal.

#I was actually working on the demographics and various cultures present in Baldur's Gate/the Western Heartlands #I don't know how i ended up here #FYI around 78% of the Heartlands' population is human and only around 3% of that population would qualify as white #It's the unholy combination of lore inaccuracy and real world bullshit #You think I was complaining about the svirfneblin being mini drow just WAIT 'till I start on the humans and the whitewashing all over- #-FR products. #babbling #/durge #edgelord hours

[rogue-coyote]

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.”

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT / IM WESTEN NICHTS NEUES (2022)

#im westen nichts neues #all quiet on the western front #all quiet on the western front 2022 #erich maria remarque #filmedit #netflixedit #waredit #felix kammerer #asche edits #still on my bullshit. sorry about that (lying)

[goldiipond]

the word terrorist has lost pretty much all meaning to me because 90% of the time a white person says that word its used as a shorthand for 'nonwhite people resisting oppression'

#skye's ramblings #im soo fucking tired of seeing zionists spout their genocidal bullshit on literally any post abt palestine. im soo fucking angry #ive been trying not to have a meltdown on here but every day this continues i get more and more pissed. how many more people have to die. #we protest and scream in the streets and give anything we can spare and fucking nothing changes bc western democracy is a fucking scam #daily reports of brown children slaughtered and people will smirk behind the safety of their screens and smugly tell you they deserved it. #my native aunts and cousins who are still suffering from the effects of colonialism watch as the descendants of people who took everything #-use their tax money to send more bombs to an illegitimate state that is doing the exact same fucking thing in real time. i want to scream #god dammit im so fucking tired. i will never lose hope but god damn. i am so tired of white people feeling entitled to fucking everything

[whatever-you-can-give-me]

[ID: two images of wolfwood, from trigun 98 and trigun stampede, in similar fully sunlit lighting conditions, chosen specifically to show design similarities: light brown skin (98 wolfwood has a cooler undertone to his skin, stampede a warmer tone) a prominent nose bridge (more visible in the image of 98 wolfwood, straight with a slight curve) an open shirt collar, and a noticeably oversized jacket, as well as the way the punisher dwarfs their frames. End ID]

i’ve been thinking about the virulent unpersoning of stampede wolfwood again and while i’m not saying that criticisms of the stampede designs are complete unfounded. it’s not like studio orange was reinventing the wheel here. wolfwood is one of the most similar designs of the bunch, really, milly pending.

also. for the record. i’m not east asian so it’s not really my place to take this personally. but…

[ID: one of the earliest panels of wolfwood in the trigun manga, notable for the same oversized suit jacket as his later iterations and the way his eyes are drawn, almond-shaped and angled to imply a monolid, beside a photo of tortoise matsumoto (frequently cited as wolfwood’s main design inspiration) a japanese man in a suit with a wide smile and a prominent nose bridge). End ID]

[ID: a later illustration of wolfwood from trigun maximum, in color. his skin tone is closer to the reference of matsumoto above, with the same warm yellow undertone as stampede wolfwood’s design. his eyes are brown, once again with the almond shape and implied monolid. End ID]

…just something to think about, i suppose, next time the discourse carousel comes back around to various wolfwoods canon and fanon not being Of Color enough.

#trigun stampede #the more i think about this the more it bothers me #i love the hispanic wolfwood stuff but. the latin lover bullshit paired with the scoffing dismissal of stampede’s design as ‘white’… #the way racialized redesigns of wolfwood are often very sexualized in some. Um. loaded ways. #american/western perceptions of asian men vs latino men #it’s just. Hm. #nicholas d. wolfwood

[bloodycoolfrye]

Why West Asia chants "Death to America" 2023 edition.

#so this is the infamous Western Democracy🤔 #Excuse my West Asian ness🤗 #proud of my country for standing up against these assholes for years #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #anti imperialism #anti zionisim #anti bullshit #gaza genocide #death to america #You're going down bitch #long live the resistance #Because I don't condemn Hamas #long live palestine #end israeli apartheid #end this hypocrisy #end the genocide #لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله #الا ان نصر الله قريب #غزه العزه

[ohsalome]

russians spending their lifetime treating central asians as subhuman and only refering to them with a ch slur complaining about "russophobia" in europe

#literal ethnonationalist navalny getting an oscar #wagner soldiers getting refugee staus and book deals #russian mistresses having front seats on every chanel\dior\etc fashion show #russians speaking over ukrainians on every platform imaginable #russians capitalizing on ukrainian genocide and getting awards\grants for it #and westerners are somehow buying the ''russophobia'' bullshit and that those poor uwu blorbos are unjustly bullied by evil ukrainian nazis #as a russian proverb says ''a loch is no mammoth‚ he will not go extinct''

[yardsards]

the word "expat" is so annoying to me like. shhh you're just an immigrant who thinks that other immigrants are lesser than them

#eliot posts #there technically ARE subtle differences in the definitions of the two words #but that's not really how it's used it practice #almost all self described ''expats'' are white upper middle class usamericans/canadians/western europeans #looking up stuff about leaving the usa to go to other countries and just finding content by the Worst kind of white usamericans #this mf was talking about why he left costa rica after trying to be an ''expat'' there #and one of the reasons he cited was ''you have to learn spanish to get by'' #LIKE NO SHIT SHERLOCK #or the amount if people who complained they couldn't get amazon prime or that amazon was too expensive in other countries #how much bullshit are you buying on amazon that this is a serious factor in your life??? #(im looking at other countries in case shit in the usa gets too bad for existing as a trans person)

[thekanucklehead]

Funniest YouTube comment

And it’s true

#the good the bad and the ugly #sergio leone #ennio morricone #western shit #my bullshit

[hymnsofheresy]

the way we conceptualize time definitely influences our politics. human beings have the tendency to tell themselves stories about time, and how they fit within history. especially in the “western” world, people do not understand the past complexly. usually the past is understood to be monolithic in nature. this simplistic past is used to tell a story that informs our perspectives.

conservatives typically understand this monolithic past idyllically; the past contained a society that was pure and good. usually this understanding of the past is not tied to any particular year, rather a quasi-mythological era of “goodness.” conservatives see themselves as fighting against any (further) degeneracy. in order for goodness to persevere, any change that goes against the values of this supposed mythological past must be resisted against. change is embraced if it is seen to be “restoring” what has been lost to time.

progressives usually also conglomerate the past into one idea. the past is understood to be unequivocally “undeveloped” and therefore bad. progressives usually subscribe to the idea of the “line of progress.” humanity as a whole has improved; the present time is better than the past. our material and social conditions have universally improved for everyone. more optimistic progressives see the future as being inevitably “better” and “more developed” than the present.

now this isn’t universal. some conservatives definitely adhere to the “line of progress” and some progressives subscribe to the idea of the ideal mythic past. what is shared amongst these two groups is that the past is contained into something uniform and unvarying. this understanding does not see past as complex as it was.

i challenge you to see the past as neither “good” nor “bad.” the past contained billions of perspectives, people, ideas, things, laws, and movements. the material conditions of the past informed how people navigated the world. the relationship people had with their present environment generated how technology was produced and distributed. people in the past were intellectually as capable as you and me. they were also just as flawed as us. they were just as human as us.

we must accept that the human history cannot be contained into one narrative nor can it be fully comprehended. it is okay to accept that we will never understand the past in its entirety, and it is okay to admit that our perspective of the past is limited. in many ways the past is just as infinite as the present or the future.

#''western'' is in paranthesis because honestly west is just another word for white #i also would like to say #its not inherently bad to see the past as uniform #i think it can serve some use #however it is a limited perspective #anyway i am going to get off of tumblr eventually!!! #when my job starts and i am too busy to write this bullshit

[dougielombax]

Let me make something quite clear.

Conservative American Christians (at least evangelical hardcore Republican types) do NOT care about the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East.

Nor do they know or understand them (I’m no expert myself but I’ve read up a bit and know a great deal more about them than those ghastly fuckers! That’s for DAMN sure!)

This is equally true for their idiotic fascist counterparts in Europe!

I’d even go further and say that they DESPISE the indigenous Christians in the Middle East as well.

Perhaps viewing them as usurpers or pretenders.

The Christians in the Middle East who I refer to aren’t rich white evangelical types.

Rather I am referring to the marginalised indigenous Christians who have lived in the region for thousands of years such as Coptic Christians in Egypt, Assyrian people, Maronites, Melkites, Armenians, and Arab Christians.

These aforementioned American conservative far right fundamentalist grifters (and their idiot counterparts in Europe) have never cared about them. They never have, they never did and they never will. If anything they’d rather see them all die, probably.

They only use their plight as an excuse to fuel their own pathetic persecution complex.

When they know nothing of persecution and the suffering those indigenous Christians in the area have faced and continue to face to this day.

These people suffer and those aforementioned American types don’t care one bit, simply USING their suffering as an excuse to fuel their putrid, fascist agenda.

Only pretending to care.

All because they want their stupid end time Apocalypse prophecy (Rapture bullshit!) to be fulfilled. (Or just to prove their bigoted beliefs to be true.)

And can’t abide the fact that they won’t be able to control their grandkids (who they despise) from beyond the grave.

The European far right does much of the same, only they aren’t so much motivated by stupid anthropocentric apocalypse worship like their American counterparts as they are by pure anti-Muslim bigotry for its own sake.

(For instance. You see a lot of this from the Swedish far right, who have also attacked Assyrian refugees in their country.)

The point is, they don’t give a shit and only use their suffering to justify their own putrid persecution complex.

And they’d probably see them all wiped out just to validate their nasty feelings.

They don’t care.

They never have.

And they never will.

Feel free to reblog this.

#personal stuff #dougie rambles #vent post #political crap #armenia #western armenia #artsakh #Coptic people #Coptic Christians #assyrians #Assyrian people #Armenian people #Maronites #palestinians #persecution #bullshit #middle east #reblog this #melkites #christianity #actual persecution #persecution complex #fuck evangelicals #feel free to reblog this #signal boost #signal b00st #signal boooooost #reblog the shit out of this #please reblog this #somebody reblog this

[idiotlittleme]

I think the most annoying thing about living in the middle east is how much outside western-priviledged-idiots people try to "summarize" and / or "fix" our problems

You know this whole "middle east history in 3 minutes" videos? I HATE them.

Because no. You cannot summerize the history of all of the colonizations, wars, and overall atrosities that we had the pleasure of surviving since the fucking middle ages in fucking three minutes and to be honest it's kind of insulting that you are trying. And you know what? It just shows how little fuck you give on the people live here. Because there are kind of lot people out here. You cannot even mention all of the ethnic groups, religious minorities, cultures and sub-cultures of the middle east in three minutes, so to explain the story of each of them? Yeah right. Just shut up, it will be a better use of everyone's time.

Also the whole "general white dude(s) starting a new initiative to make peace in middle east" is THE WORST

Please can we have enough of this bullshit? I know you want a noble peace prize or just have a savior complex, and to be honest, I don't care. You clearly have enough racism, bigotry and discrimination going on in your own country, so why don't start there?

And at least if it were people who fucking tried. Who understood the amount of complexity of our cultural, political, postcolonial, social issues, then it would be at least a nice go. But no. It's always some fucking idiots who don't know shit. And it just makes everything worse for everyone here. But why would they care? It's not like they have to deal with the consequences, cause unlike most of us here - they get to fuck off as soon as things go bad.

And you know what? No. You can't know shit about what's going on here from watching the news for a couple of minutes or read one post on Instagram. SHIT HERE IS COMPLICATED. Want to know what the hell is going on? You need to actually engage. To read a lot, to hear a lot, to TRY to understand.

If we know all the shit on Hillery Clinton you can read a bit on Hammas and Benjamin Netanyahu before forming an opinion. (Hint: All sides are awful for local people living here & as human beings). But just repeating something you heard on some podcast 300 times on social media doesn't make you look smart. As least not to me.

Everything here is difficult. But this is my home. I just hope other people will stop setting it on fire because of their arrogance and ignorance.

#middle east #israel #palestine #western #western media #bullshit #war #local #rage #rant