#shifting blame on victims

[furiousgoldfish]

When abusers pretend you actually control their actions during the abuse it's almost laughable, you're doing this because of something I did? Really? I control you? I decide what you do? In that case get down on your knees apologize for what you did to me. Cry and beg for forgiveness and spend next 10 years repenting for your crimes. No? You won't? Then maybe I don't control what you do. If I did I know what I would be making you do.

No victim ever controlled what their abuser did to them. If they did, they would have stopped the abuse before it even started. No abuser abuses because of something the victim did. They do it out of their own volition, nobody forces them. The victims have zero responsibility for any act of abuse towards them. No victim deserved it. No victim wanted it. No victim was in control. Abusers take control both of themselves and the victim, then blame the victims for the crimes against them. Do not buy into their lies.

#victim blaming #shifting blame on victims #abusers #psychological abuse #darvo #victim shaming #pretending victims can control abusers

[balkanradfem]

religion will be like, it's because women talk to animals and eat fruit that childbirth is so painful, and the soil so hard to work! Not because we took away all of the midwives and created horrendous agriculture practices

#anti religion #blame shifting #victim blaming #radical feminism #anti christianity #anti patriarchy #pro midwife #pro no-dig gardening #anti agriculture

[unholy-fabray]

I have Thoughts about Quinn's treatment in season 3A and the way media often portrays punk subculture

I always hate it when "dressing punk" is somehow a symbol of a character going off the rails and becoming a bad person - as if the character was once a pure, innocent lamb who lost their way and strayed to a life of immorality just because they dyed their hair. Why is the punk makeover never a sign of empowerment? A sign that a character has chosen to go against oppressive social expectations? That they are choosing themselves and their own freedom and bodily autonomy and self-confidence?

Like, most punks and goths I know are genuine, empathetic, and respectful people.

Yes, Quinn was clearly struggling with her mental health and was lost during season 3A. However, I hate the response of everyone around her being "oh my god, you died your hair pink and you're wearing black, I can't fathom anything more disappointing". After everything this girl has gone through and been told, time and time again, that she is a disappointment and "not enough", here she is doing something to give herself a sense of control and belonging and empowerment and being met with yet more puritanical bullshit.

I wish we had had more time with punk!Quinn. And, more than anything, I wish her punk era was seen as, at least in part, positive and empowering.

#I am especially upset with how Will and Shelby approached her with anger and victim-blaming instead of concern and compassion #like a sudden 180 shift like that is a clear cry for help. the girl is struggling and has a fuckton of trauma at 17 #plus zero positive stable adult figures in her life #quinn fabray #max rambles #glee #skank!quinn #glee season 3

[rottenlittlefink]

It may hurt for a while, but journaling and shadow work is one of the most effective ways to detach from and stop fearing the old story and to stop seeing yourself as a victim of your own life

#neville goddard #law of assumption #manifestation #reality shifting #self concept #bleats #I didn’t realize I had been doing shadow work since getting into manifestation tbh! #it’s been rough at first but I feel so free since I started confronting my deepest darkest fears #and I stopped letting other ppl’s fears and insecurities be my inner voice #i feel amazing #I promise it’s so worth it #ngl it’s still hard sometimes but I’m so fucking Determined #this isn’t me saying that trauma and awful things happening to you is your fault fuck that victim blaming bullshit #sometimes awful things just happen

[cleromancy]

if i neverrrrrrr have to see another dumbass post like this itll be too goddamn soon

like. fundamentally. as a person. tim cares when people die. because he cares about people. even if he didn't care that robin died for its own sake, and he does care about robin, he would care because dick and bruce cared. every stupid unfunny joke about "actually he should be glad jason died" is so blatantly just throwing every other robin than dick under the bus like come ON its 2023 can we not just get on the same page that legacies are good actually. im going to break into your kitchen and make a mess of your pots and pans.

#its especially annoying bc #i could talk all day and night about how dick is tims favorite person ever & about how compelling the like #shift from 'jason died for this uniform' to 'jason got himself killed' would be if it had been done deliberately and not as like part of a #greater victim blaming narrative yk the whole classist reframing of jason as the bad robin who deserved it #like all of that is stuff that interests me. this? this is not fucking that #this is flattening everyone involved into a chaticature for ur unfunny jokes to tear down everyone except your fav who is fucking. #already at the fucking top of the pyramiddddddd #i also fucking hate ppl who are like 'fanon is bad i think it should be more like canon where *thing that was never even remotely in canon*' #like shut uppppp shut up shut up shut the FUCK up

[tinyfantasminha]

Are you ever just chilling on twitter and see the most atrocious take ever with over 70k likes that just makes u want to delete all of social media and never engage with humans online again

#toxic romance books are RUINING teenage girls cause they will want to be abused! #SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCKUP #no one WANTS to be abused and reading problematic fiction doesnt enable someone to be abused #its so much easier to shift the blame to authors and fiction than it is to blame real abusers for their abuse am i right #they dont really care for teens or any real person in fact they only care about censoring media they dont like #if you truly cared for teens safety you wouldn't treat them in such a dehumanazing and infantilizing way as if they have no common sense #get out of here with your mysoginistic victim-blaming shit ugh fuck you fuck you i hate puritans so much #vent

[apollos-boyfriend]

schlarklez fic where they go get the captain neutered as a date 💞

i take my previous post back. maybe this Shouldn't be a regular occurrence.

#muse talk #anon #SLASH SILLY LSDKFJ #this is like. the culmination of so many different bits. and honestly i have no one to blame but myself #but i'm a bastard so i WILL shift it onto you guys instead. i WILL victim blame.

[bwhitex]

Democrat Party is The Party of Collective Narcissism

Recent footage from a CNN interview provides a compelling case study for the analysis of collective narcissism within group dynamics or political entities. This clip, serving as visual evidence, encapsulates the quintessential strategies that are indicative of such collective behavior. Specifically, it illustrates tactics such as changing the subject, blame-shifting, projecting, playing the victim, gaslighting, minimization, and rationalization. These strategies are emblematic of a group’s or political body’s tendency to mirror the behavioral patterns commonly associated with individual narcissistic personalities. The application of this framework to the observed interaction within the interview offers a deeper understanding of the underlying psychological mechanisms at play in collective narcissism.

Introduction

Collective narcissism is a psychological phenomenon where a group possesses an inflated self-conception, dependent on external validation and praise. Members of a collective narcissist group often exhibit selective outrage, particularly sensitive to criticism aimed at their own group while readily pointing out faults in others. For example, in the political realm, one might observe a collective narcissist group emphasizing historical racial injustices perpetrated by whites, holding white individuals or groups to rigorous standards of accountability for past and present racism, while simultaneously dismissing or downplaying the group's own racial biases or instances of discrimination. This is and has been manifesting into a one-sided narrative that all societal issues stem from historical white mistakes, often ignoring or minimizing the group's current missteps or potential for prejudices.

Democrats as Collective Narcissists

In-Group favoritism, collective narcissists exhibit extreme partiality towards their own members. It’s called identity politics and if you don’t vote instep or “identify” as such, well you’re going to have at minimum subtle forms of social control applied to you. Out-group erogation, they disparage heterosexual white folks, largely targeting the male population, who challenge their superiority through diving and showing up at their houses with borderline aggressive protests, and some actually call for acts of violence. For example the severed Trump head, by a former famed actress a few years ago.

They act with aggression in response to threatened ego, they react defensively, sometimes aggressively, when their group's prestige is questioned. Then there is this denial of reality and facts, they frequently deny or distort facts that do not align with their self-image. They seek constant admiration and affirmation for their “social justice” activism and beliefs. They crave and actively seek affirmation of their group's perceived grandeur.

Changing The Subject

The first strategy used is changing the subject, it is a common deflection technique to avoid uncomfortable topics. Holder reimagines a scenario in the conversation where the Republican Party acts like the Democratic Party's and instead of Democrats asking AG’s to investigate Trump. In this reimagined of what is really happening to Trump. Democrats are now the victims, these actions serve entirely different, purpose. It distracts the audience from reality of what is actually happening to Trump. Avoids highlighting their policy and related issue with the Trump administration.

Blame Shifting

Holder then blame shifts, after he re-imagines a real life political scenario where Democrats are weaponizing the Justice system and doing everything they imagined in this real life scenario to Trump. Instead Trump is doing it to them. The blame shift is so subtle and clever, but serves his agenda to shift blame away from any personal or Democrat party's past misdeeds, suggesting that it is actually the other party (in this case, President Trump and his administration) that is engaging in corruption. This blame-shifting moves the spotlight from his own actions or those of his political affiliates to the opposing side.

Projection

Holder may then project, accusing the Trump administration of engaging in the very behaviors for which he or his party are being criticized. This projection serves to muddy the waters, casting aspersions on the opposition while deflecting from his or his party's actions. Holder reimagined a scenario where democrats are not only victims, and saviors of Democracy but everything is actually happening to Trump now, is now being reimagined and projected on to the oppositional party as happening to them. This evident when Holder explains the relational scenario where high ranking officials ask a “compliant” AG or DOJ to investigate people they don’t like. This is exactly what happen to Trump.

Playing Victim

Which brings me to the next strategy, playing the victim. The interview on CNN (2023) demonstrates a classic instance of collective narcissism, where the interviewed party employs tactics such as changing the subject, blame-shifting but now plays the role of the victim, reflective of the patterns observed in groups with narcissistic tendencies. To Holder, the Democratic Party is the “real victim” here. This evidenced by Holder imagining the Democratic Party positioning themselves as unfairly targeted by Trump's camp, suggesting that they are the ones suffering under false accusations or partisan attacks. Nothing of real world evidence is being suggested as happening. For example, what is happening to Trump, now, like the law-fare, the lack of evidence to support two Trump impeachments, the Russian collusion of which the FBI agents involved in those investigations were convicted of actual wrongdoing, meaning the agents themselves who were in charge with investigating Trump, were actually the ones colluding with Russian Oligarchs.

Gaslighting

With a subtle display of gaslighting, Holder manipulates viewers by casting doubt on the integrity and intentions of the Trump administration, subtly diverting attention from concrete evidence of their actions towards President Trump. Former Attorney General Eric Holder commented on the issue, "Hunter Biden charges wouldn't have been brought in normal scenario" (CNN, 2023, 00:15). Before the blame shift, projection and playing victim, there was the truth. He’s correct these are not “normal times”, everything happening Trump now, is unprecedented. No one has used law-fare, to prevent an opponent from running for office. Why wouldn’t that rising political opponent not seek accountability? He reframes the discourse, suggesting that such criticisms are nothing more than partisan tactics aimed at discrediting the Democratic Party. This strategic narrative shift paints the Democrats as casualties of an "unjust" electoral process, besieged by authoritarian figures, rather than confronting the reality of the situation. The truth, as Holder veils it, is obscured by a narrative that avoids acknowledging the Trump administration's legitimate efforts to enforce accountability. This includes the invocation of program F and the dismissal of individuals who are excessively aligned with a regime characterized by pronounced collective narcissism. In essence, Holder is redirecting the conversation, insinuating that the push for accountability is an act of political aggression rather than a response to actual mismanagement or malfeasance.

Minimization

Which brings me to my third symptom, minimization. Minimization is evidenced when holder downplays the significance of any wrongdoing that he or his party might be accused of, which leaves the audience to assume that what he and the Democratic Party do are minor issues compared to the alleged corruption, and “authoritarianism”, within the Trump administration. When confronted with the notion of President Trump's reelection and the hypothetical appointment of a corrupt Attorney General, a figure like Eric Holder deflects the criticism by attributing the very issues present in the current administration to the hypothetical future one. This deflection serves as a mirror, reflecting the accusations back onto the accuser, a common tactic seen in political discourse.

Rationalization

Holder might conclude his defense with rationalizations, portraying any controversial actions from his term as unavoidable necessities dictated by the political environment. He asserts that these actions were the lesser evil compared to what he predicts would be the far more detrimental consequences of President Trump's potential appointees. Within this justification narrative, Democrats are depicted as the unwavering defenders of democracy. Conversely, Trump is labeled a racist, an accusation Holder presents as a clear-cut example of collective narcissism, implying that such a flaw could never exist within the Democratic ranks. This is underpinned by a mythology that claims people of color cannot be racist as they lack the systemic power to enforce such racism, a belief that shifts focus from individual prejudice to systemic injustice.

In this context, rationalization takes a more extreme form: the assertion that the Democrats must "save America from its voters." This is done through legal maneuvers and any means deemed necessary, painting the party as protectors in a dire situation. Such narratives echo classic Marxist ideology, which Holder suggests is also evident in the actions of the Chinese Communist Party. Both are seen as authoritarian entities that argue their overreach is in service of protecting the working class, the proletariat, from the resurgence of the bourgeoisie's dominance. In Holder's discourse, the collective narcissism of the Democratic Party is framed not as self-interest, but as a noble struggle to uphold the greater good against prevailing class enemies.

Conclusion

By deploying these tactics, Holder would be engaging in a form of collective narcissism on behalf of his political affiliation, effectively defending the group's image by deflection rather than by direct refutation of the claims presented. In this charged exchange, a CNN posed with a question regarding the impact of President Trump's reelection and his choice of a potentially corrupt Attorney General, someone like Eric Holder, with his contentious history, might instinctively employ collective narcissistic deflection tactics. This form of deflection would involve shifting scrutiny from his own past actions to the hypothetical scenario, thus avoiding direct confrontation with any personal allegations of corruption. By mirroring the current criticism onto the future possibility, Holder could artfully navigate the conversation, effectively accusing the opposing side of the very transgressions being discussed. This method subtly shifts the focus from his own controversies to those of President Trump, implying a "they do it too" narrative.

This maneuver is designed to sidestep direct accountability and instead redirects the conversation toward a critique of Trump's potential decisions, thus maintaining a strategic defensive stance. The suggestion here is that the hypothetical corruption of a future Trump-appointed AG is not only possible but is, in fact, a reflection of the current state of affairs — a tactic that serves to normalize and diminish the gravity of Holder's own past actions by comparison. Holder could respond with a variety of strategies typical of narcissistic deflection but tailored to a collective or political narrative: blame-shifting to other political figures or entities, projecting the administration's faults onto its adversaries, gaslighting the public into questioning the veracity of any criticism aimed at them, and rationalizing any questionable actions as necessary or misinterpreted.

References:

Golec de Zavala, A., Cichocka, A., Eidelson, R., & Jayawickreme, N. (2009). Collective narcissism and its social consequences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(6), 1074-1096. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016904

Golec de Zavala, A., Peker, M., Guerra, R., & Baran, T. (2016). Collective narcissism predicts hypersensitivity to in-group insult and direct and indirect retaliatory intergroup hostility. European Journal of Personality, 30 (6), 532-551. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2067

Marchlewska, M., Cichocka, A., & Kossowska, M. (2018). Addicted to praise: The role of positive feedback in collective narcissism's link with intergroup hostility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(3), 374-393. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000117

CNN. (2023, December 8th). Eric Holder: Hunter Biden charges wouldn't have been brought in normal scenario [Video]. CNN Politics. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/08/hunter-biden-eric-holder-reaction-sot-lcl-vpx.cnn

#lawfare #projecting #gaslighting #minimizing #blame shifting #deflection #collective narcissism #democrats #rationalization #playing victim #changing the subject

[swallowtail-ageha]

Man i just saw a post that was like "when they tell you that feminicide happens because of culture is goal shifting and ignoring that men from other cultural backgrounds do it" wowzers it's almost as if the culture we're referring to is the general patriarchal culture that's so rampant in many societies where men are taught that their female partners are objects to control and dominate.....

#there are ofc exceptions to the rule. but come on. don't tell me that #even if the most liberal states there is still a rampant misogynistic and victim blaming culture #also they tried to shift it from being 'honor killing is a highly racialized term' #maybe in america since honor killing was a thing in italy until the 80's... #idk the whole post was. a very americanized way of seeing the issue lmao

[azol-otl]

Not Reverse Robins or Scrambled Birds but a secret third thing: A Step to the Left.

Not  Dick > Jason > Tim > Steph > Damian, 

but Jason > Tim > Steph > Damian > Dick*.

But not only them. Every sidekick with a legacy name gets shifted one spot. (No I’m not counting the Golden Age because I’m not combing through that ).

This means that Jason’s Titans team is him, Mia (Speedy), Jackson (Aqualad), Cassie (Wonder Girl), and Bart (Impulse but y’know he was KF II in the comics).

The NTT team including Starfire, Changeling, Raven, and Cyborg stays the same since they’re the only ones with those names. Cass gets lumped in here because Jason actually wants to do college/is becoming disillusioned about cape life and the idea of Kori learning Cass's body language is too good to pass up.

Tim gets one (1) cape friend (because Jason only got one) and it’s Zachary Zatara because it has to be a d-lister who deals with that disaster Teen Titans era.

Stephanie gets Jon (Superboy), Yara (Wonder Girl II now), and Irey (Because guess what it’s Impulse on the team and not KF which means we get Impulse II). Secret, Cissie, Anita, Slobo etc. all stay the same.

Damian doesn’t get anyone until he becomes Batgirl.

Duke literally gets Damian’s exact canon team but it’s Kon instead of Jon and probably won’t end with them committing war crimes.

If the character in that placement dies in canon then the new character in that placement also dies (i.e. Jason dies so Tim will die/ Kon dies so Jon will die).

But there will be changes because these are different characters so not all of them would react the same.

For example, Jason and Cass are the first Robin and Batgirl, but Cass becomes Nightwing while Jason becomes Oracle because I feel like Jason generally fits Barbara’s character better than Cass does (which is a fucking shame because Oracle being someone named Cassandra should be a no brainer but yeah).

 Or how Barbara should be Batgirl number three, but it’s actually Damian because Cass would see their similarities between them and offer him Batgirl (which he refuses at first but after his disastrous run as Robin he sees how Batgirl would fit his strengths better).

 Also I refuse to believe that Jason and Cass would let Dick out as Robin so young so he’s benched until later and his place is taken up by Duke and instead of Leviathan it’s Gnomon.

#I actually have a lot of thoughts about this but I didn't want to word vomit it all up like I normally do #No lie Damian becoming Batgirl III was not planned but because it started off with Cass it honestly felt right #So now him and Stephanie parallel each other so much more than I planned with the whole 3 identities cycle of Original > R > BG> OG #Also Robins 1 3 and 5 (the ones who were actually focused on for a time) are all Gotham natives with strong ties to the people #So that feels right #Also also Mia and Jason both being on the same team and having similar traumas while comics were finally starting to tackle these things #Tim has to deal with all the shit Jason did including starting off as a Blonde Jason clone (hey Timmy Todd) #Being victim blamed for his death for nearly 20 years and brought back as a villain #Then left with writers who hate him and made him ugly *and* stupid #then left with Lobdell and having the fans of his teammates blame him and his fans for things that they had no control over #other notes I didn't put in include Cass's cover is that she's Jason's cousin via Willis who was adopted and it turns out to be true #Stephanie 'Ambiguously Gay' Brown with her team full of Women who can crush her like a bug #Cass 'Are you sure she's straight' Wayne and her Gal Pal Koriand'r #Jason and Bart's wild 50 years where they surprise everyone including the writers and editors #since none of their love interests stuck but the chemistry they had with each other was off the charts #so their friendship read more as a slow-burn annoyances to friends to lovers that was totally on purpose guys and became canon p52 #like right before the reboot because the writer was like "Fuck it we're rebooting anyways! #if you feel like it's unfair that Tim and Damian gets no friends remember that I didn't shift teams at all only the people in them #so they get dealt Jason and Stephanie's canon hands #Don't come at me with 'uhm Robin is DICK'S nam'e' that retcon happened 50 years after the character #I can do the exact same with any character #great another essay in the tags #azol's posts

[furiousgoldfish]

The phrase 'victim wanted it' paints a picture of the abuser as a completely spineless, obedient and moral-lacking person who only ever does things which others want. Surely they were only ready to violate, abuse and harm this person because this person asked them to, they did it out of pure altruism! In what fairy tale does this abuser live. Have you ever even seen anything like that in real life. Whenever you hear 'victim wanted it', you can be sure the abuser wanted it more, and was ready to groom the victim very hard in order to get to a place where the victim would allow it and not give resistance. Or, you know, the victim did resist, but the abuser decided to ignore it and convince the victim that was for 'their own good'.

Often the abusers who say this are way older than the victims, which put even more disbelief at the 'victim wanted it' statement. If a child asked you to throw it into a fire, is it your responsibility to know that it's wrong, or the child's? Stop believing bullshit abusers say in order to get away with abuse.

#victim shaming #victim blaming #blame shifting #grooming #psychological abuse #emotional abuse #abusers lying #abusers twisting the situation to seem innocent #when they've done such massive damage the victims can't even recover #and on top they're getting to be blamed for it

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

it's wild because over the years i've gone from shipping nive with some degree or other of fluff/happy endings (or at least hopeful ones; or if it does end badly, it's due to external factors) to just unabashedly wanting them to make each other Worse

#lorien legacies #nive #LL nive #LL number nine #LL number five #five's shifting blame for his behavior onto other people/factors versus nine's gleefully seeking out targets to hurt #in situations where the power dynamic is in his favor; or he plans for it to be #and escalating every single time they make any move to set boundaries or push back; or otherwise not take it lying down #because he KNOWS there will not be consequences for his actions; other than a finger wag from someone who does #have the power to do something; because he's the group's ~lovable impulsive jerk~ and everyone will tell victims to ~get used to it~ 🙃 #and he keeps doing this and acting like he has that same power in the situation past the point where he doesn't #and is shit at actually evaluating that point; and then goes surprisedpikachu.png when there are ACTUALLY consequences #and then immediately starts trying to gloss it over and act like everything's fine when he KNOWS he fcked up past what was worth it #and then he does it again later!!! his entire relationship to a victim past the point where he can't establish /control/ to hurt them #is a) punishing them for it relentlessly; b) trying to turn other people against them/get said people on his side about targeting them #and c) is constantly CONSTANTLY pushing and pushing and pushing to trap them again where he can hurt them and get away with it #all while their only options are to be punished for standing up for themselves; or finally snapping and lashing out #and getting punished for THAT #they both have yikes beliefs re: potential abuse rhetoric that they need to address to grow past and get better #but i am significantly less sympathetic to nine's bc he fully gets away with it by the narrative's standards #and then DOESN'T address it even when he has years of breathing room; support; and Basic Fckin Maslowe Needs to do so #whereas five's circumstances from the end of UaO onward are... holy shit Not That at All; and extremely do not give him that chance #and EVEN THEN he's still grown beyond the initial steps of unraveling that logic; and continues to improve #whereas nine just gets worse and worse and becomes a MAGA ass piece of shit who has an entire persecuted; genocided race to do this to #anyway. need to write fic about them #lorien legacies tag #LL crit tag #shipping #abuse cw #dyn: lost boys

[halechief]

“If you ever utter her name again in my presence, I will cut out your tongue.” / this could be him talking to someone about Claire or to Claire about carol either way it's SPICY

𝐀 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐈 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓. @wristful :

❝  what would you have me do? ❞ the question lands heavily between them, delivered in something caught between a shout and a whisper, a stinging hiss that does not become her, she knows. her fingers have curled tightly into the fabric of her blouse, knuckles digging in against the dip of her waist on either side as she turns from him and paces in bare feet : she'd not been expecting him. more than that, she'd not been expecting him to pick this particular fight. ❝  the entire -- country, is saying her name. ❞ i should not have to remind you of this. ( they had been aligned in the first news cycle - she'd been determined to staunch the bleeding, to keep him from losing his head. now she wonders if she should have taken jane's advice. his advice. ) ❝  if i didn't know better i'd think you were being deliberately obtuse. ❞ you don't know better. you don't know anything.

❝ oh fuck off. if the press ask me a question i have to answer it. i don't know how many times you think i can say no comment, but it's less than whatever you're imagining. ❞ she turns back to face him then, her hands falling from her sides in time with the twisting of her torso. ❝  i do not have the liberty of being sensitive to your feelings on this, phillip. not anymore. you'll kill my reelection with this if i let you, and i think you know that i won't. ❞

#wristful #tahitiwoke #my thought is that claire might have made a suavely less than exemplary remark about how unfortunate the situation was and she wishes #that x protocol had been followed so that circumstances did not evolve the way that they did #basically very casually and subtly shifting blame from coulson and onto .. perhaps carol #not to the extent of being victim blamey but you. as a fucking politician would #anyways #claire was probably up in the residency getting ready to cleanse herself of all this #and here comes furious phil #( the press. ) #iii. verse: secondary: i don't think there's anything i wouldn't do anymore. / presidency - alt.

[dougielombax]

Oh fuck off Lebanon!

This is bullshit!

Sure, blame THEM for Hezbollah killing that politician!

Fucking hell!

Utter bullshit!

#dougie rambles #political crap #news #vent post #lebanon #syria #levant #middle east #syrian civil war #refugees #deportation #despicable #bullshit #fucking hell #fuck’s sake #fuck hezbollah #fuck Assad #victim blaming #blame shifting

[mitahanvittua]

jesus christ i lost my temper today at this one individual from my university 😭😭

it eould have been okay IF IT WASNT IN FRONT OF THE TEACHER OVERSEEING OUR TRAINING

#literally kms #i just got rly pissed bc she kept shifting the blame and acting extremely rudely towards others #AND NOT DOING HER PART IN THE COURSE #one of my friends has been holding lessons with her and my friend has made ALL the lesson plans #all the powerpoints #ALL THE PLANNING #and then she comes in LATE doesnt know where any of the stuff is and not even looking at the plan -> everything goes to shit #like no structure to the lessons and one teacher saying one thing and the other something else #and when someone tries to tell her abt it she acts like a victim #apparently i bullied her bc i told her that shes rly hard to work with #and like I know it was wrong of me to yell (am gonna apologize for that) #but im not sorry at all abt anything i said #just abt the way i said it #bc she absolutely needs to know that she cannot act like that when working with others #(also we’ve had to like remind her of her own classes and like what grades shes teaching and WHEN bc apprently reading texts or taking notes #is impossible #like im tired of her acting like she does nothing wrong and any critique shr gets is bullying #like someone telling you to plan your classes isnt bullying you jfc

[sevenines]

the framing of gems-as-robots is one of my favorites. the role of biologist and engineer are the same! gems directly interface with their technology!! they glitch when hurt and have circuitry as veins!!! the are born, programmed, with a purpose!!! they call other life organics—they are not!!!!! white diamond is the equivalent of the tetris ai that paused to avoid losing at all costs, hiding herself away in her head as to never be wrong about pink-rose-steven and the nature of gemkind!!!!!!

#steven universe #*thinks about rebecca sugar’s quote about gems being ‘solar-powered robots’* #*thinks about it again* #*and again* #the ai-realization/robot uprising genre has its own set of assumptions and affordances that are interesting when applied to su #of course it all hinges on the idea that the robots are created by another race and therefore all blame can be shifted to /them/ #just a bunch of victims! which makes it understandable why a lot of people wanted the show to delve into ‘who created the gems’ #but ultimately su shows itself to not be of that genre and not really be about those sorts of themes #and i’m not trying to fit a square peg into a round hole!! but things like these are fun to think about #people would be much more forgiving of many of homeworld gems’ actions #if thought through the framework of ‘programming’ #but they have agency as is and i quite like that #in general i’ve seen many say that calling gems ai would diminish the story or even just not add anything at all #i disagree! but i sorta see why (maybe) (not really)