islandsaoirse

[islandsaoirse]

there's this trick that racists/queerphobes/etc do, it's really slick. let's just do a little dialogue as an example, the names have been obscured but I've seen this exact exchange happen before.

Stephanie mc. Influencer: "And furthermore, body positivity intersects with black liberation, as black women are often held to unattainable eurocentric beauty standards"

Suave Replyboy Jr: "Lmao, you leftists always tell on yourselves, did you really just say black people are ugly??"

You see the trick here? it's kind of complicated, like, Stephanie is arguing from the perspective that beauty standards are arbitrary and subject to change, Suave understands beauty as an objective hierarchy, so he dunks on Stephanie safely from the inside of that standard. To him, and likely to many people who haven't thought about their own assumptions very much, the only reason black people would want their own body positivity movement is because they're ugly. Bonus points if Stephanie is white, and you can rile her community against her with claims of racism.

I've been getting some replies like this on my posts about sexual trauma, kink, and queerness. Like... I say that sexual deviance of all forms can intersect and correlate with queer identity, and dozens of Suave Replyboy Jrs come out and dunk on me from the other side of the glass, from inside the false universe I'm trying to discredit, the one where "sexual deviance" is immoral and associating queer sexuality with deviancy is an insult. I'm not saying queer people are dangerous perverts, that's you.

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It pisses me the fuck off that yoga is actually ancient and really good for you. Part of me still feels like it was invented to extract wealth from white socal moms.

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What would you do if you where just walking around and found a mountain with your face on it like this?

[islandsaoirse]

Friends have GOT to get meaner to me

[islandsaoirse]

Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

[islandsaoirse]

Mods, show him a picture of what his parents are gonna look like when they’re old

[islandsaoirse]

Relying on a hallucinogenic to even fall asleep sucks actually !!!

[islandsaoirse]

A tale as old as time

[islandsaoirse]

"I know my fingers could reduce her skin to ribbons, and I want to feel the way she twists beneath me as I turn her from something mortal to something gone…

I just knew she was going to make me sit through a powerpoint presentation."

[islandsaoirse]

And it’s inherited too, so 5 generations into this change your landlord is some guy on the other side of the nation who just commissioned some sick ass heraldry for the complex and you never hear from them again

I think landlords should be like, a ceremonial title. They get 0.000001% of my annual income and they get to prance around and call themselves landlord and say mystical things but otherwise have no real effect on anything. Like a little mini royal family for every apartment complex.

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I think landlords should be like, a ceremonial title. They get 0.000001% of my annual income and they get to prance around and call themselves landlord and say mystical things but otherwise have no real effect on anything. Like a little mini royal family for every apartment complex.

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i've mentioned it before but French wikipedia has a fascinatingly distinct tone and style from the english one. attention to stylistic cohesiveness is neglected in favor of just pumping out as much tangentially-relevant info and analysis as you can find or come up with. some movie articles devote whole sections to goofs ("this character is shown wearing a watch in this scene, but doesn't have it in the next") and "clins d'oeil" ("winks", ie. easter eggs/references). check out this article about what i can only describe as old-timey french kazoos (note the scrollbar)

[islandsaoirse]

タイキちゅうなのです

I'm waiting

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Going on discord and posting my opinion on the game in the public server and seeing 5 different lurkers resist the urge to even *type* the false equivalency they’re thinking about. I see you.

[islandsaoirse]

when you think about it english-speaking people making fun of dutch and german for sounding like goofy clown english is like pointing at your parents and going "lmao 😂😂 they look like me but oldddd"

[islandsaoirse]

You people talk about ADHD / Narcissism / Depression / etc the same way that medieval peasants talked about their humoric temperament.

TikTok voice: "Ten Tips To Make Sure Your Daughter Isn't Dating A Suitor With An Abundance Of Yellow Bile"

[islandsaoirse]

i know i’m cute but you can remind me