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THEY KEEP ASKING ME IF I WOULD DIE FOR THEM AND I KEEP ASKING WHY THEY WANT ME DEAD

#jobs are bad mostly

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some Ancient designs for if ancients were more like what i thought they would be like when gaolers first came out (prototype modern breeds)

#can I just say I love these? #like they're all actually optimized for the environment each breed comes from #tbh more accurately thqn the modern breeds #I... man these are good and thought out

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Hmmm... I also think there's something going on with the increased police state.

Millennials have grown up in an increasingly observed world. You could reasonably assume that any store you walk into has security footage, tag detectors, and other kinda invasive anti theft measures. Because we grew up with it and had no voice in how or when these measures would be employed, whether or not they're effective, we deal with it as normal. The social friction of objecting is usually too exhausting to bother, if you do manage to think of an objection in the first place.

Boomers are not accustomed to this hawkish monitoring from stores. They are in part still trying to internalize that stores now feel they have the right to accost you if you look in a way they deem suspicious. And what's awkward there is company policy is harsh, broad, and without nuance. There is genuinely a lot to find objectionable here, most especially the frequently racially biased ways anti theft measures are implemented. But what strikes me about the "I didn't take anything so I don't have to stop" comment is it's the same response you get from white people about the cops in general. It's this fundamental belief that the systems of power are there to protect you rather than oppress. And therefore, as long as you are in the right group, ie. didn't steal, you can bypass the system. After all, you're the person the system is here to protect, why would you ever need to submit to punitive doubt and distrust?

I think that's a more realistic view on why they keep walking. It's never occurred to them that an oppressive system would oppress them too.

Question: Why when the shoplifting alarms go off do baby boomers just keep walking? 

Like 9/10 I have to chase down a baby boomer to make sure they are not stealing compared to those of the younger generations who normally stop and prove without asking that they are not shoplifting? Even when they are the only ones to walk through and the alarms go off, they still keep walking and become  very rude when you ask to see their receipts to make sure and it’s normally the opposite with millennials.

Like no ma’am I do not think you are a shoplifter it’s just that the machine thinks you are and I have to verify or discredit what the machine is saying. 

Am I the only one who notices this?

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i’ll die on the hill that says “sapphic love isn’t inherently more wholesome and pure and saying it does will only hurt lesbian and bi women”

#oh I love this post #this is excellent #thank you all

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had a dream last night that the new tumblr discourse was whether or not people deserved their urls and people were getting callouts and anon hate like "I can't believe you have x in your url when I never see you actually post about them it's pretty messed up that you're taking that url away from other people who actually deserve it :/"

#I did live this #thank god I went for obscure reference/fun aesthetic

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Conversation between me, and another high educated Jewish women whose opinions I respect

Her: What's missing here are the facts. If we stuck to the facts there wouldn't be so much intensity surrounding this issue. Me: But you and I are both highly educated Jewish women, and we can't even agree on the facts regarding the history of Palestine as a place name, ethnic identifier, and nation. If we can't even agree on those facts, how on earth can facts help anyone move forward?

There's the question. Not just for Jews, but for everyone involved in, or concerned with this conflict. How do we move forward if multiple sides of the room dispute the veracity of such basic statements as:

-Jews are a globally oppressed minority ethnic group, the hatred of which is deeply embedded in Western thought and rhetoric.

-The Naqba was a period of ethnic cleansing in which the government and military of the new State of Israel expelled Palestinian Arabs from their homes and property; a dispossession and a series of events which continue to traumatize and negatively impact the lives and livelihoods of Palestinians.

-The Holocaust was a traumatic event in the history of the Jewish people, the legacy of which is embedded in the psyches, world views, and collective trauma of the Jewish people, and invariably impacts how this group views global issues.

-Palestinian Arabs had a full developed sense of identity and statehood before the British Empire fucked off, and made their discomfort with increasing Jewish emigration clear to the British before the outbreak of the Second World War.

-Jews had nowhere to go before, during, or really, after the Holocaust; and the governments of many Arab States ethnically cleaned their own ancient Jewish communities in retribution for the creation of the State of Israel.

-The State of Israel does not exist because the Holocaust happened, or as an "apology" for said event.

THIS POST COMPRISES A SERIES OF RHETORICAL QUESTIONS MEANT TO MAKE US APPRECIATE THE DEPTHS OF THE DISCURSIVE PROBLEMS HERE; NOT A POST FOR "DISCOURSE" AND HATEFUL, AGGRESSIVE SHIT.

If you feel you have to do that, copy & paste into your own separate post.

#yep even these statements are frustrating for some #and even if you accept all of them #you immediately see the conflicts and discrepancies in different perspectives #how disagreements can so easily arise #add to that investment and you quickly have an extra impass #I know the popular take right now is that this is easy #I don't think it is #this is painful and complicated and horrific #and the answer isn't do nothing #but it probably isn't shout out people trying to help and trying to understand

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gonna buy this god-forsaken web site and charge all y'all $8 a month to edit reblogs.

#yeah. yeah that gets a reblog #cheers John

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BOOSTING APRIL 2024 Active boycott notice!!!

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#wasn't drinking anyway #but for my friends who are

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the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

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Continue✨ Keep going✨

#needed this today #continue

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me personally, I pause mid reading rpf and dm celebrities to get their permission to bust and if they don't reply I kill myself

#excellent advice #take note everyone

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#as a Gale girlie: hey! it's not my fault everyone else is wrong about Gale #not everyone can be blessed with being right all the time like me

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lots of times if I tell my boyfriend that I am proud of him for dealing with a situation, or that I'm sorry he's having to deal with a situation, he will say "no it's my own fault." meaning that he feels like he doesn't deserve praise or comfort for dealing with a situation that is his fault. (for example a financial problem caused or exacerbated by him having been too anxious or absentminded to deal with the situation sooner.) and I tell him this and I will tell y'all this, that I don't believe that. I think you are even braver and stronger for taking steps to deal with a mess that is of or partly of your own creation, because you have to cope with guilt and shame on top of the thing itself, and because you're fighting against the same ingrained dysfunction in yourself that caused the mess. that's like the bravest and most constructive thing you can do and you should be proud and I am proud of you.

#thank you friend #I struggle to internalize this

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#to baffle the young ones #what a fantastic post

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Reblog to post occasionally

occasional posts from users

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"So YoU'rE sAyInG mEn HaTe OtHeR mEn?"

Yes. Yes I am. And you can ask literally any marginalized man and they will tell you American Patriarchy hates them, too, specifically because they are being men in the "wrong way".

Like fuck, this is feminism 101.

Edit: it's non-radfem feminism 101.

#tasty gender thoughts #yes thank you #toxic masculinity is TOXIC #to all who participate too! #patriarchy hurts everyone and it's a bad teacher

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Commentary more than welcome! Which word flatters you, which intrigues you or attracts you? (In the broad sense, though the narrow sense is very much viable.) Which repels you, and which, weirdly, does both? Terry Pratchett wrote that rogue is "a word with a twinkle in its eye", but there's no shortage of words like that. How do you like them?

#oh I have a thing for blackguard #but clearly none of you have played enough fire emblem because you're missing Dastard!