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crytidsprinkles · 4 months

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I was unaware Aquaman 2 was releasing last month. I found out or probably was reminded because I forgot by my mom mentioning it to be (she enjoyed the first and LOVES Jason Momoa).

The bizarre behavior towards Amber Heard and Depp frankly continues to permeate public discussion, conscience and culture. To the point there are still people bemoaning, shredding and ridiculing her. And frankly it's quite tired.

Cases of abuse requires understanding and education, not knee jerk reactions, parasocial clamoring and armchair commentaries (including body language experts to pseudo pop psychologists).

This isn't Crime and Punishment, holding people accountable for abuse in the way people are currently going about it would mean Depp and Heard getting the same treatment, they aren't.

This acknowledged, I would love to have a chance to view the film with Meera having a much more active role. I've already heard much of Amber's screentime has been cut and it does impact the film. I was so excited for the fight scenes and based on the hinting at other versions being shot, I think one with Meera's role and arc not being minimized is the stronger movie.

And at minimum if not in theaters, give people the alternate cuts on dvd/blu ray. Let there be a choice. The situation shouldn't mean the project suffers or is taken out on Heard (especially when it's not being taken out on Johnny).

Whoever was involved with the decision to whittle Heard's role down only made matters even more magnified and a focal point, when it could have been handled much better, with care and sensitivity. The lack of support or understanding at least also speaks poorly of the studio and any team members this applies to.

Especially given so many other instances in entertainment of people openly committing, accused of and even charged with abuse who Hollywood has no problem continuing to work with. It's quite hypocritical, and simplistic.

The trial happened, some of us witnessed it, some made skits, commentary and some steered clear. I chose not to watch the trial while it was happening or a majority of the posts/videos people created. I found nothing about it amusing and thought people choosing "teams" and going so far as to call it that incredibly strange behavior.

I paid attention to the impact to victims/survivors and what those with expertise or careers in the field of domestic violence or any related to. I listened when people spoke of the power imbalance, PR team, prior charges in UK and much more.

Some people were and still are so invested in this team sport like, and misogynistic nonsense they'd never admit now they were deeply in the wrong and caused a lot of harm. This isn't a game or fable, there's no winners, losers, good guys, bad guys.

It's the nuance and complexity of human beings and awful situations. I'm saying any of this because I know it will come up or someone will want to open their mouth about it.

Here's some great videos to compliment my comments:

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TW: Ableism (unhinged and idiots are terms used) barring this, it is an very salvageable video.

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In closing I'll say it should but didn't concern everyone that so many incels, reactionaries, garden variety misogynyist of all sorts (and not just men) as well as abusers standing right alongside them while the general public dog piled.

It reveals greater issues within societies as far as talking about abuse, abuse cases, survivors and we have a long way to go.

The public needs to learn and progress, so one day our world addresses trauma, harm and violence with thoughtfulness, knowledge, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, radical love and critical thinking.

#Aquaman 2 #Sequel #Amber Heard #Jason Momoa #DCU #DC #Youtube

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lotusmuses · 2 years

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how did you feel about the whole scarlet king thing? cause for me it rode a weird line between the iffy rhetoric that oppressed people should never rise up and fight back because AlL ViOLenCE iS BaD (completely ignoring the passive violence that happens by literally walling people off from society and forcing them into harsher conditions) and the better idea of targeting an institution to initiate change. i appreciated dehya’s anger at the wall and her wanting to tear it down while recognizing that the way others were trying to initiate change was hurting innocents, she wasn’t outright saying you should never fight for rights, just to pick the right target, but at the same time everyone else felt so unsympathetic to how awful the desert folk were being treated!? even cyno?!!? idk just want to hear someone else’s prospective (if you’d like to share that is!)

Hello!

Okay, so my thoughts on it might not apply too well since I haven't actually started the Sumeru archon quests (bc i'm avoiding finishing the chasm quest and instead doing sumeru world quests haha), so I really can’t give too much of an opinion since I don't exactly know how the eremites have taken action. Are they being violent with everyone from the akademiya/rainforest side?? bc that i can understand is considered bad since many of those people are just believing the rhetorics told to them and weren't actively in the wrong.

Anyways,

The whole wall idea,,, I genuinely don't understand why it was made. I'm pretty sure Rukkhadevata made it during the time Al-ahmar accidentally corrupted his kingdom but.. even with exhausting her form for those people it feels kind of insensitive to just close her own people off from the others (could be her version of quarantining them i guess ahah)

Yeah, I can fully agree with you about Dehya. From the little I know about the archon quests, she's a huge voice of reason.

As far as Cyno, I genuinely expected him to care a lot more about how the desert folk get treated (i made a post vaguely talking about it along with the treatment of the matras) but from what I've seen, he's only mad about the Akademiya's illegal stuff. I know that's his job and a big part of his personality is punishing those against justice, but it feels so weird that he doesn’t care much about everything else going on.

He's been out of the desert long enough that I think he's just not considering that it's his community getting treated the way that they are. Honestly if it wasn’t obvious that he was from the desert, based purely on his lack of interest in the place compared to practically every other character and their respective homes, I'd think he's from somewhere else.

I might make a better post once I play through the quests. Thanks for asking! ✨️

#raine answers #lotus answers #khrysos-karnifex #genshin impact #genshin sumeru #genshin impact cyno #gi cyno #genshin cyno #cyno #dehya

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joylinda-hawks · 1 year

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No legal considerations today. Just my thoughts on the ZZH situation. I'll come back to this when we know more. Before I present anything specific, I'll ask a question. I've asked the same question before, but I'll repeat it. Think before you answer because it's important. How a person who is called a tra1tor is treated in your country (assume we are not concerned here now with whether that person is guilty or not guilty). How people treat her, how her friends, family and acquaintances behave towards such a person. It seems that she is stigmatized, no one wants to deal with her, she is demanded to be punished for her betrayal. I think you will agree with me. Such a person does not have an easy life, wherever he appears,she is reminded of this. Such a person becomes an outcast, she may lose her job, she may have problems with going abroad. People are demanding her trial, sometimes making their own judgments before the trial against that person is over. Let us now look at the situation of the ZZH. He was declared a tra1tor based on falsified evidence. At the time, no one cared if it was true or not. Flashy headlines in the press, television, and the Internet mattered. ZZH was convicted before he could say anything in his defense. The term tra1tor is the worst thing that can happen to an innocent person. Imagine what must have happened on 8.13 when ZZH returned from work. We don't know if he was warned beforehand or if he had to face the hate of the mob by surprise. People can be cruel. Especially if the misfortune touches someone famous, rich, a person whose lifestyle is envied. They pounce like predators on prey, and the motivation is sometimes that they get paid for their attacks. I don't know if you can get satisfaction from writing hateful things about a complete stranger. What I want to write here is that Chinese society has historically been a very sensitive society. There are certain events, the dates of these events, that evoke emotions, especially when it comes to the events of World War II. Therefore, using the events related to World War II to liquidate the social life of ZZH was a perfidious move. Whoever did it knew perfectly well that the accusation against ZZH was untrue, but it would generate a lot of negative opinions. August 13 and later, the word tra1tor appeared in many configurations. Deprived of access to social media, ZZH could not defend itself. He met a wall of hatred, he couldn't understand it. Knowing the characters of his countrymen, he could only hide and try to somehow save what was left. He may have been afraid for his life, because there are various people, some of whom would like to hurt him, believing that justice must be meted out at once, and the tra1tor must not live. It cannot be ruled out that some unbalanced person may try to ha/rm or ki/ll him. The word tra1tor has great power. It was outrageous that they went so far as to have his name used as an example of a bad citizen in schools. I'm not talking about the other slander that was leveled at his mother and family. These people must have been terrified too. They did not know what was true and what was false. I cannot understand that institutions such as schools rely on unverified information to consider someone a bad citizen, it must be based on a final court judgment. And there was no such verdict in relation to ZZH. Slander takes away human dignity. ZZH was treated unfairly by a private organization of which he was not even a member. An association that has usurped the right to a court. An association that had no legal grounds to deprive ZZH of basic civil rights. An association thanks to which ZZH will have to face the definition of a tra1t0r for the rest of his life. Even a successful criminal trial and the compensation he may receive will not change this, will not make some people still consider him a tra1tor. Some people's mentality won't change. They'll believe he bribed the court with too much money to clear his name. I don't know what his situation is now in CN, if they still talk about him as a bad citizen in schools.+

#zhang zhehan

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13eyond13 · 3 years

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I'll try to keep it short because you're very kind but I'm becoming annoying... I actually like Soichiro. It's his morals I cannot stand. In fact, in line with his, I like Matsuda's and even Light's variations more, even with all the darkness they entail, because they're more critical. I adore L and find him relatable, but I'm not so sure if I'd like him as a person in real life, and yet I again like his morals more than Soichiro's. I still think Soichiro is generally a better person than any of the others. I still dislike his morals the most. When I say at the opposite end of Soichiro in the moral spectrum is where Near stands I'm not talking just about my personal liking, but as I interpret their views on morality. Maybe there's some detail of the manga I'm forgetting (I truly have to reread it), but Soichiro didn't seem very critical about... anything, while Near states something like "even if god came and told me this is good and this is bad and this is The Truth I'd still consider and come to my own conclusion". I like that. I care less about someone getting a moral with what I may consider a degree of grey if they do that. I myself have very strong morals that nonetheless have degrees of grey; strong doesn't mean pure. My grey and someone else's grey might be very different. But I've developed them, not accepted them blindly. Near of course, Mello, L, and even Light and Matsuda do this, but Soichiro generally doesn't. And I dislike that greatly. In fact, I think I'd find him kind in real life, and likeable, but I'd not really like him because I can't really bring myself to like someone like that even when they're kind and compassionate and good. I'm already talking more than I intended but I'll try to point out what bothers me of his attitude.

Soichiro is very very anti Kira, but he's working for a government with the death penalty and he doesn't seem to consider that even for a moment. For him, that the government does it is justifiable but monstrous if a person does it. He doesn't really have a justification, it's just like that because it's as it is. He's very against L's methods, buy L uses people who were going to die anyway at the very moment he uses them either way because of the death penalty, because of the government. From a government pov, if the government were to do what L does, it'd be something terrible. From an individual pov? Not so much. It's ugly, but it's beyond himself whether that people die or not, and his decisions are easily justifiable from an individual pov: they're going to die irrevocably, that very day at that very time, and he is using what he can to solve a very complicated case that is taking many lives, and he even might use the moral support of "I'm giving the prisoners the chance of choosing, with the potential reward of lifelong imprisonment instead of death". And again, while a government doing that is terrible, it's not as terrible for a person. L is a private detective, an individual. People can be fallible. Governments shouldn't. What L does might be justifiable, if ugly, for a person, but it would be unforgivable for the government to do. But the government lies on L and it's L who takes the slander of the rest of the Task Force. And that's what Soichiro doesn't see, and that's what bugs me. Soichiro sides with the government and the laws no matter what, no matter if they're terrible and are actually the cause if indirectly of the terrible things L is able to do (I'd have to reread to be completely comfortable affirming this, but Soichiro's attitude towards the government reminds me a bit of Mikami and Misa to some extent).

Soichiro hates Kira, and hates and criticises L's methods and his ruthlessness, but doesn't even consider for one moment the problem is not L. The problem is not the 24 yo boy/man, the problem is his government, that has the dead penalty and actually let's a private detective carry on with the investigation and do as he pleases (and I'm not even taking into consideration how L's upbringing and the lowkey if fun exploitation he was subrmited to have most probably influenced if not determined the way he acts in these cases, because while it's intriguing it'd feel like justifying L out of pity, and either way Soichiro doesn't know that; but I mention this because L's entire past at Wammy's, like the other children's, is another very terrible move from governments and adults in responsibility positions). The problem is Interpol, the governments in general, blatantly saying L is ruthless but not even setting rules when working with him. And I think it would actually have been very easy to stop L doing those things. Just change the rules of the game, tell him beforehand there are a few things he can't do. It's a game after all. Of course L would still exploit the moral and legal vacuums of the rules as he pleased, as one does when playing anything, but the government wouldn't have given him totally free way.

I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself very well. Years ago in a class I talked about the difference between personal vengeance and the death penalty. I feel this is similar. A person is fallible. A government should be able to stand over licit murder. L manipulating people to prove a point is ugly. A government doing that or letting someone free way to do whatever is terrible. L does whatever, and as an individual is not so horrible as it is that the governments internationally actually let him do whatever even knowing beforehand without setting rules. Soichiro sees this and it doesn't even cross his mind for a moment to criticise the government he's working with. Also, he considers his morals the best, which makes sense in a first person pov (why support x morals if you don't think they're the best? I'm not critisising this), but he's very... imposing about them, while as I say not being precisely the most critical thinker. That Soichiro is like this, morally (I'm not even talking about the policeman aspect though that's so often talked about in the fandom), makes a lot of sense to how Light ends up being Kira, and with how Matsuda thinks and acts. And I find that very intriguing, but I can't stand Soichiro's simplistic morals and his better-than-you attitude even though he's a generally good person. That's why I dislike his morals the most (of course you don't have to agree!). I don't stand by Near's morals either, but I like his "god could come and tell me and still I'd doubt" attitude. It's what makes gods mad in basically every mythology, but I love that kind of thought process. I'm very much like that too.

I'm so sorry this is so long. I tried to cut, but I got the impression it'd make it even less clear or more difficult to understand. Or maybe the lack of clarity lies precisely on how repetitive and long this is. I'd like to think English not being my first language has to do with this, but honestly the problem is most probably just me. I hope I made the point understandable enough, though. And thanks for your patience. I really liked that post of Near someone sent as an opinion and how you replied! Very interesting takes on both ends.

Hi again! You have some very thought-provoking points about it all, and don't worry, your English is excellent.

I loved Near's stance about these things as well, and that's something that really bothered me when growing up about some authority figures and institutions being really totalitarian and silencing of doubts or stances they deemed too negative or incorrect to voice aloud. I value having freedom of choice and the ability to think critically about everything immensely. Maybe it's because I went to a very strict and sheltering and weird little school as a child that tried very hard to indoctrinate me with a specific worldview, and always shamed and silenced anyone who disagreed or questioned them or felt like an outsider or wanted to have a different point of view. I remember relating the most to Matsuda on the task force when I first watched the show as a teen, because he was always speaking up with his devil's advocate questions or confusions. The way Soichiro and the others usually yell and scold and shame him for this bothered me a lot, because I wanted them to discuss things openly so I could see all the different sides of the arguments more clearly. Actually, I think this is a pretty culturally similar thing between Japan and Canada (where I am from). There's a strong emphasis on doing what's best for the entire group instead of just yourself, and being too controversial or outspoken or individualistic about certain things is often taboo and frowned upon as a big social faux pas. It's possibly quite a bit stronger pressure toward obedience and conformity and politeness in Japan in certain ways as well, but I don't know for sure as I haven't lived there myself.

I think Soichiro had a bit of nuance and flexibility with his morals and his stances in various instances throughout the plot, and to me he seemingly tries hard to see things from other angles during complicated moments in what must be one of the most difficult situations he could possibly face as both a police chief and a parent. But it's true he never seemed to doubt that upholding the laws already in place and the way his government punishes the convicted were the "correct" ways society should function. I think this series would be a really interesting one to discuss in a class that talks about stuff like justice and the death penalty and law and ethics and such for how many of these things it touches on in an entertaining and thought-provoking way!

#soichiro #near #matsuda #ask #anon #p

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daggerpinknife · 2 years

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thought it would be a quick post but became a diary babbling brooke of thoughts<3

ghjkghfkgjk cracking up because im friends with this girl WHO I DO LOVE she just added me on her new fb which is what prompts tthese thoughts... so we have a mutual...person we both knew and they like each other or to the last of my knowledge they knew each other on good terms but for me and my relationship with this person welll they did not leave with me on good termms like LOL i hate this person like have fantasized the explicit gory deconstruction of their mind and body gdjkvhgfubhutrgdgu <3 and it's justice! for me<3 but i just cant help but laugh when i think about how this girl would probably feel weird at me for the hatred i feel for the tertiary person oh well~ she'll never know because i do well in the business of lying and pleasurable framing, there's no reason for me to tell people the things i don't like or may love to hate (BGHGHKDF yes i do love to hate so many things and it's equally as much blessed by aphrodite. it brings me so much pleasure to hate what deserves to be hated ! <3 ) and there's no reason for me to share my truth<3 YES she's pretty and we both used to be friends with this other person but their personal relationship has nothing to do with mine! yes, i believe the person is maimed, burned, smashed, and unalived already by all my powers in heaven <3 AS MUCH as i believe anyone would be wrong for holding my hatred against me! because hate and love can both be used for pleasure, displeasure, niceness, seriousness, levity, gravity, evil, good, ambiguity-- it's all how you use the tools you have existing before you!

now that i've written this out i cant help thinking about all the times i was hurt by someone quieter than me, meaner than me, less truthful about their lies than me, and how i was jezebelled for speaking the truth! "they hurt me so badly i would see them burn<3" "you are so mean and hurtful and a bully" "HUH???" and i'd literally be venting about them bullying me.. SO SOCIETY CAN CHOKE! this is why nondualism is>>>> to dualize and essentialize morality as tied to traits...sick. ALWAYS contextualize. but noooo~ it's always the louder more violent girls get punished for being loud and violent, and not the crocodile cryers. sooo sick. BUT ! i will happily live my life as the demon and goddess and antichrist i am<3 love exists beyond christian ideas of forgiveness, acceptance, unchangingness... things such as atonement, reconciliation, and ACTUAL SCIENCE : BRAIN PLASTICITY EXISTS! so whyyyyyy am i time and time again demonized for believing in these things? because society works for the devil when they relinquish their agency from themselves to powers that be that they believe they cant control! like just learn. just learn. WHEEEEW <3 anyway i can totally conject that the reason "people of society" (i.e. normies who punish the belligerents around them) time and time and time again ostracize me demonize me villainize me sensationalize me etc etc PLUS is just because im bipolar* and say the things they would die if they even had the thought touch their tongue. NGJDKBGJKD. and with this i like to once again good omen myself that i dont care how many people hate me or wish death upon me it's fine and i shall do THOUSANDFOLD the waterbending equivalent of their rhetoric in reverse<3 YOU CANT STOP CRAZY BABY! ~ and i will help be the change i want to see in the world, and in the humans i love<3,. the society of christgod and patriarchy and ableism and gender personhood ideology WILL BUUUURN dracarys<3 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *(clinically identifyable as: bipolar but we know per the results my psychologist didnt know i saw, IT WAS A PERSONALITY TEST WITH BAR GRAPH RESULTS FOR MENTAL ILLNESSES/SYMPTOMS GBDFGFKBGDJ yea since that day ive been antipsych...OK TANGENT like i went thru a year and a half of treatment and they were ignoring the things i needed help with, school accomadation, attendance waivering, financial insecurity and lack of transportation, OMGH flashback to when i missed the bus and missed my psychiatrist appointment for on campus clinic and they WERE CHARGNG ME $40 WHEN THEY KNEW my financial insecurity trigger my bad circadian scheduling/rhythm for eating and sleeping and yeah...<3 they donnnt care as far as i needed them to...</3 it's okay because my counseling was a thousnad times better i collected so many skills and strategies, after it was just a problem of society and actors of society accommodating my clear communications (which SURPRISE ! they wouldnt a lot of the time, and im fine just giving them hell, rather they know suffering than to suffer in silence myself <3) and people would get so mad at you pointing out their lack of generosity! as if you who a re already accomodating their inherent lack of accomodation/generosity are a huge bitch just for saying something for yourself! NGJNDBGKDFBKJGBDJRSK drives me crazy i have to laugh also i cant believe this is the same post lol<3

i hope you all feel the tenderness and warmth and protection my heart extends in infinite abundance<3

#aphrodita babylon

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dog-day-morning · 3 years

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THIS AIN'T LEGAL

Have you ever heard of absolute immunity? Federal officers who violate the Civil Rights of American citizens in an attempt to do harm with recorded video evidence of the violation in action or officers who willingly falsify a police report of a violent attack in order to frame the victim while the antagonist sits before a judge and jury perjuring herself with alligator tears before an all white jury with her blonde locks, and blue eyes, damn devil, and goes free while an innocent child spends 17 months behind bars. To say that Amerikkka is unjust is an understatement. Too many times Black people are dragged into a court that's already biased, having to face a judge, and jury who may have a vested financial interest in the private prison industry, but let's be real. The school to prison pipeline is not a myth, it's a bloody bruise on the face of Lady Liberty. Liberty, and justice for all never applied to the indigenous people of Amerikkka or any of the ADOS, and FBA citizens whose roots are entrenched in the Earth bleeding from a wound the wicked do not want to heal. The above mentioned scenarios actually happened to one of your own Amerikkka, and a child from the Middle East. It's funny that Amerikkkans appear to want peace seemingly always, but you're forever raising hell outside of your jurisdiction? Joe Biden is deporting Haitian refugees out of the country ASAP, while transporting inland, and giving amnesty to Afghan refugees, and South Americans even so far as to offer them free secondary education, and housing. The culture of Amerikkka is against a Black man ever rising up to experience the American Dream in a Taliban like Aristocracy or Totalitarian society that started centuries before Biden became president. He's not the answer to our problems nor is he the root of the issue. Amerikkka is a canker sore, and a blight that impedes the progression of a once dominant, but humble people. No one needs to preach of racial superiority and use terror tactics in order to justify a calloused approach to validate this viral disease that affects everyone with a modicum of common sense, decency, and compassion. Amerikkka was a Nation before Amerigo Vespucci set foot on these shores. Alkebulan was inhabited by some of the most brilliant minds, and still is before Scipio Africanus named the dark continent after himself, an albino. Ohhh the irony, and moral hypocrisy. Timbuktu, and the city of Alexandria were well established kingdoms in Alkebulan where Greek, and Roman scholars went to gather much needed knowledge because they were dumb as hell. Egypt is a mystery that none can determine for now. When the prophecy is fulfilled by the Father whom the Prophet Joel spoke thereof He would pour His Spirit down upon all flesh, the truth will set you and I free. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. What's impeding us from this prophetic word? Keep your thoughts to yourself. That's a luxury I haven't had since the age of stupid. Not wanting to call you out on the sins of your fathers, but you are just like him. I hope, and pray the Father fulfills His will in time before our hearts wax cold, too late. Amerikkka’s public enemy will not be our Black sons or daughters that are trying to follow the rules of man whose lawlessness has revealed itself to be an entire race of people. You create the laws, and break them leaving everyone with a bad taste in their mouth except those who profit from our pain. Chris Rock said this years ago. “The white man is the only one who profits from everyone's pain, especially a Black man’s.” you see how they treat us, and you have no inclination of what your future will hold for your people in the aftermath of the Zombie Apocalypse. I hate this form of pop culture rhetoric. There will be souls inhabiting these bodies that were once dead, and decomposing. God will deliver the dead from the sea, and He will deliver the dead from death, and hell.

Isaiah 26:17-21

17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain..

When our Lord Christ Jesus does this work how do you think those who've hated, and betrayed us for a season of sin will react in the oncoming horror set before mankind? God has placed us on the Earth for a purpose, not to suffer. I can't put the blame on Joe Biden or those who came before him for what this nation or planet has done, and is doing to us; psych!!! The God of our fathers will judge you according to your works which has wrought death and destruction. The wrath, and judgment Joe Biden, trump, and their people will incur, and experience is worse than any Stephen King novel or Jordan Peele, and M. Night Shyamalan movies can induce in your alleged, fragile psyche. I've told Jacob, and warned the gentiles of God's incoming judgment, but no ones willing to heed the words of an idiot savant. I'm guilty of many things by way of my woeful condition. I'm compelled to elaborate these truths to you as they become relevant at a particular hour. Watch out for your young children who may be a pain, but they're innocent, and they're yours. The world sees us as prey, a potential payoff for an organ harvest, and fodder for the wickedly unjust. This woman that they have been searching for these last 5 or so days in a National Park has this Nation all a buzz. Who is she? Do you know how many women of Jacob go missing everyday without any press from the media? We can blame them, but are they at fault? Hell yeah!!! Continue to read. Our people have been limited by those who control the information, the social media platforms, infighting within our own tried Black media organizations that have blessed us over the years who are left open to attack by oppressive censorship that purposely restricts what they can, and cannot reveal to the Black masses. I was amazed to find out in 2017 that Coretta Scott King, and her family successfully sued the US government over the assassination of MLK Jr.; that was in 1999. The Atlanta Black Star might have covered the litigation process, but I didn't hear a peep from anyone I knew or even hear about it on any news media platform, especially from the major media news networks. That's how they've Silenced the Lamb with threats, and bullying tactics. We've come too far to go back to Egypt. The only time I wanna hear mention of going to Egypt is if my Church takes a sabbatical to the Motherland, and my Apostle takes the trip with us to seek the truths that have been denied us. Reference Joel 2:28. Those who stay committed to this ministry will see beyond the veil. If you placed all of your faith in me or Apostle Johnson you have overlooked the reasons God led you to this Church, Elders, Evangelists, Prophetesses, Deacons, Ministers, and the entire Church family. He nor I can do anything without the will of the Father, and I’m stuck on dufus. Get yo tail back to Church ASAP!!! We place our faith in men who have let us down many times. Apostle has done much for me, but Jesus has done everything. God will do a good work in all of us. I want every man, woman, and child in this ministry to reap what they have sown; don't leave. When the sky turns black, and the heavens roll back, peeling back the clouds, that's when you will see or hear the Son of God coming for His faithful. Apostle has taught us of the temporal mental mindset many times. Evidently it’s true as many of us have forgotten his teachings. My mind went off on a tangent, excuse me, where was I ? BET is owned by Jews, who used to own us. They run the entertainment industry that Buck breaks our men, and you wouldn't believe what they do to black women, and children who are all looking for a way to display their talents in order to get wealth, and their name up in lights. Leroy has the talent, all Mr. Epstein can offer you is a bogus contract that rips you off in the end leaving you po, broke, and lonely with a busted a-hole. Those who beat the system at their own game wind up 6 feet deep. Why do you think they murdered Michael Jackson, Prince, Sam Cooke, and James Brown? Michael owned half of SONY BMI. Prince owned all of his Masters that his

siblings sold for pennies on the dollar. Sam was going to start his own label, and brother James who had a label, but the IRS falsely audited him several times forcing him to sell his label keeping Soul Brother number 1 from becoming the first billionaire recording artist decades before JZ did. THIS AINT LEGAL. All that glitters isn't gold people. Ask Mr. Goldberg who runs several porn studios in Silicone Valley California. They run the majority of that particular industry as well as recording, movie and TV production studios while controlling the financial institutions. The majority heads of the Department of the Treasury including the current, Janet Yellen have been Jewish. Not trying to be a dissenter, but someone’s getting screwed. It's the middle class, and our fat, Black… ? William Randolph Hearst made the movie Reefer Madness which was a propaganda film not because hemp was a gateway drug to other crap, hell a pack of cigarettes has killed more people than ten thousand blunts. Smoke a blunt, and 30 minutes later you wanna eat. Smoke crack, and 30 minutes later you're sucking d**k. Hemp can be used in a vast amount of ways that would’ve crippled Mr. Hearst’s other industries. You can use it as fabric for clothes that's stronger, and more durable than cotton. The hemp plant had more useful potential than the soybean, and peanut combined!!! Marijuana isn't a drug at all, it's an herb. The Egyptians used it to cure many ailments including cancer. If I were still on Instagram Mark Suckerberg would personally shut my page down himself… again. That's why I no longer use white run social media websites. Mr. Hearst's only interest in getting the government to make hemp illegal was to keep his financial, investment interests ever increasing. In the end it turned out to do more harm than good. Now that the government has managed to tax the herb, they've made it legal. Why in the hell are Black men, and women still serving draconian, archaic prison sentences for minor marijuana drug offenses that don't make sense to a mongoloid retard?!! Like I said: “THIS AINT LEGAL.” Babylon the Damned will fall on its pancaked derriere soon enough. Pray to God the Zombie Apocalypse runs right past your abode or get some pads from your son's football uniform in order to appease the dead in Christ who may want a ham sandwich or your daughter Becky. This too shall pass. Try lamb's blood? The closer I get to death or that visitation with someone I've been wanting to see for a long time because I can't see, the more these things come back to my remembrance. This is enough for today. Whatever God reveals to me in the next few days hopefully I’ll relate some of that information to you. I thank those for judging me as a simp, punk b**ch, p**sy a** n**gah, punk a** n**gah, sorry a** n**gah, faggot, and everything you project or judge according to your flesh. I have no secrets so what am I trying to hide? Get your house in order Jeff, your life may be required of you, and ya boy in the wheelchair. Still someone else's identity Yippie Yai Kai Yay mother!@#$%& 9/21/2021

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thatmangogirlsstuff · 4 years

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Rape.

For so long I wanted to talk about it. For so long, I thought about it all over by myself, came to a conclusion and decided to keep it to myself. But now I feel, is the time I should open up. I'm going to let it out. I'm not going to hold it in anymore. And some of you might won't agree with me or might feel offended but this is it. I feel helpless seeing what happened with her. I've never felt so miserable for someone else. And I'm sure you all are feeling the same. That's how it's supposed to be. But can we take a moment to realise how insensitive and brutal we've turned into as a society. I'll tell you about my experience. I was only 13 yo when some four random guys molested me. That incident left me struck deeply. I was shocked. I was scared and I was traumatized for so many days. I had no clue why something like this would happen to me. And I felt miserable about it. Somehow, I tried to bury that incident and chose to move forward with my life. Something similar to that happened again. Maybe within a span of 8 months or something. I was shocked. Again. And incidents like these kept happening. They haven't stopped yet. I still face them. If not on big scale then small scale. But does this scale really matter ? Everytime when there is a rape case, I see hundreds of people posting pictures for justice about it. I see hundreds of people changing their display pictures. I see hundreds of people posting condolences. But what I don't see is someone coming up with a sensible solution. These cases doesn't shock me anymore. They make me feel helpless. And they remind me how weak my existence in this society is. Unfortunately, when I think about it as a younger me, I can't speak for all women obviously, but for myself - I'll never want my daughter to go through with what I went through. And things like these make situation insensitive. You have no idea how mockingly cruel these condolences and justice hashtags feel. Her soul will never be in peace after seeing people being so insensitive and casual about this issue. None of us are helping her getting the justice. And none of us can. Unless we see the root of the situation. To all those who are posting stuff on social media. Stop it. Please. This in no way is going to help us bring the change that we actually want. Rape culture is not something that has emerged abruptly or suddenly. It's something that has been prevailing into our society since generations. And if we seriously want to do something about it then we need to change the root of mindsets for our next generation. Talk to younger ones. Tell them what's wrong and what's right. Ask them to respect people's consent. This is the only way we can eradicate rape culture. Make a pact. Point to each and every guy or girl that makes a sexist remark on someone. Point to each and every guy and girl who try to objectify a human body by a sarcastic remark. Boycott them if needed. Tell them they're wrong. Tell them on their face. And tell them infront of everyone. Make them feel ashamed about it. Nobody is going to change this situation for us. Let the law do their work. Let them decide what's the right punishment. Accept the verdict even if you don't agree. We're not obliged to change the law. But we're definitely obliged to change our sorrounding. To change people we know who somewhere are wrong in their mindset. Start with a small change. It will eventually go big. And please, stop posting about justice remarks and condolences on social media. The irony is I'm writing on social media to ask people to not to write about it on social media.

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brycetaylorblog · 5 years

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Disregard & Diminish

Artwork by Charlotte Allingham @coffinbirth

This blog is titled ‘reflections’ meaning, there is no agenda, though always a purpose. Stemming from pure emotion and honest thoughts...

As of right now, I feel drained.

Drained from stupidity, drained from hate, drained from sheer incompetence.

Any Indigenous person who has been online or present for any discussion baring any relevance to Indigenous Australia whether the context is negative or positive understands this feeling. It's insidious, and it makes you ask yourself what is the point?

More so for any Indigenous person who has made significant strides to be proactive and break down systems so that they can then be rebuilt into something of benefit to our kids, rather than systemically diminishing their worth as it has over generations, and across the world for many marginalised people.

We all deal with these feelings differently, me?

I try to take negative energy and channel it into something positive by way of learning. Thinking about what I know, what I've experienced and how I can turn ideas into a practical strategy, that when applied can really contribute toward solving problems that affect our people.

Generally, I like to learn from people who have been around longer than me and have tried and tested methods. So I turn to a Ted talk, I want to try and see who's doing what and how I can apply that to what I'm doing. I stumble across this woman.

Dr Monique W. Morris | Award-winning author | Social Justice Scholar | Deadly Woman.

Her, talk: “Why black girls are targeted for punishment - and how to change that”.

This is something important to me as I am trying to gradually introduce education for students around respect and relationships. Given that I am not a girl nor woman, I feel it is a necessity to first, understand these perspectives when developing programs. Second, that I can find the right women to support the needs of our girls where it is not appropriate for me.

I need to listen and learn from people like Dr Morris, and every female if I am to be serious about the outcomes I aim to achieve.

She goes on to eloquently contrast the positive outcomes for her personally as a result of a school system that knew how to adequately respond to her needs. By contrast, many girls of colour, unfortunately, experience the opposite. (This can be exemplified to a shameful extent in Australia, hence the work that needs to be done.)

She speaks to the structural inequities and the individual misconceptions that make up many educational institutions. The result is that schools are generally not a pleasant place for many girls of colour. However, as a point of difference, Dr Morris goes on to highlight strategies and foundation points that can make an attempt towards valued change. I'm not going to be a spoiler. But as an educator my key take away from her presentation was this:

“It might seem like a tall order in a world so deeply entrenched by the politics of fear to radicalize schools as places where girls can heal and thrive, but we have to be bold enough to set this as our intention.”

- Dr Monique W.Morris

I felt that there was a lot to take away from conversations like this, both thought-provoking and thoughtful at the same time. Identifying issues, followed by strategy.

Unfortunately for naïve Bryce, I made the mistake of thinking that an internet comments section in 2019 might have more thoughtful, productive input (its YouTube bra pull ya head in.)

In short. I was wrong. The comments ranged from “the divisiveness of identity politics” to comments questioning the girls in question’s actions rather than paying attention to the cause for the frustration a point I try to highlight as frequently as possible.

But that’s just the real world, and everyone is entitled to their opinion, right? Yep, they are. But opinions are like movies, some are a lot better than others and actually follow a coherent plot.

It is this, that is the main issue with the way society treats women today, and especially women of colour.

Because in this instance we can all observe an accomplished doctor, years’ worth of achievement in a specified discipline, speaking of her experiences as a black woman, presenting her findings as an academic, and elaborating on her outcomes as an active participant of social justice.

From A to Z she has covered every conceivable standpoint to be considered somebody who knows what she’s talking about….. I mean to me? A black woman talking about being a black woman seems like a valid qualification on its own without mentioning years of study and research to go with it….. But this wasn’t enough, hence the problem.

When boys and men of all backgrounds, all ages and all walks of life feel entitled to question an accomplished doctor speaking about her own self, her own experience, and her own professional field, what is it exactly that would legitimize anything that she has to say?

Disregard and diminish.

Any time a woman speaks about being a woman.

disregard and diminish.

Any time a woman of colour speaks about being a woman of colour

disregard and diminish.

When Tupac said:

“Might even know hard it is being a woman, and a black woman at that (shit) in this white man’s world”

Objectively, speaking that is all a man should say when a woman of colour speaks of her experience… “Shit”.

Because as men of any background none of us know what that’s like, but when you listen to the experiences and thoughts shared, they are all consistent. African girls, Indian girls, Asian girls, Middle Eastern girls, Island girls and of course my beloved Indigenous sisters.

We don’t know. We don’t know what its like to have your aptitude weighed against your physical aesthetic, what its like to make a valued point in a work, office or educational setting and have it almost instantaneously undermined because it challenges the safety of righteousness that many of us as men confide in. “I'm a good guy I'm not a misogynist I should be held to high regard.” - No, the reality is that you are purely a functioning member of society and that standing idly while vulnerable girls and women are undermined makes you complicit, and ultimately accepted as a standard.

Women don’t expect us to agree with them, they don’t expect us to put them on a pedestal. They want one thing, Respect. That’s the bare minimum, yet most crucial thing we can offer. I’ve taught grade 6s and grade 7s who understand that.

We know the consequences … Of what happens … When we neglect girls and boys who are vulnerable. Yet, by contrast very few are willing to change the systems that allow this to happen. But this is perhaps the most important point I can make. Social systems are not automated robots, they are made up of individuals. This means that the more individual people who object to the comfortabilities of ‘business as usual,’ and apply their independent values of equity and respect to all aspects of life from personal to professional, then real change will push through the cracks.

“There has been a revolution, the pavement has been cracked…. Now is an evolution, our job is to push roses through those cracks so that only beauty can flourish.”

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calamitycons · 7 years

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ob!anon here, hope you're doing alright (within the best of your ability today, or any time you get this). So i've been thinking about like the small tidbits of the culture we see within the canon of hs and like the very obvious culture clashes that our kingdoms of light and dark experience. specifically with their respective jail systems/justice ideologies and by further extension like what in the world must their mental health care be like, man with the fact that it's considered rather -part1

p2[suicide mention as a heads up if this isnt the best day fer it] pedestrian and normal that like so many prisoners have used self-inflicted head teleportation that they essentially just disabled them. Or that any dersite(or rather Jack)looks at the prospit system and is like "wow what a bunch of babies no one's going to learn anything from this" when like- they're only treating people like well, People? Like it really makes me wonder how like mental health is treated in like midnight citynsuch

Well!

When it comes to prison systems there are two schools of thought regarding what to prioritize. Some cultures, like the Dersite culture in this example, prioritize punishment and discipline. Giving a criminal their comeuppance for doing a crime. Other cultures, like Prospit, prioritize rehabilitation. They want to make the criminal know what they did was wrong, why it was wrong, and repair whatever went wrong in their life or their brain so that they never do it again.

However, it is possible that Prospit’s actually a lot more passive-aggressive in their prison style. After all, rather than send Jack Noir something he could actually eat, they sent him a pumpkin, his least favorite thing in the universe and also something that his biology cannot digest. He’s a carnivore. If he eats a plant he’ll get sick.

How this extends to mental health would be pretty interesting. We never see any institutions for mental health specifically, nor do we ever see a hospital on either planet. It could be reasonable to assume that, because mental health assistance is not extended to criminals on Derse, that mental health might be something only for the wealthy or high-status. That kind of “why give the criminals any special treatment??? They’re criminals???” sort of thing. Meanwhile, it’s very possible that the mental health system in Prospit is either readily accessible to all citizens, or imbedded into the society itself as a sort of “help each other out” kind of deal.

Interestingly, though, removing a method for Dersite prisoners to commit suicide, while Prospit deliberately gave Jack Noir food that he cannot eat, makes this a little more nuanced. Derse doesn’t want its prisoners to die in captivity. Prospit is ignorant of the most basic facets of their prisoners, and may even neglect to feed them appropriately, if at all. Hmmm...

#homestuck #homestuck meta #hsetau #Anonymous

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