#Radical Extremism

[biggerchallenge]

It's that time of year again.

#an unfortunate albeit extremely funny reminder that not all furries are queer radicals

[kthulhu42]

"What sucks is they don't say why"

First of all, have a fucking guess why lesbians are saying they don't want to date trans-identified males. Think on it for a moment, perhaps the answer will come to you.

Secondly, you know what happens to lesbians if they do come right out and say why? You dox them. You dog pile them, remove their support system, destroy their communities. You call them TERFs and Bigots, you re-write their language to justify why they "should" be attracted to you. So maybe that's why they're keeping it to themselves.

Hope this helps.

#radblr #radical feminism #terfblr #terfsafe #gender critical #cotton ceiling #Leave lesbians alone #“Why won't these darn lesbians be honest about why they won't date me a whole-ass male” #“It's not like we're often extremely violent and aggressive when we get turned down”

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

want some positive world news? yesterday, in a truly historic moment, Colombia elected its first left-wing president. after 20 years of far-right rule, the traditionally conservative country has elected the remarkably progressive candidate Gustavo Petro (and his running mate Francia Márquez, who will be the first black woman to serve as the country's Vice President!)

for context, imagine if the U.S. had successfully elected Bernie Sanders (after 20 years of republican presidents). that's how big a deal this is. amidst a dangerous global rise in conservatism, this is an enormous win and a cause for hope.

#not a shitpost #also I love that Francia Marquez got elected on Juneteenth #THAT is how you celebrate Juneteenth #i've been watching this election closely and i almost cried when the results came in #and to my american followers: VOTE IN THE FUCKING MIDTERMS #hurry up and sign up to vote by mail i am glaring at you #the last fucking thing we need is republicans gaining seats #that will directly affect what legislation does and does not make it through #it's already difficult enough to pass anything borderline progressive in this hellforsaken country let's not make it WORSE ok #repeat after me: voting is damage control #it does not erase the extreme need for radical and systemic change but it is damage. control. #it is the FIRST STEP not the last

[ovaruling]

i should clarify that the reason i made that post is bc i’m tired of seeing women who i suspect feel they need to grovel to the “let men be gnc” part of the conversation. i’m tired of seeing women qualify their belief that women should be allowed to have short hair and unshaven legs with “and of course men should be allowed to wear makeup and heels!”

you might feel differently, but to me, these aren’t parallel fights. men in heels do nothing to dismantle femininity. i don’t feel it does anything helpful for the liberation of women at all, really. if anything, it encourages femininity’s consumer growth.

yes, everyone should be able to do and wear what they want, obviously, but i personally want to see compulsory femininity wiped off the face of this earth for a VERY good reason—bc it harms women, and it has always harmed women. i literally don’t care how happy it makes men to perform it. it. harms. us. it needs to see widespread criticism. it needs to go.

and to see femininity only grow deeper roots in the sex that currently has the most political and social and financial power on this planet couldn’t be further from my wish to free women of obligatory femininity altogether, that’s all.

#obviously i will never live to see the destruction of femininity. it is simply my extreme wish #if i may say so on the radical site

[sixth-light]

Finished watching the Netflix ATLA live adaptation, having gone into it with absolutely no expectations whatsoever or intention to necessarily go past the first episode if it didn't catch my attention. While it was firmly unnecessary when ATLA existed as an entire piece of art as its creators intended it...it's not half bad? Like, talented cast including the newer actors, decent cinematography/costumes/etc, but what worked most about it for me is that it takes a very similar approach to the WoT TV show in regards to its source material.

Namely, it's working with a closed canon and it's very clearly trying to adapt the entire story rather than do a 1:1 adaptation of each section. So, like WoT, it's unafraid to chop and change up the story order, to introduce characters earlier who only came into prominence later in the original work, to give more depth and space to its villains, and to straight-up write new material rather than trying to stick meticulously to the original text wherever possible. It also does a lot of work to tidy up some of the less-well-aged parts of its source, which lands probably 90% of the time. Basically, it's doing the work to keep me as someone who knows the original story well interested by giving me new scenes and things to chew over without losing the essence of the original. If you're going to do a fairly unnecessary high-budget live-action remake of a twenty-year-old cartoon series, that's not a bad way to go about it.

Let it not go without saying that it has also cast Asian and Native actors as well as handing the story over to Asian-American/Canadian writers and directors and that does matter. Unlike WoT it doesn't have a gay agenda, but to be fair the first season of ATLA (original flavour) barely had a romantic agenda period.

As I said: it's not necessary, but it's not at all bad, and I will watch the next season at least on purpose. I think if we're going to be trapped in remake/adaptation hell for the foreseeable future we can do worse than have them made by people trying to give some new dimensions to the story. I also think the people making this show would do a hell of a job with a Legend of Korra live-action show, and that is a story that didn't get its full due originally and would benefit from being made for an older audience. Plus, the gay agenda is right there. If this show does well enough to greenlight a Korra show...I could find some genuine excitement about that.

#atla #atla live action #lok #the bit that aged the least well but still got used #was the whole 'northern water tribe doesn't let women fight' thing #it's an EXTREMELY kids version of sexism and it still played out like one #even though this show isn't aimed at kids #hard to drop without radically rewriting Katara's arc but...yeah

[luckybyler]

1. So I’m trying to write a counter reply to a reply I got, but the question is, how do you argue with someone when you realize that said someone and you are living in completely separate, different realities? How do you explain things to someone who may just not have the capacity to comprehend them?

2. I made a couple of posts that got many many replies, Some very nice to me, some not so much, some were straight-up vulgar. Lots of arguing back and forth in the replies.

What worried me tho, is that I saw at least one person that strikes me as being radicalized, or in the process of radicalization. Just so we’re clear: RADICALIZATION IS A BAD THING. And it’s not because they disagree with me (many people did), or even that they were rude (many people were), it’s the specific way this specific person answered. I’ve been on Tumblr longer than some people here have been alive, and while it has always had its problems, this is the first time I’m seeing its use as a radicalization avenue in action. And the worst thing is that there’s no avenue to sound an early alarm and prevent something worse as far as I know. It gives me the heebie-jeebies.

#antisemitism #extremism #radicalization #tumblr #noah schnapp #<tagging because it’s about this topic

[cyanidesymphoniesxylophones]

I'm gonna post more regularly here, but please do feel free to send asks or submissions.

Humans are Space Orcs, but aliens discover living decay in humans.

"So you say, as you still live and breathe, your body starts to..."

"Decay, yes. It's why Xy has bone degeneration even though your treatments have been helpful."

"But why is that? Should your bodies not have evolved into the peak of your planet?"

"Our body is at best a scrapship from Jungari-9000 and at worst a tugboat on Nars. So many different parts, so many different functions, some brains lose the ability to keep everything up to shape at an earlier age. But it happens to everyone, the decay."

"Most fascinating."

#free radicals #humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans are space fae #humans are deathworlders #humans are space australians #humans are weird #so the topic im talking about here is oxidation #and how corrode our cells by existing in our body #its just a natural thing to slowly die out as a human #but extremely not for aliens #who might not be carbon based

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

“I was particularly interested in the part of the book where you dive into the phenomenon of “conspirituality,” the combination of conspiracy theory and spirituality. You cite an article in which two social historians make the case that people are drawn to such thinking because they want to be part of a secret that “distinguishes them and makes them feel superior to the unenlightened public.””

#republican assholes #far right extremism #conspiracy theorists #toxic misconceptions #misinformation disinformation #radicalization #republican hypocrisy #traitor trump #crooked donald #maga morons

[kthulhu42]

I'm back to shaming it all.

The push to not kink shame was a psyop to try to convince us that simulated rape/pedophilia/beastiality/abuse/ etc. is somehow not as bad as really doing those things but every time you have an orgasm to some simulated version of real life depravity you're rewiring your brain to think the real life depravity is sexually arousing too.

#radical feminism #radblr #feminism #kink shaming #Why do you think actors have psychological assistance after doing deeply disturbing roles? #Y'all took the “video games don't make you violent” argument to the extreme and now you think no media has any effect on you whatsoever

[shamelessshepherd]

I love how women in my country were given the right to vote and run for an elected office in 2005 like I was alive at that time 😀 I was fucking alive at that time and half of the human population just got their basic rights women in Saudi which is an hour away from where I live just got their right to drive in 2018 and didn’t get the right to vote until 2015 my family loves to joke about how they have the power to marry me off without my consent if they want too but they aren’t gonna do it because they’re “nice” apparently, I’ve been forced to hear about how one must submit to a male and when I ask why the only response I get is that that’s how things fucking are 💀 and yet I’m called the extremist I’m the irrational man hating feminist for going against the grain for believing that it’s not a women’s purpose to be a wife or a mother for refusing to submit for despising male arrogance and domination give me a fucking break

#radblr #radfems please interact #radfems do touch #radical feminism #venting #btw i consider myself extremely lucky there are many women who live in countries significantly worse than mine I just wanted to vent

[lilithism1848]

#communism #socialism #anti capitalism #anarchy #leftism #white women tears #white women evolving #right wing extremism #gop #2024 election #terfblr #terfism #terfenadine #terfsafe #twitter x #radical feminists do interact #gender critical #radical feminism #radblr #sex not gender #hindutva #hindublr #hinduphobia #indian politics #casteism #bharat

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Clay Jones

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

December 29, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

DEC 29, 2023

When asked at a town hall on Wednesday to identify the cause of the United States Civil War, presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley answered that the cause “was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms, and what people could and couldn’t do…. I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are…. And I will always stand by the fact that, I think, government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people.”

Haley has correctly been lambasted for her rewriting of history. The vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens of Georgia, was quite clear about the cause of the Civil War. Stephens explicitly rejected the idea embraced by U.S. politicians from the revolutionary period onward that human enslavement was “wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.” Instead, he declared: “Our new government is founded upon…the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.” 

President Joe Biden put the cause of the Civil War even more succinctly: “It was about slavery.” 

Haley has been backpedaling ever since—as well as suggesting that the question was somehow a “gotcha” question from a Democrat, as if it was a difficult question to answer—but her answer was not simply bad history or an unwillingness to offend potential voters, as some have suggested. It was the death knell of the Republican Party.

That party formed in the 1850s to stand against what was known as the Slave Power, a small group of elite enslavers who had come to dominate first the Democratic Party and then, through it, the presidency, Supreme Court, and Senate. When northern Democrats in the House of Representatives caved to pressure to allow enslavement into western lands from which it had been prohibited since 1820, northerners of all political stripes recognized that it was only a question of time until elite enslavers took over the West, joined with lawmakers from southern slave states, overwhelmed the northern free states in the House of Representatives, and made enslavement national. 

So in 1854, after Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that allowed the spread of enslavement into previously protected western lands, northerners abandoned their old parties and came together first as “anti-Nebraska” coalitions and then, by 1856, as the Republican Party. 

At first their only goal was to stop the Slave Power, but in 1859, Illinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln articulated an ideology for the new party. In contrast to southern Democrats, who insisted that a successful society required leaders to dominate workers and that the government must limit itself to defending those leaders because its only domestic role was the protection of property, Lincoln envisioned a new kind of government, based on a new economy.

Lincoln saw a society that moved forward thanks not to rich people, but to the innovation of men just starting out. Such men produced more than they and their families could consume, and their accumulated capital would employ shoemakers and storekeepers. Those businessmen, in turn, would support a few industrialists, who would begin the cycle again by hiring other men just starting out. Rather than remaining small and simply protecting property, Lincoln and his fellow Republicans argued, the government should clear the way for those at the bottom of the economy, making sure they had access to resources, education, and the internal improvements that would enable them to reach markets. 

When the leaders of the Confederacy seceded to start their own nation based in their own hierarchical society, the Republicans in charge of the United States government were free to put their theory into practice. For a nominal fee, they sold farmers land that the government in the past would have sold to speculators; created state colleges, railroads, national money, and income taxes; and promoted immigration. 

Finally, with the Civil War over and the Union restored on their terms, in 1865 they ended the institution of human enslavement except as punishment for crime (an important exception) and in 1868 they added the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution to make clear that the federal government had power to override state laws that enforced inequality among different Americans. In 1870 they created the Department of Justice to ensure that all American citizens enjoyed the equal protection of the laws.

In the years after the Civil War, the Republican vision of a harmony of economic interest among all Americans quickly swung toward the idea of protecting those at the top of society, with the argument that industrial leaders were the ones who created jobs for urban workers. Ever since, the party has alternated  between Lincoln’s theory that the government must work for those at the bottom and the theory of the so-called robber barons, who echoed the elite enslavers’ idea that the government must protect the wealthy. 

During the Progressive Era, Theodore Roosevelt reclaimed Lincoln’s philosophy and argued for a strong government to rein in the industrialists and financiers who dominated society; a half-century later, Dwight Eisenhower followed the lead of Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt and used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. 

After each progressive president, the party swung toward protecting property. In the modern era the swing begun under Richard Nixon gained momentum with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Since then the party has focused on deregulation, tax cuts, privatization, and taking power away from the federal government and turning it back over to the states, while maintaining that market forces, rather than government policies, should drive society. 

But those ideas were not generally popular, so to win elections, the party welcomed white evangelical Christians into a coalition, promising them legislation that would restore traditional society, relegating women and people of color back to the subservience the law enforced before the 1950s. But it seems they never really intended for that party base to gain control.

The small-government idea was the party’s philosophy when Donald Trump came down the escalator in June 2015 to announce he was running for president, and his 2017 tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy indicated he would follow in that vein. But his presidency quickly turned the Republican base into a right-wing movement loyal to Trump himself, and he was both eager to get away from legal trouble and impeachments and determined to exact revenge on those who did not do his bidding. The power in the party shifted from those trying to protect wealthy Americans to Trump, who increasingly aligned with foreign autocrats.

That realignment has taken off since Trump left office in 2021 and his base wrested power from the party’s former leaders. Leaders in Trump’s right-wing movement have increasingly embraced the concept of “illiberal democracy” or “Christian democracy” as articulated by Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin or Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán, who has demolished Hungary’s democracy and replaced it with a dictatorship. On the campaign trail lately, Trump has taken to echoing Putin and Orbán directly.

Those leaders insist that the equality at the heart of democracy destroys a nation by welcoming immigrants, which undermines national purity, and by treating women, minorities, and LGBTQ+ people as equal to white, heteronormative men. Their focus on what they call “traditional values” has won staunch supporters among the right-wing white evangelical community in the U.S.

Ironically, MAGA Republicans, whose name comes from Trump’s promise to “Make America Great Again,” want the United States of America, one of the world’s great superpowers, to sign onto the program of a landlocked country of fewer than 10 million people in central Europe.

MAGA’s determination to impose white Christian nationalism on the United States of America is a rejection of the ideology of the Republican Party in all its phases. Rather than either an active government that defends equal rights and opportunity or a small government that protects property and relies on market forces, which Republicans stood for as recently as eight years ago, today’s Republicans advocate a strong government that imposes religious rules on society. 

They back strict abortion bans, book bans, and attacks on minorities and LGBTQ+ people. Last year, Florida governor Ron DeSantis directly used the state government to threaten Disney into complying with his anti-LGBTQ+ stance rather than reacting to popular support for LGBTQ+ rights. Missouri attorney general Andrew Bailey early this month used the government to go after political opposition, launching an investigation into Media Matters for America after the watchdog organization reported that the social media platform X was placing advertising next to antisemitic content. “I’m fighting to ensure progressive tyrants masquerading as news outlets cannot manipulate the marketplace in order to wipe out free speech,” Bailey said. 

Domestically, the new ideology of MAGA means forcing the majority to live under the rules of a small minority; internationally, it means support for a global authoritarian movement. MAGA Republicans’ current refusal to fund Ukraine’s war against Russian aggression until the administration agrees to draconian immigration laws—which they are also refusing to participate in crafting—is not only a gift to Putin. It also suggests to any foreign government that U.S. foreign policy is changeable so long as a foreign government succeeds in influencing U.S. lawmakers. Under this system, American global leadership will no longer be viable.

When Nikki Haley said the cause of the Civil War “was how government was going to run, the freedoms, and what people could and couldn’t do,” she did more than avoid the word “slavery” to pander to MAGA Republicans who refuse to recognize the role of race in shaping our history. She rejected the long and once grand history of the Republican Party and announced its death to the world. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#GOP #Letters From An American #Heather Cox Richardson #history #Republican Party #Radical Republicans #extremism #authoritarianism #white supremism

[luckybyler]

Reply to @girlfictions:

1. I didn’t skirt it, that why the definition of Zionism was the very first thing in my post. Now, if you choose to reject that definition and want the word to mean whatever you want it to mean that’s on you. If you think the mere existence of Israel as a country is evil and a bad thing to support, then there’s no productive conversation to be had with you anyway.

2.

Hamas leader's son who became a spy explains what Hamas really wants

What is Gaza’s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war’s death toll?

Amnesty International Report, 2015

Tunnel shaft inside Shifa

Article from 2014

Hamas’ rules for social media activists, from 2014

Wounded man at Gaza hospital criticizes Hamas for hiding among civilians

Bodies of two hostages found near Al Shifa Hospital

Body of a third hostage, a Tanzanian agricultural intern, found, although not mentioned where

The second Israel declared independence, 5 Arab countries declared war against them and they won.

List of expulsions and exoduses of Jews

Iraq expelled Jews to Israel

Why there are so many Palestinian refugees

The point here is not "Israel is a saint country that never does wrong". The point is that Israel is not better or worse than any other country or territory. If a Palestinian or someone with connections to Palestine is allowed to love it in spite of what Hamas and other terrorist groups have done and are currently doing without being demonized, cancelled or called evil; then it's only natural to concede that someone from Israel or with connections to Israel is allowed to love it in spite of what its government has done or does currently without being demonized, cancelled or called evil. Especially after Israel suffered a terrorist attack and is receiving antisemitism all over the world.

PBS article from 2007 summarizing Hamas and/vs Fatah, including Hamas’ objectives

Hamas and PIJ use of suicide bombings

Hamas spokesperson says tunnels are to protect the fighters and civilians are the responsibility of the UN and Israel

UNRWA Education: Textbooks and Terror

Review of 2022 UNRWA-Produced Study Materials in the Palestinian Territories

Hamas Original Charter. Excerpt:

Student speaker at a UPenn rally, the university Noah attends

Pro-Palestine Rally in Sydney, Australia ("Death to Israel", "Intifada", "Gas the Jews")

Rash of international antisemitism carries chilling historical hallmarks

Antisemitic mob storms through Russian airport as flight from Tel Aviv lands

Suspect arrested in death of Jewish protester in Southern California

Pro-Palestine group gives out NYC map calling for 'direct action' on landmarks as city blasts 'hateful rhetoric' and alerts the NYPD

Are you implying that I'm a nonce? Because shipping two fictional characters is not being a nonce. You know what is noncey?

Threatening someone to release CP of them.

Reply right before yours:

made by someone whose first post was said reply, and only has posts reblogging other people's takes re: Noah, Israel, Palestine

They blasted me for saying we live in different realities, then proceeds to praise radicalism and call me a white supremacist.

Exploring hate: How antisemitism fuels white nationalism

The response that worried me (I don't know or care about the ethnicity or religion of this person).

Glorification of terrorism, dehumanization of the other, refusal to listen to other points of view, inappropriate anger. All of these are signs of radicalization.

Said person reblogged this:

A letter from Osama Bin Laden went viral on TikTok, with many users of every ethnicity and religion praising it. The letter contains several antisemitic tropes, condems homosexuality and of course, idealizes Sharia Law.

Rolling Stone article on it

#noah schnapp #antisemitism #jumblr #radicalization #extremism #i couldn't care less about noah schnapp knowing i exist #but one day someone will get ideas from this wretched hellsite and try to decolonize a bus full of people or something #and at least i will be able to sleep at night #because with my insignificant voice from my tiny dustspeck of a corner of the internet #i tried to warn y'all #Youtube