#Us politics (by affiliation)

[serenfire]

finished the bg3 ironhand gnome plotline today and was wondering about the pulse of the fandom so i checked and

turns out almost everyone who played this game is a coward!! doesn’t see that bg3’s commentary on violence can be about resistance by any means necessary to the point that you turn the knife on every single one of the people you once called friend

#[slaps car] this baby can fit so much dialectics about direct action in it! #really makes you think how much of wulbren’s motivation is the ironhand vs gondian religious affiliations & history of violence or #an absolute last tactic to stop gortash whatever the cost. which only tracks if #wulbren was gearing up to kill himself in moonrise towers so the absolute wouldn’t get his runepowder design. #like that’s the line between viewing his pov as an underdog tyrant or going scorched earth as a result of a lifetime of desperation. #which way did he get radicalized? in trying to kill the gondians is he aligning with the absolute and bhaal on purpose or despite it all? #and (i say this only knowing about bg1 and not the details of the bg3 durge playthrough) the bhaalspawn is bg’s commentary on #violence as inheritance. fate vs freedom. the ways in which we take our parents with us. & wulbren/barcus could extend this politically #think about it. think about it! #barcus wroot #wulbren bongle #bg3

[sesamenom]

alright you’ve been extremely extremely kind and indulgent to me about my oc and i cannot possibly thank you enough <333333 so MY turn now to ask YOU about YOURS. please tell me about maglor’s distant granddaughter who is also your bbeg?? .w. or about the chatty hobbits i would very VERY much love to hear about both!!!

~ @nelyoslegalteam, reporting from main <3

(long post, sorry for the random people stumbling upon this lol)

so I'm the dm for the chatty hobbits campaign and essentially it's set in a beleriand-adjacent continent, but with a few extra races and stuff. of the founders of the original settlements, the king of elende (the elf kingdom) is Gil-galad's (invented for the campaign) twin brother Finellach/Finwain. originally he was inspired by the fact that gil galad has a ton of names but only uses ereinion/gil, so I just invented a new character and gave him half the names. I headcanon gil galad as maglor's son, so finwain is in universe maglor's son (left at the havens with gil bc his wife divorced him for kinslaying and his kingdom, being next door neighbors with morgoth, is far too dangerous for small children).

Anyways, his descendant Elinyel (also known as aramire or elinnor) is the current queen of Elende! she's an evil fire-themed bard who is extremely feanorian in all the worst ways - her actual kingdom prospered under her reign, but she just does not care about everyone else as long as she's protecting her people. There were some tensions with one of the major kingdoms to the north (conflict over unclaimed territory between the kingdoms and some tariff stuff), so instead of risking the other kingdom starting a war and hurting her people, she just preemptively invaded it and started burned all the border territories to the ground.

her actual coronation was pretty weird- so she's the second child, but her older sister was born in wartime and there's a general belief in elende that children of peacetime make better rulers, so Elinyel was chosen as her family's heir. her grandfather (the crown prince of his generation) died defending Elende in one of the major wars, but his younger brother and two young kids survived. there's a whole feud between their houses because the brother chose to retain the kingship even after the kids were old enough to take the throne. anyways, two generations later Elinyel killed her cousin Arendil (the previous king of Elende) over a dispute about the legitimacy of his house (and what she believed to be a dishonoring of her grandparents' sacrifice) and took the throne.

obviously she has many Issues. arendil also has two surviving kids who are now essentially trying to stop her from murdering all their neighbors in proactive defense of her people.

however, when she first ascended she recruited her friend group as her elite guard/vassals of the kingdom. (aka the other bosses in the storyline). so it escalated to a war between her forces and the children of arendil, which ultimately culminated in her beloved sister being killed by one of arendil's children. this in turn led to her having basically a massive mental breakdown and feeling like she failed to protect her loved ones (exacerbated by some of her other friends being killed in battles she led). a normal person might decide this is was kind of her fault for starting a war and putting her friends in charge of the army. instead she decided she needed to destroy everyone who could ever potentially pose a threat. which is, in her eyes, literally everyone on the continent (except for her kingdom, of course).

so now she is at war with absolutely everyone of all factions! She is also somehow winning by virtue of Song almost on the level of maglor himself, and ten (now six) also incredibly powerful friends. Anyways, she has decided that the best way to wipe out the continent (except her kingdom) and start fresh is to literally find an ancient lost stone that can break the Doors of Night, summon Morgoth himself, and start the Dagorath. obviously this will Not go well for anyone at all if she succeeds, but she is on a full-on rampage and genuinely believes she (plus friends) can protect her kingdom from Morgoth's army while he wipes out everyone else.

Here's some old art of her btw!

And some slightly more recent unfinished art of her and the Evil Friend Group from when they were younger:

and here's (L-R) her cousin who is the 3rd boss, Elinyel, and her sister from before the war!

#asks #THANK YOU FOR THIS BTW #i only have 1 friend irl who plays dnd and is also not affiliated with the campaign #and they aren't a silm person #so i cannot talk w anyone irl about the Lore #one of the few kingdoms who could really oppose her is the magic one #bc max level wizards might as well be ainur and the monarch of the magic kingdom is Very Powerful #however. said monarch is also the twin sibling of one of elinyel's friends #(who is also an evil lich now and also maybe dating a diff friend who is an evil sorceror? not sure of details yet) #so the super powerful battlemage monarch is remaining Politically Neutral so they don't have to fight their literal evil twin #currently the party is level 6 and just defeated the very-weakened wraith of one of the friends #she was a druid but sort of decayed when she was corrupted and was kidnapping untrained/low level sorcs as servants to siphon power from #and also living in the Grove of Resurrection in order to stay intact #i forgot her dialogue while running the battle so while i looked through my docs i just had her say 'loading please wait' lol #also more chatty hobbit stuff #the grove is a huge grassy area with a walking tree in the middle #so the whole thing is constantly roaming aroudn #the wraith-druid had her castle built on it so she could have a moving castle that also heals her #the grassy part will resurrect any dead thing put on it #for the battle they had to drag her off the grass in order to kill her #technically shes been dead for some years but is surviving via constant contact w the grove #the hobbit (Shade) is from the Alder family who has historically been the guardians of the grove #he discovered he could talk to the tree in the middle and immediately started trying to figure out a way he could use the grove to #clone one of the party members #the tree does not approve of intentionally cutting off people's arms to see if it regenerates into a clone lol #oh! and they found anglachel in the grove. the dragonborn monk wants to keep it

[poorlittleyaoyao]

TFW your ex’s shitty dad tries to inaccurately mansplain his backstory to you.

“Yes, I know all about your bastard son whom you acknowledged yesterday for clout. :) I also know about the subtle insult of a courtesy name that you gave him. :) He lived at my house for several years after you bowled him down the stairs :) and I’m still processing our acrimonious divorce so I truly cannot believe :) that you are trying this right now. :)” 

#this also reveals that JGS has no idea what political affiliations JGY's bringing to the table #if he's assuming they don't know Meng Yao is his son (one of the Top Pieces Of Meng Yao Trivia!) #then we can assume JGS doesn't know that JGY was enmeshed with the Nie #or that LXC directly owes him his life #both of which would be EXTREMELY useful levers to pull except that JGS is TERRIBLE at strategy! #he thinks he's a political mastermind but he's just a douchebag #and for some godforsaken reason everyone's rolling with it

[pluviophile-imagines]

For my American followers: firstly, vote!!!! It’s so so important!!!

Secondly, because ur gonna vote I know u are, do yourself a favor and familiarize yourself with your specific ballot by utilizing vote411.org, a resource by the League of Women Voters that lets you put in your address and provides info for everything on your ballot! This is especially useful for smaller races, like your board of education, and for any of the legislation you might be asked to vote on (bc that legal jargon will get u & like half of them will make u go wait why do I even care abt this???)

#pattering on the roof #even the local races r important! #even more important tbh #like the board of education races don’t show political affiliations there’s nothing to indicate what a person believes on the ballot #but for me the first guy was a crazy antivaxxer #who unironically said that bc there were no Covid deaths in our school system the response was ‘overkill’ #so do your research!!!! #I wouldn’t have known that if I hadn’t used vote411

[drbtinglecannon]

Just doing a last minute reminder to fellow usamericans to file your taxes before April 17th 2024, with a high recommendation you use the IRS free filing or one of the affiliate programs they have if you make less than 79k a year (because the more people use it the better, fuck Inuit TurboTax & H&R Block)

You will need to make an ID.me account which isn't really any more difficult than making any other login (you will need your SSN tho), but the filing itself was so simple it took me no time at all and was way faster than using TurboTax because the IRS site doesn't waste a bunch of time doing needless animations to "show your progress" while filing

I filed my taxes a week ago and I've already gotten both my federal and state returns direct deposited. I've never gotten my returns so quickly, it has never been so easy to file, and if people continue to use this service from the IRS it'll only get better.

Also important things to remember with tax season! The IRS will never call you with an automated response about your taxes, those are scam calls just ignore them, and if you do make a mistake while filing don't worry too much because the IRS will just quietly fix your return and either mail you the check/bill or direct deposit it. Happy filing! You got this!

#the irs free filing is only available for 12 states rn as it's rolling out: AZ CA FL MA NV NH NY SD TN TX WA & WY #if you live in one of those states & make less than 79k I cannot recommend using it enough. I did free filing with the affiliate programs #through the IRS the last two years and while they are still way better than turbotax the IRS' program was by far the quickest and in a week #I got both returns. if you don't live in one of those 12 states I still recommend the affiliate programs cuz they are guaranteed to be free #& are just as user friendly as turbotax. the more people move away from tt & h&r block the better cuz those companies are the biggest #lobbyists against the IRS just fucking sending us a bill/check every year instead of us filing this shit ourselves. fuck those companies #tax season #irs free file #american politics #I know bigger blogs have already talked about this but the deadline is coming up! get your refunds!

[kunosoura]

oh that brandon sanderson WIRED drama was funny too. if you’re going to do a hit piece on a fantasy author you really do need to dredge up something better than “he’s a weird nerd who has social foibles” otherwise he’s going to write a corny open heart blog entry that makes you look like a schmuck.

#of course you couldn't really dig into something like 'how do you claim to support lgbt rights while financially tithing to a church which #politically uses its power to dismantle them' while also including affiliate links to buy the Belgariad off of amazon lmfaooo

[rank-sentimentalist]

Alternate Groundhogs

Don't like what "the Groundhog" 'saw' or 'did not see'?

Have your Independent State Legislature select an ALTERNATE GROUNDHOG!

Let's send a message to the GROUNDHOG ELITES!

We're fed up with winter, and we're not going to take it anymore!

Put an end to GROUNDHOG FRAUD!

As an INDEPENDENT CITIZEN, you have every right to ask to see the credentials of "the Groundhog." Every right.

#Groundhog Day #Independent State Legislature #Alternate Groundhog #Groundhog Fraud #satire #hashtag satire #Constitutional Law #US Constitution #Paid for by the Society of Concerned Groundhog Watchers #Not affiliated with any political candidate or party #independent electors #alternate electors

[academiaipromise]

oh i see it’s yet again “people in red states do not actually deserve incoming natural disasters and it’s abhorrent that you think they do” season…wonderful

#us politics #to clarify the quote is me i didn’t have the energy to write what people are actually saying on Twitter that’s me saying that #yet again…if you regularly find joy at the prospect of groups of people trapped in dangerous situations who could die then idc what your #political affiliation is. morally we do not align #you’re not talking about abbott or desantis you’re talking about entire population groups who on top of everything else so do not need this #so either send good thoughts to Florida and Texas or shut up I’m sorry

[underestimated-heroine]

my whole thing with the internet leftist edgelords who bitch about voting & anyone who talks about its importance is that they, in fact, are the ones who have limited the toolbox, all while they accuse "liberals" of doing so. voting and their ideas to enact change (vague though they almost always seem to be) can coexist. a guy who voted can also protest, strike, speak out, and enact your greatest fantasy of torching your neighbor's car and calling it a revolution.

but leftists who refuse actually consider the benefits of voting on a case-by-case basis & scream at anyone who so much as mentions the word "vote" are denying the fact that that activism and legal political action can and do coexist, and - whatever their intentions - are trying to take one of those tools away from people rather than letting them decide for themselves. once i was mature enough to think about all this and see that, i could never unsee it.

#US politics #<-important tag obviously #to be clear i am unsure of my actual political affiliation. but i sure as shit am learning what it's NOT lol #posts i actually wrote

[ur-mag]

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[uniasus]

Hot take - I like the algorithms.

I'm never getting rid of the 'Following' tab, and it's my home, but after being on Tumblr for idk, at least a decade, I'm following a diverse group of people, some of whom no longer reblog the stuff I followed them for, and so when I have a ✨fandom craving✨ it doesn't often feed me. Now, I use it to check up on what people are doing and say hello to fandoms that aren't at the forefront of my brain.

I love the For You dashboard for feeding current obsessions. Tumblr noticed I reblogged a Nimona post, and now I have 10 more to enjoy! Do I think Nimona will be a forever fandom for me? No, so I'm not gonna follow a Nimona blog, but yes, please give me content for it this week!

And Your Tags is brilliant for a few reasons. If I have a fandom that I'm trying to protect - aka not letting it leave my brain in an effort to push through finishing a fanfic - I follow associated tags! (it's amazing how many more posts are tagged #yugi muto vs #viktor hargreeves, which yes, has had an impact on me not updating Grocery List Goals, and damn does that say something about the current state/evolution of fandom.) That means this dashboard is full of things to get me in the writing mood. I also have a sideblog, but I don't always want to follow blogs to feed it. It's a different topic than my main, it'd spoil my Following dash, and I really want to keep those two usernames separate, so following with my main is not the best. So once again, I follow tags!

Favs, I will admit, is usually a bit redundant - there's a lot of overlap between it and Following, especially if someone I follow doesn't use the queue, but occasionally I'll see something I missed.

My Following/chronological dashboard is soo good at giving me Tumblr culture, keeping up with people, and helping me discover new things, but the algorithms are good at giving me specific, curated content and I've used it to find new fan artists. Maybe 70% of my reblogs come from them. It does tend to prioritize recent posts, and sometimes I'd love to find older works (damn, finding a string of yugioh posts about DSOD predictions was wild and delightful, but that was via trolling older blogs and sometimes I'd love to see spiderverse art from the first movie too, you know? ) but I do get a mix of wildly popular posts and those that only have 10 notes.

I guess, in short, I like having options and enjoy using parts of tumblr in different ways for different reasons. Not that I want them to add more algorithms, these are good, and there are other features I'd love more (*cough* sideblog usability *cough*), but I also get those are for seasoned Tumblr users and not the newbies they're trying to attract.

#tumblr #rl #fingers crossed people are polite about this #internet culture #experience curation #fandom #these are tools #use them or not #but don't hate people for using them #the only algorithm I don't like is the one they use for blaze posts #I get some weird posts from that #that are SUPER ad-y #but that might be an issue with a shifting blaze culture #i only allow blaze posts by users to appear on my dash #and a lot of those posts now are sales focused and not users saying look at my frog #as I think more potentially corporate/span/affiliate accounts are formed due to migrations

[sourav7679]

#us politics #health #nutrition #Affiliate #digital marketing #news

[thelittleseawitch]

#Jeff Jackson #us politics #I am not affiliated with the congressman but I appreciate his commitment to clear and concise sharing of information

[athingofvikings]

In my own experience as a Jewish Leftist, and corroborated by the similar experiences of other Jewish Leftists, there are, roughly speaking, five to six broad categories of Leftists in their attitudes towards Jews. This is a tangential categorization in terms of precise political affiliation; in other words, one's position in these categories is not dependent on what precise type of Leftist/Progressive an individual is.

Type 1: Open And Unapologetic Jew Haters

These Leftists hate Jews and don't try to hide it at all. According to them, Jews are the Problem, and they know what type of Solution they want enacted.

The archetypal example that I'll currently use is Cynthia McKinney, former US Congresswoman and US Green Party presidential candidate, who, well...

But this is also the class of Leftists who say that there is no room for Judaism in their ideal, imagined perfect world, that they picture everyone assimilating and giving up their ethnic and cultural identities to just be "human", and often single out Judaism as a particular problem in that regard.

Type 2: Closeted Knowing Jew Haters

These Leftists hate Jews, know that they hate Jews, but know that it's bad optics to openly praise Hitler or cozy up to the KKK to satisfy their hatred of Jews, so they try to find the barest veneer of plausible deniability to hide behind. "Anti-zionism" is a particular favorite on the Left, but the hatred has a way of slipping past the mask when they get questioned.

A classic example here is the Boston Mapping Project, who literally made up a list of every Jewish institution in Boston, Mass, on suspicion of them being "Zionist"--including elder homes, Jewish high schools, and Kindergartens, and including scary "links" on the map to various government agencies, no matter how tenuous or outright imaginary, thereby invoking old conspiracy tropes about "Secret Jewish Control of the Government". (And BDS, as the parent organization, also gave the lie that they're just antizionist, not antisemitic, when they disavowed the Mapping Project for bad optics, not the rank antisemitism and conspiratorial thinking they were promoting). Another example would be the organizers of the Chicago Dyke March, who explicitly expelled Jews from the March and crowed about "zio tears" (which is a slur originally used by the KKK, no less).

However on first encounter, Type 2 are indistinguishable from and camouflaged by...

Type 3: Undereducated And Unknowing Traffickers In Antisemitism

These Leftists don't hate Jews per se... they're just unaware of the deep antisemitic history of repeating claims that "Jews have too much power", or stating that the Holocaust was "White on White violence", or that "Jews are just White People from Europe", or any of a host of other antisemitic beliefs that are endemic on the Left. They're initially indistinguishable from Type 2, as they say the same things, and can only be told apart by their reactions; a Type 3 will go, "Oh, I didn't know and I'll try to learn!", while a Type 2 will typically double down, or let the mask slip in some other way.

The problem is that, from the perspective of Jews, Type 2 and Type 3 are indistinguishable from each other at first glance, and rather than try to engage and risk the emotional harm, a lot of Jews tend to write off all of them as Type 2, and there's a lot of debate on the ratios between the two.

Also worthy of mention, as a midpoint between Type 2 and Type 3 are:

Type 2.5: Openly Antisemitic "I'm Not An Antisemite, I Just Refuse To Learn, Listen, Or Let Jews Define Antisemitism"

As a midpoint between types, these Leftists openly traffic in antisemitic motifs, conspiracies, and attitudes, all the while insisting that they're not antisemitic. They're a midpoint between types 2 and 3 because they've had plenty of time and opportunity to learn about the bigoted attitudes they're espousing, but refuse to do so... but at the same time, they genuinely seem to think that they're not antisemitic. They just think that there's a vast Jewish conspiracy out to get them personally, or any of a number of other antisemitic beliefs, and refuse to accept or learn that what they're saying is antisemitic. They can believe that they themselves are not all they want, saying that Jews have too much money and power and run the world's politics is still trafficking in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The archetypal example of this type, assuming we can take his word for it, is Roger Waters. Waters is openly and explicitly antisemitic, saying that there is a widespread conspiracy of Jews running the world's politics... but he has been insisting for over 40 years that he's just "antizionist, not antisemitic."

But these are just the outspoken ones. None of them would get anywhere without the tacit support of...

Type 4: The Silent Majority

These Leftists are, being blunt, hypocritical cowards. They don't want to get involved in issues on antisemitism. When a Leftist Jew is being harassed by one of Types 1 to 3, they don't speak up, they don't get involved, they just say nothing.

Maybe they agree with one of the above types. Maybe they just don't want to get involved. Maybe they're afraid of seeming sympathetic to Israel. Maybe they're afraid of getting the social backlash that the Jew is experiencing. But ultimately, their motivations don't matter, their actions do—and their actions give tacit social support to the antisemite in the Leftist group, not to the Jew being harassed and chased out.

And the reason they're hypocritical cowards?

Well, if your ideology claims that you want a better life for everyone and social progress and being against racism and bigotry... but yet they don't speak up when it's happening right in front of them...

Well.

That says a lot, doesn't it? Both on what their ideals actually mean to them... and how highly they value Jews. And we know that it is possible, because of...

Type 5: The Pro-Jewish Leftist

These Leftists are, in my experience, a minority outside of Leftist Jews, but they do exist among non-Jewish Leftists. They stand up to Types 1, 2, and 3 when they express antisemitic views, and try to shame and cajole Type 4 into standing up as well.

And, just to point out how normalized antisemitism is on the Left...

Some people in this category might object to being labeled as "Pro-Jewish", as if they're biased for Jews. But I have to ask... do you think that they would also object to being labeled "Pro-LGBTQ"?

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism

[trendymorgue]

this blog has left the rails of tradition and i am sorry. but frankly so has the rest of the world. potentially important information needs to be shared amongst ourselves, it's how history would want it and how history has operated. the sharing of information. anyway you (all) should buy a gun, its fun amd easy and all you do is show up and point at a shotgun and buy it... at least here in minnesota.

#i don't really think its about politics anymore #i don't affiliate with either party because both are totally fucking broken #all the hot button topics locally do not concern me #i just want to live unobstructed and free to do as i please #and i have a feeling all of you do to #stay vigilant and don't buy into what they are attempting to divide us with