#an entire fucking nation of people

[galmiahthepigeon]

Massive protest in Buenos Aires against severe budget cuts for free public universities. People sing "And now you see, and now you see, those who don't jump voted for Milei".

#i didn't take the best video #but i hope it's clear that this agglomeration I recorded here was not even close to the entirety of the people gathered up to protest #it was so massive you couldn't get to the plaza where the protest was meant to culminate #because there was so much people it was entirely occupied and it was physically impossible to advance #the subways were filled to the brim in both directions and you had to stand in line to use them. which NEVER happens #people who you could never even concieve of going to a protest were there. people ideologically opposed to protests were going. #people of all different political leanings were singing their own songs and suddenly united singing our national anthem in unison #you do NOT fuck with our public education. universidad gratuita pública laica y federal. #on a tangentially related note #there were basically no reports of repression even though they had been going crazy with police brutality in all the previous protests. #i think it's bc there literally weren't enough cops to handle this amount of people #a revolution is sounding reeeeeeally appealing right about now

[chaiaurchaandni]

israeli tv runs a counter of fatalities in gaza

#i have never known an entire nation of people to be so barbaric and apathetic and insensitive and inhumane #just thinking about zionists makes me sick and nauseous #fuck israel #death to israel #i have never hated anyone as much as i hate these people #i hope their military bases and checkpoints and givt buildings burn to the ground #free palestine #palestine #gaza #israel #israeli war crimes #long live palestine #glory to the martyrs #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live the resistance

[naamahdarling]

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#ashamed and alarmed to discover that much like teachers #people who work closely with folks who spend a lot of time on the streets #and in shelters #or in buildings that offer services to the disadvantaged #will catch every fucking thing that goes around #just like their clients do #which sucks more for them #by like a whole fucking lot #but also sucks for my boyfriend who needs to do his job which is to help them and would rather not have to do that while sick #but we don't have a choice and they don't have a choice and this work MUST be done #so he has to try to do it anyway and hope he can hold up #desr god he is tough #for a soft guy #it also sucks for me because i catch almost all of it too #we have each been sick three times this year #and i know people do deal with and are dealing with way worse so i feel bad being mad about it #not mad at the people or my boyfriend but mad at the whole situation #this is infuriating and between us this year we could have fulfilled the snot needs of the entire nation if there were a shortage #i hope i don't catch whatever this is #and i hope our immune systems are not so ravaged by the covid we had a year ago that we cannot build a more robust immunity to rhinoviruses #ughhh stupid flesh hovels

[anxiously-sidequesting]

To me personally malistaire is the funniest and most pathetic villain wizard101 has ever had AND I MEAN THAT SINCERELY!!! Between doomed children who have been manipulated, groomed, and isolated into becoming products of their environments, someone scorned who has been punished unfairly by having your biological heart torn out your chest and turning your children and all of reality against you to satiate their own ego, a nonhuman entity so powerful and so clueless they unintentionally threaten the lives of everyone around them, Malistaire FELL DOWN BRO. Like yeah you're bitchless now. You and me both. Get in line. Everyone in this room is bitchless. We are ALL living that ✨💅🏾💃🕺 Single Life™. You are a middle-aged man. Cope

#this post is lighthearted btw JELAJWODJTU i aint actually mad #but like...... malistaire as a villain is kinda mid though im sorry. IM SORRY ill take the L opinion if i have to #its one thing if he lost his wife to unfair systematic negligence or thru someone else's doings or smth but. no she just got sick bro 😐 #HWMSNFLEKSDIDOA EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I WILL GIVW A BAD OPINION AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM. i cant be right ALL the time /j #like if i dont focus on malistaire's motives and just his ACTIONS he seems super metal #but then he does ALLLLL of that heinous shit because his wife died. like thats absolutely very sad but damn get a grip #(fandom starts breaking in my windows and drags me out into the street) IM SORRY IM SORRY LOOK ITS JUST NOT MY CUP OF TEA #ive never been invested in those Mr. Freeze types of villains where a person they love dies due to normal circumstances- #and they go fucking BERSERK. they LOSE IT. they go like “well okay fuck the entire world i guess nothing matters” and then kill people #LIKE IF IT'S DONE IN A CERTAIN WAY I CAN BE INVESTED but more often than not to me? its just kind of funny #like “okay damn there was only ONE person keeping you from being a national criminal? okay” #and you know what? thats a mood actually. thats a mood #without my cat i probanly would have become the president by now #for some reason its a little diff for me if its like a child you lost and idk why #like if malistaire lost a kid instead of his wife id probably be more inclined to feel bad and thats terribly fucked up JSLSJSJSJ #you know what its also bias because in some shape or form i relate to all the other villains. morganthe and duncan especially #whereas in malitsaire's case i have never been married. which i mean doesnt stop me from tryna be more synpathetic i guess but im just not #ONCE AGAIN FEEL VERY BAD FOR HIM AND SULVIA. like losing someone to sickness or any reason really is a serious thing #but in terms of a fictional setting with fictional characters where one of them decides to commit genocide over it? 🧍 like okay boo u do u #i will gladly give up my mantle for the “most reasonable opinions” guy in the fandom foe this one. i deserve it #wizard101 #w101 #wiz101 #text posts #malistaire drake

[chaos-in-one]

When you're trying to find content of one of your favorite shows, there's barely any, and the majority you find mischaracterizes the fuck out of all of the characters

#fandom stuff #was looking and immediately saw someone uwuify one of my favorite characters #he is a mid 40s man in a zombie apocolypse and a complete little shit the entire show #that man is not 'soft' in any way shape or form #what the fuck are people DOING #also immediately saw someone whitewash one of the main characters #she is a black woman #why did they make her TAN #z nation

[lord-squiggletits]

Something else that makes me sympathetic to Pharma's situation is like. Idk if there's an actual term for this or if someone smarter and more academic wrote it about some real life context that actually matters.

But, so we've already established among Pharma stans that the circumstances at Delphi were blackmail/torture with no real way out that wouldn't involve Pharma being responsible for people getting killed (either killing patients for the deal or having everyone die bc he failed his end of the deal).

And I feel like while "he's still in the wrong because he killed people" is part of it, another sort of implicit part is the idea that Pharma should've been willing to take more personal risk, maybe even risk dying? I mean, Ratchet does ask "why didn't you just detonate it near the DJD" (to which Pharma responds that he did try to get Sonic and Boom to do it, but they refused) so like

Idk I feel like we do have this social notion of martyrs as a very romantic ideal, people you can praise for being so brave and strong and righteous that they ended their own lives for their cause, while you can also coo about how sad and tragic it is that dying is what it took for them to do the right thing. But at the same time I feel like in reality, having an expectation that people become martyrs is kind of a toxic social norm bc like. It's very easy to demand that others sacrifice their lives for some Ultimate Moral Good when you yourself aren't experiencing the same hardships as they are. And ultimately it is kind of fucked up to tell someone "the moral thing you should've done was risk your life/kill yourself" because asking someone to pay their life to do the right thing is no small request. And sure, the typical response would be to call them a "coward" for caring more about saving their own skin instead of doing the right thing... but again, death is a really scary thing and self-preservation is a really strong instinct, so it kind of feels like having this binary view of "you're either a Brave Hero who sacrifices your life for everyone else or a Dirty Coward who's too scared of dying to do what's right" is kind of fucked up?

I guess the best way to describe it is that if someone willingly gives up their life as a sacrifice to others, it can be a noble thing because it's a choice they made willingly, but if it becomes a Moral Standard that in order to be a Good Person you have to be unafraid of throwing your life away and if you aren't willing to die you're a Cowardly Bad Person, that's when it becomes toxic.

Idk, I guess how this ties back to Pharma is that he was never in a position where he expected to make these kinds of moral decisions/ultimatums. He's a doctor who doesn't even get into combat, his job is to heal and not to kill, he's behind the front lines in a hospital that's supposed to be a safe, neutral place for him to heal people. So in the face of suddenly having a "murder people on behalf of me, or I murder everyone you swore to protect" ultimatum thrust upon him, I understand why Pharma wasn't """"""""""brave enough"""""""""" to "do the right thing" (whatever that would've been in the case of Delphi). You could argue that maybe a frontliner soldier accepted the burden of possibly dying for their cause and they've become used to it as someone who lives that reality every single day, but I feel like for Pharma, who's a doctor and a protected non-combatant (from what we can tell), that sort of risking of his life/living with the fact his life could be snuffed out any day isn't something he would've been prepared for at all.

And for me personally, from an outsider's perspective, it strikes me as kind of unethical to go "oh well he should've just detonated the bomb himself even if it killed him" bc again, there's a difference between witnessing a moral conundrum as a bystander versus being the person living with it and being under time pressure where it's do-or-die. Just as part of my personal standards, I feel like death is such a huge consequence/burden of someone's actions (literally you are no longer alive, any potential you had left is cut short, you cease to exist on this plane) that it feels rather callous to go "Well you should've just been willing to die for your beliefs if you really cared that much!!!"

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #this is only like tangentially related to pharma honestly #not to compare blorbos to real life but like. it reminds me of this phenomenon where privileged ppl in privileged countries #will tell ppl living in zones of war and strife 'oh well if you don't like your gov so bad just revolt against them' #like oh yes tell me how easy it is to stand up against the threats of torture and death #surely the only reason people would want to avoid that is bc they're cowards or don't want to stand up for their beliefs #contrary to what nationalism would have ppl believe. 'wanting to not die' isn't a moral position #everyone wants to live. no one wants to die. it doesnt make you a bad person to be scared of dying #esp (going back to blorbo's) in a situation like pharma's where every option he had ended in death #the death of his patients or the death of everyone at delphi or his death personally #on top of the fact he's a noncombatant who hasn't been desensitized to violence/risking his own life #and is dealing with a trained group of killers that he can't possibly match on physical terms #so yeah actually i don't blame pharma for what he did #he made shitty decisions in a shitty situation but was ultimately a victim #also if you want to view the blackmail deal from a framework of abuse #it is also fucked up to basically tell someone they werent brave enough to just kill their accuser or ask for help #isnt the entire point of such situations that the victim is both powerless to stop the abuse #and too afraid of asking for help/thinks they cant ask for help. and thats why they dont just get out #idk sometimes the best moral judgement is to forgive someone or view it as 'complicated' #sometimes regardless of the good or evilness of their actions the best choice is to not make a judgement #or to err in favor of a forgiving/'i cant speak for your experience' judgement #anyways the fact is that the rosy fantasy of being a brave noble soldier who sacrifices for the cause #rarely stands up to reality where youre just terrified and powerless and dont know what to do #and suddenly the rosy glow of The Noble Cause isnt comforting in the prospect of horrible torturous death

[magdaclaire]

the fact that the grand majority of felons in the united states are unable to vote sends me into a rage like no other

#like not only the prison industrial complex. but now you don't get to participate in political action #and lets not pretend that the inability of felons to vote has never contributed to the arrest rate of black and brown people #i just. why is that a thing. even if you did crime you still deserve to have a voice in the ruling of your nation no matter how small #it is... so incredibly stupid #the way that being arrested and charged with a crime can destroy your entire fucking life especially if you are a minority #how is everyone in this country not furious all the fucking time #mer rambles

[llycaons]

I'm finally watching s2 for real. the atmosphere IS very fun and true to the book, but like...not to be a killjoy but I hate that hc let that guy gamble his daughter's life. I hate it so much and it's bullshit that the justification of 'it's mutually consensual' is the last we hear about it. that woman never agreed to this! you can't bet other people like you own them! that might be the worst thing hc ever does like genuinely I don't understand why more people don't talk about it like he's at the head of an organization that allows people to use other human beings as bartering chips...or at least lets the men use their female family members. but he's treated in the fandom (and canon) like all his behavior is justified bc he's funny and sexy and devoted like...jesus christ. I feel so wild like how have I never seen anyone talk about this

#tgcf donghua lb #the most people say abt hc is how he was willing to destroy an entire nation with xl as wu ming #which I'm also not thrilled about but he was considerably fucked up and had literally only one thing to live for #but there's no reason to run this gambling house except for power #sorry to bring a critical eye to the fun bl show but that honestly makes me sick #and tgcf DOES have good themes and messages and serious content I don't think it's a reach to seriously engage w it #ultimately wx are my guys due to morality and doing good for people/not harming anyone if possible/being selfless and compassionate #is SO central to their life philosophies (circumstances allowing) #that vibe is so much weaker with hl...they're more wrapped up in each other than anyone else #what even ARE hc's moral principles? #does he have any???

[pepprs]

i literally need there to stop being situations circumstances events developments complications and happenstances. for the fucking love of god

#purrs #but there will never stop being any of those things so actually what i literally need is to learn HARD AND FAST how to stop getting so #fucking triggered over a situation i know is NOTHING so bad that im anxious for the entire rest of the day and can’t even get any work done. #like (jade from tesco voice) girls… im not gonna lie to you. i think therapy is not working. i think i am not mentally or emotionally strong #enough to work in this job and i think i am never going to get mentally or emotionally stronger. ive been stuck in the quicksand too long #and now im atrophying. i cannot develop the situational awareness and motor skills or awakeness (and i mean AWAKEness.) to safely and #consistently drive a car. i cannot develop the intellect and drive and courage to get an advanced degree or be in a leadership position that #everyone actually sees as a leadership position lmfao. and i cannot develop the emotional intelligence and inner peace to not get triggered #out of my fucking mind at work to the point where im having anxiety heart palpitations and fighting back tears. i am just stuck as i am #forever. and you know how i know that? BECAUSE IVE WORKED AT THE NATIONALLY RENOWNED CENTER FOR YOU-ARE-NOT-STUCK-AS-YOU-ARE-FOREVER FOR #FIVE FUCKING YEARS SINCE ITS LITERAL FOUNDING AND HELPED TO FOUND IT AND IM STILL LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! i go back to square one EVERY #FUCKING DAY!!!!!!!! how am i supposed to tell other people who they are is what they bring and the world can change and whatever when i am #the fucking antithesis of that. when i don’t even believe my own words. like the way i want to punch out every window in this building rn i #HATE BEING LIKe this i hate being in the psychic prison of scared little girl mode all the time forever no matter what and being beyond help #and disappointing and burdening the people around me because i can’t be fucking normal about like. hierarchy and institutional politics LOL #delete later

[rainboq]

They're coming for the libraries because if they control the repositories of knowledge, they can make sure you only see what they want you to see. What they desire, above all else, is power.

#politics #Evangelicals are just fucking evil #Just a pattern of abusive behaviours calling itself a religion #And trying to abuse an entire nation #They're coming for the libraries schools and trans people for *now* #They're coming for everyone who isn't them next

[orcelito]

Is it so hard to not post hate in main tags? Like is that such a hard thing to ask??? Just block the damn tag if you don't like a specific version man, i don't go into the tags to see post number 7291 about how someone else hates a specific version of a show I like. Fuck off.

This goes for both tristamp and trigun 98 haters BTW. Just shut UUUUUP I don't wanna HEAR IIIIIIT

#speculation nation #i love both versions for different reasons and i am so TIREDDDDD #this was brought on by a post about 98 tho. shut up shut up shut UP #if you dont like it then FINE but i happen to love it and i go into the tags to see stuff for all of it #and i dont wanna see ur take on assuming that 'everyone agrees it sucks' fuck OFF #im not even a nostalgic fan i watched stamp first but i love 98 too. very much #in total. 'your experiences are not universal' so shut UUUUUUUPPPPPPP #i will and have blocked people over this. as i did just now! #like this isnt the same as good faith critiquing. both versions have flaws. #but going 'this entire show sucks and everyone who loves it is wrong' STOP. JUST STOP. POSTING THIS IN MAIN TAGS !!!!PLEASE!!!! #random surge of anger lmao im at work rn anyways. just. UGH.

[faggotician]

its just....the way my brain is, if i dont see a point in something i do Not want 2 bother with it. but the issue is that working constantly has no ultimate point. im not working for a goal, im working to get food to allow this body's survival . whats the point in that. i want 2 create i want 2 have time 2 sit and draw stupid mspaint furries. i want 2 get home st 1am and not have 2 lament abt going 2 bed early cuz i need 2 get up early for the job i JUST finished . we all know how fucked up this is, and anyone who doesnt admit it is always clearly in denial . The empire is going to fall, & america has a reckoning, but its so depersonalizing 2 be a US citizin right now....

#Making it so so clear that as a USamerican i live in the lap of luxury at the cost of many people #My tax dollars directly contribute 2 worldwide genocides...coups #Almost every destabilization of any nation #And its so fucked up to know and be aware of how vile and evil this entire country is #& be a citizen of it & still just . like #Call it lazy or lack of willpower and if u rly feel that way lack of care but like #im so fucking exhausted frm working every daylight hour just 2 afford a basic cart of groceries #and 2 see whats happening & feel so immobilized by the need 2 work 2 sustain yrself & survive like #its just so hollowing. #ive tried 2 get coworkers & groups together 2 even just #sit on the steps of a manufacturer w signs and that cldnt even be arranged bc everyone is so fucking exhausted #we have 2 days of the week 2 not be grinding so its all spent recovering & leaves no room for pssion #& i know this is Exactly what They (they as is the hierarchal billionaire tyrants lobbying 4 corps) want #the guys in power need us exhausted & beaten down #its ez 2 push anything when yr life & soul is dedicated 2 profit 4 survival #What else do u have 2 care abt . just let it happen vote whatever doesnt kill u even tho u know its all fake #We all know it is . we all know our vote & our beliefs dont rly matter 2 the people who want the status quo forever #So what do we do but sit and cry and whine & make posts like this .

[furby-organist]

// Big fan of the Radio Demon Race Theory that goes on in this fandom but one thing I don't see talked about is how having a biracial/multiracial background -> looking racially ambiguous depending on the context and the STUPID ASS QUESTIONS & COMMENTS you get about it!! LMAO

#// some of y'all never had people ask 'WHAT ARE YOU' or ACCOST YOU ON THE SIDEWALK to ask your 'nationality' or get called 'exotic' like a #FUCKING ANIMAL!! LMAO. People really ask your nationality when they mean 'why aren't you white' or 'what are you' and then get MAD #if you answer with 'I'm a US Citizen.' Are you the department of homeland security? fuck you mean what is my nationality. #that's the study break post. #mun post. #man y'all know Alexa has had to field some DUMB ASS QUESTIONS both as a biracial creole person and a sometimes racially ambiguous person #imagine trying to explain what creole heritage is to a dumbass. like how one that one annoying producer on LHH went the entire season #struggling to understand the concept of an afrolatina. he was still beefing with the afrolatina singer at the season reunion bc he was #convinced she made it up or something. y'all know DAMN WELL alexa got some dumb ass questions like 'why do you speak french if you're #american' trying to explain that Louisiana was a French colony. #'yeah but why would your maternal side speak french if theyre african. wouldnt they speak african.' I'm not exaggerating this is the average #level of stupid that exists and it's not uncommon. I cannot begin to tell you how stupid people are.

[silverislander]

rereading a book i loved in high school to annotate a copy. remembering why it connected w me so much

#its the miseducation of cameron post btw #i read it literally 3 times in the space of 2mos almost back to back #i brought it on two trips- that was the year we went to austria and the year i went to national music camp #and like. yeah. yeah i guess that was why #smth abt that book just really cuts to the heart of what it was like for me growing up in the church #my church wasnt the wbc or anything ofc but like. they also werent/arent queer affirming and its hard to explain how it hurt me #bc everyone expects a story where someone sits me down and like. threatens to beat me if im gay or whatever #that didnt happen. its just that i figured out by osmosis from this environment that i was wrong and that i should be ashamed #and nobody ever challenged that assertion so it stuck for years afterwards #its like growing up in a house w mold in it youll never really know that its there until youre told but you know smth is hurting you #and by the time you realize what it is its gonna take fucking forever to remove #and thats how it is w cameron! she knows long before shes sent to the camp #i just keep coming back to how everyone who went to nationals w me came back talking abt this amazing spiritual experience they had #and how much it meant to them to be able to go #and all i was thinking was that i didnt make even 1 friend and everyone treated me like i was fucking diseased the entire time #the guys didnt want me around bc i was a girl and the girls didnt want me around bc i wasnt a girl to them #my roommate acted scared of me from day fucking one and i still dont really know why. wouldnt stay in the room w me #i would sit down somewhere in the common area and people physically turned away from me to have their own conversations #i think they knew. i wasnt out at camp ofc but im p sure they knew smth was up w me #levi.txt #idk. i dont have a Trauma to point to but i feel like calling the effects of what the church did to me religious trauma is appropriate #it fucked me up so so bad. i had to work through so much shit and im still not out of it #today im not ashamed of being queer but im still discovering new issues that living like that gave me all the time #ultimately. im ok rn dw just thinking a lot. its a great book im glad to reread it and really analyze it! its fun

[roseverdict]

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#EDIT: moved organizational tags up so they actually work #rosie rambles #in the tags #hellscape in palestine #thinking about the whole. yknow. war crime situation in palestine #and it might just be my brain connecting unconnected dots #but wasn't there something going around a while back about how to pronounce gaza and palestine #(bc europeans/americans/whoever are claiming palestinians can't even pronounce 'palestine' correctly #except they're calling the localized 'palestine' the 'correct' pronunciation which is. so incredibly wrong) #bc it's been rattling around in my head for a while now. it's more of a falasteen than a pal-ah-stein. falasteen. philistine. #PHILISTINE. AS IN. THE FUCKING. PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE ALREADY BY THE TIME MOSES AND THE ISRAELITES SHOWED UP. #THERE WAS AN ENTIRE SUNDAY-SCHOOL-FAVORITE STORY IN THERE ABOUT IT #VEGGIETALES MADE AN ADAPTATION OF ONE OF THE FIGHTS #look. i am very much way too goy and way too sleepy to consider myself an authority on any of this. #but palestinians were (seemingly) there first. #then israel (the original nation not the reconstruction we have nowadays) dropped in and was there for a good long while. #then other nations conquered and un-conquered and conquered some more for a while #then modern israel came into being. and like. ok. i'm Christian. this is a known fact abt me. but i'm pretty sure our holy book told us we #won't know the day or the hour of the end of days. and yet there's this push to send Good Jewish People back to israel that's spesrheaded #by…alleged Christians. who believe that jewish people need to return to israel to signal the end of days. #which. again. won't be predictable. #idk where i'm going with this #i just. i think i'm just getting way too jaded from hearing people irl cheerfully support genocide and being unable to convince them #that it's Fucking Genocide. or in one specific case #that it's Fucking Genocide. And That Is BAD #i think i just needed to straighten out my thoughts a bit before i go to sleep #just. if we were going to just look at the ancient past. both nations have existed in that plot of land. and peace would be nice. #however. #it is Very Clear that one side's definition of 'peace' is 'peace and quiet. because the Others are all dead :)' which is. Not Great! #augh.

[thealogie]

just thinking about how Trump literally put a 33 year old with not enough years of legal experience to even make partner at a law firm to the federal bench and then she told the government they can’t make people wear masks because she looked up the meaning of the word sanitation in a 1940s dictionary. Imagine if we tried to do this shit to conservatives

#god it’s not even worth thinking about how absurdly successful I would be right now if I were willing to publicly say fucked up evil shit #I could be fox’s chief Supreme Court corespondent if I were evil. sorry I know it sounds like humble bragging at a difficult national time #but it’s really just thinking about the entirely different loyalist ecosystem these people play in where experience and qualifications don’t #mean anything at all at any time