#breaking points

[runabout-river]

COVERUP: Israel ARRESTS Journalists During ANOTHER Hospital Raid

For everyone who wants to keep up with (mostly American) politics, I reccommend Breaking Points. They are an independent news organization and Krystal Ball has covered the Gaza genocide since the beginning. They have left wing and right wing hosts and the right wing hosts are not lunatics like you know from other organizations.

#youtube #breaking points #politics #gaza #palestine #genocide #israel

[thethirdman8]

Workers of the world unite! Go United Auto Workers, UAW rocks! Strike baby strike! Power to the people!✊️

#uaw #strike baby strike #fuck the man #breaking points

[houseofbrat]

SHOCKING Details Of Boeing Whistleblower Final Hours Emerge

#corporations #corruption #boeing #murder #scandal! #breaking points #saagar enjeti #krystal ball #Youtube

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

Vote Blue

#us politics #video #sen. bernie sanders #2022 #2022 elections #2022 midterms #breaking points #sen. lindsey graham #social security #social security checks #medicare #medicaid #Republicans #gop #conservatives #rep. steve scalise #fox news #alex wagner #msnbc #debt ceiling #national debt #rep. kevin mccarthy #sen. rick scott #sen. ron johnson #blake masters #rep. jim banks #lower prescription drug prices #inflation reduction act

[pasparal]

Breaking Points: Krystal interviews author and political scientist Norm Finkelstein on Israel’s war in Gaza (November 25,  2023

Timestamps:     (0:00) Introduction, Norm’s Background     (9:54) Essential Facts on Israel/Palestine   (30:05) Norm Challenged on Hamas Atrocities   (39:00) Do Geneva Conventions Apply to Palestinians   (42:28) Norm Debunks Hillary Clinton   (56:39) Were Palestinians Failed By Their Leadership? (1:04:50) Can you “steelman” Israel’s view of the conflict? (1:16:00) Is focusing on Israel “antisemitic”? (1:19:45) What was the real reason Israel stormed Al-Shifa Hospital? (1:31:31) Norm Debunks Claims of Hamas and Human Shields (1:42:00) What Comes After a Ceasefire? (1:45:45) Norm Goes off on Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson

#Norman Finkelstein #Breaking Points #Krystal Marie Ball #Krystal #Ball #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #war #conflict #propaganda #human shields #Geneva Convention #Hillary Clinton #Hamas #occupation #oppression #Ben Shapiro #lies #Al-Shifa Hospital #2023 #Youtube

[madcatdaderpydrawer-blog]

I like the idea of the missed birthday thing being canon because it feels like a really good breaking point for him. Like up until then moon had been mostly able to deal with the general isolation that came with most of the animatronics avoiding him and not being aloud around the kids, but this was just the last straw for what he could handle isolation wise.

To be completely forgotten during a big event that literally everyone else had a part in, one that was DIRECTLY CONNECTED to the place he fucking works, the anniversary of the daycare opening- basically what would be considered his birthday, was a whole other level. It felt very deliberate. I mean, how the fuck could someone genuinely forget that their twin brother has the same “birthday” as them??

It didn’t occur to any of them really how cruel this would seem until after the fact though. The others just wanted to help sun after what happened and the traumatizing shit he endured when the virus situation happened, being as he couldn’t leave the daycare so had basically zero contact with anyone but his infected brother. He was an anxious paranoid mess basically 24/7 and running the daycare alone, and since he was finally allowed to leave the daycare for the first time in years they wanted to make the most of it. Give him some time to actually have fun after all the stress.

Even with the rationale that moon couldn’t be there because his presence would cause sun distress, no one even acknowledged him that day or the days that followed. Whenever there’s a big event that focuses on a certain area or certain animatronics, the others at least try to do something. Congratulate them at least. But they said nothing. Not even his brother.

He never felt more hated in his entire life.

Sun did notice this weird behavior quickly and when he questioned moon about it he just started sobbing and completely caught him off guard. He just told him to leave him alone because he already knows how much they hate him and he doesn’t need to rub it in.

#fnaf moon #moondrop #daycare attendant #fnaf sun #sundrop #sunrise #fnaf security breach au #redemption au #post infection #breaking points

[ask-runtsans]

Do you remember a small skeleton of pink? They were ever so so sweet...but even the sweetest people have a breaking point.

But...depends if you still want to get to know them...even after they broken.

#runt sans #undersnare #breaking points #still wanna be friends? #lonely skellie

[thisisabernieblog]

No one can be surprised by this...

@lordandgodoftheobvious @petalsbleedingbeak @apas-95 @brendanicus @missedthestartgun @nandomando @definitely-ellie @cavern-creature @comrade-bastard @mirtifero @guerrillatech @venerabledreadnought @dicknouget @infectedwithnyanites @theothersparrow

#Russiagate #2016 US election #Hillary Clinton #Donald Trump #DNC collision #Disinformation #Breaking Points #FBI #CIA #US intelligence #Obama #Russia #Ukraine #Proxy war #Youtube

[korribanarchive]

🌹 Pretty please? <3

(I do believe this is my first ask <3 so of course m'dear!)

“He was, but… Nik doesn’t lose control like that over simple anger,” Rebekah replied with a raise of her eyebrow. “Anyway. I’m out of here. I suggest you find your own way out before the boys become insufferable.”

For every ask of a 🌹 i receive, I'll post a random line from one of my WIPs!

From WIP Chapter 11 of Breaking Points

#ask game #em answers #em's writing #the originals fandom #the originals fanfiction #breaking points #genevra morel #rebekah mikaelson

[realcleverissues]

EVERY New Young Billionaire Is Nepo Baby

And more evidence the economy is f**ked

#breaking points #inequality #capitalism #late stage capitalism #economy #Youtube

[runabout-river]

UK Citizens REFUSE To Pay Taxes Over Israel Genocide

Really interesting piece of resistance against genocide and abetting war crimes. In the UK, you can withhold your taxes (by putting them into a separate account) as a form of protest specifically against war crimes the government is aiding.

The guest in Breaking Points explains how this works, under which statutes it operates and how the ICJ ruling that labelled the war in Gaza as a plausible genocide is the key point in its legitimacy. 

Give it a listen especially if you’re from the UK. The guest said that at this point they have about 70,000 pledges/participants including some businesses. Their goal is 100.000 and even more to give the UK tax revenue a significant hit and force them to act according to humanitarian and international law.

#youtube #UK #gaza #palestine #israel #united kingdom #genocide #protest #politics #germany #deutschland #breaking points

[houseofbrat]

This is how big a story Kate's photo is.

When an American political show/podcast that doesn't normal cover any news in the UK on a regular basis--let alone the British royal family, as they are not a political or economic issue--does a five-minute segment on it.

Kate Middleton Theories EXPLODE After Palace Fakes Image

#USA #media #breaking points #saagar enjeti #krystal ball #PR fail #fail! #british royal family #kate middleton #Catherine The Princess of Wales #Youtube

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

[angrylesbianstereotype]

Okay Walter White was actually pretty funny as a character bc he was so toxic that seasoned drug lords were like I cannot work w this man I have to put my mental health first

#like imagine you’re in the drug trade and some war criminal points out this musty old dweeb to you and is like #yeah that guy’s a real asshole #anti walter white #walter white hate blog #breaking bad #brba

[wanderer-clarisse]

early morning sunlight at Bag End

#at this point i think y'all might be tired of seeing my drawings of bag end #since i admittedly am not very creative at thinking of new ways to draw/portray it lol #but this IS like. the one thing that always breaks me out of a long dry season of Not Drawing #clarisse doodles #sorry if the quality is not very good i think tumblr compresses the file #tolkien #lotr #bag end #frodo baggins #illustration #procreate

[helencaddes]

Democratic Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson spoke at Tweedy's Bar in Austin, TX tonight! Love seeing the dedication of the campaign ambassadors getting everything ready for the event!

#marianne2024 #marianne williamson #austin texas #progressive news #politics #left politics #breaking points #secular talk