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kithj · 8 months

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i need to complain at length about bit(2019) so im sorry for this

this movie flopped hard. i really wanted to like it because of the premise, it calling itself a "queer intersecional feminist movie" & the fact that it got a lot of hard backlash initially online from the "manosphere" for supposedly being "misandrist" (it's not at all) but unfortunately it's executed horribly. i also think i'm extremely critical on it because there are some similar themes in this movie that i'm exploring with blood choke and seeing someone else tackle them and fail so massively makes me want to rip my hair out lmfao. overall the current reviews for this movie that i found were actually very positive, which makes me feel more insane for all of this. sorry

a group of queer(the leader is the only one who specifies and calls herself a "full blown dyke" so we know she's a lesbian and this will be relevant later) feminist vampires have one rule, which is No Men Allowed. the leader, duke, claims that all men are corrupted by power, and turning them into vampires will always end with them using their vampire powers to lord over and abuse women and others. she is basically the stereotypical man hating lesbian of the movie.

a lot of places online when reviewing this movie claim that the female vampires "only" hunt men and this is why it's misandrist however it's explained in the movie that in general they try to only hunt "bad" people (including predatory men) and one of the examples is a qanon guy that harasses women and others online and is a hateful bigot. it also shows duke killing some frat bro types later in the movie as well. but they do hunt and kill women and other people throughout the movie so i'm not entirely sure where this idea that they only hunt men comes from ? they don't really have any kind of "morality" because they are Vampires. i point this out because this is one of the big criticisms about it (again that it's "misandrist") which i don't agree with (im critical of it for very different reasons lol). they were going to kill and eat the main character at first before duke randomly changes her mind because she thinks she's hot and the main character is *gasp* a woman.

in fact she's a trans woman which is emphasized in a lot of the marketing and the actress is also trans, but in the movie it's barely even touched on so that felt particularly misleading to me since they made it seem like it was going to be significant (also part of why a lot of manosphere types hated it lol). like the word trans is not even spoken once in the entire movie, the audience is just supposed to Know what everyone is talking about. and duke, who otherwise spouts bioessentialist nonsense for a lot of the movie, has no issue with the mc in their very brief exchange that only vaguely touches on it. which is nice, i guess.

duke again makes the comment that you can't give men power, and the mc asks "what about me?" duke says "never even crossed my mind." and that's it. that's like the extent of the mc's transness in the movie. it felt like a cop-out to avoid having to actually challenge duke's ideas in any meaningful way. it would have been more interesting if the mc could have pushed her harder and made her realize that she was wrong. this is what i thought the movie was going to do, with its loudly declared trans mc. we could have talked about the patriarchy at a systemic level rather than an individual level, about how it effects trans women, about how this misogynistic behavior in men (and other women!) is typically rewarded but is not inherent, especially since duke does seem to understand this despite what she says; she's not a terf, nor is she an exclusionist in general, since it's implied some of the other women are bi, so why do we treat her like one? but none of it matters, and duke is just flat out punished in a horrible way later in the movie anyways.

we find out then that duke was hypnotized by a man after he saw her kissing women in a bar. he hypnotizes her, a lesbian, and enslaves her for years and years and forces her to be his wife. duke was abused in a variety of ways during this time until she was able to break his mind control and overpower him, sealing his heart in a lockbox that she's slowly been consuming to absorb his powers, since his heart wouldnt burn.

with this backstory reveal i did feel more sympathetic towards duke and i didn't like the direction the narrative was taking and i knew it was going to go downhill from here lmfao.

the mc, laurel, does get turned into a vampire. she is caught up in her new life and ends up ignoring her boy bestfriend and her brother who both get increasingly annoyed with her (understandably so). however, her boy bestfriend, after being ignored by her for a bit, decides to try and take his own life. it's heavily implied by the movie that this is all laurel's fault. her brother blames her for it and tells her that everything is her fault, he complains that he was always such an Ally and Supportive of her, but she's just a selfish bitch. and this is like... meant to be accepted by the audience, we are meant to be on the brother's side. i found this all very distasteful, especially since laurel's transness is only ever this vague concept that people either "didnt even think about" or just are "supportive" of and it was really gross to rub that in her face on top of blaming her friend's attempted suicide on her all for... having a life outside of him? i'm not saying that it's fine to ignore your friends, but the fact that neither of them also realized something traumatic was going on with her and just assuming she was intentionally ignoring them was also kind of shitty on their end, too.

at this point it was clear that the movie was going to "subvert" expectations and pull a Not All Men in the most inelegant and awful way possible. duke has now become The Enemy and it's revealed she's been using subtle mind control powers on the other vampires to keep them away from men, a power she's been gaining from eating the old man's heart. everyone is mad at her which is fair. however the movie treats this as if it is just as bad as what her husband did for some reason, who was enslaving and raping women for hundreds of years..... it's interesting that they chose this route considering it was already obvious that the women in this group were together out of necessity rather than any real comradery. the opening scene is all of them turning on one of the other women because she bit a man; this fragile alliance is built out of fear and survival, because they know society will never accept them. there's already a lack of agency; society has stripped them of that because of their identity as queer women. laurel's introduction could have changed this, but instead they decide to go the mind control route and just throw all that other commentary out the window. it's all duke's fault now.

a fight breaks out because laurel accidentally bites her brother and she refuses to let duke kill him. she ends up releasing the old vampire who reforms and immediately starts berating duke and the other women. duke understandably freaks out and has her heart ripped out, but the other girls manage to burn the vampire again and lock up his heart. duke, after being forced to face her abuser and rapist and have her heart literally ripped out, is then cast out and locked away as punishment for being mean to men. this is done by laurel literally Kicking her bleeding heart across the floor and down into a cell, which duke has to crawl after and fall down into in the most demeaning way possible.

truly the worst ending i could think of. punishing a woman for rightly being angry about her abuse and comparing her directly to her abuser.... i don't think duke was right at all but i wish they would have approached her character with more sympathy and done something more interesting than just "ACTUALLY... women are just as bad as men sometimes." even though she literally does nothing comparable to what he did lol and the things she was doing were a direct result of what he did to her to begin with. obviously not saying that as an excuse, but that this is what should have been explored in the movie, either by laurel's prompting or by duke having a come to jesus moment with herself after befriending laurel.

and touting that laurel was trans in all the promotional material only for it to never be relevant to the plot aside from her brother and friend whining to her about being such good allies was really gross. being a good ally is not something you do in the hopes of people reciprocating, you do it because it's the right thing to do. you should never make your allyship conditional or something that you use to hold over a person's head.

i do understand that it's important to depict trans characters who are more than just "trans." i know there are people of the opinion that laurel was a good trans character because it was so casual and "wasn't a big deal." i agree, to an extent. because obviously it WAS a big deal, for her brother to have so much resentment towards her about it. and the way it's handwaved off throughout the movie otherwise felt more like they were afraid of fully acknowledging it rather than just being "casual" about it. i suppose that's up to personal interpretation, though, but compared to the rest of the movie, the refusal to even say the word trans just left a bad taste in my mouth. i also understand that this whole post may come off as a "it's not that deep bro" moment and maybe you're right maybe i should just be happy i got a fun vampire movie but personally just accepting shit because it calls itself feminist and has gay people in it is not something i plan to get in the habit of doing.

i recently watched bottoms (which was excellent) and it made me think about this movie again. bit felt like originally they wanted to make something for an ingroup, but then chickened out half-way through and decided to try to appease a wider audience by turning duke into a villain. versus bottoms, which felt like they had a target audience and that's who it was for & they didn't care about how people outside of that group would perceive it.

bit ended up being careless and clumsy in my opinion because they got too concerned about optics rather than just focusing on the story, and the people being represented within that story. it sucks that they took such a shitty approach to duke's character and wrote off all of her concerns as her just being an Evil Bitch Lesbian. obviously there was a lot she was wrong about, but treating all of her concerns about misogyny as equally bad as a man brainwashing and raping women is not the way to send that message.

laurel's brother turns into a vampire in the end, and he asks her if duke was right, if he'll end up being a bad person, and laurel responds by basically just saying "no you'll be fine just don't be an asshole" which is true! it frustrates me that it took this fucking long for someone to say it. this was literally one of the last lines in the movie. why did duke have to brainwash anyone and why did she have to be punished so horribly for us to get here. why is the lesbian, who was abused for years and years by a man who was correctively raping her, given so little sympathy in this "feminist queer movie"?

duke absolutely still could have ended up being a villain. it's just the way they went about it was so heavy-handed; having her use the same power as her abuser, having her heart ripped out like him to imply they're the same, while completely ignoring her trauma and the things he did to her. i understand that they were going for a "power can corrupt ANYONE" message but to me it just simply did not hit. she wasn't "corrupted"-- we know why duke hates men, and it was because she was enslaved and abused by one for years. the movie all but refuses to acknowledge the things she went through and how horrible they were outside of the initial lore-dump flashback. why even bring it up if you're just going to treat her the same regardless? she is given no sympathy or nuance for this backstory.

i think it especially bothered me because i couldn't help but compare duke to valentina. while valentina doesn't have the same hatred for all men, she does hate the council and she hates standard. even the mc worries sometimes that valentina may hate her because she fears that her butchness makes valentina afraid of her and see her as a man.

valentina is absolutely not a good person, and she can be nasty and do bad things. she can be considered a villain. but because of her backstory, because of the things that were done to her, i can't imagine not still depicting her with some sympathy; she's a tragic figure. it's not just black and white. and especially with the current societal climate, the extreme & often violent misogyny being normalized online, the lesbophobia and transphobia, it feels like we should be taking special care with these stories, particularly when we ARE marketing them to a wider audience. (this would be a different conversation for stories written by and for an ingroup, but again, bit clearly chickened out of doing that)

when i watched this movie, all i could think about is the people that would walk away from this with the idea that duke-- the only woman who actually calls herself a dyke-- and other lesbians irl are the real problem. it does not take a lot for a lesbian to be called "man-hating." this is often the default when people are talking about us, whether it's true or not. and lesbians are often blamed for "infighting" in queer spaces, for pointing out lesbophobia and misogyny (alongside people of color pointing out racism). duke is exactly how they imagine all lesbians to be. and of course duke was wrong, but how many people are really understanding why she was wrong, when the movie refused to actually talk about it? why wasn't laurel even allowed to mention that she was trans, why wasn't she allowed to point out the flaws in duke's thinking for the audience to see?

there's not a lot of actually like... Good lesbian vampire movies; they're either fetishistic or "problematic" (i use that word only half-seriously) but there's a reason why lesbians do get depicted as vampires so often, and it's because people think they are evil and predatory. so it's disappointing to see one that's supposed to be on our side reiterate the same old song and dance again for the hundredth time. and again i just felt that duke's punishment at the end was so fucking cruel for no reason.... i really wanted this movie to be the supposed "queer intersectional feminist movie" it claimed to be but it just wasn't.

1 out of 5 stars for the reasons above but also because duke's outfits were really ugly and that pissed me off, too. watch bottoms instead.

#only open this if you want to see me be really annoying #anyways. was duke problematic? should we cancel duke? lmfao #personal #ummm i should tag this probably #lesbophobia #rape ment #my reviews

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awesomefringey · 2 years

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Just found out about Uncle Vizzy on twitter… I don’t know what to think. Some stuff is interesting, mostly on holivia pr, but the guy is not a Larry. I never know who’s trustworthy. Many people have intel/receipts but somehow they’re never the same, so who’s saying the truth?

Ew… forget about the account immediately. They’re full of shit. They make up rumors to cope with their own hate for Harry and their obsession with Olivia.

To give you a little intro (and outro)

When they started focusing on Holivia it was harmless at first until they started creating rumors and rebranded themselves as insider and PR expert

They created a photoshop story (Olivia and Harry sat on a balcony in London for one of their “let’s hope to get seen” outings) where they conspired Harry was sitting with an assistant, not Olivia and dropped their tweet under any Larry twitter they could find until it got traffic

They tweeted TERF, pro Trump and qanon conspiracy shit up to 2021

Once they were big enough they claimed they’re “not a Larry” including tweets of the usual insults against Larries - yet Larries are the main followers…

They get most of their fake rumors ideas from Larrie and Harrie tumblr they then label “INSIDER SOURCE” instead of (saw an anon) and will send us asks to tumblr on anon to back up their own created narrative

They got their knickers in a twist in the past when we ignored their asks or saw us debunking them, so they went as far as attacking Gina directly. They‘re pretty well informed and awfully offended for someone who thinks we’re all a bunch of delusional weirdos and shouldn’t even hang out on here.

They’ve never been right or knew anything in advance ever. They say “when I tweet trust it” (read: source: trust me dude)

If they hit the mark somewhere between logical predictions and good guesses, they made sure to retweet it to say “told you so, trust me”. Everything they post is raked together from Tumblr, entertainment news and their vivid imagination. (Their “sOuRcEs” told them DWD would go directly to streaming platforms, as you can see it’s utter bs. They know nothing.)

They called Harry a rent boy, who is shallow and only in it for the money. Made up that Olivia was physically abusive to Harry, discussed openly how ugly Olivia’s body is after giving birth to two kids, that Olivia was spreading rumors that Harry was a cocaine addict.

It’s up to you if you what you do with it, but if I read Harry discussing the ugly corners of Twitter - THIS is exactly the account comes to mind. Not Larries. Never Larries.

#ask #visiblybi

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doctortwhohiddles · 10 months

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Looks like the Hiddleston tinhaters are in their "It's PR, I tell you. PR" phase. I guess they didn't take too kindly to the Wimbledon pics, Tom saying "our son" and Zawe talking about their home life (though very little).

I wonder how long it'll take them to go full QAnon on Zawe? Because it's not Tom they attack, it's his wife and son.

#hiddleston tinhaters #morons the lot of them #extreme denial syndrom

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princess-of-the-corner · 3 months

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For context, the Energon Universe has four ongoing series at the moment:

Void Rivals (original property that kicked off the plot)

Transformers (following up on a cameo in Void Rivals' first issue)

Duke (following the eventual leader of GI Joe)

Cobra Commander (following... Guess. Just guess.)

The issue comes from Duke, after barely surviving an encounter with Starscream in the Transformers ongoing, becomes a full-blown conspiracy theorist, joining a group of UFO truthers who all get mysteriously murdered.

While the whole "Our heroes are conspiracy theorists who are depicted as smarter than the sheeple" element is rough, the fact that the main antagonist is a war profiteer using the Transformers' technology for their weaponry very quickly overshadows it, so the QAnon stuff is exclusive to the first issue, beyond Duke being framed for murder and having to go on the run to clear his name and thwart the war profiteers.

Cobra Commander, meanwhile, has the titular character be a servant of mutant reptilian humanoids who've secretly been ruling the world from the shadows, known as "Cobra-La", located in the Himalayas. For the record, NOBODY involved in G.I. Joe likes Cobra-La. Nobody in the FANDOM likes Cobra-La. It is by far THE single most HATED element of the original Sunbow cartoon. I don't know WHY they went down this route while marketing built up the series as "Megatron manipulates and/or mentors the man who will one day be known as Cobra Commander", but that's what we're dealing with now.

Speaking of, Cobra-La has been studying Megatron, but the Decepticon leader hasn't really done anything of note yet.

Who fuckin knows but also oof

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caffeineandsociety · 7 months

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Really I think what's getting lost in all the noise here is that zionism is just...a nationalist movement. It is far better understood as a nationalist movement than religious extremism or anything of the like. Nationalist movements can and do pop up in any major culture, in any nation. Just like every nationalist movement, it has its own unique intricacies (such as, in this case, support from evangelical Christians who think that enabling it will bring about the second coming, which is an aspect I truly believe we need to talk about more) but at the end of the day, it's ultimately yet another nationalist movement. Many nationalist movements never come to power in more than just small communities, but sometimes they do make it to national power, and the result is...always bad. At this particular moment in time it's one of the most urgent ones to resist, because it made it into power in a specific part of the world, but at its core it's no worse than any other - all nationalist movements tend to want to end up...Like This.

Nationalist movements promise safety, but they never end up living up to those promises, partially because their entire central conceit can't survive long in actual human populations without becoming super hypocritical and moving the goalposts. It's all about finding safety in an in-group...meaning you have to carefully vet people to make sure they're really part of the in-group. It's a major factor behind the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party effect: as nationalist movements become more powerful, and come closer and closer to total separatism, and yet society doesn't turn into the promised safe, flourishing utopia - the in-group shrinks. People at the fringes are scapegoated and cut out. Furthermore, nationalist movements are usually far more inclined to cut their losses and sacrifice part of the in-group for the "safety" of the rest than to be willing to damage the illusion that anything short of the nuclear option will bring about that safety. Kinda sounds like, like, oh, say, Israel killing Israeli hostages themselves? Discriminating against Ethiopian Jews? This is all perfectly in line with the typical behavior of a nationalist party in power.

What's important to recognize is that:

1) A nationalist movement having power within their nation does NOT mean that the race, ethnicity, or culture they're ostensibly there to "protect" doesn't constitute an oppressed group elsewhere. In fact, in the case of zionism, it's often used as part of the drive to oppress diaspora Jews - recall the evangelical hope to bring about the second coming; the claim is that it will be made to happen by expelling all Jewish people from the rest of the world and building a new temple in Israel.

2) Nationalist parties in power typically aren't universally despised by their citizens...but they don't tend to be fully reflective of popular sentiment, either. Some citizens fall totally in line with the nationalist party's ideals, but most fall on a spectrum from a partially propaganda poisoned "ehhh....I GUESS they're the lesser evil, but can't we have ANYONE else?" to a full-out rejection on the level of "go ahead, put me on a list, I want our leadership's heads on a pike". You can see the same spectrum around you, too, no matter where you live, if you remain at least a little bit politically aware - so if you wouldn't assume every random strange American is a full-throttle QAnon-MAGAt asshole, and wouldn't have in 2016-2020 either, then hey, keeping point 1 in mind, you should probably ask yourself why someone might want you to think that of anyone in any other nationalist-controlled nation - yes, even if they DO have a showcase of that place's MAGAt-equivalents. Arguably, especially then.

3) A history of oppression by nationalist parties doesn't inherently make anyone more OR less likely to fall into their own nationalist movement - it makes people less likely to fall for certain brands of propaganda, but more likely to be seduced by the promise of safety, and once that happens, it's easy for people to have a hard time getting out, because of the knee-jerk tendency to go "EXCUSE me? How DARE you compare me to the people who oppressed me and killed my family!" It's a mental pitfall that can happen to pretty much anyone, unfortunately - and does happen to some, but not to others. See point 2 again: no citizen body is a monolith.

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shrimpmandan · 2 years

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u seem like a reasonable person so i just want to put this out there re: the depp-heard trial

this trial being televised was requested by depp's legal team precisely to garner the reaction that it did. depp's team bought bots to drive the online conversation to be very biased (hence popular monikers such as amber t*rd abt an incident that has been thoroughly debunked). multiple legal experts (who are not grifters ie profiting from the agreeableness of their views) have commented on how irregular depp's legal team's strategy was — not only did they fail to really prove any financial damages, given depp lost major roles of his own volition, but they resorted to character assassination because this was more about PR for depp than winning the case. this became exceedingly clear to me when i watched one of amber's full cross examinations — the lawyer on the other end was exceedingly rude, cut her off at multiple points (when she asked a question!), and generally seemed like she was trying to get as many tiktok soundbites in as possible (which worked, i guess. lol). unlike heard's lawyers, depp's team also perpetuated harmful DV myths such as "why didn't she leave," "why didn't she document all her injuries," "why didn't she have darker bruising," "why did she buy her abuser gifts," "why didn't she tell anyone," and so on. (never mind that she did all the things we tell abuse victims to do!) heard is also the first person to ever provide televised sa testimony — which, btw, was immediately used as a tiktok sound by depp fangirls commenting on how they found it hot and would love to be on the receiving end of it.

i also want to address the anon who talked about msm journalists pushing an agenda or whatever, which.. lol. i think anytime u start distrusting credible news outlets and raving about how the mAinStReAm mEDiA is out to get u, ur veering into to qanon/trumper territory. the only outlets to lend depp support are right-wing, such as ben shapiro's daily wire — and that's not a coincidence. op i totally understand the inclination to avoid pro-AH perspectives given the terfs who have flocked to her, but a significantly larger proportion of depp supporters are MRAs/incels, so ur not going to avoid bad ppl no matter who u support.

some anecdata — literally all DV experts i've come across (such as lundy bancroft who wrote one of the most acclaimed DV books ever, the person who coined the term DARVO (and said it was the legal strategy depp employed against heard), julie owens who wrote a 27-page paper explaining why heard was the abused party, and the literal national coalition against domestic violence) have supported heard in this trial. msm journalists have largely avoided the subject of who is guilty, but have commented on the damaging consequences of the online conversation and how it's not as onesided as social media coverage would have u believe. and anyone who HAS commented explicitly has supported AH.

it's also worth reading the article she was sued over, in case u haven't already, because it's so laughably not about depp that it makes it even clearer to me that this was a circus and not a trial. but anyway

given the way u talk abt this case i don't think you've really dug into it, which i respect tbh, but i also think it's important to acknowledge the sweeping ramifications this will have for abuse victims everywhere. hundreds withdrew their abuse filings in the hours after the verdict was announced, and depp has just demonstrated a very effective playbook to the world by which someone can sue their victim and win. depp's bestie marilyn manson (accused by over 10 women) has done the same to evan rachel wood, and their trial will begin in few months' time i believe.

some starting articles i would rly recommend are "the bleak spectacle of the depp-heard trial" by michael hobbes and "who's afraid of amber heard" by rayne fisher-quann. they're short but informative reads.

obviously i would have loved to never care abt this —i was actually a huge potc fan and casually thought "good for johnny" when all this first began. but it's been inescapable and has been the largest online explosion of misogyny i've ever witnessed. i hope you reconsider ur stance and i'd be happy to provide some more resources for u if you'd like to start digging. thanks

I'ma be honest this is hard as fuck to read just because it's a giant text wall but I'm going to do my best to respond to each point individually.

First and foremost, I don't disagree that there was heavy media bias towards Depp. There were plenty of outlets in support of Heard as well, but generally speaking a lot of people were (and still are) on Depp's side. You have to remember that this is a defamation case, not a domestic violence case, which is why there was so much emphasis on PR. Depp (from what any of us understand) was falsely accused of abuse and took Heard to trial for defaming him, NOT for abusing him, even though that did become a big part of the case later on. I also don't see how the legal team of either of these people is a reflection of THEIR views, but I'll get back to that in a bit.

I should also state that there were people in the public sphere, both in defense of Depp and Heard, perpetuating myths about domestic violence, sexism, and blatant victim blaming. The mutual abuse argument is one I've seen used a lot in defense of Heard which is quite literally an abuse tactic, especially in response to reactive "abuse."

Also, mainstream media is a disease, I'm sorry. Both the pro-Depp and the pro-Heard ones, it doesn't matter, I hate any and all msm with a burning passion and comparing a distrust of it to a fucking far-right internet conspiracy cult is incredibly tone-deaf. The majority of news is just what the government WANTS us to hear and not what is actually going on, but I digress.

Lumping MRAs in with incels is equally tone-deaf and while I don't consider myself to be an MRA outright, I do follow a decent number of MRA blogs (some of which run by women!) who have been incredibly helpful to me as both a trans man and a male victim of abuse.

I also know from experience that situations like these are rarely one-sided. Coincidentally enough, while the Heard/Depp conversation is resurging, my stepdad is currently in prison on a domestic violence charge that my mom didn't even press to begin with -- it was pressed on her behalf. "It's important to acknowledge the sweeping ramifications this will have for abuse victims everywhere" my ass, the law is still HEAVILY skewed against men considering our prosecutor has literally been filing charges under my mom's name without her permission in order to persecute a man who she didn't feel victimized by to begin with and, on her own admission, provoked and engaged in combat with on her own volition. I know this is nothing more than anecdotal but you cannot seriously tell me that women are going to die when ONE male celebrity won a defamation case. Again, not a domestic violence case, a defamation case.

You're right that I didn't actively follow the trial. As I've stated before I don't give two shits about Depp or Amber and their personal lives. What I DO give a shit about is blatant fearmongering and misinformation. If this case supposedly is soooo harmful to abuse victims, then why is my stepdad falsely imprisoned on a DV charge that my mom didn't even press to begin with, under the guise of “protecting women”, months after the Depp vs Heard trial? Hm? Riddle me that.

You strike me as a person who believes everything that other people tell you. You believe the mainstream media that all have their own agenda, you believe the experts who are not infallible or immune to bias, and you believe senseless fearmongering even though nothing has really changed.

#anon #tw abuse #tw domestic violence #heard vs depp #depp vs heard #johnny depp #amber heard #okay to rb

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hopeymchope · 2 years

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From Michael Jackson to J.K. Rowling and Activision: Handling shitty creators and companies

This is going to be a long-winded bit of text considering how/whether I choose to stand up against problematic creators/content, how other people say it should be done, and basically providing warning that these issues aren’t so black and white as you might think.

So, y’know. You can probably skip this if you’re just here to think about or see Danganronpa art and theories and fanfic and all that. :P

Since Michael Jackson wound up inspiring this post, I’ll open with him.

I was hearing his music in my parents’ rotation long before I ever knew he was accused of some despicable shit, y’know? So I got hooked on that stuff before I had a reason to be (potentially?) disgusted. And when I got old enough to be aware of those accusations, I couldn’t get a good personal gauge on whether I believed him guilty of what he was accused. Pre-2019, I felt there were reasons to both believe and disbelieve the whole thing, so I just chose not to have any opinion on the matter. Which I guess is easier to do once you’ve already gotten attached to the music, right? Nobody wants to abandon something they’ve long enjoyed.

I specified “pre-2019″ because 2019 is when Leaving Neverland came around. I’ve admittedly never watched that documentary — the one that convinced many people of his guilt posthumously. And that’s probably chickenshit of me. It probably sounds like I’m just wimping out and burying my head in the sand. But shit, life is so full of despair and misery, and like I said: It’s hard to WANT to abandon something you’ve always taken pleasure from. I got old enough to where I decided to just... stop following every detail of every negative development around the things I enjoy. I’d rather hold onto some modicum of escapist pleasure than constantly have those works make me think about shitty, shitty people and their poor, forever-tormented victims. Is that selfish of me? ......... Uh, probably! If I’m going to keep on consuming that music, do I then owe it to society to fully immerse myself in every terrible thing that may be linked to it so I can be 100% informed of any implicit undercurrents? .... I’d say “obviously not,” but there are definitely those who’ve argued the opposite.

In truth, so many people involved in so many creative works turn out to be sketch-ass fucks. I suppose that’s a natural consequence of how many people it takes to get a book published (tens), or to make an album (hundreds), or to complete a movie/video game (thousands). At a certain point, if you’re going to consume all your media responsibly so that you never watch or hear or see anything that was made by anybody problematic and so you never financially support bad behavior... well, fuck, you might as well give up the entire video game industry, then. And all movies. Because look at those corporations and their bullshit! Look at those thousands of people involved, which almost definitely includes some very bad individuals!

But I can still defy these things in small ways. If I know for a fact that there’s accusations/hard evidence out there against someone or something, I can at least avoid giving them my money directly. I no longer see movies at Cinemark theaters ever since the head of the company decided to start putting money towards supporting Trumpist and QAnon conspiracy theories. I haven’t given any money to Michael Jackson’s estate in a very long time; I can get that music through plenty of other channels than directly buying it.

And if I know a game company is definitely being awful to its workers or has a culture of sexism and harassment? The bare minimum I can do is refuse to give them any direct money and just buy physical copies used so that they don’t get a cent of my cash trickled back to them. So, y’know — no direct purchases of anything published by UbiSoft or Activision. Clearly.

All of the above applies to Harry Potter media at this point — I’m going to do what it takes to avoid giving it any more direct cash, but I’m not going to totally abandon the whole universe either. And to many people, that means I’m a bad member of the LGBTQ+ or a bad ally for trans rights or WHATEVER. But let’s not forget that virtually every talent involved with the series beyond Rowling has spoken out AGAINST her and FOR trans rights — all the actors from the films, the developers of the Hogwart’s Legacy game, and so on. So... do we boycott something that might give money to Rowling if it’ll ALSO give money to all these evident allies, then? Am I wrong to avoid giving money to this franchise if that means I’m denying money to all of THOSE people? For that matter: Is it bad that I’m going out of my way to NOT financially supporting the dev teams at Activision who are getting victimized by management? And... I don’t know. It’s tough.

Besides, You-Know-Who created a story that....... well, let’s just put this right here.

YEAH. The message is right there. It’s baked in. For fuck’s sake, Harry was even forced to live in a CLOSET. It’s too bad the author can’t even fucking see how perfectly her own stories apply to the trans experience. Fuck you, JKR. *sigh*

As I already referenced, LOADS of people would argue (and have argued) that all of the above people and companies should be 100% boycotted, and anything less makes you a person who is failing at promoting equality — a bad person. I don’t think it’s so black-and-white as all that, though. As I said: Who wants to give up things we enjoy in this miserable world? And for that matter, who wants to abandon all the innocent people in a company pipeline who are being diminished and/or abused by the powerful few? Ultimately, what’s the best way to deal with these kind of issues? Fuck if I know.

We can all only do what’s right for us, and what feels like it’s the best/kindest thing overall.

#controversial #long post #j.k. rowling #michael jackson #ubisoft #activision #problematic #harry potter #oof

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supernatpod · 1 year

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Disclosure

If there is one thing that humanity as a species needs and expects it is the idea of closure, and the kind of closure we need most is a happy ending. We need it to the point of folly, even in the world of ufology. That’s what’s given rise to the idea of Disclosure.

Disclosure is simply the government coming clean about the existence of UFO’s and ET’s and their presence on Earth. It is the release of all documents about such matters to the public and a new age of humanity united going forward in the face of that knowledge. It isn’t discussed as an “if”. It’s discussed as a “when”. It’s seen as a basic right of the public and something we’re being gradually prepared for through pop culture and “leaks” by “insiders”. It is basically the Holy Grail of Ufology. Truth. And it’s coming any day now! Just like it has for the past twenty years or so.

It’s taken on a mythic standing in the online world of ufology. Particularly on Reddit and #ufotwitter. It seems to have the same standing as “the reckoning” with Qanon and seems to have about the same level of reality to it. I’ve been digging for a few years now trying to get to the source of the idea and so far I can’t find anything. Or at least, I’m not in the communities where that information is shared. It’s like trying to catch fairies in a garden.

The problem is that the likelihood of disclosure ever happening is slim to none. The UFO phenomenon has been around since 1947 and in all that time the US government and military have presented a united front of denial. Project Blue Book and it’s related organizations were used to essentially debunk the entire genre of sighting and nothing has changed on that front. Even the recent Congressional hearings on UAP’s only admitted that something weird is up there and they’re going to keep looking into it. No where in all of that did they mention anything about making the finding public if there are any.

Add to that the societal impact of disclosure. The revelation of alien life will have a profound impact on humanity as a whole and the full effects still can’t be guessed at. Is the average human ready for the existence of aliens? Are we ready as a species for dealing with xenopolitics? We can barely interact on a planetary level, let alone a galactic one. We’re dangerous apes.

And what’s going to happen when the government does admit something like this has been hidden from the public for decades? Nothing less than the destruction of all trust in our government and possibly a revolution on a scale we’ve never seen before. That alone would lead to a complete societal collapse and anarchy.

Do we deserve the truth? Maybe. But we’re sure not ready for it.

#ufo #uap #disclosure #conspiracy #strange #weird #paranormal #blog #project blue book

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tim-hoe-wan · 2 years

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What's your gc like though? I don't imagine it's similar to lipstickalley or dm reddit/fb. I always get tired of going there since you know it's infiltrated by bias and stans.

I have multiple gcs, but I guess the main gossip one is full of people in the behind the scenes of entertainment.

Our moderator is a pretty big entertainment lawyer and the other is an exec of a pr firm.

Generally our rules are pretty tame and normal; no racism, no conspiracy theories particularly Qanon, no violent convo etc. As it got bigger, more rules applied such as no stan behavior.

Our mods can get pretty easily annoyed by stale conversation. There's tabs for gossips, confirmed content, movie news, music news, fashion, reality

Recently they created tabs for niche convo people tend to obsess about since every now and then people complain about needing to move on from a certain topic. DWD had that treatment. And when the Hailey interview was announced, they made a Jelena tag since everyone's sick of it now too.

#they used to be stricter with the no stan behavior #but now they just make tabs #it used to be more peaceful when they were stricter with that though

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And catching up on what I said I’d do last weekend.

Fair warning: Political crap. Because I’m stuck in a timeline, you know? We live in a society and are stuck with a timeline. =))

First off, yeah, it’s hypocritical as all fuck that EVERY right-winger ever is pissing and moaning and calling “hand-out” over President Biden’s recent act of Mass Student Loan Forgiveness (THANK YOU, Mr. President, by the way) when a) many of these same politicians also took out PPP Loans during the pandemic and never paid them back (which is what loan forgiveness and bankruptcy have in common, superficially, I guess), and also b) ALL of them kept it quiet TWICE when banks got government HAND OUTS, a.k.a. bail-outs over their own greed and ineptitude with regard to exotic investments in real estate. No, seriously.

Trumpist fuck-nuts think it’s all good when a business, a corporation, a landlord, or a politician squeaks out of debt, as Trump did going bankrupt some six times, but God Forbid an ordinary college student or former student should get cut ANY breaks during a once-in-a-century pandemic that BECAME a disaster thanks to what again? Incompetence coming from Trump you say? So-called conservatives living in QAnon’s evidence-free la-la-electric fairyland on 8channel you say? Or maybe both of those points and every point in between them.

In shorter terms: While I personally believed President Biden could have acted sooner and done more--he could have easily went for greatness just by doubling his numbers, $20K baseline, $40K with Pell Grants, and doubled the income limit too--the truth is, getting this contrarian President to actually do something himself is like pulling teeth? Yeah, I’ll take a win when I see it, we can wait until later to see if Manchin and Sinema merit getting their kneecaps ventilated over how much of the rest of Biden’s agenda they forcibly ruined.

Secondly, and yeah, I said I would get to this, I’m just sorry it took me nearly a week to do so.

But the truth is that Trump needs to go on trial for the things he did, and the things he encouraged. Donald Trump needs to go on trial for both incitement of insurrection on January 6th, and for his deliberate mishandling of both Presidential records and Classified materials. America needs to get a spine on this and demonstrate that NO ONE is above Rule of Law. It really is that simple.

But there is something that needs to be said: the outcome of all that will not satisfy anyone. It won’t. Trump will most likely plead “no contest” whenever possible and while that’s the equivalent of a guilty plea, his followers will not accept that as such. Meaning any authorities willing to actually do their as-stated job and stop insurrections from the trial of Trump are going to have their hands full. The joke gets better. Should Trump be found guilty or the equivalent, yes, he will go to prison, but in sentencing the judge will have to consider his age, as well as his protection needs as a Former President. Meaning, yes, as a really old rich-bitch, Trump will NEVER actually go to anything more than a medium-security white-collar prison. No General Population for Trump. His potential flight risk and insurrection risk merit medium security but his person doesn’t merit more than that (he’s 70-something, in mediocre health and needs at least trivial Secret Service protection). Trump’s prison experience will be more like Martha Stewart’s, only more permanent. Chalk that up to White Privilege, I sure do. And I say that as a white guy.

About the only major benefit from Trump’s going to prison we can get is that he won’t be dead and a martyr. He won’t inspire anyone anymore--indeed, the whole point of the sentence will be that Trump will die of old age being kept very much Isolated and Quiet. Maybe that is the best we can hope for, is a situation where sure, people will raise hell but they’ll have to do it as “their own people” versus being led by Trump directly.

Third thing? I keep saying this again and again, but now it looks like it might just happen. This being an effective No More Republicans Scenario. In short, the trial hits, it sweeps up enough figures in both the House and Senate to chill the midterms, and in essence, the Democratic Party gets the spine they needed last year, and uses the 14th Amendment to finally kick the rest of the bastards out to the curb. On the one hand, yes, this is more incentive for the Idiot 30 Percent of every state (the Idiot 28 Percent, actually, plus the One Percenters and kept hacks who support them). More fuel to their fire, more cause for them to raise hell, such as it is, but consider how much Trump has been bashing the Police lately. This is a bad move in terms of tactics because the right-wingers don’t know that if they fight the Militarized Police here in America again, directly, they will die. They will simply be shot dead. Don’t think the police don’t know how their own suffered in the January 6th insurrection. The alt-right as such have LOST the Blue Lives bunch and don’t know it. This isn’t gloating, this is simply looking at how police behave in the USA, looking at what they demand of people typically, and looking at how Trumpist red-caps typically act. Those who still follow Trump still think they can raise hell--and are in for a severely rude awakening on that.

In the meantime, the sensible 70 percent of us, in every state, just need to get used to the idea that we ARE going to go into a one-party state, temporarily, probably for the remainder of President Biden’s stay in the White House. It probably won’t be all that severe but it will LOOK concerning to people who don’t know how the 14th Amendment works. It’ll be a while before we get a post-Republican conservative party, and until that happens, Democrats and Independents will be the only shows in town and on the ballots. But yeah, it’ will mostly look worse than it is, actually. And I’m saying this from Illinois, where the current Governor has literally forced an emergency State-Level coup-d-etat just to make damned sure his state survives COVID-19 without endless bickering from the “but we LIKED Rauner” camp in the State Legislature and elsewhere. No really, if even the “moderate” anti-Trump “republicans” had any say during the pandemic years, Chicago would be DEAD. That’s the state-level conservative bias in the main, “fuck Chicago” because that’s “where them libtards breed and lay some eggs.” =)) So yeah, maybe Governor J.B Pritzkier (whose last name I always mess up) has a point in Assuming ALL Direct Control for the time being.

And maybe kicking the Bastard Party out at the federal level is also a good thing, temporarily, as well.

#Student Loan Forgiveness #Thank You #Prison For Trump #won't be perfect #14th Amendment #temporary one-party rule #sometimes you send the idiots and children to the kid's table while grown-ups handle business

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you sound like the qanon conspiracy freaks who were convinced there were litter boxes in classrooms for kids to piss and shit in lol. was gonna try engaging in a meaningful dialogue with you but since you’ve got your head so far up your ass you’re interpreting genuine kindhearted asks trying to help you as vicious hate and bullying, im not even gonna bother. i just wanted you to know you sound like you ingested horse antiparasitic to treat covid. also ps who the fuck is anne? are you just making up a person to blame everything on bc you can’t admit that you showed your entire ass and multiple people have come to clown? okay anyway you’re too bitter to waste the rest of my high on so byeeeeeeee!!!!

I have not ever been involved with the QAnon movement. Have no fucks to give, never thought any of it was real. In fact, I think it was controlled opposition. I don't fit inside your tiny box, Anne.

I haven't received any genuine, kindhearted asks in a very long time.

If you thought you were being kind, you are absolutely delusional. I am not here to conform to your hot takes. Who do you think you are, what gives you the right to tell me how to live, what to think, what to feel? I'm not here to be your echo chamber.

Oh yes, the Rona.

You want to know what. I feel sorry for you. That "horse antiparasitic" has been prescribed to humans for decades. The only reason the Rona Vax was able to be pushed into production is because the doctors and the MSM and the government lied to you. If they were to admit that a drug, one that's worked for decades, could work in this instance as well, then they wouldn't have been legally allowed to use people like lab rats.

And guess what? Now the people who were gullible enough to take the jab are paying the price, and it's horrible. Turbo cancers. Blood Clots. Heart attacks. Strokes. Bell's Palsy. Sterilization. The list keeps growing and growing and y'all still think you weren't sold snake oil? Wake up!

There had never been a vax for the common cold and the one they have provided still doesn't prevent the disease from being contracted or from spreading. That's a bunch of science fiction, germ theory doesn't even hold water and hasn't done so for 100 years. They were trying to prove it during the Spanish Flu and failed.

I feel so sorry for everyone who is living through this dystopic nightmare, even moreso for those people who are still hypnotized and refuse to acknowledge what they allowed to happen to themselves.

Anne is short for anon.

Specifically hateful anons. It's a term that the Reylos coined because so many people were hating on them. It's been in Tumblr usage for years. It's got "Sure Jan" vibes. An Anne is almost always a Karen. Someone who irrationally expects to get their way and be thanked for their tantrum. And what y'all have most definitely been acting like today is Karens.

I haven't shown my ass, WTF is that even supposed to mean. I mean, do you want me to moon you like in Braveheart or something? It's not my thing but I could probably find you a clip.

No, I'm not surprised that the brainwashed clowns showed up, haters gotta hate after all. It's like you guys get off on making yourselves look as idiotic and small as possible. I've always been perplexed: why do you think it's okay to tell people that they're full of "hate" if they don't agree with your delusions. Why would it ever be okay to tell someone that they should kill themself? Be forced to put up with abuse? Be raped? Does it make you feel powerful??? Because you sound pathetic.

So good, go away, rethink your life, since drugs seem to make you act like a fool that can't be taken seriously.

#oh hi anne #protest #i really thought it was all one anne #little did i know that the clown car was here to tp my house

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johnnyrobish · 1 year

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Trump’s ‘Big Announcement’ - Just Another Grift for Money

Earlier this week, Donald Trump hyped a "major announcement” he was about to make, which QAnon adherents interpreted as Trump announcing he was going to declare himself a candidate for Speaker of the House. Instead, his “major announcement” turned out to be nothing more than a commercial for “digital trading cards,” also known as “Trump Cards” he plans to sell. The former president, who has already announced he will run again for re-election in 2024, promoted his $99 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in a superhero-style video, that claimed buyers will also be entered into a sweepstakes to win prizes that will include things such as dinner, golf, and Zoom calls with Trump.

Gee, and to think I just assumed Trump’s “major announcement” was gonna be Donald finally admitting that Eric is actually Gary Busey’s son and not his. Now, I’ve never been a big NFT fan, but I’ll tell ya what, if they throw in a couple of Mike Lindell’s MyPillows into the mix, I’m there!

Not surprisingly, Trump was quick to point out that these “Trump Cards” (aka Traitor Cards) would make a fabulous Christmas gift. Of course, what he really means is - he’s hopeful these Trump Cards turn out to be his greatest “Christmas Grift.” Well, thanks, but no thanks, Donald. I think I’ll just stick to giving “Fruit Cakes.”

My question is, does his drooling MAGA cult even have a clue as to what an NFT actually is? Not that it really matters. I mean, these are folks who’ve drunk so much Kool-Aid, that they’ll happily blow their hard-earned money on worthless junk like this, and the next thing you know - you’ll see them out and about somewhere, complaining about inflation, high gas prices, the price of food, and the high cost of living under the Biden Administration. And these people “vote” too.

Anyway, Trump said people who buy enough of his cards, will also be eligible to win a dinner with him. Gee, wonder if the dinner will include Kanye West and Nick Fuentes? Asking for a friend. So, what comes next, Trump penile enhancement supplements or weather-predicting sharpies? Sure sounds like Trump must be strapped for cash. My guess is those mean defense lawyers of his, must be insisting he pay his legal fees “up-front.” I tell ya, life can be so unfair.

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That video is the last nail in the coffin for me. I have struggled with Larry for a while and I am basically in the same boat as you, mod, with all of it.

If I imagine Larry being real in 2022, Anne holding/hugging Olivia while Olivia leans her head is a huge insult to Louis and I can not imagine Anne, as the classy lady she is, would do that if Louis was a son in law.

But on the other hand, what the fuck have the last 12 years been then? Fetus Larry was literal lovelife goals. Ted and Dusty? Pointing at Larry signs? Serenading VIP boxes? 'Coincidences'??

I know that in theory Larry checks all the boxes for being a conspiracy theory and when you read about Larrie reactions to 'het content' it is basically textbook conspiracy theorist. Ofcourse, to me, Larrie does not feel like a conspiracy theory because of the things I've 'seen'. But when I read about conspiray theories that a normal person would find ridicuolus like qanon and flat earthers it is basically the same as Larry. Also when I read about people who believe that Benedict Cumberbatch has a PR wife and kids and people who believe that Kaylor is still a thing, they sound fucking nuts. Like literal tinhats. Larry is not unique, the entertainment industry is full of fake baby conspiracies and supposed PR relationships used to hide the gays away. Several of them have been denied by the people involved, but people ignore it because A wore this to X event and that is definately proof because A wore the same thing on a date that the fandom thinks is important to A and Bs secret relationship. This example is from another fandom, but when I remove names it is basically what Larry is at this point.

I think all Larries know we sounds nuts and that is why atleast most of us are hesitant to talk about Larry to IRLs. But I guess we all believe that Larry is the ONE conspiracy that is actually true. It is probably not.

I personally don't know where to go from here and how to make sense of the past 12 years. I guess it's back down the rabbithole again to find where it/we went wrong..?

(I received this ask on Wednesday, May 25th.)

I'm very on the fence about Larry right now. I don't know why Louis is pointing at Larry signs. And I admit that there's still a lot of weirdness surrounding the situation, even in 2022. But despite that, I see very little tangible evidence of an ongoing relationship between Harry and Louis. So I guess I'm just staying on the fence for now.

Like you said, I understand that Larry checks all the boxes of a conspiracy theory. I have people coming to my inbox daily saying "Are you a Qanoner? Do you think Benedict Cumberbatch has a fake baby? What about Robsten and other celebrity ships?" And the answer is no, I don't believe in those theories (at the same time, I've been very critical of certain aspects of Larry, too). However, I do dislike it when people (not you, anon) try to discredit Larry by shifting the focus to other "conspiracies." It does nothing to address the actual points Larries are making, even if I can see the similarities. This has no bearing on Larry, but there have been things that started out as "conspiracy theories" that ended up having some truth to them. Free Britney is one recent example. But at this point, I think there's a lot that's wrong with the current Larry narrative. So for now, I'm just existing in a state of limbo and trying to enjoy fandom for what it is.

And regarding conspiracy theories, I'll just leave this here. I agree with parts of it.

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