#so has american politics

[qsmpbutwithsignlanguage]

What we have learned from Minecraft roleplaying these last three-four years (yes it's been that long):

If somebody wants to run for presidency, no they don't.

If somebody says you need a government, no you don't.

If somebody wants to stage a revolution, no they don't.

If that somebody is the same person, no they weren't.

You don't need politics in Minecraft for the love of god-when has it ever ended well??

#dsmp #qsmp #karmaland #'yeah i know what that is' #-I say having watched one stream #listen Karmaland V was literally the prime example of why we *don't* need any more presidents #no more elections #no nothing #just let us go back to our caveman roots #mainly inspired by qsmp forever #but y'know what i'm beginning to notice a trend #If you become an mcyt president through legal and moral means without going insane or becoming corrupted in the following days/months/years #Then you deserve to keep it #That's honestly a record #mcyt #mcyt has ruined me #so has american politics #qsmp forever #dsmp wilbur soot #dsmp schlatt #dsmp tubbo #k!Luzu #k!Quackity

[qqueenofhades]

May I present the best headline I've seen today:

Look, the Fulton County people have already said they plan to give him the full works: fingerprinting, mugshot, perp walk, releasing height/weight, etc, all the usual criminal treatment that he's managed to avoid so far. So yeah, he's gonna fucking HATE it, and if I don't see the mugshot everywhere on everything and made into all the memes you can think of, the internet will have failed me.

#textsfromgravityfallsblog #ask #politics for ts #the giant orange monster #i don't approve of the carceral system etc etc but also if there is anyone who deserves the worst the american prison system has to offer #it's the fucking orange fuhrer #so yeah

[hollenka99]

I love how Lovejoy songs tend to have one of three themes:

A) Hey girl, you know you deserve better so how about you leave that prick for someone better (like me)

B) We’re not compatible but fuck if we’re not going to be toxic about it as we stay together anyway

C) Fuck the way politics has turned out in the 21st century

#lovejoy #after such a high saturation of American centric songs I have to say it's so refreshing when I hear one of their political songs #because yeah fuck the tories but also hell yeah look at these songs that you can tell were made by brits #there's pub culture vibes and references to our local political situation #which just feels great as someone who has never encountered songs like that before

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: made a HUGE amount of progress this week (for context—purple is unfinished & yellow is finished; last week all of them were purple) … i am in the home stretch here

#and then… it will be time for me to say goodbye i think #some darkstar politics in here #driven by an essay I read last year titled tinted blue: Air Force culture & American civil-military relations #everyone has a different idea of what modern warfare will look like #1 & 2 are from the same section obviously… i just think it’s interesting #& i wrote elsewhere in may maybe that ice & mav would be on opposite sides of this debate #ice with his big picture managerial perspective… it’s good for warfare… mav with his specialist pilot loyalty POV #obviously their conversation predates the russia-ukraine war which has shown drone warfare in its fullest to date potential #4. is… idk. does it help to tell you it takes place in 2014? #3. * #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #top gun #top gun maverick #top gun fanfiction #sorry for the like defense ethics conversations if that’s boring #i just think that stuff is philosophically so interesting

[gawayne]

if I’m honest I’m kind of baffled that there’s anti-voting content going around. again. you cannot have forgotten so quickly how bad trump was and how hard the republicans tried to prevent you from voting. did you forget the russian bots??

#whatever #it’s genuinely disheartening to watch americans throw away their political influence over empty morals #in an election that could so easily destroy your own country’s politics too and that you can’t even vote in #alberta has been descending into authoritarianism especially around trans healthcare since 2016 #republican politics are becoming more and more popular in the federal government #when america shrugs and says actually it doesn’t matter if a fascist moron gets into office. both parties are the same. #it does send a message to right wingers internationally #it’s so frustrating. america’s cultural influence is so massive #yknow people here carry around the confederate flag and talk about their constitutional rights now. we don’t HAVE a constitution #anyway

[buggbuzz]

Israel is a terrorist state? We don’t even want this war, we want to live in peace and we don’t mind if we get a Palestinian state existing next to the state of Israel as long as no one hurts no one.

I don't really give a shit? As far as I'm aware Israel forced the palestinians out of their homes and land. Israel is commiting a deliberate genocide against an entire people and destroying every physical part of their culture they can. You don't get to defend a country committing an ethnic cleansing with bombs targeting children, infants, pregnant women, hospitals, ambulances, and journalists and then go "oh I just don't want anyone to hurt eachother 🥺🥺🥺" get real.

Coming from an american whose country has had a direct hand in catastrophically destabilizing countless other countries' governments and economies, as well as the indigenous peoples' of the land they stole AND its own people's political movements/saftey/rights, you have to at least fucking acknowledge when your country is commiting crimes against humanity.

I'm sure there're israelis that don't want to massacre an entire people. But your country is commiting devastating acts of terrorism against another. It's a terrorist state.

#there's so much i didnt even fit in there. the engineered famine and the disease and blocking medical supplies #im not an expert in this shit but i have been paying goddamn attention #anyone who actually knows shit abt this genocide please feel FREE to add on or correct me #and now this is reminding me i should reblog more shit abt what america has done outside of us and to native americans #so thanks! #free palestine #palestinian genocide #palestine #gaza #israel #politics #2024 #asks

[bijoumikhawal]

WRT to Kai Winn I hold two opinions constantly at the same time

The writers and fans often position her in a way that is inconsistent with their world building by giving her more power than she actually has (thinking of her as a white catholic or evangelical when in universe she just isnt in that position) and the show occasionally gave her views that were "radical" in what felt like an attempt to delegitimize them

In 60 years Bajor will have its own version of the Hinduvta movement or some shit and they'll fucking love Kai Winn, because she has horrible politics and will have sown the seeds for their existence

#cipher talk #Most of my annoyance with the mainstream ds9 opinion is people don't get WHY she sucks #Because of this typology where she was intentionally written to remind them of a mean Catholic american teacher #Instead of one of the nastiest Orthodox Jewish women you could scrape out of a barrel or Coptic church bro #She has suffered! And she does understand politics in a way I sometimes agree with! But she's also terrible #She's like one of those guys on Twitter who acknowledges Copts are Indigenous and what that means for us but calls other Indigenous people #Slurs and evokes racist stereotypes against them because they aren't Christian and the Western churches were active in their slaughter #So they can't separate action against the roman catholic church from their own trauma

[spitblaze]

I'm not a psychologist or a politician or anything approaching an expert about literally anything except a few specific video games but I feel like so many people wouldn't be agonizing over the moral implications of one (1) vote if we as the less-than-uppest-of-upper-crust had the ability to meaningfully affect change in ways other than 'spend money/do not spend money, vote for the red or blue tie'

#spitblaze says things #im aware its significantly more complicated. but i think this is whats driving a not insignificant amount of posting #biden has been doing a godawful job with foreign policy. i am under no illusion that trump will do better #you can still just THREATEN to withhold your vote. i get why some might not want to but its an option. #every presidential election since 2008 has been the most important election in american history. im tired. #idk man. i havent been super engrossed in politics since high school but ive never seen this much agonizing over whether or not #pwople should vote like. at all #personally im of the opinion that you should. its a good thing to do. but you should also exercise your power to put pressure on politician #and threatening to not vote for them is a pretty good way to do that #i gotta stop posting abour serious shit. but maybe id do it less if shit sucked less. so here we are #free palestine. if federal level politics is driving you insane then pay more attention to local level stuff. join a mutual aid org #and donate esims and food money to gaza. do things besides agonizing about november

[candied-cae]

Support For Palestine - No $$$ Needed!

Firstly, I highly recommend This Site, That Will Donate With One Click! (Seriously, no signing up, no inputing information, no costs, just press the button, I used it myself and you can revisit it every 24 hrs! So try to bookmark it or keep the tab open!)

And secondly, I recommend contacting your representatives in government and advocating for the millions of innocents currently facing danger in the Gaza Strip.

Joseph Biden, in a recent address, acknowledged that the "overwhelming majority of Palestinians had nothing to do with Hamas". I believe this time, right now, is our chance to try and break through our decades long, wrongfully given, support of the Ethnic Cleansing of the Gaza Strip. So I urge you, anyone with even just the time to spare, to try. Plead. Demand. At the worst, you tried and lost a little bit of time. At the best... maybe some people don't die.

So, I wrote a twt thread with instructions/advice for American Residents to reach out to their local representatives as simply, easily, and quickly as possible, and I wanted to share that same info here. I promise I only wants a few minutes of your time.

You can use this White House Contact Page to send one message to Biden and another to Harris. Just fill in your info and you can either write your own message, or feel free to copy and paste mine (it'll be at the bottom of this post)! The focus is first demanding that the US withdraws its support of the Israeli State.

Next, you can use this Common Cause page and instantly get all the information to reach out to your local representatives, it even tells you which committees they sit on! Just put in your address and it'll use that to find which jurisdictions you're in and provide links to all their contact pages. Again, fill in your info, some of mine also required a Topic, so I selected either "Foreign Relations/Affairs" or "Civil Rights and Humanities" and put in my message.

I clicked through all of mine, sent in my messages, used the exact same ones for all of them, only adding an additional note for my most direct representative as I grew up in the same town and wanted to express that to hopefully assist in drawing on his humanity, and it only took me about 30 minutes to get through.

Personally, I wanted to scream and rage and throw my whole beating angry heart at them and their gross, racist bigotry that allowed them to not only neglect the issue of the Israeli Occupation, but fund it. The US has been aiding Israel in their ceaselessly cruel genocide against the Palestinian people, and I'm sure it lights a white-hot fury in many of us. But, I wrote this plea with as much restraint and grace as I could bring myself to allow, if only for the sake of them possibly listening instead of tuning it out.

My statement -

Subject : We Cannot Support a Genocidal Ethnic Cleansing

To the Office of  _________ - 

I am pleading with the governing powers in place to help the people of Palestine. The government in Israel has said not only with their actions, by committing multitudes of War Crimes and breaking the Geneva Convention repeatedly, but even in their own words that they intend to entirely decimate and wipe out the citizens of Gaza. They have already killed and injured thousands in only these last few days - to say nothing of the past 7 decades they have spent doing the very same - and this devastation is a human rights violation like something we have never seen to this degree being supported and under-reported. Especially by the American Government, which has always held its citizens to the belief that they are a good and just organization that stands for humanity wherever it can. 

We have already lost so many innocents in Palestine, but there are still so many that can be spared and saved if our government can withdraw its support of the Israeli Occupation. If they can inform their citizens of the truth that has been happening for so, so very long.

The U.S. has been wrong in its history of supporting and ignoring the cruelty that has been taking place for so long. But only by righting ourselves, by admitting and accepting that the financial aid we've sent has, at this point, become a sunken investment without the extermination of the Palestinian people. It hurts to lose so much money, it hurts to admit we've been on the wrong side of history, but the only way to stop the damage from growing exponentially worse, is to address it honestly now. 

This is not about Judaism. This is not about Jewish people by ethnicity or religious affiliation. This is not about Nazism or Antisemitism.

This is about the colonizing power of the IDF that has been ignored and allowed for almost a century.

Please. Try to save some of them before it's too late.

This comes from a concerned citizen who is feeling extremely devastated by the state of things currently. 

As a human being, who I hope cares for the lives of fellow human beings, we cannot allow this to happen. Least of all with our seal of approval. 

-[Your Name and any Salutations]

#Please Repost #If there are any other questions do not hesitate to ask for help! #I will offer whatever I can to assist in making sure we can get as many voices to ring #From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free #Free Palestine #All my heart goes out to the people of Palestine #To the people currently in Gaza and to their friends and family who cannot help them right now #And though many of us don't have the spare money to donate to their aid #and many of us might not be in areas to attend protests #and many of us know it's difficult to get the people in power to listen to helping the most people if it doesn't bring in money #And the US has already put in so much of an investment. It's going to take a lot of voices to get them to accept that loss. #But we have to try #I believe we just have to #Palestine #Palestinians #Pro-Palestine #Palestinian Support #Politics #American Politics

[hussyknee]

Not entirely sure how I'm expected to respond when I point out something is white as fuck and the person I'm criticizing goes "I'm literally PoC!!" Okay? Good for you? Get well soon??

I literally live in South Asia, a place still nursing the world's worst colonial hangover. That's like one billion brown people desperately in need of joining Bootlickers Anonymous. If I had to respect the rancid takes of every yahoo that lives here I'd have to drown myself in the sea.

Living in white countries does something odd to diaspora brains. If you call yourself BIPOC in your own head long enough you end up forgetting you're just a garden variety idiot mainlining white supremacy like everyone else.

#essay: why I hate the term BIPOC #1) it's North American as fuck #seriously the word has little meaning for Black and brown people in Europe. We're all just darkies over there bc the whites dgaf #also there's two systems of race over there. the global colour system that's a result of european colonization of the other continents #and the older system unique to the region where white Indo-Europeans hates the fuck out of everybody else #so you have to be very specific about the fact that you're coloured of skin #i mean black people in australia are aboriginals. 'black' even in the US used to be a political identity not only a racial one #2) i'm not fucking BIPOC in my own country. I just live here. #I am the default. it's whites that are alien and specified #considering we're literally the global majority‚ it would be very funny if we just called ourselves 'people' and only singled whites out #it's them that invented race after all. just so they could proclaim that white people were the master race #i know it wouldn't work bc then they'd all be like 'how DARE you call us white' like Zionists. but it would be funny #i just think that this whole BIPOC thing makes whites out to be default and makes us hyperaware of ourselves as political entities first #and fuels neoliberal identity politics that culminates in fighting over twitter hashtags and 'Diversity Equity Inclusion' bs #where they make Black and brown people mouthpieces and cops of white supremacy and imperialism #and calls it 'representation' #racism #white supremacy #colonialism #colonization #knee of huss

[asitrita]

I just spent half a day arguing with someone who claims aph Spain is practically Arab because of Al Andaluz and I can't with people

That person didn't know any basic history. If Spain is Arab because of Al Andalus, India must be an exact copy of Britain and the quintessential Anglo Saxon society. And at least they do speak English, lol.

That person probably fed on all the Orientalist propaganda and ridiculous stereotypes about Spain. But the influence Arab culture had in Spain is minimal and superficial. Sure, there's some Arab influence, but it is pretty superficial and non transcendental to Spanish culture, society, or identity. Its biggest contribution to Spain was it acting as its adversary, hence reinforcing the Roman and Christian identity of Spain's population. They should just ask themselves what language do Spaniards speak and what is the predominant religion in Spain.

Also, just ask the person if they think Arabs are responsible for mass genocide in Spain and killed all native inhabitants so everyone in Spain is Arab now.

Tbh, I'm sure they don't even distinguish between Arab and North African/Berber culture, nor are aware of the process of Reconquista, let alone know the difference between Emirate and Caliphate, or the existence of the Taifa kingdoms.

Anyone who thinks Spain is an Arab country, or even somewhat Arab, because of Al Andalus, is either an ignorant/delusional fool, or a troll, or maybe both.

As for aph Spain, I would think nation personifications represent the people living in those regions. Since people living in Spain today are not Arab, not even remotely so, and are descendants of the Northern Christian people who repopulated the south + buckets of Christian people who lived in the south under Muslim rule but who never converted and were later assimilated again within a Christian, Greco-Roman, and Medieval European context and culture, I see absolute no reason to make aph Spain Arab, nor anything remotely similar. That would make as much sense as creating an OC of the Mexica (Aztec) empire and making him/her Spanish, or making India a Saxon warrior, or Nigeria a Viking sailor (actually, maybe even less sense, if that's even possible).

#and don't fight me on this #aph spain #antonio fernandez carriedo #tbh #i got the feeling some people do it out of ignorance #and I may have been too rough in this post #and their assumptions are nto coming from a bad place at all #but it is annoying #think whatever you want #but it does get irritating at times #more so when you are talking to them and they insist over and over on the topic #again #there IS sone Arab influence in Spanish culture #just like today there's a whole ton of American (USA) influence in pop culture all over the world #but this is superficial and non-trancendental in terms of identity society or overall culture of a nation #if Spain is practically Arab because of the little influence Al-Ándalus had in Spanish culture #then we may very well say Spain is France's clone for there's no other country that has influenced Spain as much as France has #italy coming a close second #however saying aph Spain or Spain is practically French or Italian because if their influence in our culture and politics would be nuts #history #kind of

[tabbyjack]

the problem with building out america's rail network btw is that it's privatized and there will never be a corporate incentive strong enough or backed enough to implement effective, accessible, AND privatized countrywide travel. nationalize railways deliver on the demands of railway workers and most importantly respect indigenous sovereignty/include indigenous design input when plotting routes

#and a million other things mostly to do with geology but in terms of politics and morals this is what im going with as far as a snappy #summary of 'the problem' #however geology elaboration: america is So hard to build railways across because our most populated areas along the west coast #(where most of the rail drought is; rail PRICING on the east coast is a whole nother thing) #are stupid mountainous. the california hsr plan is spending several million more on the rail line bc they gotta plan around a mountain #and the problem gets worse the farther north you get on account of the cascades and ESPECIALLY the region around shasta #in another life i was a seismic engineer. anyway #i'm looking for a papers or other peer-reviewed content on the history of american rail labor #if anyone has favorites send them my way cause all my research is locked on california and the pacific coast more broadly #'research' my font of pdfs i downloaded from ILLs lol

[msdrpreist]

Ik almost no one following is a New Zealander so this is more for myself and the thoughts in my head atm but I just gotta say… fuck it’ll be a long 4 years now that national is in charge. but look at the positives, greens broke records last night! There were a good chunk of labour governments going in and there were a lot of young voters this year. It’s just heartbreaking that people who only cater for the rich, the white, and the ignorant now hold control, but Aotearoa New Zealand has never backed down and we will continue the long fight to create the peace we wish to see, for everyone, not just the elite.

Sorry, but the news this morning broke me a bit. This government won by promising to take food away from children in schools, erase and remove ourselves from treaties that looked to protect our indigenous communities that the same governments have only harmed before, and have joked about blowing up ministries that they don’t agree with… but ig they really want those suffering millionaires to have another twenty fucking dollars in their wallet when the tax refunds come around…

Kia kaha Aotearoa.

#aotearoa #Skyla rants #personal #probably delete but fuck man #skyla sometimes voices her thougts #skyla has opinions #it’s odd only seeing American politics so had to throw my two cents in #ig old people were too worried about potential loans to the mob than the basic human rights of children

[borgeslabyrinth]

"Florida is hell on earth" sounds like a you problem

#does florida have some really bad traits? yeah obviously #the tourists the traffic the politics #but i can't fuck with people painting with a broad brush because there's so many wonderful things about florida #the everglades the beaches the wildlife #like you can't possibly tell me there's nothing good in flroida when the everglades exist #she provides 8 million people with drinking water. she has eight separate habitats. #she protects and houses many critically endangered species like the florida panther the american alligator egrets #even the ghost orchid #if you really think florida is nothing but a hellhole you lack the ability to see beauty all around you #and lack of understanding in how important a part nature plays #it's not perfect but it's home #like how can you look at a manatee and say that florida's nothing but a hellhole? #maybe if you visited blue springs park to watch the manatees you'd calm down #or take a glass bottom boat ride at wakulla springs or go tubing down the ichetucknee #go look at some birds and alligators and frogs #go collect sharks teeth off the beaches in the gulf #florida has a truly beautiful and unique ecosystem and i feel bad for people who can't appreciate it #oscar talks to himself

[morganaspendragonss]

I’m aware that nobody on this site actually cares about the uk or the people who live there but it feels like it should be a bigger deal that our government is planning to overhaul the human rights act, which will make it easier to deport people, harder to get justice for people who die in police custody, it will BAN bringing human rights violations against the military, and parliament will have the final say in human rights courts.

They introduced this bill because the European court of human rights stopped them from deporting migrants to Rwanda.

#uk politics #and this is just part of what’s happening #abortion could be banned again in ireland (3 years after it was legalised) #the culture secretary is trying to ban trans athletes from all women’s sport #an mp has spoken out saying he doesn’t believe women have the right to bodily autonomy #oh and the cost of living is rising so much that families are struggling to live #so like…..i know this site is very american leaning and yes everyone hates the british but this is kind of a big deal? just a thought

[theboost]

All of the rocky movies are on Netflix so I’ve been skim watching them and I truly think the greatest flaw of the character rocky balboa is not taking his brother in law out back with a baseball bat and beating him with it until something turned into pulp

#man sly stallones directing is rough in rocky 4. though I do always love to see dolph lundgren #there’s a robot here? I don’t understand the robot. I think Paulie is fucking this robot. the movie stops dead to show us the robot #I’m also not sure if rocky is supposed to have brain damage in this one? I know he for sure has it in 5 #I’m sooooo fascinated about this. apollo dies because he’s trying to win the cold war and then rocky wins it for him. it’s so dumb #rocky doesn’t care about politics! he cares about making his wife laugh. also like. sly. my man. I know #okay hold on. there’s a musical number happening. obviously the point is supposed to be American flash versus Russian simplicity but it’s so #strange. anyway I know sly wrote the first one but like he gets that’s apollo isn’t especially patriotic right. it was a gimmick for the #bicentennial. that’s why he had the American flag shorts. and rocky wearing them in 3 was symbolic because it was apollo passing the torch #guys I think this movie might be bad #weird tangent tag