#the ‘all’ is rhetorical there ok

[useless-englandfacts]

almost 100 days in and david cameron thinks they ‘may’ have broken international law. dude they’ve broken ALL the international law what PLANET are you on?

#the ‘all’ is rhetorical there ok #politics #david cameron #palestine #israel #admin dominique

[thenearsightedmicroraptor]

Seen a lot of posts about people coming into your notifications out of nothing and liking your entire blog, but here's a shoutout to the people who do Not follow you, who appear out of nowhere, reblog One (1) post that you are Not the op of, and then you never see them again. Where did you come from girl.

#EDITED bc I think this one goes on ppls recommended pages now #HEY GUYS the question in this post is rhetorical ! i don't actually care. you can stop telling me honeys its ok #i like the mystery. i don't needta know everything #also when i say shoutout. i mean it. i love you guys i am not annoyed. you're all wonderful. keep doing you. #posts by ME #tumblr #like ... you didn't find the post thru tags because I just reblogged it #i made no addition. how did you find me #be free you majestic creatures I'm glad I got to witness you in passing #how tf tho. #did you look at my blog but only one post made the cut. amazing. i love you.

[thisismisogynoir]

I love it when women hate men. I love it when women are allowed to vent to each other about how horrible and creepy men are. I love it when women form friendships with and prioritize each other over relationships with men(whether they're attracted to them or not). I love it when women put men dni in their bios and on their nude photos and on posts on their blogs. I love it when women refuse to mollycoddle and accommodate entitled male feelings with "but this doesn't mean I hate all men, I know a few men who are great, I love my father/sons/brothers/uncles/male cousins/guy friends" I love it when women complain about men WITHOUT "not all men" being a disclaimer. I love it when women avoid socializing with/refuse to be around/befriend/get close to men because they know men can't be trusted. I love it when women make "kill all men" jokes. I love it when women offer absolutely no concern or care for men's feelings and if their misandry offends men whatsoever because why should we, men are the oppressor class who have raped and killed and abused us and kept us as subjugated as second-class citizens for millennia, they regularly mistreat us and the women in their own marginalized communities still every single day and make this world so much harder and more awful for us to be in, and if we choose to hate them and not spare them any sympathy then so be it, and I don't just mean "men as a class" either, you can be a woman who doesn't want to have anything to do with any man on an individual basis and completely cuts off men from her personal life too and ykw I will love and fucking support you in that because men deserve absolutely NOTHING from us. If they're so tough and strong then they can handle it just like they can handle being lonely. If you are a woman who hates men, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A LESBIAN AND/OR A TRANS WOMAN, then just know that I love you. I love you, I support you, and you are safe here.

#was going to make a post about how much i hate that women aren't allowed to hate their oppressors but i decided to spin it into something #positive instead #this is supposed to be the feminist site that makes reddit mgtow piss their baby diapers so let's go back to despising men and not coddling #their feelings and let's dye our hair blue while we're at it #i am so tired of this new wave of guilt-tripping and gaslighting women who hate men and don't trust or want to be around them #i hate how we're made into villainesses or the problematic ones for not valuing them in our lives or for wanting to guard ourselves or be #safe from our oppressors #and i'm tired of people who don't know the first thing about feminism being like 'BUT THAT'S TERF RHETORIC WHAT ABOUT X MINORITY MEN' #guess what women can also be x minority that you're trying to protect the men of and we get to hate men too #trans women are included when i say women btw and trans men are included when i say men #if anyone has the right to hate men more than anybody else it's trans women esp trans lesbians because they put up with so much shit #from men that even cis women do not and they especially know how vile men are behind closed doors #so #terfs fuck off #radfems fuck off #and if anybody tries to make this post more appeasing to men or 'not all men's this post you are getting blocked and hit with a hammer #feminism #misogyny #sexism #patriarchy #tw men #tw rape #tw abuse #misandry #terfs dni #radfems dni #feminists need to go back to being scary and unpalatable for men none of this 'but some of them are good!' bullshit #men are entitled to nothing from us #and if you try to prove me wrong then you are just proving my point if you have nothing good to say then simply keep scrolling #ok? ok.

[gemharvest]

Anybody else have immediate turn-offs when it comes to fan shipping works. I can't stand when characters who canonically are very close in height are suddenly given an insane height difference. Bonus points if it's used as an attraction factor (therefore more attention is called to it), and extra bonus points if it's the shorter one being into the taller one's height.

#ramblings #this is ok to rb and/ or give add-ons too. to clarify. my first sentence wasn't entirely rhetorical #anyways this thought was spurred on by something but it doesnt matter. cuz it does annoy me in general #would it be incorrect of me to say it feels like it's the same vibes as `who is the man and who is the woman?` #(<- when it comes to gay pairings) #i get that people are into height differences but aside from the fact that i dont care abt them at all.. why not do stuff abt it #with characters that have an actual canon height difference....

[buckttommy]

war breeds radicalism based upon dehumanization and if you think you haven't succumbed to it, you already have

#I hate so much of what I'm seeing these days lol #Lord jesus #You all are vile #The antisemitism and anti Palestinian rhetoric is fucking ugly #and using “antizionism” to hide the fact that you just really hate jews is not the power play you think it is because it's #transparent as hell #ok now i'm done #i've been needing to say this for over a month jesus christ

[wild-at-mind]

As of time of writing, Rishi Sunak is still refusing to apologise for the jibe at trans women in PMQ. (Apologise specifically to Brianna Ghey's parents, her mother at least being definetly present at the time.) What will the fallout for this be? This is only days after normally transphobic tabloids splashed the mugshots of Brianna's killers all over their front page with headlines like 'PURE EVIL'. It seemed the spectacle of 16 year old murderers overrode the fact that they normally don't care about trans people. Rishi's remark streamrolled one of the most important optics rules on most parts of the political spectrum- don't say things that upset the grieving family. On the other hand, Sunak was making a jibe that revealed the fact that most people currently in UK politics seem convinced that if they say 'trans women are women' it will not only prove catastrophic for their chance of being elected, it will also cause mobs of people to thrust stats at them supposedly proving that cis women will be in mortal danger. And that may happen! The statistical evidence isn't there at all, though, so I believe it would come to nothing if he rode it out. Anyway, it's the right thing to do. I believe that after a certain point, continually insisting trans women are not women makes you look deranged. I have a trans woman friend who told me she once asked a transphobic/gender critical aquaintance of ours during calm conversation 'how do you see me? What am I, if not a woman?' The aquaintance said 'you're a man dressed up.' Now, these gender critical people claim to be super duper pro GNC cis men (they aren't, because they are worried the GNC cis men might start IDing as trans, and they hate men anyway especially weird queer ones, so it's a non-starter.) But this person was essentially telling my friend 'you aren't what you have clearly demonstrated yourself to be'. It's often said that 'trans women are women' is an opinion, but in my eyes saying that trans women are not women is an opinion. This aquaintance was saying what she had been indocterinated to believe by her TERF online circles, and I don't think she's reachable (my friend is no longer trying, it was a one off conversation as far as I can tell). I've said this before but I maintain that politicians should stop dignifying the question of 'what is a woman? Define what a woman is!' because it's a question that is never asked in good faith. It's a gotcha, and you don't need to answer it and fall into whatever trap they are setting. You just need to put forth policies that support both cis women and trans women- showing support with your deeds and words. And Starmer should have a fucking backbone- Sunak isn't wrong there. If anything what Sunak did was very revealing because it shows he's used to being surrounded only by people who guffaw at the very idea that 'trans women are women' is something true in both theory and practice. Meanwhile trans people are becoming more visible and I truly believe within 20 years, both Sunak and Starmer will look like dinosaurs in much the same way as the homophobic politicians of yore were following a public zeitgeist that was quickly becoming outdated. It's a shame we never seem to learn from the past.

#uk politics #rishi sunak #keir starmer #transmisogyny #btw i don't know the stats on how many trans women there are in the country but 0.1 % seems on the low side #although technically it doesn't count the ones who have had bottom surgery i guess..??? #they don't like those trans women obvs but they know the scary power of the penis as a rhetorical device #btw i swear to god if someone assumes i'm saying homophobia no longer exists- no! #i'm saying the way it is publically acceptable in the political sphere (and all social spheres) to talk about gay people has changed a lot #it is no longer acceptable to express from a position of power that it is not good (or at least neutral) to be gay. #that is why homophobic evangelicals feel themselves super oppressed and marginilised- one of the many reasons #also note that cis gay people are being used as a chess piece in the trans kids argument- these poor kids are just gay! #gay is ok now as long as the foundations of gender can stay the same #they are still homophobic but it's just different. That's all i mean.

[brown-little-robin]

Sometimes I enjoy my history of rhetoric class, and other times I want to scream WHY DO WE ONLY CARE ABOUT THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE SPEAKING TO THE LARGEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE?!?!

#it's the Americanism #we're doing rhetoric of the middle ages right now and I KNOW why we're studying Rhetoric that's the name of the Class after all #but I'm just like. I want to know about every individual person I don't Wanna study this through the lens of political influence #idk it's this irrational thing that keeps coming up for me #where I suddenly get the urge to go WHY ARE WE EVEN STUDYING THIS TELL ME ABOUT THE PEOPLE'S LIVES #ANYWAY #ok back to being logged out

[pacificgasandelectric]

it would just be very very cool. if more ppl would be capable of being anti-israel, anti-genocide, anti-colonization and anti-human-rights-violations, and ofc pro-palestinians without also being anti-jewish about it.

#mine #sarah rivka rachel and leah fucking save me. #i don’t deny that there Are genocide apologists out there ofc & many of them use judaism as their justification #but literally so do christians and so do fundie sects of islam and so do various other religious & non-religious groups bc It Turns Out: #taking & enforcing power by hurting ppl is NOT unique to One Group Who Has All Power Ever. #literally makes me want to start biting to see ppl parroting ‘jews are all rich & powerful & have dual loyalty’ tropes #but it’s ok! bc instead of ‘those filthy jews’ they said ‘those colonizing israelis’ or ‘those genocidal zionists’! #if your rhetoric is indistinguishable from the way that literal nazis veil their rhetoric. maybe. the things you are saying are Bad. #‘oh well zionist just means ppl who support israeli colonization! they’re Bad so it’s ok to wish death & violence & extermination on them!’ #oh so suddenly words are devoid of context & history? sure jan. 🙄

[cynical-cy]

hm. having a weird crash with modded stardew valley where i started a new game (w/ a year 2 save still in the files currently) and i got a week into spring and the modding console keeps looping as it's trying to set weekly special orders... despite special orders not being a thing that happens until like, summer iirc?

either way it kept looping over and over so i had to close it but im just like. is it because i have a save that has special orders unlocked or did one of the new mods i add screw something up??

#cyspeaks #that's a rhetorical question btw #ill see if removing the mods i added fixes it at all #if not it's probably the save thing which. ig is ok #starting over in stardew isnt something im unfamiliar with but i sure would love to get to a year past 2

[rotzaprachim]

chamudi it would blow some of your pretty little tankie noggins what the political affiliations of many of the soldiers who carried out the nakba and established the modern state of Israel actually were

#Like ok. Ok guys. I think anticapitalism is an exceptionally important part of decolonial rhetoric #But being a socialist or a communist alone is not enough to end imperialism #Or settler colonialism #Often socialism or communism are logics by which new forms do settler imperialisms can grow #These people tend to also deny that the ussr was imperialist in any way so. Idk. Not a coherent band of logic #Writes posts with three levels of hurdles from goyim who learned what the green line was from a meme this week #Add on: I personally feel like the association of Zionism and wealth ir capitalism is jsut pure unhinged antisemitism #An ideology can be harmful in a lot of ways even if it is not all ways #While yes it’s true that Israel has experienced a hard right economic swing - as have almost all middle eastern countries #They are not alone #One of the complexities of Zionism as ideology has how it has cut across class lines #Been supported by socialists #Remains very popular with many poor Jews

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

My mom just sent a message to the family group chat suggesting that my siblings download the 'For the Strength of Youth' magazine on their Gospel Library app and talked about how much the youth magazines helped her testimony growing up and like, cool. Fine. Don't know why the 'sending random spiritual thoughts in the gc' thing started out of nowhere when it hadn't been a thing for a decade but this is just another one of those, and you're ofc allowed to talk about things that are significant in your life.

I don't think sending the 'What I Did When Someone Close to Me Challenged My Faith' article right afterwards was strictly necessary though 🙃

#hi bg mutuals 👋 i'm gonna vent about this from time to time. if any mutuals dont want to see it block the 'apostake' tag #trying not to read too much into it b/c I think I did last time something like this happened #and i dont want to make an ass of myself even if neither time would actually be in front of my parents #but like...i know that they know that one of my sisters is clearly PIMO #they went through her phone a couple weeks ago and i have no idea if they read my texts w/ her #but if they did they probably saw the conversation i had with her about some of the really common shelf-breakers #and telling her to take looking into it at her own pace b/c it's scary and overwhelming #(a conversation SHE started btw) #and when i talked to my parents about the larger context of that whole situation i talked about not having space to step back #and their response was that they give plenty of space b/c they dont make her go to seminary??? #that's not the same thing as letting her openly question & potentially leave the church idk what to tell you #like. besties i dont know for sure what caused it (which is NOT making things better. it just feels potentially passive aggressive) #but from my end? it sure looks like it might be a reaction to that. probably not JUST that (friends exist) but. #if you think I'm whispering anti-mormon rhetoric into my siblings' ears just ask me. i'm very much NOT doing that #i'm just. talking? to them? when and if they come to me with questions? #and not making my answer 'well there's a reason our parents raised us in the church! ☺️' #(an actual argument given in the article my mom sent) #hate it. thanks #apostake #jay rambles #ok to interact #im not challenging anyone's faith. my patience though? INCREDIBLY challenged #gotta figure out how to work my way around a 'hey please dont send spiritual thoughts to the gc *I'm in*' talk tactfully #they've been pretty chill about me leaving over-all?? at least to my face #haven't pushed me to go to church w/ them; was fine with me not visiting for easter; didnt try to convince me to not drink coffee; etc #it's just. frustrating that they're not giving my siblings that still live with them that same grace #my sister's 17 ffs #it's very possible im way overreacting to the article. but what is tumblr for if not screaming into the void #religion #mormonism

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

Not reclaiming the little girl from sleepaway camp as sleepaway camp is a disgusting transmisogynystic movie and I am not trans femme so I can't "reclaim" the transmisognystic caricature kid right. But I am on her side.

#Angela right. Angela kill as many people as you want sweetie #Ok it is like horrible that the whole reason she was doing the murders too is Because shes trans #Like it Twisted Her All Up. Horrible movie. #Prime example of transmisogynistic rhetoric

[wild-at-mind]

Had a really stupid conversation via minor emotional breakdown with a queer friend about what makes an LGBTQ person 'assimilist'. From what she said I'm kind of forced to draw the conclusion 'if you say you're not assimilist, then you're not'.

#i love her but none of it makes any sense to me #i think i really just wanted her to see that this kind of rhetoric is no good if you're fundamentally unable to see yourself as having valu #to a community- which is where i'm still at sometimes unfortunately. #i would say that i may not be the only one since mental illness + self esteem issues + being lgbtq are not exactly unlinked #but i have basically never found anyone else who has my particular hangups...maybe online once ages ago #so in my own mind i'm the most assimilist lgbtq who ever existed- not even worthy to call myself queer #and it's nice that she thinks i am not like that and in fact am 'one of the good ones' #who is not assimilist- look i know that 'one of the good ones' usually means the opposite ok i know! it's just an impression i get #she's like telling me obviously i'm all good because i look like i do but all i can hear is #that if i didn't look like this then i'm an assimilist #i fucking hate my brain honestly no one asked me to have a mental breakdown at their house (thank god i didn't cry) #and then go home and that's when i cry because i saw a trans guy's 'this many years on t' post and i felt like shit because #i haven't done anything about transitioning in ages and i'm not even out at work :'( #like i know i'm an assimilist because my main reason for not coming out at work is not wanting to do the beaurocracy #of changing my name on my email and every fucking log in i have on everything- telling every single person i interact with #i just can't it's too much and my line manager is worse than useless #but i have 'my job is computer and doing emails all day' privilege so i don't like to talk to people about it

[cartoonrival]

OHH wait actually is sasuke shinden just that cluster of episodes at the very end of shippuden where he goes around with orochimaru and that little girl who is old actually? idk i wasnt paying attention. and calls him sasuke-chan and he starts waxing poetic about naruto at every opportunity

#txt157 #this is rhetorical im pretty sure it is #unfortunately retsuden probably wont be animated which sucks #because the thing wl. wait. ok the thing with nrto's mysterious illness was already animated and it did not conclude w the stuff from #the novel. unless it did and i just didnt watch it #because i thought it was just the sauke vs dinosaurs #which id already read and heard the dino fight takes like 3 full eps for no reason #finale of retsuden is kinda lgbt though so idk i might revisit ujst to verify #ill give it to brto. ON OCCASION. youre in bad shape. so are you. at least i can stand <- the delivery on #these is bizarre truly #its the gay little contrapposto scene for all the true cartoonrival fans out there who remember

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

me noticing the like 10 different speed cameras at all the different intersections i go through on my way to and from work every morning and afternoon (mon-fri): BITE KILL MAIM BURN BITE KILL MAIM BURN BITE KILL MAIM BURN BITE KILL MAIM BURN BITE KILL MAIM BURN BITE KILL MAIM BURN BITE KILL MAIM BURN FUCK THE GOVERNMENT FUCK THE GOVERNMENT FUCK THE GOVERNMENT FUCK THE GOVERNMENT FUCK THE GOVERNMENT FUCK THE GOVERNMENT

#life #about me #shut up ilona #like yeah i know they’re there to save lives (allegedly) #but there’s so many there’s like only 2-3 whole intersections that i go through each day that DONT have speed cameras #like on the man roads and highways near my house and on the way to work #*main #not the main sort of back streets that i use to leave my neighbourhood #like bassisolt right at the end of my trip of getting to work in the morning EVERY set of lights has one #it’s a nightmare bc it’s an 80km/hr road but everyone literally slows down to like at least 60km/hr…. #(and obvs not counting turnoffs and peak hour traffic times at 8-9am/5-6pm) #and it’s like dude why the FUCK do we need so many speed cameras for fuck sake #like yeah ok they do ~save lives~ and whatever other fucking rhetoric that goes around speed cameras #but sweet fucking baby fucking lord jesus i just want to get work without being slowed down about 10 times #to and from work every day all bc i’m obvs late for work and everyone slowing done for speed cameras #….. at nearly every fucjing intersection on the way to work is making me late and making me lose my temper lmao #and also on the way home too. i’m done with the day and slowing down for like 6 SCs on the way home…… #….from work is i s2g going to give me jaw issues eventually bc of my teeth grinding when i get slowed down to 60 on an 80…. #….or like 40/50km/hr on a 60km/hr road on the highway bridge near my NH #like yeah yeah it makes driving safer but i s2g i want to die lmao #i hate driving

[dennisboobs]

this is genuinely... so funny to me. like the hilarity of copypasting rational tweets. i'm literally right. it's not even a funny copypasta because it's literally just. objectively correct. it's a criticism of twitter culture and that makes it funny to you because...... god forbid you actually have empathy for other people. caring is for losers if you're on twitter dot com, you have to be snarky and funny at all times.

#moots & friends keep sending me shit and im just like. lmfao this is embarrassing for YOU guys. i stand by everything ive said actually. #i'm sorry you think trying to have a genuine conversation about harmful behaviours is cringe #you consider yourself an activist and will retweet every fucking post abt current events #but you can't actually be bothered to make a positive change in your own life......... #the fact that most of them stop responding after they realize im not going to freak out and give them something emotional is very telling #it's not even like most of them disagree they literally just want to make fun of me for...... caring. like ok. weird hill to die on idk #im at the point where im considering privating my tweets just so i dont continue to get ppl responding but #i think its important that ppl can see my responses. because i stand by them and clearly other ppl do too #theres been a lot of mixed responses but a lot of people have actually ended up agreeing with me after some back and forth #which i appreciate. i didnt want to start fuckin. twitter drama. but like. ill take it #i dont interact with sunnyblr at all so i think this is a good opportunity to potentially change at least a few ppls perspectives #and if youre too far gone to the point where you think that someone caring about perpetuating homophobic rhetoric is funny #i. dont really want to interact with you anyway lol. get better soon xoxo #last post about this on here im. putting this to rest. #ada speaks #genuinely disgusting how many of these ppl will say shit like. ppl are dying. like... yeah. what are YOU doing to help. #retweeting a donation link or someones random carrd doesnt do shit actually. performative armchair activism. #same ppl tweeting vapid shit while acting like theyre above engaging with me on this #i was venting about people qrting glenns old tweets with stupid shit because it was clogging my tl actually lol