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smaccbookair · 3 months

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#british politics #hope i dont get death threats from monarchists #british royal family

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secretmellowblog · 6 months

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Another reason I dislike Les Mis adaptations that make Jean Valjean constantly openly angry/violent is because they miss that Jean Valjean is not allowed to be angry. The fact he is forbidden from expressing anger is, I argue, actually a very important part of his character in the novel!

One of the subtler political messages of the story is that some people are given freedom to express anger, while others are forced to be excessively meek and conciliatory in order to survive.

Wealthy conservatives like Monsieur Gillenormand can “fly into rages” every five minutes and have it treated as an endearing quirk. Poor characters like Fantine or Jean Valjean must be constantly polite and ingratiating to “their superiors” at all times, even in the face of mockery and violence, or else they will be subjected to punishment. If Gillenormand beats his child with a stick, it’s a silly quirk; if Fantine beats a man harassing her, she is sentenced to months in prison.

(Thenardier and Javert are interesting examples of this too. Thenardier acts superficially polite and ingratiating to his wealthy “superiors” while insulting them behind their backs. Javert, meanwhile, is completely earnest in his mindless bootlicking. But I could write an entire other post on this.)

The point is that….Jean Valjean has to be submissive and self-effacing, or he puts himself in danger. He can’t afford to be angry and make scenes, or he will be punished. The only barrier between himself and prison is his ability to be so “courteous” that no one bothers to pry into his past.

Jean Valjean is excessively polite to people, in the way that you’re excessively polite to an armed cop who pulls you over for speeding when you secretly have a few illegal grams of marijuana in the your car trunk. XD It’s politeness built on fear, is what I mean. It’s politeness built on a desperation to make a powerful person avoid looking too closely at you.

It’s politeness at gunpoint.

Jean Valjean has also spent nineteen years living in an environment where any expression of anger could be punished with severe violence. That trauma is reflected in the overly cautious reserved way he often speaks with people (even people who are kind and would never actually hurt him.)

So adaptations that have Jean Valjean boldly having shouting matches with people in public and beating cops half to death without worrying about the repercussions just make go like “???”

Because that’s part of what’s fascinating about Jean Valjean to me? On one hand, he is a genuinely kind compassionate person, who cares deeply about other people and behaves kindly out of altruism. But on the other hand, he was also “beaten into submission” by prison, and forced into adopting conciliatory bootlicking behaviors in order to survive. And it can sometimes be hard to tell when he is being kind vs. when he is being “polite” — when he is speaking and acting out of earnest compassion vs. when he is speaking and acting out of fear.

The TL;DR is that I think it’s important that even though Jean Valjean is very (justifiably) angry about the injustice that was inflicted on him, his anger is harshly policed at all times— by other people, and by himself. He has been told his anger is wrong/selfish so often that he believes it. His anger takes weirder more unhealthy forms because he has no safe outlet for it. His rage at society becomes a possessiveness towards Cosette and silent hatred of Marius, but primarily it becomes useless self-destructive constant hatred of himself. And while I might be phrasing this wrong, I think that’s what’s interesting about Jean Valjean’s relationship with anger— the way his justified fury at his own mistreatment gets warped into more and more unhealthy forms by the way he’s forced to constantly repress it.

#les mis #les mis letters #jean valjean #don’t mind me just Valjeanposting #you know I’m doing okay when I’m Valjeanposting #but yeah I can’t remember the first person who started talking about this concept with me #(it was years ago)#but now I think about it constantly #when you read the book looking through that lens #of certain charcaters being forced to act conciliatory and polite ‘under threat of violence’#you notice it constantly #it’s such a running Thing #and you could write tons of posts about it on www.tumblr.com

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the-orange-shit-stain-scam · 28 days

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On July 18th, 2015, I realized that the Republican Party had left me behind. On this day, while seeking the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump had the following to say about an Annapolis graduate who was shot down, captured and tortured as a POW by the communist North Vietnam regime:

“He's not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

This verbal diarrhea came out of the mouth of a man who used his father’s wealth and privilege to dodge the draft five different times due to his “bone spurs”. Donald Trump is a traitor, a repeated draft dodger and the largest fraud in the history of our country.

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fallofcorruptbritain · 8 days

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Good grief... this stupid woman Truss is a danger to Britain and the whole world.

A failed Tory prime minister who only lasted a few disastrous weeks in office, but who managed to crash the British economy in that time, now suggests Trump should win?!

She shouldn't be allowed out into the community, never mind being given political power.

#britain #uk #uk politics #fuck the tories #conservative party #british politics #tory party #liz truss #trump 2024 #trump is a threat to democracy #fuck trump

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ladyvaderpixetc · 9 months

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Jon Stewart, hitting the nail on the head once again.

#gacked from Jessica Chastain's tweet #jon stewart #on the ridiculous lies regarding #trickle down economics #and billionaires hoarding wealth to play with #abolish billionaires #us politics #but also kind of #uk politics #hell it's #world politics #billionaires and privatisation are a global threat

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essektheylyss · 10 months

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The tragedy of Bor'dor is that he could've been deradicalized, and wasn't. And not only that he wasn't, but that there wasn't time for it. In isolation, his death could've been avoided, with time, but that isn't something that the Hells have right now. They have been well-outfitted, have many allies across the world fighting on their side, and have made enough of an impact to buy them a few weeks, but even that came at a great cost, given the loss of life we've seen in Uthodurn and here with Hevestro's circle.

And there are so, so many individuals among the Ruby Vanguard who are probably just like Bor'dor, who could be talked down from the ledge they've been egged upon by Ludinus's manipulations. We know this, actually, because the Nein did that for Essek, with, frankly, very minimal actual ideology—they did it by being nice and acting as someone else who listened.

But it's years too late for that, because there is now an army of those individuals, and they cannot be taken in isolation. They have passively caused significant loss of life across the planet by altering this solstice, and encouraging more through their ideological shoving, as in Hearthdell. There's no time because the war is already well underway—only the Hells have arrived in the eleventh hour. So the Hells can pity and mourn him, but Orym's assessment was right—they're at war, and the nature of this war is that it must be fought and won in order to even think about the future and rehabilitation.

The tragedy is that Bor'dor could've lived if there was time, but that time is already long gone.

#anyway orym going 'we're at war' will be living in my head rent free from now on thx #honestly really do want to do a more thorough comparison of war and betrayal and mercy between c2 and c3 #but also that would require explaining the differences between war of attrition/political war and war of the existential threat kind #cuz lord knows a lot of people have not grasped that #critical role #cr spoilers #cr meta #bor'dor dog'son

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strawlessandbraless · 1 year

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Trying to jump on this one early

Source: X

#destiel meme #trump news #trump indictment #us politics #new york #anti trump #trump #politics #donald trump #trump is a threat to democracy #trump has been indicted #supernatural #trump is guilty #breaking news #current news #donald j trump

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autisticdoomslayer · 2 months

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Hey um so I completely agree that bombing palestinians is bad but can y'all please stop pretending that the way to fix the tragedy in Palestine is to bomb American synagogues maybe

#My synagogues gotten 3 threats so far. I live in southern California in one of the safest neighborhoods in the damn country #Jumblr #jewblr #Judaism #Israel palestine #political

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contemplatingoutlander · 2 years

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Andrew Wortman: Evidence that Trump has been “a walking national security threat” for years.

After looking at all the ways that Trump has been careless with our national security, Trump’s hoarding away top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago is just icing on the cake.

Pentagon and intelligence officials have known for a long time that Trump cannot be fully trusted with certain intelligence information.

Not only should Trump never have access to top secret national defense information, he should absolutely never again have access to nuclear codes.

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#trump #us politics #trump is a walking national security threat #trump's reckless handling of national security info during his presidency #andrew wortman #my edits

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vaspider · 1 month

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USA TODAY was provided copies of the emailed threats, which were also sent to Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic who writes frequently about the issues.

One emailed threat was apparently sent to Anne Perry, a state representative. Perry, a Democrat who represents a small district in far-northeastern Maine, is the main sponsor of LD227, a bill introduced this week that would protect doctors in the state who provide gender affirming care to patients from states that have laws hostile to such treatment.

The threat also apparently named Sen. Donna Bailey, Perry’s co-sponsor on the bill.

Earlier this week, Perry and Bailey were targeted in a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, by Libs of TikTok. The tweets listed both lawmakers’ email addresses.

In January, the Maine State House was evacuated for a bomb threat on the first day of the legislative session. At the time, the legislature was considering another bill on transgender care. That bill died in committee later the same month.

Calls and emails to Perry, the Maine State Police, Maine Capitol Police and FBI were not immediately returned.

#trans issues #us politics #maine #bomb threats #chaya raichik #fucking shande

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secretmellowblog · 2 months

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I’ve mentioned this before, but I love how insincere Jean Valjean is whenever he interacts with Javert in Montreuil-sur-Mer. Whenever Jean Valjean compliments Javert, it’s never reflective of his true feelings; it’s always just empty insincere polite flattery he’s using in an effort to get Javert to behave the way he wants (usually to get Javert to stop talking, stop being suspicious of him, and go away.)

When Jean Valjean is actually alone and thinking honestly about how he feels about Javert, during Tempest in a Skull, he refers to him as “that Javert, who has been annoying me so long (…) that frightful hunting dog!” And enthusiastically hopes he will leave town. Jean Valjean is described as “glacial” to him, resenting his cruelty towards Fantine.

When Jean Valjean insists at the police station that Javert is an honest man and proper police wouldn’t arrest Fantine, he doesn’t actually believe that— Jean Valjean knows, from experience, what proper policework means. He has been on the receiving end of “proper policework” all of his life. Fantine is legally “in the wrong” and proper police would arrest her, it’s just that the laws are vile. Jean Valjean is just lying and saying whatever thing he thinks will manipulate Javert into letting Fantine go; he knows Javert wants to do policework properly, so he pretends that a proper police officer would let Fantine go. It doesn’t work, because both he and Javert understand that this is not the truth, and a proper police officer *would* arrest a sex worker who violently assaulted a wealthy man. As a result, when his polite conciliatory bootlicking fails, Jean Valjean eventually needs to fall back on using his Authority as mayor to force Javert to leave Fantine alone.

But again, the funniest way this manifests is during the scene where Javert attempts to have himself fired.

Because Jean Valjean spends most of the scene dissociating, panicking over the revelation about Champmathieu, wrapped up in his own head, not really thinking about Javert at all and barely listening to him. Then he attempts to say whatever empty polite nothings will end the conversation without raising Javert’s suspicions. This is something we’re later told is something he’s doing solely out of terror of “the great danger” of Javert’s presence.

Jean Valjean doesn’t really think Javert is a “good man” who he “esteems.” He just wants the conversation to be over without arousing any suspicion, so he treats Javert with empty bootlicking deferential (unsuspicious) politeness.

…but sadly, this is the wrong Dialogue Option. Jean Valjean then becomes helplessly trapped in a series of Unskippable Javert Cutscenes.

Jean Valjean is trying to treat Javert with this bland indifferent (unsuspicious) politeness in order to end the conversation quickly and unsuspiciously, and Javert responds by going on a series of longed passionate Deranged tangents where he pulls out a Pepe Silvia conspiracy board and explains why the concept of kindness enrages him.

It’s very powerful.

#Les mis #Les mis letters #lm 1.6.2 #see Jean Valjean is a very kind compassionate gentle person #but his behavior towards javert is just. politeness #politeness at gunpoint under threat of violence #Jean Valjean #javert

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brother-emperors · 7 months

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niccolo machiavelli & biagio buonaccorsi

Machiavelli's Service to the Republic, John M. Najemy

eventually I'll read Sasso's writing on Machiavelli, but even reading Najemy's summary of the text with regards to Biagio and Machiavelli's relationship made me feel unwell™ in some kind of way like. even love. what an absolute gut punch pair of words to put in the middle of a sentence. I feel fine about it!! (a lie)

The Life and Times of Machiavelli, Pasquale Villari

AND NOW. regarding the scene. the letter exchanging hands is referencing their correspondence in general, but to also how Biagio was a collaborator to Machiavelli's plans (and a little bit about how some of Machiavelli's works were copied in Biagio's hand)

Machiavelli, Leonardo and the Science of Power, Roger D Masters

and regarding the red panel with the figure getting measured, it's about how Biagio had clothing for Machiavelli made to his own measurements in Machiavelli's absence.

Niccolò’s Smile, Maurizio Viroli

#italian renaisance tag #niccolo machiavelli #biagio buonaccorsi #komiks tag #drawing tag #i had an illustration of milo murdering clodius for today but then i saw there was a poll for it so i'll save it for after the poll closes #god i feel so so so so so so normal about machiavelli and biagio (i do not)#ive always felt a lot about machiavelli but biagio makes me cry. he's just. aughhhhdhgh.#anyway based on najemy's summary of sasso's text i dont think. i agree with what sasso is saying abt their dynamic wrt #to the emotional underworking and biagio overplaying the political threats #as najemy goes to say in his follow up. other people were also warning machiavelli abt the same thing #but biagio's frustrations remind me a lot of maria's complaints as well. it's like. devotion + loyalty + trust. i think are the stronger #ties at play. eugh. EUAHDGHSHSHDGH #im going to listen to the assassins creed 2 soundtrack and be normal about everything now. good night #italian renaissance tag

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lawlawlaws-blog · 6 days

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PLEASE, GO OUT AND VOTE! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 25 days

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Don Jr and his band of social media strategists are no doubt behind this brazen stochastic terrorism.

Threats against federal elected officials are against the law. The Secret Service until recently would investigate every threat no matter how unlikely and prosecute nearly all. Now anything goes with Republican domestic terrorists who are somehow above the law. This can not and should not be allowed to stand. They have threatened us, our leaders, and our democracy for decades. It’s past time they were held accountable.

#stochastic terrorism #threats against the president #republican assholes #maga morons #Republican political violence #political violence #republicans are domedtic terrorists #Republicans are lawless traitors and criminals

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dirtj3lly · 1 year

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I'm not mad about not being called a woman, I'm mad i get told to go kill myself everytime I get a match on tinder

the whole trans women are men thing got me put in a male homeless shelter, which actively was one of the reasons I was sexually assaulted there, so I don't know if putting me where yall think I belong is really as better as you think it is

like me putting on a bra so I feel pretty enough to pass for other people is my business I bet I could put together a collage of trans women and cis women and almost every single one of you wouldn't know who is what

#transphobes #terfblr #why is my identity a political ideology #radfem #radical feminism #just let me exist and drink my appy juice in peace #transgirl #please explain what i did that deserves being sent death threats when im literally just trying to find relationships

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queerism1969 · 1 year

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