#where americans live

[butchysterics]

americans imagining Land Back as a reverse colonization where your family is violently displaced from their home—just no, and there’s so much projection and anti-indigenous sentiment in that reaction that we need to unpack. in the same way abolishing private property does not equate to taking the personal property/housing from regular human beings, land back deserves your full attention in the actual demands and futurities that native people are calling for. this knee jerk resistance against land back needs to stop inventing hypotheticals instead of engaging with the reality of this which is A. a broader political call to rematriate land to indigenous communities, who currently have limited resources because this is a settler colonial state B. specific calls to return specific lands—often ‘public lands’ i.e. national parks, blm land etc—which often carry cultural significance and also very direct legacies of violence tied to the original displacement. C. a return to indigenous land management strategies, which are place-based and culture-based and offer paths to restoring/reclaiming/reconfiguring the ecologies and human communities most damaged by colonialism/capitalism/the world we currently live in D. land back is deeply tied to the movements protesting oil and gas pipelines, catastrophic mining, etc ongoing destruction of the environment that place indigenous communities on the frontlines yet threatens /everyone/ downstream who drinks water and has a body

#this is such a complex issue that starts to unravel american society when you unpack it #in a good way that asks—okay what do we do next? how are we going to live here and do right by our neighbors and their+our descendants? #regardless of who is in Power/who heads the State #we live on the ground we stand on we’re responsible to our local ecologies and our neighbors #this is where i’m at politically as a white settler

[cathalbravecog]

🎹 dave brubot's christmas special 🎹

(yt version w/ credits for some assets i used in the desc)

note copied from comment on yt so u dont even gotta go there i don't like acknowledging my channel sometimes:

i'll be honest, the ending IS rather abrupt, but i did make this in one day and struggled making more art / remembering my ideas from this i had a few days before i made it (and couldn't because i was busy with other art) either way i hope it's still funny ily guys :] (and that the manager cameos make up for it)

#i could have queued this but i wanted to post it while i'm awake. american crowd gets this before the 24th but trust #its 24th here where i live #i'm too excited to get this out there so i will do so now #ENJOY THE SHOW ! #shitposts #video_guz.mp4 #mgrs #major player #duck shuffler #toontown #toontown corporate clash #guz art

[windsofnotos]

no offence to hozier but his tour locations are literally this meme

#hozier #hozier tour #“world tour” my arse #you ain't slick andrew #i'm not really mad i expected this but it's still annoying #come to australia challenge #or like. anywhere outside north america and europe #there are a few south american locations so that's something i guess #but there's nothing even in the continent where i live

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

#and then they're like ''ohhh they're mizrahi!'' [connotation nonwhite‚ virtuously indigenous] #and i have to be like. no. it's just that‚ as palestine was in fact ottoman-administered greater syria for most of the last 600 years‚ #you could get there from other parts of the ottoman empire. such as the part of now-ukraine your ashkenazi family is also from. #it wasn't actually a hermetically sealed arab-only ethnostate that evaporated immigrants on sight. it was a pretty decent place to live as #a jew by at least some accounts. or better than the front of the hapsburg-ottoman war anyway which is where they were coming from. #i'm not sure who you think it's serving exactly to believe that there were literally no ashkenazim in the middle east before the 1st aliyah #however there were some. and this information does not actually threaten a modern anti-state of israel position like at all. #but since apparently you've constructed your new Diaspora-Centric Identity around the idea that 'palestine' and 'diaspora' #are the two mutually exclusive nonoverlapping regions and the former is ontologically a no-european-jews-allowed zone #i guess i can give you a minute to try to figure it out. #ugh sorry this is nothing it isn't anything. for one thing it's fantastically unimportant #and for another thing i don't know how to like talk about it in a way that doesn't make me sound at least kind of like im trying to justify #myself as being somehow less complicit or something. i mean i think my complicity as an american dwarfs the rest of it honestly but. #i just feel really insanely alienated where the rhetoric of my theoretically most closely politically aligned group is not really built to #like. accommodate the facts of my family history. #sorry. i have honestly no idea why im so obsessed with articulating this concept ive just been chewing on it pointlessly for days #box opener

[sincerely-sofie]

Been slowly learning ASL over the years for my niece and I might still struggle to introduce myself or express basic emotions, but oh boy do I ever have the sign for every animal she's ever laid eyes on memorized better than my own name.

#there's no study partner quite like a toddler who loves playing pretend #I'll be watching a video where Bill Vicars is finger-spelling at the pace of molasses and I'll be completely lost #but with my niece though? #she'll sign “DINOSAUR!!!!” and I'll say “ON IT CHIEF” and bolt to pull up an animation i made of Twig + Kip that she's obsessed with #You haven't lived until you ask a small child what animal she's pretending to be while she's racing around the room #and she freezes in place #turns to you with the most solemn expression #and gravely puts up her chubby little hands to inform you that she's a monkey #then goes back to laughing her head off as she runs laps around the couch #american sign language #sign language #asl #sofie says stuff

[cimmeria-writes]

for @kataang-week -- day 4: cultural exchange

(ID: a digital drawing of katara and aang from atla. they're wearing clothing from each other's cultures. katara is wearing a yellow chuba with red trim, an orange shirt, a chumpi belt, and boots. she has one necklace with small turquoise beads and one with large yellow beads. aang is wearing a parka with a thick fur hood and black-and-white geometric patterns, and dark blue pants. he also has mittens and large boots on. they're smiling at each other, with pink hearts floating between them.

#kataang week #kataang #kataang fanart #artists on tumblr #atla #avatar: the last airbender #cimmeriadraws #the chumpi belt is a traditional andean garment #i assume part of the reason tibet serves as inspo for the air nomads is the high altitude of where they live #and quechua people also live in high altitudes so i think they'd be interesting to pull inspiration from for air nomad clothing #plus atla has already taken inspo from south american cultures with the sun warriors so it works :) #but anyway all i have in this drawing is the chumpi belt so i'd like to incorporate more andean culture into air nomad designs in the futur #i also want to dive some more into siberian and alaskan indigenous clothing for the southern water tribe fashion #and explore ideas for differences between nwt and swt clothing

[compacflt]

in regard to the icemav convo about american made cars: I think it would be funny if after mav gets his regular license, ice buys him a truck that they can use for transporting stuff to the hangar and when he gifts it to mav all the man can do is laugh bc stamped across the ass is MAVERICK. It’s a 2023 ford maverick (in area 51 bc I’m partial to that color)

and mav likes it, but he doesn’t love driving it bc it’s so big (and he just likes being a passenger princess too much), so ice drives it mostly which inspires a whole lot of jokes about ice liking having maverick’s name stamped on his ass. bradley gags from the other room every time.

if it matters to u, i agree with this hc 150% on rhetoric grounds. thank god for your mind.

however i would like to raise the issue that recent american pickup trucks have become non-useful, overexpensive, and suburban-coded in a way i think ice and mav would reject. the ford maverick was built with the intention of dropping kindergarteners off at school, not of actually doing hard labor. see below infographic for what I mean.

It’s a fucking travesty. Trucks are so ugly and useless now. the maverick is not immune to this. (maverick below)

what good is having a fucking truck if it can’t even hold two REGULAR ASS BIKES in the bed. & when the bed is empty the chassis is unbalanced in a way that leads to more accidents etc. (tbf that was true in the 70s/80s too but im feeling more hateful towards modern trucks rn). In short—the modern American pickup truck is no longer useful, it’s a way to virtue signal to other Americans that you *think * you know what hard labor is, even when you’re driving around in a glorified odyssey with a teeny tiny bed that can barely hold a couple bags of mulch for the back garden

ice & mav don’t even have any little kids anymore, i think they’d consider a backseat useless & a waste of space

SO i would like to offer you a Compromise, which is that ice & mav buy either (or both) a 1974 ford maverick AND/OR a 1990 ford maverick

for the Funny Name & coolness factor (& the “making Bradley vom cause of how cute his parents are” factor), and then soup up, like, a 1984 Chevy C10 for actual towing/hauling purposes.

#*slaps roof of 2022 ford maverick* you could hit so many grade schoolers with this bad boy #the 1974 ford maverick is. admittedly extremely sexy and i am only kind of a ford guy #god the 1990 maverick too. just kind of beast mode. i can see that. #love the ask though. i hope you don’t mind my tweaks. we’re on the same wavelength #my vitriol for the modern american truck stems from my hatred of my grandfather’s 2020 f250 #which he has never used to tow anything once and constantly complains about how hard it is to find parking in suburban california 😀 #yeah brother no shit! #the one cool thing about new trucks is you can use them as a generator for a few days though #we lose power for days on end where i live during fire season and that truck has been really helpful #but it’s ass ugly and not otherwise useful. #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #bradley rooster bradshaw #asks #mav being a passenger princess has to be canon #a man physiologically built to sit shotgun ❤️ #if u get a truck with an actual bed u can drive ur war hero husband out into the desert #& lay out a blanket in the back & make out with him under the stars #can’t do that in a 2023 maverick

[hoziergifsdaily]

UNREAL UNEARTH TOUR — Dublin, 3Arena [19/12/23] 📸 PHOTOS BY RUTHLESSIMAGERY

#hozier #hozieredit #usersahar #musicedit #unreal unearth #live #2023 #unreal unearth tour #i usually only do gifs BUT I WAS THERE #had to do it #tryna spot myself in the crowd like where's wally #that's waldo for the americans #editsbyhoziergifsdaily

[ask-hws-canada]

Can I be your friend, buddy? Its a thing from South Park.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m1JakODvYhA

#ask hws canada #hetalia ask blog #hetalia #aph canada #hws canada #aph america #hws america #(( ngl when I was young I just thought americans made up a whole ass country and used our name for it )) #(( like they invented a whole lore and got inspirations from Washington state and Minesota instead of looking up the actual country )) #(( I had to realise that it was not exactly made up and the Canada I was living in was in fact just Québec )) #(( for a moment I was living in a world where the english didn't conquer Canada )) #(( my whole world got shattered let me tell ya ))

[jellyjam]

all arguments i see defending adults living with their parents is about how if they're disabled and need help or don't have the finances to rent a place and yea i completely agree but like,, even if you're able and you CAN afford a place there's literally nothing wrong with living with ur parents. the west needs to get rid of this weird stigma that it's somehow shameful

#like here it's absolutely normal for 30+ year olds to live with their parents #and then i see american shows where a 30 year old guy living in his mom'z basment is made to be a slop and a completely incapable child #and is the butt of the joke #idk kinda bizarre to me

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: Renfield, the tortured aide to his narcissistic boss, Dracula, is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding. However, after centuries of servitude, he's ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of the Prince of Darkness.

Mod Z when this first came out to theatres: Yeah, I wanna go see this. Looks like a fun mild horror movie to watch after all the doom and gloom of what i’ve been watching lately :) *doesn’t end up watching it*

Mod Z now, seeing it on netflix: r18+?! wtf is in this movie?!

#renfield (2023) #horror comedy #vampire #2020s #united states #north american movie #horror #movies #poll #(mod z lives in australia where R is equivalent to nc-17 and it’s hard to find a movie with that rating unless it rlly has some weird shit)

[feraltwinkseb]

August 14, 2004, - Budapest, Hungary Source: Mark Thompson/Paul Gilham/Getty Images

#those stories where a prince is kidnapped as a slave by pirates but the captain falls in love with him and they live happily ever on the sea #Jenson Button #British American Racing #f1 #formula 1 #2004 #jb22

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

He’s so ding dang American…!

#kinji takigawa #starninger #super starninger #super sentai #shuriken sentai ninninger #ninninger #cartoon #superhero #character art #digital art #i watched his show probably over a month ago but is till think about him once per day #sparkly gold cowboy ninja lives in my brain rent free #my countryman… country roads man if you will #the good good burger boy makes me laugh #i laugh so hard i forget about the tragic backstory lol #(where his family is also all cowboys aicjsdhdsjsdc) #kinji's one of those characters that comes on screen and i just point and say 'me' every time #yes i too aspire to that goofy american ninja rockstar max hype bard aesthetic #but alas... i have work in the morning

[happybirthday-unusannus]

i just realized the Unus Annus is a year away from going into kindergarten (usually 5yo's start kindergarten)

. Oh my god

#not happy birthday #ask reply #anon ask #unus annus #I am American so I do know that about kindergarten #teeechnically it would depend on where they live methinks #I think for California as long as you turn 5 before december 5th or something you can be in kindergarten that year #don’t quote me on that though

[chaiaurchaandni]

saw someone on twitter, whose family is in gaza, say the same thing: her sister told her that israelis are executing palestinian men and boys aged over 16, abducting them, forcing them to strip. these are displaced civilians and survivors. some people are defending the forceful stripping by saying that the purpose is to ensure there's no bomber vest/weapons which is ridiculous bec if that was the purpose, why are they taking pictures like trophies and circulating them online? why do they even suspect civilian men and boys trying to find safety with their families to be wearing a bomber vest? israelis have been releasing videos of stripping and beating palestinians since oct 7 - many of the palestinians victimized this way have been from the west bank. palestinians held in israeli jails are also stripped and beaten in a way that is hauntingly reminiscent of american crimes in abu ghraib prison in iraq.

#idk how ppl r tryna explain away this thing #ur telling me these people bombed hospitals but forcecully stripping men is where they draw the line? #they are depraved and perverted they enjoy torturing palestinians like this #guess they learn from the american soldiers #free palestine #palestine #gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #glory to the martyrs #long live palestine #death to israel #long live the resistance #abu ghraib #bosnian genocide #srebrenica

[scarz-xo]

A part of one of my comments:

So let's add some pictures to the context above:

What's funny about these pictures is that most of the "MEN" in these pictures are children defending their occupied home.

#palestine #palestinian lives matter #israel #israel is a terrorist state #genocide #gaza #ethnic cleansing #free palestine #israel is an apartheid state #this is where the american taxes go