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source: The Little Butch Book, written by Lesléa Newman

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i’ve been holding onto any shred of optimism i could manage for over a year but i’m gonna be honest, the reactions to the amsterdam pogrom broke me. i don’t know how many more times i can see shit like “zionists are not human” “judeo-nazis” “they deserve to be hunted for sport” before i just fucking give up.

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I love how you can use the environment in baldur’s gate.

for instance, I got my ass completely handed to me in a battle, so on my second attempt I piled barrels of gunpowder & wine near where the enemies would run out, and had one of my guys posed with a fire spell to ignite them. and THIS TIME, I triggered a massive explosion on my first turn of combat, instantly killing my entire party.

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laughing at the entire conceit of live action httyd being "animation is for babies so we HAVE to remake this shot-for-shot in live action" but also they need to sell a new wave of plushies at universal studios orlando so toothless still looks like a fucking cartoon character

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I am. tired.

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I know everything that can be said on this topic has been said to death and no one but Jews will ever acknowledge it but it is still absolutely infuriating how every brand of gentile from every part of the political spectrum has collaborated to turn the word "Nazi" into a generic word for "fascist" or "bad person" or "person I don't like." Nazism isn't just fucking fascism and it isn't a synonym for bad person. It's a specific ideology that is centered at its root around blaming Jews for every problem in the world and wanting to exterminate them.

No, generic racist Republicans are not "Nazis." No, TERFs are not "Nazis." No, your crappy corrupt European leader is not a "Nazi." No, cops are not "Nazis." You know why they aren't Nazis? Because their entire ideology and behavior, as harmful as it may be to certain groups, is not centered around hating JEWS.

Nazism is an ideology centered around hating JEWS. Other people and groups may be caught in the crossfire, but ultimately, a Nazi's goal is to exterminate Jews, and you cannot just ignore that! I read a 12 paragraph essay yesterday written by a gentile analyzing the reasons people in Nazi Germany flocked to Nazism, and antisemitism wasn't mentioned as a motivation even once! They thought it was all because of gender norms and sexual repression! Oh my god!

The comfort with which gentiles have near universally divorced Nazism from antisemitism in colloquial speech is a direct precursor to the separation of Nazism from antisemitism in academic discourse. It's a direct predecessor to the rise of institutionalized antisemitism that we are seeing happen in real time now, because you have all gotten so used to appropriating Jewish trauma and Jewish oppression to the extent that you have convinced yourselves it isn't even uniquely real. That antisemitism doesn't exist as a specific bigotry that stands on it's own, that antisemitism is always some kind of footnote tied to some other, more important form of oppression. Do you think that Jews don't see what is happening here, that we don't see the deliberate generalization of Jew hatred and appropriation of the language we can use to refer to it? Jewish trauma becomes everyone's trauma, Jewish oppression becomes everyone's oppression, and soon enough the world at large has stolen the language of Jewish oppression right out of our mouths, until huge swaths of people can say "Jews are the new Nazis" and not see anything absurd about that at all.

Because you won't. Fucking. Acknowledge. What Nazism actually is. You won't fucking acknowledge that any ideology is specifically targeted at JEWS, and not YOU. Stop it!! Stop it! Cut it the fuck out. Nazism cannot be divorced from antisemitism and the insistence that it not only can be but MUST be by gentiles just shows how deeply ignorant and biased against Jews most of you really are.

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“No ones allowed to criticize the Jewish community isn’t that (((mysterious)))” really? You’re doing it right now. You do it all the time. You beat us up in the streets and people cheer you on. Come on now.

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like im not fucking around w this shit anymore yall are just a bunch of antisemitic idiots. there are more antisemites than there are jews in the world, and you love that. you relish in the death of israelis and jews as one, you care for israelis and jews as one. your hate is so ingrained within you all that you don't even consider yourself hateful. but your soul is corroded. years of anti-jewish sentiments did a fucking number on you and like all antisemites ever you're not bothered about it whatsoever.

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“No ones allowed to criticize the Jewish community isn’t that (((mysterious)))” really? You’re doing it right now. You do it all the time. You beat us up in the streets and people cheer you on. Come on now.

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“i don’t understand why you guys keep bitching about leftist antisemitism. i’m a leftist jew and i NEVER experience antisemitism!! all i had to do was reject all religious aspects of judaism that couldn’t be weaponized for ActivismTM, not wear any religious garb unless it’s to make a point, be white or white passing, lie about my family who lives in israel or talk loudly and frequently about how i hope they all die, allow my gentile comrades to make holocaust jokes and comparisons, and harass other jews who haven’t put their identity up for auction like i have. it’s literally that easy so if you’re complaining about it it’s probably because your a baby killer pedophile subhuman zionist scumbag, just like my friend stalinworshipper42069 said.”

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Not everyone in my college town realizing and finding out that the Post Office started redefining apartment complexes as student housing if they were within an arbitrary distance from the university or used by students. As such the Post Office would no longer be delivering mail to those complexes, even if they were primarily used by non-students.

So residents are not getting mail because their neighbors might be students. Everyone is now putting the pieces together that this is why a lot of the mail in ballots never arrived for people in my town. The Post Office only started doing this these past few months, and it's a local policy. Not a statewide one.

Not sus at all.

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thinking about creatures.

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Genuinely so angry I can't live in the places I grew up because they are fundamentally too expensive for me to go home.

I miss San Diego. I miss Monterey. I miss my home so much every time I go back and visit my parents. But living in the place they live, in the place I grew up, is so wildly expensive that it might as well be Narnia. All I want to do is go home, and I simply can't. There is something fundamentally wrong with the world.

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I'm sorry but if Sami people can be understood as other-than-white and lighter featured First Nations people can be understood as other-than-white and individuals of our sisters the Romani when similarly afflicted by melanin deficiency can be understood as other-than-white....

Your classification of Jews, who span the whole gamut of color but share the racialization and experience of being othered among any majority, including whiteness in the north/west, is only further evidence of your racism. Because in doing so you continue to perpetuate double standards for Jewish people, which is dangerous when merged with perspectives that view whiteness as a merit signifier. Not that our identity isn't a fair bit older than this pretty reductive view, but

Regardless, I'll remind that the minority indigenous groups I mentioned are in the context of a white majority, but white people do not have a monopoly on colonialism. Plenty of people don't want to be called Arab in MENA and plenty of people aren't sure that they'd classify themselves as Chinese or Russian in the sense that the West views national identity. But that kind of nuance probably isn't something I should bother with if we haven't made it past point 1.

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agatha agate has a little spot on the top of her head where her fur is white and it’s very thin and the pink of her skin is a little bit visible all the time. turns out she can get sunburnt there

so now she has this stupid hat.

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As an aroace-spec pansexual I have two questions:

1. Why are redheads so hot?

2. Why do people make fun of redheads as if they aren’t the hottest fuckers out there?