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This is exactly the case. Often those who make those points see children as things. Fundamentally ignoring their own agency and will. They feel that they OWN their children, that their children are theirs to dictate and control, often enough in the same ways they too were controlled by their parents in a cycle of abuse. This is the fundamental core of the "Parent's Rights" movement pushed by the right in the US. That as parents, they get to decide the life their child lives, and thus the information they are exposed to.

Setting up parallel structures that do not incorporate parents, that give kids information that is not filtered through the parents, to deny the parents information about their own children, is to threaten their power over their kids. Power that allows them to abuse their kids.

This is much the same reason why an abusive husband wants to be the center of their wife's life.

They don't want to protect their children, they want to protect their power over their children. even if they don't know that.

I think the hardest part about addressing child abuse is getting people to acknowledge, not just intellectually but actually responding accordingly, is that the biggest threat to children, the biggest risk of abuse, is family and parents.

it is of course most often parents who are crowing about needing to protect children (often against far smaller threats than family), and pointing out that they are, statistically, the biggest threat to their kids is not gonna be received well.

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As a white person who has been trying to learn more about black history, especially because it is such a deep and important part of American history, and a part they don't teach you,

I loved Kendrick's performance. This only cements that further for me.

I really only ever cared about what he was going to do. The game itself lost my interest the moment the Chiefs beat the Bills.

So when he was done? The TV was turned off.

A Crash Course to Kendrick's Super Bowl Performance, from a Black Woman

Note: this does NOT go in depth into all of the song's lyrics. I don't have time to recount two decades of his discography. This is just a summary of the performance itself.

Let's start with the first visual we get:

UNCLE SAM - most notably recognized from WWII American wartime propaganda, Uncle Sam is the personification of American patriotism and freedom. The term "uncle" is also evocative of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist book that aided in inciting the Civil War. Uncle is also a very common term (both endearment and derogatory) towards Black men (eg. "unc"). Samuel L Jackson was fantastic.

Uncle Sam also resembles a circus ringleader, notable for my next point:

THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME - no, not Super Bowl. The GAG is us the people being pitted against each other: through late-stage capitalism, through the culture war, through class warfare, through being built of the backs of slaves. We are all players in the GAG because none of us on this site were the oligarchs seated at the inauguration.

This is also seen as Kendrick's stage was a Play Station controller. Not only did it remind of circus rings visually, but it was a game battle stage. The Great American Game is a battle royale of the commoners for the amusement of the rich whites.

Remember the foods / Them color was tin and brown / But now they 100 and blue - For this I'll just say, look what the last election said about lowering the price of eggs... and look at the prices now.

The revolution about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy - Election 2024 once more. *Edit to add, the first part of this lyric is in reference to the Black Liberation Song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron. Thanks to everyone who mentioned that.

THE FLAG DANCERS - yes, the dancers formed the US flag... off of the backs of Black people. Not a single white person in sight, and that's true of the cotton pickers in the fields. Plantations are part of how the US came to economic prominence after being a "backwater" colony. Remember tobacco? Cotton? Our bloodlines do. *Edit to add: they also all piled out of a clown car. The US flag in a clown car? Brilliant.

The red and blue dancers are also notable for representing the Crips and Bloods, two infamous street gangs. The dance in Not Like Us is the Crip Walk. I recommend researching more on your own time about them, but just know they are a large part of the stereotype of Black people being "ghetto."

TOO LOUD, TOO RECKLESS, TOO GHETTO. Do you really know how to play the game? - This is exactly what Black people, especially Black men, get told all the time. It's why we change our names on resumes if they sound "too Black." It's why we codeswitch in non-Black company. This is especially rich considering how non-Black people love our culture and love to make money off of us, as the latter part of the quote points to. And it's even more profound during the Super Bowl-- the NFL is majority Black players.

STREET LIGHT A CAPELLA -- "thug" stereotype dancers to counteract the a capella connotations, with Uncle Sam then saying that Kendrick figured out "bringing other street guys around being a culture cheat code." Yes, this is a direct hit at Drake (listen to "Not Like Us") but also politically. Look up "model minority". Notably I would point to Candace Owens, or the Miami Venezuelan political group that's been in the news recently, especially as this directly led to Kendrick being surrounded by...

DANCERS IN WHITE -- it's white America. That's... that's the allegory.

NOT LIKE US TEASER -- Kendrick says "Not Like Us" is "their favorite song." -> he means white people specifically here. It comes after he's surrounded by all white dancers, the women around him who are his call and response are also in white (my opinion, they represent the industry). He's saying "Not Like Us" is the favorite of yts because it is about BLACK MEN FIGHTING. This again is reflected in the video game stage and ringleader Uncle Sam.

SZA -- instead of giving what they want, we see SZA. She's one of Drake's exes and Kendrick has always supported her.

ALL THE STARS -- This was in the first Black Panther movie, which I recommend you watch. Rest in Power Chadwick. Notably, this movie was incredibly mainstream as a major Marvel movie, and then we have Uncle Sam say...

"THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WANTS: NICE AND CALM. DON'T MESS THIS UP" -- translation: Marvel (the industry, America, etc.) wanted a safe, semi-pop song because white American likes safe pop songs, not Kendrick's usual heavy rap style about his life as a Black man! Don't mess up what you've got going mainstream for having this "Black rap feud" with Drake, who is an R&B model minority to white people because he's safe.

So what does Kendrick say?

IT'S A CULTURAL DIVIDE / IMMA GET IT ON THE FLOOR -- He was warned not to be political or apologetically Black for this Super Bowl performance, but he is using this big stage opportunity to speak out.

40 ACRES AND A MULE / THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE MUSIC -- 40 acres and a mule are what the freed slaves were promised. Instead, this land went to white sharecroppers. Research Jim Crow laws.

THEY TRIED TO RIG THE GAME / BUT YOU CAN'T FAKE INFLUENCE -- rig the election, rig the industry like with model minority Drake, rig the Great American Game with culture war to distract from active class warfare.

NOT LIKE US -- the only thing I'll mention because it made me holler is Serena Williams crip walking on Drake's metaphorical grave. She's another one of his exes.

TURN THE TV OFF -- exactly like he said! The TV is a distraction, the Super Bowl is a distraction, the mainstream news is often a distraction. Turn it off and get with your people!

GAME OVER — could not see this on my stream but at the end of the performance, the lights in the stadium spelled this out. The world is watching, America…

In conclusion, Kendrick Lamar is a visionary and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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I love this.

Yes, Character Chickens can be that broody.

Yes Chickens are that dumb.

So I genuinely thought this was a real story.

And then suddenly baby dragon.

And you know that Chicken doted on that dragon like a proper hen, because they are basically hard coded to do that.

I love this!

Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord.

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I hope this fact makes the russocentrists lose their minds that they very act of trying to eradicate Ukranian culture is instead causing it to expand and move forward.

I hope they choke on the futility of their endeavor. For true victory for them is impossible.

when i say i’m from ukraine, people assume i live somewhere else now. when i say i live in ukraine, they assume i’m somehow immune to war, and there’s a logical division between a ukrainian they chat with on discord and a ukrainian on the news. bitches my yaoi is written from the bomb shelter

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Elf cooking show: First person helmetcam of a an elf hunting and killing a deer with their bare hands. They sing a lullabye to the deer before they snap it's neck and prepare a side salad.

Dwarf cooking show: America's Test Kitchen but even more rigorous. 20 minutes of discussing how to maintain precise heat just to boil water.

Halfling cooking show: Great British Bake Off with soap-opera levels of internal drama. Everyone is stoned off their ass.

Orc cooking show: Edible mythbusters. The contestants must make bbq with a live dragon. People straight up die sometimes.

Goblin cooking show: Goblins don't really understand the concept of restaurants, but they have a show like Diners Dive ins and Dives for rooting through people's trash.

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It's that time of year again!

AAAAAA!!! It's everyone's favorite time of year! Snowplow naming contest! Going for the 5th annual year!

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Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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I'm not in a good place right now. And that's because I'm scared. I am deeply scared.

My family and I are, as always, short on cash. And that means that we have to face the despicable violence of deciding if we get food or pay the power bill, and that has come due.

We'll probably figure it out, but it reminds me of my own vulnerability.

I'm still yet to start my disability application, in part because I don't know the date I was diagnosed, and I can't pull that easily because it's my medical records. (Not to mention our phones are also down at the moment)

So I can't get that started until either my appointment at the end of February, or if we find my diagnosis papers in storage.

Not to mention I can't take donations on my fan works due to the fact they're literary, and I can't afford to fight that battle, as much as I would want to.

I don't have a good outlook here, and spite can only take you so far. Especially in the hell we're facing right now.

This is one of many times where my own disability, my own powerlessness, weighs upon me like a millstone.

I can do nothing, and it hurts.

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“can mutuals dm you?” my mutuals can fire me from a cannon through a brick wall, looney tunes style. as long as we’re all having fun

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Violence should be a last resort.

But as with any last resort, if all else fails, we cannot hesitate.

They don't hesitate to harm us for profit, and so we must speak their language. If only so we are heard.

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Trans Rights are Human Rights.

If one falls, they all fall.

The order matters not.

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Ublock is still dunking on Youtube on Firefox.

The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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trump in 2016: if they run bernie I'm fucked

trump in 2020: if they run bernie I'm fucked

trump in 2024: if kamala runs on anything remotely leftist I'm fucked

liberals for all eternity: we need to be even more conservative than the republicans to win

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Not going to lie. I'm more worried about Vance than anything.

He's very clearly in this because he thinks Trump will bite it and then he can take the wheel.

And he's a Christo-fascist.

As bad as it is, Trump is a known quantity. Shit will suck, but we know what's coming this time. We can handle him.

Vance is a wild card here, and I don't like that.

He sold out for trump, remember that, so he got something in return, and the potential to be POTUS could be that.

I touched upon this earlier today, but Trump is likely at the peak of his popularity right now. It's the honeymoon period, all incoming presidents experience one, and yet he already has a net negative approval rating. A big part of why stupid people voted for him was their memory-holing of his whole first administration, but he was extremely unpopular the first time around, and his approval rating will probably go down even more now that he's in office and actually has the ability to do terrible things instead of just babble about them on stage.

What I'm saying is--all of these celebrities and "journalists" ripping the mask off because they think it's okay to be a MAGA fuck now are going to look really stupid really fast (I mean, they already do, but you know what I mean).

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No. That explains the politicians. It's the people I'm confused about.

Remember, there are actually people who align with the liberal ideology and those are the people who I think OP was talking about.

There are actually people on the ground level on "our side" who oppose our ideas for some reason and idk why.

I think the funniest thing in the aftermath of the election, is that you had right wing shitheads like Charlie Kirk say “You know if the democrats wanted to win they would have ran on Bernie’s policies like it would have been impossible to counter, kamala ran as a republican so we, the republicans, won obviously?” and you still have libs on here use Bernie Bros as a slur in 2025 and blame leftists for the loss. Liberals are so physically incapable of learning lessons that dumbass college dropout right wing grifters look like professors in comparison