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siken saw his words being twisted and he’s having none of it god bless

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Trump voters on tiktok are EXTREMELY mad about the following:

They just found out what tariffs are

They just found out what denaturalization is

They (particularly black and Hispanic trump voters) just found out that other trump voters are racist

Leftists and liberals don't want to be their friends (they are furious about this)

Leftists keep telling them they hope they get what they voted for (they are really mad about this too)

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“When I  arrived  to  speak, a boy  in  the  front  row  was  waiting, pencil poised  above  a  ruled  notebook.  He  gazed  at  me  intensely  throughout the  talk,  scribbling  furiously  away.  After  I  finished,  he  flipped  back to  the  front  page  to  read  out  a  question  that  he’d  prepared  and brought  with  him.  He  cited  false  statistics  about  rape,  claiming  men were  vastly  more  likely  to  be  victims,  and  asking  why  I  chose  to ignore  their  plight.  He  seemed  nervous  but  excited,  confident  he  had caught  me  in  a  lie,  with  the  air  of  triumphantly  unmasking  me  in front  of  all  his  fellow  students.  He  was  wearing  a  red  hat  emblazoned with words in white:  Make  America  Great  Again. Over  the  next  few  months,  I  started  to  notice  something  strange. There  was  always  that  one  boy.  Sometimes  two  or  three.  They watched  intently,  eyes  shining  with  excitement.  Then  they  asked  the same  questions.  They  gave  the  same  statistics.  Often  they  repeated each  other,  word  for  word. Particular  themes  started  cropping  up  again  and  again.  Why should  we  listen  to  you  when  women  lie  about  rape?  Feminism  is  a man-hating  conspiracy  designed  to  let  women  take  over  the  world when  men  are  the  real  victims  of  gender  inequality  in  today’s  society. Men  are  actually  more  likely  to  be  victims  of  domestic  violence  than women. The  gender  pay  gap  is  a  myth.

Eventually,  one  boy  referred  to  the  ‘gynocracy’  and  another  asked a  question  in  which  he  directly  quoted  Milo  Yiannopoulos  by  name. Everything  started  to  fall  into  place.  Instead  of  just  answering  boys’ questions  and  gently  providing  robust  statistics,  I  started  asking them  where  they’d  heard  the  quotes  they  were  repeating.  The  answer was always the  same: online.

And  so  hatred  of  women  is  ushered  into  young  men’s  belief systems  without  them  even  realising  that  that’s  what  it  is.  It  isn’t hating  women;  it’s  standing  up  for  men.  It  isn’t  hating  women;  it’s asking  for  ‘real’  equality.  It  isn’t  hating  women;  it’s  accepting biological  difference.  It  can’t  be  hating  women  if  everybody  is laughing  about  it  online. As  messages  and  conversations  like  this  increasingly  cropped  up on  my  radar,  it  began  to  seem  like  there  was  a  gradual  rise  in  the number  of  young  people  coming  into  contact  with  manosphere ideology. The  hostility  reported  by  girls  who  identify  as  feminists  at  UK schools  is  enormous,  with  repeated  stories  of  meetings  disrupted with  misogynistic  chants,  abusive  slogans  scrawled  over  posters,  and long-term  verbal  harassment  that  has  left  girls  devastated  or  even forced  to  change  schools.  A  young  woman  who identified  herself  as  a  feminist  in  a  school  discussion  I  attended emailed  me  after  she  was  subjected  to  a  campaign  of  harassment from  her  male  peers  as  a  result.  She  showed  me  text  messages  she had  received  from  boys  in  her  class,  whose  content  read  more  like  a manosphere  forum  than  a  teenage  text  exchange.  They  informed  her that  feminism  was  ‘sexist’,  that  men  are  simply  biologically  superior and  that  giving  them  better  jobs  is  just  the  best  way  to  progress  the human  race.  It’s  not  their  fault,  they  write;  they’re  not  trying  to  be ‘mean’,  it’s  just  the  way  things  are.  And,  reading  their  messages,  I really  think  they  believe  it.  These  are  the  arguments  that  teenage girls  today  –  not  100  years  ago  –  are  facing  from  their  male  peers. Imagine  having  to  try  to  confront  those  views  among  your classmates.  Imagine  going  to  school  and  learning  alongside  boys who  genuinely  believe  they  are  simply  genetically  superior  to  you.

The  boys  I  meet  at  schools  don’t  even  know  they  hate  women. They  are  mild-mannered  and  wide-eyed.  They  think  it’s  only  polite to  point  out  the  factual  inaccuracies  and  lies  repeated  by  feminists. They  have  seen  misogyny  online  so  often  and  heard  it  promoted  so persuasively  that  they  wouldn’t  even  recognise  it  as  a  form  of  hate. The  total  lack  of  awareness  about  this  form  of  radicalisation,  and the  enormous  impact  it  may  be  having  on  some  young  people,  is  a missed  opportunity  to  tackle  the  problem  before  it  spirals  out  of control.”

- Laura Bates, Men who hate women

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satisfying

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How Samuel Beckett Sought Salvation in the Midst of Suffering, by Andy Wimbush, pub. Aeon [ID'd]

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thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

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Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week

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netflix subtitles are great for when you want to read a caption with like 50% resemblance to what's being spoken

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The onion buying Infowars is the best possible scenario. They actually understand how to report on alex, and they'll know what to do with his assets.

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THE ONION OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE

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The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

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every locked tomb character is one of the characters of all time but ortus nigenad really is The Character Of All Time my guy brought a fanfiction to the gun fight AND WON

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the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.

It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.

But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.

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“male loneliness epidemic” and “friendzoning” are similar concepts to me in that the conditions they describe are literally experienced by everyone at some point in their lives but when its men its some sort of profound injustice that needs to be rectified by checks notes giving them unfettered access to the public good that is Women