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Don’t talk to me about how much you care about Palestine, Ukraine and other war torn countries if you ignore the silent voices of the innocent being murdered yearly in America.

Researchers estimate there were 1,026,700 abortions in 2023. That's the highest number in over a decade, and the first time there have been over a million abortions provided in the U.S. formal health care system since 2012

Over ONE MILLION innocent babies ripped to pieces in their mothers wombs. Most were done by choice. I’m sorry but if you claim to care about innocent lives being lost but don’t care about these precious babies being murdered yearly than I cannot take you seriously.

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I don’t even know what else I can say anymore. This is self harm. She talks about dissociating during it. She’s traumatizing herself and men adore it. Because porn isn’t sex, it’s just misogyny.

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From @ pinkpillled on tiktok

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Briana Boston didn't threaten anyone.

When my grandmother was sent a death threat through text message, I reported it to the police. The officer told me that "it's not considered a death threat unless the message mentions a weapon and a deadline".

As a result, they didn't do anything. Not even a verbal warning to that person.

Or, there's a double standard when it comes to billionaires and big corporations. Who'd have thought.

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Who is marching for the rights of the 300,000+ christians displaced, murdered or fleeing persecution around the world?

Who is marching for the hundreds of thousands of people killed by Muslims in Syria and Yemen?

Who is marching for the constant wars in the Congo, and the innocent people killed by terrorists there?

I see a lot of people saying free Palestine. I want this war to end. But I also see those same people not marching for any of the people above. They have also forgotten about Ukraine. Instead, their single focus is hating every Jew in response to what the Israeli government has chosen to do- as if Jews being attacked in other countries have ANYTHING to do with it. People are having their social medias harassed with death threats. Jews are being attacked in streets, murdered in elementary schools, and told they all deserved Hitler. They are hearing chants of “death to all Jews”. Their temples and schools- safe places for them- are being burned down and targeted. Their homes and property is being vandalized with swastikas and death threats. I’m seeing posts and people on the streets CHEERING for Hamas. Half the people in this movement don’t even know 90% of what’s truly going on over there.

So please don’t virtue signal to me about how much you care about human life when you don’t even see the rest of the world. The war needs to end. Both sides- ALL SIDES- need peace. The media has been feeding a lot of people BS on both sides. Scammers have convinced a lot of supporters to give away their money to them. Hamas has been taking donations and killing Palestinians who are getting them. Stop making this a black and white “death to israel” thing because it’s NOT. This is a fad. When the next major world event happens many will jump off this wagon and on to the next. It’s already happening now.

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am i the only one who finds it weird when grown women tell young women “you need to be modest to leave something to the imagination”

like? no? modesty is primarily for God and to prevent a stumbling block for others… my mindset when wearing modest clothing, let alone any clothing, shouldn’t be for someone to imagine anything? that’s still lust bro

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Also I think we can have a larger conversation about the fandomification of politics and merch that treats specific political figures as idols but no one reacts the same way to the Bernie merch including those tattoos people were getting in 2016 or even the Obama "hope" poster and general pop culture buzz around him. And I think the buzz around Obama is largely justified by what a significant historical figure he is, it's just the same can be said for RBG, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, etc. The people making fun of Notorious RBG aren't offering good faith criticism of fandomized politics they just think women are cringe.

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This is highly pedantic but I really, really, really want to take the word "diaspora" away from people who have been to grad school. Language evolves and words don't have fixed meanings but diaspora once meant the scattering of the Jews specifically. Implicitly the phrase, used thus, indicates extreme duress and even compulsion. It has also been used for Protestants fleeing Europe on pain of torture and death and of Africans who were kidnapped and sold into the transatlantic slave trade. People might also use it to describe the Irish fleeing literal starvation in the 19th century. There is no shortage of these examples but again, the thing you will find they have in common, is extreme, mortal danger coupled with intense, multi-generational grief for being compelled to leave the place of origin. Almost always some external force is compelling migration through violence. The phrase "diaspora" should be reserved for examples of this intensity.

But scholars--I strongly suspect hoping to get a little of the intersectional capital of the more intense (i.e., legitimate) examples--apply the phrase to any instance of a population being somewhere they "shouldn't be," as if that meant anything at all. If there is a population of group A that started in place A but is now in places A, B, and C, you've got yourself a diaspora no matter the cause for their migration.

I'm sure there are Korean and Indian migrants who would have preferred not to move to the United States or Western Europe in pursuit of career or education but it doesn't quite have the same sting that one finds with the transatlantic slave trade, does it?

"But Ivan, moving away from home makes people sad, and diaspora just means scattering, so any migration is a diaspora in a way" yes but the thing is, some of the examples are so intense, so severe, so catastrophic in their consequences for centuries after the fact, that they're kind of in their own category. And I can't shake the suspicion that scholars are trying to get away with some rhetorical sleight of hand to make their particular subject seem more important.

It's a bit like genocide. Is it really genocide or is it ethnic cleansing or something else that's bad but not quite as bad as genocide? If you can get--and such is the perversion of our moral imaginations--if you can get that laurel of a proper genocide, it just seems to unlock some kind of prestige that the so-called lower crimes just can't capture.

Diaspora should not be the same as migration. It should be reserved for examples that unfold over extreme--extreme--duress. Or else, we need to find a new word for the phenomenon that was once described as "diaspora" because fleeing literal starvation, violent and repressive conquest, torture at the hands of the Inquisition, or being kidnapped and sold into slavery are orders of magnitude worse than being sad that you are moving because you want to make more money.

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A Visual #Fashion Guide For Women - Necklines, Skirt Types & More!

By KikiCloset.com

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Help me Father for I am weak and also an idiot.

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As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

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Lady Kirkland at her best

Some sketches with, awfully similar to Belarus, Alice Kirkland. Live laugh love Fem England

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george lucas, remarkably unsubtley, over and over again: the fall of the republic was because of corporate interests interfering with politics and increased complacency with fascist ideas in the face of a manufactured war

everyone, for some reason: so the jedi were the REAL villains because they didn’t get married

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I really need to understand who, in the fucking seven hells, not only designed this thing and thought it looked good, but also thought that it would have been a gown good enough for the fucking Galactic Senate of the Republic.

It looks so cheap, the symbol of the order looks like one of the patches I have on my backpack, the completely white textureless dress is boring as fuck, the shape of the cloak is atrocious and the material of it looks like an old curtain my grandma had, that was chewed by our dog.

I really don’t get how a serie with 180 million managed to have such cheap quality for literally everything.

Like, where the fuck did those millions go, to the mafia?

Both The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones had a budget of 115 million!!!! Just look at the stunning dresses that they made for those movies:

LOOK AT THE DETAILS!! AT THE TEXTURES!!!! AT THE SHAPES!!!!!! LOOK AT THEM.

And now they wanna make me believe that that thing Vernestra is wearing is supposed to be a Senatorial gown???? They could have at least tried to make the style more Jedi-like but no, they needed too much creativity for that I guess...

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"Anakin's relationship with Palpatine eclipses his relationship with Obi-Wan," Christensen remarks. "But he doesn't really have a clear devotion to one or the other. Anakin as he will be played is—I don't want to say naïve, but his belief system is still open. He still isn't exactly set in his devotion to the Jedi or to Palpatine. He is looking to see how he can get more power, but his ideas of good and evil are not black and white."

reading about hayden's understanding of anakin's psychology in revenge of the sith is so illuminating. his fall is not about his moral convictions or about loyalty to a mentor. he's selfishly looking for ways to increase his own power to resist change, without regard for any ethical boundaries, he simply doesn't care about that. he's apolitical, amoral; it's all about what he wants.

anakin just doesn't love obi-wan and the jedi more than he loves being important and having control over the world around him. he doesn't love freedom or justice more than he loves license to do and have whatever he wants. it's really what makes him so dangerous, such a malleable weapon to be wielded. he doesn't have ethical boundaries or convictions to keep him steady.

lacking firm definition of what is good and what is evil allows anakin to redefine those terms to suit his needs. it's what allows him to kill innocents and still not think of himself as evil. it's what allows him to tell obi-wan that the jedi are evil, despite it being an obvious self-delusion. he's lost because his moral compass doesn't point north, but spins freely to face whatever he wants.