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Mace Windu said fuck the rules fuck the law fuck tradition the Chancellor is a Sith Lord and has made himself an emperor and I’m not going to sit by and let it happen.

Mace Windu said if I do nothing I’d be betraying the democracy I thought I was fighting for this whole time, which means more than the crimes I’ll be charged with when this is over.

And yet people try to praise Anakin or Dooku for “leaving a corrupt system”. As if that was why Anakin left. As if Dooku did anything but make it worse. People praise the Mandalorians for only following their own rules. As if we’ve ever seen the Mandalorians truly stand for anything.

As if we don’t already have the most metal anti-authoritarian, badass character for people to praise.

And yet these parts of the fandom hate him. I wonder why 🤔

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It’s hilarious that in leftist circles it’s a totally valid talking point to say that people shouldn’t wish death upon and/or villainize (southerners/americans/etc) because they don’t control what their government(s) do and often disagree with what’s going on…

…but when you say- “hey guys, maybe you shouldn’t be bigoted and hateful towards Israelis and/or Jews for the actions of the Israeli government, they have no control over what’s going on and probably disagree with it” -suddenly you’re a terrible person who supports baby murder and genocide, and you should off yourself because that totally helps Palestine and definitely doesn’t make y’all “pro-Palestine activists” seem fucking insane.

Pro Tip: If your morals change based on what’s popular/what you can get away with, you’re not actually a good person—you’re a bigot in a rainbow T-shirt

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"The fascists hate you too" "they'll come for you next" bitch they are coming for me first. I'm fucking Jewish

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I swear, the “pro palestine” crowd is never beating the antisemitic, racist, and xenophobic allegations because anytime I see someone with a star of david or israeli flag in their name/bio, there’s always about 50 replies that have NOTHING to do with whatever they commented and are basically just them harassing this random person online.

And there’s no winning either! Because I literally just saw someone who had their username formatted like this- "[Israeli flag] [username] [palestine flag]” -and they had like “free palestine” in their bio and also “free israel” (as in free them from hamas’ violence) and they STILL had people under their random comment on an edit saying shit like-

“You can’t have both flags in your username”

“Free Israel from violence they created?”

“No pissraeli is innocent”

So like, there’s literally no winning! Even if you’re vocal about your support of palestine, if you don’t condemn all jews and israelis to death then the “pro palestine” crowd hates you. You can want peace, want a ceasefire, want everyone to be safe, but if you DARE have any empathy for israelis or jews or the hostages then apparently none of that matters because you’re the “enemy.”

Heaven forbid you think that a two state solution is best, instead of wanting israel wiped off the face of the earth. Heaven forbid you think hamas is the terrorist organization that it LITERALLY IS and responsible for the vast majority of all of this horror, instead of painting them as “freedom fighters” and “poor wittle victuwms of the eeevil pissraelis.” Heaven forbid you condemn the antisemitism that’s skyrocketing all around the world instead of just ignoring it or calling it “activism” and saying that “the evil jews zionists just want to silence us!”

I’ve literally lost multiple friends over this shit because that’s the kind of bullshit they spread/support/associate with. It’s fucking ridiculous that people I bonded with over similar values have now just seemingly tossed those values right out the window when it comes to jews and israel/israelis. I’m so fucking tired of all of this bullshit.

If any of my old friends see this post and wonder- “does this apply to me?” -or- “is this why they stopped hanging out with me?” -think of the conversations I’ve had with y’all about this shit and take a wild fucking guess.

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p!nk's ig story. can't believe this needs to be said but here we are.

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It's crazy like truly truly bug fuck insane how Republicans are just immune to criticism. For the past 4 years anything that could even kind of be blamed on Joe Biden was and anything that couldn't be blamed when Joe Biden also was blamed on Joe Biden. He was the one who made that boat crash into that ship. Pete Buttigieg personally derailed that train in East Palestine. Mere days after Donald Trump fired a lot of people from the FAA and instituted a hiring freeze the worst aviation disaster in America since 9/11 happened and if you connect those two facts every single Republican will act like you are some sort of ghoulish political ambulance chaser. And it's not even exclusive to conservative/Republican circles, conservative people blame all of the world's problems on the Democratic party and progressive people blame all the world's problems on the Democratic party. It's just fucking galling how the public refuses to hold any Republican accountable for literally anything ever.

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First they came for the Jews, which I cheered on because Isnotreal is a colonialist state.

Then they came for Californians, which is okay because they're all rich hollywood Jews.

Then they came for the Palestinians, and I was conveniently quiet about that despite making a big ruckus about ethnic cleansing for the past year and a half.

Then they came for queer people, and I finally spoke up, because I am queer and everything is about me, don't forget that the Nazis killed queer people too and burned the Institute of Sexology!!

But by then it was too late, because I was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to convince millions not to vote for the one candidate who could have stopped all of this. But at least #KillerKamala didn't win and Jill Stein got to show up!

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checking up on former mutuals and friends

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/

So, the facts are, most universities in the US are kept in business by grants. Professors and researchers apply for grants, grants pay their salaries, their equipment, their space, their travel, and their students. This includes Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, Project Assistants etc. this is true across pretty much all academic disciplines. Often what this means is, the professor does their thing, their TA teaches the bulk of classes, students get taught, all while the university makes a profit.

If you kill grants, you kill all of this. This will give universities the excuse to cut tenured faculty, because the university can't afford them directly. This will cut grad students, because this is the only way grad students are paid for. With no grad students, many classes will suddenly not have teachers. Classes will be cut, teachers fired, and the universities will likely have to increase tuition to make up the difference. Knowing universities, they will not cut the number of incoming students coming in (that's their money!) so now classrooms will be packed to the gills with professors that are both underworked and underpaid.

This is just one segment of the people being impacted by this week of horseshit, but believe me, colleges will be permanently altered.

But isn't this just temporary, you ask? Possibly. Much of this is likely to be permanent, definitely in my field. This is coming from the executive order that includes

So anything that can be argued as "woke", "Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies" will not be funded. You can tell those words are squishy to the point of meaningless, but that's the point. Anything can be squished into those categories. Certainly my ecology work is toast.

Anyway if you see a scientist or an academic or a doctor or what have you, please be kind to us. This is... unprecedentedly bad

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ok, fast food rant incoming:

If a higher up, usually a general manager or an owner, or a customer hasn't routinely worked at whatever fast food place they're at DURING RUSH HOUR with like FOUR PEOPLE on shift INCLUDING the MANAGER, then they shouldn't be able to say shit about "labor costs" or about however long it's taking to get shit done.

I work at a fast food restaurant, not gonna say which one but it's pretty popular, and since before I started working there the GM keeps getting on all our managers' asses about "labor costs" this and "labor costs" that, telling them that they need to cut as many people as possible every day in order to cut costs because "those people aren't needed"---essentially trying to keep us running a skeleton crew 24/7.

The GM has ACTUALLY TOLD the managers that if they don't cut "enough people" then they will be FIRED.

The problem is, kitchen usually needs like 4-5 people to move smoothly, front (drive thru, shakes, lobby) needs 3-4 people to run smoothly, and it's best to have at least 1 more person on standby to help stock and clean and do all the little jobs needed to keep things running, and that's NOT INCLUDING the manager who has to do other jobs like checking temps, labor plans, shift changes, scheduling, etc. etc.

WE CANT FUCKING FUNCTION WITH ONLY FOUR FUCKING PEOPLE.

Oh, but it gets better: the GM forces us to run on a skeleton crew, but then still bitches at us for our times being bad.

On drive thru we're monitered for how long it takes us to get someone's food out, and our goal is about 70 seconds...WE CANT FUCKING DO THAT WITH FOUR PEOPLE, ITS LITERALLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE! When you have a 2 person kitchen and then 2 people running front and trying to do all the other jobs because THE PEOPLE IN KITCHEN LITERALLY CANT FUCKING MOVE, then YOU CANT GET SHIT OUT QUICKLY!

Today was a fucking shitshow because we had 5 fucking people today and weren't allowed to call anyone to help, but one of the guys was a new hire and literally knew jack shit so it felt like 4.

Like I literally slipped, fell, hit my head and back, and then had to get up and keep going in like 5 seconds while I was covered in soda and IN PAIN because we didn't have enough people for me to take a minute to recover or for me to go home. I FUCKING HURT, but I couldn't do anything about that because THERE WAS NO ONE THERE TO TAKE MY SPOT.

When GMs schedule a shift, they're scheduling for the slowest times of the day, when the actual people that WORK those shifts schedule them, they're scheduling for rush hour---which is the majority of the shifts btw.

So yeah, GMs and owners can shut the fuck up about "labor costs" and times and shit because they have NO FUCKING CLUE what it's like to work rush hour with the bare minimum---if they did, they'd change their tunes real fucking quick and understand WHY we need more people.

And the fucking CUSTOMERS-

If you're a fucking customer at a fast food place and you go there during THE BUSIEST TIMES OF DAY, I'm gonna need you to SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT HOW LONG YOUR FOOD IS TAKING!!!

YOU are the one who came in the middle of Sunday rush hour, when everyone and their mother decided to get lunch, when everyone---INCLUDING YOU PROBABLY---has gotten 7 trays and MILKSHAKES WITH ALL OF THEM-

SO OBVIOUSLY ITS GONNA TAKE A FUCKING MINUTE, EAT AT HOME IF YOU DONT WANT TO FUCKING WAIT

I fucking hate working fast food so fucking much, it's not even the job---I actually like the job---it's the fucking moron GMs working all of us to death because they're a bunch of jackass bootlickers and the fuckass customers who like verbally abusing us because they have sad, pathetic, lives and can't get a fucking hobby.

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Btw if you blatantly lie about Israel or the war in Gaza and someone calls you out for lying they are not in fact "defending Israel" they are calling you out for spreading mis or disinformation. In case that wasn't clear.

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Many many many people pointed it out already, but the fact that posts like these about Musk seig heil-ing get almost 100k notes in 2 days while any other post about the rise of antisemitism and/or antisemitic incidents and attacks barely breaks the jumblr ceiling is very telling about tumblr's virtue signaling.

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these people are so myopic and thin skinned that she feels like it’s more important to address my addition and people agreeing with it than to concede that maybe the loss of tiktok isnt actually the loss of anything real. like, just admit you’re having withdrawals from the app that platforms less than iconic content and people lmao. if you go outside the sun shines. love and peace on planet earth.

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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While I agree the government shouldn’t be able to remove access to social media sites, it’s still completely ridiculous, stupid, and certainly tone deaf that these people are comparing the violation of human rights—something that’s killed so many women and even CHILDREN, not to mention given many lasting trauma during already horrible times in their lives (ie. cases where they have to carry their rapists baby, or times when they’ve gone through miscarriages or other health issues that have made their baby die/or are putting their lives at risk)—to people losing a fucking social media platform.

I don’t really give a fuck if these people think it’s about “first amendment rights,” it’s one social media platform and they’re comparing it to women’s rights—which we ALREADY had to fight tooth and nail for—getting rolled back by decades.

So yeah, this is still fucking ridiculous.

I AM GOING TO LOSE MY MIND