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it can't keep getting away with this

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Periodically I end up having to explain to every fandom I’m in that understanding someone’s actions and excusing/forgiving them are not even close to the same thing

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I love gregory Macguire. He literally said I'm going to make my AU Fanfiction everyone else's problem

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someone else could probably write this more thoroughly, but I think a lot of people seemingly don’t comprehend that WWII and the Holocaust were two separate events which overlapped. WWII was not fought because of the Holocaust, and in fact sometimes I wonder, if a bunch of fascist despotism hadn’t converged at the time, and if instead of worldwide domination Hitler had only focused on restructuring Germany and exterminating whichever of Europe’s Jews he could get the industrialized death machine to murder, if much would have been done about it at all. nobody was protecting the Jewish people, in fact quite the opposite given there were quotas and resolutions passed that stopped them from being saved. the Allies each hesitated a very long time before entering the war. a lot of the US was quite firmly isolationist and even had burgeoning support for Hitler (across academia and the political spectrum) until the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which, again, had nothing to do with the Holocaust. the idea that any allied nation entered the fight to save Jews is a myth.

what is frightening about this is the fact that it also means people fail to recognize the part that Jew hatred played in what ultimately happened. tens of millions of people died in WWII. the Pacific theatre can perhaps be separated from the European battlegrounds (though the staggering scale of atrocities that happened in places like Nanjing and Unit 731 are closer to places like Auschwitz and Dachau than many realize), but the Nazi regime was founded wholly on antisemitism. it was created by it, fueled by it, and enriched by it. the immense horror that transpired in Europe did not happen solely to Jews, but it happened BECAUSE of Jew hatred and the desire to eradicate an entire people deemed subhuman, to make Europe judenfrei. this is why it was very easy for so many of these nations to join in the massacres and rounding up of their Jewish populations. you’ll find mass murder sites and pogroms committed against Jews scattered all over Europe. you walk the streets and forests and you’re walking through their graves. it’s not limited to the concentration camps. it’s not limited to Germany or Poland. there were many people - nice, ordinary, every day people, “civilized” and “educated” - who were more than happy to help send their Jewish neighbors to their deaths, or at least to blithely look away from it happening in the hopes it wouldn’t affect them.

there were roughly 500 million people in Europe at the time. Yad Vashem recognizes 28,217 people as Righteous Among the Nations. do the math and realize that’s like…half of 0.01%. 0.005%. that’s it.

and all of this, all of it, started with rhetoric. it started with words and conspiracies and propaganda against Jews. it started with whispers about (((them))) - they’re not like us, they’re too powerful, they’re sneaky, they’re corrupt, they’re not quite human, they’re impure, they’re polluting the true goodness and honor of society. and then it was quietly, let’s ostracize them from our communities. let’s kick them out of schools. let’s vilify their businesses. let’s demonize their art, in fact, shut them out of the arts altogether. let’s burn their books. let’s steal their property. it was very easy for that to become - let’s make it easier on ourselves, cleanse our society, and kill them all.

this engine of hatred rolled ahead swiftly with no real intervention until other countries started to be affected in broader ways. the Jew hatred was the Nazi motive, but preventing it was not the motivation to get involved.

the reason why we are now so alarmed and so hurt by what we are witnessing is because it’s, for all intents and purposes, exactly the same. there is no material difference between those early days of vilifying Jews then and the moment we are living in now as far as the rhetoric goes. it may be hiding itself behind a new mask and a few new shiny buzzwords, but make no mistake, the underlying hatred and danger is the same.

and it isn’t only a danger to us. it arrives with the scythe at our door first, yes, but it is a danger and threat to everyone in the end. and yet again not enough people are listening, and far too many are gleefully joining in. this is why it’s triggered many Jewish people’s generational trauma. we know where it leads, it’s happened repeatedly. we shouldn’t always have to beg for others to listen.

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Nature’s Gifts 🏕️

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I was scanning through AO3 and wondered about fic updates (with no pressure on the writers who haven't abandoned their babies lol) and what period of time (to a reader) means the fic is likely not returning from hiatus/the grave.

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I can’t explain how much I love fics where Tim is upset at the unfair treatment he got as Robin vs everyone else’s treatment and everyone else finds out, especially when he’s just upset with Damian getting this ‘prince treatment’ and he rants about it to Dick or Jason or both and they’re just like “huh?? No Bruce always gave us curfews??” Or “no Bruce always made sure we got proper treatment for our injuries??” And so on I just love it so so so much!! Especially the longer ones where it shows Tim and Bruce reconciling and Bruce at least somewhat making up for the past and Damian coming to an understanding about Tim (if that makes sense) also if anyone wants to leave fic recs like that I’d appreciate so so much I’m having a hard time finding more lolol

(Also yes I will be posting fic recs tonight just give me a couple hours I just got off work lolol)

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A con brings the Leverage team back to Boston and the Palmerston Beavers, but even all these years later, Eliot is way too recognizable as local legend (and now urban myth) Roy Chappell for him to show his face without blowing the whole thing

Their solution? Dressing him in a deranged, Gritty-esque beaver mascot costume for the duration of the job

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hey, we’ll be ok

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I saw a comment on an article about how women are vastly outpacing men in employment and higher education that was something like “It is a problem [that women are now more educated and more likely to have higher paying jobs than their male counterparts] because women do not want to date below their station.” Which was so fucking stupid because, and I’m going to be very frank here, educated high earning women love uneducated loser men. It is usually the man who CANNOT STAND that his wife is more educated and/or intelligent and making more money than him. Dudes will be making $80k a year while their wife makes $150k a year and earnestly say “Honey, I think you should quit your job and stay home when the baby comes.”

It’s not that most women are averse to dating men who are less educated and less wealthy than them, it is that a significant amount of men feel extremely emasculated if their S/O is superior to them in any way.

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Okay hear me out but I legit think Mother Superior was trying to set up Maria and Georg the whole time and was just being really subtle about it. Oh the uptight grumbly grump widower captain needs a new governess? How CONVENIENT I'll send our most unhinged postulant who totally won't win over him and the kids by being annoyingly persistent with her fun-loving personality and sunshiney disposition

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hyperspecific poll!

-flown in a private jet

-fallen off of a horse exactly 5 times

-first job was at a day summer camp

-crashed a golf cart

-never broken/fractured a bone

-wrote your first fanfiction on Quotev

-want to go to the same college that both your parents went to

-wrong time of birth was written on birth certificate because the clock in the room was wrong

-has exactly 3 side blogs on tumblr

-got your first phone when you were 15

-multiple of the above

-none of the above

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