#I can also rant for hours about how stupid the idea of Newsspeak is

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Today I came across this video by Dan Olsen. And I really like it when he says "this is how the nazi's wanted you to see them".

One very simple way to resist. Even IF you feel hopeless. Even IF you don't protest or resist in any effective way. Just existing is also helping. Just laughing, mocking and saying 'nu-uh' is also helping.

Being gay myself and being 'good' in all the other ways. They want me to be 'normal'. To not complain, to not be queer. I can be gay, but in a way that doesn't offend them. Then I am perfect in their eyes.

The most awefull thing to a conservative. The thing they despise most. Is being confronted with your hope every single day. You know who bullies hate? The people who keep mocking them. Laughing in their face, even when beaten up on the ground. The people they can't controle. The people who keep saying 'nu-uh'.

Because that's the fundamental thing they want; power and control. And they can get power over you, but not control. You can only give them control. And when you mock them, laugh at them, tell them to their face that they are bad people. You question their authority. And it enrages them. Because it is the one insecurity they can't fight away. Your disrespect for them is the one thing they can't take from you.

'You can kill the person, but not the idea.' as long as you can keep that annoying fear circuling in their head. As long as you can keep them scared that there are still people out there, just not giving in. People that obey, but don't listen. People that don't care, that follow, but don't love. That is the one way in which you can still weaken them, if only a little.

Because laughing down is very easy. Bullying from the top is very easy. But bullying up, laughing with the finger pointed at the powerfull. That is resistance. And again. It's not much. But it is something they absolutely hate, it is the last step they won't gone. But as long as we don't let them, it will NEVER happen, not matter the rest of the ways in which they can control us. They can NEVER get respect from you, unless you give it to them. And you can always keep a little disrespect, a little bit, and use it against them. Share that disrespect with others. Maybe even create class conciousness and start and uprising. You never know how powerfull a joke can be. Because disrespect. Disrespect is the one thing they can NEVER take from you unless you let them!

while being depressing, this is also sort of fascinating to me bc there’s something so…inauthentic here. what i mean is that if you saw something like this back in say 2001 (which you probably wouldn’t, at least for carl’s jr. but i digress) it would seem tacky but in a “sex sells” sort of way.

seeing this in 2025, it’s clearly purely a political statement and you can tell partially bc the image itself is so oddly sexless. it’s like there’s more titillation in the prospect of “owning the libs” than in the image of the scantily clad blonde white woman itself.