#Opressor

[desertoparticular]

[1introvertedsage]

This is not a war of sections before us but a war of classes the most terrible that can be imagined. The wealth that has been accumulated, and by its accumulation has filled the land with suffering and poverty, and the grinding action of corporations, and other combinations that disturb the whole course of industry, throwing millions out of employment must rouse a feeling of vengeance in the minds of victims if they can discover who are their oppressors.

~Prof. J.R. Buchanan M.D.

[mensagemcompoesia]

Sangue escorrendo

Sangue escorrendoNão dá para ter dignidade Se não sei o que será de mim amanhã. Se vivo em um sistema de incertezas, Em um mar de opressão.Sangue escorrendo, opressor feliz, No fim de uma vida, vivendo de migalhas. Quanta sacanagem. Só agora sei que não sei.Como se libertar dessa máquina de moer gente?E deixar de ser um simples burro de carga? Preciso me libertar dessa opressão.Quanta sacanagem.…

[ricofox]

Oppressor x grunt ❤️

[my-ten-thousand-promises]

Feliz 2024! 💖

[conatus]

A pobreza é a maior opressora

Nunca imaginei que um dia eu fosse escrever nesse espaço sobre o Luva de Pedreiro. Mas aconteceu. Com a notícia de que a HBO está produzindo um documentário sobre a vida do influencer, a Internet reagiu, como sempre, de forma negativa, pois para as pessoas, ninguém realmente merece o que tem. As críticas partiram principalmente do núcleo progressista das redes sociais, onde as pessoas…

[bibliomatcha]

actually, im a very big fan of the concept that vampires are so uncanny, touch-starved and disconnected from a community that they have a hard time charming or seducing others.

every attempt to seduce a human is akin to the awkwardness of avoiding eye contact with the crackhead on the subway.

maybe it's because im asexual, but this just seems more appealing to me than the stereotypical alluring vampire. an apex predator that yearns to belong, to have a community, but fails because its their nature to just corrupt and take. each cruel action they make harbouring an undertone of desperation, and not just out of hunger, but to regain something that they lost long ago. idk.

[schizopositivity]

It's always "this is the neurodivergent website!" until schizo-spec/psychotic people tell you not to use the terms that describe our symptoms as adjectives, and not to use memes that were specifically made to trigger us and then it's "it's just a joke! Stop being so sensitive! I think it's funny! Just don't be on the internet then idk"

[crypticcowboys]

as a black person, i truly and wholeheartedly believe that sinners is a movie for everybody to enjoy, but seeing a certain demographic of people have one of their key takeaways from the movie to ship remmick and sammie makes me want to retract that statement. sammie is no older than 20 years old, with remmick presumably being over 1,000— and not only that, remmick is a predator. not a sexual one, but he forcibly takes away the mortality and cultural differences of people for his own personal gain. he preaches equality, but quite literally has every single black person that he turned singing Irish songs and doing irish dances because it is his culture. remmick may speak negatively about the klan and outright hatred, but remmick himself is an oppressor.

remmick is an amazingly written villain, and he may just be one of my favorite horror icons of all time. but to see people shipping him and sammie, a (very) young black man who he literally wants to STRIP the autonomy and culture of for his own personal desire of connection is incredibly tone deaf and I need white folk to understand that

[hilacopter]

"omg not israelis asking to be treated with basic human decency when there's licherally a genocide in gaza, this is proof they're privileged white colonizers" die

[yapibeir]

i don’t police ships, but if you ship remmick x sammie, don’t interact with me.

[ironnerdparadise]

[maxdibert]

Severus didn’t ask Voldemort to spare James because Lily was the only one in that family with a lower-middle-class background, so Severus basically just said eat the rich, and honestly, I’m not gonna blame him for having class consciousness. I mean, he was just being a revolutionary and saying screw the wealthy aristocrat—I would’ve done the same.

[rowie264]

Councilors vs Chem-Barons

Remember that creators wanted to "show there is merits and flaws on both sides"? While I still feel that agenda in the first season, the second season is... well.

The easiest way to see that creators wanted you to be more sympathetic to Piltover is to look at the rulers of both cities. The Council is flawed but mostly fine, while Chem-Barons are purely bad.

You can protest that 'wait, but in s1 we saw that the Council is corrupted' and... i agree with that. But let's take a closer look at all members with information from both s1 and s2, hmm?

Torman Hoskel was portrayed as silly and easily manipulated person. He is the worst among them.

Salo makes the same appearance as Hoskel in s1. But in s2 he becomes disabled. This is the easiest way to manipulate you into sympathizing him. Of course, this wouldn't change your view of him completely, since his personality remained the same, but you can understand his anger (his suffering is shown on the screen). Besides, later when Viktor heals his legs, Salo changes, losing his arrogance and becoming a good person.

Irius Bolbok is strict, composed and slightly harsh ruler (remember him saying to find the culprit no matter what). But he isn't shown as bad as Hoskel and Salo in s1. He is quite decent.

Shoola was portrayed as reasanable ruler from very beginning. She was the first who said "They [zaunites] may not be your preferred consituents but they're still our people." She was the first after Mel who voted for Zaun's independance. In s2, we see how she cares about people rather than acting in the interests of revenge like Salo.

Cassandra Kiramman was also showed as good person even in s1. She might not be active Zaun's simpathizer but she did schedule an audience for Caitlyn and Vi giving them a chance to change Councilors opinion about Zaun (ofc it's bc Cait is her daughter but Cassandra could just deny her). Also in s2 we learn that she built a ventilation system which makes her the only Councilor (beside Jayce) who actually did something for Zaun.

Mel Medarda is shown as a woman who does things for her own benefit, manipulating others. But she still did vote for the independence of Zaun (albeit for personal reasons). You also can't say that she's a bad person or that she's done really bad things for her cause (like Silco for example).

Jayce is a bad politician and has made few mistakes, but at the end of the day, he is a good man.

Heimerdinger is portrayed as good person as well.

Even though we know that all of them are corrupt (except Heimer) and that they have ignored Zaun for decades, only one of them has no good traits and completely unlikable (Hoskel).

But what do we have with Chem-Barons?

Finn is an idiot and power-hungry.

Rennie is too. She lost her son, which to some extent makes you understand her attacks on memorial (not justify, just understand), but the show itself does not even focus on this fact, ignoring that little nuance.

Chross's goons force children to work in the mines. He also fights for Silco's chair to gain more power.

Smeech's business is connected to shimmer (i guess he provides it after Silco's death?). Only, unlike Silco, Smeech isn't shown as someone who uses shimmer simply as a tool to achieve a higher goal (nation of Zaun). He is just power-hungry like others. Also s2 shows that he doesn't value his own people.

Margot is unloyal as well. "I'd rather favor my chances with Topside". She fights for power like others.

Silco is the only one who commits bad deeds for a higher purpose. All he wants is an independent Zaun, not power itself. We see his positive traits such as dedication to his city, love for Jinx and others, which makes him the only really likable among other Chem-Barons.

Of course the government doesn't represent people themselves. We saw that there are good people in Zaun and there are bad people in Piltover. But you know what it does represent? Creators' true view of Piltover/Zaun conflict.

Despite everything Piltover was ready to grant Zaun independence. The Council was shown flawed but the characters themselves were not completely bad persons. You, as a viewer, can understand and sympathize them. Creators made sure you will sympathize them.

But Zaun? Bandits and criminals who don't think beyond their pockets. The only person who did and tried to do something good for Zaun was wrong, bc s2 promotes us "violence is not the answer" and "power of forgiveness" agenda.

So where are the "merits and flaws on both sides" again?

[luckiestboy]

Saw a post today that the RBS of were reading the url of someone (sapphic-boy) and just... Calling him straight?

what happened to people.... Not imposing a label onto other's or denying their own way of self-describing?

Also hot take the only group you should be trying to bar from labeling as sapphic or lesbian is cishet men because cishet men who do try to call themselves male lesbians are usually creeps.

The inverse goes with cishet women and labeling as gay/achillean through that's less common to see ig.

And I'm talking cishet specifically.

No, I don't care if some binary trans men label themselves as lesbian or sapphic while being men, the way someone's genderqueerness interacts with their sexuality is complex, our language can only do so much to convey that. Either way it's not like you're forced to be into the local lesboy or whatever. There's this funny thing called "you don't have to be attracted to every other lesbian or sapphic that's alive, just don't be an asshole to them."

[denisska35let]

I wish there was a separate series on Powepunk Girls. It would be very cool and interesting