#People are stupid! Breaking news.

[rahabs]

If I keep seeing people (largely Americans and Canadians, let’s be real) 1:1 compare the Israel-Palestine conflict to the colonialisation of Canada and America I might actually explode. As a First Nations woman with multiple history degrees and a law degree I can tell you with certainty that from every angle it is an utterly asinine and disingenuous comparison that doesn’t work, at all. The fact that people often cast Palestinians in the role of “poor oppressed colonised people” and Israel/Jews as a whole in the role “evil oppressive white coloniser” just makes it even worse, especially since Jews have lived in and occupied Israel before both Islam and Christianity even existed. So if you really want to play the “who was there first game” and boil everything down to that, I promise you, Jewish people will win that game, as they were there for thousands of years before the idea of Islam was even a glimmer in Muhammed’s eye.

[colorisbyshe]

I know this video has made its rounds already, years ago even, but literally every time I see someone do something ridiculous (and often extremely wasteful) for like 5 minutes of fame or even just The Bit... I think about this fucking tiktok

Like the ends people will go to, sometimes ruining their homes or relationships or lives, for some attention........ haunting.

Saw a video of someone making a joke about their car being dirty and then they open the door and hundreds of empty water bottles spill out... like... did they get on all fours and pick bottles up, endlessly, bowed down like they're worshiping some god... one who certainly doesn't look kindly on them

[maliciousalice]

Hear me out (or don't... it's fine I'm just venting and mean) yeah um I don't believe Chakotay was saved in Prod*gy s2.

[cerealmonster15]

haikaveh... save me haikaveh...

i KNOW it's been talked about to death but. the haikaveh research project. it literally haunts my mind. i cannot get over the implications. alhaitham going through his school life as someone that most people dont even really know about because he keeps to himself and doesn't socialize, with kaveh being the one exception to that, finding his way into his life as his Best Friend, and then leading to alhaithams one and only time he participated in a research topic. his bio says he only ever did ONE joint project!!! one!!! the one with kaveh his best friend and i think also his only friend at the time!!!! and then it ended in not only the project falling apart but also alhaithams only friendship. kavehs best friendship. they were each others closest person. they had no family around - alhaithams parents having died when he was young and his grandmother dying before he joined the akademiya, and kaveh's dad dying when he was young and his mom having moved to fontaine. like even if you dont look at it through a romantic lens it's still undeniable how important they were [and are] to each other..........

i'm getting off track but my point is very specifically for alhaitham, the one time he got close to someone, made a friend, even agreed to join one(1) group project ever, it ended in disaster. it led him into a fight so bad that his one and only friend said he regretted that friendship!!!! it was so bad alhaitham left the project and he and kaveh didnt speak for ages until they just happened to run into each other again at the tavern!!!!! like obviously it has to be incredibly awful for both of them but i just think how this probably had alhaitham in the cynical mindset that friendships and collaborations like that might just never work out for him because the one time he let someone into his life, it blew up on him and he was all alone again. even though alhaitham never seems to care much if people dont like him, that clearly cant still apply to someone he was exceptionally close to. like if he didnt care he woudlnt have been the one to take his name off the project and mutually not speak to kaveh...... kavehs words are the ones that hit the most significantly to alhaitham.......... kaveh is said/implied to have had at least some other friends while at school / people knew who he was, but not so much alhaitham. people didnt know him and the ones that did just knew he didnt socialize/he was not easy to get along with. he only had kaveh and then, for a while, he lost him too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tasmanianstripes]

While I don't mind the "poor reading comprehension" jokes and there is something to be said about the reading comprehension overall dropping. I really dislike how it also became almost like an insult. I think an unintended side effect of "people on tumblr/the Internet have poor reading comprehension"/"piss on the poor" jokes is it emboldened some people to just be casually ableist and mock people with learning and intellectual disabilities.

I know the vast majority of these statements are either made as a joke or aren't ableist at all. But some of ya sound like you're one step away from mocking somebody for being "slow" and dropping the r slur.

[agnesandhilda]

my father is an olympic gold medalist in the sport of emotionally tormenting women

[derpinette]

i hated airpods & phones with those big fugly cameras in the back when they were announced as a concept & i hate them even more each time i see that hideousness in person

[chewwytwee]

people conflate being nice with not being critical. Being nice to people doesnt mean never presenting them with any kind of negative information or feedback it means don't be a prick while doing it

[pyrophantom]

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[thirtheenprimes]

Only political shit I'll ever do, and I'd just like to point out how Tumblr political posts work that's frustrating and why I'm blocking that shit.

"Liberals are stupid because they don't realize both candidates are bad and the democratic candidate is also a war criminal that hates humans. I'm not going to explain what I think you should do instead, I'm just going to bitch about people saying that voting matters in any way, and I'm going to try to make you feel bad about trying to pick the lesser of two evils. Instead of addressing the fact that boycotting elections really doesn't work and even try to suggest what I expect people to do instead, I'm ONLY going to explain why liberals are wrong and stupid."

Yeah, democrats aren't exactly great either, but that doesn't change the fact that voting republican in this day and age is significantly worse. Democrats win, you still have bombings and bad policies and shit, but you are also throwing a wrench into the republica cult bullshit and give our country a better chance of changing. Thins aren't going to magically get better with the "perfect" candidate, and waiting for that is going to make everything worse. And I guess I can't speak for others that intend to vote blue, but I am under no circumstances trying to say that voting blue is where "activism" stops. That's not going to fix shit. No one thinks voting blue is the solution, but that's not the fucking point. The fucking point is doing the literal bare minimum not to enable things getting worse.

If you need to clean your house after having a shitty roommate that never cleans and throws parties and let fucking roaches start living in the kitchen, and you only have enough time to do one chore that day (or week, whatever) are you going to roll up your sleeves and pick up the trash even though that doesn't get rid of the roaches, or are you going to bitch about having a filthy roommate and spend your time online instead of doing literally the bare fucking minimum?

I've seen a few FEW even suggest alternative activism, like actual protest or calls to action, or whatever, and in my house cleaning metaphor that's like going out shopping to stock up on trash bags and cleaning spray and shit, maybe organizing your junk, but not actually addressing the very real and immediate "just clean up so it doesn't get worse".

Maybe in this metaphor, voting blue is more akin to washing any new dishes you're making instead of piling them up on the dishes already in the sink for "later". Like, don't bother voting, we're already calling and protesting and trying to do activism that is both slow and so far not very successful, so eventually the person in charge will be better there's no reason to avoid letting a literal cult figure head back in office. Don't bother doing the dishes, eventually someday my executive disfunction will let me clean all of it in one big go.

Then of course there's the people saying "we just need to burn it all down and create a system that isn't inherently awful and bad", which, yeah. Okay. You're right that would be great. So glad you're on the same page as the rest of us, but come back when you acknowledge that burning your house down to get rid of the roaches and trash and probably black mold in the walls is just not going to happen. Like, realistically, in the real world, that's just not going to happen. We can talk about it all da and how correct you are, you can have all the correct points you want, you can win that game, but you do know that is just not going to happen, right? And waiting for THAT is like waiting for your parents to suddenly take responsibility for everything they fucked up with you, on their own, and pay for all your therapy.

I'm just tired of seeing all the arguments saying "liberals are stupid as fuck because they don't realize their candidate is also Bad(tm) and they need to stop telling people it's important to vote blue". They know their candidate has flaws. They're just don't worship their candidate like a fucking cult.

If you aren't going to vote blue, what the fuck are you going to do? Vote red? Vote on a third party (which is basically voting red)?

[mejomonster]

What's so wild to me is like. Wille technically hooking up with anyone in Hillerska would've been a scandal. Simply because like. While within the student body it would've likely been fine (the same way all the girls pretty much KNOW it was really wille in the video with Simon but publically it "wasn't wille"), if his cousin August wanted to fuck up his life he could still leak info and hurt Wille. Like... Wille could've immediately gotten with Felice, and any public leaks of a video would still have led to his mom going "We need you OUT of that school and making a press statement." Or if it had leaked to the public they had the party with drugs, which is why getting Alex not to rat them out was such a big deal.

Within Hillerska, in fact, even if he'd been with a boy... if it had been say one of the inner group that knows August, most likely everyone would've kept their mouth shut. Still it would be a risk, because being with a boy means scandal blackmail they can use over Wille if they want to hurt or threaten him to do something (cough August cough). But still, in the grand scheme, Wille could've probably been fine crushing on some person like Alex along with a non disclosure agreement.

But Simon. Simon and his sister Sara in particular are the outliers of the school. Sure, it would be a scandal in PUBLIC either way if anything Wille does at school (that isn't picture perfect) gets out. But Simon is partly such a Risk, because INTERNALLY Hillerska does not approve. They don't want someone who isn't elite to talk to them, sit with them, converse with them. Sara gets off slightly easier because Felice does make an effort to see her as equal, use her own status to back up Sara (and since Felice is queen bee there's no bully pushing back on it the way August tries to push Simon back down if Wille tries to treat Simon as equal), and Sara tries hard to blend in and not stir the pot. Simon gives zero fucks about blending in, about playing nice or tolerating bullying, he is himself pure and simple. And Hillerskas elite little teens don't want to be seen mixed up with a regular teen, and in particular the guy's don't want to look chummy with a guy with zero power (is it fragile masculinity? That they all NEED TO OWN MASSIVE PROPERTY to be respected by each other? need to have tangible POWER which is why season 2 Wille has a pretty easy time pushing August down since August doesn't have any). So for the guy's and their fucked up values in particular? It hurts their ego, to see how HARD they have to try just to get a speck of respect. And then to see Wille, the PRINCE who's automatically got more than they ever will (and who they like pushing down in the hierarchy on technicalities to feel he at least has to conform to be powerful too), to see Wille talk to Simon as an equal? Absolutely unacceptable to them. Even without the crush, just being Simon's friend is so unacceptable to them. Seeing Wille value Simon more then them is like throwing all the hoops they jump through and maintain in their face (much like Wille starts breaking things for August season 2). It was always going to be a massive hurdle for Wille to want to be close to Simon. Not even to the country or the monarchy, but also at a much smaller level. In their world in their school, its not a possibility that their peers can allow to exist. At least not when Wille starts school. (Though ill say Felice and Wille have done a bit at starting to dismantle that)

[francisforever2014]

OUGHHH the way this post makes my eye twitch .

people in victorian times when they read a book that said “dear reader”: ITS HORRIFYING THAT WE’RE INVENTING A NEW 4TH PERSON PRONOUN 😱😱

[breakerofcurses]

uni is so weird bc i see people around whom i perceive to be more alike me than the people i hang out with but i love my friends and at this point learnt that friendship is not always about common interests and also it's been 2 yrs and it slightly feels awkward to meet with new people just now when most of them found their friend groups

[sereniv]

so fucking sick of taylor swift!!!!

[llycaons]

I got mad about how genuinely pretentious and condescending people on here about things that honestly don't even matter that much and so I went oh I know and I went to a mutual in law's blog because I KNOW they have the exact same views as me on them but they articulate them so much better and bam I got like six posts in a row of excellent compassionate measured responses to the very mean-spirited and meaninglessly cruel culture on here surrounding 'anti-intellectualism' and also calling people virgins in a derogatory way. like thanks! gotta jet

[indi-ice-cube]

So, like, imagine if Milo and Sam had a great-grand-child.

That's Agent Daniel Sousa from Season 7 of AoS.

(credit to Secrxts; not my video)