#a global threat

[onedesertrat]

A Global Threat - In The Red

[cidicvicious]

A Global Threat - Everything Is Wonderful

🤘🏿😎

[thashining]

Unify

[z0mborb]

Rally against them

If they walk down your street

Bearing swastika flags

Or wearing white sheets

As they chant, "White pride"

Spit in their face

Let them know

You think they're a disgrace

[moonbean117]

[habken]

i truly understand the usa hate. but it sorta ircs me a little bit as someone who has no choice but to live here and try to see the positives in it.

I get that, but as someone who lives somewhere that’s heavily impacted by the shit your government pulls and by your country as a whole, I feel like I’ve earned a little bit of bad mouthing. Especially with everything happening recently.

So I’m not going to apologize for saying I’m happy the usa lost a hockey game?? lmao.

[mayapapaya33]

I'm rewatching Exu: Calamity and I think they made a mistake with the name. The real title should be Exu: Actually, Vasselheim has good reasons for how it operates, even if they're dicks about it sometimes. Maybe it was too long, so they went with the snappier CALAMITY! Instead lol.

The end of the Calamity was only 840 something years ago. With Elves and dragons running around, some of them are definitely old enough where, if they didn't live during the Age of Arcanum themselves, their parents or grandparents would have and they would have been told a thousand stories of the fuck heads in flying cities who destroyed the world and were super annoying and dangerous long before they did that. Many more would be born during the latter part of the Calamity or raised by people who survived the Calamity who passes on those stories. Depending on the race we are talking anywhere from direct witnesses (Like the Bright Queen and Ludinus) to like 2-5 generations removed. Even humans with our short lifespans, it's really not THAT long, especially if you've got a bunch of old ass elves around teaching history class from a first person pov for like 500 years lol.

Intellectually people know that Critical Role, the world of Exandria is a post apocalypse story. Exandria is a scarred landscape that is just beginning to bounce back from the brink. But because it is recovering, it's easy to forget sometimes that it IS POST APOCALYPTIC. So people looking at Vasselheim in the modern day are like, 'bro, you really need to chill, everything's fine.' And Vasselheim is like... 'Chill? I do not understand the meaning of this word. And everything is fine... for now. We will be a bastion of civilization when the end times come once more. Fare thee well traveler.'

Then everyone rolls their eyes and moves on with their day. But if you really think about Vasselheim's isolationism and strength and distain for arcane magic in historical context, you can't really blame them. Are they over the top about their dislike of arcane magic? Sure. Is it quite possibly the most understandable over reaction in the history of over reactions? Also yes! They haven't made it illegal, they are just going to keep an eye on you, so you don't pull a Vespin Chloras and doom the planet to another few centuries of choked skies and sundered landscapes, that's all. Vespin was IN Vasselheim! Of COURSE they have strong feelings about it. The (Almost) End of the World began in Vasselheim due to arcane magic. If they had been stricter, maybe it wouldn't have happened at all!

And it really does paint their actions in Campaign 1 in a different light as well. Their isolationism can come across as shortsighted and selfish, until you view it from their point of view. Which is that they are constantly under threat, they know for a fact that Asmodeus wants their city destroyed, they are a bastion for the Prime Deities in a world filled with many heathens (lol that's where the dickishness comes in) and the Betrayer Gods would take any sign of weakness in their defenses and attack with glee. Hearing it in C1 it sounds like an excuse not to help against the Chroma Conclave, but it is literally just the truth from what I can tell. In BOTH Calamity and Downfall they have mentioned destroying Vasselheim being on the Betrayer God's to do list lol. If I was on a Betrayer God's to do list specifically, by name, I too would be somewhat paranoid and would not really want to disarm any portion of the city to go do something else. No matter how important the something else might be.

Vasselheim was basically like; Look, I'm very sorry to hear about your Dragon problem, that sucks, truly, but if we go out all willy nilly and leave this city undefended, it'll be fucked when we get back. When you have a real plan, come back and get us and we'll join you for the big fight. Until then, it's up to you, here you can have Kima as well, she's been desperate to get out of here anyway, and here's some supplies. We have larger concerns than one continent being attacked by four ancient Dragons. We are the seed bank for civilization for when shit inevitably hits the fan. We are the doomsday bunker for the Apocalypse, four Ancient Dragons are terrible, but they are not the Apocalypse. And they are right. Looking at it all in context, The Chroma Conclave are small potatoes. Horrific, monstrous, life destroying, but compared to the threat Vasselheim is preparing for, nothing.

They are the doomsday preppers of Exandria, except the threat is real and they are only letting their collective trauma and ptsd inform their decisions a little bit. They are actually fairly rational all things considered. This city withstood the entire Calamity. The stewards of the city must feel an enormous weight and responsibility to keep it safe going into the future. Imagine the pressure. Are you going to be the one to fuck it all up, after thousands of years? Sounds like a nightmare to me. The level of devotion and conviction required to keep something like that going is incredible.

[vincentstlouis]

It’s just the normal cycles of the pot bro

[vynnyal]

Stuff I've made on my phone, I guess? Of varying levels of "quality"

[eugenedebs1920]

Finally!!! Some good news! 🤞🤞🤞🤞 Cmon giant asteroid!…

🤣😂😅🙃😐

[thashining]

It seems Trump is uniting the entire world—against the United States.

[goodobservationshirley]

thomas jolly is insane for this

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

In the country where your cousins live, the head of state of an ethnic minority has been assassinated and his people’s greatest assets stolen or destroyed. They are forced to beg your cousins for help, who refuse, and they fall to fighting and a pyrrhic victory.

They are exiled and seek asylum, coming through political turmoil in two separate and suffering hosts to your country. Do you a) offer them aid and unite against a common threat, or b) bar many entrance to your realm (the only politically stable area), restrict the places they’re allowed to go, and ban their native language?

Thingol wants to make Doriath great again.

[girlhorse]

y'all this is ridiculously easy to look up on any search engine lmao

quit spreading the antisemitic line that jewish settlers should just "go back where they came from" or move "back" to their ~second home in NY~

Almost half are mizrahi, the group that were ethnically cleansed from their homes in North Africa/Asia in 1940s-80s. they once represented 60% of the population of Israel and currently there are roughly 3 million living in Israel.

And as it is with any long lasting settler colony, such as the fucking united states, a large majority of the people living in Israel were born in the colony. They don't have this imaginary second home in Europe or the states.

Not to mention how a vast majority of the Jewish people in Israel today were escaping existential threats to their life, whether from pre holocaust antisemism, extreme global antisemism & genocide during the holocaust, 100s of years of pogroms in Europe/Eurasia/etc, ethnic cleansing in North Africa, etc., and will not be greeted with much kindness if forced to return to "where they came from"

jumblr please feel free to correct anything. I am just a simple goy concerned with the ridiculous amount of antisemism coming from "leftists", particularly those with no ties to israel or palestine, that cannot seem to understand how to talk about anticolonialism and I/P without spitting in the face of millions of jewish people.

and before anyone decides to twist what i say into being an anti Palestinian argument, please go read this post 3 more times and consider shoving a cactus up your ass

[thashining]

This is not a game.