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Love how many people hate Reagan in the notes. Hi friends.
Please send in propaganda for why your least favorite decade was so terrible
#spoliers#I chose 80s because regan also#but 2020s are winning#I think this is bias cause we're living it#There are lots of things that are better now than in the 80s#but also plenty of bad shit#don't get me wrong#two bags of groceries should not cost $100 with a $7-$15 minimum wage depending on the state#also major genocide happening#but if it meant the end of my life I would still go back in time just to kill Regan
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The Exorcists’ Masks of Virtue
The vast majority of Exorcists in Hazbin Hotel have a notable design element that other angels don’t: their masks are missing an eye. Specifically, the right eye.
I believe this is a reference to the Bible, Matthew 5:29. Jesus says, “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”
He’s being hyperbolic. Mr Free Healthcare was not pro-mutilation. What he means is that you have to be willing to make sacrifices to prevent sin. The context of the eye metaphor is him condemning adultery and warning that even something as easy, casual and small as a look full of lustful intent can lead to further, worse sin if you don’t notice your sin, hold yourself accountable for it and do the work to not let it influence your decisions. This will probably be hard. It could be very, very painful. Changing your perspective can feel as horrible as plucking out your eye, so many people can’t bring themselves to do it. But although it won’t feel that way in the moment, it’s healthier for our general wellbeing in the long run to abandon traits and behaviours that damage ourselves and/or others.
(You may notice that Jesus’s teaching that you can have sinned, redeem yourself by giving up sin and thus escape damnation is the founding principle of the Hazbin Hotel. You may also notice that it contradicts everything the Exorcists believe.)
The Exorcists seem to follow this idea of painfully excising badness for the sake of the greater good devoutly to the point of placing it above teachings like ‘Thou shalt not kill’, with their job being to remove sin, in the form of sinners, to protect Heaven. Hence the missing right eyes. They’re a declaration of moral righteousness and inability to stumble.
But the truth is that the Exorcists all have their right eyes. Their flawlessness is a facade. Underneath, they are untouched, think themselves morally untouchable and, as shown by their horror and outrage when even one of them is killed, would much rather be physically untouchable too. This perfectly represents their complete unwillingness to acknowledge their own faults, let alone improve. They are never the ones who sacrifice. They force the sinners to sacrifice and don’t compensate it with any salvation. They metaphorically rip out the sinners’ eyes, but still condemn their entire bodies as inherently, permanently sinful. So they’ll just have to do another Extermination to get the other eyes! And another one to cut off their right hands! And so on until there’s nothing left.
The only exception to the rule is Vaggie, both in appearance and character. Her mask has the left eye crossed out instead. Even before her expulsion, she’s set apart to the audience as an Exorcist who has the capacity to, shall we say, see a different side of things. Her mask having its ‘sinful’ right eye reflects her understanding that the Exorcist worldview is wrong.
When she almost kills a demon child, her hateful vision clears. She discards the part of herself that’s an unquestioning, merciless agent of death, terror and grief… and as punishment for what Lute perceives as treacherous weakness, gets her eye plucked out.
Of course Lute leaves her with only the ‘sinful’ eye. It brands Vaggie forever as the inversion, a perversion, of what the Exorcists are meant to be.
You know, all this talk of eye removal in the Bible reminds me of another line - ‘an eye for an eye’. Adam directly quotes it in “Hell is Forever”. He uses it to frame the Exterminations as Old Testament-style punitive justice; the sinners did harm and so they receive it. But putting aside the debate about how ethical the concept of revenge is, the entire point of taking an eye for an eye is that it’s proportional. The punishment fits the crime. If someone cuts your eye out, you shouldn’t murder their whole family in front of them and then slowly disembowel them to death. That would be the sin of wrath. You should just make them pay without excessive pain or collateral damage. This is the fairest form of revenge.
The Exorcists don’t do that! The Exterminations aren’t proportional to the wrongs of all they hurt, nor was Vaggie’s brutal punishment equivalent to her extremely mild insubordination. Lute literally takes Vaggie’s eye, and more, after Vaggie does nothing to her! That’s the opposite of the phrase! Adam and his soldiers are wrathful and cruel, deriving satisfaction from others’ suffering. But they just can’t stop going on and on about how disgustingly evil the sinners are, in total hypocrisy… despite some of the sinners being far better people than the genocidal Exorcists are… it’s like they’re obsessed with specks of dust in the sinners’ eyes when they have massive logs stuck in their own. Oh hey, that’s in the Bible too!
#both emotionally and symbolically i am rooting for vaggie or charlie to take out one of lute’s eyes#i was like ‘cool vaggie’s missing the opposite eye to her former mask!’#and then i went back and saw that her mask was also different#and then i went down a rabbit hole of biblical mentions of bad things happening to eyes#i know god and jesus (and the holy spirit) probably won’t appear in the show#at least not in person#but i do cherish the mental image of adam and his genocidal army hanging out#when jesus christ bursts in with a whip#and gets all ‘you have made my father’s house into a den of thieves’ on them but an order of magnitude more intense#because HE SAID LOVE ONE ANOTHER#WHERE IS THE LOVE#HE SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED IT#i’m not christian! i’m a hardcore atheist!#religion is just as fictious to me as egyptian mythology#however i am also autistic and have major special interests in mythology and folklore#so here i am fervently writing analysis of the sermon on the mount#hazbin hotel#hazbin vaggie#hazbin hotel vaggie#vaggie#hazbin hotel exorcists#hazbin exorcists#hazbin hotel analysis#hazbin analysis
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People from all across the world being able to freely travel to Israel, join the IDF, and participate in a genocide with no repercussions is such a difficult concept for me to wrap my mind around
#Isnotreal is committing a genocide unchecked so it's not surprising but it's also just...#you shouldn't be able to fly out to participate in a genocide and then return home like nothing happened#american canadian european japanese etc. citizens are receiving dual-citizenship from Israel and somehow??? we're supposed to just#accept that it's them /returning home/ and that said people have more right to that land then Palestinians?#what's terrifying is that their propaganda machine isn't entirely ineffective#even if the majority of people on social media see it for the bullshit colonizing it is there are still people who fall for that narrative#this is why it's so important to educate yourself and share resources to others#free palestine#palestine
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I’m sorry but you can’t cry “human rights violation!!!!” when you are actively carrying out a campaign of genocide.
#sorry but it doesn’t work like that!#you can’t decry humans rights violations of a group that doesn’t even represent a majority of innocent people (by the way)…#…if you are actively carrying out a genocide under the thinly veiled guise of going after that group#Genocide which is y’know one of the greatest violations of human rights since it seeks to completely eradicate one group of people.#like there are innocent people being caught in the crosshairs on both sides#not everyone living in Israel or who is Jewish supports the Israel government’s bombings of Gaza#not every Palestinian supports Hamas or condones their brutal attacks on innocent civilians#but to try and conflate the actions of a militant group to represent the thinking of all of the citizens and be an excuse to destroy them…#…isn’t right and deserves to be held accountable#also stop acting like there is not a massive power imbalance present#Israel has the Iron Dome and their own military forces and funding from the U.S.#Hamas has missels and stock piled resources from funding from Iran#Israel controls the food water fuel and medicine access to those that have been forced to live in Gaza#they are not in any way shape or form on equal footing which doesn’t make this a ‘war’#I can’t wrap my head around the fact that one of the groups persecuted in one of the most horrifying genocides is currently conducting…#…a genocide on another group of people#the rhetoric of gov’t officials from Israel dehumanizing innocent civilians points to the fact that this isn’t about retribution#but to conduct a genocide#if you don’t think that the current actions of the Israeli government aren’t wrong and are supporting it you can unfollow and block me!#like it’s not black and white but the actions that are currently happening are not acceptable
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Can you explain things you want to happen to Johnny in the next sing movie(or project or if they make a graphic novel) mine is that he makes his own song.
Ooooooo, thank you for the ask!!!! I'm so sorry in advance, I'm gonna ramble here lol. - <3 Gooseless
--------------------------------- So I actually want a few things to happen in the next project (the continuation fic is essentially all of it lol), but I would definitely agree on the original songs front! That's for sure on my list.
One of the main things though, the biggest one actually, is to continue with Johnny's storyline as a queer allegory. We've already faced familial acceptance in the first movie, community acceptance with the second movie (though I have so many issues with how the dance class was handled), and it would be nice to just wrap it up with personal acceptance. And that might seem out of order but it actually isn't in a lot of cases. I know, for me at least, I spent so much time right after coming out defending my place and my identity to the world around me that I never really took the moment to process I could just finally be myself, and that it was ok to exist. I feel like a storyline like that with Johnny would be amazing, as there are numerous ways to go that route, like romantic (please, I want to see Rynny more than anything, PLEASE) or personal (Johnny finally putting out boundaries with his workload).
This would be an awesome storyline to see through either of those lenses, with a romantic arc featuring Johnny and Ryan being able to use a much more obvious way of showing this, especially if Ryan has already reached personal acceptance. Why that is is because throughout his previous storylines, Johnny has a specific support system for each, with familial being the troupe and community being Nooshy, so it would make sense if the love interest in this scenario, Ryan, took on that role this time around. It works really well in this option as it leads to really cute moment possibilities of the characters, particularly Johnny, just letting himself exist and have something for himself. And I will admit that I feel this is the best option for this storyline, as it is pretty blunt and up-front with the coding then, just like Johnny's other storylines, but also allows Johnny to have something for himself (his identity and his relationship) instead of how we see all his developments in the past movies, aka being broadcasted to the world and not really giving the kid any privacy. He deserves something for himself. And I feel like a relationship with Ryan could be that thing.
But like I said, you could work it as personal as well, with Johnny finally putting forward boundaries with Buster due to the workload the man keeps assigning the poor kid. I feel like a good support system here could be Ryan (if they are in an already established relationship) or his dad and uncles as they would have life experience to advise him on the matter. Johnny is heavily overworked throughout both movies and it seems like the expectations for him are really high, so a moment of him just letting himself exist as the ordinary person he is would probably be very therapeutic for him.
I personally wish they would go in the series direction instead of another movie, allowing for more detail to be poured into the characters, and that is kinda the format in which the continuation fic is written, in a way easily translated to a series. However, I have posted an idea for a Sing 3 set after a time jump around Johnny's story that I'll link below. It kinda goes into the previously mentioned wants for a series but having those already happen and mainly talks about ways to get queer rep around hate groups.
So yeah, I really want to see a personal acceptance journey for Johnny, letting the kid see he doesn't have to fight for who he is or his place anymore, he can just be Johnny, however that looks like.
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Here's the Sing 3 idea thing!
#... I did not think I would type that much#I'm so sorry if this doesn't make sense!#im also sorry for rambling this much#being brief is not my strong suit lol#the rynny shipper in me just really wants them to get together#the cultural and media studies major in me really really wants this to finish out the allegory#and you can easily do both!!!!!#sing#sing 2#sing 3 ideas#sing johnny#sing ryan#sing rynny#rynny#though i should say this now. i will be boycotting anything that has specific actors in it due to their statements about a literal genocide#i dont give a fuck they wont ever get a penny from me#so sing 3 (if/when it happens) is likely going to be ignored by me entirely :) just a heads up#im also a fanfic writer so ignoring canon is what i do most of the time anyway - someone who retconned the entire ending of sing 2#i also changed so much dance stuff because it just hurt my brain#look i can excuse a lot of inaccuracies in stuff but i draw the line at sports i have done and medical inaccuracies
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not my online friend trying to have the "not all zionists" conversation with me rn
#we've talked about palestine before and she always takes the most centrist version of israel's side she possibly can lmao#i try very hard to never discuss politics with her but she is literally always the one bringing it up and it throws all my affection for he#out the window. like babe.... i'm jewish... you're not.... why are we even having this conversation besides you trying to prove smth#like an informal conversation is not the place for a fucking political debate and if you're not gonna recognize my pov#why am i even still friends with you.#it does make me genuinely sad but if i have to have this conversation again i may well and truly just block her#like she apparently has another jewish friend who seems to side heavily with zionist values (lol) but still acts like a centrist#so ik that's where she's getting the majority of her viewpoints from and it's so fucking grating like you're talking to another jew rn#why would i ever want to support nationalism of any kind when that's what lead to the fucking holocaust#why would you ever be lenient on a group of people who are actively commiting a genocide#i seriously just. like it makes me sick to my stomach that i even have someone in my life who doesn't get it#and i don't even know what to say like my 'i don't wanna be mean to a friend' shit is taking over#especially when she's not the kind of person i can just say anything to. we're not close like that unfortunately#so i've just been in limbo hoping she isn't gonna talk about it but i'm gonna have to put aside our friendship if she does this again#bc i'm not gonna be friends with someone who outright doesn't listen to me saying that my own people commiting a genocide hurts me#just because she wants to be one of those 'well this 'conflict' shouldn't be happening bc it's hurting innocent people :('#this is why i hate having any convos about this with people who haven't been politically engaged with palestine before the end of last yr#like my brother also doesn't fully get the scope of it but at least HE knows that israel (and even the concept of it) is evil and racist#sigh.
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If you actually deep it
Is Chris dumb or ignorant or just doesn’t care or is uneducated or is ignorant bc most American celebs are
Bc why did he agree to be in RSDR
The director is a former IDF soldier?????
#and now here we are with me being obsessed with the character that that director basically came up with#like….wtf#fuck Ari Levinson actually!#I only like him physically#his movie is ass#also!!!#I’m sure there are others more educated on this topic so PLEASE correct me if I’m wrong#but weren’t the ethiopian Jews IRL sterilised so they wouldn’t have offspring#so they could keep the racist ethno state of Israel majority white?????#I believe you can google this#like wow yes make a movie celebrating Israeli white saviours as they saved the Ethiopian Jews from the ‘evil Arabs’ but fail to mention#what happened after that#also this is an underlying problem I have with Chris evans#and I know this is speculation which is why it’s an UNDERLYING problem#but I really feel like he like most Americans#has been grown to have this unwavering hate for Arab countries#and Israel uses that hate to garner western support for the genocide they are committing#and I know Chris hasn’t signed either letter#but like…..#idk man why can’t he be like mark ruffalo ?????#stand up for what’s right#ughhh#now here I am with an ari levinson pfp#I feel so off about all this if I’m being real#like if you actually deep it….’#why did Chris do that movie?#can someone answer me why he did it#why do YOU think he did it??? honestly
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coming back to "Leo wouldn't have PTSD after the movie" because it keeps bothering me
I keep seeing these takes from people that simply dislike angst or anything more serious happening in the fanworks saying that the characters wouldn't feel strong negative emotions if something serious happened nor they would dwell on them because the show is lighthearted?
Which, first of all, is ridiculous and even the show had them break down and show snippets of those darker moments to the extent they could in a show with this kind of atmosphere
Second of all, fanworks are exactly for depicting things that weren't shown or could not be shown in the canon material - because it's interesting and enriching to do so
And thirdly, it feels so, idk, invalidating when people constantly go "oh he wouldn't react like that" "oh in reality he would power through this" "oh we don't need to put them through this"
How about we don't
#txt#and people are also allowed to explore themselves through the characters so especially if it's written well#why say things like that#rottmnt#you know you don't need to read it right#even if it's not tagged and you stumble upon it in a story#you can just stop reading it you know that#and don't get me started on 'it's inappropriate for this age group'#i have many gripes about it but let's say the vast majority of the fics are read by little kids#just play along for this scenario right there#do you think they don't go through hardships and would find comfort in seeing characters go through hardships as well?#you think it's fictional stories they need to be protected from?#and you think kids shouldn't learn about mental issues and trauma from the early age? you know something they might be going through rn?#i also don't like people criticizing the movie by saying it was too dark#movies are always heavier than the source material#at least when it comes to cartoons#and also the atmosphere was perfectly matched to what was happening#i couldn't imagine them going for more lighthearted tone while there was a genocide happening in the background#i'm glad they had the guts to do what they did too
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can i
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what the actual fuck is wrong with people
#(major general tw for the following tags)#been doing some more reading after what happened a few days ago and i found THIS..#this is so gross i can't i don't even know how to react#the ukranian one was posted in feb and yknow there's an INCURSION going on there#and the first nations one i just#jfc#it's SO tasteless do these people KNOW what first nations have been through and what has been happening lately in canada??!#how first nations can't even call the police when they experience a crime or are injured bc of how dangerous it is#to interact with police#i have HAD TO GIVE FIRST AID TO THEM IN CASES LIKE THIS AND ITS INSANELY UPSETTING#SOMEONE CALLED ME TO COME OUT BC THEIR BROTHER SHOT SOMEONE AND THEY DIDNT WANT POLICE INVOLVEMENT#makin all of that into some cute edgy quirky etc thing you wanna be is SO disgustingly disrespectful#idgaf about rando flags but GET A FUCKING CLUE#this person also refers to themselves as 'warqueer' and i don't even have to explain how fucked up that is#you are glamorizing people being blown up shot in the streets murdered by the thousands if not millions!!#this person needs to watch some of the footage from kyiv. the family left in the ditch with their dog. the buildings being blown up.#they need to see what the fuck they're saying here because it is NOT just words with this stuff#i'm going to bed#genocide ment cw#social justice#cop ment cw#violence ment cw#gun violence cw#death ment cw#war ment cw#racism cw
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as an anarchist, i feel that my advice to kids who are going through a tough time is rarely considered enough. Like, i personally think i'm totally being reasonable when my solution to "my parents are being assholes and not letting me read" is "question their authority, blatantly violate their rules and see how they react. See exactly what punishments they are able to inflict and find ways out of them (eg. if they take away your electronics, but aren't physically strong enough to take them out of your hands, don't give them over; if they try to ground you but aren't physically able to keep up with your running pace, then just sprint out the door any time you want to go out). If their punishment is physical and hurts you, you can either run away [gives very detailed instructions on how to do so], or [proceeds to explain how to make various poisons, explosives, and how to make it look like an accidental death]." But unfortunately my friends and the mods on the discord server think that i'm all unreasonable and shouldn't be allowed talk to kids. to be perfectly clear, i'm not saying these things to a 7 year old or anything, i try to be as """normal""" as i can with kids under 10, and not recommend anything illegal for kids under 15. am i in the wrong? probably not, right? maybe i should refrain from suggesting lethal solutions. that said, parents should definitely be held to a higher standard as they've been entrusted with the wellbeing and task of raising someone right
#anarchist issues#talking to kids is hard#adults are the worst thing to ever happen to kids#kids should raise themselves#but also definitely get outside education#idk#the things i'm saying in the tags aren't super well thought out#but definitely adults are not good for kids#the only way adults can help kids is by staying out of the way#the number of times an adult has hurt a kid is multiple orders of magnitude more than the times an adult has helped a kid#parents are probably disproportionately responsible for the pain#non-parents probably do the majority of the good things#kids don't declare war#kids don't do genocide#kids are lovely and wonderful creatures#90% of bad traits that kids have are learned from adults#saying that an adult is acting “childish” is 100% a complement#the only times a kid acts badly is if they're acting like an adult#and yes i am an adult#i would be sorry for ranting#but i'm not beholden to anyone so yeah
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Another friendly reminder that Hamas only carried out oct7 to free the thousands of palestinians held hostage in Israeli prisons, and even though we've always had human rights organizations attest to the abuse taking place inside, we now have even more undeniable proof to the fact that those prisons are nothing more than torture facilities.
Do remember this did not start on October 6th/7th that was a retaliatory attack after 74 YEARS of genocide. this has absolutely been the deadliest year but it is not the first year of genocide or occupation by any means and that attack never would’ve happened if it weren’t for nearly a century of occupation and genocide
#people “all lives matter” ing the Palestinian genocide is fucking crazy#people are being vaporized#i saw beheaded and scalped and starved children#i saw children torn apart limp from limp#and people are still going “but won't you think of the Israelis 🥺”#no i will not and i have no patience for anyone who still does that crap#people like to act as if the government and the people are completely detached even though history proves that makes no sense#israelis for the most part see no problem with what's happening or they view it as a necessary evil#yeah i know they've been indoctrinated since birth to dehumanise palestinians but after a full year worth of footage of brutalised children#there's no excuse you can't claim ignorance you can't claim that you didn't know#also why do people only bring up the mandatory military service law when it's convenient#why do they only bring it up if it would help make israelis seem uninvolved in this massacre?#why don't you want to acknowledge that this law means that every israeli over 18 had at some point been a part of the war machine#they either personally abused palestinians or they interacted directly with people who dif#did*#then after they were done with their service they went back to living there like it was nothing#because they didn't see a problem with what they did#if the majority of israelis were truly not in agreement with what's going on we'd see more of them choose to go to prison instead of serve#but we don't and you have to ask yourself why?#one year into a genocide without israel ever presenting one piece of tangible evidence to all the bs claims they made#and yet clowns are still uncritically repeating mass SA and decapitation lies#you know we have video footage of documented SA but no it doesn't come from hamas but the terrorist army of israel#you can only argue for what you can back up and Israel defenders have absolutely nothing but the same old buzzwords#truly pathetic#God I'm so fucking angry right now#free palestine
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it really is mind-boggling to me that the only reason i know about the Congolese and Sudanese genocides is because of the tireless work of grassroots activists and advocates posting on social media. I can honestly say that if I didn't have social media and didn't happen to be following Black authors and activists, I never would have known what was happening in Sudan and Congo because it is simply not being reported in the great majority of mainstream media. We're talking millions upon millions of PEOPLE enduring unimaginable pain and devastation with next to no official reporting. And yes that is in huge part due to the level of violence and displacement occurring that is preventing a lot of news from getting out of these countries, but it's also so blatantly due to anti-Black racism and the perception of African Nations as inherently savage and violent. But genocide is not and never should be normal for anyone anywhere. With that in mind, please keep Congo and Sudan in your thoughts. Check out Focus Congo for resources to help the Congolese people on the ground. Focus Congo's MO is a local organisation whose goal is to rebuild homes, rehabilitate land, and provide medical aid, education, and resources to Congo's most affected people. Also, Check out Keep Eyes On Sudan for how to help out and raise awareness of Sudanese people displaced by civil war. According to Sudanese TikToker bsonblast, donations to local food kitchens in Sudan are desperately needed to fight famine. If anyone has other resources specifically for helping Congo and Sudan, please add them and link them <3
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Trying to explain what the fuck just happened in Lankan politics today.
The leftist party has won 159 seats out of 218 in the Parliamentary elections. The single biggest landslide win since we broke from the British and achieved universal franchise in 1948.
Any party achieving a super majority in the executive and legislative is, objectively speaking, bad. It disables checks and balances, which is a catastrophic thing for any democracy, and the only two other times it's happened for us has irrevocably eroded the fabric of civic rights and democratic freedom. Also, the reason the NPP won the North and East is that the colonized, genocided and subjugated people there have no faith in electoralism anymore. The way this government has engaged minority issues has been utterly abysmal and now they've been rewarded for it.
On the other hand:
The winners. Are all. Grassroots. Candidates.¹
We have voted out every single career criminal that's been barnacled into the Lankan political arena since before I've been alive. The fascist party has only three seats.² The other fascists didn't win a single seat. The neoliberal legacy party won none. There are only forty people in Parliament that represent any sort of dynastic political legacy. After 76 solid years of nothing but political dynasties.
This is barely five years after the Rajapaksas swept in and absolutely glutted the Parliament with their family members and cronies end to end.
This is the illegitimate interim government we had for most of the last 18 months. We literally, physically, chased the Rajapaksas out of the country and this fucking demon set up a puppet government just so he could finally sit in that goddamn chair and be the despot he'd always dreamed of in exchange for letting them all come back. He's now gone. His entire circle is gone.
THEY ARE ALL FUCKING GONE.
In US terms, just imagine that, five years from now, when Trump's GOP has control of everything, the entire GOP and the worst of the Dems are all purged from Congress and Senate, the Green Party in control of all three branches of government under a pro-union left-wing President and an unmarried female LGBT rights activist Vice President, and the Dems reduced to barely 20% of the House.
This is my anthropology professor. She joined politics from the small nascent leftist coalition to help keep the government accountable. She's now the Prime Minister and the most popular Parliamentary candidate in the nation's history. (Edit: She was knocked off first place by a dude in the final result. Boo.)
(On the other hand— the woman who helped make me a radical anarchist and literally helped write a book on political dissent and resistance...now is the state. Uh.)
But there are so many women in Parliament! We had the lowest female representation in a South Asian Parliament and some of them were from the list of seats reserved for parties rather than elected ones. Most were either anti-feminist conservative embarrassments, widows and daughters of elite politicians and neoliberal shills. It's still only an increase of a few percentage points (Edit: from the previous 5% to 10% in the final result!) but now we have elected academics, feminist advocates, activists! There Is a representative for Malaiyaha Tamils in the Central Province for the first time in history and it's a young woman! (Edit: now it's two female Malaiyaha MPS!!) This is the plantation community that still live in conditions closest to the slavery the British forced upon them two hundred years ago!
I'm like. Completely mindfucked. To be very very clear, the NPP coalition formed around the nucleus of the JVP that used to be communist but haven't been in 30 years, they're now just social democrats who are left of places like the US and UK, whose "left" is now center-right. They're only threatening to the Western mainstream media for some reason who can't stop bleating about how we have a "Marxist" government now. In reality, the actual chances for radical reform are still quite low, and the opportunity for further erosion is quite high with a super majority government regardless of affiliation.
On the other hand:
What the fuck.
Sometimes living through historical events is really damn amazing.
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¹ Well, nearly. There are a few career politicians and a nepo baby but they aren't so bad either.
² Goddamn it, Baby Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka's answer to JD Vance have wormed their way in using the list of Constitutionally reserved party seats for non-elected members. FUCK the National List.
#five years ago i was working a news desk watching a band of violent ethnofascists known for genocide torture kidnappings and murder sweep in#and take control of the entire country#on the heels of the worst terrorist attack we've suffered that they orchestrated for this purpose#wondering how many of our colleagues would be safe#and watching the people that opposed them flee the country#i cannot tell you the enraging hopeless terror#and now#they're all gone#THEY'RE FUCKING GONE#sri lanka politics#sri lanka news#sri lanka protests#sri lankan parliamentary elections#sri lanka election 2024#anura kumara dissanayake#harini amarasuriya#feminism#leftism#world news#faith in humanity#power to the people#aragalaya#knee of huss#අරගලයට ජය!#අරගලයට ජය
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It's truly wild to me how many people out there don't understand that the Star Wars prequels are a tragedy or how tragedies work.
Posts like "these are the Jedi failed movies" truly just make me shake my head. They're actually the "fascism wears a smile until it strikes you down and then it's too late" movies. They're the "the senate became corrupt and clapped in the face of genocide" movies. They're the "make people scared enough of war until they accept authoritarianism" movies. They're the "fear and possessiveness will tear you up on the inside" movies. The Jedi were the heroes of lore, people loved and looked up to them, looked to them for safety, and then too much got put on their shoulders on purpose by Palpatine, and also by a senate that didn't want to act (not you Padme and Bail and Mon, you're perfect). They were drafted and used and scapegoated, which is, you know, a tenet of the vast majority of authoritarian governments (Hitler and Stalin, for instance, might be on different ends of the political spectrum, but they sure both did scapegoat specific groups and commit mass murder, just differently).
When some people say "these movies are about the fall of the Jedi" what they mean is "the Jedi failed" but that's not what "the fall of the Jedi means." It means they were wiped the fuck OUT. Like, Jesus, in Rogue One Tarkin is talking about burning out the final MEMORY of the Jedi by blowing up the holy city in Jedha. Palpatine had to get rid of the Jedi because to get rid of the Jedi was to get rid of the final people standing in his way after he had already worn them out. His intention was not only to kill them, but to alter the galaxy's entire perception of them. To rip away hope. People are always looking for the Jedi to be Bad or nitpick their mistakes (because while other people are allowed to make mistakes, the Jedi never are). Palpatine made himself look like a benevolent grandpa who would keep everyone safe. And that, more than anything, is what gave him SO much power. He stole the narrative.
It's just like. Of course WE know what was going to happen! We know from watching the OT that the PT can only end in tragedy. But the characters don't know that! They don't have all the info! That's how a tragic story structure works. We see it coming and they can't.
Anyway. The Jedi are laser-sword wielding monks with psychic powers who just wanted to do what they could to help. The world would be better if more folks remembered that.
#Sorry the Acolyte discourse is wild#“Those Jedi went in there and slaughtered those witches” dude they did not#That's not what happened like in what fucken world#Like that's clearly NOT what the narrative itself is saying and yet#I knew this would happen when they made High Republic TV but#I hoped it wouldn't#The show has actually taken great care with the Jedi so far imo#Much like the THR books do#Pro Jedi#KCrabb rambles#Star Wars tag
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Don't fall for it.
They see now that some sort of scapegoat is needed in order for Israel to gain back its place among other countries, and they'll obviously sacrifice Netanyahu.
But it wasn't Netanyahu posting the tiktoks making fun of the Palestinians for having to bury their children or for not having water & electricity. It wasn't Netanyahu physically blocking the entrance of the aid trucks. It wasn't Netanyahu posting photos of himself looting Palestinian houses and burning property and posing with the canes of the disabled and dressing up in Palestinian women's lingerie while calling them sluts.
#the settler colony of Israel AS A WHOLE needs to be held responsible#and we shall accept nothing less than that#free palestine#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#israel is an illegal occupier#israel is an apartheid state#israel is committing genocide#israel is a war criminal#israel is a terrorist state#israel is a genocidal state#oh it's not the Israelis' fault 🥺#“it's all just Netanyahu!”#i thought israel was a democracy?#if they didn't want him shouldn't they be able to remove him?#and i know they don't want him#but his genocide in Gaza is not why#if Hamas hadn't been holding on to their hostages the majority of israelis wouldn't have given a shit#every Israeli has to serve in the iof#every israeli has either directly abused a Palestinian or witnessed it happening#never forget that#the kindest they could ever be is if they don't care#if they don't actively derive pleasure from watching the genocide in gaza#also also Israelis are already making plans to move into Gaza after it's been ethnically cleansed#that one iof bitch who took a photo by the beach and was like : they don't deserve it it's too beautiful for them 🥺#can't wait to recreat this photo with a bikini after we take over gaza uwu 🥰#god i really hope she died#and no I'm not calling for the deaths of anyone except for the iof and the government#the rest need to be held responsible
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It may be a new year, however, Gaza is continuously experiencing genocide. Right now women and children are the main victims. As you can see it is very do-able to spread the word whilst being on theme of your blog so there is no excuse. The smallest of contributions we can make are:
- To use our platforms to spread awareness about what is being inflicted on Palestinians. Not posting about it does not mean that it is no longer happening.
- To avoid posting about rich mediocre celebrities that have either, shown support for Zionism, spread misinformation or have not uttered a word about what’s happening, simply because they showed up for fashion week or any major event.
- Boycotting businesses has proven to be effective. Many corporations have lost billions because of their blatant support for the genocide in Gaza. We live in a capitalist society, but we also have collective power. Both of which has made boycotting that much easier.
#free palestine#free gaza#ceasfire now#ceasefire#palestine#gaza#women#gender#feminism#barbie#oscars#oscar nominations
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