#and people believe said bullshit

[zwiebelii]

I'm currently researching for my Bachelor's thesis, and I still need to narrow down the specific research gap, but I'm probably going to write on the spread of fake news on social media, and. Some of the stuff I'm reading is so fascinating?

The paper I'm reading right now mentions how ineffective it is to "debunk" fake news, because it doesn't really matter whether it's true or false. What matters is whether the person is familiar with the (mis)information. Thus, debunking can even increase the believability of fake news, because the affected person is getting more familiar with it.

I remember when people here on tumblr used to spread around "feminism 101" posts, or posts just explaining what microaggressions are, etc. Do we need to go back to that?? Was that actually more effective??? Are infographics on instagram really the future of digital activism???

[bucephaly]

It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.

People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.

And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.

If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.

[lesbiradshaw]

one of my favorite things about bradley is that while he so desperately wants to be like his father— enough so that he spends so much of his life trying to emulate him through style, music, profession, etc.— narratively he really is more like maverick. maybe not in the exact way that he flies, because we all know maverick is notoriously a daredevil while bradley is decidedly not, but even that has its own parallels with how ice and jake upon introduction immediately point out the flaws in their piloting styles (i heard that about you. you like to work alone. / that’s just you, ain’t it? waiting for just the right moment that never comes.). their methods are different, but both on the ground and up in the air, the two of them are always competing with a ghost. fathers that they can barely remember, whose legacies one way or another made it difficult for them to make it where they are in their careers— even though their fathers are such major motivators for why they chose aviation in the first place. they both have spent a lot of their lives on their own because of that and when it comes down to the final mission for each of their movies, they’re both shown being doubted as the right fit— once again by ice and jake (it’s nothing personal…but with regard to maverick…is he the best pick? / he’s not cut out for this mission. you know i’m right.). at the end of the day they manage to pull it off, but they have to overcome the obstacles that have plagued them for a majority of the movie. it’s not just the obvious scene callbacks that tether them as characters, it’s who they are at their core.

[romance-incubomp3]

actually wild to me how many people put stock into astrology and tarot cards. like what do you mean you believe what day of the year someone was born means they have similar personality traits to other people born within the same several weeks

[seveneyesoup]

ngl i’m still worried. like i Do have complete faith in ncuti gatwa but what i Don’t have is much faith at all in rtd’s writing about race

[extravagantliar]

there are people braver than me on this dash.

[hindahoney]

The only people who benefit when black people and jews are divided are white supremacists

[tshifty]

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[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[deanmarywinchester]

sorry in advance for comedy pirate posting but they made this season of our flag means death for ME. blood! weird women! men who want to die! psycho-sexual violence! vico ortiz in a little outfit! wow I am so excited for people who moralized about random bullshit in season one to find out ed has been beheading people. I think he should be worse.

[uma-lesbica-com-biscoitos]

On carbon neutrality

It's so dishonest to want to achieve carbon neutrality while overexploited countries are dying because profit is more important. The carbon neutrality they want us to achieve is fake. The Republic of Congo and other countries overexploited will never reach carbon neutrality... Can France and other countries be proud of their fake carbon neutrality when our electric cars, phones, computers and other devices are full of cobalt? Let's be honest for one fucking second. Let's just admit all of this is shit, and industries cannot exist in a "green world", instead of pretending it's the future for the planet.

[nellasbookplanet]

I think one of the scariest parts of capitalism is how it encourages a sort of moral apathy. Sure a lot of powerful people do bigoted things because they are, in fact, hateful bigots. But a lot of them might vote for and back right-wingers not because they personally hate minorities or want the world to burn but because the right-wingers will give them tax cuts and remove regulations and hey, thats just good business! Social media don’t put radical alt-righters on vulnerable people's timelines because the people running the site believe in those ideals and want to radicalize people, but because it triggers engagement, makes you stay logged on longer and makes them more money. They don’t ban queer people and adult content because they give a shit but because said content might scare off advertisers; advertisers are scared off not because they give a shit but because they want to appeal to as many people as possible to make more money. And there’s the reverse of this, too: when they see that it’s more profitable to be diverse and inclusive, that’s the content they push, not because they give a shit, but because it makes more money.

Big corporations aren't alone in this, either. Drama channels and the like don't arise because the people running them personally hate everyone they go after and try to get cancelled; a lot of the time, they just see that this sort of content gets the views and the money. And because they do bigoted things not out of political reasons but for economical ones, they convince themself it’s somehow neutral. Smart, even! Just good business. The world and its people are a tool for them to use and throw away as they see fit, and the fact that so many of the world's most powerful people think like this is terrifying.

[m0e-ru]

adachi depictions can be so fucking stupid. like put that cabbage, plastic shopping bag, police tape, handcuffs, nambu revolver, tv set, yellow contacts, red black stripe vortex pattern AWAYYY and go outside to take a walk and think about what you're doing before doing anything else is that clear

[sodaspringz]

sometimes i really want to forget that dsmp existed

[lilliths-not-just-httyd-blog]

"the traditional nuclear family dynamic should not be the standard family dynamic forced upon everyone" and "if the traditional nuclear family dynamic is appealing to you then that's okay, feel free to pursue it" are two statements that can and absolutely should co-exist.

a.k.a. i dont give a shit about the format of your family. family can be two hetero partners without kids or lesbians with three of em or a single parent with an adopted kid or a spinster and her cats or four people but *le gasp* theres! only! ONE! BED! deadass whatever. you're alive, so live. idc how.

i say this because a bi-product of that fucking japanese mcdonalds ad is somehow: right wingers saying that leftists despise the nuclear family dynamic. like-

babe no we dont

the maccy-deez-nuts ad discourse is so stupid and is mostly just people making up a guy and then getting mad over it. deadass i feel bad for even mentioning the twitter discourse on tumblr

i literally only say this because i wanted to point out that bluey's central cast has a nuclear family dynamic and we're all chill with it like we love this show so much. and yet people apparently say-

[the-casbah-way]

two weeks into term we have to give presentations about our final dissertations and i have not touched mine all summer because i have been busy working and trying not to kill myself and writing fanfiction