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“The EU average stands at 64.3 years for men and 63.5 years for women. In France, the current retirement age is 64.5 years for both men and women, according to the OECD dataset. This means that France has a slightly higher retirement age than the EU average.”
Source : euronews.com
The absolute fucking irony
#as I’ve been saying#most of us already can’t retire at 62#and with the PREVIOUS reform#those of us born after 1960-1965 will be very lucky if they manage to retire by 65 years#this new law is only designed to fuck over blue collar workers#and line the pockets of private insurance by capping the amount people can contribute towards social security#macron explosion#réforme des retraites#pension reform#france#french politics#up the baguette#social justice
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Before and After
#knight#knight price#original character#art#my art#painting#artist of tumblr#artists on tumblr#angel#angel knight#armor#armour#my ocs#guy from previous post#this was when he was alive v how his deity reformed after death
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idk why people are having such a hard time wrapping their brains around the fact that not referring to people as prisoners and instead referring to them as people in prison or incarcerated people is a really really simple thing you can do to help combat decades of the systemic dehumanization of black, brown, and poor people. in the US and a lot of other countries around the world, the term prisoner has extremely negative connotations and stigma associated with it, and invokes a whole lot of bias and stereotypes about who is in prison and what for. the idea that people who are in prison are there because they are bad awful people is deeply ingrained in almost every aspect of US society and culture. prisons systemically dehumanize people and do everything to strip away people's autonomy, individuality, identity, freedom, and human rights.
the push for person first language when discussing those who are incarcerated literally comes from people who have been systemically dehumanized from these oppressive punitive systems. this is not an ahistorical uwu sjw don't say "autistic" say "person-with-autism" thing. there are decades, fuck even centuries of significant, deeply racialized and oppressive political and historical context you have to take into account.
so please don't feed into this dehumanization by referring to people as objects in this extremely oppressive, racist, classist, harmful punitive system. use person first language y'all, it's not that fucking hard.
here's some articles if people actually care enough to educate themseves
The language of incarceration People First: The Use and Impact of Criminal Justice Labels in Media Coverage The Language Project Forget labels like ex-con and felon, realize that words matter and learn how to humanize language
#mass incarceration#criminal justice reform#like i really don't understand what all the fuss is about and why people are getting so angry about my previous post#the word prisoner DOES have MANY negative and dehumaizing connotations#so like?? don't call people that#it's not fucking rocket science#jesus christ
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I read Justice Society of America 1-12 since it finally ended. And I still find it hysterical that Johns said "Let me abruptly wrap up this series that's been as slow as molasses so I can use the final issue as a goodbye to Stargirl."
#after reading the new jsa 1 the previous series just feels pointless#nothing really seemed to stick. not the lost children. not the attempt to reform villains. what was the point?
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Are there any tropes you particularly enjoy in media? Just the first that come to mind
I am a sucker for “the villain/monster was redeemable and just needed a new perspective” to be honest I eat that every time.
#Cliche? Yes#but I love it#especially if the villain/monster fundamentally remains a complete prick or intimidating/retains traits from their previous arc#I love a reformed villain who is still a bastard in demeanor even when actively doing good for the world
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I understand paedobaptists arguing that paedobaptism is indeed biblical when baptists claim that it's not, even if I don't agree. What I don't understand is them coming at us with "oh yeah?! Well I went to a Baptist church once that did something I consider unbiblical!" (even though in most cases it's extrabiblical at best) as if
1) I have to answer for any church other than my own (I don't)
2) one church's incorrect doctrine makes another's okay (it doesn't)
I usually respond with "You're right, you shouldn't do either of those things"
#they usually go with baby dedication which many churches dont do and is in no way sinful#or altar calls which many churches also don't do and is also not necessarily sinful#my current and previous church have done neither of those things and they are reformed baptist#and when reformed presbyterians try to come at baptists with accusations that apply to regular or fundie baptists ....#okay???? im neither of those things
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being emotionally dependent on music right now looks like coping with andrew peterson not making new music by falling headlong into looping the gray havens and ross king endlessly instead
#(and also. clearly. andrew's previous albums. duh.)#but gosh gray havens is so good vibes and storytelling hhhhh and ross king... how many of his songs got me through the whole major#flinging myself off the cliff of deconstruction into the abyss of reformation the past few years#this is also my weekly call out post for ap to make more music. sir. please.#andrew peterson#the gray havens#ross king
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New Scotland Yard: The Come Back (1.2, LWT, 1972)
"This wasn't a sudden impulse. It was deliberate and calculated. He had to break in to get at the old man, and then - well, you saw what he did to him. I don't know if he's a psycho or not, but I do know he's a sadist and I know what treatment I'd hand out."
"Yeah, I can guess."
"It's the only way."
"You've a right to your opinion, just don't try and convert me."
"I wouldn't dream of it, I know what you think."
"I think it's just as well your job ends when we catch him."
#new scotland yard#the come back#1972#lwt#classic tv#tony hoare#tony wharmby#john woodvine#john carlisle#barry warren#claire warren#kenneth cranham#betty romaine#kenneth colley#robert hartley#mark dowse#geoffrey morris#shelagh wilcocks#after a thoughtful and provocative opener‚ this second episode feels a little more run of the mill; a classic 'villain out for revenge on#those who put him away'. we do get a little bit of debate about the possibility or not of reform whilst imprisoned‚ but it's brief stuff#where the meat of the episode is just identifying and tracking down the 'bad guy' (a young Ken Cranham; similarly not enough#time is devoted to considering the mental health of his character and why exactly he has become dangerously violent during his time#inside...). one odd thing; the first episode sort of established Carlisle's character as having some socialist sympathies‚ putting him at#odds with the greyly impartial (but probably vaguely conservative‚ with a small c) Woodvine. weirdly‚ their politics appear to have#switched entirely here; Woodvine is reticent to demonise Cranham without solid proof of his involvement‚ expresses some sympathy#for his situation‚ whilst his subordinate Carlisle is now apparently in favour of the death penalty and dismisses the idea#of an insanity defence out of hand‚ sneering that it's a cop out abused by serial criminals. perhaps it's just that this is early days#and different writers are playing with these characters that aren't entirely nailed down yet‚ but it's a weird contrast to their respective#positions in the previous ep. Warren returns as Woodvine's journalist brother in law‚ so it looks like that's a recurring role#and poor Ken Colley gets rather underused as an informant (or grass as Woodvine puts it)
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tl; dr if Cromwell did not destroy his partner(s) IN the reformation, he certainly destroyed partners of /in the reformation.
#at a certain point we're just hair splitting#anyway that part of the biography was the weakest imo#a) it underrates AB's influence when he's spent the previous chapters explaining what an active and important reformer she was#b) she was not the only one/ reformer destroyed in that coup.#it the rest were collateral then they were pretty costly 'collateral'#as far as it goes w/ the english reformation#and/or reform in general#*if the rest#to eliminating queen anne...as it were#it's interesting bcus he subsumed some of ives thesis and rejected other parts#'the case was abominable' was where he had it right
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master gardener trailer is here!! it's paul schrader's latest film with joel edgerton, sigourney weaver and quintessa swindell
#film#paul schrader#master gardener#i saw it at venice and it's VERY good. esp if you liked his previous films first reformed or the card counter (both of which are also great#)#<- tag too long but had to close the parenthetical
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Bro my Theo class is such assssssss I'm so tired of reading books that are just like "We shouldn't be racist.......... cuz of God". All of the books I've been assigned to read in class are so toothless that, even if I was a homophobic bible thumper, I could read it and nod along to every statement saying "Yeah! This is why gay people are bad and we need to get rid of welfare!". They're only radical books if you're already radicalized going into them, they don't say anything they just imply meaning for anyone to project their beliefs onto.
#.txt#dont rb this ig#idk theyre just random thoughts#i enjoyed the class at first before the discussions fizzled out and I realized it was just gonna be the liberal arts version#of sunday school. It's cool to hear every once in a while the professor to say gay ppl are cool and she doesnt like abortion#but like if I didn't agree with her this entire class would be utterly unconvincing in trying to prove that there is a#very radical message in the bible. 'radical' to a reasonable person means systemic reform.#'radical' to a conservative christian means banning trans healthcare and 'denying group-thought' (not using someomes correct pronouns)#everything we're engaging with just fails to ever examine the ways that people weaponize these same passages#it never provides a compelling alternative reading all of our analysis is just 'say what you already believed in theological terms'#its really grating at this point and its such a boring fucking class to sit through for all the previous reasons its just not stimulating
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The way the 3 seats announced so far (last I checked) are Labour wins with Reform in second,,,,,,
#just if this continues Labour will go even more right wing (I'd guess esp on trans right & immigration) as that's seemingly what ppl want#i wanted fo be optimistic because crushing Tory defeat but exit polls are suggesting they'll still have over 100 seats and be the opposition#and like fuck the fact exit polls suggest that AND 13 reform seats#please please please be wrong#please can things be more like the previous polls suggesting Lib Dems getting a couple more seats that Tories (both in the 60s)#Greens gaining more that 2 seats (as exit poll predicts) and Reform getting fuck all#just christ the situation in this country is not gonna get better even w/o a Tory gov if this batch of MPs aligns with the exit poll
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I'm gonna say it:
Not wanting to live isn't a moral failing either.
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#reference to previous post#not about prison reform in this one but mental health#this doesn't mean I want suicidal people to die#but to acknowledge that suicidality is very complex#and that we shouldn't attribute it to being selfish#you wouldn't call someone selfish for having a heart attack#tw: suicide mention#tw: suicide#mental health#suicidality#psychology
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actually I also wanna talk about the part where Percy convinces Bob to kill Hyperion because even though Percy never says anything outright sinister, the way he handles the entire situation with such cool ease, playing on Bob’s emotions... its so insane???
Because Annabeth’s reaction to the three of them encountering Hyperion reforming is: “oh this is bad we need to get out of here” She knows if Bob remembers himself, that it's not going to play out well for Percy and her. She also thinks about how they're being pursued and don't have a lot of time. Her solution to the problem, seemingly, is to leave.
But Percy's solution is to work the situation to his advantage. He re-affirms Bob's loyalty to him:
Percy then re-establishes Bob's moral code: "Some monsters are good. Some are bad. This Titan is bad. He tried to kill me and a lot of people. He's not good like you are."
And it ends with Percy leaving the choice of whatever to do with Hyperion to Bob but of course, is it really what Bob chose to do? Bob decides to kill Hyperion. It's not what he may have done, if Percy hadn't intervened. But it's exactly what Percy was oh-so-sweetly leading Bob to do.
And listen, I'm not claiming that it was exactly morally bankrupt of Percy to take advantage of a once-evil titan who could get him and his girlfriend through hell in one piece. Percy, Annabeth, they manipulate monsters and enemies all the time. Annabeth ended the previous book with manipulating Arachne into weaving her own web. So it's not exactly like she's against using manipulative tactics, in theory.
But Bob, at this point, is not just some monster. He is so painfully sincere in his belief in Percy and their friendship, so yes, it does feel a bit sinister whenever Percy uses Bob... and he really uses Bob.
And I think what makes the scene so unsettling, it isn't just that Percy manipulated Bob, its how well Percy manipulated him. He manipulates Bob so well that Percy doesn't even have to kill Hyperion... because Bob does it for him. He manipulates Bob so well, that Annabeth couldn't tell if Percy was purposefully trying to manipulate the situation. (Newsflash, he most definitely was). Like holy shit.
#percy: friends kill for friends <3#ITS CHILLING#Riordan allowed Percy to be unhinged for ONE book in hoo and then got to boo and went#/um actually writing the realistic outcome of Percy's turmoil in Tartarus sounds like a lot of work so how bout I dont :)/#okay wait while I love this scene in hoh the one part I dont like was Annabeth being like: I had no clue Percy could be so cunning#and like girl YES YOU DO#you were there in BOOK 1 when Percy convinced Crusty to lay down in his OWN bed and then decapitated him#I choose to believe she was simply afraid unsettled and in denial lmaoooo#pjo#percy jackson#annabeth chase#mine
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yeah she is one of them little ponies, the main antagonist of the fifth season, culprit of turning a village into an egalitarian cult, and then of traveling through time to prevent the protagonists from forming their world-saving team as children.
her authoritarianism was overturned by the power of friendship, and she has a good number of fans now that's she's a main protagonist, but like, dang, it's a jarringly fast character arc.
^ the authoritarian herself
yes she committed atrocities. BUT! she's my special little guy. AND! she looked hot doing it. so.
#probably not the answer you were asking for but i'll never turn down an opportunity to talk abt my little pony#this makes it sound like i'm an starlight glimmer anti i'm not. they exist but i'm not one#without expanding too much on the topic#part of the reason is that the consequences of her actions felt much more grounded compared to the fairytale style of earlier antagonists#she's just a regular pony whose wrongdoings come from the social authority she built#she uses straight up cult leader tactic and the characters in the cult talk about it on-screen and have it reflect on them#then the time travel plot shows many alternate timelines in which the previous antagonists have not been stopped#and it's. a bit harsh honestly. lots of wastelands on screen. the main characters are shown participating in active warfare#they're very sad and bitter scenes#it's not out of character for the show to reform an antagonist by the power of friendship#but given how the evil acts were presented at the time. the emotional stakes there were. it just exacerbates how jarring it is#like season five finale she breaks down and is like i'm sorry i wont be doing evil magic anymore#season six she has a redemption arc roughly on par with the schoolyard bully character's#and soon after she's our good pal starlight glimmer our reasonable and level-headed friend#she's depicted as a very trustworthy unless it's an episode that centers on her flaws for the usual ''teaching kids to be nice'' morale#and that's not like it doesn't happen to every other character BUT her redemption has a very different level of details from her villainy#anyway. whether it is her fans or the writers of the show or twilight sparkler herself. they don't care about the atrocities.#said i wouldn't expand too much oops#she's just the first one that came to mind reading that post sorry op i have my little pony on the backburner of my brain literally 24/7#mlp
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Please do NOT stop the pig migration storyline! I am invested in it now 😂
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Things are heating up… I’m a bit rusty on my knowledge about the whole ACAB thing because my memory sucks and I can barely retain thoughts for more than few minutes but I’m gonna try my best! I’ll try not to get too serious or upsetting but some JL members are, were, or work closely with cops and won’t really agree right away. They’re gonna have some off screen and on screen talks about it and be forced to do research into it! Forcibly Acabing my blorbos. Shooting them straight in the face with my woke-beam.
THE NEXT LINES ARE NON CANON:
Batman: this is going to be a PR nightmare
Marvel: The only PR I care about is Police Reform. Or preferably, abolishment.
Nightwing: so you hate me?
Marvel: Oh! I didn’t know you were a cop, sorry!
Nightwing: Oh thank god, I thought you’d want to stop being friends with me.
Marvel: oh, I do. I meant that I’m sorry for ever treating you like a friend and stringing you along, not for the whole ACAB thing. You’re A C which also means your A B :)
Nightwing: D:
Non canon because that’s too mean for my sweet baby boy (at least in Marvel form) and Nightwing isn’t a cop anymore.
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