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the-bibrarian · 2 years ago
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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
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thewisestdino · 4 months ago
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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
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birichardswift · 5 days ago
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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."
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is-the-owl-video-cute · 1 year ago
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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.
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thisbibliomaniac · 8 months ago
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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"
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theragamuffininitiative · 26 days ago
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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
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mariocki · 2 months ago
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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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fideidefenswhore · 1 year ago
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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.
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trans-elrond · 2 years ago
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master gardener trailer is here!! it's paul schrader's latest film with joel edgerton, sigourney weaver and quintessa swindell
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chewwytwee · 2 years ago
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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.
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oohlook-thevoid · 4 months ago
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The way the 3 seats announced so far (last I checked) are Labour wins with Reform in second,,,,,,
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ofdinosanddais1 · 2 years ago
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I'm gonna say it:
Not wanting to live isn't a moral failing either.
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ofswordsandpens · 1 year ago
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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:
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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.
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anaalnathrakhs · 5 months ago
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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.
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^ 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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fawcetttweets · 3 months ago
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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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