#at tha club

[fumifooms]

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he gets across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh". Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmares, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

[odinsblog]

“Every time I talk to people, they talk about the economy. But I'm like, man, since World War II, the economy has always done better under a Democrat president. That's just a fact.

It's always been Democrats. There's been 11 recessions in this country. Ten of them have been Republicans.

So I don't know how they've hijacked that narrative. But I think the other thing that you just got to chock it up to is just good old fashioned racism. And I think in the case of Vice President Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton 2016, sexism.

I just really do, like it's still America at the end of the day. There are people in this country who are still just holding on to old ideologies. They don't want to see America be a great American melting pot where all of these different people from all of these different walks of life can live.

They like that racist, sexist, bigoted rhetoric that Trump spews.

Why is it so hard for her to say that?

I think because for whatever reason, like, you know, you hate these elected officials even when you say, is America a racist country? OK, you can't say America is a racist country, but you can say that, you know, there's systemic racism in America. I think that is a fair thing to say.

Like, I watched her on Fox News the other night, and I loved how she handled Bret Baer. When Bret Baer tried to push her, Bret Baer was like, are you saying the American people are stupid? I can't remember how he worded it, but she was like, ‘No, I would never say that because I don't want to disparage the American people. But my opponent has no problem doing that.’

And I understand that approach, you know, but I think that it is perfectly fine to acknowledge that those things exist because guess what? As a Black man, as a Black woman, you feel that.

As a woman, you feel that sexism. As a Jewish person, you think you don't feel all the antisemitism that's happening right here in our country. Like as a gay person, you think you don't feel the homophobia.

So you can speak to what people are feeling because you see it.”

There was an amazing moment in the interview where someone comes along and brings up the F word, fascism.

Kamala Harris: It's two very different visions for our nation. One mind that is about taking us forward and progress and investing the American people, investing in their ambitions, dealing with their challenges. And the other, Donald Trump, is about taking us backward

Charlamagne: The other is about fascism. Why can't we just say it?

Kamala Harris: Yes, we can say that.

Tell me about what transpired there and how you felt about it.

“Well, it was the same thing that we just said, right? Like, you know, she was saying what she's about, and then she was saying what he's about.

And I was just like, yo, just say it.

Like, he's a fascist. You just had General Mark Milley just said he's a fascist to the core, like a danger to the country. So for me, it's like the American people will never understand the threat that Donald Trump is if people aren't spelling it out.

They didn't treat him like he's a threat to democracy. They kept saying that he's a threat democracy. They kept saying that he's a threat to democracy, but Merrick Garland should have locked Trump up after the coup. Right?

I was literally watching something yesterday and there was a person talking and the person was like, if Donald Trump, you know, really let an attempted coup of this country, why didn't they arrest him? They did. They did charge him.

But there's so many people who don't even know because he's not treated like that. We know we live in a society that knows how to demonize people when they want to. Right?

You can look at it, and I'm just going to use this as an example. Not saying that it's not warranted that it's happening, but look at somebody like Diddy. Front page of every newspaper, all over the news.

You hear about every charge. Like you see it, you see it, you see it over and over. They don't villainize and demonize Trump in that way.

You've never seen Trump in handcuffs. You saw one Trump mugshot. Like they don't treat it like.

The media has continuously treated Donald Trump and his whole candidacy like it's normal, which is mind boggling to me.”

What do we have to... Not to be defensive, but jumping up and down, what do we have to do? I mean, how many different ways can you say it?

“You know why it doesn't penetrate? Because Americans are spoiled and we don't think it can happen here because it's never happened here.

Like if you talk to older people who were closer to that, who can remember things like, ‘Oh my God, he's doing a rally at Madison Square Garden.’

That's what happened in the 30s with the Nazis.

If you can talk to people who understand that, they get it. This generation doesn’t.

If you have a sense of history and you've read things like The Fall of The Third Reich, things like that, you can see the patterns that lead to somebody like Trump becoming a dictator. I just don't think people think dictatorship is possible in America, but it is, because our democracy is very fragile.”

—Charlamagne tha God, on election 2024

[muxas-world]

Nov 2023, what a fun time where bezz was acting as if he would never get to see luca ever fuking again

[littlefankingdom]

Dick: I may not agree with everything Batman does, but I understand it. He raised me. He was like a father to me -- and to Tim. And you know how it is with fathers. You can criticize them... But no one else can.

Dick is a "Only I and my siblings can criticize Bruce/Batman, and I will fight you if you do" son confirmed. Watch what you say about Batman in front of him.

I think this is important because of the posts I see saying the Titans are Batman's biggest haters. Dick would not tolerate them criticizing or talking shit about Bruce, about his dad, so the Titans better watch the way they talk about and to Batman. Only he can whine about Bruce.

[ddlcbrainrot]

guess who has been procrastinating studying for their exams by drawing 😁😁😁👍👍👍

[futuremrscameron]

jjpopecleo showed up and showed out this season so i still won

[dudja]

The Group Chat going off😆 #memes #funny #comedy #charlamagnethagod #donnellrawlings #comedian #meme

[weirdbabs]

i think this is what tipped dimitri off that hijack was in spender

[just-qonika]

Qonika, how evil and powerful are you in comparison to Monika?

"im afraid i dont think weve met" :3

[i-cry-everytime]

I want to add more to his design but idek what to do 😿

[questintheskies]

Just Samoa Joe looking like a boss in the suit...

[wouteke]

If i wrote really unhinged mathieu/avg. rob would you all support me

[daughterofdessalines]

This is a Black person talking about Tyla ( after her interview on The Breakfast Club ) and I notice within the discourse about Immigration, Tyla & Palestine…. there is some xenophobic sentiment’s coming from the Black community.

Xenophobic energy from Black folks is crazy. How we gonna be territorial about a country that we are second class citizens in?

Very Strange.

[foggycrusadewonderland]

my OC in the amazing fight club

coming soon, Hey's manager, I mean Aiden

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kevin Robillard at HuffPost:

PHILADELPHIA — Robert Lindsey, the owner of Sharp Skills Barber Shop, thinks his customers have some questions for Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Even with this whole election right now, brothers ain’t really behind Kamala because of her track record, you know? She was a prosecutor, and that was her job, and a lot of guys are sensitive about that,” Lindsey said, not long after the National Center for Black Civic Participation had used his barbershop as the home base to canvass the majority-Black Overbrook neighborhood in West Philadelphia. “I would love for her to answer some questions straight up.” Lindsey and his customers are getting a chance to hear Harris answer a lot of questions this week. Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, is conducting interviews with a trio of Black male journalists and personalities following the rollout of a new economic plan, all in the hopes of improving her standing with Black men, who some polls show are less enthusiastic about the election than their female counterparts or may even vote for Republican Donald Trump in historic numbers.

Harris’ campaign schedule along with comments from former President Barack Obama suggesting Black men were insufficiently supportive of Harris and a New York Times/Siena College poll showing the former president winning the support of 20% of Black men have jolted the issue to the front burner of the presidential race. There is some skepticism about polling showing significant gains for Trump among Black men, with Democratic operatives noting polls underestimated Black support for Democrats in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, and in the 2022 midterms — even if all three of those races also saw Democrats struggle to turn out as many Black voters as they hoped.

In an interview with the Black news outlet The Shade Room, Harris seemed to both downplay reports she was struggling with Black men and admit she had more work to do with the demographic. “That’s not my experience,” she responded when asked about the polling. “There’s an assumption that I have Black men in my pocket when it comes to their vote,” she continued. “Black men are no different from anybody else. They expect that you have to earn their vote.” Harris’ comments reflect how Democrats are still internally debating the nature and extent of their purported struggles with Black men — which, keep in mind, would mean Democrats earn the vote of Black men at only twice the rate of their white counterparts, instead of nearly three times the rate — and how to best solve it. Many Black operatives feel the threat of Black men voting for Trump is overstated, and most of the party’s problem is around turnout and enthusiasm. Some feel the key to improving Harris’ standing can be solved with talk about economics, while others believe they have to talk about criminal justice and police reform.

The one thing they do agree on: Many Black men are not getting what they want out of the Democratic Party, and the party needs to do better. “A lot of Black men really feel like others when they hear us talk about politics,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) said earlier this month after a roundtable with other Black elected officials in Milwaukee, noting even she focuses on issues more aimed at women like protecting abortion rights and expanding child care access. “So it sort of sounds like you’re not including men. And so then when somebody comes and they’re macho man or something, then that’s speaking to them.” Moore said she has started talking up Harris’ record as a prosecutor, including her work to create programs to help young people convicted of drug crimes access job and educational opportunities, and pointing to Harris’ plans to help small businesses when Black men ask her about the candidate. “You have to talk to the whole family,” Moore said.

[...] But over the course of more than two hours of door-knocking, the young men’s cynicism was a clear outlier. Most of BlackPAC’s targets were enthusiastic about Harris, and with Iverson’s help, made plans to vote if they did not already have one. Negative reactions tended to come because BlackPAC or another group had already knocked on their door once. The idea of voting for President Donald Trump, as some polling suggests Black people are planning to do in historic numbers, seemed laughable to most of the door-knocking targets. One voter said her top concern for the election was “getting rid of the racist idiot.” Another young woman said she was terrified of “that 2025 thing” — a round of mailers from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party on the threat of Project 2025 had just hit mailboxes in the neighborhood.

[...] So far, however, Harris’ pitch has focused more on economics than on justice issues. The plan she rolled out Monday involved providing a million loans to Black entrepreneurs to start businesses and investing in Black male mentorship and training programs. Even the one criminal justice angle in the plan — the legalization of marijuana — was framed around letting Black men start businesses in the field. And while a Harris ad targeted at Black radio stations released in August briefly mentioned her work “pioneer[ing] a program to give nonviolent drug offenders a second chance,” more recent television ads focused more on the dangers of Project 2025 for Black Americans and on her plans to lower the cost of housing and groceries.

Harris did address criminal justice issues once during her interviews on Monday, telling Roland Martin she would “absolutely” continue to have an aggressive civil rights division at the Justice Department. “Under Donald Trump as president, those cases were not happening with any vigor or commitment,” she said, referring to investigations of police departments or prosecutions of law enforcement officers accused of wrongdoing. “He took resources out of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice.” If it still feels like Democrats and other groups are figuring this all out, that’s because they sort of are. The NCBCP was working with a Philadelphia-based group to poll Black men in the area about what issues were important to them, with a QR code on literature left at doors leading to a survey asking about issues like Black men’s mental health, police reform, reparations and their faith in local government.

Kamala Harris is going on a tour of podcasts that have a heavily Black male audience, such as The Breakfast Club with Charlamagne Tha God and Roland Martin Unfiltered with Roland Martin.

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Daily Kos: ‘This man is weak’: Harris blasts Trump in town hall with Black voters

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