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While Lifesteal's default state of conflict is very similar to Hobbes' state of war, this conflict is actually encouraged by the nature of the server and and generally an accepted part of their society. They do not have the innate craving for peace that Hobbes describes and therefore an attempt to force them into a more peaceful society is destined to fail.
There is also already morals and codes that individuals abide by and no alternative is being presented by the Leviathan. A stable set of rules that all are subject to is part of the appeal of society according to Hobbes.
Also technically for Hobbes the collective does still have to entrust their individual liberties into a sovereign.
#Will do a post about how similar the state of war is to lifesteal later#its the main appeal of his philosophy regarding lifesteal tbh#very similar#lifesteal smp#but basically governing a group of people doesnt really work if you do not communicate clearly with them expectations and rules#and no saying we rule now dont fuck with us or destroy spawn does not count#also because lifesteal is an inherently violent content driven server there is no reason why people would suddenly decide to be at peace#perhaps if you gave them a big project to work on together#but they missed that by letting Subz and Zam restore spawn#Mid is much closer to that with the co-operation she is requiring for her egg hunt#anyways done tag rambling#if you would like to hear me rant about Hobbes you can ask for my discord
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the seven + a few others future headcanons
percy:
becomes a high school teacher
teaches high school marine biology (idk how it is in other schools but when we hit sophomore year we got to choose different bio classes ie: marine bio, ag bio, med bio + regular bio)
also teaches the mythology elective and is the swim team coach
annabeth:
we already know this queen is an architect with obvious inspiration from greek architecture
learns how to make blue food for percy and their kids from sally
has traveled all over the world looking at different architecture
learns the basics of many languages so shes able to communicate with the locals
her and leo team up to build a small school near camp half-blood for year rounders so everyone can learn consistently but dw they get summers off
piper:
love her but shes a nepo baby
she doesnt act like it tho
”are you tristan mcleans daughter?” “who?”
loves her dad to bits but does not like being seen out in public by the paparazzi
marries shel, they dont have kids tho, neither of them want to bring any into the world especially with america’s downfall and the government erasing women and poc rights
is basically leos big sister atp
leo:
him and calypso dont last, maybe a year and a half in they split bc calypso wants to explore the world and leo is very emotionally unstable and calypso has a hard time understanding
they end on good terms but dont ever talk unless its with a group of friends
he goes into a trade to become a mechanic and owns his own shop
starts smoking cigarettes/vaping
his friends dont really approve but they understand he cant quit just yet as hes not in a mental space to do so
goes to therapy with a psychologist whos a demigod that specializes in grieving and war trauma
they all go to therapy but hes the last one to do it
he’s still the ‘happy go lucky’ guy hes always been but as he gets closer w the others they start to see the true sadness in him
piper and him grow a lot closer after jason died and have a big sister little brother relationship
hazel:
my girl stays at camp jupiter
takes nicos place at camp
horse trainer
her and frank also dont work out as a romantic relationship, they felt that the age gap was too much after frank turned 18 and hazel was 15 theyre still friends tho
hazel often visits leo in his shop
as much as leo reminds her of sammy, through therapy she has recognized that theyre separate people and to not push all her past feelings for sammy onto leo
not only does she train horses but she also teaches little kids basic math, science, and history to the younger kids
they all call her ms. hazel
she prefers to teach the really young kids (age 4-7)
wears her hair in different braid styles after BOO
frank:
my friggin HOMIE
i relate to frank a lot personality wise
therefore i think hed be a 4/20 fanatic after BOO
hes not stoned during training or during important camp duties
but otherwise you try talkin to him and you dont really notice until you look and see the far off look and red eyes and he just goes “huh?”
other than that hes a great leader
after he gets his cool new look from mars he takes really good care of his body including consistent exercise and eating really healthily (maybe he has a soft spot for fast food when hes hi)
him joining the military does not make sense to me
he lost his mom to war, and he was in one himself, idk about you but i would not wanna join the military after being the main character in a war
he studies to be a veterinarian for exotic animals
when no one is around he shifts into the animal to find out whats wrong
”dr. zhang prefers to work by himself” “why” “idk but hes always right, if it aint broke dont fix it”
jason:
rip home-slice
nico:
my other homie
my guy does not get taller than 5’8
stays at camp during the summer to train the new and old kids
him and will get a house together
teaches history at the camp school
cat dad (5 cats and counting)
will:
takes nicos last name when they marry bc its cooler
him being a doctor doesnt click w me i more picture him being an EMT
EMTs are hotter anyways
does med training with new apollo kids whenever he gets time
if he’s not busy during working hours he drops by nicos classroom w his fav drink from dutch bros (starbucks is MID) and hangs out with him and his students
#percy jackson#pjo#jason grace#hazel levesque#frank zhang#leo valdez#piper mclean#annabeth chase#nico di angelo#will solace#heroes of olympus#solangelo#percabeth
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"supporting" the diaspora is also stupidly effective optics. even with how abysmally low my expectations are of "progressive" liberals, i for some reason expected them to be able to see through the international relations equivalent of "i have a black friend"
somehow the very clear contradiction of being aggressively sinophobic (for example bc its so prevalent at the moment) while saying youre just "boosting the voices of the chinese people, im friends with lots of chinese people and they all hate china too" is utterly lost on them.
its also really depressing to be a dissenter amongst the diaspora. the only real interactions ive had with vietnamese diaspora in australia, outside of my family, have been a massive protest of south vietnam nationalists against my auntie's exhibition on the opening night, and meeting viet people here and there only to find out they are also south vietnam nationalists and getting the fuck out.
its even more absurd when it comes to people who arent vietnamese. any discussion of the vietnam war, which has become blissfully rare since high school history, is just extremely awful in every way. despite all the talk about how the war was a mistake and a failure, thats basically where the criticism ends. even that belief is mired by the fact that most people feel that way because "oh, the vietnam war was so horrible, all those poor young men sent out to a jungle hell, the suffering they went through is unjustifiable, and the way they were treated when they came home was simply atrocious".
youre lucky if you find someone who reckons that whole agent orange thing was a bit mean. other than that its all about the brave servicemen who put life and limb on the line to massacre civilians, rape and torture whomever they fancy, utterly obliterate the neutral neighbouring country with illegal bombing campaigns that are still killing dozens every year.
its also absolutely ridiculous to take the views of the diaspora at face value, let alone argue that those views should be enacted and define the governance of whichever country in question. every diasporic community has varying degrees of bitterness and violence, some mild and unimportant, others overflowing with it, with it being the only thing that matters. it shouldnt be surprising that when it comes to countries whose diasporic communities around the world are incredibly vocal and aggressive, those countries tend to have had massive social and economic upheavals in order to reform them, tirelessly working to root out corruption, inequality, poverty, and the incredibly powerful ruling classes.
those who flee in the wake of such reforms mostly do so either to retain their ill-gotten wealth, or to escape prosecution for their crimes. for some reason, probably unrelated, they also become outspoken about the evils of their former home, baying for the blood of the monsters responsible for improving the lives of the general public.
and there have been cases of these diasporas gaining support, influence, the backing of covert groups like the cia, who arm and train them. it usually doesnt end well. one only needs to point to the bay of pigs, in which the cia along with heavily armed cuban exiles launched an invasion in an attempt to strongarm the acquisition of military support, to see what happens when you commit to acheiving the goals of outspoken diaspora. if it werent for the last minute withdrawal of air support, once the world asked america why the fuck they were bombing cuba, it would have turned into a full scale invasion, a bloody and deadly civil war just like vietnam, and could well have massively escalated the cold war to the mutual nuclear destruction everyone was so afraid of.
Diaspora communities in the west are, simultaneously, expected to denounce their motherland; while also being posited as having developed a more true, real expression of their motherland's culture - whether straightforwardly, through exposure to western 'freedom', or, in the more 'progressive' iteration, through some deep cultural introspection facilitated by living in the west.
That's the functional meaning of 'hate the government, not the people' - hate the mother nation with a passion, but tolerate a naturalised diaspora, one which must simultaneously be entirely broken from, and the only true successor of, that nation. Within the framework of liberal politics, there can be no division of a country into 'the government' and 'the people' based on a division between a capitalist ruling class and a working people - any hatred of the country will be a nationalist hatred of the whole country. That this hatred of a nation is not de jure extended on ethnic lines - that the diaspora in the western nation is permitted to exist as part of that nation, and this escape nationalist hatred - is presented as an act of magnanimity, one which is under threat of being revoked.
This is saying nothing, of course, of socialist nations, where the division between the state and the people does not exist, and the claim to 'hate the government, not the people' is revealed even more easily as a guise for base nationalism.
#tldr; diaspora communities of socialist countries usually want to kill the socialists and go back to the hellish conditions that brought on#the revolution#the noble claim of supporting the diaspora is merely a pretty way to say you want to kill lots of people so disaffected monsters can get#their money back and brutally oppress their subjects
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The Problem of Nate Ford
I wanna talk about Leverage Character Dynamics. I gather that Nate doesnt get a lot of love from the fan base. And I totally get why that is. Parker Hardison and Eliot are shiny, cute, and exuberant with ready catchphrases and gimmicks. Sophie is sophisticated. So what is Nate?
Nate is the rudder. Without Nate, they would just be criminals (fun criminals no doubt). The problem is, compared to the others, Nate is unappealing. He’s a middle aged almost schlub in a corny porkpie hat. He’s eye contact averting, manipulating, and within the group, the least truthful. However, he IS the rudder.
Each of the cons in Leverage is on a rightward path. For Hardison, Nate wants to see him be a broader person, a full grown man, to not rely on hacking for childish gains or as an easy answer to life. For Parker, the goal is to be a whole person with connections to others, to make her life more fulfilling than solitary excellence. She’s aging out of the circus-flexible death defying thief and she knows it. She can’t stay a lone wolf forever, but she has challenges relating to people. Eliot is a whole person already. His focus is just flipping his intention, from hurting to protecting. He was basically a soldier or hired thug for governments or oligarches, but with Nate’s direction his life can be pointed in the right direction, the balance can be moved towards good. Each of these characters is treated really well by the show, with either smiles or funny anger being their character’s usual ‘business’ Sophie I can’t quite figure out- she’s almost a mystery to herself, her cons have gone on so long. Maybe Nate is grounding her, or maybe for her, the focus is turning egotism to community, to service.
Nate’s skeezy. He’s the answer man, but you sense that the answers could be supplied by a more fun actor and work just as well. (Picture Hutton and Mark Sheppard’s character’s reversed) He’s written as the big mystery, the giant brain solving puzzle. But he’s eye contact evasive, he drives himself to destruction, he takes chances that seem to put the team in harm’s way, and he occasionally manipulates them to do so. I get the sense that in a different show or in the same show with a different cast, Timothy Hutton could be the fan favorite. But that isnt the show we have. I like Nate Ford, but he’s my least favorite. And (im halfway thru the five seasons of Leverage so Im guessing about Leverage Redemption) I think thats why hes not needed in the new show. Everyone has grown in the time together and apart, Everyone has been practicing being a good person during that time, and they all have formed their rudders. Sophie was always a step behind Nate in the series, she knew all his cons, just not when to apply a specific con. So leaving Nate behind IS growth.
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@sambambucky : “pls... Pastels, Peaches and Pain??? among us first draft??? marvel meets warframe meets a bunch of tumblr posts (it’s not an au!?!??!)
hi jo !!! Pastels, Peaches, and Pain is one of those sambucky wips i have mostly fully fleshed out in my head because of one (1) extreme moment of clarity after a rogue ‘what if’ tangent thought but havent written anything of yet out of restraint / knowing i need to finish at least one of my current sambucky wips before i start it or none of them will get done
this was the rogue tangent thought: “what if Sam is haunted by Figaro’s ghost and has been since he was a kid?”. i’ve changed the ghost cat to not be Figaro but that’s the premise !
i refer to the fic as the cat fic ‘cause the whole plot is based around sam’s ghost cat companion insisting he adopts nat’s cat Liho after endgame and then Figaro later and then [insert redacted because plot spoilers but just know it relates to Alpine]. no im not projecting my feelings about cats idk what youre talking about
here’s some note snippets just for you:
the cat, inexplicably, takes a liking to bucky, which is really annoying bc sam doesnt know how to explain to him that all the oddly soft gusts of wind are actually sam's dead cat insisting on getting pats
bucky getting shade thrown at him by said ghost cat during all of tfatws + them making up (and not out. yet)
starts when sam's a kid & follows him as he grows up w/ a ghost kitty as a companion only he can see & interact with + angst with an undertone of comedy + getting together
he whispers to ghost kitty, who simply mmrrs happily
for the among us first draft thing, what basically happened is i saw this tweet and this video and my brain latched onto these dynamics so hard i had to write about them.
here’s a sketch of my two main imposters, Black (left) and Cyan (right):
and here’s a snippet:
The thing having Cyan pause and stare out at the asteroid field is how the colors stretch to family. When they and Black came aboard, they had thought every crewmember was an adult working on the planet-change project. That the patch of off-white with a black something-pattern-or-shape signified status. In a way, Cyan supposes it does, but just not the way they expected. They had expected it to show what rank an individual held within the hierarchy of the crew, from deckhand to division leader to captain, not to show that you're family of the crew and not actually part of the crew itself.
There are innocents on this ship. Children. It was not something any of them had anticipated, and not something Cyan had been prepared to deal with. They and Black boarded this horrible place to eradicate a threat, believing each and single one of the humans were accomplishes and dedicated to the goal of destroying Cyan and Black's species, and their planet. But, now?
marvel meets warframe meets a bunch of tumblr posts... doesn’t have a wip title or seperate document for itself yet cause it’s been stuck in my ‘story ideas’ document since its creation. so ‘marvel meets warframe meets a bunch of tumblr posts’ is literally just me describing the vibe of an original world gjkerfkds
the world came to be for two reasons. firstly, i want to do make take on a superhero universe because the plot and complete lack of communication in both the dcu and mcu piss me the fuck off. secondly, needed a place to dump ocs with elaborate backstories or fantasy / sci-fi abilities that dont fit into any of my existing worlds
which sounds super competent but trust me, it isn’t. it didn’t gain any solidity at all until i decided to do a personal ‘how different can i make spn castiel look & still retain the same vibe?’ challenge. i have my own cas now
however, the reason i said ‘marvel meets...’ is because i’ve snagged a couple of different things from the mcu, most notably: enemies to reluctant coworkers to lovers, yes our best friend have the same name. no they’re not the same person, secret evil org is controlling the government, and the assassin that tried to kill you several times is now your best friend
warframe was added to the world because i got attached to my Volt build, gave them a name, and have some headcanons idk what to do with because i refuse to interact with that fandom. also because the friend i made through discussing warframe lore + plot dicked me over so it feels Bad to create for
the glue to this whole mess is that one “in every friend group there’s a mean bisexual, an even meaner lesbian, a she/they, a he/they, a himbo, an astrology bitch, a short king, and a token straight” tumblr post. my main group of superheroes ala the avengers consist of these people. the token straight is the only one i havent figured out who is yet
ever since i figured that out ive been throwing story / character ideas and weirdly specific aesthetics from popular tumblr posts into this world’s notes. here’s some examples:
sword grandmas
that trope where someone’s really nice and acts super well-adjusted to society but then they do something super whack and dangerous and you realize ‘oh they’re secretly a little bit insane, actually’
anti-gay group’s leader’s wife leaves him for another woman
superhero who swore to be the best hero [city / planet / solar system / continent / ????] has ever seen ever since he lost his wife. not because she’s dead but divorce just sucks & the hero-to-be is terrible at coping
dishevelled swamp witch
that one person who runs around with an amulet all the time & isn’t aware it’s cursed
an exasperated, tired superhuman assassin running after their husband and their husband's best friend. their husband and said husband's best friend both have wings. chaos ensues (yes, this one is a sambucky post)
ask me about my WIPs!
BONUS:
@sambambucky : #i want to have a coffee and listen to synopses of all of these.... #i miss the discord wow #WRITING TAG #waitttt time jumping dream movie? lmao I'VE READ THIS LIST FORTY TIMES and every time i rediscover something i wanna know about #outfit doodlesss ugh i need to go
couldnt not respond to your tags because they make me go ghrkjfnerknf but in the good way. we miss you too jo !!
the time jumping dream movie was one of the first vivid dreams i had and the whole thing was so stupidly coherent and whacky i had to write it down. it grew plot, a queer love dynamic, weird sci-fi apocalypse elements, anti-military propaganda, questionable science, and a sequel while i wasnt looking and now i just. have to make it a real movie or i’ll combust
outfit djoodlles.png is only on there because my best friend sent me a ‘draw this outfit’ meme and space kitty, my current character brainrot, stole all the outfits for himself. otherwise, that file just sits there until im feeling like designing an outfit or wanna see how a stupid thing looks on my oc patrick
here’s one of the two poses-to-doodle-outfits-on of space kitty ive made so far:
and here’s one of those stupid things on patrick (that then turned into an actual outfit of his because i have no self control):
#.jax speaks#.my art#.my writing#tysm for the interest jo !!!#if you have literally any questions or if youre serious about the synposes thing...#i love rambling abt my stupid brain people#i WILL answer all your questions#even if the answer is 'good question! ive got no clue'#.patrick mortensen#.space kitty#.pastels peaches and pain#.the among us thing#.marvels meets warframe meets tumblr posts#.time jumping dream movie
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I have a character who torture another character with sleep depravation, electroshock, and brutal beating. Said torturer, knows the consequences about what all those things can have on the human body. They are doing it just for the sake of it( can torture be made just for the sake of it?). I hope that the torture doesnt come out as sophisticate just bc the torturer knows some stuff. They are a psychopath with a morbid interest in torture devices, so i guess its only natural to know some stuff
If the character is a ‘psychopath’ loner with a strong interest in torture devices then realistically they are very very unlikely to be in a position where (legally speaking) they can torture.
I’m not saying there are no abusive individuals who fit this description. But I feel like the legal definition of torture is important here because what you’re describing does not sound like a torturer.
For something to be torture, legally speaking, it must be:
Painful
Done by a government employee acting as part of their job (some countries also include international organised crime groups or armed groups controlling territory)
Have one of the following motives:
Punishing the victim or someone else
Terrorising the victim or someone else
Forcing a confession
Attempting to obtain information
So no, legally speaking torture can never be ‘just for the sake of it’. If it doesn’t have one of the above motives then it does not meet the definition.
The kind of person you are describing is the kind of person that government organisations even in regimes that openly torture actively screen out. They see these people as impossible to control and a liability.
The evidence we have strongly suggests that torturers are normal, healthy individuals before they start torturing. It is likely that their mental health problems are a result of torture rather then the other way round.
I also think it’s incredibly unlikely that a character who has an interest in torture devices would actually have a good working knowledge about what torture does to the body.
Yes I realise that I am saying that as someone who clearly has at least a passing interest in torture devices and knows what different tortures do to the body.
Here’s why I think it’s unlikely: the books that talk about historical torture and torture devices are uniformly written by people who have zero knowledge of medicine, psychology, and neurology. They often seem to have no grasp of statistics or the scientific method either.
I say this with some confidence because I have slogged through a lot of them. And while they seemed like convincing sources when I was 13 they now make me grit my teeth and despair of the state of science education globally.
These books are useful for collating historical sources and describing what different cultures did at different times. They are good sources of historical witness statements. They’re good for getting an idea of common vs uncommon torture practices and how practices changed with time.
Scott, bless him, can give you a decent account of what breaking on the wheel looked like. But I would not trust him to give a decent assessment of the ultimate cause of death any more then I’d trust him to perform heart surgery.
The people who write about the history of torture do not tend to read about the psychology, neuroscience or medicine relevant to the subject.
And this feeds into the prevalence of torture apologia. There is a massive lack of cross-disciplinary communication which hampers our ability to tackle apologia in a concerted way.
Unless your character is also interested in medicine and policing and psychology specific to trauma they are extremely unlikely to know anything near the full range of effects.
I get survivors who have access to expert help telling me they hadn’t realised some of the things they experienced were symptoms. And I have yet to meet or read a single historian who knew that beatings cause kidney failure.
It is not natural or normal for a character who is primarily interested in doing these things to know how they work.
This is not information you find by looking for how torture was performed. It’s not even information you find by looking for how survivors heal.
It’s information you wrench out in a hundred pieces over years of reading history, psychology, survivor accounts, medicine, scientific journals and the work of people actively trying to stop torture.
In other words; not the sort of thing a ‘lone wolf’ terrorist type character would think to look for or find.
If I’ve made it look as though coming by this knowledge is easy let me disabuse you of that notion. I can do this because I have spent decades building up this knowledge and because I read very widely. Much of my knowledge has not come directly from my obsession with torture but from reading widely enough to apply ideas from different disciplines to the topic.
Frankly I don’t think anyone looking up torture devices would find any accurate information about torture at all.
I also think that trying to give a character like this so much unusual knowledge is suggesting that torturers (or in this case abusers) are smarter, more ‘competent’ and controlled then they actually are.
People like this do not know the effects of what they’re doing. Half the time they don’t even know the basics beyond ‘this hurts my victim’ and ‘if I do it too long they’ll die’.
They often carry on to the point that disabling injury or death is likely.
This sort of character really misrepresents torturers by propping up the idea that they’re somehow specialists. It is buying in to and backing up the puffed up machismo torturers spout.
This isn’t close to a realistic torturer.
The research we have on torturers is currently lacking but if you want to engage with the subject here are some typical traits:
Development of common psychological symptoms as the character tortures others
Loss of prior skills
Strong connection to a group of torturers who become the character’s entire social circle
Unhealthy competitiveness which turns abuse into a competition
‘Hyper-masculinity’ which equates worth and manhood with violence (not necessarily a feature prior to becoming a torturer but appears constant in torturer-sub-groups across countries and cultures)
Reduced ability to relate to others, lack of insight into their crimes
Often a delusion that torture is effective, even when confronted with constant evidence that it is not
Constant, justifiable, fear that other torturers will turn on them
Arrogant delusions about their own worth and value
Mood swings
Self centred
These people do not look like intelligent lone wolf ‘psychopaths’. They look like anti-social, asshole trauma survivors with awful political opinions.
If you want to write a serial killer-type character there is not necessarily anything wrong with that.
But there are big differences in the way these people operate and the scale of violence to which they are exposed.
One of the torturers Sironi interviewed during her work was involved in the torture and murder of an estimated 13,000 people over a period of about two years. Those are not unusual figures.
Is that really what you’re trying to write? Because if it isn’t then you haven’t grasped the magnitude of what you suggest when you use the word ‘torture’.
If you want to write a torturer who isn’t typical there is not necessarily anything wrong with that.
But if you’re doing that you can not assume your audience knows what is actually typical, and the ways you choose to depart from reality are not necessarily neutral. Think about what the unusual elements you include imply.
And if any part of that implication is the idea that this particular torturer-character is somehow ‘better’, ‘smarter’ or ‘more capable’ then understand that you are supporting the kind of delusions of grandeur that real torturers use to justify their crimes.
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just a little racial processing
i am white and i have racism ingrained pretty deeply, not in that i dislike black people or other races but in that i really do fr think of white ppl as being the default, and what i do to combat that in my own life is i sit on social media and i stare at and like and reblog pics of black people because i want to change my perception because my perception is SMALL. i especially do this with pics of black people doing super normal things bc i feel like they are really exoticized in the media, either as hooligans or hard-living heroes... instead of just normal people enjoying freedom and prosperity, learning things, etc. i know that black ppl have unique stories and normalcy for them doesnt always match normalcy for white ppl but basic human things are really important to see.
i have also become more aware of the concept of generational wealth and how black ppl were all set up to start building it after slavery until the jim crow laws came around and strangled that possibility. i have NOT been PROACTIVE or ACTIVE about any of this but at least i am Aware of it. i do not make any conscious efforts to support black small businessppl over others but i really think that is because that isnt an area that gets a lot of my attention in general, bc im kind of overwhelmed by consumerism and i dont have a clear idea of whats going on with my own money and buying deliberately intimidates me. buying purposefully from black owned businesses is always something i think im going to do more of in the future haha.
but also, in my consuming images/content/whatever passively on social media, the idea of wealth and generational wealth being important specifically to black people (less so to white ppl, so many of whom have it...not all but so many including my mom’s family...NOT my dad’s at all but totally my moms) has made it so i consume w/ interest and support media where black people are talking about money and financial literacy and entrepreneurship. that is an area i view as a different lens from how i view the same topic with white people. #blackownedbusiness is a really powerful concept and i feel responsibility as a consumer to support it, but i havent really yet.
i feel like my perspective is basically pretty balanced. i know how it feels to be racist in the passive, ignorant way and i know how it feels for education to change my perspectives. i get it when black people say they just want to live and they dont want to explain themselves over and over, that they’re not white people’s teachers. i have heard them ask white people to step up and do that. so that is something i have done a LITTLE of. i am better at communicating than buying, i am like quite good at it. like when i worked for a coffee shop i was SO good at harmonizing w/ petty customers b/c i sort of am a petty customer lol. so i feel like that is a role i can step into and excel in... helping ignorant white people learn. i feel like my voice is uniquely harmonious and nonaccusatory.
im not interested in converting majorly racist people. there are MORE just passively racist ppl, and they’re more dangerous in some ways, and also they’re way easier for me personally to work with. i dont have the everyday exhaustion of dealing with ppl’s ignorance so i have leftover energy to engage with it directly.
i think that racism and otherism is at the core of all the wounds in the world right now. there are leftover tribal fears that have never been worked through, all over the world. in america of course there are all kinds of different racisms but the main one is black ppl vs white ppl.
1. black ppl are formerly enslaved so that’s hard for white people to deal with in the first place b/c it’s hard to deal with your own bad karma, it’s hard to face the fact that you live well because you subjugated humans (you as a social group, not personally... although of course many things in my life are good becasue of the benefits to my ancestors and my social group). honestly, slaveholder/colonialist karma is nasty. it’s trauma...it’s its own kind of trauma. im not saying slaveowner/colonialist people should be thought of as innocent victims bc they are traumatized bc of the shitty thing they did. im just describing the situation... they have fucked up stuff that needs safe processing as well, we are all connected and when we hurt others, we also hurt ourselves.
2. black people are visibly different from white ppl moreso than other races are (thats a generalization but, idk skin is a large and very visible organ and pigment is really visible and it’s easier to visually “otherize” ppl for being dark, also hair texture is very visible) so they are very easy to “code” as “other.” physical responses are very base and subconscious and the body learns them, so it’s super easy for the body to develop prejudices b/c of social behavior, and then the mind just goes ahead and encodes them like it always does lol. going off of this point, i recentlyish (march) started listening to nina simone... this is how fucking ignorant i am, she is basically the first black person to artistically touch me deeply and directly (aside from victor wooten’s book). and she is so black, like very very dark, and all of her facial features are distinctive to black people. and to hear her state plainly that she thinks black people are the most beautiful people in the world ... also to see her face saying that... it helps my body unlearn things. on the one hand it sucks that we have prejudice in our society so engrained that literally someone’s face can be an act of defiance. on the other hand, holy shit, how amazing is it that someone’s radiant fucking face can have the power to heal social wounds. not totally heal, but contribute to them.
3. LBJ and fucking nixon and all of those assholes, all of these fucking laws, law enforcers, government planted conspiracy theories in place to keep white people hatig black people and perceiving them as criminals, and also, strangling black people’s efforts at gaining wealth and grounding themselves in society so so much energy had to get redirected into shitty unrewarding labor and also crime (though crime rates have been exaggerated) like... and then the deliberate assassination of ALL the black builders of self esteem in the 60s 70s (80s?)... racist forces have been AT! WORK! HARD AT FUCKING WORK! FOR A WHILE! so of course we have racist wounds bc they were NOT fucking worked through after the civil war and in fact they were like nursed open and made to be infected because the stupid ass government thought racism was necessary for society to run. on the one hand, that SUCKS and it’s SHITTY.....
.............On the other hand it’s the most hopeful thing EVER.... because they worked so hard to keep us apart from each other. like really hard. do u know what that means?
--A. it’s a justification that humanity and brotherhood is powerful as. fuck.
--B. it’s an acknowledgment that ... people have to work really hard to keep us the fuck apart from each other. really hard.
the internet is going to make it impossible for us to keep hating each other. things are going to happen and they are going to be good. but we have to do it, we have to inhabit it. we have to be present for and communicative of the changes that happen inside us, so others can see it and harmonize. harmonization makes things louder.
hmmmmmm.
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as carpentry apprentices, we have only one female teacher, who doesnt teach carpentry per say but a subject that is basically “basic life skills the french government imagines young men who dropped school early probably need to have” (how insurance works and how to call them when you have an accident, for example)
i had to send her homework and i started remembering how annoyed i got at the beginning of the year that she tried to make me (not excessively, just a little to see if i was engaging but she dropped it the moment i made it visible i wasnt interested) participate in really dumb debates about Men vs Women where we’d be the only 2 women against a whole class of. i wanted to say men, but really half 18 yo boys who really behave like teenagers and half 20-23 yo men ; the first being much more invested in those class discussions than the second.
and the whole annoying thing was, well first of all the debates were REALLY dumb, obviously because we’re dealing with a bunch of 18yo boys. and secondly, i felt like the point was really not to express and explore any intellectual opinion, but to cristallize us as The Women of the room by very artificially arguing for the position Women are supposed to have on that matter, while the boys automatically argued for the position that Men are supposed to have. she likes doing that, she does it at every class. and both positions are dumb anyways most of the time, but it was really just about cristallizing our positions as gendered subjects. it all felt very theatrical, and fake, and it annoyed me, because it felt like that there was this expectation, not so strong that i’d face violence or exclusion by not doing it, but just in the sense that i was The Only Girl In The Room that i was supposed to behave and think in a certain way, and it would be surprising that i would not, to the people most invested in these debates, anyways, but even to the others. it really was a gendered performance.
and like it’s fine, because i haven’t been performing Gender right anyways for years anyways, and nobody is going to make me, but thinking about it just made me think of the teacher. she’s a 40yo woman who went to law school, and i don’t think she actually thought much more than what she expressed in class. i get the feeling that she’s a woman who mainly moves through male-dominated environments, and got used to being cristallized as The Other, and adopted this role and is just used to playing this role. it’s in those moments that i really understand the idea that marginalized people, in personal life at least, really should build lives where they mainly interact with people from their group. only interacting with your oppressor class just dumbs your sense of self down. it’s not just about having critical thinking skills, because i’m pretty sure this woman thinks of herself as smarter (thought not superior) than the men in the school, because she went to law class, and the people she teaches and sees everyday pretty much only worked manual jobs, so it’s not about a woman thinking she’s too dumb to think because men tell her so. it’s about not exploring ideas of who you can be outside the sense of self that you’re supposed to have under patriarchy, of what you can think. i don’t have much of a social life and i don’t talk much to other bloggers on here but i follow a few blogs of butches and femmes, and it has just added so, so, so much nuance and understanding to the person i am to mainly be exposed to sense of selves that resemble mine, and it still does. it is so, so crucial. and i don’t even get this feeling only from her, but from a lot of the women i meet in these male dominated environments. they see themselves as Women, as men see them. i don’t even know them or care about them personally. i just wanna get all these women, all the women who get into male dominated environments but in female positions, the secretaries and the teachers who don’t teach the main subject and the girls who work in administration and all the others, in a commune together for a few years and let them see what you can become when you stop seeing yourself through the eyes of men.
#writing blog posts is actually a good exercise in writing and critical thinking#i haven't had the opportunity to write my thoughts down since university and i don't really do it anymore#this whole blog thing might actually also help me get my thoughts clearer#which i haven't really been taking care of since i left uni
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Episode 8: Replies
i think i skipped last episode’s reply post :x but anyway:
@harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “Wallace-Hensley BCx2: Episode 8 - We’re Halfway There...”
My tiny gremlin brain at the title: Wooaaah, livin’ on a prayer
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harmoniouspixels replied to your photoset “[Heraklea]: …and yelled “Ah! No! Wrong tape!!” as footage of his own...”
My soul also hurts for this guy 😬
this story hurt to write tbh (but coming up with stories was Hard so i had to take whatever my brain threw at me)
harmoniouspixels replied to your photoset “[Heraklea]: …and so we now have a bunch of young teens who think...”
MMBC deniers are a group I don’t really consider all too often in-universe, but knowing their existence is. Hmm. Big yikes
i mean... in the case of these kids, it’s not that they’re actively denying it, but that they were misled... which is at least slightly better?
but then again my own canon had students learning about hawthorne mmbc in school in 7th grade so maybe they should’ve known better. or maybe that was just at the boatschool, a very weird school that sometimes taught things early because common core doesn’t matter when you’re a private school on a boat
@autistichatkid replied to your photo “[Angelo]: Should we go look for them? [Jez]: Maybe we should wait a...”
if the bacheloret doesnt show up within 15 minutes we're legally allowed to leave
step out a second early and Island Community Justice will yeet you into the ocean
@bountifulberries replied to your photo “[Angelo]: Should we go look for them? [Jez]: Maybe we should wait a...”
dead at the tags
Island Community Justice has claimed a rulebreaker
harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “Soon… [Zeinaba]: Hey, sorry we’re late– [Saturday]: Hey, January’s not...”
My brain is like “oh this is like the first song of Heathers when the Heathers are introduced, except their cats here” so that’s a thing
i know nothing about heathers but im showcasing this reply for the enjoyment of followers who do
harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “[Zeinaba]: Alright, now one of you can take it away! [January]: You...”
Oh same, Marisa, same
marisa continues being The Relatable One
@tiny-tany-thaanos reblogged your photoset and added:
Look it’s Jez! And they’re still in game! I kinda awaited it but I’m still glad that two eliminations of my contestants in the row didn’t happen. Last time it didn’t end well (right, Phoenix and Cornelia?)
they’re actually doing Really Well! (they’re the first contestant on either side to become friends w/ their bacheloret!) u should be proud of them
though it’s gotta be hard to keep track of how your contestant is doing when i only update this damn bc biannually, lmao
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seeing a sprinkle always makes me ;~; but i’m so glad ze’s off on an adventure
carryin on that family legacy... even without the actual legacy part
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bringin’ those constructive ideas to the table!
this island really needs zer Eco-Friendly trait
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i’ve definitely said “literally literally” before to emphasise that i do in fact mean the word i’m using and not the exact polar opposite… same hat
it’s a necessary clarification to make sometimes, lmao
geezsims reblogged your photoset and added:
hell yeah! militant resistance!
war is bad UNLESS it’s us on the island resisting The Man
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i have nothing to say about this post but i want it on my blog bc dew is being awesome and bless you for writing zir this well :’)
akdfghkdfhkas thank u... i sometimes worry about how well i’m writing the sims in this bc because the gaps between episodes are so long and i’m like oh no have i forgotten everything about these sims
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!!!!!
welcome to the Totally Not Government, dew!
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FEAR DOT JPEG
...yeah, honeydew’s face in this shot is basically how i externally present fear/worry
geezsims replied to your photo “Soon… [Zeinaba]: Hey, sorry we’re late– [Saturday]: Hey, January’s not...”
THIS SQUAD
😎😼😎😼😎😼
geezsims replied to your photo “[Islander Cat]: ([to self] Ohhh dear. The cats think I’m a cat.)”
is this an animorphs situation clover
it’s... a situation, alright
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r i p </3
i’m so sorry....
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ouchie!!!!
I Am So Sorry
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hey… yeah! wholesome!
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this is actually very blessed :3 my heart has been patched back together
eliminated contestants gotta stick together!!!
geezsims reblogged your photo and added:
these actually aren’t as same face-y as i thought! they’re cute!! also thanks for having dew ♡
i try. i reroll Play With Genetics thru nraas mastercontroller over and over and over until the kids are 1) not clones of either parent and 2) sufficiently unique irt each other. i roll and i roll and i roll. sometimes the portraits of the rolled kid don’t render and i have to guess which features are from which parent. my wrists start to rot away. the ts3 loading cursor burns itself into my retinas. my game threatens to crash and i see my life flash before my eyes, with the ts3 loading cursor over everything. my right wrist straight up breaks. finally, i have sufficient maybe babies. i can hardly see them through the ts3 loading cursors clouding my vision but i know i’ve met my goal.
(ALSO thank u for sending me zer!!!!)
bountifulberries replied to your photoset “[January]: I– [Honeydew]: You knew, didn’t you? [January]: Knew… what?...”
:(
I’m So Sorry, Everyone
harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “We’re Halfway There! THAT’S RIGHT–OF the twelve initial contestants,...”
Penelope sweetie you’re doing great! (Also staff killing the horizontal bars is why the posts in Froot looked weird alfnlsmdla. Why take that out when people actually used it)
RIGHT like what was staff even thinking??? “hey, let’s take something out just to fuck with our users”??? hey tumblr users we’d like to announce that we’ve gotten rid of the bold text option
@theworstsimblr replied to your photo “We’re Halfway There! THAT’S RIGHT–OF the twelve initial contestants,...”
if you change the editing mode to html and put in <hr> where you want a bar that usually works!
i’ll have to try that next time... my fear is that it won’t show up on the dashboard dfkjghksdf
#whbcx2#whbcx2 ep8: we're halfway there#harmoniouspixels#autistichatkid#bountifulberries#geezsims#theworstsimblr
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MORE UPDATES ON THINGS WHAT HAPPEN
The half week milestone of the hospital house thingie time! I think the term they use for it is "a residential stay"? Cos like its not a hospital its a shared housing block thats just full of doctors. I get to sleep in a real bed and there's a nice community room and board game nights and stuff. But its still really scary how intense the supervision can be! Like they have a window to look into your room once per hour every hour constantly. And they have to go through your undies and catalog them as part of the possessions check. I was not warned about that and it was mega embarassing trying to explain a binder to a bunch of old lady doctors! Oh and i had yo do a urine test today which was possibly the most fuckin embarassing thing in the actual universe. And you're not even allowed to take your own pills! They keep them locked in a big ominous wall of lockers and you have to come into the office and swallow the pill while theyre watching. I guess maybe because some people might be faking their illness and selling their pills on the black market or whatever? But that literally doesnt happen with antidepressants, they have no 'high' or even any effect at all on non-sick people. So it just makes no sense to me and its real embarassing cos like i said i suck at taking pills with plain water and without a straw. The ones i take are real damn chunky things the size of my thumbnail! I think i'l get better at not (literally) choking under pressure over time, tho. Hopefully.
Anyway that's all the bad out of the way! Now the good and the neutral and the just miscellaneous!
Its still nervewracking having to shower in a shared house but they have a cool walk-in shower and ive never tried one of those so it was vaguely interesting. And im allowed to take my showers early at 6am to minimize the chance of anyone else trying to use the door, lol. My biggest fear is having some staff member walk in on me when im naked like back in that homeless hostel. Oh or that time in the homeless hostel where the teenage boys filled the entire bathroom with inflated condoms wall to wall. Like wow so much damn effort to prank the stupid nervous bunni who probably would have been embarassed by literally anything else. Man this place is bringing so many memories of that homeless hostel but at least this time its a place specifically for sick people and they know i'm anxious doing shared cooking and board games and whatever so they dont make fun of me for it. But in a lot of ways that hostel had more freedoms too.. *shrug*
Anyway! A good! I get to have cooking lesson!! I know literally nothing about cooking and now i get to know several thing!! This nice doctor called Josie taught me how to make an omelette and i tasted ham for the first time! That is just how limited my life experiences are, lol. Oh and they want me to say that she's a 'mental health worker' not a doctor, but its all real confusing?? Like they have the staff that look after you and then the only ones we're supposed to call doctors are the ones who actually have the authority to prescribe pills and diagnosies. But like if youre in a hospital you'd call them all doctors, not just the actual surgeon? Or i guess theyre kinda like nursing home staff?? But they cant be support workers cos support workers are specific government assigned inspector type guys like Richard who only meet with you once a week.and i have to remember to not call him a social worker either cos social workers only work with family and custody related stuff. I dunno?? Basically the medical industry has a lot of names that dont really describe what the actual thing is, lol. Anyway the ham omelette was great and now im gonna try and remember so i can try and make it myself next time! HAM ACCOMPLISHED
Also i played bingo with a few other patients and it was fun but funny that i lost 6 times in a row when there were only 3 of us. I got a consolation prize of a pack of neon highlighter pens so hell yeah!!
I'm getting booked in to try some additional classes starting next week on monday and tuesday morning. The computer programming one was sadly unavailable, but i managed tp snag a place in "confidence building group therapy" and "basic how to use power tools". I wasnt really all that interested in that one but i thought it would be a useful skill even if its less fun. And maybe you get to actyally make something to take home at the end? A lil shelf to help organize this awkward lil room better, maybe?
And an unexpected bonus of being semi-hospitalized is that i get a free bus pass! And cos im here cos of my social anxiety theyre gonna help me get outside more and actually use this thing to the fullest! The first thing we did was the trip to actually get the bus pass itself. It was like "bus, take my money to take me to the place where i can never give you money again!" XD Ive been really stupidly nervous about going on tne bus in my old neighbourhood cos MAN it was really isolated there and everything just amplified my mental illness. An almost two hour bus ride to get to ANY SHOPS AT ALL, with only one bus for the whole town so it was always crowded and full of screaming kids and gossipy everyones. Social anxiety: maximum level proud mode!
So yeah i feel BIG ACCONPLISHED! I was able to take this bus for the first time with a doctor coming with me. Power Grandpa The Strong. His actual name is Paul and he has awesome sleeve tattoos of like anchors and dragons and sports teams and stuff! And he likes thrift stores and wearing silly hats too! Its like he's powerful enough to wrestle away everyone's anxieties! I was able to be a bit reckless too and i went out wearing my fave shirt thats like trans pride coloured plaid. A POWERFUL SHIRT IS REQUIRED FOR THIS QUEST! so we went to the office to register this bus pass and i panicked a bit cos apparantky we brought the wrong form and i wrote my name in the wrong box and then my passport photo looked terrible and aaa! But it all worked out and i was kinda freaking out for nothing. And he took me for a lil tour of the place and showed me this cool shop that does spray paint tye dye t shirts with spiderman on them?? Why does this incredibly specific shop exist and how have i never heard of it before?? There was also a new harry potter shop next to the disney shop, and the old used book store i used to visit as a kid was still there, complete with rickety spiral staircase and ominous basement trap door. I'm still not brave enough to go down there, but apparantly its just the history books section so meh. Then we actually went to a fancy coffee shop and i had this brain freeze mango ice frappucchino thing! Im trying all the new foods!!
And i was TOO HIGH ON DECADENCE and made a RECKLESS CHOICE! i blame power gramp's amazing tattoos, they were totally whispering to me that i shoukd screw the rules and ride off into the sunset on a metaphorical harley davidsen of mental health
So i was like Hey Paul I Am Totally Fine Getting Home On My Own, and it was like i was floating off in the distance somewhere begging my body to not speaketh these words. But it ended up working out okay! The excitement of it all and the sense of accomplishmebt from getting there all okay allowed me to mostly not freak out as i spent the day in town and looked at some shops and stuff. Basic Living Skills: Completed! I chilled out in the library (tho i dont have a card yet, alas!) and visited like five comic and anime stores, and got lost but found a Pizza Hut and that was SO NOSTALGIC FOR MY CHILDHOOD and it didnt taste quite as good as i remembered but the waiter guy was super nice and had a similar shirt and it was All Good! Oh and i gave all my money to a homeless person and that's why i'm broke now. And i bought a plastic slug! I just saw it from across the room and was like OH NO I AM BEING MAGNETISED TOWARDS IT OH NO IT HAS ALREADY BEEN BOUGHT. I need to think of a name for this new friend!!
So yeh i got home okay and i felt really acconplished and that was the furthest trip away that i've taken in ages! Man my mental illness makes me feel pathetic, but it also brings ridiculously big joys from the smallest of silly acconplishys!
Oh and thank you so much to the people who sent me emails! It really helped so much to keep me from giving up during the first few days before i made a bit of progress and felt like i could really do this, yknow? Especially big thanks tp the friend who sent me that mysterious super happy song that they found on a mystery disc in a german market?? Im still not sure whether its in greek or hasidic jewish but it sounds AMAZING and i hope someday i can figure out the band so i can hear their other singles!
Ok this is bunni out! BIG HUGS FOR THE EVERYONE AAAA
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ayyyyyy friends it’s ya boi back at it again with another caustic, indifferent fuck ( ive got a type sue me ) but this ones like... a little less (ง'̀-'́)ง and a little more ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ya feel ?? anyway this is gonna be quick & dirty cause i dont have the bio done yet but theres some basic stats here if ur freaky like that. also she’s more into like.... people as a whole than mal is so ( as much as i love fighting everyone ) i’d love to make some connections w the charas he doesnt interact with or is a cock to !! lol ok i’ll catch y’all under the cut pce out
she’ll answer to sidney but prefers sid (or miller if you’re one of those)
demigirl, she/her pronouns and “girl” as a descriptor are fine, but for the love of god don’t call her a Woman it makes her skin crawl
pansexual but mostly a big tease who cant Seal the Deal, possibly on the ace spectrum somewhere or maybe she just watches too much porn who knows these days
as you may have inferred from her multitude of maybe-kinda-sorta labels she is a Child Of The Internet
bad case of blue and orange morality, thanks to being born and raised right here in sunny fictumterra!! she values privacy, loyalty and free will pretty high, human life and welfare pretty low, like a good fictumterran (fictumite?)
then again she does get pretty bummed out if someone new comes to town and she Digs them and then they get turned into a lamp or hot dog or whatever,,,, weak,,,,
uh she was into gymnastics as a kid and joined the cheer squad in hs just because it seemed like exactly the thing she Wouldnt do and she’s a big ‘ol contrarian
unfortunately!!! she went partially blind in her right eye when she was sixteen and her parents poisoned her and all that time spent practicing balance and spatial aawreness and shit went right out the fckn window THANKS MOM
ok backtracking a litte
her parents were members of a pro-gun, anti-government cult before she was born and got caught up in a teensy little federal building bombing and had to hightail it to FT when one of their compatriots ( fckn coward ) flipped on the group, under the advisement of their Supreme Leader
lets call him Shmavid Shmoresh
he told them to await further instructions, so they set up shop in FT and waited. since they were natural born sheeple, they acclimated to the way of life pretty quickly, and when sid was born she was brought up under the town’s value system, and now im repeating myself
ANYWAY they didn’t hear from the group until sixteen years later when Shmavid was about to be executed and announced that it was time for everyone to Ascend or whatever
so, good followers they were, they made their evening tea and laced it w rat poison and waited for the sweet chariot to swing low
unfortunately they fucked up on sid’s dosage and she survived, though, as mentioned, the poison did fuck with her cortical vision, as well as giving her an exceptionally sensitive stomach
basically she can’t eat too much or anything too rich or spicy bc her stomach linings all fucked, lots of broths and and rice and stuff, everything else comes back up, ya girl got v skinny and has mixed feelings bout that
uhhhh shes like constantly eating sugar tho, usually bubble gum, sometimes suckers or slushies. shes not supposed to but it doesnt make her puke and if she doesn’t see an immediate consequence she doesnt care ALSO she doesnt appreciate your oral fixation jokes i mean youre probably right but get some new material ok
also she still drives??? she refuses to accept that shes blind (ish, too blind to drive, ever heard of anton-babinski syndrome?) and regularly scratches or dents other peoples cars and leaves a note that says like ‘oops’ on their windshield or whatever, she loves driving you cant take it from her get fucked
her own car is a pinto thats so dinged up its basically round at this point
when her parents died there was some contention as to where she was gonna live when she got out of the hospital (not like anyone was gonna call state-run social services) so she ended up being temporarily placed in a pink flamingo room and is..... still there.....
at this point its her place she brought in her own bedding and taped pictures to the wall and installed like 40 locks on the door ok TRY to get her to leave
she works at food world to pay the (internet) bills, but her REAL job (as far as shes concerned) is running her blog ‘memoirs from murderville’ (she was a teen when she named it ok she KNOWS its dumb but she cant change it now cause fckn #branding. trust her, she hates it more than you do)
its essentially a diary that she writes under the name jim sheldon (an homage to the badass author alice sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym james tiptree jr) about her life and daily experiences in FT with all the names and relevant details and such changed
it started as a stupid joke (and a way for her to disassociate!!! holla) when she was in high school, but then it got a shout-out on some true crime podcast, and then it was in some buzzfeed article, and shit spiraled out from there
everyone assumes its an elaborate piece of fiction and its lauded in certain communities for it’s ‘brutal authenticity’ and ‘delightfully irreverent narrator’ and ‘creative spin on unsolved crime’ and ‘disturbing satire of millennial detachment in the media age’
lol academics are so weird amirite
anyway because of her commitment to the blog she makes it a priority to get to know as many residents and visitors as she can, looking for the best content and recurring characters
shes kind of a dick and definitely a shit head but she really, genuinely does care about people’s stories (even if she doesn’t care much about most people themselves)
is she a killer??? no. well, maybe. she could be persuaded, probably. for the experience. maybe she’d like it who knows not me
does she have a death wish??? no. well, maybe. a little bit. she certainly values a good story more than she does her own dumb mortality. if it comes down to boring or dead, she’d pick dead :)
ok this got a lot longer than i thought !!! soml !!! if you read all this stream of consciousness nonsense ur an angel thank you !!!
as far as connections and such i would LOVE unknowing subjects/recurring characters in her blog, knowing subjects of her blog who love the attention, friends??? (what a concept lol), OH someone who deeply disapproves of the blog and finds it trivializing??? dangerous??? idk whatever theres lots of reasons to hate it??? maybe they wanna take it down???, LONG TIME RESIDENTS WHOVE KNOWN HER SINCE SHE WAS A KID, maybe someone who took up a parental mantle after her parents fucked off to the great gig in the sky??, uh maybe an ex or ex-friend who was disconcerted by her constant need for action and danger and bailed OR the opposite, one who pushed her a little too far and she had to bail??
idk man the possibilities are endless hmu love yall
#crimetown.intro#tw hanging#tw asphyxiation#tw suicide#tw murder#tw bombing#tw poison#i think thats all of it???#damn seth calm tf down
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:0 can i ask what the plot of your wingverse is??
holy mother of fuck okay so it’s a revamped version of an old ass wingtalia au that m6 friend and i went fucking beserk with because we could make our own rules wnd its fucking NUTS but now im coming back to it to maybe make it better and more sensicle. it focuses on multiple aph characters but so far ive worked with one group, specifically veneziano (feliciano marco vicario) , germany (ludwig beringer), belgium (clarisse jacobs), and england (arthur lee o’neill)
for starters, the au is a fantasy au that originally was built on wingtalia. theres 3 categories of humanoid species. avians (ex. winged people, not limited to feathers or gliding species), marines (water dwellers like sirens and mermaids), and ethereal (unable to fly or breathe under water naturally; ex humans, many witches, werewolves, etc.) transforming humanoids (such as shapeshifters and vampires) are categorized differently. if you remember that one post about the fucking uhhhh fantasy creature discourse jokes that’s pretty much a large sum of the species and arguments some have. the story is also based vaguely around the 1100s to victorian england, takinf many aspects from eras between those two times.
arthur’s family name (o’neill) used to be kirkland until they became infamous for pyrokinetic family members and went into hiding, changed the surname, and resurfaced after a whole generation passed. arthur carries the family trait. the family also runs an engineering business where they just make technology n shit. it’s dangerous. really dangerous. many died.
so anyway, clarisse and arthur were out into an arranged marriage, both being 17, in which they had one son named simon. 4 years later, arthur qualified for the family business and he was basically forced to do it, working long hours and straining the already weak relationship. arthur struggles to balance his work and his family, which stresses him out heavily.
eventually clarisse meets an 18 year woodworker named ludwig. she was shopping for a gift for simon’s 4th birthday while her older brother tim babysat. they hit it off well, and she found what she was looking for, coming home to see arthur had come home early for simon. the day after he resumed his normal work schedule and clarisse talked to ludwig more. after a while and a lot of spaced out communication, arthur anc clarisse agreed to divorce for both their benefits. clarisse kept simon, but arthur still kept custody of him. clarisse married ludwig a week later and gave birth to her first daughter alese 10 months later. ludwig adopts a 3 headed dog to keep the kids entertained.
arthur still works his long ass job which is why simon stays with his mother more, as arthur bought a separate (but local) home of his own.
then a war between two neighboring countries broke out, and a “rogue” marine named feliciano ended up taking shelter in the beringer home. he’s escaped the battlefield as the winner took the survivors as prisoners. feliciano’s father was killed in the battle. i made a SIMV about it, and you can find it here https://youtu.be/YlBCdgyfxEQ (note: lorenzo vicario (romano) - hamilton; flora del mar (nyo italy) - eliza; jovian vicario (ancient rome) - laurens; feliciano shows up but has no set character he represents). if there are questions about the video, i will answer them
now, the country that the beringer family and arthur reside in is made uo mostly of close minded avians, showing harsh xenophobia against other species. so feliciano being there is kinda dangerous for him, and the beringer household as theyre sheltering him without the government even being aware of his existence.
so arthur finds out, and started to leave work early and taking simon home out of fear something will happen to him (fire
as you can tell, feliciano is understandably upset at arthur’s vagueness and defensiveness about the subject but once he sees what his touch does to arthur (doing what water does to lava; solidifying it. hes got rocks on his face now. uncomfortable) he somewhat understands why he’s been acting that way. simon is luckily not affected by marines like his father, as he did not inherit his pyrokinesis.
arthur refuses to go near feliciano afterwards, wearing bandages to cover half his face up and playing it off as a work accident because like i said, its very dangerous. eventually he quits because of how much it stresses him out, and begins to just fix things in junkyards to keep himself busy. thats when a merchant comes up to him (a merchant from the heavens, name roughly translated to alfred) and arthur sees him and almost immediately becomes infatuated with him, but tries his hardest ro keep it at bay as there is stigma against homosexual (and bisexual) people. the merchant is friendly and caring and senses arthur is struggling financially as well as emotionally. over time alfred and arthur become close friends, arthur falling from hidden idolization to genuine love.
alfred selflessly works to give arthur (and simon when he’s living there) a stable life and becomes arthur’s emotional crutch and is patient with him the same way arthur is with him when alfred doesnt understand how things work down in this specific country. at one point he asks to see what is under the bandage, revealing the “scar” represented by rough stone. alfred’s touch manages to fix it, removing weight from arthur’s shoulders.
thats really all i have right now and its actually a fuckton when i write it down holy shif
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U.S. House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other New York politicians just chased off 25,000 Amazon jobs that could have created salaries of at least $115,000 jobs each. Unfazed and stunningly arrogant, these politicians are taking a victory lap following their dubious success.
AOC’s Cringeworthy Response To Amazon Decision
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CCN reported earlier today that Amazon had scrapped the spacious campus it had planned to build in Long Island City, Queens, which would have created roughly 25,000 well-paying jobs. The residual job creation was estimated to be an additional 67,000 jobs.
The cheers that followed Amazon’s decision to pull out of New York are misguided and troublesome. Too many politicians seem tone-deaf to traditional ideals, like job creation, in their relentless effort to denigrate anything related to big money.
Following Amazon’s announcement, some of the loudest cheers came from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The freshman member of the U.S. House of Representatives had previously described the e-commerce giant’s HQ2 plans as “creeping overreach.”
Thursday, she proclaimed victory and showed once again she doesn’t see the destruction her misguided ideas can cause.
She tweeted:
Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world. https://t.co/nyvm5vtH9k
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 14, 2019
If that wasn’t enough, she followed up with comments that indicate it’s about her, not her constituents.
A reporter caught up with Ocasio-Cortez Tuesday, and she seemed oblivious to the fact that her district is out thousands of jobs and billions of dollars. Even more aggravating is her suggestion that she possesses a concrete, viable plan that would be better than Amazon’s firm plans.
She stammered to the reporter:
“We were subsidizing those jobs so for… the city was paying for those jobs. So frankly, if we were willing to give Amazon three…if we were willing to give away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves if we wanted to.”
Amazon Stops Just Short of Calling Out Ocasio-Cortez by Name
Amazon will no longer build a 25,000-employee corporate campus in Queens. | Source: Shutterstock
In explaining why it couldn’t move forward with building in New York, Amazon strikingly said it was due to the politicians.
In its statement about the cancellation, Amazon said:
“While polls show that 70% of New Yorkers support our plans and investment, a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City.”
On the opposite end of the spectrum, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio attacked Amazon for abandoning its HQ2 plans.
He said:
“You have to be tough to make it in New York. We gave Amazon the opportunity to be a good neighbor and do business in the greatest city in the world. Instead of working with the community, Amazon threw away that opportunity.”
Maybe Ocasio-Cortez Should Retake Basic Math
Once again, Ocasio-Cortez falls a little short in basic math here. Even CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin took her to task. He pointed out that this would have been a subsidy only if the state got nothing back for giving it.
Sorkin expressed his disagreement in terms of the huge missed opportunity.
“It’s one thing to win the war on Twitter, it’s another when it happens in real life, and it happens to real people with real jobs and real families. I don’t get that upset about a lot of things. “[This] wins a great Twitter war. It looks great on Twitter, but in real life, it’s a very different story.”
New York to Miss out on $27 Billion from Amazon HQ2
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The politicians seem to be missing some good old-fashioned economics logic. Sorkin broke it down like this. The $3 billion in subsidies will provide a massive return on investment in the form of economic spending and growth.
“[The state] would have effectively been paying out $3 billion in incentives for what would have likely been the equivalent of $27 billion over 25 years. You can play with the math, and you can tell me that there were going to be additional costs, and there likely would have been, but if I handed you $3 billion and you gave me $25 billion back, or you gave me $15 billion back, or $10 billion back, that could have been used for roads, schools, police, and subways, I think that’s a good deal.”
That slight from the De Blasio was even more unsettling because the mayor had ostensibly negotiated the deal in good faith.
“Then it seems he hit them on the way out the door today.”
These reactions are silly, childish and not productive. Beyond the loss of Amazon and its associated $27 billion in economic growth, they signal to other major companies that perhaps states like progressive-leaning New York aren’t as friendly to businesses as officials seem to hoodwink people into believing.
Lots Of Cheering Now Turning Into Lots of Crying For Others
As the politicians bask in the glory of running off a major corporation that could have provided jobs for their constituents, they seem to be ignoring others who will be negatively affected.
A lot of moves had started to be made after Amazon announced plans that it would build in Long Island City. For example, over the course of the 14 weeks since the announcement, contracts to buy homes, mostly condos, jumped a mind-boggling 181% compared to the same period a year ago, according to CNBC. Now you have to wonder if those people who signed those contracts will try to pull out.
Other Finalists Put Up ‘We Still Want You’ Signs
Long Island City won out over 19 other cities that Amazon chose as finalists that wanted the company to build their headquarters in their locales.
Arlington, Virginia’s local government reassured residents that Amazon still planned to proceed with its new HQ2 campus in Crystal City.
They tweeted:
Statement from Arlington County Board Chair Christian Dorsey on Amazon: "After speaking with an Amazon representative earlier today, we have confirmed that we are moving forward as planned with Amazon’s upcoming headquarters in Arlington – nothing has changed." (1/3)
— ArlingtonVA (@ArlingtonVA) February 14, 2019
Summing up the fallout for New York City, Council Minority Whip Joe Borelli said it nearly perfectly, in an interview with Fox Business:
“Amazon was facing local politicians who weren’t going to negotiate in good faith for the real challenges that would befall anybody developing a large area of the city.”
Disclaimer: The views expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not represent those of, nor should they be attributed to, CCN.
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In the past week, tech giants including Facebook, Apple, Youtube, and Spotify banned notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from their platforms. Jones, perhaps most famous for promoting the idea that the Sandy Hook, Connecticut, school shooting was a hoax, was banned from these platforms for allegedly violating their terms of service in all sorts of ways.
But there was one Silicon Valley corporation that opted to allow Jones to stay: Twitter. You can still go to President Donald Trump’s favorite social media outlet and scan the @RealAlexJones feed, where you will learn that the bans are a plot by “deep state actors” to prevent the American public from learning the real truth about our government.
Tuesday night, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wrote a lengthy statement — published as a series of tweets, naturally — defending his company’s decision. My colleague Aja Romano has a lengthy and sweeping takedown of Dorsey’s full logic; I encourage you to read it.
But I want to focus on one of Dorsey’s specific tweets, one that — to my mind — reveals a deep issue at work here:
Accounts like Jones’ can often sensationalize issues and spread unsubstantiated rumors, so it’s critical journalists document, validate, and refute such information directly so people can form their own opinions. This is what serves the public conversation best.
— jack (@jack) August 8, 2018
The tweet displays a profound misunderstanding of the way that conspiracy theories and “fake news” work. The problem isn’t that there aren’t enough journalists correcting misinformation and myths; there’s tons of evidence out there that what Jones says is patently false. Rather, it’s that conspiracy theories, once they spread, create hermetically sealed communities that are impervious to correction. The only way to stop this process is to stop them from spreading on platforms like social media, which is exactly what Twitter decided not to do.
It’s not surprising that Jack Dorsey doesn’t understand this: He doesn’t really have time to read the latest social science on conspiracy theories. And that’s the real problem: Tech giants are increasingly being asked to handle social problems, ones their leaders don’t seem equipped to address.
Jack Dorsey. Michael Cohen/Getty Images/The New York Times
In 2008, Harvard Law professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule penned an article on conspiracy theories and how they work. They argued that conspiracy theories — which they define as “an effort to explain some event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role” — are, in their own way, quite rational.
“Most people are not able to know, on the basis of personal or direct knowledge, why an airplane crashed, or why a leader was assassinated, or why a terrorist attack succeeded,” they wrote. As a result, they search for information that fits what they already believe about the world and is confirmed by people they trust.
Conspiracy theories, Sunstein and Vermeule argued, spread in a variety of ways. One of these pathways, called an “availability cascade,” happens when a group of people accepts a conspiracy theory because their preexisting beliefs about the world make them likely to believe it.
This is what happens with Alex Jones and people on the American right. Theories like “Sandy Hook was faked so Obama could take your guns” and “the deep state is conspiring against Trump to destroy democracy” appeal to their basic, gut-level political orientation, which is that Democrats are nefarious and Trump is a hero.
Not all conservatives accepted these ideas when presented with them, of course, but it was appealing enough that Jones managed to build up a significant social media presence and shockingly large amount of influence. In December 2015, then-candidate Trump went on Jones’s show, telling the host that his “reputation is amazing” and vowing that “I will not let you down.”
Jones has created a thorny problem for society. Once people start believing in his conspiracy theories, and trusting him as a source, it becomes extremely difficult to change their minds.
“Conspiracy theorists are not likely to be persuaded by an attempt to dispel their theories; they may even characterize that very attempt as further proof of the conspiracy,” Sunstein and Vermeule wrote. Because conspiracy theorists “become increasingly distrustful and suspicious of the motives of others or of the larger society,” efforts to debunk their myths often “serve to fortify rather than undermine the original belief.”
This isn’t just Sunstein and Vermeule’s theory: A significant body of empirical research on conspiracy theories finds that it’s extremely hard to change believers’ minds. One 2017 study, by two UK-based psychologists, presented people with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and evidence debunking them — but randomly switched whether they saw the anti-vax arguments or the actual facts first. Then they asked them how that affected their opinions on vaccinating a child. The results were sobering.
“Anti-conspiracy arguments increased intentions to vaccinate a fictional child but only when presented prior to conspiracy theories,” the authors explained. “These findings suggest that people can be inoculated against the potentially harmful effects of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, but that once they are established, the conspiracy theories may be difficult to correct.”
This is the problem with Dorsey’s logic. Now that Jones has an audience on Twitter, journalists’ attempt to “refute” him will fail. His fans will mostly disregard the debunkings, and his audience will continue to grow. This is what was happening on every other platform, prior to the bans. The other companies recognized that Jones was spreading dangerous lies, and that journalists simply couldn’t debunk them. The only way to stop these ideas was to deprive them of oxygen, to prevent people from being exposed to them in the first place.
Twitter’s CEO just doesn’t get that.
As frustrating as Dorsey’s statement is, there’s a part of me that doesn’t blame him. It really is not his fault that he hasn’t read the academic literature on conspiracy theories. His job is running a massive technology company.
While Twitter was alone on the Alex Jones issue, Dorsey is hardly the only tech CEO to make glaringly ignorant comments about social issues that affect their platform. Just last month, for example, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered this nugget of anti-wisdom in an interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher:
I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong, but … it’s hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent.
Zuckerberg’s argument is that Holocaust deniers are merely deluded people (he later clarified that he “didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny the Holocaust”). But the purpose of Holocaust denial is not to have a good-faith argument about history — it’s to advance an anti-Semitic political agenda. Letting deniers spread poison on Facebook doesn’t serve the purpose of illuminating debate. Rather, all it does is allow yet another vile conspiracy theory to spread.
How to approach Holocaust denial has been, historically, a hard problem for liberal societies. The United States, with its expansive free speech tradition, permits Holocaust deniers to publish freely on grounds that it would be dangerous to let the government regulate speech in this fashion. Germany and France have both decided to criminalize denial, on grounds that it’s a form of incitement to racial hatred rather than legitimate political speech. Both approaches have benefits and flaws; brilliant scholars have written tomes making the case for one or the other.
But today, the spread of Holocaust denial, Sandy Hook trutherism, and other vile conspiracy theories isn’t just a problem for governments. It’s a problem for technology corporations, who regulate the primary means through which information is disseminated today.
Those companies — none of whom have the legitimacy or public accountability government officials do — have no choice but to engage with all sorts of extremely hard social problems surrounding free speech and bigotry. People like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg are not the people who ought to be making these decisions for a democratic polity, but they have no choice but to make them. Sometimes they’ll get those decisions right, as most of these companies eventually did with Alex Jones. But often, they’re going to get them wrong — and the public will have no real way to hold them accountable.
This is your politics on Big Tech.
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‘It was a nice idea, but …’ Europeans on what went wrong with the EU
On its 60th birthday, people from Sweden to Bulgaria with doubts about the EU speak their mind about whether the project is worth pursuing
A triple-A rating is more important than solidarity. Were digging our own grave
Constanze Clever. Photograph: Sddeutsche Zeitung
A few months ago, I was chatting with my husbands work colleague in a beer garden. It was about eastern Europe and the question of why those countries take so few refugees. The colleague came from Poland. He was of the view that in Europe we should first and foremost look after ourselves.
In particular, he didnt want Muslims to be allowed in. According to him, they are a threat to the Christian identity of Europe.
So of course we clashed about this Im a fan of open borders, and I find it unbelievable when people oppose open borders while personally benefiting from them. To be able to move freely is a basic right, and the essence of Europe.
In the conversation, it became clear to me: we are both Europeans, but we come from different worlds. For us in Germany, things have gone well materially in the past 10 years. In Poland, things are different. That is why it is important that we reduce the imbalance.
But were not doing that. Why must Greece pay such high interest rates on the capital market? Rich Germany pays virtually nothing. We Europeans are under the thumb of financial markets. A triple-A rating is more important than solidarity. So were digging our own grave. Unless justice quickly assumes precedence over the economy again, we wont have the EU much longer. That would be a nightmare.
Constanze Clever, 33, hairdresser, Germany
I hate the ever encroaching political union its a vanity project
Gerard Richardson. Photograph: Gerard Richardson
I dont think Europe as a group of countries has ever really been able to unite. Cultures, opinions, approaches to everything, from business to foreign relations, are so diverse.
Trade, on the other hand now thats a really good harmoniser. People can agree on that far, far more easily. So I liked the idea after the war of uniting around trade. It didnt have to be complicated, and at first it wasnt. But then we started down the road to political union.
Thats what I hate: ever encroaching political union. Europe has become a vanity exercise for politicians with too much ambition. The euro was vanity, not based on economic reality. Im not an isolationist, far from it, but I really, honestly do not believe good government can ever come from too large and diverse a group of politicians.
Look at the hopelessly divided approach to problems like Greece, or the migrant crisis. Its a disaster. The EU cant even agree on where to host its own parliament.
There are good parts: free movement, thats obviously a benefit. But its all so badly managed. And I dont believe the EU has prevented war; Nato did that. If they turned the clock back to the EEC being just a free market alone, then I would be more than happy to stay engaged. They should take the politics out of Europe. It worked as a trading bloc, but not as this.
Gerard Richardson, 55, fine wine merchant and coffee roaster, UK
It sows a mentality that theres always money but billions have disappeared
Graca Ramos. Photograph: Sddeutsche Zeitung
First of all, the EU has been a great thing for both my countries, Portugal and Spain. The other European countries brought us back to life (after decades of dictatorship). Thats why the vast majority of Spaniards and Portuguese tend to be pro-European. Europe has pumped a lot of money into our countries.
On the one hand the EU has brought positive economic developments, on the other hand there have been negative consequences. It sows a mentality that there is always money. We have lost sight of what it is to save. People havent been watching closely enough where all these billions have gone. The economies of both countries have slumped because there hasnt been effective control over the way this money has been spent.
As a Portuguese woman Im worried about a two speed Europe . Does that mean the small countries will be put aside and suspended? We feel as a small country both protected and accepted within the EU and I hope that that doesnt change. The Eurosceptic voices in other countries worry me a lot. We must all ask ourselves what we have done wrong.
Graa Ramos, 40, theatre administrator, Spain
Nations have no rights. The EU took over everything
Jozsefne Varadi. Photograph: La Stampa
The nations have no rights. The EU completely took over and everything has to happen here as they wish.
But the EU has a lot of advantages too. We entered to EU so we have to accept a lot of things, I admit, but they should give more independence to nations.
Every time the government wants to decrease utility costs or taxes, or create more workplaces to let us breathe a little bit easier, they have a problem with it. Im with the nation with all my heart. I do everything. I help campaign. Im a member of the Fidesz party since its foundation. I consider this government good and fair. Our prime minister needs a lot of bravery to stand up like this for the nation.
Did you see what happened here during the prime ministers speech? Did you see the people whistling? They think this is not a democracy, but if I had done the same when Ferenc Gyurcsany was prime minister, if I had used my whistle, they would have shot me.
Jozsefne Varadi, 87, pensioner, Hungary
Erasmus, the euro, are just sweets with a bitter aftertaste
Luca Carabetta. Photograph: Luca Carabetta/La Stampa
They draw lines on a map, take decisions from on high, and then, if they dont work, they use every economic excuse possible to justify them as necessary to maintain the unity and progress.
I am an energy engineer, a young entrepreneur from the Erasmus generation. I was born when Italy joined Schengen, in 1990, and you could leave your passport in the drawer to travel with family, or later to see friends in France, Germany, Denmark. Yet my Euroscepticism began when I was young, in my town of ButtiglieraAlta, near Turin. I saw the No-Tav movement (against high speed rail) grow in my valley, the Susa valley, I started studying and concluded that the projects tied to the European corridors were conceived in an office in Brussels, far away from local communities and their needs.
I believe Europe is an extreme concession of sovereignty, which flattens diversity and national identities built throughout history. I do not agree with the economic homogeneity that binds the EU together. Does that seem strange from a young person with foreign friends? Absolutely not. Beppe Grillos Five Star Movement has shown me a clear path for what I always thought, and thats why I vote for it.
In these years, Brussels has not been able to create a common welfare system, no citizens feel like Europe is closer, notwithstanding the sharing of pseudo-values and the currency. Erasmus, the euro, are sweets with a bitter aftertaste. Unitary economics, so far, has penalised us. Unitary politics, for me, does not represent us, the citizens.
Luca Carabetta, 27, tech CEO, Italy
Europe was a nice idea, but globalist politics and the euro have killed us
Luc Defrance. Photograph: Cyril Bitton
Im a wheat farmer from northern France. Thats to say Im one of those people said to be very rich, living off subsidies, smoking a big cigar. In reality, I started work at 16, have worked like a dog for 50 years and am now ruined. I realised we were finished so I sold my operation last June.
Europe was a nice idea, but its the globalist politics that has killed us that and the euro. In the rest of the world, other countries can devalue their currency and become competitive. With the euro, we are trapped. Marine Le Pen is right we should get out of it.
Europe is just all restrictions and rules. You have to keep records on crop treatments and be careful about employment rules. You are bothered on all fronts. And the slightest mistake could cost you 10,000 in CAP aid, and thats a catastrophe.
In any case, theyre reducing the aid. In 2010, I got 100,000 in basic grants; last year it was 52,000, and soon there wont be any more. Doing a job that depend on grants is not healthy. Europe would do better to create a safety net and fix prices rather than grants.
Luc Defrance, 66, farmer, France
Many Dutch people feel powerless and angry. It is time to rediscover our identity
Joost Niemller. Photograph: Katrien Mulder
As well as books I write a blog called De Nieuwe Realist (the new realist). Europe is a land endowed with a rich civilisation. It works because it is based on the nation states, and yet its goal is to dismantle nation states, which would signify the end of European democracy. That is why many Dutch people, possibly even a majority, would like to leave the EU.
People want to take back control and decide their own future. Mass immigration is a serious problem. Many Dutch people feel powerless and angry. It is time for the Netherlands to rediscover its identity.
Joost Niemller, 60, writer, the Netherlands
The Eurosceptics in my family are happy that Russia is stepping up strongly
Rozalina Laskova. Photograph: Zdravko Yonchev/Sddeutsche Zeitung
I cant imagine Europe without the EU and am in favour of more integration. But I sometimes forget that other Bulgarians do not think like that. I have Eurosceptics in my own family, like my mother and aunt, who are bigger supporters of Russian culture, like a lot of Bulgarians. They see and read the same Bulgarian media which speak of the supposed all-encompassing manipulation of our country by Brussels and Washington. My aunt Maria asked me mockingly whether I also get money from the Americans. They are happy that Russia is stepping up so strongly.
Rozalina Laskova, 34, cultural adviser, Bulgaria
I would like to do a Swexit just like in the UK
Andreas berg Photograph: Andreas berg
The EU started as something different. In the beginning it was a good thing, a peacekeeping operation. But it has grown into something else: a massive, undemocratic monster, lots of people doing nothing to benefit the voters in their respective countries.
It seems to me more than half of the laws in Sweden are not decided by the Swedish government but by the EU. We vote for the government but if it doesnt have the majority of the power, how can that be democratic?
We choose representatives for the EU parliament, but I dont believe thats democratic either the ones who really affect what happens are not democratically elected. I havent read all the EU laws, only some of them, and some may benefit Sweden but many dont.
I work in the construction industry and we have seen a shift towards what they have in the UK, where people from the poorer countries come to work for you, and they do it for lower wages.
The main problem with the EU is that it incorporates loads of countries, and they are so vastly different in every way: welfare, economics, everything. To correct this the EU will have to make the richer countries poorer. So I would like to do a Swexit have a referendum like in the UK, and leave.
Andreas berg, 52, construction worker, Sweden
Stories collected by the Guardians Jon Henley and David Crouch in Gothenberg, and correspondents for the Europa group of newspapers: Thomas Urban in Madrid, Sebastian Jannasch in Brussels, Christian Gschwendtner in Munich, Lucie Soullier and Jean-Pierre Stroobants
Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/20/it-was-a-nice-idea-but-europeans-on-what-went-wrong-with-the-eu/
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