#get this evil out of your country

[lostinsidelostoutside]

America get these people out of your country before it's too late .

This is an ideology of hate

True Americans don't feel this way .

Most Americans I know love and support Israel .

These horrible people do not represent true Americans!!

[karokawwo]

"it's not the immigrants he wants to get rid of, it's the illegals!" I hope you realize all immigrants are illegal to a xenophobe's eyes

[flying-cat]

hope that substitute teacher who called ice into his school because there were kids that didn't speak english gets killed with hammers btw

[pickapea]

my absolutely biggest online pet peeve is US centric people projecting their rich sorority girl bully stereotype of nurses onto everyone else, as if nurses aren't working class and mostly immigrants of colour everywhere else. and when did it become cool to hate on underpaid and exploited workers anyway

[doux-amer]

One thing that has deeply annoyed me about the response from Americans/Westerners about this week's events in Korea is that a lot of them, including people I like and respect, are like, "The protesting civilians and lawmakers who barged into the National Assembly would've been shot if this were the U.S./this would've never happened in the U.S. because people are too afraid of being shot." There's some truth to that, at least with regard to state violence, but I'm fed up because it doesn't account for how frightening this could have turned out to be had it not been for how much of an inept flop dunce Yoon Sukyeol is. It minimizes the courage of those who showed up.

Sure, it was likely that the military and riot police wouldn't have done much (again, YSY's self-coup wasn't thought out well, and there's more evidence of that as military officials and soldiers are speaking up about the lack of information they received, but I'll refrain from talking about that to avoid making this even longer than it inevitably will be, knowing myself), but let's not pretend there haven't been issues with them in recent years. They pepper sprayed and used water cannons during an anniversary rally for the Sewol ferry victims (x) (x) (if you don't understand how unbelievably cruel that is, look into the horrific Sewol ferry sinking). They tear gassed crowds (Korea has a gruesome history of this) and sprayed water cannons, and citizens have been injured and killed during the 2015 protests and 2016-17 Park Geunhye impeachment protests, notably Baek Namgi, an elderly activist whose death caused global outrage (x) (x). Park Geunhye was going to enforce martial law during those protests according to a leaked document, with hundreds of tanks, thousands of soldiers and special force troops! (x)

Not to mention, there are decades of extreme state violence that have scarred an entire country and are still super fresh for a huge percentage of the population. Again, check out that tear gas history piece. Look up the April Revolution, Gwangju massacre, and June uprising and see just how bloody they were. Thousands of civilians were tortured and killed. Look at how many protests were going on year after year during the 1980s. That isn't that long ago! All those older people who ran to the National Assembly to stop the coup? You bet a lot of them were college students who protested during that time or knew people who did. All the younger people? They may not have experienced what it was like living under martial law, but as I said, state violence still occurs, however much it's dwindled over the years, and you have to account for generational trauma. I don't think I'll ever forget the way I felt when I saw the breaking news alert about the martial law declaration on December 3. I've never experienced that, at least to that degree.

Instead of viewing the response from civilians and elected officials through the framework of police brutality in the U.S., it should be contextualized using Korea's own history. Thankfully most of the serious discussions are doing this, but like I said, even people who are smart about reading up on things have reflected on how this wouldn't fly in the U.S., not because of the difference in protest history, civil movements, and public engagement with both in the two countries but because of the military/police response. There's an insinuation there that Koreans would be more reluctant to do what they did if they knew what it's like to live in fear of violence instead of living in such a safe country like Korea...and I want to yell.

It was monumentally brave of everyone to do what they did to stop the coup. We're all laughing at how stupid the coup was and there's a reason why people were more furious than scared because of the political history of Korea and the laws set in place to protect the democracy and neutralize coup attempts, but this could have easily become a disaster. It's not alarmist of me to say so because there was no way for anyone to be 100% sure of how the military would react—especially when no one knew what the hell was going on.

[buttercuparry]

That one rednote user said it best: USA needs a revolution.

[lord-squiggletits]

Something else that makes me sympathetic to Pharma's situation is like. Idk if there's an actual term for this or if someone smarter and more academic wrote it about some real life context that actually matters.

But, so we've already established among Pharma stans that the circumstances at Delphi were blackmail/torture with no real way out that wouldn't involve Pharma being responsible for people getting killed (either killing patients for the deal or having everyone die bc he failed his end of the deal).

And I feel like while "he's still in the wrong because he killed people" is part of it, another sort of implicit part is the idea that Pharma should've been willing to take more personal risk, maybe even risk dying? I mean, Ratchet does ask "why didn't you just detonate it near the DJD" (to which Pharma responds that he did try to get Sonic and Boom to do it, but they refused) so like

Idk I feel like we do have this social notion of martyrs as a very romantic ideal, people you can praise for being so brave and strong and righteous that they ended their own lives for their cause, while you can also coo about how sad and tragic it is that dying is what it took for them to do the right thing. But at the same time I feel like in reality, having an expectation that people become martyrs is kind of a toxic social norm bc like. It's very easy to demand that others sacrifice their lives for some Ultimate Moral Good when you yourself aren't experiencing the same hardships as they are. And ultimately it is kind of fucked up to tell someone "the moral thing you should've done was risk your life/kill yourself" because asking someone to pay their life to do the right thing is no small request. And sure, the typical response would be to call them a "coward" for caring more about saving their own skin instead of doing the right thing... but again, death is a really scary thing and self-preservation is a really strong instinct, so it kind of feels like having this binary view of "you're either a Brave Hero who sacrifices your life for everyone else or a Dirty Coward who's too scared of dying to do what's right" is kind of fucked up?

I guess the best way to describe it is that if someone willingly gives up their life as a sacrifice to others, it can be a noble thing because it's a choice they made willingly, but if it becomes a Moral Standard that in order to be a Good Person you have to be unafraid of throwing your life away and if you aren't willing to die you're a Cowardly Bad Person, that's when it becomes toxic.

Idk, I guess how this ties back to Pharma is that he was never in a position where he expected to make these kinds of moral decisions/ultimatums. He's a doctor who doesn't even get into combat, his job is to heal and not to kill, he's behind the front lines in a hospital that's supposed to be a safe, neutral place for him to heal people. So in the face of suddenly having a "murder people on behalf of me, or I murder everyone you swore to protect" ultimatum thrust upon him, I understand why Pharma wasn't """"""""""brave enough"""""""""" to "do the right thing" (whatever that would've been in the case of Delphi). You could argue that maybe a frontliner soldier accepted the burden of possibly dying for their cause and they've become used to it as someone who lives that reality every single day, but I feel like for Pharma, who's a doctor and a protected non-combatant (from what we can tell), that sort of risking of his life/living with the fact his life could be snuffed out any day isn't something he would've been prepared for at all.

And for me personally, from an outsider's perspective, it strikes me as kind of unethical to go "oh well he should've just detonated the bomb himself even if it killed him" bc again, there's a difference between witnessing a moral conundrum as a bystander versus being the person living with it and being under time pressure where it's do-or-die. Just as part of my personal standards, I feel like death is such a huge consequence/burden of someone's actions (literally you are no longer alive, any potential you had left is cut short, you cease to exist on this plane) that it feels rather callous to go "Well you should've just been willing to die for your beliefs if you really cared that much!!!"

[mecha--maniac]

Dusty Desert is based on Persepolis and Solaris is present in the ruin imagery, thus Solaris/Iblis/Mephiles are Persian and the european-coded modern Soleannan 'royal family' are european colonizers who usurped the kingdom and stole their god both figuratively in the co-opty way christians took figures like Easter (a pagan god) and literally by imprisoning Solaris and later experimenting on him/torturing him until he broke in two. In this 666 page essay, I will --

[markiafc]

re-reading what i posted in june about how torn up my feelings are @ andrew's ending... that same conflict existing when i first finished the book and i still haven't managed to resolve it even now. still strangely repelled by the hopeful note it ends on; andrew's healing leads him to change so much, to such a degree i don't know if i recognize the man in those final pages anymore. oftentimes i need it to end w/ him dead via suicide or the preternatural evils finally getting it's way. but, at the same time, i really need him to live and that unshackled second life. it just makes sense: inherited money, new environment, new lover, new friends, new family, and the chance to do great and vengeful violence unto troth who represents everything that's ever hurt him in life. have to believe those ingredients lead to the light at the end of the tunnel. i need him to live but i always imagine him dead, anyway, guiltily.

[theriverdalereviewer]

everyone jumping to team kamala we will never experience true freedom in this country

[constantvariations]

It's kinda funny to me that so many people are up in arms about Neo's actions in C8 when it's easy for me to dismiss simply because that ain't Neo, yknow?

Like, Neo has never pussyfoot around murder. If she wants you dead, you gonna get dead. From Neo about to stab Yang while the latter is unconscious to Neo and Ruby falling through the void while Neo uses the visuals of Ruby's loved ones to try and weaken her enough for Neo to strangle her to death, Neo has always been fairly direct in her methods

So, it's difficult to reconcile that version of Neo with the one who would passively let her target take themselves out

Not to mention the semblance shift. Neo's semblance, Overactive Imagination, is illusions manifested via semblance glass. They shatter upon contact. Because they're illusions

That's the biggest deal breaker for me. Crwby changed her semblance so much she might as well be a whole ass other person. Fuck, it could've been an Afteran. It's not like Neo was needed here, especially with how easily she was discarded

Instead of illusions, Neo's new abilities seem to be... animorphing people/creatures she may or may not have met via semblance clones and allowing them sentience

Mcfucking what???

The point of illusions is they're not physical. It's not an actual transformation, but rather the aesthetic of one. This could have worked if they kept the semblance evolution to multiple illusions at once OR allowing physical transformation, either of which would have been super cool to see, but they pushed too far. There's too many upgrades that deviate so much from the original ability that it's a whole ass new power

So, immediately on her introduction, the og Jabber is killed(?) and in its place is... multiple Neo-Jabbers. Who can eat other creatures alive. And apparently desire to do so

McFUCJING WHAT

This implies that all her semblance clones of others have their own sentience. Which would never make sense when she never interacted with anyone in that torture scene besides Roman. Seriously why the fuck is Lionheart here? Give us nothing, king

Now, given that we are shown the stream of souls, what could have happened is the illusions were possessed by folks who needed to get a last word in, but that's not. what. happened.

Instead, we have the writers disregarding a character's inability to speak so they can brutalize a teenager in the stupidest way possible, and throwing away all logic of a fairly easy to understand power because it suits their plot needs

Riveting

[inusmasha]

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[cuntvonkrolock]

do people on tumblr know they can emphasize the importance of lgbt elders without accusing lgbt youth of intentionally and maliciously "destroying the community" and acting like all lgbt youth are hyperprivileged and have supportive parents?

[misterbitches]

nah. fuck kamala. fucking idiots. you people will settle for crumbs if it means the slightest hint of maybe (MAYBE) something helping you. meanwhile it's prisoners being left behind in hurricanes (kamala loves prisons and racism), biological warfare with literal chlorine gas plants blowing up and spreading to 4 states (kamala loves fracking and racism), covid denialism and sickness running rampant (kamala hates public health and loves capitalism and racism) a state that lynched a black man and killed several others (kamala hates black people, wants the death penalty, and is a fucking cop. she's a pig, she loves death and racism), murdering or supporting murderers in the global south (palestine directly, supporting uae in sudan, every sovereign struggle: haiti, cuba, more more more always more always afro, african and/or muslim. she loves domination and racism) a fucking genocide and one of the nastiest most anti human anti palestinian anti black ideology because of america, is the face of the american empire and on top of all that wants republicans to work with her.

if you're so obsessed with imperial colonialism, racial/capitalism and capital exploitation, insane entrenchment and misery then yea say shit like this. can't even make up your mind on what you fucking want in life and now instead of changing shit you want to vote and sit on your ass instead of demanding more and fighting for it. for people to say this shows that NOTHING is off limits absolutely NOTHING. a win fo reither of these people means it is a fucking reward. you want to be a part of that you sick freaks? vote all you fucking want but shut the fuck up about us principled people wanting people to understand the reality of this situation and wanting them to have a little fucking self respect. we cannot put our energy into these evil racist homicidal imperial ghouls; they are killing us. they want us fucking dead. i am a black person i am not an american and i will remain so. that means struggle and it means anger and LOVE. fuck you all. and fuck you for lying it's hella trans people who arent voting for that fucking freak and have remained principled even before 10/7 but if genocide isn't your line (certainly know black american genocide isn't) shut your fucking mouth about shit you don't care or know about.

you settle for nothing now and you'll settle for nothing later. politically impotent intellectually depraved freaks want to call us stupid? get real.

I'm sorry, but I'm just too fucking old to pretend that the presidential ticket of "Person who performed some of the first gay marriages in her state while it was still federally illegal" and "governor who created a trans refuge state while other states were making it illegal to transition" is somehow 'jUsT aS bAd foR QuEer pEopLe' as the ticket promising to reverse marriage equality and make trans healthcare next to impossible.

That is such a monumentally stupid opinion that I'm going to have a hard time believing that you're actually that stupid, and I'll probably just assume you're malicious.

[thingyanon]

Suddenly I’m on the wrong side of the triangle- but think about it. Aphrodite, Your Electric Sexiness is some of the most rock human shit second to I am a Rock!!

[10-59]

(Staring at essay I’ve been trying to finish since 2pm)