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"Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless."
“... But is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? Is it government? Is this the kind of protection we receive in return for the rights we give up? Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.”
~ Thomas Jefferson, Excerpt from Query XVII, Religion, “Notes on the State of Virginia”, c.1781
#democracy#america#religion#founding fathers#insights#prophetic#government#USA#thomas jefferson#civil rights#greed will end us#a must read#history#us history
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A seemingly mundane topic but this is how corporations eat away at our livelihood…One product at a time.
#capitalism#politics#end capitalism#corporate greed#eat the rich#us politics#government#the left#current events#activism#news#working class#wealth inequality
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I don’t know how to explain any more clearly that it doesn’t MATTER if it seems legitimate to you. You have got to fact check every single headline and post and claim on the left just like you need to do on the right.
The left is NOT immune to misinformation and rushed reporting. And the more emotionally polarizing or shocking the talking points, sound bytes, and headlines are, the worse it is and more frequently it happens.
Learn to verify through multiple independent sources. If you can’t do that, you can’t trust it.
If you have to wait extra hours for the real information to come through vetted channels—NOT just one individual somewhere everyone links to, and not just one single media source either, EVEN if it’s a major news network—thats just how it has to be. What news outside of genuine local disasters near you TRULY needs your outrage and post-sharing in the next hour specifically?
Misinformation works best by not seeming like misinformation and by fitting in with the rest of what you already expect to see. It doesn’t help anyone to not be able to recognize and avoid the stuff.
#hey little star whatcha gonna queue?#and before I get any angry anons saying I’m making the argument that both sides are the same#I am not. and nowhere did I say that#and if your immediate reaction to any amount of criticism of leftist spaces or communication#is knee jerk outrage and defensiveness#this is an invitation to explore why that is for you.#this isn’t about anyone on here this is from conversations I’ve had with a few people IRL who have shared leftist misinformation a lot#so if you’re feeling attacked by this post and I haven’t directly spoken to you multiple times about misinformation with you responding bac#this isn’t. a vague post. about you. okay?#I cannot reiterate enough THIS IS AFTER IRL INTERACTIONS NOT A CAL OUT VAGUEPOST#and as one final note. IF YOU FOLLOW PEOPLE. WHO CONSTANTLY USE. THE MOST INFLAMMATORY WORDING CHOICES POSSIBLE.#YOU SHOULD NOT FOLLOW THOSE PEOPLE NO MATTER WHAT THEY TALK ABOUT.#no one communicating in true good faith to ALL PEOPLE about facts uses loaded language more than occasionally#the sooner you learn that the better. and that really starts narrowing down the pool of who you want to actually listen to (while still#verifying anything they tell you)#get higher standards!!!! and read some books or watch lectures about actual effective communication to broad groups without using tribalism#and also. anyone on the left trying to convince you of massive efforts and conspiracies that are anti everything#is also wrong 99% of the time and not a good source to listen to#never EVER assume conspiracy when it can be more simply explained through either#ignorance obliviousness incompetence financial greed or misunderstandings#the end. I’m really done this time. I’m just sick of seeing so many people fall prey to this#shh katie#cult escapee#politics and current events#don’t get swept up in the constant tsunami of performative online activism#election 2024#world events
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Hozier really said to future generations, it’s not your fault. You can’t “work hard” and get what you need and want. It’s not your fault that the dreams of fifty years are now unrealistic and unattainable without breaking your soul and maybe not even getting it. You were fucked over before you came into this world, and they continue to fuck you over so much that it’s better to live your life as you see fit. It would be easier because being young and living as you want won’t ruin you but abiding by the systems most likely will.
#unreal unearth#Hozier#damage gets done#blamed for a world we had no power in#very heavy on the greed of everyone trying to take their share without considering future generations means future generations get blamed#for the fact that they cannot survive and they can’t make ends meet and we have to beg#while policies continue to make it harder. introduce rent controlled housing. increase minimum wage. make accessibility a priority.#remove the roadblocks. let us choose ‘unsecure futures’ as artists of all kind#p.txt
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you're losing a savior and a saint
#vandermorgan#rdr2#spring cleaning (my follower count)#anyway really fucking obsessed with am picking up on how dvl posits himself as a father figure to angry disenfranchised young men#to manipulate them to his own ends like how dvl swoops in to validate efs anger in lieu of rf to rip off the us army out of greed/revenge#and reflecting on his own relationship with dvl and how thorougly disillusioned he is with dvl and his ideas. how much is his self just#what dvl wanted him to be? so entrenched in his outlaw life and putting the gang and dvls needs before his own that he cant do anything but#hold onto the hope that he can get through to dvl knowing hes just another toy soldier for dvl to break cause he has nothing left#dvl calling ef 'son' but not am in my last son.. dvl withholding fatherly validation from am when he rejects dvls authority. the ebb and#flow of their coerced 'father/son' relationship is a poor mimicry of unconditional love because it was never about making am feel loved#but making sure dvls needs were met because he can only 'love' people who serve him in some fashion.. there is no unconditional love to dvl#thanks for listening to me brick wall#my art
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sure i COULD ramble about how ai is one of the multiple things that check all the marks of humanity's seven deadly sins but would that be extreme
^^^ possibly insufficiently educated
#the pride the hubris of believing you can do better than innovation and nature by playing god and not in the fun way#the lust it's being used for in so many awful cases#the sloth the way its encouraging everyone to check original sources less before believing anything. Also to not take time to develop skill#the greed its being used for profit without consideration for ethics or fair labour#gluttony. we always have to be faster. shinier. better. no matter if it ends up being less convenient or wonky#the wrath it sows in between people creating more differences to be frustrated over. more hatred#the envy how it takes and takes. always trying to be as clever as the best humans. as beautiful as a real forest or sunset.#do you think the ai wants itself#if this were a scifi movie would we be the bad guys#but this is not a movie and the ai cannot love us. so we cannot love it. and there's that#my post#personal stuff#thinking aloud just silly yapping n jazz 没啥事做就这样咯~#( ̄▽ ̄)~*#when i was in primary school our textbooks for chinese had short stories and articles to learn about#there was a fictional scifi oneshot about a family in the future going to the zoo#the scifi zoo trip was going great until the zoo's systems went offline for a moment#and it was revealed that all the animals roaming in their enclosures were holograms#the real ones went extinct ages ago#when the computers came back online the holograms returned and there they were#honestly at first I thought it was a bit exaggerating#but I still think about it once in a while
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#dragon age#dragon age spoilers#guys wait im scared#flemeths ''I will see her avenged!'' plays in my head daily#solas feels guilty? for mythals death? that he didn't stop it?#WHAT IS THE PRICE?#WHAT DOES SHE WANT HIM TO DO#i imagine it's revenge on elgarnan but. god at what costs#a soul is not forced upon the unwilling.#actually i have many fears.#she is holding so many cards here. like what the fuck.#i have a horrible feeling solas accepted her essence/soul/whatever out of guilt/regret#and he's going to tear down the veil bc mythal also wants that. like it isnt just up to him.#and maybe both he and mythal know something worse that we dont#''what the evanuris in their greed could unleash would end us all'' ''let no one wake its anger''#''the evanuris in their greed killed her''#something angry in the abyss#tales of elgar'nan throwing the sun into the abyss after it scorched the earth#AHHHH
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something about being in an online game makes you want to personally give every tank player who's ever lived a kiss on the lips
#we don't deserve you tank players#million smooches to all of you#God that feeling when the tank chooses YOU to hover around bc you make the most dmg and aren't actively suicidal <3#And I usually player a healer so I never meet tanks bc I'm already the roaming role#but on the rare chance I pick a squishy glasscanon mage and get to experience being protected by an astute tank#oh boy suddenly I get why people waged wars to prove their love#yeah it makes sense. You took that hit meant for me? I'll murder everyone on the map for you. You big buff babygirl dw about it#they indulge me and let me lead them around the map like no baby you're the tank you move and I'll follow you to the end of the world!#Ig they're used to dps going off on their own and having to babysit them which yeah Ik that feeling very well from my support days-#But I'm different I promise my beloved tank! I'd never lead you astray! I'll wait for you to agro and hook first I swear!#I won't let greed consume me....except if I'm close to a kill in which case you understand don't you? The dps needs to be a little risky#if we play it too safe then we will never get an edge#☆other#no I'm not back on league...I'm just...visiting yeah
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Emotional damage aside
How do you think buggy arc, assuming we will get one, can play out without him interacting with shanks? And do you think buggy just getting over his past friendship would be having equally satisfying impact on the story as them becoming close again?
well, my shuggy bias is 100,000% at play here, but i think a version of buggy’s arc that doesn’t involve shanks in the end just can’t be as satisfying as one that does involve him, whether it’s a proper reconciliation or just confrontation/closure. the way buggy thinks and feels about shanks has been such a huge part of the way buggy talks about his life and thinks about his goals, it would feel imbalanced to me if he wasn’t there at the end, somehow.
but what could a buggy arc without shanks in it look like? that’s an interesting question. two options (one a hurt no comfort version of my lt fic still pretty shanks-oriented, one an honest attempt at a shanksless buggy arc) below the cut.
if we’re just saying no interactions, shanks can still be part of buggy’s story in absentia, as he has been for much of canon. something to strive for, the measuring stick of buggy’s life, always frustratingly out of reach… until now. now buggy can practically taste the look of shock and awe on shanks’ face when buggy beats him to the one piece! it’s gonna be so good, getting everything he wants and rubbing it in his stupid face. but then shanks dies. shanks is dead. he never got the one piece, and he never got to see buggy get the one piece, and buggy’s never going to see him again, and— the one piece is within buggy’s reach, and so is the person who killed shanks. what does buggy want more: riches or revenge? what does he value more: treasure or an old friend?
buggy wants the one piece for two reasons, right? one: because it’s the biggest most valued most legendary treasure on the planet, and buggy loves treasure. and two: because it’s captain roger’s treasure, and buggy wants to inherit that legacy, if shanks won’t do it. so i think we could manage a satisfying no-shanks arc for buggy if it involves him proving himself worthy of roger’s legacy. not by getting the one piece—i may be engaging in buggy-centric speculation but i think we all know that thing’s meant for luffy—but by gaining the respect of cross guild, and of the other emperors, and of the wider pirate world. the marines are wary of their misapprehension of buggy’s charisma; let’s see his real inspirational ability used for a good purpose. let’s have half the world call him a hero and half call him a monster, and either way mean that they consider him roger’s successor! let’s have rayleigh show up and tell buggy he’s proud of him!!!
#tos answers#one piece#buggy#shuggy#this isn’t LITERALLY about shuggy but in spirit… yes it is.#re option 2: you know in dbz when mr satan uses his fame to get all the regular humans to contribute to goku’s super spirit bomb?#using the power and influence acquired through fraud and greed for a selfless purpose… i think buggy could pull that off!#it also feeds into the ‘history is a story the powerful use to mislead the masses’ theme that buggy’s been a part of since marineford#—end of series speculation#—death flags#—history as propaganda
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i love how the main message in the wolf hall trilogy is how power, no matter how humble the person is, will corrupt and will make them a mirror of the people they hated. thomas spends a lot of time speaking poorly about the boleyns, the howards, gardiner, henry, etc., but he starts to mirror their personalities. he becomes cutthroat, treacherous, cruel, yet thinks he's untouchable.
what i don't think the message is, is that a low born man shouldn't come into power. because arguably, he was the only one there who could do the job right.
it is just interesting to see how he's transformed and essentially doesn't even realize it. but he becomes a darker, colder person and he starts to mirror that.
#if i told you - mirror in the light as a phrase is supposed to be more about him and how he's lost his way#and how his vision of who he used to be is obscured because of light of greed would you believe me#i also dont think it's wrong that he got power#im glad he did#but im reading bring up the bodies#and i know who ends up getting her head cut off#thomas has what i have an alicent complex - two of my favorite characters#and most of the wolf hall characters have an alicent complex#where they try to other themselves from the chaos they either created or took part in#and act as if they are above it#but in reality#they aren't#at least#not fully#thomas cromwell#wolf hall#like one of the greatest examples is mark smeaton#and how he was homophobic to him and got him killed#despite thomas being a gay man himself
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Honestly mammon is so generous cause no way im sendin my crush to comfort my older brother who also has a thing for them
#obey me nightbringer#obey me mammon#if my brother was like lucifer#popular and well respected by mostly everyone#always has things going his way#no way#not in a miLLION YEARS#like let me have this one thing work out for me please#especially if the MC is possibly interested in me too#mammon is better than me in this case#the avatar of greed cares more about his brothers in the end#i love that#but also i am not him#especially after being the punching bag of the family#let ME HAVE THIS ONE THING GOD#id be so scared that mc would fall for lucifer cause it feels like its how its supposed to be#i will go and comfort lucifer myself#but he is not about to use his 1st ML energy to seduce mc or whatever lol
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柄本 佑 || 「光る君へ」 (2024) · 第三十八回 「まぶしき闇」
#柄本佑#tasuku emoto#光る君へ#hikaru kimi e#1x38#made by me#fujiwara no michinaga#藤原道長#this ep's so good idek where to begin with#okay kaneie it is#I feel like part of michinaga still consciously does not want to admit he's doing everything kaneie's way#but it's the other part that scares me#he's thinking bigger than kaneie (in a bad way) bc he's already too deep in the darkness#and he's automatically justifying his greed by using all kinds of excuses#either his daughter. or for the country. it's good for ichijo. it's good for korechika. it's good for mahiro's daughter. it's good for you#deeply he knew he didnt believe it himself but that's what dairi life does to a man in that position#half the episode I'm mahiro watching him from the other side of the corridor. thinking 'who da hell is that???'#the only 2 scenes we got to breathe a little from the pressure of his darkness#is the night talk with tomoko and the mahiro scene#thank you Oishi sensei for giving us a break and reminding us that saburo did not fully die#speaking of mahiro I'm sorry but kikyo sucks#I find it funny that these two women are strong and independent and everything and I think Oishi sensei did a good job writing both#but it gets me every time that Kikyo is so dedicated of being a slave of sadako's#mahiro too I mean she was tricked by michinaga and she needs to provide the family yes.#but she initially thought she's writing this to serve a royal member#it became self-catharsis later but the motive is -#idk she used to teach farmer kids to read & write and care about normal people during some natural disasters#she never believed in hierarchy but ended up serving one of the highest royal families#k enough whining. lastly can I say that I'm just glad that no matter how dark michinaga gets#there's always a yukinari promising to investigate the horror curses & insisting capital sentence on people who are mean to michinaga
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I had a dream that I had found another Mark Twain song like the New Battle Hymn of the Republic
But it was written in vegetable pizza--all my favorite vegetables, mind--and I was trying to eat it... but it wouldn't all fit on my fork. And I said to my mom, "If I had to rate this song on a scale of Fuck You, 1-10, it would get an 11." And I think I was probably right
And then I tried to remember the words to the New Battle Hymn of the Republic, but I can only remember the first and the last
Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the sword
He is searching out the hidings where the strangers' wealth is stored
He has loosed his doomful lightning and with woe and death has scored
His lust is marching on /
I have read his bandit gospel writ in burnished rows of steel
As ye deal with my pretensions so with you my wrath shall deal
Let the faithless son of freedom crush the patriot with his heel
Our God is marching on!
I used to know all four verses. I used to sing them in my 20s while I was doing yard work, back in my 20s when I could still do yard work. That seems... like another life, now. In a way that makes the world tonight feel like the unfinished dream, not what I just saw
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Happy July ig
#fuck#Back in my 20s when I could still do yard work#back in my 20s when I still thought I'd be living the career I'd chosen then today#that I'd be teaching US history in a community college#and damn the textbook the school assigned#paying forward the change in direction that my cc gave me#that I'd still have publishing authority#and at least one labor history book out by now#using the acid pen Twain had given me and my mentor always let me get away with#not be fighting for the government for access to the health insurance I've paid into my entire working life#with my memory and dignity in shreds#happy disability pride month#if anybody remembers the middle two#do let me know#im disappointed that i dont#i do remember they end in#his night is marching on#and#lo greed is marching on
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#leytalker#spotify#y'all...#lol#i am so tired#i mean like yeah we could cancel#but we literally use it every single day#music is everything to me and spotify has become the only place really other than youtube to listen to it#every day i get more and more depressed over the constant climbing cost of -everything-#i have never felt more low and hopeless#and i know it might seem stupid to get doomer abt a price increase on a non-essential thing#but we're humans#if we only live for the essential and afford ourselves no joy or growth through the arts#what is the point of living#not to mention this instance is just one of multitudes happening all across services across the world#everything is a fucking subscription and every subscription ramps every year#we are a society dominated by greed and it will ruin us all before the end
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thus always to corporate greed
#so this is the end folks#it fucking sucks. it sucks so much#but we have such a great fandom and I know none of us are going anywhere#we’ll keep ofmd alive#this show is absolutely amazing and it didn’t deserve to get fucked over like this#but we have our community we can support each other#and the entire cast and crew of the show are so thankful for our efforts and I think that’s wonderful#fuck hbo max#fuck homophobia#fuck corporate greed#they can kill our show they can never fucking kill what it means to us#the impact ofmd has had on me is something that I will remember and cherish forever#they can’t take that away from us#long live ofmd#I love you all#<3#ofmd#our flag means death
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tumblr has dropped from 4.8 to 4.0 on my phones apps page (android) in the past two weeks since I left a review, so hopefully theyre going to get a hint soon. or theyll continue to crash 🤷
I think the hard thing is that a vast majority of people here don’t want tumblr to crash and burn bc it is a niche and special place we can’t replicate on other websites. And I think a lot of the actual staff members understand this. The call for these unnecessary changes are coming from high up.
#not dogs#I don’t think social media will ever be ethical AND profitable at the same time#at the end of the day I hate that capitalism has made it so these things ~must~ be profitable#yeah tumblr is in the red. but how much does the ceo make#bc I’m betting they could easily offset the salaries of higher ups to cover costs#capitalist greed keeps us from this however
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