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hey what the heck is going on in Germany???
I'm not really that knowledgeable on politics BUT, in a nutshell:
Basically, the governing coalition in the parliament up until just yesterday used to be the Ampelkoalition (traffic light coalition, named after the parties' colors), consisting of the SPD (red), FDP (yellow) and Bündnis 90/Grüne (green). Since the last election, they've been having a lot of conflicts and those came to a head yesterday. Our chancellor, Olaf Scholz of the SPD, has dismissed Christian Lindner of the FDP from his position as Minister of Finance. In retaliation, all other ministers from the FDP resigned from their respective ministry positions (except for one, who resigned from the FDP instead). With the FDP, out of the picture, the Ampelkoalition is now the minority in the parliament.
All of that wouldn't be too bad, but here's the issue: Because the coalition is now the minority, making it difficult to win debates etc., the chancellor is going to start a process (referred to as "die Vertrauensfrage stellen") that will allow him to dissolve the parliament and hold a new election. So, we're looking forward to a reelection in times where Germany's right-wing party, the AfD, is incredibly popular, the center-conservative party (which has held the position of chancellor for years, see Angela Merkel) CDU/CSU may consider cooperating with them, and generally the public is very radicalized towards either far right or far left - the far left party also having some very questionable takes.
All in all though, we might be looking at a right-wing party winning an election or at least participating in the government in Germany, which historically was not a good thing and never will be.
Fellow Germans, please correct me on anything incorrectly portrayed and/or add your own takes
#ask#german stuff#i hate talking about politics like this#if this blows up and i get anon hate for this i will go insane#and liberally use the block button perhaps#you can reblog this. just to be clear#but i'm scared of the anons#politics
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every time queer discourse surges on this site everyone is so quick to jump to “it was actually the evil lesbians who divided us” because y’all heard the term “political lesbian” and never bothered to figure out what that meant
#‘political lesbians’ were and are predominantly STRAIGHT WOMEN#and a good chunk are bi#what don’t you understand about these women thinking lesbianism is a CHOICE? that it’s only used by women as a reaction to the patriarchy?#like lesbians can’t possibly like women and not men for any reason that isn’t some deep-seated hatred for men?#they all think lesbianism is dirty and impure and here you people are saying that this is PROGRESSIVE#and that they actually think that lesbianism is some golden standard for its purity???? you guys are so fucking stupid oh my god#you go on and on about learning your queer history until it comes to lesbians and then you’re perfectly happy rewriting our culture#and narrative#wtf is wrong with you people#and y’all braindead mfs use this to act like men are actually oppressed by the meanie dykes#i hate y’all#but none of y’all actually give a shit about lesbians so i guess im yelling into a void#lesbophobia#top posts#neon talks#LOL at the fucking idiot who reblogged this and tagged it ‘misandry’ not sure how you got that from my post but i hope your day sucks <3
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hate to put anything about JK Rowling on your dash but I saw this post and immediately thought about how much of Rowling’s future ideology was foreshadowed in Harry Potter looking back and how much the really shitty things both the “good” and “bad” characters do are all totally reflections of herself…
Like I was specifically thinking about how much Dumbledore’s insistence on calling Voldemort by his birth name bothered me more and more growing up…and now it’s like oh my god duh it was because Dumbledore was literally deadnaming him because using a person’s chosen name (and by extension, pronouns!!) is something that Rowling thinks should be a privilege you receive if someone respects you that can be instantly taken away if you are “bad” and not worthy of respect
Dumbledore refusing to call Voldemort by his chosen name and calling him “Tom” instead (and keep in mind how Voldemort willingly changed his body to a form he was more comfortable with) was literally just thinly-veiled transphobia wasn’t it and the only reason Voldemort isn’t explicitly trans is because Rowling wrote these books in the early 2000s and Voldemort probably IS a trans woman but the whole damn time she’s being misgendered by an unreliable narrator
#jk rowling#tw transphobes#tw transphobia#harry potter#look I do hate to talk about all this in 2024 but it would be very fascinating to reexamine#the entire HP canon through the lens of Rowling’s current politics and see how much was there from the start#the idea that Voldemort is a trans woman throughout the entire narrative and is just misgendered the whole time is so compelling to me#like I feel Rowling would retroactively trans Voldie the way she made Dumbledore gay#but doing so would have to mean calling Voldie a woman in any form and of course Rowling would refuse to do that
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people really watch/read that scene in Emma where she talks to Mr. Knightley about how he can say whatever he wants because he's never been a dependent, and doesn't know what it's like to "have tempers to manage" and say "wow that's so sad that this adult woman has to walk on eggshells to keep the people who control her life- specifically, a man, her father -happy, and thus keep her place in the household"
and then turn around and insist that it's women's job to keep men from trying to violently take our human rights away, by just being ~sweet and kind~ to them at all times
#misogyny#sexism#ye gods. in the wake of the election that stupid post going around is making me sick#yeah if I thought the guy was talking about actual 'MEN MUST ALL DIE' types I'd agree but. those are a minority#certainly not the fucking mainstream Democratic party by any means#so like. what exactly is 'hating you for being a man' to you then my guy?#seems like it might be 'saying anything that's not perfectly nice and calm and anodyne about sexism or our rights. ever.'#these people really would have gotten behind the 'women should be able to vote expressly because our Pure Goodness will#improve the political landscape' argument IMO
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sudden yearning for time travelling teen jiang fengmian lands at lotus pier fic that winds up being about a perfectly nice kid having a varying series of "oh no. i don't like that. that's a lot" reactions.
#i think in order for this to be satisfying i have to give grace and interiority to teenmian#i'm picturing an older teen like 18ish? maybe even early 20s?#big crush on csr he's already pretty sure isn't going to work out#but at least he'll always have wei-xiong#anyway this is my ploy to give jfm a chance at an ugly crying meltdown#he's trying so hard to be even keeled and like#maybe take this as an evil vision designed to teach him something#but somewhere in between my crush stole my man and then they died#my whole sect burned#my grown ass son who is older than me making the vibe sooooo weird#and my grandson! child of my dead???? daughter??????#is just like yeah he never talks about you. no never never#and then wwx blows into town and idk somehow they all end up at dinner together and jfm politely calls lqr a punk ass bitch in front of lwj#because what???? context clues suggest lqr has the fucking nerve to not like wei xiong's baby after All That#only for adult son with the weird vibes#to imply only filial piety is keeping him from naming the real#punk ass bitch#anyway this ends with jfm crying because clearly he marries yuanyuan and she HATES HIM and then his own son ALSO HATES HIM#and would rather stupid Lan-er-gongzi#be his dad.#if you like lqr so much why don't you just join the lan sect then?????#and that's how jc learns he didn't get it all from his mama#jc didn't mean it he was stressed! this isn't his dad it's an a-ling sized kid. but it's still stressful
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At this point, talks about "mutilated bodies" tell me everything I need to know about people's politics. I truly don't believe you can combine the idea of mutilated or degenerate bodies with anything even slightly progressive in terms of autonomy. If you believe yourself to be progressive or anything left of an unapologetic fascist, you frankly cannot truly entertain the idea that some bodies and people are inherently mutilated or degenerate. It is an inherently fascist idea.
#politics#things like this make me almost lose some faith in people#because that is a FUNDAMENTALLY reactionary conservative or even fascist mindset#hate hate hate when 'progressives' want to redeem degenerative theory and imply it can be part of their worldview#and too often the 'mutilated body' refers to women/trans people/PoC even/disabled people...#...wonder why that is! it can't be because those ideas are FUNDAMENTALLY reactionary (sarcasm)#i know i've talked about 'degenerative theory' and its fascist roots before but this shit still goes largely unchallenged imo#you cannot be an anti-fascist fascist. i don't want to see these viewpoints given a platform in so-called 'progressive' spaces#(and too often the 'mutilated bodies' refers to jews too - addendum that is important to add)#ask to tag (genuine)#fascism tw#anti fascism#anti facist
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if youre american; you gotta go vote and you have to vote for whoever the democratic party ends up tossing your way, this time. it takes only moments of your day and slivers of your effort, it does not impede your ability to preform additional political actions, neither does it somehow lessen the impact of those actions
it is a necessary step this election to try and reduce harm- the election will proceed with or without you, and you will live with the consequences of it regardless of your participation; are you going to lie down and take it, or exercise all avenues available to you? i will not pretend your vote is anything but a drop in leaky bucket but its something, and its free and its easy. "i could never bring myself to vote for such a monster!" you are right, hes a monster, and an idiot, and ill feel miserable checking the box, but if the only legitimate reason not to vote that you can provide for me is your own moral repulsion im afraid thats just not good enough
compromising your sense of right and wrong to a limited capacity is necessary to be both politically active and impactful, as well as to just be a functional human being, because how you feel in the face of greater issues like this is, frankly, immaterial. action is the only language that matters at this moment. moral purity is a myth and your ability to maintain any semblance of it is a privilege
the only two choices here are voting or not voting; not voting, when you know conservatives will be lining the fuck up this election is, genuinely, rolling over and conceding their victory. if you find yourself asking, "how could things get any worse!?" i very earnestly urge you think about Trump; what hes said, what hes been saying recently, how his congregation feels about him, and how he and the republicans stacked and manipulated the other branches of the government during his presidency- and research how exactly it still effects us today
things could get worse. ill admit were in for a "worse" next four years regardless, honestly, but theres no biting the bullet of crappy futures. theres no "getting it over with" here. 330 million+ people domestically (not even considering the global implications) are counting on each other. you have to choose the Better Shitty Future
you gotta do it. you dont have to like it, you dont have to be happy, you dont have to tell anyone who you voted for or even that you did it at all. but you have to go vote, and you should encourage others to do the same
i definitely understand why you feel like you just can't. that you could never do anything that might be taken as actual support for such a spineless, shitty party and genocide-mongering, incompetent man. i had come to the exact same conclusion myself, initially. honestly i'm not sure anyone with a brain could think less of you for it. but i've Thought about it, like i'm encouraging you to Think about it, and it's just not a game of support, it's about making sure one of them loses. the system is broken, but you're still inside- you can't leave, and no one's coming to save you, so you have to play. make peace with it
#mine#my inbox is open to questions confessions hate mail anything you want#talking about this is the only way anything will get done in the Online Leftist community and i think a lot of people don't like thinking#abt it and are avoiding it but u fortunately even nerds and losers like us have political influence so let's get going
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'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.
I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.
About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'
-Casey Plett, Consciousness
#this quote always moves me almost to tears when i remember it#i'm not a trans woman and i don't share the author's specific experiences with transition#but it really moves me that she frame transition as joyfully giving yourself permission to approach your body#not as something that has to be disciplined and deprived and made small in all these various ways#but as a means for experiencing pleasure and joy and delight and for insisting that our feelings and desires are worth#valuing and exploring and treasuring#i always used to think of prioritizing those things for myself as selfish and irresponsible#but who does it harm to want to experience pleasure in your own body?#it's such a beautifully simple and powerful switch to have flip in your head#and equally why are we forced to deny our own pleasure in transition and anything else related to our bodies in the name of moral rectitude#this is why i get so confused and pissed off when other trans people are fatphobic for example#like why are you so invested in politics of shame and disgust that never had any purpose other than#violently disciplining people as if they've violated moral codes by existing in a body#to say nothing of white people being racist in gay and trans communities#like again this system of violence is foundational to homophobia and transphobia#so why are you acting like it has nothing to do with you#even if you are unmoved by the urgency of other people's suffering which btw you should be moved by#what do you hope to gain by acting a collaborator and handmaiden to those systems#Casey Plett#she really is one of my favorite authors i wish more non-canadians read her#this quote is from a series of columns she did ont transition and every single one is a banger#i love when she talks about the people-pleasing elements of dysphoria and transition denial#she's so sharp about noting how many of us deny our own dysphoria on the grounds that others like and validate our bodies#that's how i always felt during my cis conventionally feminine era#it pleased other people so much and also that reception felt so hollow and joyless to me because i hated it#i get less of that positive feedback but that feels so unimportant next to the joy and pleasure i get to experience#said with the understanding that i'm very privileged in being able to prioritize those things without fear. but it was a switch flip#personal nonsense
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ranking da love interests on a scale of how unhinged theyd be if their beloved was made tranquil (they would all be maximum unhinged its just a matter of deciding what flavour)
#like theres obvious ones like anders canonically would mercy kill and then burn down the world about it#and thats stellar beautiful no notes#but we gotta get into the others#for example i’d kill to see what sebastian’s little vengeance fuelled heart would get up to#not to mention that i have no idea if this is a good read or not bc i still havent played the romance but#he strikes me as a guy who would just stay devoted married to his tranquil spouse his entire life#it seems like something he would do.#and a bizarre political scenario it makes <3 fascinating vibes at starkhaven parties#i feel like other people it would hurt too much to be around them or they would feel it wasnt really them anymore#but to seb he made a vow and he has a wife those things havent changed even if so much else has#which would be crazy if anders was alive to hate it. and the implications abt hawke then. okay im going to stop talking im inventing#entire scenarios now
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so embarrassing how many self proclaimed leftists/communists/anarchists are prioritising individual feelings and identity over structural class analysis based on material reality and dont realise that is in fact liberal ideology lmao
#mine#‚individual freedom over everything‘ yes i have heard that before and that is not what marx was talking about at all#i think it makes sense that this is a very usamerican thing#because even ‚leftists‘ there grow up on a diet of ‚this is the land of the free‘ and a sense of entitlement as well#anti communism efforts stronger than anywhere in the world#i wish more usamerican progressives reflected on how even if they outwardly hate the usa#growing up as a usamerican in the usa you still internalise a certain self image and view of the world#unless you critically reflect on that and not just on usamerican politics and history#i feel like that would help this phenomenon
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its crazy to me how people just don’t talk all the fucking time about what happened to the [Dixie] Chicks in the early 2000s
#like people don’t know#the fact that she doesn’t tear every comedian who complains about being canceled on their Netflix special limb from limb#just shows that Natalie Maines is a better person than me#like people still hate them over this#even though two decades later the vast majority of people across political spectrum agree with them now#everyone KNOWS they’re right and the fact that they just are barely talked about????#it drives me insane#anyway Natalie Maines outlived Toby Keith and she deserves to piss on his grave i don’t care 🤷♀️
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they banned ap psych in florida cuz the class ap discusses sexuailty and gender which violates ron desantis' piece of shit dont say gay law so fuck you ron for that
in the college board statement they say it was banned because "teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law" which is bullshit because these gov leaders believe anything lgbtq is a brain disease so you'd think theyd keep the brain learning class
they banned ap african american studies because "it lacks educational value and historical accuracy" which is making it easier for them to erase black history that is so intertwined with the history of this country that most everything here is so deeply antiblack
this mf has his head so far up his ass that hes ruining our education system even more than it already was
#fuck you ron desantis i hate you so much I hate you i hate you i hate yoy#and cuz me nd my friends are tryna reach our counselors to see whats up or if theyre rearranging schedules and keep mentioning him#i keep getting ron desantis ads ab if i want to elect him president of the united fucking states of America#and then it was an ap class i was interested in taking cuz i thought itd be cool to learn about so fuck you ron for that too#and THEN it was the only class i knew ppl in. ljke half the class was ppl ive seen before or talked too#im ranting ab missing out on the class nd not seeing my friends but its really a bigger issue than that#like its scary hes using his power to attack lgbtq communities and kids and then he has enough support that hes rallying for head seat#its not safe here at all i cannot fucking wait to leave#ron desantis#us politics#ap psychology#college board#lgbtq#so mad im shaking im so sorry if this doesnt make any sense but school starts in a week exactly nd im tryna figure out the little issue#l speaks#keep talking l#ranting in the tags because i can#black history#racism
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I love how the church kinda treats tanguish like the community cat that just vibes and get really worried when he vanishes they love their gargoyle
To use a cut quote from a cut chapter: "It's a church. They keep track of their regular visitors, especially the ones that never come inside.”
They worry! I feel like the Order or Remembrance would, even more so than others, just because it's their job to remember. I imagine there was a bit of panic when the anonymous Gargoyle vanished, and everyone collectively realized they'd never asked his name, or managed to corner him long enough to invite him inside.
Honestly the next chapter or so is really scratching an itch for me, as far as church communities go. It's been a hot minute since I was last at a church that I really connected with a church [I live in a very conservative area and the churches here aren't very friendly to my current views] but when I was a kid, the sense of community that came with church was very nice. People genuinely cared if members of the congregation, even ones who didn't come often, disappeared for prolonged periods of time. I haven't been to my childhood church in over 10 years, but sometimes when members see me around town, they still run up and talk to me and ask me how I've been.
#anonymous#rns asks#whoops got a little anecdotal there#went to a revival for my old church recently actuallt#theyve been losing members for years and decided to actually track down last known addresses and send letters#and invite people back for dinner and service#it was nice#most of those people would hate me if they knew my gender sexuality political beliefs ect#they said really unkind things about people like me when i was too young to know i was who they were talking about#but sometimes i do still miss it
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jason todd has so many underrated canon love interests. essence, isabel, artemis, and rose are all characters i love with him. like those are good ships. why is everyone ignoring them?
#look. i have Opinions on this matter.#i know that fandoms have incurable mlm fetishization disease which is why jayroy is so much more popular than these ships#and i like jayroy but. come on. jayrose solos.#but fr like 😭 ik we all hate whatever he had going on with babs and kori because what the fuck (i hate dc writers)#but jay/essence was a good ship!! it would have added more focus onto who jason is outside of being a vigilante but still being a warrior#because its p much canon that he has magical affinities that dc pretty much ignores now#and isabel! jay/isabel was such a good ship too for showing the more civilian view of the red hood and who jason was as a civilian#jayrose is my personal fav solely because they're one of the few duos we've seen as good friends and i just love their interactions#and rose has that anti-hero (?) potential right. i think jayrose is a good ship for who jason would be as a vigilante outside gotham#ik i'm focusing on jason more than the love interests when i talk about why these ships are so interesting but rn that's just because i'm#trying to figure out why these ships are so ignored among jason fans in favour of ships like jayroy or jaykori or jaybabs or batc*st#because imo these have so much more potential than those ones :/#i forgot to speak on jaytemis. i love jaytemis because i think jason deserves a woman that can yeet his 6 foot brick wall body with ease-#but more than that it really would have been a very fun idea to explore the amazonians' moralities and politics more#because jay and artemis were supposed to parallel bruce and diana. i just think there was again potential there for jason to break off from#the batfamily#yk?#limebug's original posts#jason todd#rose wilson#artemis of bana mighdall#isabel ardila#essence#sorry to any jayroy shippers that might see this even tho i didnt individually tag jayroy. i'm one of you i promise i'm a multishipper#if anyone wants to discuss this my dms and askbox are OPEN
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genuinely really wish people who do have dni’s on all of their posts would just put their dni at the very top.
it just really sours my mood when I read a post I do genuinely agree with or like and then at the very bottom there’s a dni I’m included in.
#talk away ⌞🍵🍋 ⌝#this post is mainly about the selfship community#but I also think this just something I believe about in general#selfship#selfship community#self ship community#proselfship#selfship proship#proship selfship#proship#dni culture#or better yet#just put the dni in the tags#that way people can block them if they choose so#also some of you could phrase your dni’s a little more politely#like there’s no need to be adding death threats#and saying “your f/o hates you” in your dni#like just no#come on now
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The effort to turn every trans person into a political activist and place the burden of political leadership onto us is the same mindset as thinking trans lives are inherently political. Combating this means holding trans people to individual standards. If a trans person occupies political spaces, it should be because they have chosen to, not because people look at their transness and the "political implications" and it is all they can see
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#mtf#nonbinary#like i've seen it time and time again where a trans person vents about something and the backlash they recieve is for 'the optics' of it...#...it's a bad-faith reading of trans people expressing real emotions where we are taught that 'optics > well-being'#like if you think am individual trans person does as much harm as - say - a transphobic political leader then you have drank their kool-aid#you have fallen for the idea that transness is inherently other/political/unnatural and everybody else is the default/natural/neutral#THAT is why it's not cool to do that. it's not cool to treat trans people transphobicly#like i talk about politics a lot on here because there is intersection between my life and trans life and politics#but that's not my only 'use' and i'd hate for my political posts to be the only thing i'm good for#like as a trans person i am a human being even if you don't like to think that
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