#it feels fucking dystopian

[gayliketheancients]

tell me I'm overthinking.

What is happening right now is a direct reaction to operation paperclip (us scooping up Nazi scientists before they could be tried for their crimes in Germany after WWII) and the Russian equivalent.

All the Nazi scientists ended up in the good old Southern USA, given these spots curtesy of the US government. and what did they do? they set up fucking churches. They helped perpetiuate ractist ass ideals down there. Went to see public lynchings. Tried to stand on Jim Crowe and other racist ass bullshit to suppress minorities. killed black men who married white women, have been screaming for black women to trake it for too long when they suffered from abuse. used the constitutional loophole of legal slavery for imprisoned people to oppress masses for years.

They discriminated against gay and trans people, putting them in prison, beating them or killing them.

So they sat, and for 2 generations, they have fucking moved in the shadows, building up power and influence in us fucking politics.

the current attack in marginalized people isn't a fucking joke. questioning birthright citizenship of Native Amercians???? ON THEIR FUCKING STOLEN LAND?? They're going after our rights, until there is something so fucking OUTLANDISH that even the Supreme Court is going to say -nah, not this one. and that's when we'll get marital law or a constitutional convention.

I'm so scared.

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

On the edge of tears listening to 1984 by George Orwell (this is my first time reading it) and hearing the words “By 2050, earlier, probably, all real knowledge of oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron. They’ll exist only in newspeak versions; not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be” whilst living in a world where people are using AI to summarise books into paragraphs to read them.

[silvermoon424]

Y'all the amount of posts from "liberal" men on Reddit crying about how women are being too mean to men after the election is making me want to commit a war crime.

"Men are being radicalized by online misandry" I know man vs. bear tweets hurt your feelings but you will never be at risk of bleeding out from a miscarriage because doctors were too afraid of anti-abortion laws to save your life. You are not the victims here.

[hooned]

if your first reaction to a kpop idol dating or even just to rumors of them being in a relationship is HURT ? or DISAPPOINTMENT ? check yourself coz that shit is not okay. you’ll try to tell yourself your feelings are valid but they’re not. there’s a line and this is it.

imagine not being happy for someone else’s happiness ? YOU DONT WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY THAT’S WHAT IT IS. you’re selfish. period. u dont want seeing them with the opposite sex ? THAT’S WEIRD (DEROGATORY). swallow the fucking pill.

[luvmoonie]

is this not.. world war 3??

[aquarianlights]

How do you keep going when it looks like 99% of your country has joined a cult whose soul purpose is hatred of everything you & everyone you know & love are when all you're doing is existing just like everyone else?

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

This Christmas, don't forget about Palestine. Now should actually be when we're even louder. They want us to be quiet, to go back to silence while innocent citizens suffer without homes, food, water. They put this "humanitarian pause" here to look good and to make us quiet over the holiday season. But if we make a ruckus, we'll tell them we're not stopping for anything, not even holidays. We owe it to our Palestinian brothers and sisters to be loud. To let them know we stand with them, we love them, and we will not let them down.

We've been quiet for 80 years. Not a second longer.

[puppppppppy]

i have to say its a strange experience taking classes on branding and marketing while being vehemently anticapitalist and scorning the economic system

[sizzlingangelstarfish]

The world is truly fucked up cuz in one part of the world there are people fighting a genocide and their right to exist while in other part of the world, the rich elites (in which some of them have power to bring changes but they choose not to) are attending a gala.

[faggotstump]

I need to personally have a word with Mr. Tyler Joseph.

[whispersofjupiter]

no because what the fuck actually. i can get back into my tiktok, it is literally just a stunt and he’s not even been fucking inaugurated yet??

[go-go-devil]

[stairset]

One thing about the Degenerate video is in spite of any concerns I have over the AI shit it's actually not my least favorite music video from them. That dubious honor still goes to the Bringing It Down 2.0 video.

[frascospecimen]

I don’t fucking understand the boycott fatigue at all like are you telling me you people actively enjoy going to McDonald’s. Hello

[twopenguinsinabox]

Quietly thinking about how Wizarding Britain is a straight-up dystopia tn. Like, even in the "good" years prior to Voldemort's resurrection, it would be such a nightmarish and fucked-up place to actually live that I feel like every time I read a fanfic where the characters conclude "hey, maybe we should just move back to the Muggle world which has neat things like rule of law and sexual consent" I feel like I want to applaud.

[winterf4iryy]