#just little usamerican things

[forestkodama]

I will forever be amused by the fact that, when asked about what first tipped him off that my partner and I are "hippies", the independent contractor we hired to drywall our basement didn't say the rotating composter in our garage, but the fact that we drive subcompact cars.

[dullahandyke]

Films good movies good banshees of inisherin was good

[voidpersonthing]

Do I have to make a pinned saying that I:

Don't have money to spare at the moment

Even if I did, my money is worth less than pennies nowadays

Have No Reach

Just so I stop getting DMs, asks and the like asking me for donations?

[thislittlekumquat]

Fantasizes about the ICJ and the UN putting the USA on some sort of participation hiatus until further notice. Maybe forever. Maybe it's the USA's turn to have zero say in international politics. Maybe!!!!!!

[ocotllo]

that is why you're meant to invest your profits back into the community to restore their rail system silly

[b-rainlet]

If the Speak No Evil remake actually changes the ending I will blow up the US, I swear to god

[transingthebourgeoisie]

Not going to lie, a little annoyed all all the (virtually all USAmerican) people shocked and surprised about the explicit reactionary turn of various websites. Like, have we not been expecting this, have you not been paying attention? This was plainly the direction things have been going; did you all just, like, forget, magically, that the only reason the only reason such places 'accepted' LGBT people etc. in the first place is because it was, convenient? Profitable? Did you all just think that only applied to like, pride parades, slogans, and acrylic crap?

Even liberal leaders have begun (it started years ago, don't get me wrong,) to turn around on these things - to the extent that they ever even pretended otherwise. It was politically convenient, and now it isn't; exactly what we told you was always going to happen.

Are you going to actually do something about it, or are you going to turn around, again, and decide that all the monstrosity is Good once a democrat does it, again?

[boy-gender]

To any USAmerican queer and trans person right now, I don't know if this will help, but please try to remember that there are queer and trans people living, surviving, and even thriving in countries where they have NEVER had rights. I live in a very religious and very conservative country and progress is slow, but it is happening. Same sex marriage has never been legal here in a way that the government will accept, but we have local governments who are at least starting to legalize medical and property rights for same sex partners. We have local governments supporting trans rights protections. We have more and more local celebrities and influencers who have braved the barrage of potential hate to live their truth and have found communities that support and uplift them.

People here have been fighting for a long time and are continuing to fight and celebrating any small progress that we achieve, even if the tides are against us. And do you know why? Because we have seen that it can be done! American media is so prolific here and we see people like us on our TV shows and movies and even news channels. Conservatives here love to blame "the Americans" for introducing "these types of thoughts" (aka just letting people fucking exist as they are) to our country. You guys did that. None of what you guys have now (as little as it is) would have happened if people in the past just laid down and gave up.

I have nothing to add. Thank you for caring about us enough to send this. It's the first and only thing that's comforted me this morning.

[lordadmiralfarsight]

That anon ask was violently, brutally, unsufferably USAmerican. The fuck even is an "ethnic white" ?

My skin's pale as shit, and I'm not an ethnic white, I'm an ethnic CELT.

And that's not even talking about Jews, which are distinctly not "white", whatever this yankee nonsense means.

Ethnic whites when you tell them they're white:

girl what

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

something interesting that all the hate from tumblr towards usamericans who are using rednote and talking to people in china for the fiest time isnt getting reciprocated to the chinese who are equally stunned at how usamericans are living. "oh usamericans are learning the chinese are people lol what kind of morons are they over there" well 1. that is a massive parody of whats actually happening on that site 2. why are we mocking people for building solidarity. like USAmericans having solidarity with their chinese cohorts is a good thing no matter how you cut it. and 3. very funny especially since it comes from the "well black (and native) americans are still just americans" cohort like. pot calling the kettle black a little, isn't it?

[pumpyriah]

Please help an unemployed brown mixed disabled trans person sustain their family + help their parents leave venezuela

Hello tumblr dot com users! I'm Ren, a trans and disabled venezuelan trying to get back into art. And as of the 1st of nov 2024 I'm officially unemployed and really, really broke 🥲

If you want a more extended version of our situation you can reffer to my last post thread from months ago, I decided to finally create this one as an updated version.

Summarizing and updating extremely quickly what has happened this last time: The humanitarian Parole is no longer available, The Darien has become way more dangerous and inaccesible to cross and the Panama goverment is going to get toughter, considering this is a mostly usamerican site I hope I don't have to mention what happened this month over there, and obviously there's certainty shit isn't going to get any better from this point onwards. Things have changed so much that my mother started considering emigrating to Spain.

As some of the people close to me know, I really dislike being in the necessity of e-begging without at least offering something in return to people helping me because I don't feel ok doing so otherwise. That's why in this post I have several avenues to help me depending on what anyone might preffer.

Our current plan is to keep saving as much as we can while we wait and hope for a relative of my father to present a Family Reunification TPS while there is still chance, if neither of those don't work or something happens, we'll help either him or my mother go to Spain instead. We are definitively not giving up, but that doesn't mean things didn't get harder.

❗Some of the most urgent needs we're currently trying to cover:

7-12$ Bug poison. We have an extreme problem of cockroach infestation

20-25$ Rispheridona resupply

10-15$ Glasses reparation

6-10$ Shower reparation

+30$ Mother's car revision

+20$ By-Weekly groceries

+15$ General Medicines

You can make as little as a 1 USD donation by simply buying a high quality piece I've done recently!

I'm also currently still offering extremely cheap comms for little chibi doodles like the ones in the pics below!!

Either way. If you can't of don't wish to donate or commission. Please know that just by sharing this around as much as possible is enough to help. Thank you <3

ppal

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[palms-upturned]

I’m late to this whole debacle but for the record, I have been messaged by people in Gaza who thought that I was involved in the fundraiser vetting process and sent me photos of their government IDs and documentation. I know a little of what Hussein, Nairuz, Ahmed, Ibtisam, and others use to vet people and make sure that they’re legit, and that’s part of why I confidently cite them as a source. To try and discredit them and smear them as scam artists, along with the genocide victims that they’re trying so hard to help, is fucking beyond the pale.

The reason I’ve been inactive on this blog and focusing instead on compiling resources in order to bring more ppl onto the fundraiser blog is that the work I was doing was spiraling into a 12-hour a day endeavor with just myself, and it was making me so physically and mentally ill that I could barely move or think, so I had to step back and figure out a better way to organize things. And I’m not even doing the actually hard part of this work. I do not vet people. I do not have any skin in this game as a white USAmerican. It’s not my family who are dying in Gaza. I also have not been targeted for harassment or account bans. I literally cannot fucking fathom the physical and mental strain that Palestinian bloggers on this platform have been going through nonstop for nearly a year now.

I still remember being shocked when I saw that Hussein had come back to tumblr after having to take a break due to having a heart attack. Ibtisams, who vetted people and organized all sorts of fundraising efforts all while grieving her father and little sister killed in Gaza, was forced to come back to tumblr to make a statement about how she was in an inpatient facility because people had the gall to impersonate her in order to scam people. Ahmed literally escaped Gaza because of a very well documented fundraising effort here on tumblr, no thanks to the cunts at GoFundMe who made things as difficult as possible every step of the way, and has since spent time and effort helping other people who had hopes of sharing his success. Calling these people scammers is fucking unbelievable. Some of you wouldn’t know solidarity if it bit you in the ass.

If getting messages in your inbox from people trying to escape a genocide makes you uncomfortable, fucking suck it up. Or disable your inbox, I guess. Do literally anything else besides using your platform to direct harassment and slander at people who are trying to survive a genocide. This website is already quite literally engaging in tech apartheid by targeting users in Gaza so constantly, you don’t need to gleefully join in by tagging staff and asking them to terminate people. Fucking unconscionable behavior. I hope that it will follow everyone involved for the rest of their lives.

[stackslip]

Transgender people are now banned from legally changing their gender in Bulgaria, according to the country’s Supreme Court, which issued a ruling that is automatically binding on all other courts. “The current law does not provide for the possibility for the court to allow the change of the data regarding the gender, name and uniform civil number in the acts of civil status of an applicant who claims to be transgender,” the decision states. Until now, some Bulgarian judges assumed that the legislation in the country allows legal gender change, but only explicitly after a court decision. In the Supreme Court, however, other judges ruled in the opposite direction, and the country was condemned several times in cases before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg for the lack of a clear regulation. (...) The decision was dedicated to the sharp political and public debate on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, which was finally repelled after a campaign filled with misinformation spread by nationalist parties on social networks.

this isn't just a uk or north-america problem. it's worldwide, and that's not a coincidence. right-wingers everywhere are coordinating in suppressing trans people, sometimes as part of an open effort to also suppress all queer people and gender non-conformity, as well as abortion and equal rights for women; sometimes it's more covert (like in the uk). but here it's overt. the same tactics and use of social media, the same arguments, the same end goals--it isn't simply a usamerican conservative or uk terf thing. it's everywhere and in some countries the situation is becoming that much more dire with little pushback or acknowledgement.

[molsno]

westerners really are primed to see japanese art as inherently perverted, to the point where if an anime character appears naked at any point, or hell even if you can see a little bit of skin, they start ranting about how anime is filled with unnecessary fanservice to pander to perverted otakus.

but, first of all, the human body is not inherently sexual. artists have been drawing naked bodies for millennia, and for a variety of reasons! in ascribing sexual intent to every depiction of nudity in anime, you are endorsing and reinforcing the societal policing of bodies, especially the misogyny that demands women be ashamed of our bodies and cover them up.

second, and most importantly, when you attribute any depictions of nudity in anime to the artists' desire to perform "fanservice", you're implying that japanese audiences are, as a whole, simple perverts who will watch anything as long as it's sexual. this is extremely racist. portraying other cultures as primitive savages who only care about sex is one of the oldest tricks in the racist's playbook.

lastly, why do you single out japanese art for misogyny to begin with? certainly, there are some japanese artists who are misogynistic, and it shows in the art they create; that much I'm not denying. but why is it that western artists are exempt from the same critiques, despite often being just as if not more misogynistic? why don't you criticize the sexualization of women and teenagers in usamerican tv shows and movies? why do you believe that western art can still be enjoyed for its merits despite its misogyny, but you condemn japanese art outright for the same thing?

[nintendont2502]

I'm gonna be a little bitch for a second GOD it's so so so fucking exhausting being a non USAmerican online. Like. Jesus fucking christ the levels of defaultism are just,,,, god. The 'default' audience for every post is Americans. American pop culture is universal obviously, and god forbid you bring up a show from your own country because no ones ever watched that! The millions of kids in your country don't count clearly. When American places are mentioned it's always Town, State, Country, but when anywhere else is mentioned you're lucky to get State, Country, or the closest major city if you're really lucky. Fahrenheit and MM/DD/YY and American spellings dominate even though they're the only country that uses them. People constantly talk about how x and y 'breaks the law'. They mean American laws, because those are obviously universal. American news and American politics are everywhere. You *have* to care about this. If you don't, you're a monster. The only time my country makes it is when we're literally burning to the ground, and even then they don't even touch the political side of things. Even international incidents somehow get brought back to America - call your representative (I dont have one). Go to these protests (they're on the other side of the world). Sign this petition (it's for US residents only). Im going to go insane.

[vinelark]

usamerican pals, the 5 Calls app is really useful for helping you stay focused/create a script for yourself when calling your reps. and you can call with a single click from any issue page! i called house rep and senators before work this morning and even though i stumbled over my words i got it done in just a few minutes.

it also works on browser if you don’t want an app, but the app shows you little ✅s when you complete a call, which the overachieving student that still exists inside me appreciates.

there are so many things to be calling about, but today i focused on:

-opposing musk’s coup (house reps and senators)

-opposing HR 722 (nationwide abortion ban, this one’s for your house reps rn) and opposing HR 22/SAVE act (huge voting restrictions bill, for house reps/senators respectively)

-opposing all cabinet nominees, especially RJK jr (senators)

-protecting federal workers and vehemently opposing the dismantling of USAID (both)

-oppose/speak out against trump’s proposed takeover of gaza, you spineless fucking shitstains (house reps and senators)