#leopards eating faces

[quitblamingnarcissism]

They want leopards to eat people's faces. They insist that society would fall apart if leopards stopped eating people's faces. They then complain when leopards eat their face, because the leopards were supposed to only eat other people's faces.

Narcissistic leopards don't care whose faces it's socially acceptable to eat. They'll just eat anyone's face.

And when a narcissistic leopard eats someone's face, society acts like the problem is narcissism while still supporting non-narcissistic leopards eating people's faces.

[kkglinka]

It's a shame that it would look bad for biden to take advantage of his newfound legal immunity to arrest and imprison his political rivals on charges of bribery and corruption. Really ram home the dangers of allowing an elected civil servant to behave like a tyrant.

[space-blue]

[kael-writ]

randomly thought about Cathy Brennan today and how she used to be a MAJOR Player in TERFism but havent heard of her recently. Apparently she is not too happy that the leopards are chomping on her face now.

[outlikethat]

Seeing a lot of takes decrying the greater number of responses to the OTW’s AI misstep vs OTW racism.

Seems to me they’re parts of the same whole. The problem with AI as currently deployed is that it is being approached from an entirely extractive, appropriative mindset — the same Western philosophy of “if it’s there, it’s for our exploitation” that’s fuelled colonialism and racism for centuries.

[schmaniel]

[ink-the-artist]

Rabbits

Some bonus art, I initially started making this in a totally different art style but changed my mind about halfway through lmao, here are the parts I finished

[lylahammar]

Weight loss is a completely morally neutral personal choice that anyone can make for any reason, but if you choose to lose weight because you hate your fat body, please do the internal work to get over that internalized fatphobia before or during your weight loss efforts. I’ve seen far too many fat people become skinny and immediately turn their internalized fatphobia outwards, and it’s a bad time for everyone. If you have to keep the weight off through a strictly maintained diet and exercise, it’s pretty much inevitable that you will gain some weight back at some point in your life (likely more than you had in the first place if yo-yo dieting is in play), and you will find that all the hatred you projected at the fat community will come back to bite you in the ass with twice the power. Work on loving your fat self while you’re there, and if you choose to lose weight then work on continuing to love your old fat self. Life will feel much better for yourself and the fat people around you that way.

[homielander]

the most superficial perspective on the small council scene is that alicent is coming to terms with the realization that the leopards will eat her face as well, and she is being denied power for being a woman just as rhaenyra has been...

but i do think there's a more interesting series of realizations going on. season 1 went to great lengths to show us that alicent's motive for usurping rhaenyra was not rooted in the belief that women are not fit to rule. she is a capable political actor herself and she advocated for rhaenyra to be queen when she was younger at the expense of her own standing. even her conversation with rhaenys at the end of the season suggested a resignation to the way of the world rather than a judgment on women's deficiencies.

alicent had other reasons for wanting to supplant rhaenyra: daemon, whom she saw as a complete wildcard, would have been dangerously close to the throne if rhaenyra did assume power, and she believed that she and otto could guide aegon to rule fairly under their experienced counsel. however, in this episode, the small council she presided over as a competent administrator for years rejected her proposition to rule and chose in her place: her dangerous, unstable son who has already proven resistant to guidance and quite literally triggered the war. over her! because a woman could not be allowed to reign when another woman was usurped for being one.

this is not to say that alicent lacked the awareness on a more detached level that rhaenyra's womanhood was the pretext used to usurp her, but this makes it much more visceral. the people who facilitated aegon's ascension were not motivated by the things she was. in conjunction with her discovery that the prophecy was not about aegon ii -- the prophecy that would have attached some divine purpose to all of her pain, allowed her suffering to mean something -- alicent is really beginning to question why she is doing any of this at all.

[hamletthedane]

10/10 headline from the NYT this morning

[wilwheaton]

Eight years ago Will Saletan said “The GOP is a failed state. Donald Trump is its warlord.” There’s probably no short summary, phrase or aphorism I’ve repeated more times on TPM. Because it’s that good. Today we’re seeing another permutation and illustration of that enduring reality. This is more basic than a fractured caucus or any of the personalities involved. It is the logical end result of a party and political movement based on rule-breaking, as a central value and mode of operation. When rule-breaking becomes the norm organizations and polities fall apart … without a strongman. For eight years Donald Trump has been that strongman. It’s Trump’s general indifference to the House Speaker debacle and perhaps focus on his unfolding legal woes that has allowed the chaos to drag on. This is always the relationship between civic democracies and the broken states where strongmen thrive and dominate. Civic democracy operates through an organized competition between different stakeholders in society. It requires a consensus to litigate disagreements through a prescribed set of rules. The breakdown of those rules creates an opening for strongmen who traffic in raw power and sell their ability to impose order. It is both the cause and result of the species of civic and moral degeneracy we see as the mother’s milk of Trumpism.

The Party of Rule-Breaking Trundles Toward Its Inevitable End Point - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[ftmtftm]

*violently shakes other trans people while gripping them at the shoulders*

Cis people aren't going to accept you into their binary by undercutting and denying the experiences of other trans people! Cis people aren't going to accept you into their binary by undercutting and denying the experiences of other trans people! Cis people aren't going to accept you into their binary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're all "failed men" and "failed women" to a transphobic society!!! All of our deviations from white cishetero patriarchal norms are punished violently and with death sentences!!! Assimilation will not keep you safe!!! Breaking all your bones to contort yourself into a cis world view of gender that actively erases and denies the experiences of other demographics of trans people will never genuinely serve you, I'm sorry!!!

[horroryolks]

Poor Alicent, who has always permitted the men around her to control her life. To uphold the 'order of things,' (aka particarchy) only to be relegated to a back seat once more.

Watching her realize that all the sins shes commited to keep a small group of powerful men happy has been for nothing must be soul crushing.

Anyways.... When she watched Aemond being chosen as regent, perhaps she was thinking about her last conversation with Rhaenys.

And yet you toil still in service to men...

[liesmyth]

also. we don't talk enough about how the og Canaan House gang were doing metaphysical experiments on people. just cramming a dozen souls into one person. five hundred into fifty. yes yes it's tragic that all the cavs died but also they were ALL taking those freshly resurrected batches and squeezing their souls like juice to make creepy priests. Anastasia I just want to talk

[bitchesgetriches]

"I never thought the leopards would eat MY face!" @chescaleigh

[theconcealedweapon]

"As a conservative woman, how do I convince conservative men to be more respectful of women?"

Translating:

"When the leopards are eating people's faces, how do I stop them from eating my face?"