#my country right or wrong

[countesspetofi]

You've probably been having the same experience I have lately: lots of Trumpists telling you that if you don't like what the fascist administration is doing, you should just leave the U.S.

Despite this not even being an option for the most vulnerable people affected by the new government's policies, it ignores the fact that it's Trump and his goons we hate, not our country.

Back in the 1960's, the issue was U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. Critics of the war were told that their abhorrence of the national policy and leaders was tantamount to abhorrence of the nation itself. Conservatives repeated the slogan "My country, right or wrong," meaning unquestioning belief that their leaders' policies must be right.

In 1967, Peter Tork of The Monkees said, "I don't believe in 'My country, right or wrong.' My country wrong needs my help.” And my response to those "If you don't like it, move" Trumpists is usually some variation on that. My country has its flaws, deep flaws. My ancestors came here, stole land from the indigenous people, and extracted its wealth using slave labor. But none of that is any reason to abandon our efforts to do better. I'm not speaking out against the madmen at the helm of our ship of state just because what they're doing is going to hurt ME. I love the ship and I don't want her to sink or lose her crew through mismanagement, or get torpedoed when every other vessel in the ocean decides she's too big a threat.

[kathywaller1]

Carl Schurz on True Patriotism

I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves … too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: “Our country, right or wrong!” They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of…

[keferon]

I. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. I’m okay I’m fine I’m okay I’m fine I’m oka

The fic I'm illustrating and losing my mind about 👉 Mistakes on mistakes until

[crypticmillipede]

stardew valley hot(?) take:: if you pick anything besides “experimental noise rock” for sam’s 2-heart event where you decide his band’s sound, you are simply wrong and non-canonical argue with the wall

like i’m sorry, you really think the town’s resident grunge/emo trio would play “cheerful pop” “hi-energy dance” or “honky-tonk country”?? these guys look like they feed off the souls of dying Hot Topics

[pommunist]

This is going to be a very personal post

I’ve been translating and relaying statements from ex admins for the last few days in the most objective way possible.

But I’m personally so, so proud of my fellow french qsmp fans for standing up so strongly for workers rights. I’m so proud that french ccs are supporting unconditionally those who speak out about the unfair working conditions they’ve been though. I’m so proud that french ex admins were brave enough to come out with their stories. I’m so proud that an actual french syndicate is looking at the case to make sure that the QSMP can go forward and respect workers rights around the world.

After months of the frenchs ccs, admins, and community being sidelined in the QSMP sphere, I’m so proud that we are the one to spearhead changes for better work conditions and representation.

Didn’t think it would, but it’s making me very very emotional.

[faggottonystark]

shittily incorporated cwilbur into my physics assignment

[ladywaterfall]

as a european hey what the fuck

[zinnie-zoloft]

I don’t care if the suicide squad game is “bad” or “repetitive”, they gave my boy captain boomerang a voice actor who’s actually from Australia

It’s such a small detail most people wouldn’t even notice it, but when deadshot is trying to shoot the flash, digger says “why don’t you just post him the bullet”, but when flash expresses the same sentiment he says “why don’t you just mail me the bullet”

It’s little details like that that make him sound like a real Australian, no matter how accurate an american actor can get the accent, they always seem to mess up the subtle dialect differences

It’s insignificant to most people but I’m just so happy when non-american accents and dialects are actually portrayed accurately

[boolger]

“You can’t be angry at your sister foreve-“

Wrong. Behold, my castle of bitterness, holding grudges and anger! I am the queen of this and she has been declared my sworn enemy. I will be a petty, angry bitch for the rest of our lives and I won’t apologise for it. I will not trust you. She may LEAVE.

[camgoloud]

he still has his tonsils. by the way if you even care

[thedawningofthehour]

In a little over a week we'll find out if we're about to have our first female president or live in Gilead.

To all my American readers who are adults and able to vote: please. Please vote. For the love of god, please. I can't fucking do this again.

[i-trash-about-things]

It's 2 am and I can't sleep with the thought of Hobie Brown leaving kiss marks all over his s/o face

Like- Imagine it. supermodel Hobie Brown, chilling on the dressing room with his partner, just chilling with each other. Then, he just gets up, reaches for a container of dark lipstick and just... Slowly, teasingly, sets it on his lips...

S/o immediately turns away, pretending like they weren't watching practically not blinking how their boyfriend applied the paint to his pretty lips.

He chuckles, steps closer and sits beside them. Without warning, he grabs their face and just plants a big fat kiss in their cheek. Then on their forehead. Other cheek. Lips. Jaw. It goes on and on, all the s/o can feel at this point is his warm lips, cold piercing and the sticky feeling of the lipstick coating their entire face.

When he steps back, Hobie just has this absolutely smug look on his face as he sees his finished work.

"looking good, luv."

[cerbreus]

if 2026 rolls around and i've not figured out a set course for dealing with my career woes (taking community college classes, making plans to continue education, switching jobs, literally ANYTHING...) please beat 🔨me 🔨with 🔨hammers........🔨🔨🔨

[andromeda3116]

like i really think people outside small towns - especially in the south - wildly underestimate what it takes to leave them

like, here's what it took for me to move 450 miles from home:

familial support on both sides of the move, i.e.:

--people to help pack the u-haul for free

--someone to drive the u-haul for free

--a place to stay overnight after arriving in the new city for free

--people to help me unpack the apartment for free

--people to chip in on gas

--people to buy lunch/dinner on the way over

--people to give advice on where to look for apartments

--people to give me a place to stay while apartment-hunting so that i didn't have to go in sight-unseen to a new home

--a big one: a brother with whom i lived for a year at very cheap rent and expenses to save up what i could

a decent job in a niche in-demand field back home, which allowed me get a well-paying job here in the same in-demand field with enough experience to start off in a good place

a reliable, reasonably fuel-efficient car that could travel 450 miles without concern (which was paid off beforehand)

a $4500 personal loan from the bank (which i used every single penny of) - which also required:

--good enough credit to qualify for a personal loan

--enough income from the previous year to get enough from the loan to move

enough income pre-move to cover expenses for my final month at home and my first three weeks of work here before getting a paycheck

(aside: people were like "why would you start your new job less than a week after moving?? that's so stressful!!!" like my doll my dear my darling i needed the fucking paycheck as quickly as possible after moving)

enough food to bring along so i could eat between moving and getting that check

related, and also in the "familial support" column: people to help me pay for gas and/or feed me if i ran out of money/food

of course the baseline of a home to stay in at all back home, internet to do the zoom interview and find apartments to rent, as well as the structure in the hometown like a u-haul facility and a good bank with which i have a long-standing account

also, only having to move myself and my pets rather than having children who would need to have either daycare or schooling lined up on the other side of the move

now, like, obviously you can move without these things - and of course any kind of support system can take the place of my family, either friends or community groups or government programs - but they are not easy things to necessarily contact or interact with from hundreds of miles away, and not having them leaves you potentially very vulnerable in the new place, sometimes to the point of life-threatening

and i wasn't even that poor! i mean i was below the median income, but only by a few grand - and it still required a solid baseline at home, support on both sides of the move, and a personal loan, and i still barely managed to do it

"why don't you just move???" is such a severely, blindly, mind-bogglingly classist statement that it makes me just immediately disengage with whoever is saying it

like, even if you don't have roots in the place you're at, moving away is fucking hard and fucking expensive

--signed, someone who has been rankling deeply at the casual way people talk about "just mov[ing]" like that's a normal, easy, obvious thing to do and not something that is absolutely price-gated to hell and back

[im-ovulating]

Were you silent or SILENCED? (We have this argument every 2 months istg)

(I also want a big ol' hunting knife on his hip just in case he needs to engage in close-quarter combat)

Ignore the misuses of "They're, their, there" and "You're, your" I was passionate and not checking that my grammar was proper lmao

[vivrante]

“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other”

Paulo Friere, on the “banking” concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing deposits.