#nazis go die

[crazycatsiren]

This witch will turn Nazis into compost and fertilize her garden with it.

[the-final-sif]

Sometimes I get culture shock from going from MCYT's space where people freak out about like, 18 year olds drinking with 20 somethings to behind the bastards where Robert Evans is talking about his young adulthood traveling Guatemala and he's talking about the bar owner they were staying with and it's just,

And sometime like there was this other guy who owned a bar in Guatemala who was a former highway patrol officer from Arizona, UM and said that It's one of the first things he told me when I met him, was like, "I used to be a highway patrol officer in Arizona and I can never go back now." And he clearly had in the recent past, had a couple of hundred grand to spend on buying a hotel with a bar, and those two things were connected. Yeah, he was a cricket highway patrol officer, yes, And and he was also like the big drug dealer in town, which I'm sure also tied into why he's no longer a highway patrol office. He saw a business opportunity and it was like, I don't want to be in law anymore, I want to run a shady ass bar that gets European kids dangerously intoxicated on their holidays, And that's what he did. My last memory of this guy is because he also had a seventeen year old wife who had just given birth- [...] My last memory of that cop was he had his baby on a bassinet around his chest, and he was shirtless other than the baby he was wearing. And he was leaning over the counter of his bar with a jar of mushrooms preserves and honey, and he was spooning them into a naked Danish boy's mouth.

And this is someone who Robert is describing fondly. It's just jarring sometimes.

[soyboywenzie]

no hate but if i was george rr martin and i saw the state of the fandom that came from my books, i, too, would not think of finishing the series on the stance that you all do not deserve it.

[queerstudiesnatural]

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[omg-snakes]

The second baby from SM23 is a "Hypo."

Suspicion increase

[slyandthefamilybook]

"not murdering won't stop murder. the only thing that will stop murder is more murder. we only have murderers because we, the innocent, haven't murdered the right people"

[canonicaly-ace]

But yeah sure keep telling me how the anti-zionists are the good guys here

[badolmen]

I feel that there’s a world of difference between “fandomizing real world politics and tragedies” (in my understanding - applying ‘fandom’ to, well, real world politics and tragedies eg. shipping war criminals or writing rpf for victims of traumatic events) and “making fandom art which acknowledges real world politics and tragedies” (in my understanding - political cartoons/art with a particular flag/etc.).

I’m not saying that the latter can’t be insensitive or in poor taste depending on execution but also…idk it’s weird to see tumblr activists freaking the fuck out over art of dunmesh senshi bringing food to Gaza. I can’t believe that’s the hill you want to kill (your own allies nonetheless!) on. We have people writing smut for about specific IOF soldiers or shipping Palestinian journalists, like, is the comic imagining a fictional character showing up to help people in a horrific situation really what you want to call tone deaf and insensitive?

[wild-at-mind]

I skipped a reblog on the last post tbh even though it was overall fine, because it did the whole 'of course there is a place for violence in our activism!' thing and I no longer endorse that, honestly. Ever since Richard Spencer got punched on camera I've watched people practically salivating for an opportunity to do the same to an acceptable target.

But so much of activism is about optics. The optics of Richard Spencer being punched on camera are extremely good, because not only did everyone know he was on record saying stuff like 'Heil Trump', he was also right in the middle of giving an interview about his shitty views, and he was putting on that calm, composed and dignified act that he was using as a way to raise respectability for his movement. (I remember Kat Blaque a few years after described it as dressing like a church boy.) The anonymous assailant punching him shattered all of that. It was unquestionably a triumph during one of the dirtiest and ugliest times for US right wing politics in recent memory. In the years after this happened, I remember seeing a number of left wing people, online and in person, who clearly were not normally comfortable with violence suddenly paying lip service to the idea, and it just felt so disingenuous. I wanted to ask them what they meant specifically- were they about to go out and start something? Or did they just mean they didn't condemn every incidence of violence in activism? (Which as I hope I have shown, is the category I fall into.) But the thing is, very few opportunities are as clear as the Richard Spencer incident. You can say punch nazis all you want, but many of them do in fact realise that going around being obviously nazi in public is an escalation, so they hide it. The man who killed UK MP Jo Cox was found to have a large amount of materials in his house from extreme right movements from across the world, and had some of the most extreme views imaginable, but he had sense enough to hide it in his day to day. If before he committed the murder you found out somehow and punched him, you'd just be seen as punching a random middle aged man.

The times there have been violence against TERFs have, I guarantee, done nothing but handed them the moral high ground plus an even bigger victim complex on a silver platter. Their entire movement revolves around being the downtrodden victims of some kind of organised trans agenda looking to victimise them. Even though I am certain they have started some physical fights and trans people reacted in self defense, trans people will always be framed as the aggressor in these encounters, and no that is not fair, but I think it is reason enough to do everything you can to avoid putting hands on a TERF if you are ever in that situation. (No matter what your gender identity is, you will be called a trans woman in any backlash also, leading to more harm for trans women specifically.) I feel like people try and hand wave this as respectibility politics, but I prefer to see it as optics. And your audience is people whose first and only idea about the issue of trans rights will be this encounter. At some point while particating in non-violent direct actions in the environmental movement, I realised random people are very eager to overstate the harm of anything you do. For example, if you block a road for any length of time, someone will find a way to say that cause a death, through some convuluted means. I've told this story before, but one time during a longer period of protest I was involved in, a friend of mine had a random woman run up to her and scream at her that a little boy had died because of the road blocking, I guess he was supposed to have been in a car and not an ambulance (NHS cuts yadda yadda) and couldn't get to the hospital in time and it was the fault of my friend specifically that he had died. This upset my friend very much. I have heard of stories like this many times, the person who died because of our road blocking, a couple of which are verifiably true stories but most which remained rumour, like this one.

Road blocking is a non-violent action, but people still find a way to twist it into a violence you personally have done if you participate. The only way to make some people happy is if you never do anything that might inconvenience someone in any way in the course of your activism. But it's not hopeless, because there is a massive freedom to realisiing this. After I saw my friend accused of murdering a little boy because she maybe sat on a road with some other people, I lost interest in any idea of deliberately violent activism. I do not believe that violence is never justified, but I do think that when you try and use it as an activism tool, it's like lighting a fire. You can control it up to a certain point, but then you can't, and it escalates. People talk a lot about rioting on here as if riots are a special advanced kind of protest, but they are not things people plan. They happen because of tensions coming to a head, and once the riot starts, you no longer have control of what it does. Property damage is not inherently violent but it works best when strongly targetted, and during a riot there is bound to be a tonne of collaterel damage done to the everyday lives of people who live in the area. And even though rioting can lead to changes for the better, this is not a situation you can manifacture in a lab, just go out and do one day. And when you see that quote the rioting is the language of the unheard, remember that applies to the right wing as well. The people rioting against immigration in Dublin I'm sure felt unheard.

I hope this not particularly thought out post made sense.

[crazycatsiren]

Yeah ok seriously, a white person with a self proclaimed "legally ordained *insert Norse deity here* priest" title for reals got enough red flags to cover a runway for a fucking Boeing 747.

[sporadicloverturtle]

wonder how many reichblr girlies are holocaust deniers lol

[smonk-wonk]

how are you a holocaust survivor if you're POC?

I'm not a Holocaust survivor I'm 25?

I'm gonna guess you mean descended from Holocaust survivors & victims. In which case it's really sad that you think this way firstly? POC and non Jewish people did in fact die during the holocaust and many were targeted for not fitting the Nazis' idea of the "superior Aryan race".

From The Holocaust Encyclopedia: "When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933, there were several thousand Black people living in Germany. The Nazi regime discriminated against them because the Nazis viewed Black people as racially inferior. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), the Nazis used racial laws and policies to restrict the economic and social opportunities of Black people in Germany. They also harassed, imprisoned, sterilized, and murdered an unknown number of Black people."

Also contrary to what some believe, and this may sound farfetched and I hope you're sitting down but bear with me- some people are actually more than one race. Some people are POC and white. We call this being biracial. Or in grade school, being an "Oreo". A mutt if they really want to dehumanize you

But while my relatives weren't targeted for their skin color as they were white, many people were. Black Germans and other POC did exist, were murdered and traumatized, and have passed down that generational trauma. Just as other persecuted populations even if it was much less it was no less a part of the genocide and ethnic cleansing.

[rayatii]

What a perfect start to the morning. I am awakened at 4 in the morning from nightmares about bombings in my neighborhood, seeing buildings being destroyed (the bombs were dropped by blimps, for some reason) and crying because I was very well-aware that there is no bomb shelter in my building (besides the corridor in front of the bathroom). And the mosquito-drone is already buzzing away at 7 AM.

[artcinemas]

my condolences to my american oomfs

[tearlessrain]

the only character in that entire trilogy whose potential was realized and seen through in a satisfying arc was fucking armitage hux.

that potential being "slimy awful little nazi lets his pettiness win out over his fascist ideals at exactly the right moment for the protagonists and then dies immediately, still awful"

the movies were a trainwreck but that one thing. that was perfect.

[wewontbesleeping]

damn the more time goes on, the more it really is obvious that there is nothing in the world that will stop some people from using twitter/x lmfao