#nobody is immune to propoganda

[antiresperidoneclub]

whenever ppl are discoursing and their only major point is "but then X will do bad thing to Y!!!" understand that 99% of the time, 'X' is already doing that bad thing to 'Y' and theyre just using marginalized people for fear tactics to garner support from ppl who dont have knowledge on said topic at hand.

"if we let trans women use womens bathrooms men will dress as women and assault us in the bathroom!!"

men already assault women and get away with it on a horrifically conatant basis, they dont need to pretend to be trans to do that.

"if we accept neopronouns/neogenders, therians, and other gender weirdo's people will mock us and not take us seriously!!"

they already dont take us seriously and never have, this proves furthermore that the 'gender weirdos' are a vulnerable portion of our community we have failed in aiding. solidarity not segregation.

"if we defund and abolish the police then noone will stop crime!!"

people already commit crimes and cops do a pretty bad job at stopping it when it actually needs to be stopped (murder, rape, trafficking, mega-rich tax evasion, predators, right-wing terrorists etc)

"if we accept mspec lesbians then men will think they can have sex with or date lesbians!!"

again, men already do this and have been doing it for centuries. disregarding a huge chunk of our lesbian history and present because you refuse to see past your terf-bespeckled worldview is sad and dangerous to these very real people whom are apart of our community, eternally tethered.

[twokantonianlawyers]

rOTOMBLR HELP WHAT DO WHEN PARTNER IS SLEEPILY CLINGING TO YOU LIKE A VENOMOTH HEEELP (GOOD THING) -Ryuunosuke

[spkyscry-a]

"Bloody ‘ell, th’ fook I end up now?”

[gooddogbestfriend]

I'm glad you had an upbringing and schooling that didn't constantly push portrayals of Mexico (and African and Asian countries) as people living in mud huts but it doesn't make you morally superior.

im american and i knew that like in kindergarten so i think some of you are just stupid sorry

[helreginn]

I love the Arc going on on this blog of reprehensible/wicked/evil men being like, "I am an asshole. I would do unspeakable things without regret. Oh, Hel is endangered because of me/my actions? Okay, maybe I have ONE regret."

XD

[puppetmaster55]

I really like tge idea of freak feral Shiro being terribly unhinged at flirting. Just-

Shiro: i just really like Lance, but i dont know what to say to him

Matt: Just go up to him and talk to him!

Shiro: And what say anything?

Matt: Anything

~later~

Shiro @ Lance: Your ass makes me forget about my year as a gladiator and my death

Lance won't stop grinning, and the next day he wears a shirt that says "you are not immune to propoganda" with blue booty shorts that reads "propoganda" across the ass. nobody knows where or how he got them. Shiro hasn't even noticed the shirt.

somewhere, in the background, Matt is slamming his head into a table

[lilbittymonster]

2 and 17 for the ffxiv ask? :3

2. How did they learn to fight? Have they learned other martial or magical arts since then?

Kitali learned how to fight from her father! He was a Gesi lancer who had to adapt to spearfighting instead of javelin techniques once they left the Steppe, but there's still a lot of Othardian polearm skills taught on the Steppes. When she was about 8 or so, he commissioned a blacksmith after a particularly well-paying job and made her her very first lance.

Since arriving in Eorzea, Kitali learned a great deal from the shinobi and rogues and uses those skillsets in tandem with her dragoon abilities. The DRK abyss powers she keeps to herself, nobody knows except Sid and Rielle and...the whole of the Brume but they won't snitch lol.

17. What do they think about the Empire? Did their feelings on the matter evolve over time?

Kitali h a t e s the Empire. Her father was killed by AWOL garleans turned highway bandits. She sees the horros of occupation everywhere she goes. When she gets to Eorzea, her opinion of "the only good garlean is a dead one" shifts slightly to "the only good Garleans are either defectors or dead" once she meets Cid and Lucia. Maxima is still on very thin ice, she's not too sure what to make of him yet. He's nice, though.

After Endwalker, though, I think she's going to have to sit down and process and sort through that Garleans are just people too, and are also not immune to propoganda. That whole arc really hit her upside the head.

Thanks for the asks @fantasmagoriam

FFXIV Asks

[1ndulgences]

☆ finally with both engstars and jp enstats i can spread my madara agenda even further

☆ mama for the win >:DD

☆ ✨

nobody is immune to mama-propoganda..... i wonder if he will be popular with new players....? he is a fun character, to be sure......

[tamiddyinyourcity]

Truth hurts only when you're avoiding it, buddy

John: you're so fucking stupid and annoying, i bet thats why you talk to me, since nobody loves you huh? Not even your own family wants you around, I bet!

Me, calmly texting back while sipping my drink: people arent "blind sheep" as you say they are; you're not as immune to propoganda as much as you let yourself think, considering you spend all your money and free time on weed and paying thousands of dollars for shoes that you don't even wear.

John:

Me:

John:

John:

John: g...god, just shut up, you stupidhead

[themainspoon]

Oh, I'd always just seen claims that there were risks, and I guess I just kind of assumed that maybe there was some sort of specific dosage stuff involved that it could be easy for the average person to fuck up. I have to deal with plenty of controled prescriptions myself, so I guess I just sort if assumed that it was just like that. Nevermind then, I guess I should have actually looked into what those supposed "risks" I saw mentioned all the time were actually supposed to be. A reminder that nobody is immune to propoganda.

Holy fucking rule

[sharp-rosee]

.... *I'm* the insane one after you went on a long ass rant about hating Muslims and proving my point.

So you don't actually care about anti semitism being spread if it's against the brown people you hate - uhh, I mean, Muslims. That's not racist at all!

Supporting an actual Nazi on tumblr isn't bad at all if they agree with your racism. Yes, this makes sense as a blog supporting Jewish people.

This rant IS insane to read, actually. I have never read anything quite so racist in my life. Also if me calling a woman who has been harrassing me with racist rhetoric all over Tumblr, linking me to posts I've already addressed that came from actual Nazis "a racist pig" is somehow racist, but all of the above anti immigrant nonsense isn't racist, you're too far gone.

There is no way you are serious right now. Can someone say sike. This is proof that nobody is immune to propoganda, even the people who it targets to be the ones hated.

@radicallycooljewishgirl

I find your vent very coincidental as a similar post of yours was deleted but it's contents were described to me by another user (not gonna tag her) after I had this interaction with MandyFem, where I disproved her very blatant racist, anti-immigrant post.

To start:

As someone who makes their whole blog centered around their Jewish experience, you seem oddly eager to dismiss what is very blatantly an alt-right, anti-semetic dogwhistle.

It is very odd you are calling us throwing around the labels "racist" and "Nazi" trivial, while trying to downplay the very real dogwhistle that the anti-immigration rhetoric is a cover for the Great Replacement Theory. Here is my post on that - not that you shouldn't already know this, right?

Not to mention, I had forgotten about this original DM as, because you deleted that post, I was going to ignore it - it couldn't be verified that you said those things. However, when I was looking through @anti-nazi-white-advocate's blog, I found your post reblogged.

Usually being reblogged by someone like that wouldn't be an issue because you can't control who sees your posts- Its odd that they don't show up deleted.

And then... boom! On your blog, I saw your post.

I can't help but to laugh at how you are angry we are calling out racism on Tumblr. How can you be pro Jewish but then support blatant rhetoric steeped in anti-semitism?

You say you're against Nazis but then support the rhetoric being reblogged and endorsed by fellow radfems on this post here. You haven't agreed with it obvi; but you've seen this, haven't you? Otherwise, how would you know to vague about these posts?

Your lack of knowledge on something that should be basic for someone who centers their blog around Israeli women's rights and the rights for other Jewish people is suspicious.

I know your post is about me, BTW. I'm right here. Instead of vagueing like a coward, talk to me.

[tbonechessor]

I've reblogged some posts about it but I don't think it's genuinely the most on-sight instantly-soul-corrupting thing if you go shipping some MW2 randos. I don't think it's really going to make you fall in love with the military. I know propoganda and stuff like that is operating on a slower timescale than that, but you get what I mean.

I mean it's probably not GREAT to repeatedly inhale stories where guys in green are always the good guys against people from different countries.

Like yes. Propoganda Bad. Nobody Immune. But like.

At what point do we acknowledge that it's kind of Straw-manish to:

constantly herald media with authority figures like police and military as Ultimately Evil Things with brain corrupting fungus so potent that mere exposure to such will turn you into dangerous boot-chewing trad-whatevers

While also calling it Dumb cringe for Babies with No Critical thought who are OH So foolish and flimsy and weak-willed for shipping THOSE generic muscle-Guys.

Like are we afraid of this or not.

I think the weird thing about this particular internet ecosystem is that it wildly waffles between discouraging purity culture while also being incredibly strict as to what Is and Is Not considered okay to engage with and I find the more and more this goes on the more I feel like I'm being treated like I'm stupid.

That everyone is stupid.

[borderlinehannibal]

Dude, the entire point of the word dogwhistle is that its Not Obvious! Its not! Thats why it works! I dont know every dogwhistle on earth, ive fallen for some! That doesnt make me dumb! Do you think people who getin with cults are dumb? Do you think people who stay with emotional abusers are dumb? No? Its the same concept! I use to watch militant atheist youtube for hours and it influenced me and the way i thought about religion and race! That didnt make me dumb! I used to believe no one would ever love me or find me attractive because im ugly and mentally ill! That didnt make me dumb! Stop putting words in my mouth!

You are not immune to propoganda and neither am i! Nobody is! We are all influenced by the media the surrounds us and theres no way to stop it!