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iguanodonwildman · 2 months ago

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If you’re shaming someone for voting for Harris because they’re hurting Palestine, please explain your logic. Should we have voted for trump, who wants to give Israel more weapons? Who is actively working to end this pitiful excuse of a ceasefire? Should we vote for trump and hurt all the marginalized groups in America? Should we vote against abortion rights and trans rights and food regulation?

Harris isn’t great for Palestine but i have two options and she’s the lesser of two evils. Third party candidates are a joke in America. It’s not going to happen anytime soon. Shaming people for making the only choice they can leads to non voters which leads to a trump win which leads to a lot more death, both in and out of Palestine.

Sincerely, we’re trying our best so fuck off.

#I’m so done rn #us politics #vent post #sorry just seeing so much voter shaming and it’s like #what should I have done #voted for trump?#not been born in America?#I’m reblogging posts and helping people apply for verifications and signing petitions and voting #and doing what I can #fuck offffffff

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vampyrluver · 19 days ago

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Despite everything (and theres...a lot), i actually love being american. I love the culture of smiling at strangers, i love the cultural diversity, i love the willingness to be helpful, the openness we tend to exhibit, i love the american lean, i love how casual we are, i love saying "no problem!" Or "mhm!" When someone says thank you

Idk, i see a lot of europeans be like "ough americans are too happy too smiley they r too casual" nd like ........ womp womp sorry i have lust for life nd small things bring me joy why r u so mad

#.txt #america has problems obvi but i think i am sooo grateful to have been born in this country #i literally get so annoyed at europeans who complain about american culture #i also get so mad when ppl say america has no culture #like that literally gets me so upset bc u clearly dont kno wht culture means if u truly think that

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bvckbiter · 8 days ago

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me going into the rr crit tag lately: perhaps you would be happier writing your own books

#like dont get me wrong i am so rr critical id probably get barred from seeing/speaking to him at events if i lived in america #but omg some of these critiques are like. just not born out of love for the book. or good faith discussions #it's like a 70-30 ratio of what the posters personally want to criticism that is legitimate but has been discussed to death for 5+ years no #bonus points (/sarcastic) if they say somewhere that they haven't read the books in a bit #like bro just use the anti pjo tag bec the rr crit tag is for actual critiques not to shit on percy #also my modern greek myth stories hot take is that they actually don't have to be faithful ie replicate every piece of characterization #because the authors of the 'canon' mythos vastly diverged on these anyway #it's only disingenuous and annoying if the author or the fandom claims to be a 'faithful' retelling and accurate to the myths #likeee yall just hate the stories that dont give you the stuff you want #you could easily hate on epic the musical for entirely dispensing with the odyssey's themes of masculinity and guest rites etc #but people dont because odysseus being a wifeguy who's faithful to a fault is infinitely more palatable than homer's odysseus #that being said ... l/ore o/lympus is another discussion entirely lmfaoooo #fandom wank #welp sorry the tags got away from me #i just got annoyed at how this fandom's tags are unFUCKINGnavigable

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actual-corpse · 2 months ago

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Im pretty sure I just overheard a girl who plans to vote for Trump say, "Trump's been president for 4 years and nothing happened....."

Girl... you do know that it takes a few YEARS for us to see the effects of policies put into place by a president like...

Trump started removing policies that helped guarantee consumer and worker safety, and we JUST NOW felt the effects through the listeria outbreak.

PLEASE DO SOME RESEARCH PLEASE.

I'm fucking terrified. We either get one of the biggest acts of domestic terrorism to date, or we get 4 years of what could become a tyrannical dictatorship, which removes ALL OF THE RIGHTS WE FOUGHT HARD TO GET!

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sophiethewitch1 · 3 months ago

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oh also guys i said that id have chapter 8 out by my birthday and like literally posted it a day before. i have not changed at all since my high school years but anyways happy 21st to me!!! toootoooo!!!

#sophie speaks #i can now legally drink alcohol in america #which i dont live in. so anyways #i really dont know if theres anything particularly special about 21 despite my family insisting so #i got tired and said i wanted to actually just wait for my mum to make the cake tomorrow instead because itd been a long day lol #it was fine id had a slice of cake at a cafe anyways #my name is sophie and i was born to sleep #i love sleep #chronic fatigue core or whatever

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emberwritesinsight · 9 months ago

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I know we all kind of assume Anthy and Akio are Indian because of the brown skin and bindis (Google tells me that while it's less common, men do wear bindis sometimes), and I agree, but also. "Dios" is Spanish, "Anthy" is derived from a Greek word, "Himemiya" is Japanese (I would theorize that her name hasn't always been "Himemiya", though she does seem to have had the name "Anthy" as far back as we're allowed to see into her past), and Akio drives an American car and plays jazz (a style of music that developed in America) over the radio in said car. Also, despite bindis being a Hindu, Jain and Buddhist thing, all the religious shit the two of them have going on (the martyrdom, Akio drawing a comparison between himself and Satan, Ohtori looking like a fucked up Cathedral and Dios appearing to Utena in a church) is Pretty Christian.

I know all of this is probably just a product of the writers not having a concrete idea of where they wanted Akio and Anthy to be from other than "not here" but it implies a lot of travel, which does kind of fit with Dios' whole "trying to rescue Every Girl Ever" thing.

Where do their names come from, anyway? "Dios" sounds like it could have been a name given to him by the people he saved. We never hear hide nor hair of their parents, they're fully irrelevant even by the farthest flashback.

#revolutionary girl utena #anthy himemiya #akio ohtori #shoujo kakumei utena #himemiya anthy #ohtori akio #rgu #sku #if i had to guess #i'd say they were born in india and spent their REALLY early lives there #and then started travelling #i think they've been to europe- maybe italy given anthy's weird obscure knowledge about Cantarella #also if they were the ones who BUILT ohtori (which seems likely given their influence over it)#then i would think they went to France at some point because HOLY ROCOCO BATMAN #and america. akio probably got The Car there.#and then eventually set up shop in Japan for. Reasons.#I don't know what the in-universe reasons could possibly be honestly but there they are #honestly i don't think they adhere to any religion besides the one they're living out.

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aesthetics-over-ethics · 2 months ago

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non-voters, third-party voters, this is what you wanted. I sincerely hope you carry shame about what you've done for the rest of your days.

#yeah my hands are bloody. i was born in America‚ all of our hands are bloody from the moment we were born.#boycotting only works when you're giving something money. you are not paying to vote. so not voting does nothing but allow other people to #make all the decisions without you. and all of our hands are going to get that much bloodier because of you. not just with the blood of #Palestinians (who Trump has already been in talks with Netanyahu on the destruction of). queer people in the US and beyond. trans people.#you are personally responsible.#us politics

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stlangels · 10 months ago

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I am shaking with fucking rage listening to this state of the union i think maybe two other faces have made me instantly get this angry.

I am not your "fellow American." I refuse to be American if this is what it means to be American. I am human before I am an American.

I refuse to die before I see a free Palestine. I will see a free Palestine in my lifetime. I refuse to die before I can see a free world. I will see everyone free in my lifetime because I refuse to die without seeing it. It's probably impossible but I don't care because I have to see it. I'm sick of seeing anything else.

#I cannot accept this place as it is bit I do love this place. I love the lands the people and the places I lived in and have seen. I want th #This is the first election I vote in and its the only one I've been around for that I couldn't even beg to predict. And either outcome is e #the same kind of evil we've been for over a hundred years. The evil place I was born into.#I haven't had faith in America since 2020 #when the illusion snapped. But as every year comes and goes I manage to lose even more faith in this place that I've hated for 3years and 9 #I have to live to see a free world. I have to see it with my own two eyes. I have to see people free from fear. I don't know how to live wi #and your freedom #and our freedom #and their freedom. I want to see a world where children are happy. I want to see the world I keep dreaming about #where everyone is taken care of.#grahambles

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kimsmingyu · 4 months ago

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nonkorean kdrama watchers get too comfortable complaining because what do you mean you expect a korean speaking korean actor to speak english a certain way... aka they want them fluent...

#y'all need to go outside...#like the fact kdrama actors and actresses get trashed for speaking english in their dramas #even though we know it's not their first language at all #you praise american or canadian born or raised actors for their english when their fluent...#like IDK if a korean person is speaking broken english in a kdrama!!!#my father has been in america for like over 40 years #and STILL HAS A HEAVY ACCENT #his primary language is still NOT ENGLISH #so the fact that in love next door people are saying the FL should speak english better...#WEIRDOS!

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pickapea · 3 months ago

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my absolutely biggest online pet peeve is US centric people projecting their rich sorority girl bully stereotype of nurses onto everyone else, as if nurses aren't working class and mostly immigrants of colour everywhere else. and when did it become cool to hate on underpaid and exploited workers anyway

#*when i say ''everywhere else'' i mean sweden specifically. idk what it's like in other countries #anyway it bothers me to no end #most of my coworkers are 1. very nice and 2. quite poor and part of many oppressed classes and groups #a vast majority of them are either single mothers who have immigrated from the middle east or africa #or young afghan men who came here in 2015-2021 during the refugee wave #on many shifts ive been 1. the only nurse born in sweden and 2. the only female nurse #your experiences are not universal #the way the internet talks about nurses bothers me to no end! not every nurse makes insane dollars a year and is blonde and married to a cop #i googled this once and american nurses on average make 2x or even nearly 4x of what i made at my previous job. depending on state #enough ppl in the ward i worked at were muslim that we celebrated ramadan all of us basically. not exactly but it did affect the schedule #many of my coworkers could barely afford clothes for all their kids and we all worked crazy hours and kept getting overworked and burnt out #i hate the american stereotype!!!!!#''nurses are mostly high school bullies who like being in control of and hurting vulnerable people'' no! that isn’t true! it just isn’t!#lots of bad healthcare isnt bc the workers are sadists.its bc the resources from the government are lacking and the workers are understaffed #like #we know when the care isn’t good. and it feels Bad actually to not be able to do it better #lots ppl change professions bc of the ethical stress. it's not fun. and sometimes it's obvious a patient feels like theyre not getting heard #but you don't have the time to sit down and listen or whatever else. there isn't time or resources for it #and a lot of crucial vital conditions/symptoms sometimes get missed bc of lack of resources and competence quitting #it's not bc nurses are evil and want ppl to die and suffer. i feel like this has got to be some kind of propaganda circulating #it's such a bizarre stereotype when you think about it. and it's just not true to reality. idk #anyway what do i know. maybe they are actually evil in america. it's possible. a lot of bizarre things are true in america #i just hate the narrative online #pickapost

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a9saga · 1 year ago

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how many times do i have to say for now let's eavesdrop on the houseguests live from outside the big brother house i'm julie chen moonves love one another

#when did julie start signing off w the phrase 'love one another'#was it when she became a born again christian or was it after some kind of tragic event #because both make sense #this show was on before 9/11 even happened it would have made sense at any time #double eviction night tonight was pretty tame tbh #matt and jag got their final five they wanted #i was hoping america would stay tbh i thought that would make for a way more interesting next week of gameplay #if cirie and america turned to each other out of necessity... that would have been FASCINATING #if both blue and felicia were gone i feel like america would become the one cirie would really start talking to #i'd have honestly liked to see her revitalize her game but whatever #bb25 #big brother #big brother 25 #shut up kaily

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inkykeiji · 9 months ago

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#just saw someone online say they think angel wasn’t close with his mom & didn’t have a relationship with his mom at all #which is a totally valid interpretation/headcanon; absolutely #however my italian ass went ??????????????#knowing how much italian mothers—ESPECIALLY old country traditional italian mothers—not only love their sons #but love the absolute fuck out of their BABY sons #the youngest #the littlest #the baby of the family #is fucking sacred #especially if it is a boy #now obv angel has molly #but he is still by definition the youngest SON #so i’ll be super surprised if his relationship with her is nonexistent #then again who knows how much they’re going to lean into angel’s italian heritage #if they lean into it AT ALL past the mafia #and immigrating to new york #which also raises so many questions like was he born in italy and then moved as a kid to america like so many people did during the early 19 #early 1900s????? or did his parents immigrate even EARLIER than that and he was born on american soil???#the very earliest angel could’ve been born based on his age and when he died is 1903 #about half of those early immigrants arrived between 1900-1910 #so #many questions so many questions #i rly do hope they decide to lean into angels italian roots at LEAST a little #but that’s purely because i am italian #so i’d just love to see some italian-american stuff here #anyway this is just me rambling i have to go to bed #clari chatters

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badolmen · 1 year ago

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Everyone talking about adopting Palestinian kids needs to read Scott Carney’s The Red Market and a brief definition of genocide outside of the physical destruction of lives.

#ra speaks #personal #adoption #palestine #the red market #it’s been years since I read that book #but the sections about the trafficked kids has always stuck with me #about the family who had their son stolen. who tracked him down in America. who asked the family to see him #not to take him home not to be a part of his life but simply to speak with a now young teenager #and tell him how much they loved him and missed him and were happy he was safe #only for the family to deny them.#like Jesus fucking Christ man that shit has fucked me up #idk maybe it’s just cause my countin died recently #and she was adopted and her graduate psychology work was with adopted kids because she was passionate #about the flaws and dangers of the system she grew up in #but every person who talks about saving the children when they mean taking them away from everything and everyone they’ve ever known #it makes my skin crawl #we should be putting effort into keeping track of families. of finding family friends and connections for these kids.#not throwing them into a new country full of racists who will give them shit for where they were born no matter how American they’re raised

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kellystar321 · 11 months ago

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#reading kim kitsuragi fics about his seolite heritage and. crying. (/positive)#wahhhh. wahhhhh. hes just like me for real.#anyway have been reading a bunch of #disco elly #fics recently and having a good time!! i need to write one immediately hffhh also i ADORE THE SKILLS!! SO MUCH!!#you may think my favorite character is kim. its true. BUT ALSO ITS ACTUALLY THE SKILLS. theyre funny silly :3 #i loveee the skills so much and i need to play more of the game and memorize what each of them do so i can write them accurately #also people who rp as the skills on tumblr YOU ARE SO FUNNY AND I LOVE YOU. they are so interesting <33 #i love them talking to each other!! i wish i could be a part of that but i think everyone is taken though. alas!#update: nevermind i solved it. i figured it out.#anyway topic at hand. kim brings me such joy. and as a seasian its;;; very poignant sometimes. important to me #born in america. but the asian heritage and all that comes with it stays. people will still assume. make comments.#asian american; a reconciliation with the self :'> stories where kim can have or navigate that are cathartic.#periodical life updates #I GUESS LMAO?#my favorite color is queue

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an-incoherent-mess · 7 months ago

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So I'm really into genealogy and have been for a few years now and I'm blessed with being really good with names and dates etc. So in conversation I can remember like a ridiculous amount of:

Jane Doe Smith Johnson

b. 1805 Tennessee d. 1879 Missouri

Married 1828 to John Patrick Johnson. Had five children. Died of TB

Etc etc

And that's cool enough apparently but I've mostly been using it for

A. Making up bullshit but real sounding names for stuff (i.e my name is Emily Stewart, Grace Kolár, etc). The point is that they're normal sounding and varied.

B. Having a bizarre frame of reference for historical events. Like "oh [small town],[state] 1942 had [random] event happen? My 1st cousin 4x removed got married there that year, small world!"

It's so dumb, like I'll read about some historical event from my area (where I've had family in the vicinity of since the 1840s) and I'll link up the time frame in my head and be like hmm... I wonder what 3rd great aunt Helen thought about that happening next door to her church.

#anyways im haunted by my ansesters and their lives #and driven actually crazy when i hit a dead end until ive solved it #like if i dont figure out credibly who my 3rd great grandfather's parents are soon im genuinely going to lose touch I'm serious.#i realized the other day that id been 'investigateing' it since Jan 2021 DO YOU KNOW HOW DIFFERENT MY LIFE IS COMPARED TO THEN?!#and I'm not like casual.. I am multiple times a week searching the LoC as well as physical genealogical libraries for records #it lives in my brain like a tumor #he was born in 1857 in 'western' America this isn't fog of shit #its goddanm out there!#part of the obsession is because this particular ancestor is where my surname came from #he's my paternal paternal paternal grandfather.. yea... I'm just like curious as to specifically where my surname originated #sometimes especially on my mom's side I can track this shit down to a specific small european towns and I can find neat historical stuff #but this guy is just a fucking mystery #he appears in Oklahoma in the 1870s has like 15 children and then offs himself after losing money gambling #oh my god im actually ranting #and I guess it bugs me more than others because he has a very prominent newspaper trail #there are tons and tons of mentions of this guy #he has a long ass obituary but nobody ever fucking mentions where he came from other than like vague ass statements #his obituaries literally contradict each other too #I have searched everywhere for any misspelling of this guy's name #but his name is very easy to spell it's freaking William and the last name is very easy as well its a third person singular verb #ugh #anyways #ive cooled off #geneology #is interesting as fuck honestly

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dromaeo-sauridae · 5 months ago

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i think hector as a person died with antonio. he was his brother’s keeper all his life, when antonio fell in with the gang hector followed to keep him safe. when antonio left mexico hector left to live with him in texas. when antonio was caught by the law, hector broke him out of prison and they went on the run together. when antonio was cut loose by the gang hector followed him

but when it came down to it, he could not protect antonio. whatever survived was someone else

#refusing to actually drop oc lore and talking about them like everyone already knows everything about them #(they were born in mexico but left for america as young teens #they fell in with a band of robbers and have been on the run from the law ever since #antonio got tuberculosis and was cut loose because they didnt want him slowing them down #and hector left with him because of course he did #but hector was the only one who lived)#personal i guess #hector #antonio #everyone thinks their roles are reversed cuz hector’s a drunk who picks fights and antonio has to bail him out #but hector has always been looking out for them #he still is i guess. in a way

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