#only this time it is with politics

[h2g2gender]

I don't think the actual levels of crazy in polititians has actually changed all that much, but the real factor is the ability and willingness to tell those politicians that those are stupid ideas and they should be rightfully ridiculed for it have either decreased or have been ignored, while more people who blindly follow these politicians and those who maliciously push agendas and create false moral panics have increased tenfold.

remember when this was the craziest thing politicians ever said

[ratbastarddotfuck]

if you're a white person taking pleasure in the idea that Trump voters of colour are experiencing racist violence from white trumpers because "they got what's coming to them" I don't think you're anti-racist at all, I think you were just waiting for an acceptable target, and you're also fucking weird.

Bad Person Deserves Punishment For Their Sins give me a fucking break and get yourself out of the fucking catholic church. you're all prison abolitionists until you see someone you don't like.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[myopicry]

lurking in radfem spaces has really changed my entire view of most mainstream internet spaces because once you realize just how censored women's voices and feminist thought are on these sites, and how much porn and misogynistic values are defended, you can't unsee it.

how anyone can bear to participate in an online space where porn, of all things, is lauded as the bastion of "self-expression" and yet any woman slightly critical of popular cultural opinions is demonized is wild, especially when a lot of that porn is a) violent and misogynistic b) often accessible by minors c) gross and shallow d) myriad of other reasons far better writers have probably described

fuck I'm just so tired. seeking rationality online is just opening a pandora's box of garbage and seeing the reflection of how bleak the social hegemony has become.

[linkemaus]

Not to be that person, but if Kamala Harris were a white man with the exact same ideals, positions, and beliefs, it wouldn’t have even been a competition. Realising that the worst thing you can apparently be is a woman, is truly devastating.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

If even acknowledging antisemitism within your community spaces is going to "distract from the cause," maybe that's because the foundation of your beliefs comes down to antisemitism. What you're doing is telling on yourself.

[qqueenofhades]

The number of white, ostensibly liberal male political pundits insisting that elections in the Biden/post-Dobbs era are just Completely Unpredictable and Wild sure is something, huh.

[dailymanners]

When entering any place of business, such as a store or restaurant, if a staff member greets you, then acknowledge them and greet them back.

Although for many jobs it's a required part of their job to greet you, especially retail workers, receptionists, and restaurant workers to name a few, that doesn't make it feel any less dehumanizing to say "Hello!" to another human being only for them to ignore you. Acknowledging staff members and greeting them back is important for acknowledging their humanity, they are, after all, a human being, and not an automated machine.

This is also important when going to check out at a store. If you approach the cash register, and the cashier greets you, you should acknowledge them and greet them back. Cashiers already have to deal with being dehumanized enough. The least you can do is help humanize them by acknowledging them when they greet you and speak to you.

[that1nkyone]

Unpopular opinion:

I like Fourchenault. He sucks.

Imagine being an emotionally-stunted man who's in this society that's all about peace and nonintervention and Knowledge, so obviously you know better than anyone else in the world and their petty conflicts.

And then you get told that the world will end in your lifetime - and then you get two kids, which makes you panic about it all the more. So when your kids come of age and go off to explore this world while you're figuring out the Evacuation Plan for End Times, and then come back having involved themselves in almost all the petty conflicts you've heard about, you get mad.

You think they're being rebellious children who don't know any better, so you decide the best course of action is to disown them of the family name so they're suitably punished, don't get support, or don't get in the way if they ever rock up to your doorstep. And then you can shove them kicking and screaming onto the Noah's Ark you're making when it's time to scoot off this planet. Flawless plan. Cool.

Within, let's say, a month - your kids, with their very powerful friends, rock up to your front doorstep just as your promoted to the leader of your life's work. And after agreeing that they won't work against your plans, your kids proceed to systematically hijack your entire life's work, using all the knowledge, allies and experience they have accumulated during their trip into the rest of the world. Everything that you have lacked.

You're actually proud, but you are struck dumb because every single thing you thought was right has been flipped on its head. Because your kids (and your wife) are too smart for you to comprehend. So, you swallow your pride and you relinquish the wheel to your whole operation. And the Doomsday Evac plan never happens. It doesn't need to. Your children and their friends do the impossible - they stop the world from ending.

You're lucky that your family is willing to give you forgiveness in the face of all this - because you will forever be plagued by the looming presence of the Warrior of Light, whose attitude will range from "Fuck the narrative, these are my kids now," to "I respect your kids' decision to forgive you, and I will work with you, but you are on Thin Fucking Ice."

The cherry on the top is that if your Doomsday Evac plan had actually happened, your distant collaborators would have only been able to provide food in the form of carrots.

You would have been stuck eating your most hated food for perhaps the rest of your life.

Just, mwah. Poetry.

[yaoimanpussy]

I cannot be any more open about the fact I’m very stupid and I only understand biology and all my political opinions come from my communist trans girlfriend mind controlling me

[backpackingspace]

Odysseus with his head in his wife's lap, happily not paying attention to anything, humming one of athenas song and carving something

Some random guy: your majesty----

Odysseus: not bothering to sit up: whatever my wife decided is fine.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's all fun and games until...

[Commission for @dontheckinswear]

[uptownhags]

One small ember can burn down everything.

[still-searching-for-something]

Donald Trump's cabinet picks have, of course, ranged on a spectrum of 'yeah, that's not great but could be worse' (Marco Rubio) to 'holy shit what the fuck is he thinking' (Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk). But what's caught my attention is how contradictory these picks are.

Marco Rubio is anti-Russia and anti-China. Tulsi Gabbard is pro-Russia and pro-Syria (a Russian ally). Elon Musk is a racist and has an ego the size of Mars—yet he'll have be co-equal to a brown billionaire in the only government department with two heads? The department charged with making the government more efficient, no less?

There are a few different ways to read this. One might be that Donald Trump honestly doesn't give a shit about any issues or views—just the loyalty of his underlings, and he's determined these picks are the most loyal to him. Or perhaps that he hasn't thought it through much at all and he's just handing out government jobs like sweets to people he personally likes.

But what I think it is, that he's deliberately trying to craft a presidential administration in which his subordinates are more interested in fighting and jostling and trying to one up each other for Trump's favor than acting against him. He hasn't given the DGE two heads as a witty joke about government efficiency, but rather so that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy spend more time vying for control over the department and both try to do their job of politicizing and subsuming the civil service better than the other. He hasn't made his Secretary of State and Director of National intelligence hold polar opposite views for shits and giggles, but so that they will fight each other, and both try to appease Trump harder. This is how Hitler constructed the Third Reich, deliberately charging his subordinates with overlapping goals and pitting them against each other so they didn't turn on him. Trump, as a noted admirer of Hitler, would probably know this.

[megpricephotography]

Favourites from November walks with Barney & Flynn, in years gone by.

[edwardallenpoe]

thinking about how all the gayest scenes between Bilbo and Thorin were added to the movies. Thinking about how Bilbo and Thorin didn't even have more than two seconds of talking to each other in the book. Thinking about-