#pick up a dictionary

[chimerarachnid]

Open up a dictionary, I am pleading with you.

Why is right-wing populism outmatching left-wing populism across the Globe?

It’s so much easier to make people feel afraid than it is to make them feel hopeful or safe or supported. Right wing populism preys on people’s fears and stokes pre-existing anxieties, while also providing an individual “strongman” that people can look to for resolution. Simple and effective.

If we look at left-wing policies or general ideological talking points, they require both:

an inherent empathy/sympathy for strangers and community alike

a strong persistence to work against pre-existing institutions/structures to achieve that which isn’t often simple

It requires more effort, more funding, and occasionally can’t be simplified into layman’s terms, which ostracizes those who can’t reach higher education. This, above all else, is what makes right-wing populist rhetoric so effective - it’s approachable. It doesn’t ask you to care for others (quite the opposite) outside of your own interests. It’s comforting to have a powerful leader who “isn’t afraid to speak the truth” or “tell it like it is”, when the preceding leaders have all spoken outside your comprehension and made you feel isolated from your country in their education, class, and/or status.

Really, right-wing populism is in vogue because it’s so much easier to understand and so much easier to exercise. It doesn’t ask for much - it certainly doesn’t ask for us to follow rules or facts. It’s chameleon, and its rhetoric shapes to what would reach the most people regardless of how plausible, reasonable, or respectable it is.

[bi-writes]

hey guess what, simon isn’t real so it doesn’t fucking matter how anyone writes him 🤙🏼

[ironwoodprotectionsquad]

I’ve been MIA for a bit due to real life being insanely busy but just popping in to say R/WBY fans STILL seem to not understand what the word fascist means and still incorrectly tries to say James is one.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i’m just dropping by and i wanna rant a bit about just how much i hate that people have turned the word “narcissistic” into a synonym for toxic or abusive. even if we’re ignoring the ableism towards people with NPD (which we shouldn’t), people are still not using the term correctly? they’re not evening referring to someone who is egotistical or selfish, they’re just straight up using that word for any person who slightly pisses them off.

[nattikay]

A few favorite tracks from various Avatar media!

[evannhansensletters]

Im bored entertain me old man

@autismandglasses

erm.. okay?

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… do you know The Doubter’s Companion?..

dictionary of aggressive common sense…

perchance.

[mariemariemaria]

lmao manchán magan has a whole book that is just full of irish words for vagina/vulva/clit/menstruation etc???

[wilhelmloverera]

I'm so glad you homophobic little cunts are never getting your way. cry more, you entitled bitch

Oh my God is this about temu stan??? Have I made it lads???

[ijosijen]

High Gavellian Dictionary #12

[oldtreeinanalley]

i went to a bookstore today !! :D

[sorryimananti-romantic]

Are you made of cream cheese? Because you're spreading joy in my life and making it so sweet, just like a cheesecake 😘

☕️

NOT JUST ONE BUT

WHATS WITH YALL TRYNA RIZZ ME 😭😭

[witchern]

in light of the video game actors strike i am once again BEGGING you fucking rubes to learn the different between a strike and a boycott.

[idontliketomatoesleavemealone]

I just um. I just saw what Kim Kardashian called her kids. What. 

[makingshortstorieslong]

Random ask simply because I can: any long stories you think oughta be short?

hmm... not that I can think of. I feel sure there are movies I've watched that have made me say "this should've been shorter" but as for written stories and audio ones, no I'm usually along for the ride whatever the length.

since I assume this is in reference to my url, that actually comes from something I did back in. Oh gosh. 2014? where I would squeeze a longer short story out of short shitposts, like they were writing prompts. Making short stories long. In general I think that's kind of how the writing process goes for me - trying to stretch out a crumb of an idea into something of substance. It is also, unfortunately, how conversation goes with me. I WILL turn the recollection of what was a brief encounter in my day into a whole meandering spiel.

[vilevampire]

I loaf technology

[captain-noir]

just because its 'gothic' doesnt mean abuse is required in a ship. yall like to use that to justify all the problematic stuff its so transparent

ah yes the gothic genre famously devoid of abuse or incest or 'problematic' elements. its ok to admit this isnt a genre you can stomach instead of spewing your sick all over my askbox. i dont expect murder in my serial killer show. i dont expect romance in my romcom. you catching my drift, no?