#politics I guess

[mattimus]

[acidicvampire]

heard trump almost got shot again. go get aim trainer or something

[adorablenonsense]

"That balloon literally gathered so much data from us."

No it didn't and you're pretty stupid for thinking it did.

“The Chinese balloon that flew over the US earlier this year managed to gather intelligence from military bases for days before it was shot down.”

“The Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration’s efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official.

“China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure-eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time, the three officials said. The intelligence China collected was mostly from electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel, rather than images, the officials said.”

I can list more news sources saying similar things about how that balloon collected sensitive US military data.

Also love how you couldn’t respond to me with a reblog or in the replies and had to send me an anon to avoid looking foolish for being wrong.

[queer-reader-07]

i'm sleep deprived and tired so the words may not word properly, but something about how people will say all men should get vasectomies in response to abortion bans feels heavily influenced by the twisted idea of feminism as man hating and the idea that men are inherently bad and always the problem.

like first of all the patriarchy hurts everyone but second of all you don't actually believe in body autonomy if your solution to attacks on reproductive rights is to restrict the reproductive rights of the other half of the population.

[humblefryingpan]

Does anyone else make really controversial posts and just stick em in the drafts for like a month? I've got like 3 really political posts in there and I have no intention of posting any of them but I needed them out of my head

[seenthisepisode]

the way i hate with my whole heart the fact that Labour Day just stopped existing in my country. i mean officially it's today, officially everyone has a day off, but no one talks about it like it's some dirty secret, all the politicians talk about is the anniversary of joining the european union

[fishin-in-a-graveyard]

Why do you rich fucking white  (Able-body, Neurotypical, Cisgender, Straight Etc) people insist on seeing every socio-political conflict through the myopic lens of your own self-actualization?

This isn't about you! So either get with it or get out of the fucking way!

-Socko

[justanothertheofficeblog]

Donald Trump said that Joe Biden, who he refers to as "Sleepy Joe", is doing cocaíne. But if he's sleepy... I mean doesn't cocaine... ummmm...

[precious-pop-punk-nerd-girl]

Been wishing for some new mutuals to talk to! I post the following:

Fall Out Boy

Doctor Who

The Adventure Zone

Star Trek (mostly TOS and Voyager but sometimes TNG, Lower Decks, TAS, and Strange New Worlds; in the process of watching DS9; Have not finished Enterprise, Picard, Prodigy or Discovery)

Dungeons and Dragons

IDKHOW

Aro & Ace positivity

I occasionally post about:

OneRepublic

VÉRITÉ

Art

Dead End: Paranormal Park

Leftist politics

Other things I wanna add

As always, TERFS, racists, homophobes, transphobes DNI!! Y'all can go eat shit instead:)

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

okay but why is there an actual culture war going on over the freaking Mario movie like you guys all need to chill

[eddiemunsonsmiddlefingers]

The word "terrorism" was used to describe the (allegedly illegal, and objectively nonviolent) protest tactics employed by striking teachers in my city today.

We've lost the fucking plot, folks.

(For reference, what they did was get into the convention center and protest in the immediate vicinity of a city meeting, and picket outside an apartment complex in a busy part of town. They shouldn't have gone into the convention center without permission, and they shouldn't have made snarky comments at said employee's family, but terrorism their actions absolutely are NOT.)

[hermit-called-he]

STORY

I fell for you partially through your story 

Your feminist threads and all that political glory 

I could never like a man who thought of me as lesser

If I did, I might as well have the personality of a wooden dresser 

I think it's part of the reason you like me

Because we want everyone to be 

Equality is something we both want 

Even if we endure a taunt 

You are so quick to look at my story 

It's shocking, really 

First to respond, the first man in that category 

To see the world ideally 

And not rest when so many have already 

Laid down their arms 

And surrendered, lied down in the eddy 

Of conformity and made it a farm 

Please keep interacting with my story 

It makes me feel like I'm worthy 

Of knowing you and not like a British tory 

Who's waiting to be tarred and feathered and branded unworthy 

It's a way to feed the greedy demon 

Without giving it enough to grow into an able bodied seaman 

Because our long chats are its fuel 

And I'd rather stop it from trying to duel 

With my logical mind 

And putting it in a bind 

[einaudis]

How do I say this?

Fire of Love was robbed.

[jianghuchild]

Nothing, Just A Blank Page

Are you afraid yet?

You, on your Mandate of

Monkey-havocked heaven?

~

Are you afraid yet, you

On your divine right of

One who says, "I never

"Knew you," are you

afraid yet?

~

History spirals but never

Circles and in 33 years

My sisters have tasted your iron-blood,

The iron-blood of a man you imprinted

In us under tank-treads and burning buildings.

Even he was not

Alone and

Now they are not alone.

~

We are not angels.

Be afraid.

[alexandraisyes]

This this this

And then when they realize they too are dying and it wasn't just a "side effect" of a home abortion, they won't be able to get help because that would mean hospitals and tests and then everyone would know and they will go to jail.

Stack up on plan b and birth control while you can.

Plan b has a shelf life of four years. If every woman that felt at risk of unwanted pregnancy had eight plan Bs at home before the presidency is handed over then every woman would most likely have more than enough for themself and would be able to share with a family member or friend in the event of unwanted pregnancy.

hey let's start spreading the reminder now that you cannot safely self-manage an abortion with herbal medicine or essential oils. natural abortifacients function by poisoning you; you wait for your body to realize you're dying and reject the pregnancy in order to conserve resources, and hope that happens before the rest of your organs shut down.

i think there will be an upsurge soon of unscrupulous and/or malicious actors preying on desperate pregnant people; do not help them kill people. don't spread recipes for herbal medicines or ingestible essential oil mixtures that purport to cause a pregnancy termination.

[fishin-in-a-graveyard]

The main difference between overeating-disorders and under-eating disorders

Is that under-eating disorders are treated with empathy and compassion “Oh you poor thing”. (Obviously, people with under-eating disorders still get treated like s*** sometimes)

Meanwhile, people with overeating-disorders are treated with malice and dehumanized and told that this problem is all their fault 

All eating disorders should be treated with the same level of empathy

(Just going to say this here just because somebody's chubby or fat does not mean they have an overeating disorder. When you say that all “overweight” people have overeating disorders you are creating under-eating disorders and taking away from those who genuinely have overeating disorders)