#slaves in the USA was Black LMAO

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It's 2023 and people are unironically still thinking "the White man stopped slavery 🥺" is a flaming gotcha

[saint-sebastian-coded]

please tell me about the books you’ve read recently i would love some recommendations 👀🤲

okay!!!! im bored so heres my thoughts on all the books ive read (or finished reading) since the start of summer

all of murder most unladylike 5/5 its a middle grade series (9 books) about two girls in the ninteen thirties who go to boarding school together and solve murder. its so funny and i really like the historical perspective in it too. i read it originally when it was coming out but i decided to look at it again (can't remember the exact reason why but anyway). soooo fun and pretty clever too

monk and robot duology by becky chambers about 4.5-4.75/5 very interesting world building im not sure i fully understood it so im going to reread but i think its speculative fiction about a post technological world but a robot decides to visit and becomes friends with a monk

all of the locked tomb series. twice. 5/5. i feel i do not have to explain this everyone read it Now

priory of the orange tree 5/5 this is my fourth read through i'm currently on my second read of a day of fallen night (the prequel) and !!!! the prose !!! the world building !!! the characters. i kinda hate that very few people like niclays i love niclays he's so funny to me and a complete cunt

all of nevermoor. twice 5/5. its 223 days to the fourth book coming out and in the hiatus ive managed to write like 19% i think of all fic for it on ao3. so yk. i like it a normal amount its like its very fun middle grade series (im going into my junior honours year of uni so my summer reading was v self indulgent lmao) about a girl who is rescued from death at the last minute and has to compete to get into a specific society so she won't get deported and the world building is sooo good and i love the characters sooo much

fun home by alison bechdel 5/5 the way the narrative is presented in this like all the negative space where things arent said but we're supposed to understand its very good

the gilded wolves 3.5/5 i feel like its on me for like. starting this in june 2023 and reading little bits over the year bc i was a bit confused so im gonna try reading this again sometime but it was pretty fun ngl

transgender marxism 4/5 i found the ideas in this interesting but im not sure i understood all of it so im gonna read around the subjects a bit so i get it more

black leopard red wolf by malon james 3.5/5. i kinda lost where the plot was going about halfway through so this is another book on my reread list but the prose is soooo good that it kept me going

honey girl by morgan rogers 4.25/5 this is about an astrophysicist who has a vegas wedding after she goes out right after getting her phd and is kinda lost in what she wants to do so she strikes up a sort of friendship sort of relationship with her wife from the opposite side of the usa and i found it to be a really nice read

wolfsong by tj klune 4/5 this book is kinda long for what it needs to be tbh and i dont really like the omegaverse enough (its not omegaverse but like. omegaverse's third cousin basically like werewolves and stuff) but i enjoyed the writing style

he who drowned the world by shelley parker-chan 5/5 its the sequel to she who became the sun and i love that zhu has such a good time in this book the second the narrative turns to her its almost a buddy comedy. amazing prose love the world building love the themes love the characters. banger. cant wait to see what shelley parker-chan does next

kemosha of the caribbean by alex wheatle 3.25/5 its about this girl who's a slave in port royal during the golden age of piracy and wins her freedom in a duel and joins a pirate ship as a cook so she can get the money to buy her brother's freedom. i liked it but i think im kinda past ya ig

the aeneid by vergil (cecil day lewis translation) 4/5 oh my goddddd oh my god. amazing. poem of all time

kyoshi duology by fc yee 4.5/5 on one hand i liked it more the first time i read it but like its still good its just ive read some really amazing books since but i love kyoshi and rangi so much and i really like the povs from jianzhu zoryu and yun also

the silmarillion by jrrt 3/5 i did not understand. i will read again im sorry tolkien fans

the mcga trilogy by rick riordan 4/5 this book series was my personality from the release of sword of summer to like two years ago??? on one hand i forgot how much i liked certain elements on the other hands certain elements did not. age well. or weren't good to start with. i feel like rr should like. get a better handle on his narrative arcs tbh

the histories by herodotus (tom holland. not spiderman translation) 4/5 this was very weird but very interesting

the two ministry of unladylike activity books currently out 5/5 this is the sequel series to murder mosr unladylike but about one of the main character's little sisters and her friends outwith the story (which is excellent) i like that it balances showing that the lives of the original characters are still ongoing without going full nostalgia bait

the kane chronicles by rick riordan 4.5/5 outside of the walt and anubis thing (too old to date a Thirteen Year Old jesus christ) very good honestly rr's best series in terms of worldbuilding, characterisation and narrative arcs

the annals by tacitus (yardley translation) 3.25/5 v good translation but holy shit completely boring im sorry im a tacitus hater i fear. interesting historical source tho

lives of the caesar by suetonius (edwards translation) 3.75/5 every single roman emperor is in hell

the aeneid (aeneid daily) 4.5/5 see above

daughter of the siren queen by tricia levenseller 3.5/5 this could be good but every single romantic scene was punctuated by me saying aloud that i hoped jakey died. i do not remember her boyfriend's name i just do not care. nothing special tbh

the woman of troy by pat barker 4.75/5 this is the sequel to her book the silence of the girls which is a retelling of the iliad from briseis' perspective. this book is still mostly from her perspective but (i believe) a retelling of the troades (i haven't read the troades in english except in summary and i only translated it for like two weeks as a seventeen year old so i forgor but i think it is) i usually hate classical retellings but i like barker's take on things and i just found out (like rn) that theres a third book coming out so im excited about that

the atlas six by olivie blake 2.5/5 this book was written to have out of context parts quoted on tiktok

dictator by robert harris 5/5 this is the finale to his cicero trilogy told through the perspective of tiro whom i love and admire (he probably invented the ampersand and other stuff we use as short hand. everyone say thank you tiro) very good

the eternal ones by namina forna 3.5/5 i really liked the first book in this series and i think i liked the second one too and i think the worldbuilding is compelling but im not interested in any of the characters especially her boyfriend sorry. i liked britta tho. also again i think im kinda past ya rn so

nevermoor graphic novel part two 5/5 i thought the art was beautiful but the story was kinda rushed and one fairly important scene was left out which i was really looking forward too and also messes up some of the relationships which was a shame (unless it got covered in dialogue but i dont speak french i was literally just there for the pictures)

task force z #11 & #12 4/5 nice

tiger tiger by petra erika nordlund 5/5 everyone go read this now its about a girl who steals her brother's identity and his ship to study sea sponges and meets god who is a tits out nonbinary lesbian along the way and also: sea sponge

the lightning thief by rick riordan 4.5/5 the fact that luke didn't say "western civilisation is a disease" in the tv show is a goddamn travesty. also i have many thoughts about the themes of nostos and kleos between luke and percy

a sky beyond the storm by sabaa tahir 4.5/5 i love the world building so much in this book and i had a really good time with the character development too. i want to reread the series at some point all at once bc i finished boom three in december and i think i forgot some parts lmao

cursed crowns by katherine webber and catherine doyle 2.5/5 this book is stupid. some of the dialogue is funny. like twice

the eagle of the ninth by rosemary sutcliff 3.5/5 if aiglemene in tlt isnt inspired by this in some way (eagles, ninth, leg injury) i will be genuinely surprised. good time

the dawn of yangchen by fc yee 4.25/5 not quite as fun as kyoshi but i found the politics very interesting

whale weekly 4/5 i lost the plot like back in 2022 but the prose is immaculate its so fucking tragic and it was so preventable i love the whole cosmic horror of the whale

amari and the night brothers by bb alston 4.75/5 this has the same vibes as nevermoor but like the main character is looking for her brother and accidentally finds out that shes a magician and also this is a bad thing. kinda cliché but very fun and i had a good time

[melis-writes]

Honestly….Apollonia>>>>Kay! I agree with you, but I feel that he would only become the way he became if it was Apollonia in the car bombing. I think if it was Calo or whatever he would be like ooh noo back to the USA and then forget about it and live his life with Apollonia. I think Kay would see them together, ask Tom and Tom would tell her. She would definitely become bitter. Apollonia would give Michael beautiful kids and the ending scene of GF3 would be Michael playing with his grandkids 🥺 We would get a lot more (maybe steamy 🤭) scenes of Michael and Apollonia, maybe even a vow renewal scene in GF3! I love them sm I think his life would have been so much better with Apollonia

Well I'm gonna be honest with you anon, I hate Apollonia lmao. 💀 And I will respectfully disagree with you.

But without being as biased as possible and coming from reading the book, I believe what Mario Puzo was trying to get across with Michael's character arc and transformation is that Apollonia didn't "change" Michael nor did her death. Sicily didn't change Michael either. Michael had always been the black sheep of the family--the outcast. He was left alone/bugged less by everyone and teased discreetly for a reason. Just like how Fredo and Sonny inherited strong, separate traits from Vito like Fredo's kindness/sweetness and Sonny's brutality, Michael inherited the coldness. Michael was always like that to begin with, it's just that he didn't have the environment or opportunity to show his true colors from the start.

Now you came back from a war and your father almost lost his life because he didn't want to get involved with drugs? Some lowlife is about to start another family war because of this and wants you out of the way? Your brother is the successor, but he's a hot head and only wants carnage to end this? We can't blame Michael for coming out in full force and showing us who he is. If we want to pick who "changed" Michael, then it would only be appropriate to say Vito. In the book, Puzo states Kay is the only person (not even Vito!) who can change Michael and make him act unlike himself, but in the film this is essentially accredited to Vito.

Michael did what he did in the first film before Vito's death for his father and the family. He took the reigns, he had what it takes. Michael was always a cold hearted, calculating bastard. That's why I always recommend/hype up the book because it states in the beginning what kind of a person he is. Getting revenge on Fabrizzio was for himself and his family's honor, not Apollonia. I feel it's way too often forgotten how selfish and cruel Michael is; this is the same person who married a woman for sex and (as stated in the book) kept Apollonia as a sex slave inside for a few weeks.

I don't see Kay as the type to become bitter. I know her heart would break and her rosy worldview she had by Michael's side with his reassurances of no criminality and a promised future to her would devastate her. Michael is no show off, in the US or outside of it. I highly doubt Kay would ever run into Michael and Apollonia together unless she walked straight into their home. Even with Kay, Michael was not the husband who takes his wife out for outings and dinner; just as he barely saw his family and wife in the film afterwards, the same would happen to Apollonia. I just think Apollonia would not express her loneliness and sadness as much as Kay did/does.

I don't at all think Michael remaining married to Apollonia would result in happiness. Michael would ruin her life like he ruined the lives of his kids and the rest of his family, just the way The Godfather Part II played out--with or without Kay. He was far too hell bent on revenge and his enemies (even as Tom stated he was wanting to do too much) to care about anyone except himself. I don't believe Apollonia would ever seek to divorce Michael no matter what due to culture/traditions back then but I think she would end up dying because of the danger surrounding Michael and only he would be to blame.

There is simply no happy ending for Michael or anyone in his family because of Michael's own actions alone. He doesn't even deserve it, if you ask me. He's a horrible person, and that's why at the end of TGF3 he didn't get his happy ending.

But in terms of love, as Mario himself described it, Michael loved two people; his father and Kay. This is what love looks like for Michael. ❤️

[papirouge]

I feel so validated now after reading what a gross scrote that tradmidwesternman is. I briefly saw his account and blocked it a long time ago but reading that stuff he has “kick all these niggers out [but keep the white western europeans coming in] and make sure all these white girls are having many babies 🤪” while also being a ddlg degenerate wow

Also he really said “us whites treat women better than jews and other races” then went “I don’t help women ever at work.” And “we must shame women again to keep them in line” and “women are useless vaginas”

My toxic trait is that I don't regret bullying him into blocking me 🥴 lmao I replied to his stupid post coping about Jesus Jewishness but I think he blocked me when I tagged him in a PSA from a tradfem blog warning off against scrotes LARPing as tradmen lmaoooo

Yeah, he's one of those delulu American White supremacist evangelist who thinks Blacks should be kicked out of the USA bc they are from Africa but will never remotely think that their "back to sender" logic would also apply to them, and that they too should pick their stuff up and go back to Europe and make space for the real Americans = Natives. They'll try to cope about they "but the White man built America" yeah Joshua.... over BLACK SLAVES labor and exploitation. So Black American have as much of a reason to remain there.

It's crazy to see them fearmongering about the Great Replacement when the Great Replacement already happened....and that's what made the United States of America 🥴 Those scrotes are soooo delusional and stupid. For people thinking they have big IQ bc of Muh bIg bRaiNed cAucASians they for sure have a hard time to show it 🥴

tradmidwesterman once said he wanted to marry a woman from 'accross the pond' so I guess he's too much of a weirdo to attract (even the most desperate) tradfem in town. Since he's against interracial marriage (incels are often against interracial marriage bc women opening their dating pool to a bigger pond = more concurrence, which makes it harder for them to latch on them lmao. Incels are EXTREMELY insecure) so I guess he's one of those weirdos willing ordering Eastern mail-order brides 💀

[shoujoboy-restart]

> get off your ass and get it back

A bit hard when a country with military bases, nuclear weapons and sanction power has a meltdown when they wanna simply join another economic alliance like BRICS but okay geo politics expert.

> upgraded ways of life

Okay massa sorry for speaking outta line lmao

> medicine

Nigga what medicine the USA gave to Mexico during colonization?!? TO ANYBODY FOR THAT MATTER!?!? caucasians were straight up doing biological warfare against each other with plague corpses and infected clothes and blankets during war times.

y'all were mangling and killing y'all own women until yall learned to wash your hands and sterilize surgical materials from Africans first and the actual c section operation second.

YALL LITERALLY INFECTED YOUR OWN CITIZENS WITH SYPHILIS AND INVENTED ABORTION CLINICS TO STERILIZE MINORITIES.

> farming

...be so fucking for real my dude, what fucking farming techniques people in a country that snows on winter have to teach to a tropical and desert biome country??? Is it crack, is that what you smoke?

> transportation

Somebody in a country with the least train lines in the world has some nerve. Y'all make a single coal powered train line centuries ago and cry and whine want a gold medal in the bullet train competition around the world.

> enriching your life's for free

Me after bombing, raping, torturing and slaving Latino countries for profit but it's okay because I made some concrete buildings that become death traps and ecological pollution because they don't match or are compatible with the environment they are in.

> our time and our labor

> unironically thinking Caucasians used their own time and labor in a post 16th century world IN COLONIZATION ATTEMPTS

MY DUDE HALF THE REASON WHY THERE'S BLACK PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTRIES IS BECAUSE THE WHITE PEOPLE WHO IMPERIALISED IT USED AFRICAN SLAVES TO DO SHIT TO BEGIN WITH.

I would recommend a lobotomy, but I doubt there's much brain matter to work with.

I genuinely want to know how you convinced yourself that a country like the USA getting expansions of territory, appropriation of resources, slavery, and cheap unregulated labor today is somehow "doing shit for free", genuine white supremacist brainwash to be this naive and have this much self pity and victimization. Imagine genuinely thinking a country colonizes the other out of fucking charity and for free.

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[fxirysforesight]

girl wtf is wrong with this anon who's being racist asf? lmao, that anon is making me dislike whites more and more 💀also the only thing she got kinda right is that blackwashing Egyptian history and culture is true. Afrocentric people claim our history and call us Egyptians fake and colonizers. Btw I'm a Coptic Egyptian. I had a black person come up when i used to study in the USA and called me an Egyptian C word which is a slur made by Afrocentrics towards Copts and Egyptians, the girl was so mean to me I was bullied a lot by her and I had to get my parent's and school involved because she would beat me for saying I'm Egyptian and native to my home land, my class mates stood up to her and she eventually got kicked out of the school because the slammed the class rooms door on my finger, i lost a nurve in that finger with resulted to me have problems with eating or writing because its my dominant hand. I was just 12 at the time and I felt like shit when she told me I ain't Egyptian and that the real Egyptians were black and that Cleopatra and Jesus were black🤡 some Afrocentrics try so hard to strip us from our culture a lot, there are black people in Egypt who are called Nubians { Nubians are not Egyptian genticaly or have any DNA related to Egyptians, my sis is married to one and he said it him self} who were enslaved by the Egyptians in the past btw Egyptians were racist they were slave owners and would torture black people. also, I found the anons acc if you want it! the says the craziest shit about black people and south Asians 😭💀 bye also the anon is going on tumbler body shamming thick black women and making fun of black men. ill give you her @ if you want!

First I wanna say I'm sorry that happened to you because I'm not gonna lie to y'all, all of them years of being oppressed have made my folks unnecessarily crazy, prejudiced, racist, and rude. Even to their own.

I've seen first hand that my people are either 100% racist to foreigners OR fetishize them. There is no in between.

As for the blackwashing, it's not a Black People thing, it's an AMERICAN thing. Because this is what they do. Cherry pick history and cause racial wars between people. Cleopatra was not black, Jesus was also not black (like I understand why she thought that because of the description given of him but he was literally born in Jerusalem come on 💀)

They thought that "the black land" and "the black place" was thought to mean that the people were black when really it was about fertile soil.

And about the Nubians? YEAH.

Honestly thank you for this history lesson ❤️

AND YES SPILL THE @

[renardtrickster]

Am I the only one concern how people like dasha-through-the-snow try to downplay the severity of these clearly anti education bills being pass in places like Texas and Florida. The reason why I'm calling them anti education bills because they are rewrite history. Keeping people, especially children, ignorant of their history and how that history still effecting them today.

You are not the only one, and you should continue calling them anti-education bills. It bears repeating, CRT has never been taught below a college-grade level. Anytime someone talks about keeping CRT out of high school/middle school/grade school, "CRT" means "whatever it means most to that particular person at that particular time and will change in the next five minutes when they talk about it again". And people have been very clear about what they mean when they mean CRT. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement as a whole? CRT. Native American genocide? CRT. The South fought a war to keep their slaves? CRT (some woman actually pulled her kids out of school for that, wild shit). Slavery happened and it was evil? CRT. Write a book as a black person? CRT.

It's a very blatant Trojan Horse used by conservative politicians to get into schools and remove anything that has made America look bad ever. And they do it for three reasons. One, anti-education is generally their thing because soft and malleable brains filled with not much is how you become conservative. A worldview informed by intuition and gut feelings, black and white narratives about the justice of comfort and the evil shaker-of-the-status-quo, and the ability to AT LEAST not feel too bothered about human suffering are basically required for the position, among other things. Two, and let's be honest here, conservatives really like racism. Not even in the "subtly" racist ways like "prisons good, cops good, war on drugs good, BLM literally launched a nuclear missile at a city and blasted it into the ocean, killing billions", but they constantly simp for the Confederacy and whitewash (lmao) them. Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it, so ask yourself why they're so invested in making sure nobody knows the history of racism.

And third, which I think is the biggest reason why they're so hooked on CRT, secondary even to racism. The fact that they're interfering so blatantly with education is okay with them because education was never the top priority. Charlie Kirk, prominent conservative voice and founder/executive director of Turning Point USA, a conservative astroturf that invades colleges to spread bullshit and harass professors, said it himself in his debate against Vaush on Tim Pool's show. Education isn't the point of education, it's gratitude. Is it nice if people graduate high school knowing about math, language, history, the arts, and science? Sure, but what he wants most is for people to graduate college feeling grateful towards their country and wanting to do anything to ensure its betterment. America can't be the best because the people of America worked to correct their past evils (to some extent), have made great innovations and progress, and strive to still do better. America needs to be the best because it is the best, was the best, always will be the best, and its citizenry are and need to be devoted utterly to laying down even their own lives to ensure America's continued existence, which itself is proof of it's own superiority.

And anti-CRT craze was and always will be conservative politicians trying to get their hands wrist-deep in what children are learning because the thought of America not being seen as a heavenly body of infallible moral virtue makes them almost as sad as people saying "racism is bad".

[serpenteve]

Gregverse is so yikes now that I think more about it. The incorrect Russian and the slander of Slavic culture. I was reading ROW and there’s a part when the Suli meet up with a bunch of settlers. The settlers accuse the suli of being cursed and trespassing on private land but the suli say that there have been suli ppl in the country long before them. I know the suli ppl are a mix of Romani, south Asian and middle eastern cultures (lmao what a mess), there is also the similarity to indigenous ppl fighting for their land today. While I think it’s unintentional, it’s strange.

Then you have the Zemeni that are supposedly some hybrid Africa-Australia nation (what even). But like…their main export is jurda that is cultivated on farms. It weirdly reminds me of tobacco plantations and that is yikes yikes yikes (also, there’s a zemeni character named Jes in SaS. An Easter egg? We may never know)

Then you have Shu Han that represents all of east Asia. How come every Shu character we meet has gold/yellow eyes? Why do they all have jaundice wtf (or do they all look like Shan you from Mulan? Either way, wtf).

The Gregverse is......kind of a mess and mostly because the countries that we get the most in-depth look at (Ravka, Fjerda, and Kerch) are majority white.

I hadn't even thought about the Zemeni and the plantation connections 😱 although as far as I'm aware, they appear to be farmers themselves rather than part of any slave trade. I always thought Novyi Zem was supposed to be like fantasy!USA since it's across the sea, contains some southern territories that are colonies (...of some other country? idk), and it seemed to have some cowboy wild west connotations associated with it. But then Leigh retconned it as having a larger black population and even had to scrub some of Nikolai's lines in Siege & Storm because he wound up saying something inadvertently racist in retrospect about the Zemeni 😬

Also, the "golden" eye thing 🙄 What is with authors and their aversion to perfectly respectable BROWN eyes like 80% of the world has them. And LOL, just taking East Asia into account, you've got SO MUCH cultural diversity, let alone ALL of Asia, aka the largest continent on the damn planet but it's all just one monolithic pan-Asian country in fantasy land smh

[misterbitches]

hi! this is long as shit i’m sorry. i hope it makes sense. i ahve adhd and like 5 million learning disorders so this is just word vomit cos there’s so many words in my brain. my b.

i’ve had such a tough day so thank you for replying and sharing! @yeedak​ 

i was thinking about what i wrote and i meant to clarify that as well. some cases are fine for both parties and it’s not like you weren’t consenting and it seems like you were happy! same with my friend who was dating a 20 yr old. if they’re happy you know i’ll clown on ‘em but yea. so for anyone that sees these posts your relationship with your partner who is older or whatever. i’m some dumb girl on the internet okay. ill side eye older ppl tho

i think a lot of people feel the same way you do now (me included.) it feels really good at the time but alter we can see the dynamics playing out. i’m 29 now and i think aging is just such a huge process. it’s wild how you at 31 are a totally different person, right?

and the US racism is probably some of the worst ever in its iteration because of slavery which started from europe etc but USA is so fucking unique bc of columbus bringing slaves here and displacing indigenous peoples or hispanola and because america is so influential the way it views race, particularly with black people as objects, has so deeply permeated into the current historical psyche globally. it’s fascinating to track how necessary anti blackness is to the flourishing of america but also the world at this point. also want to point out how fuckign scary sinophobia is here especially for covid. one is a straight historical line (black ppl + the US) and the other had to be manufactured and to continue to exploit the non-white americans and keep antiblackness in tact.i could go on about this all day. the pain of this place is immense.yet as bad as it is here, this is still the only place i truly feel safe as a black person. because of the unique experience we have in america and through the diaspora especially because we are veyr much ocncentrated here. it would be nice to like move to norway and have some alleviation financially or get free healthcare it’s just not feasible if no one looks like me. it’s fucking tough. 

i hope you don’t hate it here though and people treat you with respect. but as you know being a woman and jewish and an immigrant....shit is tough. the USA is a hellhole. :( america is so deeply tainted and desperately bad because it was founded on strife and blood and there’s no way to reverse that and what this country did in turn when it gained enough power and could capitalize off of the colonial forefathers. this is why we hsould all luv revolution!!!

HOWMEVERRRR 

boy oh boy oh BOY OH BOYYYYYYYY. well wlecome to the world of BL lmao especially as an adult with some obviously deep perspective just given your background. it is a fucking mess and it’s a hard mess to like but it pulls you in. i approach it like i do with soap operas since these are essentially telenovelas, you know? just like the drama at a billion. but the tricky part of that is like....what parts of it do we understand for critiquing? because so many of the shows are so bad at being like good pieces of things to look at just production wise and story wise. but i feel like these shows ask us to take them seriously, so why shouldn’t we take the content seriously? and this is being primarily peddled to young girls. 

i bring this up often but i read this thing about yaoi and the interest younger women/girls have in BL and its fascination with pederasty essentially. this component i think is key when we talk about who gets affected by these things the most. society in general is bad 4 girls bla bla we know lmao but in “more sexually conservative” societies it may be harder for these girls to feel safe even expressing normal emotions romantically and sexually and particularly with guys. some people hypothesized, and i think i agree with this hypothesis, that they can live through the casualness of BL. they don’t feel threatened because they can put themselves into the shoes of the other character. oftentimes, the more feminine or the younger. this was in conjunction with the age gap aspect (they say pederasty as well because there’s unethical age gaps that r gross and that is indeed what we would at least call a touch of sexual abuse if people dont feel like calling it an obsession with youth and power and uhhh young ppl and perhaps kids) where maybe girls could see themselves in these situations as the person being saved, loved, taken care of, and sadly also sexually active and penetrated. 

i think that’s just one aspect of it but i do think there’s validity in who gravitates towards it. i cannot imagine seeing this stuff and not getting enough information as a young kid, i sure as fuck know i didn’t!, and seeing these things and you look at it with 0 critique because you’re young and you may have no interest in it or you simply cannot understand what is wrong. no one is teaching you these things and these shows confirm it. and it is wild how intrinsic patriarchy is to BL although in its existence it also can’t be in line with patriarchy given the nature of two [cis] men!

it begs the question about the replacement aspect. is it just so girls can put themselves in these characters shoes? if so then that means we believe that gender is so interchangeable within our relationships and interactions and that doesn’t seem right. there’s more to lgbtq+ than just existing; it’s finding ways to communicate, finding a family, safety, your people, being a free person. there’s a lot to gain and a lot a lot to lose. and a gay man is also not a woman because those are also two distinct experiences.  especially in societies that have a more hidden aspect to sexuality (idk how to word this bc the BL industry would NEVER survive in america but in a way there’s a more “progressive” look at homosexuality but it’s still fucked up because we live in a Society, you know? at the same time look at what we are doing to trans kids. literally waging war so it’s bonkers how we all collectively have some real progress happening but at the same time not at all. the concept of ‘ladyboys’ and the frequency we see trans people in thai shows is wild and something that we absolutely do not see here in the US. still, none of these groups feel safe or are getting better material conditions in either place. we just show the ways we can try and tolerate oppression witout eliminating it imo)

to me it is clear: it’s money. which most things exist to make money so. but also who is the audience for these shows? and they have to market towards them. all that said all hope is not lost there are some decent shows. it’s just like regular media on TV though where it’s so fucking saturated as an industry that it’s literally sifting through garbage. and there are some days when you can handle the trash and others where it really fucking hurts to watch the violence, the rape, the manipulation, the violations, the stupid messaging. i have never seen more people trying to do mental gymnastics and seeing if things were “technically rape” than in teh BL fandom and that is so fucking sad.

i came into these shows at 28 with almost 0 clue of what as media BL was like esp as media that countries can use as soft power with the revenue. but i realize like...i’m 29 now and so many people don’t have a sizeable, though not huge, amount of life experience. and i wonder for people on the internet who are usually searching for something if they spend so much time on it like what a 15 year old girl thinks. what a 20 year old girl thinks. 

it is incredibly problematic and so awful but there’s also some rewards. if you haven’t i would definitely watch i told sunsset about you which i don’t think i’m going to finish and i doubt i’ll watch the second installment (watch this be a lie) but when i say some fucking impeccable storytelling and art? phew. now that is a fucking piece of media that works. it takes from moonlight heavily and you can see like...the artistic dedication is there and the story makes its world and sets up its stakes extremely well. 

i think because this is marketed towards much younger people too they know they dont have to try as hard. but they SHOULD because then you can have a fucking masterpiece like that. i think even this prolific gay thai filmmaker (who is like solidly against the government) who is so respected (and who i like a lot! if u wanna know i can tell u lmao but the films are very uhhhhhhhh “artsy”) would like i told sunset about you. i wish more people had budget like that and also just cared about the stories. it’s the fucking magic of art to figure out what you can do but there is very little incentive honestly. idk i am very pessimistic. there are days when it’s really a great pick me up and distraction but it is never a place i would love for to feel seen or heard but i’m more of the mind of i never trust the mainstream until they prove me wrong ;) 

or i never trust the mainstream and i still buy into it anyway and then cry when i don’t like what i see adn i yell “BOO GET OFF THE STAGE!” when an old man won’t leave a teenager alone

[paranoir-antares]

i made this post about half a year ago, mostly as a reaction to stupid usamericans being stupid usamericans online; however, in the past few days more people have been discovering it and commenting and tagging, and it seems to me that maybe i was unclear on something.

so i'd like to elucidate it somewhat

racism exists in eastern europe. that's a fact, and there was no intent to perhaps imply otherwise by omission. it exists. it affects people.

poland and lithuania are turning away rroma refugees from their borders. black people can get weird comments on the street. the chinese diaspora is practically invisible. racism exists.

but that's it. it simply exists. if one were to excise the racism from, i dunno, moldova, its history and society, it would still be just moldova. this is something we can work towards through education! through preaching tolerance! through penalizing discriminatory behavior!

this does not apply to the west

western europe is as powerful as it is today in no small part because of the colonization of africa and the subsequent slave trade. france still holds colonies and demands reparations for countries that have liberated themselves from it. racism is built into western europe's history, its wealth, and its power.

hell, the united states were established through racism, and look at where they are now. racism is integrated into their laws, their culture, their prison system, their economy; remove the racism from usa and it would cease to exist.

these aren't easily fixable problems because they require deep, ground-up, radical change of many systems, and there's too many people who benefit from these systems as they are for change to be easy.

this is at the core of my argument for why you cannot lump all racism under the sky into one heap - we are not the same, we don't do the same things, we didn't do the same things (we're built different lmao).

yes, there's undoubtedly racism all around, but there isn't one global version of it, and certainly not the kind americans believe.

while it's not *as bad* as treating the entirety of asia or africa as a single monocultural monolith, treating all of europe as a single entity is still a peak Angloamerican Moment

eastern (mostly slavic) europe is culturally, socially, and economically quite distinct from western europe, with the main distinction being that an overwhelming majority of eastern europe never took part in the colonization of africa and asia, which happens to be the sole reason why western europe is economically superior

the reason why eastern european countries are all so white isn't some ~secret racist agenda~ or whatever 'murica wants you to believe, it's because we never had any slaves (black or otherwise) to begin with

by lumping all of europe into one heap of colonialism and imperialism, you're actively erasing the part of europe that fought against it

take yugoslavia, for example, the brightest point of its history was, in fact, enforcing anti-colonialism and aiding colonized countries in liberating themselves or stabilizing afterwards

by ignoring all of this, you get bs such as "slavs are honorary poc" like we're obviously not; you absolutely cannot project the same kind of racial socioeconomic dynamics that angloamerica and western europe currently have (as global powers that colonized and enslaved) onto countries that don't have the same demographics and the same history as them

when horrible earthquakes hit croatia and when mass protests occurred throughout serbia and when the election pandemonium in belarus happened, the overwhelming online response was "who cares about some white europeans, they're all colonizers" which is just... disgusting beyond any measure

tl;dr - to equate western europe, the european union, formerly colonial (and currently neo-colonial) descendants of the habsburg dynasty with eastern europe, who is being politically, economically, and ecologically exploited by the west is the absolute peak of angloamerican privilege on a global scale and main character syndrome (and neither angloamerican white people nor poc are immune to it, you're all the same together in this parade of ignorance)

[blackfilm]

responses about Cynthia Erivo being cast as Harriet Tubman in biopic...

sleepynegress said: 

 There is definitely a note of they are "exotic blacks" from the perspective of American White Hollywood that makes it easier for black Brits to get jobs here.  Especially when it comes to darker-skinned players.  That accent adds a sense of pedigree black American actors don't get the benefit of.  Especially if they don't have a "respectable" accent. i.e. Taraji Henson.  She's been putting in work for decades, to get beyond limiting roles like Baby Boy and Hustle and Flow.

landlockedbird said:

I don't think Harriet Tubman would care.

miscreant-side-puffs said:

Well like I talked about this when Samuel L. Jackson brought it at this point Black Americans need to learn some Black UK history so we can just start producing and starring in whatever historical figures they have. 😕

ourqueenfelinefatale said:

I’ve already said my piece on this so here’s a short version:

phoenix-ace said: 

What is up with this obsession with having people who are removed from the enslavement of African Americans play enslaved black people?  We might be sensitive about this because these are enslaved people, our ancestors, who other black people make a point to attack during our diaspora drama.  

saturnineaqua said:

And if they arent hiring black Brits or west african folks to play notable african American women,they hire biracial women and pay them to commit black face.

akilamantado said:

This film is a USA production with a USA director and writer that, so far, is cast with majority USA actors. This is more than has ever happened with any US film about prominent Africans. Erivo's casting is not disrespectful. Arguments that state otherwise are usually paired with rigid notions of African American identity that stink of a purism we ought to be cautious about indulging.

viavir said:

Yes, they really don't get it WE'RE DESENDANTS OF SLAVERY. SLAVERY. Fuck, it's so insensetive and I don't think they give a fuck to care about AA's to understand because when it comes to us there is no cultural insensitivity somehow.

akilamantado said:

African American culture and public figures are global in a way no other part of the diaspora can claim (except Jamaica 😉 in a very distant second) and it's something the rest of us all have to wrestle with. Yet the moment it goes in the opposite direction there is a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth. I can't take it seriously.

1000heartbeats said:

Exactly.

akaskrrtmotor said:

when that movie comes out, Harriet Tubman is going to rise from the dead and beat the living shit out of her lmao

akaskrrtmotor said:

The movie is going to be mess and casting  Cynthia is a disrespect to Black actresses that are descendants of American chattel slavery

shadow-hikari said:

What everyone ^^ Says and Cynthia is trash if she thinks AA Blacks (or DACS) are interchangeable with British Blacks. Like yes we would know you weren't American on the street because surprise surprise the cultures are fucking different.

gregwuzhere  said:

@ourqueenfelinefatale makes an excellent point

bushmastersisterwivesassemble said:

Aisha Hinds set the bar too high too can't just have anybody after that performance

BlackFilm: Question for those who have an issue with Erivo’s casting: Do you all also have an issue when an African American is cast in a Black British, African, or Caribbean film/tv show? Should we all only be cast within our ethnic groups?  And just for some historical contextualizing...because it seems that some of you are upset that Erivo doesn’t have enslavement within her history....it should be noted that African Americans are not the only Black peoples to have experienced slavery. All of those of the Caribbean and South America have also experienced slavery, AND there are some West Africans who were enslaved in the Americas during the slave trade and returned back to West Africa after emancipation. Erivo is British-born to Nigerian parents, but none of us know her ancestry beyond that. My point is that she could very well have someone who was enslaved in her family tree.  but in any case, does anyone care to expand on why it is so important to have someone whose ancestors were enslaved to be the actress playing Harriet Tubman? 

[nonhet]

It’s simply racism. History has existed before the colonisation of, & segregation in, the USA so stop looking at things from a US context look at it from a global perspective. The Irish + Italians faced racism when large waves first migrated to the USA. White Irish people were enslaved, colonised, and genocided, as were Greeks, Bulgarians, Romanians, Serbs, Croats by ottoman Turkish muslims. As were Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians by mongols. White people have faced & still do face racism.

Right so we’re just going to pretend like the entire concept of race WASNT created by white people to justify the enslavement and eradication of brown/black people. Were any of the groups of people you just mentioned oppressed for being WHITE or for being immigrants/foreign? Then we’re just talking about nativism and xenophobia. Also, that shit with the Irish/Italians was no where near as bad as the shit black people faced. You wanna say they were brought in ships full of diseases from their home countries to be slaves for colonists/white Americans? Do you know how many black people died? Did you know even after slavery was deemed “unconstitutional,” the thirteenth amendment still justified enslavement as a form of legal punishment? Did you know that Jim Crow laws criminalized things for black people like walking too close to train tracks, so the majority of people imprisoned were black people who ended up being enslaved once again? The conditions were even worse since they didn’t have to pay for slaves in order to do labor; black bodies were considered way more dispensable with the amount of them filling prisons. Do I need to bring up lynchings? Also, globally, what is the rate of poverty for brown/black people vs whites? And why do you think they’re impoverished (maybe because predominantly white countries have been able to colonize the most brutally and take the resources and labor of brown/black countries without proper compensation/nonviolent means). Lmao stop taking history out of context to pretend white privilege doesn’t exist.

[fcbayernfamily]

LMAO. Except it Nazi your country has a boring league in Europe. Don't talk shit about others country, then you get shit.

I’m living in one of the richest country in Europe, we have the best development since 1945 (as I remember British Empire coincide after WW2), we have one of the strongest goverments, we have the biggest population in Europe… I don’t think I should be ashamed of my country and what we have done last 70 years :) as I remember UK doesn’t want refugees? Do not allow them to came over from France?! Not a nice try to people that lost everything in their life. 

Germany is more than football or sport and if you think everything that is important is good to be in football you’re really dumb. 

Not all germans are Nazis, not all British prefer brexit. We are one country with a past we can not change, as Great Britain can not change their past. You killed so many people in India, Australia, North America, deport black people from Africa, hold them as slaves in the USA. You’re not a good country too but no one is talking about it because it’s 200 years ago and not 70! I’m sad so many people judge about Germany and even don’t know one german person! We are a great country, with great people, great traditions and you can not judge about a nation that is older than 1000 years because of 13 years :)

Accept it Germany is a great country you have to visit and germans are great people!:) I lived a half year in Spain and I’m glad to be back in Germany because it’s awesome here.

[papirouge]

I get rly mad ppl think all Asians r perverts bc Japan is like one of the top p#rn producers.. that stuff is actually banned in China! The majority of east Asian people r not into tentacle hentai. So I see ur frustration as an African person represented by African americans because just because we "the same" don't mean we have the same culture.. USA + Japan are biggest exporters of cringe. I like Studio Ghibli films though.

Fair enough, North Korea does come off as the most based East Asian country, then comes China, then South Korea... and Japan comes last lmao

China is insane but they're right on the money for some stuff, such as banning Kpop and porn, which is one of the most based stuff ever. Only for that, this country is much more civilized & worth of respect than the USA imo lmao

And you'll notice none of these countries pretend being "the land of the free" or any of that wack nonsense like the US does. As if their founding fathers didn't own slaves and weren't demonic freemasons lmao 💀

I don't think most people think all East Asian are porn obsessed, only japanese scrote. Asian men are unfortunately seen as sexless and aren't very famous for entertaining much libido :/

Yeah I'm tired of people talking about Blacks indifferently as if our experience were the same or shared the same culture. Sure, some elements do align and I personally feel concern when the Africa diaspora gets hurts wherever it is (like abortion or police brutality), but I cringe big time when I see ppl getting defensive over rap culture as if Black people as a whole "owned" it. Nah actually rap culture is US Black culture. I don't get why I should get mad whenever Korean twinks start to act hood bc they think it wil makd them swag 💀

Last time I lurked on racist whitefem and they bitched again "Africans" coming in Europe to rape women and I got like "which ones?🤔 Muslims? Christians?” bc I've yet to see Christian African have a toxic relationship with sex and women like.... I'm 80% sure these illegals who got busted raping women in Europe were Muslims?? even as Black Africans, we still uphold HUGE cultural difference depending on our religion. I'll personally trust Christian men over men from other religion any time.

it's soo obvious these whitefem have no idea of what they're talking about and just see AfRikan MeN like a monolith of dark skin animals with no cultural differences, esp in their education about sex and relationship with women. My culture as a Black Christian African is eons away from disgusting rap culture and that of misogynistic males who grew up to cover women from head to toe and were it's culturally acceptable to rape or beat them over shit.

[diarrheaworldstarhiphop]

Lmao I have to ask if you've heard JonTron's interview with Destiny on YouTube holy shit this guy

omg

ive had a number of asks like this on top of a posting backlog i want to get to.. i mean

fUCK

OK so i went to check it out and:

this horsehit is 2 hours long…

i was gluing manga to a wall and cutting out lil jebs and gabs to hide on it while i listened to it because fuck (below is the cut out sheet i made lol)

so i had my email open to write notes for later and this is what i wrote, no fixes or anything:

destiny is wrong -> 14 mins -14:30

both dumb at 16 mins for the commies and nazis statement. destiny is compared to commies for noooo reason?? I dont think destiny is backed up by communists???? as a bizarre kneejerk TU QUO QUe when jon tron is thrown a guilt by association argument from destiny because of the neo nazi followers of his. destiny says nazism is a race ideology while communism is an economic thing, i cant wrap my miand  around thisis. he has no idea what hes talking about. jon tron dumb cant adequently adders it either

none of them are using gaslighting right

jon tron loves saying tribalism

at 18:40 desitiny is ignorant as fuck with regards to riots. because he hasnt heard about it, therefore it doesnt exist, which is is about one of the most frustrating fucking things about this shitty clusterfuck of a debate besides jon tron asserting random made up facts and imploring destiny to look it up. Jon tron laughs and references the boiling frog analogy fittingly. Jon tron continues to bring in international examples while dentiny tries to reel it back to the USA and the USA alone. This is annoying on two fronts:

1. Jontron is merely refering to situations rather than go in depth, such as compare tibet to “displacing white perople” when what ttibet is experiencing is hardly comparable to american white flight since the chinese are engaging in conquest/imperialism/ethnic cleansing and the west just simply isnt replacing their own population enough on their own for their corporate overlords tastes, so immigration fills the economic growth hole for better or for worse in their super simplified concept of economy (see: economies stop growing when ethnic civil strife brings it to ruin). but destiny doesnt have a clue what happens outside of his boiases. ;et alone the country, to even call him out, howeever when destiny has the proper misinformation, he will assert things like how japan is dying off or worse off for its homogenity without backing up his argument as well. which is a sign of liberals generally being ignorant to world issues unless their favoured media makes it a big deal ie with japan needing immigration. It’s clear both jon tron and destiny are parroting shit in hilariously broken, scatter shot fasihion

destiny thinks america is the most diverse country in the world, which is fucking wrong. Both of these asshoelss are throwing out garbage statements that are flat wrong that benefit their respective close minded, unresearched biases. Niether of them know any better so they cant even properly dismantle eachother’s argument. Clearly jon tron, nor destiny showed up to the debate with notes or preparation, which is a given considering they are both hot headed gamer shithead youtuber Know-It-Alls becuase they heard something in passing before and just throw out the garbled memory of that soething in debate.

jon tron thinks white people are more libertarian?? for some reason? destiny throws out a garbled statement akin to that MY THING WAS MADE IN THIS COUNTRY WHICH HAD PARTS IN THAT COUNTRY DESIGNED BY THAT COUNTRY YADDA YADDA DIVERSITY IS AMAZING when all these components werent built by americans but by different nation states engaging with others/.

at 37 minutes jontron says rich blacks commit more crime than whites, with no source but smugly tells destiny to look it up, confounding the shit out of destiny and the chatroom becuase hes put the burden of researching a fact that doesnt exist on his opponent.

destiny has

at 42, destiny is called a virtue signaller by jon tron, who is running through a list of things he learned a week ago on a mr metokur video to call destiny, which is every bit as cringe and awful to watch as the australian mp who called another sitting member of government out for man splaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOXh5repOWI

desinty throws back a solid rebuttal that jontron side steps going “what im saying is…” and totally fuckign forgets what destiny even said 10 seconds later because jon tron is running through his recently learned, stupid diluted “”facts”” rather than listen and speak to any argument of destiny’s, especially in cases like this when destiny lands a solid question

at 45, destiny gussies globalization with how its great and necessary it is and how cutting off bringing in workers to make stuff in the usa (spoilers: jobs leave the USA, not come in) and trade would lower american standard of living since iiphones will be worth $3000 which is the most liberal, whitest fucking statement of argument because, while yes, iphones would get more expensive, but at least they arent being made in slave labour assembly plants where workers commit mass suicide in protest to their working conditions and that the west isnt pilfering the future leaders and skilled workers from these societies that need them most.

destiny, true to his ignorance, thinks cheap shit is awesome because its made elsewhere, unaware that it’s only so cheap because people die and get crippled in hot, unregulated slave labour factorys making his shitty overpriced electronics

desinty is right though that the american identity goes beyond just being white, because american culture is informed by its various ethnic gorups and peoples, for example it’s black community that does a disproportionately great job of establishing culure, music, activism and art for america as a whole

jon tron again doubles back, shifts the subject to other shit and starts talking about balkanization upon facing a solid argument

at 48 i start to lose my fucking mind because they are talking at eachother and jontron accuses destiny of deflecting when it is jon tron doing all the deflecting. jon trons smug laughter is grating

jon tron has to rely on telephone game “MUH EUROPE” over and over because he cant acknowledge that america is exceptional in how it assimilates and functionas as a melting pot in a way that europe fucking cant, which is creating the situations jon tron fumbless at with greasy game controller fingers to conflate with the USA in the first place.

desinty then claims that germany’s economy is doing great because of taking in refugees, here again he is talking out of his rose tinted ass because not only is it too early to tell if they are mkaing germany money or not, but that the reality is that they are likely a net drain on the germany given other countries and historic precedent

at 50 mins destiny thinks anti-abortion is a white christian thing, further enshrinign his white, middle class, youtuber ignorance. i guess catholic latinx or muslims are pro-choice

at 1 hour desinty says “its ok to keep a country frfom progressing as much as it can in order to maintain a rcaial identity"destiny clarifies it as “stifling growth” which is exactly what jon tron was asserting, to which he goes yeah dude, japan etc and this fucking knob destiny asks jon tron why he came to america instead of japan then, thinking his strawman homerun is about to take off - until jon tron says he was born in amerca.. destiny goes “oh… well…  y-your parents/// ijjuhhhUHH FUCK IM NOT TALKING ABOUT JAPAN IM TALKING ABOUT TEH UNITED STATES!!! which is about the best backfire ive seen all debate long considering the smug setup for it destiny had. furhtemore, what the fuck does “progressing” entail?? Neve raxplained

which is funny because when it isnt a country desinty can use as an argument against jon tron, destiny shrieks IM TALKING ABOUT AMERICA to disguise his ignorance unless it befits him (japan)

soon after though, destiny catches jontron on his shit about slowing immigration down so they can “enter the gene pool”

jontron couldve articulated around this but jontron is a moron, so, he just stutters and gets walked all over

i want to stab jon tron. laughing nervously is anot a good cubstitute for a credible argument

destiny stinks, though he fucking is destroying jon tron because jon tron is regurgitating even more  regurgitated shit arguments gleaned from someone else than destiny, who at points is arguing from his own values.

i have stopped paying attention rea

“that is what im talkibg about” -jon tron, who cant articulate what the fuck hes trying to verbal diarrhea for himself

“my oral ulterior motive is to maximize economic growth, and to maximize the slice of the pie for everybody in the united states” -destiny

destiny’s disposition is clearly and decisively about maximizing economic growth, but it rests upon ignorant hopefulness that these immigrants will arrive and abandon their cultures and become “american"this simultaneously exposes destinys humanitarianism as self serving (so long as it leads to economic growht:) ) which is partly why the immigration model in countries like sweden have completely collapsed (jontron touches on sweden but clearly has no fucking clue besides MUH RIIOTS) beause they took on an ABSURD amount of migrants and immigrants thinking it will pay for itself and transform sweden into a post-ethnic nascent economic power like a jr. america, except what the swedes have done is import a shit ton of people to be a “humanitarian superpower” and threw the lot of them into commie block ghettos and stopped caring about them, assuming they would naturally become swedes, permitting the transformation of these immigrant slums and neighbourhoods into economic and cultural parallel societies that frequently are violent toward swedish authorities and outsiders visiting their area, hence the term "no go zones” where police are instantly attacked and services like ambulances require escort.

“how do you grow an economy if the populatio n is dying off” says destiny, unaware that people can reproduce and will do so the moment people die off enough for real estate prices to collapse from housing supply outpacing demand and wages to skyrocket and make living costs manageable to have enough children to make replacement rate. You know. Naturally rise and fall and rise again. as humanity has done naturally for fucking ever and has fared PRETTY WELL without having to drive the environment and civil stability into the shitter for the ponzi scheme INFINITE GROWTH meme. Destiny argues this yet has no fucking clue what he’s arguing for. fuck destiny, fuck this argument, fuck “economic growth” that means demand from immigration and globalization that makes 600 square foot apartments cost $750,000 and ramshackle crackhouses cost $2million in vancouver. wow, im really feeling the economic growth, fucker.

jon tron brings up the disproportionate violence of black youths, but when asked to explain that, jon tron backs out and laughs about how destiny asking jontron to clarify that point is just like those shows on CNN where people are trying to “TRAP YAH”

Yah, jon tron, it’s called backing up your argument

jon tron jesterly mentions crime rates being consistent across africa when destiny addresses the court systems in america, as if jon tron’s hints toward his earnest views on race were subtle enough

destiny asks jon tron to name 5 african countries

why??

who cares

i am finding myself wishing i were arguing in place of eachotehr, because i see where they are both coming from but are too busy screwin g up their delivery to actually win a point over eachother

they are literally just talking at eachother and calling it a debate

Jon tron accuses destiny of bringing up irish and italians when its convenient

…as if jon tron doesnt bring up MUH YUROP and other whatevers when it’s convenient.

i hate this

they both suck t this. Jon tron has dug a hole through the earth and is now reaching escape velocity with his shovel and is soon to break earths orbit

jon tron brings up turks and iranians being able to assimilate into a culture than a romanian and hungarian would. If jon tron were knowledgeable to pursue this point, he couldve described how Kurds (an iranian people) and turks often fight and engage in conflict with each other in say, Germany to the dismay of germans who expected these groups to assimilate, forget their animosities from their homeland and become good forklift simulator playing germans.

i ahve wasted my hour

i like how i stopped keeping track of time on the video and just started ranting, rambling at the halfway point

I loved it for moments like this tho:

lmao

i feel jon tron is going through a PHILOSOPHICAL AND INFORMATIONAL BLOSSOMING which i guess is taking the red pill for some people. So he is on the same tier as a 16 year old who just discovered holohoax and bell curve graphs for the first time on a 4chan thread loaded with A. Wyatt Man drawings.

He will eventually (hopefully) research for himself these positions if only because he’s constantly being stomped and fighting people over these regurgitated opinions. Which means he is going to try and read up on them to better argue them. Which means he is going to have a hangover of sorts when he realizes what he’s done lol

[rikirachtman]

Alright well since SOMEBODY said “all” I’m just gonna answer all three of ur asks in one go here 

METAL ASK

1: Favorite subgenre: Ehhhh I dunno, I guess maybe thrash or just traditional NWOBHM type stuff.

2: Black or death?: Black for sure

3: 3 favorite bands: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA there’s no way I could narrow it down to three

4: 3 least favorite bands: Oh man no idea, I’m sure my least favourite bands would be ones I haven’t heard yet;. Generally if I reeeeally dislike the sound of a band, I won’t seek out any more than a few songs. I tend to just avoid music I dislike. Of course, a lotttt of terrible garbage music comes on the radio, and other people tend to listen to the radio a lot, so occasionally I’m forced to sit through a 24/7 One Direction station or something and silently weep as my ears bleed

5: Thrash metal or grindcore?: Thrash

6: Heaviest song you've ever heard: Shit, I don’t even know. I remember like three years ago when I thought that the opening of SOAD’s “Needles” was the heaviest shit ever lmao, then I heard the breakdown-thing in Suit Pee. Anyway, this is a tough question because I have a line between “this is super heavy” and “this is just kinda...noise at this point”, and it’s difficult to discern where that line is sometimes. Off the top of my head, Nile’s “Lashed to the Slave Stick” is basically the only death metal song I’ve found myself repeatedly listening to, and that song sounds like it weighs 10,000 tons, so we’ll go with that for the moment.

7: 3 overrated bands: Ah man that’s tough. I mean, the two most obvious answers are Nirvana and The Beatles; I do love both those bands, they’re great, and obviously revolutionary (the Beatles almost single-handedly showed people that you could make a living off of writing all your own music instead of covering traditional songs), but I don’t think they’re quite deserving of the worldwide GODLY status. There’s also just certain artists whose success BAFFLES me, like Lil Wayne. The core concept of rap is to RHYME, and I’ve never heard this man form one coherent rhyme lmao

8: Metallica or Megadeth?: Honestly couldn’t choose. Both amazing bands imo

9: Folk metal or viking metal?: Haven’t really listened to enough to form an opinion. I don’t dislike either genre, I just have yet to reeeeeally listen to either.

10: Melodic or technical death metal?: Same as above, haven’t listened to enough to really judge.

11: 3 most 'metal' countries in your opinion: I think just based on the amount of notable metal bands that come out of these places, the USA, Norway, and England win by a landslide.

12: 3 underrated bands: In terms of SUPER obscure bands, Black Death (from Cleveland), Acid (from Belgium), and Brocas Helm. In terms of decently-big-but-not-super-popular, Angel Witch, The Distillers, and Pentagram.

13: What band got you into metal?: Honestly Metallica and SOAD, as generic as that answer is

14: Best guitarist: Speaking from PERSONAL taste, Tony Iommi, Siki Spacek, and Glenn Tipton are favourites of mine.

15: Best drummer: Again, PERSONAL taste, Clive Burr, Dave Lombardo, and Nick Menza.

16: Best vocalist: Personal taste: Rob Halford, Serj Tankian, Danzig, Paul Di’Anno, and Phil Anselmo in his earlier years (pre-tough guy grunting). 

17: Best bassist: Personal taste: Geezer Butler and Steve Harris. Cliff is great but I almost consider him more of a guitarist than a basist with his style

18: Clean vocals or harsh vocals?: Generally somewhere in-between, a nice Hetfieldy shout.

19: 3 bands you just can't get into: In terms of metal, Mastodon and Babymetal (if you have any songs from these two bands that might help me enjoy them, let me know!). Three bands I ALWAYS hear people talk about, but reeeeally can’t get into myself, are Pierce the Veil, Blink-182, and Fall Out Boy. 

20: When did you get into metal?: Maybe three or four years ago

21: Why do you love metal so much?: It’s just a really interesting form of music. Raw aggression taking from more emotionally-driven genres like punk and blues, combined with a lot of impressive instrumentation on a technical level, and the atmosphere of the music and lyrics tends to be pretty cool. I mean, yeah, metal lyrics can be stupid as fuck, but certain bands are poetic in a way that a lot of other genres aren’t.

22: 3 favorite band logos?: Hoth (I haven’t listened to them much but good LORD that logo is cool), Black Sabbath, and of course Slayer (because c’mon, how can you not like it).

23: Fast or heavy?: Generally heavy, but it depends.

24: Favorite NWOBHM band?: Probably Maiden or Angel Witch honestly. Really liking UFO lately too.

25: Favorite black metal band?: REEEEEEALLY generic answers here, but Darkthrone, and Hat-era Gorgoroth.

26: Favorite death metal band?: I have yet to get into death metal enough to really say

27: Favorite thrash metal band?: Eh that’s too difficult to say honestly, I like a lot of thrash. As of right now, I might have to say late 80′s Overkill

28: Glam metal? Yes or no: Good sweet LORD no (95% of the time). The music can be good on rare occasions, but god that look, and those lyrics, EEUGHH

29: 3 most influential metal bands: I’d say Sabbath (obviously, for the creation of metal), Priest (for adding speed, twin guitars, and soaring vocals to metal), and as weird as this is to say, Venom (who single-handedly birthed extreme metal, essentially creating three or four sub-genres). Maiden is another runner-up but I couldn’t put them past the influence of the first three

30: Favorite crossover genre: I mean...I guess blues metal is pretty cool lmao

god damn i am a normie wtf how dare i call myself a metal fan