#sorry for the leftist language

[pipiezexal]

us specific post incoming, but: in the wake of the inauguration I've seen a couple of versions floating around tumblr at this point, and they're all well-meaning so I don't want to put this on the posts themselves, but:

if you find yourself compelled to make or spread versions/interpretations of the "first they came for" poem, just take a second to double check whether or not Jews are included.

The original version is very culturally specific to Germany and to German guilt/reconciliation post-WWII, and while the sentiments (of standing up for others before atrocities occur) are important and universal, the original intention and message are still important, especially as antisemitism rises in spaces across the political spectrum.

If we do not include Jewish people in our advocacy, we will be repeating the exact same conditions the original poem criticizes. It would be ironic in a very serious and unfunny way to be silent on the suffering of Jews while quoting a poem reckoning with the suffering Jewish people endured because of bystanders' silence.

[anarchicarachnid]

not gonna lie, as much as I support the idea of being critical of our language and how it translates to our perception of ideas that may be harmful or offensive, i.e. casually ableist language, I also think some people are too sensitive to exist on this earth, and their pragmatism and charisma are severely harmed by the way they perfectly play into the stereotype of the sensitive snowflake that reactionaries think of everyone left of center as. It is in fact not inherently reactionary to be kinda edgy, and tumblr leftie culture simultaneously embraces and rejects this in a super dissonant way.

[positively-peachy-143]

LITERALLY. Chat I'm so serious I HATE the "acoustic" "restarted' trend I FUCKING HATE IT. I don't hate many things but I'm actually shaking with rage it's not funny, it's annoying, and honestly its really fucking stupid. like literally I go through life NEVER using any of those terminologies lightly, and I'm still hilarious and creative and I don't feel stifled or 'censored'. I feel like a good person. I feel like someone who gives a shit??? someone who knows how to watch their words??? did they forget that in kindergarten???

Sorry I just go to school with super entitled rich private school kids and all of them use that terminology and think it's SO funny. like it's not, stfu. the unbridled rage has been brewing in my system over this for all of high-school. like they use it so casually?? it's the go-to joke, and that just- it makes me so mad.

NOT ONLY THAT but the majority of my family is neurodivergent in some way, that's like insulting someones BLOOD. fuck you and your shock value humor. it's not funny, you're just an asshole.

anyway chat I'll go back to normal silly quirky outsiders postings my b i got too silly

“You shouldn’t self-ID as ADHD/autistic, you’re turning a very real mental condition into a trend” Ok then stop saying delulu. Stop speculating on which cluster C personality disorder the criminals you hear about on the news have. Stop saying “schizoposting” and “acoustic” and “is it restarted?” Stop using “psycopath” and “sociopath” as catch-all ways of calling someone a bad person. Stop saying “the intrusive thoughts won” when you bleach your hair and then turn your nose up at people who suffer from very real, very scary urges of physical/sexual violence. Stop saying “I’m so OCD” as a way of calling yourself neat. Stop treating BPD/ASPD/Bipolar as inherently abusive. Stop saying “OP I am living in your walls” without tagging for unreality. Stop diagnosing complete strangers you’ve never met on r/AITA with NPD.

You first. If you don’t want our disabilities to be treated like trends then stop belittling and minimising them. I’ll NEVER judge a person for trying find labels for their symptoms when an apathetic, racist, sexist, ableist healthcare system refuses to. But I will absolutely judge a hypocrite. Which a lot of you are

[eileennatural]

can i say something possibly controversial. white male leftists fantasize about revolution for the same reason white male conservatives fantasize about their homes being invaded. it's not likely to happen, but if it did they would suddenly be justified in committing a whole lot of violence

[weemietime]

I really can't overstate how massively tired I am of western leftist children chanting globalize the Intifada. Truly, it's mind-blowing that anyone takes these Tik Toks seriously. It's always someone who couldn't point out Gaza on a map, doesn't know from what river to what sea, doesn't speak a Middle Eastern language, doesn't practice any Middle Eastern religion.

Hasn't ever been involved in armed conflict, hasn't ever experienced combat first-hand yet somehow they have magically become the authority on what constitutes genocide in an urban warfare scenario where the enemy is asymmetrically embedded into the civilian population.

Positively stunning that these folks with their BLM posters in the background start reading Osama Bin Laden's Letter to America which is some of the most profoundly, virulent antisemitic gibberish, with complete and utter sincerity. Never seen a gun in real life, never been homeless or brutalized by the police. Yet they somehow bestowed upon themselves the qualifications with which to speak about this extraordinarily complex subject.

Sorry, man. I don't give a shit what some 21 year Christianized Californian white person who couldn't say a single sentence in Hebrew or Arabic thinks about fucking Israel and Palestine. Have you ever considered the possibility that you should listen more than you speak? Listen to actual Jews, actual Palestinians. These people, they don't even know any Palestinians, lmao. They couldn't name five Palestinians they personally know off-hand.

And yeah someone will probably reblog this like oh blah blah blah I'm this and that - - what I mean is that even if you can say you've had a lived experience, the vast majority of the people around you who are spewing the same takes as you, who you're reblogging from and platforming - - a majority of these dudes genuinely could not even tell you who the president of Israel is.

Am I gate-keeping a centuries old ethnic and religious conflict steeped in highly nuanced, intricate layers spanning generations? Yeah. Maybe that dude on the college campus with the watermelon hat spouting off how much he loves the literally genocidal Houthis ("based Houthis," even) screaming "Zionazis go back to Europe," isn't the fucking four-star General Douchebag we need right now.

[vero1shere]

spring breakers! - prologue

pairing: roman roy x fem!oc

word count: 3.4k

summary: Marla Carranza, despite being a board member, hasn't talked to the Roys in years. This changes the minute a very desperate Kendall Roy calls her.

warnings: foul language, main character is a bad person, toxic friendships, no Roman appearance (this is just the prologue guys trust it WILL get juicy)

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“‘Shit show at the fuck factory’” Marla chuckled as she scrolled through her phone, reading outloud the article’s title to her best friend Emma. “I wonder who came up with that.”

Best friend—if that’s what you’d call it. It seemed like the appropriate title since they spent most of their time together. However Marla did not especially like Emma, nor did she find her remarkable in any way. If it wasn’t for them working together, Marla would’ve never spoken to her in the first place.

“Aren’t you a little bit worried?” Emma asked as Marla munched on her salad. She turned her head towards her plate, admiring the little bubbles in the ceramic from the mistakes of the honest artisan who had made them by hand. They could never say Marla didn’t care for the environment. She’d bought all of her dishes from a local small business. Of course, she didn’t go and buy them herself, so she didn’t pick them. But she did ask specifically for blue plates. 

“I mean, I’m sure Waystar will pick itself up” she put her elbow up on the table. Emma eyed it and she immediately moved it down. Maybe that’s why Marla didn’t like her. She was a little bit too much like her mother.  “Besides, it’s not like I live off of the money I get as a board member. It’s mainly some extra cash.” 

“I was talking about Logan Roy’s health” Marla immediately let out a loud laugh, before realising she was being serious. Emma looked at her in confusion, still waiting for an answer.

“The old dinosaur? Sooner or later he was bound to die.” Marla picked up a tomato. “He’s been a thousand years old ever since I was 17”.

“He hasn’t died yet, I think he’s just in some sort of coma.” Marla shrugged at Emma’s expectant eyes. “Besides, weren’t you close at some point? I’m sorry, but didn’t he make your career?”

“Hey now! That’s incredibly undermining.” Marla faked her anger in a mocking way. She would’ve felt insulted if the words hadn’t come out of living-beige-wallpaper Emma. “Firstly, I was already a Nepo Baby before meeting Logan. Secondly, I was literally the smartest person during my promotion in college. I think I would’ve done pretty well without Logan.” She moved her fork around the lettuce before adding. “Probably would’ve been better to be honest. I’d be in a more leftist environment.” 

“Oh right. I forgot about your views.” Emma, just like the rest of the people working at her mother’s law firm, was incredibly right-leaning. Marla did enjoy their political debates together, as they diverged hugely from politics talk at home. Despite all of Emma’s similarities to Marla’s mother, Vivian Carranza was a proud communist. Marla never understood how she ended up creating a business such as this one, filled with republican employees. 

It had been her father who turned more to the left in what regarded his job. He had a really important-sounding position over at Pierce. It was the main reason why they moved over to New York from the UK. Which led to Marla meeting Roman Roy in her freshman year and becoming… Whatever Roman had considered her to be to him. 

What she still never understood is why Logan Roy had taken an interest in her during that summer she spent with the Roy family. Her father worked for Waystar’s némesis and, at the time Roman invited her over to spend the summer with him and his family, Shiv hated her. And even then she understood that Shiv was Logan’s favourite daughter. At least she was the one he nurtured the most. Maybe because she was a woman. Which confused her even further as Marla was one herself. 

Why had Logan picked her for the internship all those years ago? At the moment she had thought it was merely due to her intelligence but, knowing what she knows now, Marla understands that’s of no importance to Mr Roy. However, the main question that had been haunting her ever since the fateful day she finished college was why didn’t Logan offer her a position at Waystar? For many years she’d thought she had probably done something wrong. Until only a few days ago it was announced that Kendall Roy would not be CEO. 

Then she understood that Logan liked to play with people. He liked to play with possibilities. He had promised this to Kendall since he had been a kid. The boy was so sure that he’d be CEO of Waystar. Even when they’d been partying and Ken’s nose looked slightly white due to the cocaine residue, he’d brag about it. 

The moment she read online that Logan had decided to not give the position to Kendall she’d thought of getting back in contact with him. She ultimately chose not to though. It had been almost three years since she had even attended a Waystar board meeting, let alone talked to any of the Roys. And although Ken was the only one she’d ended on a good basis with, Marla thought if she messaged him she might seem pathetic. Like she wanted something from Ken. 

And she did.

Marla hated this fact, but she was self-aware enough to know it was true: she desires attention from the Roys. 

Life with them had been so interesting, so… unpredictable. Her mind always pondered upon whether or not any of the Roys were thinking about her. She wished they did. Especially, despite all of her efforts not to desire it, she hoped Roman was. 

She still thought about Roman. Of course she did. But she’d never face her feelings head on. In her conscious mind, for whatever reason, Marla promises she doesn’t care about him. 

People say avoidance is bad, but avoidance was Marla’s best friend, not the ditzy blonde girl she had in front of her. 

“How long is it going to take you to eat that salad?” Emma pulled her out of her thoughts. Marla finally turned to look at her surroundings. Emma’s plate was empty, god knows since when, but deducing from her bored face it had probably been a while.

“Oh, sorry.” She turned to look at her own plate, still more than half of her chickpea salad remaining. She moved her fork and picked up some crunchy lettuce before letting the fork fall on the dish again. “I don’t think I’m hungry anymore.”

“Well good. Does that mean we can leave”

Marla chuckled. “Yeah. It does mean we can leave.”

“I hope you explain to your mum that the reason we took so long on our lunch break was because you got too distracted over Logan Roy.” Emma said as they stood up from their chairs. 

“I did not get distracted over Logan Roy.” Emma shot her a look. “Maybe a little bit nostalgic but nothing more. Besides, you know my mum doesn’t give a fuck about how long we take on our break.”

"Still. We should get going.” They grabbed their bags from the sofa.

Marla was halfway to the door when she noticed Emma lagging behind, lips pursed like she was chewing on a thought.

“By the way,” Emma said after a beat, almost too casually, “you’ve never really told me anything about your time with the Roys.”

“Eh. It wasn’t that exciting.” Marla was good at lying. She had been lying her whole life after all. “Mainly business talk and tennis.”

“Oh come on!” Emma turned to her while she headed towards the elevator. “Everyone at Yale knew you and Siobhan Roy were bestest of friends. She probably gave you the juiciest gossip about her dad and family. I know there must be something wrong with them.” She said that last part more to herself than to Marla.

Sometimes Marla forgot Emma had also been to Yale. She’d never talked to her during her time as a college student. “Not really.” Lie. “She wasn’t that interesting.” Lie again. 

“Why did you guys stop talking to each other?” The elevator had already arrived but neither of them made any type of gesture that signaled they were going to enter it. 

“I’ve told you this before.” Marla hadn’t. Not really. She had maybe skimmed over the general occurrences but never went into detail. 

“Ah right. The coke thing with her brother.” Marla hummed in approval as she finally decided to call the elevator again. They waited in silence for it to arrive, Marla looked over to Emma who was playing a game on her phone. 

The elevator arrived but before they could go in, Marla’s phone vibrated in her bag.

Marla turned on her phone and checked the caller id. Surprised by the name that had popped up on the screen. She stared at it for a few seconds as she felt her heart starting to race. Why the fuck was Kendall Roy calling her?

“Speak of the devil.” She turned her head over to Emma who was looking directly at her screen. Marla was being again reminded of what a gossipy bitch she was. 

Marla couldn’t judge her on that though, as she was much more of a lover of the dramatics than Emma was, she could just hide it a little bit better. 

“I’m going to take this.” Emma sighed in an annoyed ‘really?’. “You can get going. I’ll get a cab.”

“Alright! See you later then.” She stepped inside the elevator. Before the doors closed, she added: “don’t forget to tell me all the deets about that call!”

“I will!” Marla gave her a fake smile. She wouldn’t. Their relationship wasn’t like that. She shifted her eyes back to the screen as she still debated whether to click the green or red button, suddenly realising that the call was over as it was left unanswered. 

Marla debated if she should call back. It was probably something important if he was calling her. Or maybe he just wanted to check in, getting suddenly hit by nostalgia. Perhaps, even better, Logan Roy had finally died. 

Before Marla could decide if she was calling him or not, a notification popped up on her screen and this time she clicked it immediately.

Kendall: Hey Marla.

Kendall: It’s been a while.

Marla felt confused as she looked at her screen. 

Kendall: How are you?

She stared at the message, aware that Kendall could see that she had read it. She began to type out a response but stopped when the typing symbol appeared from Kendall’s contact.

Kendall: I’m sorry there is no way I can make this not awkward. 

Kendall: Can I call you?

Marla thought about her answer. What could she message to an old friend she hadn’t seen in years? ‘Everything' s good! What about you? Also, yeah you can call me. It’s not like I have anything going on in my life right now.”

Marla: hey, i’m kinda busy right now.

Marla: what’s wrong?

Marla was NOT busy.

Kendall: It’s a bit of a sensitive topic. 

Kendall: I’d really prefer it if we could talk on a call.

Marla: alright

Marla: give me a few minutes

Marla walked over from the elevator to her room upstairs. She sat down on her bed, her back towards her closet as she stared at the huge window. 

New York was full of life; its intricacies had always delighted her. She found comfort in knowing that each car held someone else, each stranger wrapped up in their own world, their own struggles. It made her feel small, and sometimes, that was a relief.

But being small had never been enough. She always had to prove she was more than just another person in the crowd.

With that familiar urgency pressing against her ribs, she took a breath, then clicked the little phone icon beside Kendall’s name.

Kendall picked up immediately. 

“Uh… Hey” Marla hadn’t heard that voice in a long time. Deep and masculine, though Marla always sensed the undertones of doubt in his voice. Kendall was never good at making decisions. 

“Hey.”

“Long… time no see huh?”

“Yeah.” A small silence. Very uncomfortable, though it didn’t last long. “Although technically we aren’t seeing each other so…”

“Oh. Would you rather talk this over facetime or something? Because I can call you from there right now.”

“Oh no, don’t worry.” Kendall was always so accelerated. He was similar to Roman in that way. “It was just a joke.”

“Oh. Ha ha. I get it.” Another uncomfortable silence. 

“So…” 

“And…”

They both spoke at the same time, laughing it off. 

“Uh… you go first.” Marla said. She was smiling despite Kendall not being able to see her. Probably muscle memory from all the years having to ease off awkwardness with her pretty face.

“Um… Honestly, I don’t know how to tell you this but…” Marla could hear a gulp in Kendall’s throat. “I’m going after my father.” 

Another silence but this time it wasn’t awkward. It was heavy. 

“Uh… hello?”

“What do you mean by that?”

“My dad… He’s back in the office.”

“You mean he’s out of his… uh…coma?”

“Yeah.” 

Marla silently fucked her shitty algorithm that showed her the news days after they aired. 

“And,” Marla made the a sound especially long. “you want to do what to him? to your old, vulnerable, aging father?” Marla didn’t really care about Logan, she just liked teasing Kendall.

“I mean… I, uh, of course I love him. He’s my, uh, my dad you know?”

“I know.”

“But… you said it yourself. He’s fucking old.”

“Old as shit.”

Kendall chuckled. “Yeah. Old as shit.”

“So what’re you going to do to him?” 

Marla had always been blunt. The charm was something she had to learn as she grew and realised that there were certain behaviours she had to adopt if she wanted to get her way. However this time, she didn’t really care. The conversation had rapidly turned less uncomfortable, reminding Marla of her not-so-old times with Kendall.

“Uh… There’s no better way to put this.” He let out a small laugh. “I want to fuck him over.”

“Okaaay…” 

“I know it sounds bad but-”

“Honestly fair. I wanted to call you after I found out about the whole… you not being CEO thing.”

“Oh really?”

“Yeah… I didn’t because… To be honest I don’t know why I didn’t”

“Yeah no, I get it. I had to gather up all my courage to call you right now.” Marla laughed a little. “It was weird right? How we just faded away from each other.”

“It was kinda weird.”

“Like, I never understood what happened between you and uh… Roman, but it makes sense that you aren’t talking.” It was Marla’s turn to gulp. “He’s an asshole honestly.” Now Marla gifted him with a louder laugh, but this one was fake. She just figured it was the best answer to that. “And uh… the whole Shiv thing happened and that... Uh… I’m sorry about it by the way.”

“Not your fault.”

“Yeah well… kinda.”

Marla didn’t want to keep talking about this. She knew why they’d grown apart: that shit happens. Was it kinda sad? Marla didn’t like to think about that.

“Yeah um… why did you call me again?” 

“Oh right, so uh… I’m planning a board vote against my dad staying as CEO. You know, because he’s uh… old and everything.”

“And everything.”

“Ha ha yeah. So uh… I was hoping you’d vote in my favour”

Marla stopped for a second before talking. She knew Kendall always had this thing against his dad’s antics. However this seemed ruthless. When Logan had cut her off she had left. Marla was usually a fighter, but that time pride got the best of her and she escaped. Kendall was fighting. 

Before she could answer, Kendall added, “I know it’s kinda… uh… evil? perhaps? I know he’s my uh… father and everything. But Marla, you must understand. Waystar needs this- I… uh…. I need this. I know you don’t really enjoy going to board meetings but… Uh, when my father announced I wasn’t going to-”

“Kenny” Marla interrupted him. “Of course I’ll vote in your favour.”

“Really?” She could feel the excitement in his voice. She could hear his smile. 

“When is this vote taking place?”

“On Tuesday.”

“Alright see you then.”

“Marla you… you don’t know how much this means to me.”

“Yeah, yeah. You can pay me back later, don’t worry.”

“No, really. I’m standing up. Glad to know I have your support.” Marla understood how Kendall felt and she valued his courage. Logan Roy is a scary man. However, most of all, Marla liked the fact that she was getting involved again. She had stopped going to board meetings on one part out of laziness, on the other because she felt pathetic going there; knowing that she wasn’t a real part of the staff, just another stock owner. Besides, it had been nice to finally get rid of Roman’s haunting stare. 

Despite all of this, she had been longing to get involved. This petition from Kendall had appeared as an angel in the form of an excuse to be a player of the game again. 

“I, uh, I also wanted to invite you…” Kendall spoke again. “There’s this gala that’s happening on Sunday. I’m… it’s actually the first time I’m speaking as if I was head of the company which… uh, I guess is nice.”

“Oh. I… uh, I don’t know if I can go Ken.”

“Please Mar. It would be great to see you there.”

“Yeah, but you’ll probably be all caught up with the Waystar shit and I won’t know anyone else there that isn’t your family.” Marla was rambling. “Also… you know I’m not really on good terms with them so…”

“You technically have an invitation as part of the board so it’s not like you don’t belong there. Besides, you’re like the… most socially skilled person I know. Also, uh, Stewy will be there. You guys are still friends right?”

Oh Stewy. Marla liked Stewy. He was simple. She didn’t need to get into much detail with him and he didn’t expect her to. They had a thing a long while ago during her college years but it had ended on the best of terms. It would be nice to see him again, she hadn’t spoken to him in months. 

“I’ll see if I go.”

“Please Marla.”

“Hey! I moved on from it being the last thing I would ever want to do to actually considering it. Be a little bit grateful” Kendall chuckled once again at her words.

“Alright, alright. I’m just saying, I really want you to go.”

“I know.”

A small silence. This time a comfortable one. Marla was smiling, but this time it wasn’t to get rid of the awkwardness, it was genuine. 

“Anyways… you were, uh, busy, weren’t you?”

“Busy? Oh right! Yeah.”

“Yeah so… uh, I’ll leave you to it.”

“Oh. Alright. See you soon Kendall.” It had been a long time since she’d ever pronounced those words. 

“See you Marla.” Marla separated the phone from her ear and was about to click on the red icon when Kendall spoke.

“Uh… wait, Marla?”

“Yeah?”

“I’m really happy you answered.”

“I’m happy I answered too.”

“I hope you come to the gala. I’ve, uh, I’ve missed you.”

Marla sat still at his words.

“And uh… I know I’m not the only one in the family who has.”

“What does that mean?”

“Uh… nothing… you’ll probably find out at the gala.”

“Oh mysterious. I don’t know if I like it.” Kendall laughed. “I feel like this is all just a lie so you can see me this Sunday. Which I don’t really understand since you’ll already be seeing me on Tuesday.”

“I know, but the gala… It’s different. It’s a statement.”

“A statement, huh?” Marla twirled a loose thread from her sleeve. She liked the sound of that.

“Yeah. And it’s not just about the vote. It’s about showing up. Making them see who’s on my side.”

Marla exhaled through her nose, staring at the city lights flickering in the distance. It wasn’t like she didn’t want to go. She just didn’t want to make it seem like she wanted to go.

“…What’s the dress code?”

Kendall laughed. “Black tie. You know the drill.”

“Fine. I’ll think about it.”

“You better think real hard.”

Marla smirked. She could hear the anticipation in his voice. And for the first time in years, she felt it too.

[marxistmuslimah]

Take it from an Iranian, Fuck Hamas and fuck theocrats everywhere.

A free Palestine must be free from all fascists not just Israeli ones.

Fascists are the enemies of all people, no matter their language, race, or religion. They wear many masks but none of them deserve our sympathy, Gaza has been under a dictatorship since 2006 and we should support it just because they want a free Palestine.

We can’t afford the moral blindness that even great people like W.E.B. Du Bois fell prey to when he excused Imperial Japan’s atrocities under the banner of "anti-colonialism." Supporting the oppressed doesn’t mean whitewashing their oppressors. Yes, Israel’s government is fucking brutal but that doesn’t make Hamas noble good guys.

please don't be like those people who were bemoaning the loss of Bashar al-Assad because "He supports Palestinians" while not understanding anything about Syrian politics (not saying thing in Syria are 100% better now but they aren't as bad)

So stand with the Gazans protesting Hamas right now. Stand with ordinary people Palestinian and Israeli protesting against the regimes that exploit them and their lives as excuses for bloodshed.

(sorry if this came off as preachy it just really annoys me, also if you can read you can tell this isn't pro Israel, I'm just a leftist and so I don't like fascists)

[captainjonnitkessler]

“And frankly the idea that indigenous people are better at environmentalism or have some sort of inherent connection to the land that nobody else does seems like an abdication of responsibility.” tysm for saying this 😭

it’s just the same weird, racist, noble savage trope repackaged in seemingly progressive language which leftists Love to do to indigenous people. the idea that we are all perfectly good little environmentally conscious leftists drives me crazy. they’d have a heart attack if they saw how my family members vote

I imagine it's somewhat similar to how I feel when people on here go on about the nobility of the working class and how the workers are going to Rise Up and Fight For Justice And Solidarity!! And then I go to my blue collar union job and my coworkers are wearing Trump shirts and talking about how we should be putting trans people in camps for the fourth time this month.

Like I'm sorry that reality is getting in the way of your glorious leftist vision, but if your activism isn't grounded in the reality that people are just people then what are you even hoping to accomplish

[machine-saint]

there's a genre of post/video that I see occasionally that's framed like it's trying to convince the viewer of.something but uses language that's just so snarky and insulting towards the viewer that there's no way that that's the intended audience

like (to make up an example): "oh, you think there are two genders because it's what you learned in 3rd grade? well, sorry, but some of us actually went to big boy school for adults!" type of thing. it's very embarrassing imo.

i don't think this is specific to any ideology; presumably conservatives and fascists and everything have the same thing, and I just see it more often from leftists because that's the space I'm in. i think it's just social media clout chasing, a political universal

[weemietime]

What's it like being a baseline zionist antisemitic who thinks Jesus was a white-ass Israeli 🤣🤭

Claiming Jesus was brown and yet your movement continues to say Jews are white, lol. Unless you think Jesus was Arab even though Arabs didn't show up until the 7th century, dumbass. Jesus wasn't a Muslim, dipshit, he was a Judean Jew. Palestine didn't exist until the 1960s. There is no archaeological or anthropological evidence that Arabs are indigenous to Israel. You guys rant about Canaanite DNA as though DNA has anything to do with indigeneity because of your racist ass blood quantum colonialist gibberish. And BTW, you are being played by Islamists who know that idiotic leftists like you only get on board when you couch it in progressive language like "indigenous issues." Ask anyone who actually speaks Arabic about the way that they talk amongst themselves, it is completely deliberate. You guys can screed and cry about how Mizrahi Jews in Israel are actually Arab only when it suits your narrative now when you realize that over half of Israel (61%) is Mizrahi, not Ashkenazi, so your little "Jews are European" word salad goes nowhere. So only now are Mizrahim "actually Arabs" even though y'all were the ones to kick them out of Middle Eastern countries (to Israel, which you then claim should be destroyed, but "we don't want to kill Jews.") Sorry, you fucking imbecile, it's too late to backtrack now. They obviously weren't Arab enough for you when you were slaughtering them in Yemen, Iraq and Ethiopia. Jesus was Jewish. Die mad about it. :-)

[miss-4clover]

J.K Rowling is a horrible person

Joanne Rowling, born 1965, is the author of the best selling book series in history, ever, which is Harry Potter. The Deathly Hallows, the last book, is the fastest-selling fiction book in history, and sold 8.3 million copies in the first 24 hours or 96 books per second. The Philosophers Stone however, was only printed 500 times in the first edition. The series has been translated into over 80 different languages. 18% of all people in the US have read all of the Harry Potter books. 61% of Americans have seen at least one of the movies. This achievement, of course, has made her incredibly famous, with over 14.2 million followers on Twitter (or X, I don’t really care). So what does she use this huge influence for? Unfortunately, not a lot of good. There is of course her charities, Comic Relief and Lumos, but in my opinion she has enough money and giving it to charity isn’t really a huge effort. (I would also like to add that donated money is exempt from taxes.) In the past few years, she has been tweeting things that are quite clearly transphobic. She denies this of course, but it’s clear that that is her opinion and that she won't change it. For example, in august last year, she posted a photo from a boxing fight, in which trans woman Imane Khelif had won. She insisted that “he” was a man who should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports, as “he” would have an advantage. Khelif later sued her and several other people, like Elon Musk, for cyberbullying her. A few months later, she posted that “millions of women in the U.K. and across the developed world are extremely angry about men in women's sport, men in women's jails, and the erosion of single-sex spaces.” She also lashed out at “leftist activists” who “jeer and sneer at erstwhile female allies for the crime of believing biological sex is real and matters.” A few months ago, she turned on trans children instead. She stated that there “are no trans kids” and that no child is “born in the wrong body,”. Many actors in the Harry Potter movies have apologized to the public about her comments, and say that trans women are women. These include Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), and Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood). Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), also said he was "deeply sorry" to those who "feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished" because of things she has said. The International Quidditch Association (as in the real sport, not the fictional one) has officially changed the name of the sport to “Quadball”, partly to distance themselves from the author. “Heartstopper” actor Sebastian Croft (Ben Hope) apologized on Twitter after it was announced that he voiced a character in the video game Hogwarts Legacy. “I was cast in this project over 3 years ago, back when all Harry Potter was to me, was the magical world I grew up with,” he said. Recently, on asexual awareness day, she also tweeted the following: “Happy International Fake Oppression Day to everyone who wants complete strangers to know they don't fancy a shag.” Which is of course inaccurate and very insulting. As a huge potterhead, I am severely disappointed in J.K. Rowling. Her books taught me English and kept me company for years. Through them I have been introduced to many new friends. When I was younger, my biggest dream was to receive a fan mail response from her. Now, I hesitate every time I want to buy merch, knowing that she will get money for it. Very disappointed.

also yay! My first post on this blog. Really sets the mood!

[useless-catalanfacts]

Hi. A question in relation to your response a few asks ago. As a leftist foreigner, I have always thought Catalonia and its independence movement have a cemented leftist core, but is that just me simply being an essentialist and simplifying the dynamics since the war? Of course, I understand that most Catalans, like most people, are just normal people living their lives and wanting health and happiness and not hard-core extremists either way. I'm half Palestinian and boy, am I tired of people painting us as inherently political when all we want to do is, you know, stay alive. But, I've always just imagined Catalonia as a stronghold for socialist and anarchist vibes. Is that off? And if it's not off, how come one Spanish narrative is that Catalans are bourgeois and capitalist has been so prominent? Like, what are they basing that on? The fact that Catalonia is a somewhat wealthy region? And how do leftists respond to that? Sorry for sensitive questions I'm just really intrigued by this. Sending all the love from one occupied people to another.

First of all, my most sincere best wishes for liberation and solidarity to you and all the Palestinian people 🇵🇸❤️

You are right, Catalonia is a stronghold of leftism. It can be seen easily in maps of election results every time there are Spanish elections, or polls, etc. Catalonia and Euskadi always stand out. This is so prominent that there's even a Twitter account called The F*ck*ing Same Map Again making fun of this, lol. And within the independence movement even more so, too. Historically, the Catalan independence movement has been very linked to communism, with presence of social democrats as well. Since around 2010, many more social democrats and liberals have joined, too. This is not to say that no other profile exists, as you pointed out you can't expect a whole country to have the same ideology, but it's overwhelmingly the case.

The reason why the Spanish left likes to stereotype Catalans as bourgeois (at the same time as, when it's more convenient to them, they also stereotype Catalan people and language as a poor rural farmers' language) comes from the fact that Catalonia (and to a lesser extent also the Basque Country) were the only places of the state of Spain that were industrialized during the Industrial Revolution and for most of the 20th century. This created a very prominent Catalan working class —for your ask, I assume you know about the CNT, the collectivizations, etc. To give an overview, in 1919 about ⅕ of ALL of Catalonia's population was affiliated to the CNT anarchist union, that is not counting people in the rural areas affiliated to unions for rural workers like Unió de Rabassaires that also sympatized with CNT in many matters but was more focused on agricultural workers. More than ⅕ of the whole country's population being a paying member of the anarchist union!��� But, of course, industrialization also produced a muuuuuuuch smaller amount of bourgeoisie. While most Southern and Central Spain was still ruled by the aristocracy that owned most of the land and hired agricultural workers on a daily basis (jornaleros), in Catalonia there were bourgeois factory owners.

In the 1920s, many people came from rural areas of Spain to Barcelona and other urban areas of Catalonia (the population of Catalonia tripled with their arrival), and in the 1960s again the same (this migration tripled again Catalonia's population). In many places, the people who were arriving lived side by side with the people who were already there, usually learned Catalan and mixed with the population. But in some places around Barcelona, because there wasn't enough housing in the city for all the huge amount of people who were arriving, the regime (this was still under Franco's dictatorship) built "dormitory suburbs" where previously there was no town nor suburb. Areas that used to be fields suddenly were all built into cheap housing for the arriving Spanish workers, often with very bad conditions when it comes to public services. Thus, there were pockets of the newly-arrived population that lived in areas only created for them and only inhabited by people who had arrived at the same time as them. The result is that these workers only ever knew other Spanish immigrants, and the only Catalan people they ever met would be at their jobs when they commuted out of their dormitory suburbs into Barcelona's centre. This way, in these pockets of the population (which, of course, did not come free of Catalanophobia) the idea that everyday people spoke Spanish and the bosses and managers spoke Catalan was cemented.

(Obviously, I don't mean to say that everyone in those neighborhoods thought this, only that it was an idea that developed and spread to many people there. There were also people who did not see all the Catalan people as enemies and kept a good class analysis and allied with the Catalan working class and the Catalan people as an oppressed group. A famous example is the writer Paco Candel who lived in one of these new working class neighbourhoods and was an activist for the working class and also for Catalan language, cultural and political rights. I don't think it's been translated to English, but if anyone reading this wants to get a very good view of what the situation was like, the must-read is Paco Candel's 1964 book Els altres catalans).

The idea that "people like us" speak Spanish and bosses speak Catalan is, of course, objectively false. Since in every place capitalism needs more workers than bosses, the first proletariat of the state of Spain was Catalan, and the overwhelming majority of Catalans were and are working class. And the poorest areas of Catalonia are also the ones where Catalan is most spoken and Spanish is rarely heard (all of them in Terres de l'Ebre, a largely agricultural area). At the same time, Spanish has always remained the language of power, the only one spoken by the police, the army, the government, the public administration, etc and the one that rich people want to be heard speaking for prestige reasons. Even more so back then, when Catalan was prohibited and legally persecuted in many sectors. But despite being an overall false picture, it was the experience of these people day after day. The mix of already-present Catalanophobia with the "confirmation" of Catalan people being their enemies in the workplace created this very weird and very out-of-touch mentality of Catalan people being bourgeois in a small part of the Spanish speaking people, while for the vast majority the idea of still that speaking Catalan is for extremist antifascists and that it was a thread for the fascist state and for the very existence of Spain and thus needed to be erradicated. With time, after the dictatorship ended and the democracy period started (1978), the Spanish left was legalized (Catalan independentist parties would take a while yet, because it was said that "Catalan separatists are more dangerous than the communists", but in some time ended up legalized as well, except for some Basque parties that have been illegal until the 21st century) and a part of the Spanish left instrumentalized Catalanophobia to gain votes in some circles, so they used this rhetoric and it spread more, because it gave them a justification that used the right words to sound vaguely leftist and they don't have to question their beliefs nor prejudices.

I hope this answers your question. Thank you very much for your interest and your solidarity, it's greatly appreciated.

[wolfertinger]

"[ANON]

Uh yeah im sorry but Wis youre fucking white remember your place.

You don't get to tell a white passing latine if theyre white or not.

Sawyer growing up in their culture speaking their language and being engaged with their family MAKES THEM LATINO. just bc theyre white passing doesnt erase they are LATINO!!! Wis' stupid Yakubian ape ass must misunderstand what "white passing" MEANS. you know black people can be white passing? Are they white now bc theyre lightskinned and "look white"?? Why do you as a non POC get to be the arbiter of that shit?

Your boyfriend gets to say he can be racist to Latinos and can tantrum and scream at them to stop speaking Spanish around him bc he's "2% Mexican" but GOD forbid Sawyer tells you that you're a racist because you as a white person are FIXATED on fake claiming their fucking irl RACE???

Sorry Wis but no matter how much you use Salem as a racist shield you're still a cracker bitch at the end of the day that fetishizes Asians and silences POC she doesnt agree with. Racist white European mayo monkies that want to larp as American leftists without knowing the shit that actually goes on here should rope themselves."

[wolveria]

Sorry to bring up shipping discourse on your blog. Reminder that you have every right to just ignore this. It’s your blog.

But the whole thing around shipping aspec characters tends to be less “should we do it?” and more “stop fucking erasing a character’s identity just bc you don’t know how to write it”. I mean, not for everyone, obviously, but that tends to be what it boils down to.

Me, personally, I don’t mind the shipping (esp crackships and selfships. They get too much shit as is and I’m not adding onto that), but I do mind when people just ignore the characters identity or treat it as Straight Lite™️, which I have seen a lot of people do. And I know you said that it’s less about what they do with fictional characters and more about how they treat actual aspec people, but oftentimes (as far as I’ve seen) their attitude towards actual people tends to be similar to how they treat the identity of a fictional character. Which is to say, bad.

Again, this is all just from my personal experience with people, so maybe you’ve had a much more positive one. I just figured as another aspec person I could share my view. If it’s not welcome, no hard feelings or anything. I do hope you have a nice day/night.

(Anon is responding to this reblog)

And you can acknowledge your feelings about how fans interact with aspect characters. You have a right to be uncomfortable.

But these are your feelings, shaped by your experiences, and your perception will always be subjective. That's simply a part of human existence.

In other words, feelings don't inform reality (ask any person with anxiety).

There are two separate points you bring up, that 1) fans can erase a character's identity, and 2) how fans treat characters is a direct correlation to how they treat real people:

1) A character isn't a real person, therefore it doesn't have an identity that can be erased. It's an object. A fictional concept. You cannot harm them no matter what you do to them.

I am not speaking about representation. A fan does not have the same impact as a Disney executive. I am not, and will not, put them on the same level of power. How a fan headcanons a character will never equate to how media treats queer representation, and I will repeat this until my dying breath.

Which leaves this question: Do you believe it's immoral for other fans to fantasize about characters in a way that you find uncomfortable?

If so, why? Do you believe it's an actual problem? What would be your solution? How do you control people's fantasies, and is it your right to attempt to do so?

If the answer is no, then you must accept that how people interact with fiction isn't your responsibility or obligation, and that discomfort does not equal immorality.

If the answer is yes, please see below.

2) Correlating fantasies with "immoral" behavior is a talking point of conservatives, fascists, and pro-censorship groups.

People writing stories, making art, creating headcanons, etc., is not an accurate indicator or predictor of behavior. It might be helpful to ask yourself why you're equating these two things.

Why do you believe fantasy influences behavior? Or the inverse, do you believe that fans who treat others poorly will always have "problematic" headcanons/ships?

If so, why is your focus on how fictional characters are treated, and not on the actual behaviors towards actual people?

Are your opinions based on facts or on fears?

Pro-censorship groups will argue that reading certain books will lead to a corruption of morals, or those who write toxic relationships will become an abusive partner, or kids who play violent video games are more likely to hurt other students.

Claiming that fans who "erase" the queer identities of fictional characters will lead to actual bigotry towards real people, is the same kind of fear-based argument as above--it just uses leftist language to do so.

(I don't even know how to address the Straight Lite comment without getting into a whole other discussion about how you seem to believe some headcanons aren't queer enough. And following my own example, I am not going to extrapolate that onto how you might view real people's queer identities.)

I've seen a lot of shitty fans in my decade of fandom involvement. I can make a lot of assumptions about what kind of characterizations they like and how it relates to their behavior. I could do that, with a lot of gut feelings behind it, but that doesn't make it true.

Sometimes, shitty people have certain headcanons, or ships, or fantasies, and it doesn't actually mean a damn thing.

At the end of the day, I understand that what someone enjoys, their headcanons, their art, their fantasies, do not inform who they are as a person, nor does it predict how they treat other people. That's not how human behavior works, and there are decades of research to support it.

You can be uncomfortable. You have every right to feel uncomfortable. But discomfort is not an indicator of right or wrong, nor is it evidence your discomfort has an inherent moral weight.

This concept even has its own term: the wisdom of repugnance.

I hope this has been helpful to you. Thank you for your ask.

[ladydeath-vanserra]

Rural Communities, Illyria, Yt Liberalism/Leftism + Classism

I'm having a hard time putting into words how I feel performative activism and political pandering plays into the way the IC works with Illyria

like

ok so I'm from rural Iowa. I am from a community of people who are prideful and hate handouts. we'd rather break our backs working ourselves into the ground instead of asking for help

now, I am looking at these Illyrians. these close-knit peoples who are prideful and work themselves ragged. As someone from a poor family, in a poor, prideful, relatively 'conservative' area, I can see a lot of similarities between Ilyria and my home. Not so much the rampant wing clipping and violent misogyny, but the pride and stubbornness that gets in our own way (note: misogyny, racism, ableism, etc etc etc are often the results of settler colonialism + yt supremacy. they just don't come out of NOwhere and were/are used as a tool to keep yt rich folks in places of power by causing class divide)

enter Cassian and the IC, people who greatly dislike the Illyrians, who routinely look down on them and call them backwards, uneducated, etc (note: this stereotypical language is due to racist undertones, canonically. This is just from my own perspective as someone from a low class rural area)

Cassian, who somehow has a victim complex due to the systemic problems of Illyria, but also does not actively push for Real Systemic Change outside of making the women Also be warriors, comes into the camps, he brings blankets, small tokens to help aid them and personally, if I saw someone from my home town who had made it very clear of how he actually feels about us try to give us blankets? I would not take a damn thing from him bec which is it? are we just the absolute Worst People Ever or do you feel *sorry* for us. And even if that is not his intention, which I don't think it is at all, he has proven time and again he's "better" than them

Cassian more-or-less scorned the Illyrians, as did Rhys and Azriel, and the more Cassian keeps aligning with Rhys compared to finding solidarity and alliances and progressivism with the Illyrians, the more alienated and isolated he's going to make himself from them

Cassian aligning himself with Rhys and the IC and Velaris and the High Lord's family removed him from the class and community solidarity if his own community. He profits off of the systemic problems that are in place despite having been a victim of the same problems

a lot of the ICs performative actions and pandering towards the Illyrians, just enough to get what they want out of them (bodies for a war), and their inability to push for actual, progressive and real change quite honestly reminds me a lot of the yt liberal and democratic politicians who look down on rural folks and have called us backwards and uneducated and hicks.

The IC hide their own prejudices and bigotry behind a shield of contempt and the systemic problems of the Illyrians, the same way I see from a lot of leftist + yt liberals here in the cities

The Illyrians have very real problematic systemic issues that need addressed and actively changed. And it's very interesting, for me, that the wing clipping and violence towards Illyrian women are so highlighted when violent misogyny seems to be fairly normal/common among the fae, in general, according to SJM, anyways

The way you combat systemic issues is through education, social programs and funding, policy changing, etc

what, exactly, is the IC doing for the people of Illyria outside of small performative gestures and "change takes time"

I see the same social problems of "change takes time" with democratic policies and I look at rural areas, and the Illyrians, who need help NOW. they're people getting routinely abandoned or forgotten unless we're needed for something bec they're "backwards" and "uneducated" and "hicks"

I'm not sure if I'm wording this well, tbh, but it feels very... familiar to what I have experienced living in rural Iowa for most of my life compared with the last few years here in the city

tagging: @bookishfeylin @kateprincessofbluewhales @acotardeservesbetter @ae-neon @andramoreaux

[liquid-bonhomme]

My dudes I am truly sorry for having a bit of a fit last night. I had a few drinks while I was out, life is stressful, blah blah blah--

But it's been MONTHS now of watching basically do the same thing Lily does-- fucking hide behind leftist-coded language to say really fucking not sister slay shit on this god forsaken website.

And I'm just left sitting here, seeing all this happening, KNOWING this is all over Sai telling off some gooner who has shipping beef with her over a TV show for children.

Seeing them post veiled anti-semetism to spite @thetepes as a guilt by association proxy because some OTHER rando tumblr blog who was ALSO a kind of guilty association supposedly of Sai's.

Is this spite-fueled fucking chain reaction not nuts to anyone else?

SU shipping beef -> Sai is a big meanie -> the "Lily crit community" (barf) are all big meanies -> [literal transphobia, homophobia-- now with the addition of encouraging anti-semetism!]

I'm going to be deleting some of the posts I made last night. Not because I don't stand by them, but because I was using strong but ambiguous language that I can't clarify without having to give detail I can't share in good concious.

I want Starry to be held accountable for shit they've actually done, not conclusions people have jumped to by me angrily vague posting while a bit shit-faced.

I'll preemptively apologize to Starry now. If they get any anons asking if my posts prompted my mine accusing them of things they legitimately, as far as I am aware, are not guilty of. I take full responsibility, my bad. Fam, do not assume things, and don't blindly trust unsubstantiated claims. Even from internet people who seem responsible.

You can still go fuck yourself for the shit you have done though.