#stupid coup

[bookinit02]

i really do think there’s a huge disconnect on here w/ people who have never used tiktok as to what it actually is and who actually uses it. the number of people i’ve seen call it a “teen dancing app” is actually insane. it has not been a teen dancing app since i was in high school, around 2016 - 2020. the main communities i saw on a daily basis were 1) black history/anti-racism educators, 2) high school & college teachers sharing in-classroom strategies and frustrations with the education system, 3) local/state political leaders giving real-time updates on behind-the-scenes government decisions, & 4) community activism & leadership. like tiktok is an adult platform. almost every person i interacted with was my age or older. and yes it completely depends on your fyp and how you interact with the app, yes there’s still teenagers and dance videos and literally anything else you can think of. but these communities of adults aren’t insubstantial at all, they have literally millions of interactions on a daily basis. there’s about a million other types of communities that i could name just off the top of my head, because the range of users was SO diverse and thriving. it’s a long-distance community tool, just like any other social media—and honestly much better than any other social media, because it relies primarily on the kindness of strangers. i saw at least 5-10 videos today of queer people in rural areas panicking because they don’t have any access to queer community on any other platform or in real life. and before i end this i do want to say i think tiktok is coming back, i think this is a highly orchestrated political move, etc., but i do know it won’t ever be exactly the same. people are panicking about free speech violations because tiktok was a place where people fucking SPEAK. i have never seen mass mobilization and communication in this same way for as long as i’ve been alive. it is the people’s app, not just a silly teenage thing. if you’re not on tiktok and never have been, please stop talking about it like you know anything at all😭

[the-potus-is-a-russian-asset]

If this does not sound familiar, you may be in a cult.

[inkingtwice]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

[presidentkamala]

Ughh how do i tell this guy that while we are on extremely the same page politics wise and i love a good vent sesh, i canNOT and i mean canNOT keep fielding his spiralling about rfk jr publicly lynching fauci and his copium fueled jags about the dems somehow uncovering election subversion and cancelling the results of the election

[weedle-testaburger]

I hope it doesn't sound sick if I say the whole 'south korean president proclaiming martial law and immediately getting slapped down' thing is unreasonably funny to me. this mf won by less than 1% two years ago, everybody hates him, and the legislature is overwhelmingly made up of his opponents. so he decided to try and turn the tables by going 'I'M DECLARING MARTIAL LAW', and within 6 hours everyone in both the opposition and his own party has told him 'no you're not' and made him back down

[cyarsk52-20]

Fuck them midterms. I’ll write Kamala Harris’s name on every line I can just you wait!

Dearest diary

Black women had a meeting.

We are very much TEAM FUCK THEM MIDTERMS.

If you’re offended GOODT.

Now you know how it feels.

Like I’m so ready for my reasonable sociopathic era watching this world burn and letting those who ask for it suffer

[badnewswhatsleft]

sometimes it seems like you may have a magic hat, so that combined with you just watching the cake pop video made me want to inquire if you had any knowledge on a mystery ive noticed. theres a gif that appears to come from that video but it doesn't seem to be in the video as it exists? and of course there's no source on the original gif post bc 2013 gifmakers never seemed to :( no worries if you have no information and no actual video of this

gif: https://64.media.tumblr.com/1ca0a42805ecadbf884c4195d7519625/tumblr_mo9v8ksdYd1sog7a4o1_500.gifv

FASCINATING.

after a little digging it turns out it's not from the cake pop video at all but from here!!!

THEYRE SOOOO CUTE THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION.

[dootslayer420]

Spoilers for The Infinite and the Divine

The Infinite and the Divine is probably one of my favorite books ever because it starts strong and never slows down in intensity. It starts with two ancient terminators fighting over a macguffin so viciously they kill a planet several times over, unintentionally start one of, if not the first, genestealer cult. Sabotage and fuck with eachother for the better part of 10,000 years, then end up fighting a god by summoning several armies like fucking pokemon because Orikan couldn't resist his e-girl. Which in turn causes Trazyn to give Orikan the mean to ALSO become a god, and then it all comes crashing down in a great big cacophany of glorius combat and explosions. 100/10 I would give up most of my remaining lifespan to have a 15 minute conversation with the both of them.

[mikaylacarlierose]

I can’t believe he’s gonna be president again. Like what kind of stupid motherfucker do you need to be to think, ‘yEaH, hE’lL bE a GoOd PrEsIdEnT!!! i’M gOnNa VoTe FoR hIm!!!’ Like, congratulations, you’re a fucking moron! He doesn’t give a shit about you! He doesn’t care about what you want! He’s not gonna help you, or make your life better! He made you look fucking stupid. Twice! You should feel bad, and be mad about it! You should hate him for fooling you into voting for him. Honestly, I still can’t believe anyone voted for him in 2016. When I was a kid, he was literally the epitome of what a white-collar criminal is. He’s been a criminal my entire fucking life! Obviously, there are people who don’t give a shit. Who are just shitty fucking people and actively support nazis or whatever anyways, but for the middle-of-the-road, neutral-whatever-the-fuck, ignorant pieces of shit, who thought… whatever the fuck they think they thought… ‘both side are wrong’, ‘it doesn’t affect me’, ‘all politicians are crooked’, …I hope you get gang-banged by a herd of giraffes. I hope you’re cursed to perpetually shit pinecones. I hope everything that you eat or drink from now until the end of your days tastes just vaguely like cat vomit. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.

[josephinekhawaja]

The point of the Barbie film and all its teasers and trailers may not be to ship her with Ken...

But the two of them had me at "I'm coming with you." I do love me some Supportive Himbo💘.

[gapinggorble]

So like...

it's not safe to pay taxes this year, right?

Like a bunch of random unauthorized dudes have their hands directly in the treasury. Should we even...?

[br1ghtestlight]

Surprising absolutely nobody im sick and will be going into 2025 still feeling sick

[irhabiya]

egyptians are so fucking illiterate i'm gonna kill myselfffff

[airlock]

as the din of fascism continues to intensify in the US, there's a particular sort of online conversation that I keep seeing more of lately

it's the one where someone tries to jam the flow of radical thought by going "oh yeah? you think revolutions are all niceness and candy? well they're NOT, people die in them. you don't understand the scale of the violence you're pushing for". and lots of people will flock to whoever's saying this at a given time -- after all, what's a surer path to social media prestige than taking up the mantle of brave, outspoken defender of all things milquetoast and mainstream?

meanwhile, outside the comfortable confines of the imperial core, there were and are countless people backed up against the wall, forced to seriously address the question: knowing exactly how dangerous and costly revolutions are, do we have any other option right now?

there are always louts who want to push for violence at the drop of a pin; these types tend to accomplish little more than be loud. when an organized mass moves, it's full of people who have weighed their options, and seen that they're in a situation dire enough that the costs of revolting outweigh the costs of letting things stay as they are.

this thing that USamericans are doing in their conversations is like a first baby step towards radical thought more mature than disorganized rabblerousing. I'd maybe be more appreciative of seeing it, if it weren't so thoroughly laced with condenscension always. if, before opening their mouths about the nature of revolutions, the USamerican would listen to those who live in them, without dismissing those people as denizens of inherently chaotic shitholes; without ignorance of where their frustration with USamerican political apathy comes from.

[llycaons]

I don't watch cdramas or read novels with emperors too often and I really prefer it that way. but this one is a historical drama (no fantasy) so it's kind of a given. fgep was like this too