#that person is a neo nazi if theyre using that one.

[snekdood]

anyways i think ive posted this before but the ADL and whatever "rational wiki" is (heard something negative abt it once idk what its about but) both have good index's on dogwhistles to look out for, of course for some things its hard to tell but take context clues and if they use a bunch of other dogwhistles into consideration if you suspect someone is alt right, also consider that some people are essentially taught this stuff w/o context of what it really means sometimes and might just use dogwhistles bc they dont know any better (thinking of minors here mostly). either way gauge for yourself if its safe enough to stick around to find out.

[sybbi]

People will see the Star of David and be like "Is this Zionist propaganda?"

[bogleech]

i dont really go to dr who or anything but i feel like your nazi/fascism allegory immediately falls through once you make whatever youre using "born like that", implying that everyone that is a nazi or everyone that is a facist was Born evil and therefore you dont have to worry about falling victim to nazi rhetoric because Youre not one of those evil bad guys and you dont have to worry about any of your friends or family being neo nazis because clearly theyre one of the good guys + you can easily tell who the bad guys are even though its. a far much more complex thing than that and youre going to run into someone that you think is a cool, chill person but it turns out theyre jsut really good at hiding their fascist beliefs.

Yeah, exactly, if a narrative wants me to think the alien invaders are actually morally despicable then they need to show me that they're capable of anything we would consider kindness or that not all of them are the same! If they hatch out of the queen slug's spores with an automatic instinct to find and eat babies then that can't really be considered any more good or evil than a cat's drive to eat birds. It's an unfortunate problem for other species but never works as an allegory for an ideological choice! One of the best subversions of this are the Orks in Warhammer 40,000, of all things. If I remember right, they were the result of an advanced species using biotechnology to create their own "warrior caste," deliberately "stupider" and driven by a lust for violence, so basically a sub-race created by eugenicists be expendable military slaves. How well that worked out for the civilization is obvious, but the setting never treats the Orks as necessarily good or evil but more of a chaotic force that has no idea what it's really doing at any given time. Conversely, the Yeerks in Animorphs were given a lot of complex, conflicting motivations that feel pretty human. I ultimately end up feeling bad for them as a whole because they're pitiful little slugs you can crush with one hand, and most of what they do is driven by a mix of fear and radical indoctrination. Their leader, however, pretty much is a space hitler who can be held completely accountable for the war as well for horrible things done to his own kind in order to enforce their obedience. And we do still get good-guy yeerks who rebel against that system!

[deer-trees]

Maybe I missed something but why are my fellow Jewish people trying to reclaim dog whistles used against us it's making me nervous. Like I realize as one single person I have very little say in this, but like, reclamation of direct slurs is one thing, whatever, I understand the neccessity of it, but reclamation of a secret code of dehumanization only recognized by neo-nazis or very nervous Jewish people feels like a bridge too far. It doesn't feel like a funny in-joke when I see another Jewish person use them, it feels like "oh fuck are you secretly a neo-nazi pretending to be Jewish and this is your way of covertly signaling it I'm not sure." I have been seeing this for a while now but lately I've seen TONS of dog whistles used by actual Jewish people to self describe how they feel others think of them or to have an edgy quirky way to show theyre Jewish in their Twitter bio and like... I don't think that's helpful! I think we should stop! I see these without seeking them out either nobody I follow does this, I just somehow keep stumbling into the Dogwhistle Reclamation crowd by accident! If any other Jewish people see broader necessity in reclaiming things like the triple parentheses and 1488, by all means, tell me, but currently I think it sucks! I think it's awful!

[mallowmaenad]

my new political ideaology is that I get a device called the dipshit detector that removes self-important white people’s ability to use cellphones for 1 month and I don’t fucking care if this is a fascist dictatorshit i actually would turn joe biden into joe woke and donald trump into pronoun trump if i see one more loud mouthed straighty act like their opinion fucking matters im introducing their shy 9 year old son to my little pony i cant fucking take this shit yes fuck it throw republicans in concentration camps they’re practically begging for it they wont shut the fuck up about how theyre gonna be hunted down and killed wish granted bitch blam blam its wabbit season bitch im sick of liberals im sick of voting im sick of norway if youre even slightly uncomfortable around gay people you should be set on fire black power asian power jewish power latino power and i fucking mean it im not just buying the stupid 30$ tshirt on fckhate.com the worst thing to ever happen in american history is abraham lincoln not publicly executing every confederate general and outlawing slavery full stop we literally live in starship troopers we are trapped in a shitty gmod half life dark rp server yeah I do think you’re basically a terrorist if you go to disney land and i also think that if the first words out of your mouth when the rustbelt gets set on fire is “those dirty rednecks deserve it” ill show you a fucking redneck you fucking yank prick you fucking racist i wish hilary clinton would explode on live tv charitys are fucking fake theyre as fake as those cardboard towns in north korea oppenheimer was a limpdick pussy and fallout is becoming a game franchise that fetishizes the mass genocide of asians and i want todd howard pinned under a large rock for it spec ops the line wasn’t ugly enough there is a conspiracy started by the cosmetics, nutrition and fashion industry in collaboration with the upper class descendants of fucking typhoid “moneybags” marys to fool the masses that fat people aren’t hot as fuck. My body and mind and soul degrade with the week because of yhe shit ass menial labor yhey made me do and the fucking lead in gasoline and world war 1 started a chain reaction of fathers beating their kids and wives because it’s cheaper to buy a gun than go to therapy because we’re fucking warhammer orks without any of the endearing mental stupidity we live in mordor. we live in fucking mordor. it literally does not matter who is president our two political parties are Nazis and Neo-Nazis bernie sanders was the closest thing to a centrist this country has ever seen. capitalism grinds up joy into a paste to divvy out on 500$ gucci toothpicks public urination should be legal rent is theft corporations are agents of satan who is jesus christ who is not jesus of nazareth jesus christ is the poster boy of white supremacy i fucking hate Hamilton white people should listen to MORE rap i want to get my dick sucked at a death grips concert. Laundromats and burger joints where you can get a meal for 5$ are far more important than police stations and walmart. pop anarchists want to personally confiscate your wheelchair uou fuckers treat yhis like a game fuckin e girls with hammers and sickles in their icons arguing about what form of communism or socialism or whateverism is right when bitch that is a pipe dream you are going to die in captivity arguing about which dragon ball z character is the strongest (girl broly) at least go punch a hole in your wall and fuck it to prove you’re human you facebook fetishist jesus christ every other day i want a biblical death just so my fucked up thouhhts mean something i need a fuckingjason vorhees bitch wheres the yandere tea party this is all so fucked up its not fucking real the christian god hates you whoever says otherwise is trying to make you a fucking slave. Mormonism and scientology should be wiped off the map any religion formed after the invention of the gun is a fucking pyramid scheme i wish i was a 9 foot toll shark lady with hugebrealssta so i could fucking knock over thechrystler building

DO 9/11 AGAIN

[nietr]

Fair enough haha, was gonna say it ain't worth getting pissed over if so

no but tbh it is kind of sad that the people pumping money into this shit that causes divide are only half way there with their brainwashing of the youth and college students because then all that is left is conquer.

I'm not mad with these kids, i'm more depressed... i find it both absolutely telling and somewhat amusing of these people's true feelings when they can hide behind anonymity with their shit hot takes and also, kind of depressing because these people/persons are so upset because i dont fuck with Che Guevara, a piece of shit dictator, that they want me to kill myself, its clear they've been completely brainwashed and are also mad immature because emotionally they can't handle someone having a different take on things compared to theirs... these are supposed to be the people who are oh so compassionate and considerate of others yet they dont understand just how many people died under communist regimes... they dont know world history at all and that right there is pretty literal definition of insanity because they think "oh, this time we'll get it right." to advocate for communism after what we've seen from the 20th century... its literally insane. The whole "yeah communism is the answer and more died from communist regimes than all the fascist ones combined but that is because the wrong person was in charge, that wasn't real communism." literal insanity my dood....

I'm not a nazi, i'm not a racist, i'm not a homphobe, i'm not any of that shit... but if i dont go full throttle with all the neo-liberal beliefs then, in their mind, i am all of those things because these people are basically manchurian candidates in a sense and they don't even realize it, their world is so fucking black and white its insane.

its not that im pissed off or upset, its more that im disappointed we've failed these kids from gobbling up foreign and even domestic propaganda...

i remember when i was a teenager and i went to school every day with an anarchy symbol T shirt and chose to opt out of the national anthem, i know a lot of that was influenced by basic teen angst and the music i was bumping at that time, like SOAD. (when schools still had the pledge of allegiance in first period.) I know how impressionable these kids are because they know something is very wrong with the world like i did, its just that the answer is not fucking communism... but theyre being brainwashed that it is. its a false dichotomy

and i dont claim to know what it is. idk if its democracy (and news flash, despite what the news tells you, the U.S. is not a democracy at all for the most part), if its anarchy, if maybe the country needs to be balkanized and then seceded states should be nationalized. i dont know. i'm not a political and philosophy major.... but, like i said, i remember being a teenager and angsty af and upset with everything and its so easy to get these kids to join your cause if you have pushed enough brainwashing and propaganda into such a developmental time of life with 'HEY HERES THE SOLUTION." and you've got a good pitch. You could easily sell the same kid just about anything else at that point. natsoc, civic nationalism, communism, anarchy, etc....

the kicker is the people funneling millions of dollars into hard left wing programming and instigation see these kids, races and people as chattel useful idiot peasants and want this division for more dubious reasons, not for some greater good.... they're being played and dont even realize it... its mad unfortunate. (think george soros)

At the end of the day if you bleed red and you're a fellow citizen of my country i would defend to the death for you to have ur freedom of speech even if i absolutely disagree with it... yet, if the role is reversed and if you have any views not absolutely hard left leaning, you're a fascist piece of shit now and should be cancelled (censored, revoked of your 1st amendment online and dead) whatever, because thanks to these idiots that term (fascist) has lost all its meaning. everyone is a fascist if they're not full blown commies now... lol

at the end of the day, its just sad. these kids are pissed at the system (rightfully so) and MSM has given them the operation mockingbird script and rhetoric.... sadly they eat it up and probably live in an echo chamber on top of it all.

I just want people to think for themselves and less hate and more love in the world man.

[piknim]

Nothing solidifies my lesbianism more than talking to a guy

[azhdakha]

Did you even read everything I told you? Because it feels like you didn't. Or you purposely ignore the parts that are uncomfortable to you as they don't fit in your narrative.

Let's say that I'm not an expert on each and every single military move of both sides, but the question is, why should I spend my time and listen to a random no name on the YouTube?

If you're not benefiting russia in any way supporting and spreading their propaganda, why are you telling me to not break my back carrying water for neo-nazis? Because I could replace the same to you. Don't break your back carrying water for russian alt right neo-nazis or right wingers.

Really? You, a foreigner, a westerner, are telling me, a person who was born, grew up and lives in russia, that what I'm saying is propaganda spewing? Dear, I'm living in this country. If I don't know about what exactly is going on Ukraine, I do know what's going on in my own country. I know how people are treated and what methods are used. And I am not suprised by the atrocities the commit that Ukrainian people talk about and that you call propaganda. It doesnt require much research to see that theyre not doing evil for the sake of evil. Theyre doing that for the same reason nazis do their deed. Resources, desire for power and impunity if you talk about the ordinsry soldier. And simple resources andpower if you talk about the authorities. And please don't teach me on the asiatic Horde thing. You can search my blog on what I think and how much I talk about it. Because I am the one who is called an asiatic barbarian by both russians and Ukrainians.

So a person with 'marxist' in the name of his blog seriously claims that we should ignore whatever Ukrainian proletariat says? Just because you're thinking that they don't have agency for this and you... you what? Know better? Theyre silly Ukrainians held hostage and you, an enlighted fucking westerner has come here to preach the truth and solve what's better for their life? The audacity is beyond explicable. No, seriously, wow, a true marxist caring about proletariat. Тфү, аңгырай блять.

Russia has gone through two Ukrainian armies without breaking a sweat. Who told you that? Z-channels? This is why the wa.. sorry, Speshal militari apereishn is lasting for more than a year already? This is why they're drafting civilians? This is why these drafted men had to buy their equipment on their own? This is why they were given ancient firearms last winter? This is why we're getting our men back in coffins? Not to say that Ukrainians have it much better, not without breaking a sweat? Lol.

Genocide? Genocide by Ukrainian government? Please, put a bit of effort to help me understand, why are we, Russians, living our lives as usually right now, and it's Ukrianians, who wake up at night because of shellings? Why is it my friends in Ukraine that have been struggling because of power cuts this winter and not me? Why is it russian soldiers traveling to Ukraine to fight, and not ZSU to Voronezh or Ryazan?

And before you bring up Donbas, please, tell me, did this war help people in Donbas to escape war? Did it save them from shellings? Did it stop these shellings? Did it stop them from dying? Did it bring back all of the dead people? Why is my friend in Alchevsk(LNR) that has to hide from being drafted now instead of living his best life at 23 years old, without even being able to find a job? Yes, Ukrainian government is like any other government, I'm an anarchist and I don't have any illusions, I have my comrades from Ukraine who let me have a full picture, so nothing excuses their ignorance and cruelty towards people from the East of Ukraine. But none of that gives Russia a pass to invade Ukraine and kill its people or even overthrow the regime.

I don't know how else should I explain you how naive it is to assume that russia maintaing control over Ukraine is not ending the conflict and rebuilding nothing. I don't know how else should I explain to you that occupants are occupants and they aren't going to create any safe and justful living space for Ukrainian people and Ukrainian identity. You are really thinking that russians had a military campaign to another country to save its people? How many times am I supposed to repeat this: russia itself is ruled by right-wing regime. It is opressive to its own people, its a militant patriotism that suppresses any identity separate from russian that is not loyal to it. Our government doesn't care about our own people having the absolute lack of human rights, being in poverty, corruption, inequality and opression. Our government and army, especially current army with things like Wagner and Rusich are full of neo-nazis. ACTUAL NEO NAZIS. Our people's mentality and culture is currently very right-leaning. Its terrible to live here as a minority. And here you are singing a song about how these people should free Ukrainian proletariat from a neo-nazi regime. These people, that write whole damn sheets of text and having shows about how Khokhly are subhuman and savage and should be killed and how Ukrainian identity shouldn't exist. I cannot fathom how is it possible to claim that surrendering to Russia is anyhow good and justified. It reminds me of these stupid people who say that Soviets should have surrendered to nazi Germany back in world War 2 to prevent so many people from dying in combat.

You know what's gonna call the meat grinder off and start some kind of rebuild? Russia retiring and paying reparations.

And while you write that I'm carrying water to nazis, I will remember my friends from Ukraine. My friends that have their hometowns occupied and cannot return. My friends, who leftists, anarcho-communists, who are able to criticize their government and do it, but who dream and live waiting for deoccupation. The antifa community of Ukraine who has been friends with our antifas and who are now fighting among ZSU because that's their home, that's their family and people they're protecting. I will remember indiegnous friends from Russia that constantly face discrimination for being non-russian and non-white by the same people who scream about denazifying Ukraine. I will remember my fellow antifas who almost died fighting nazis in Russian streets. Or other fellows that were killed by nazis. I will remember my own language that's soon going to be extinct because the denazifyers suppress any ethnic identity other than russian rise up and fear of decolonization.

What's your whole point of fighting nato and nazism if it ends in you supporting nazists, colonialists and imperialists?

You're a disgrace to the leftist community. I'm saying this a leftist, as someone who lives in Russia, as an indigenous person who fights against nazi opression, and according to you my life doesnt exist. Sorry.

Russia destroying the Kakhovka dam doesn't make the least bit of sense if you think about it for even a minute.

[mithliya]

Its actually kind of weirdd how easily they justify harassment towards women as long as you say they are a terf

Like someone coulr be completely all about trans rights, say one questionable thing, and suddenly everyone thinks its acceptable to give death threats and etc without bothering to check hey what did this person say or do in the first place? Is this actually a threat or am I just dogpiling and being angry at something that doesnt exist?

And they actually think theyre doing activism, even from an Anti radfem perspective it isnt healthy at all but theyre like "no its okay because THEY are literally killing me all the time THEY WANT ME DEAD and theyre causing MY GROUP to kill themselves 😭 so its morally correct!" Who cares about all the times youre completely wrong about what someone believes, even attacking other trans people, which ive seen many times.... also i dont think young women who are blogging on the internet have as much leverage or political power as they think they do. Like what the fuck? 😳

+ they think radfems are more similar to nazi ideology. Guys, dehumanizing groups of people, which is what you have done with "TERFs", acting as if they have no personalities of their own, a dark shadowy group thats influencing politicians everywhere, blaming them for the deaths of people without an actual basis, ive even seen people saying terfs arent human and they are vermin.... ALL OF THAT IS SHIT HITLER ACTUALLY DID LMAO.

IM NOT EVEN A TERF OR A RADFEM ITS JUST KIND OF FREAKISH ‼️‼️‼️ im not even saying they are doing some mass genocide of terfs, they are harassing anyone who slightly disagrees with them though. which is unhealthy :3 + you can really tell some of these people used to be neo nazis and co, changed to be leftists, but kept all of their.... ways....

LITERALLYYYY you said it all. if they want to go after someone who’s harassing ppl and suicide baiting them then at least there’s some justification but they literally will tack this bullshit incoherent label on u and then say that bc of this label they placed on u that ur Literally getting ppl to kill themselves + not human therefore they have the right to suicide bait u and treat u however they want. very much culty & despite their constant hitler comparisons, as u said, they’re the ones acting more similarly

[lostjulys]

screaming and crying we're the same age why aren't u in my classics seminar. crimes against me specifically for having nobody to talk to about the bacchae. anyways im getting a vibe that u have a strong moral compass, do u agree?

ANONNNNN i am holding ur hand right now i am sitting next to u in classics seminar i am making both of us shitty keurig coffee i am listening to u talk about the bacchae so so so much i also have no one cool in literally ANY of my classes rn 😔

oh... hmm. shit that is. a tougher question than u would think it would be. see. i don't see myself as having a strong moral compass.? like. see. i did in fact cheat my way through highschool (math nd shit.) and i am a compulsive liar irl and i think shoplifting is excellent and good if you're doing it from a chain and i think you should do things because theyre funny and i think you should not hesitate to do awful things to abusers and neo-nazis and stuff like that... i think i have a hard line in the sand when it comes to awful people, and i think it is good and commendable to cheat the system b/c the system is inherently flawed and biased. if someone's not nice to me, then like, whatever. if they're not nice to my friends then i will in fact treat them shitty as hell. but other than that........ i dunno. yk? other than the hard line on like. bigots and shit, i don't reaally care? ive got the capacity to be. much of a shittier person than i choose to be lmfao. like every good (?) thing i've done has been b/c i've actively made the decision to do it. but does that in itself imply the existence of a compass. i dunno! that's a tough one! maybe i do actually! you're gonna make me think abt this way too much!!

also what are ur thoughts on hypocrisy vs growth

OH ANOTHER GOOD ONE. well. i would like to believe that everyone has the capacity to grow and change. big fan of the inherent goodness of human nature except in the way where im like. the really tired exhausted cat parent trying to pick up my cat except she's clinging to the carpet soo tightly and i don't wanna rip out her nails so i just go 'ugh, gd, fine, be that way -_-' and ignore her. does that make sense? it's 2:30 am for me. i give everyone the chance to grow but also sometimes i just want to fucking deck them so bad yk....... like i don't have to like someone in order to give them the benefit of the doubt. unless someone is actively like. a freak or an abuser i won't treat them as irredeemable even if i hate them. it is complicated. anyway what do u think!!!!!!! 👀👀👀

[wakraya]

my view of jane as a facist is only because thats what the entire fandom has turned her into because surprise surprise! canon being in the hands of the fans was a bold faced lie hussie made to escape criticism, and you have to ask yourself, are the new writers doing what they want for the fandom, or just what THEY want? just what they desire and think matters? because it sure as fuck seems like it. sure as fuck seems like they dont give two shits about anyones views other than their own.

YES! They are doing what they want to explore because they ARE writing the story! There’s a separation, a divergence, however, between what they are exploring, and the Fandom! The mere idea of ‘Beyond Canon’ and ‘Dubiously Canon’ comes precisely from this, the fact they’re exploring a specific route that hurts some characters and develops others in ways that conflict with people’s headcanons, but they explicitly don’t want people to stop doing divergent takes, because this is just one of many routes that they’ve just decided to go for because, they just think it’s interesting to go this route?

Once again you push your entire experience as the thing that is happening. You are the person that doesn’t want Jane to be seen as Fascist, yet you’re also pushing the idea that there’s NO other possible take on her right now in the Fandom. 4/13 came and all I saw was positivity for both John/June and Jane, and many people refusing to consider the Epilogues and just saying that Jane deserved better. So how is she only seen as a Fascist by the Fandom? She’s one now in the current content, yes. She’s also redeemable in Meat because she hasn’t gone that far yet. People know this, and people still like Jane.

you have to be out of your fucking mind to think that anything positive is going to happen to these characters that the authors dont like, none of the authors like jade so of course shes just a one dimensional dog dick furry "haha look she said yiff" joke, and jane is just a rapist. plain and simple with nothing else to her. its game over for these characters and the fandom is never going to pull them up because the narrative keeps beating them down over and over again until people do just give.

The epilogues showed us exactly how Hussie wants the series to end, the kids are failures, theyre all losers and nothing ever changed and they all ended up unhappy because "caring about things is for losers". And now, his friends, WHO SHARE THAT SAME MINDSET are getting to do what THEY want, which is why Vriska being fondled by Gamzee in the Epilogues? oh thats not canon to HS2 because Kate LOVES vriska too much to let that happen. but jades dog dick? that just exists to hurt? oh that can stay.

You're wrong. And I'm right. and when Homestuck 2 ends, you'll be forced to admit I'm right cause I've seen through this shit. I've seen the authors bully and block and scream at anyone who doesn't immediately shower them with praise for making the fat girl into a neo nazi who COMPLETELY beyond redemption for no reason other than to hamfist a trump parody into their shitty story. You're wrong. Plain and fucking simple.

Oh. Ooooooh. Oooooooh haha! Here I thought I was actually debating with someone, I was just getting shouted at by the Jade Fucking Hate Anon, no fucking WONDER I wasn’t getting anywhere! Fuck you and everything you fucking stand for.

I shouldn’t even acknowledge these asks because you’re vile and fucking rancid as per usual, but congrats, you ACTUALLY got me heated by posing as a Jane Fan that was hurt by the Epilogues, instead of the shapeless ball of bile and hatred you are.

Jade Harley is great. The writers like Jade. Jade was probably the person having the most fun in the Epilogues’ Earth before shit went down. The first update we get with her being aware of things in Meat, she beats the shit out of Callie for trying to make the story more Dramatic and Slut Shaming her, and beats her at her own game, regaining control of her own body. Jade is comfortable with her body and having sex and positive about it, but she mentions ONE time that she would like to have a biological kid with Dave and Karkat but she can’t, and suddenly YOU latch onto the idea that it hurts to exist because she has a dog dick.

You are. Impossible. To talk to. You don’t want to talk, you want to spew your bullshit and have it taken as fact when EVERYTHING, EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THING the Writers are DOING now contradict your own takes, you’re

Dirk.

You’re Ult Dirk, you’re so fucking closed in your own mind and so convinced that what you’re doing is the only way, that you cannot see beyond that without it tearing your whole concept of being, and that makes you obsessively assault and attack every last fucking shred of positivity you see around. Also the Vriska thing is still canon, surprise! That happened entirely like in the comic, and your focus on going on the Hating Kate bandwagon is just sooooo telling of how deep down this fucking rabbit hole you are.

You wanna bet, Hate Anon? Fine. Fucking bet.

It’s people like fucking you who are vitriol in human shape that aggravate the authors and make them block people, because you cannot consider in your mind the idea that people have good will and intentions when writing darker content. They are exhausted of getting shit like you in their mails and inboxes.

But when HS^2 actually continues to showcase good fucking things for the characters, and have them take control of what’s going on and face the bad things that have happened in the Epilogues? Then we’ll see which of the two is in the wrong, the girl trying to be positive and spread good vibes in the Fandom, or the person hidden behind an Anonymous Facade sending slurs and insults to people because they uuuuuh, I don’t know, dare to like content you don’t I guess.

Fuck you.

[builder051]

Laur reviews: Welcome to Marwen

Genre/Synopsis: Unique biopic detailing the struggles a man faces as he uses his creativity to cope with PTSD and a TBI sustained in a neo nazi/anti-gay attack.

Score:  Excellent /  Good /  Mediocre  /  Poor

Review: First things first: This film isn’t as good as I thought it was going to be.  That’s firmly on the studio and the marketing team; nearly all the trailers made it very clear that this movie is from the same creative team behind Forrest Gump (which is, in my opinion, one of the best movies of all time) and Cast Away.  This invites the audience to draw comparisons, and unfortunately Welcome to Marwen just doesn’t measure up.  It’s not a bad film by any means; the concept is intriguing, and the use of animation is genius.  The story is simple, though, and it takes place over a very short amount of time, which makes the scale seem small.  I think that if it were sold as a little ol’ indy movie, it would be much more impressive.

The acting is very good, though the characters are a touch stereotypical.  They are rather similar to the stereotypical characters in Forrest Gump, though, and humorous in the same way.  Steve Carell is definitely showing his chops as a dramatic actor this season, and while I don’t find his performance Oscar-worthy, he has a few moments where his dialogue is so perfectly delivered that I couldn’t help but smile.  The film is full of situations where characters don’t know how to react, and  it’s even hard to know how to react appropriately as an audience member (such as when a person with a disability self-soothes by doing something general society has deemed humorous, is it ok to laugh?)  There is no solution in the film, or in life, but it’s a worthy question to ponder.

The movie is slightly problematic in other ways, namely in loose ends.  Things come up that seem to be issues central to the plot (Mark’s sexuality, Nicol’s tragic backstory, etc.), but they’re never fleshed out.  In some ways this is understandable, since the characters are based on real people, and the whole thing is from Mark’s perspective (so we don’t know/understand what he doesn’t know/understand), but it leaves the audience with a slight air of confusion.  

As far as awards, I think visual effects could be certainly be a possibility, as well as screenplay and perhaps set design.  I don’t see this film winning in any category, though.  Overall, I think it’s worth the watch (especially if you, like me, spend a lot of time in a mental fantasy realm in order to manage stress), but it’s not the stellar presentation it’s cracked up to be.

[mercenarypark]

i dont fucking care who you are or if its ur “special interest”, if you’re not jewish or romani and u have a “fondness” for the wwii “aesthetic” then you’re fucking creepy and terrifying and i could not care Less about why or how it interests you. dumbasses going around and reblogging nazis in uniform w/ the lightning bolt symbol clearly visible and sympathetic posts about german soldiers in the 40s but still acting like theyre respectable people, and talking about how empathetic you are to the US soldiers who ignored our plight in the camps at BEST [at worst, supported it] in order to continue to fight a war they only joined for the PR, and sympathizing with the german soldiers who destroyed the german side of my family to the point where we didnt know of our jewish roots until a few years ago because my grandmother didnt want us to know you are finding enjoyment in the trauma of jews and spitting in our eyes so you can reblog posts on a goddamned blogging site about the military. and the funniest fucking thing is when ppl like this will ALSO reblog posts denouncing neo-nazis and shit, as if you arent literally tailoring your blog to people like them hell. honestly if ur biggest interest is wars in general you’re fucking creepy, esp stuff like the civil war and wwii. if its ur special interest, heres the thing, I Dont Fucking Care, because no one said you have to talk about it in depth online where ppl can see it and make ur url a reference to one of the biggest historical traumas, Ever. keep that shit private and get a fucking personality outside of “uwu countries tearing themselves apart and people dying and nuclear fallout and genocide? my fave?”  anyway i hate goyim and i wanna die

[hallelujuh]

thomas sanders discourse

so ive seen some shit lately & i just wanna throw in my opinion 1) accusations of antisemitism: so two years ago, he reblogged two humorous posts that mentioned hitler (one was abt powerpuff girls, & one was an out-of-context gif of a hitler speech). now, im jewish, and i personally have rather lax views on antisemitism bc im so used to it at this point. i only really get heated when someone’s legitimately a neo-nazi. but ive personally reblogged the powerpuff post on my old blog, i remember laughing at it (it made fun of his appearance, not his deplorable actions - saying someone has a hitler ‘stache is very very different than oven/gassing jokes). the other post was parodying hitler, not glorifying him or anything. plus it was 2 yrs ago, and i believe both posts have 100k+ notes. tumblr humor. the trend of people digging up problematic shit from years ago needs to stop. 2) homophobia/transphobia: ok, like, first off, he’s not straight himself, and i know lgbt people can still be homophobic and/or transphobic, but this is thomas sanders we’re talking abt. hes famously supportive of just abt everyone. i cant believe THIS is what ppl are accusing him of? all bc he said he supports asexuals & he thinks that we’re lgbt? as an asexual person, i don’t think we’re lgbt, but knowing him, im not surprised thats his viewpoint and i definitely dont think he meant any harm. supporting one group of people doesnt always mean you hate another group, although tumblr tends to have very black-and-white thinking. 3) hes nearly-30 and appealing to a younger audience: i saw this with dan & phil too, and ive even seen it with 25+ y/o tumblr users. i personally dont see why this is an issue. these people grew up on the internet, and it’s like people expect them to quit once they hit 25. like, what are they supposed to do once they hit that age? start going to local soccer games and reading newspapers?? and it’s always 18-22 y/os with this thinking. like?? what are you doin, @confessionsofatwentysomethingfurry625?? why arent u throwing ur laptop and tablet out the nearest window and deleting ur tumblr app right now & going to the local senior center to mingle w ppl ur age, instead of bitching abt ppl 2 yrs older than u bein too old for the internet?? idk i just dont get that. such twisted thinking. i befriended a 42 y/o mom on here once, a couple years back (on my old blog, before anyone tries to dig around this one to disprove me). she was super nice, and always gave me advice, and never was weird or creepy. one of the nicest ppl i ever encountered on here. now, theres a potentional danger with befriending older bloggers, but theres just as much danger w befriending younger ones?? it’s pretty easy for any shitty person to be abusive online, unfortunately, regardless of their age. a 17 y/o friend of mine was emotionally abused by a 14 y/o person they met online. now, onto a broader topic: internet personalities appealing to the age group thats primarily watching them. all the popular youtubers are 22-30, and their watchers are usually teenagers. they cant help that, but it’s a fact, so theyre gonna try to entertain said age group best they can. it’s their job, after all, and they cant just quit it. a lot of them have been on youtube since they were our age, anyway. this is all they know, and for some of them, it’s how theyve survived for nearly a decade. like?? 4) last thing: the pedophilia thing. alright, so im a minor (turning 17 soon), im a fanfic writer (that strays into smut sometimes, admittedly), but i cant draw, and i notice when my fav celebrities have cute asses. if i could draw, i dont think i’d draw ass pics, but i suppose i could see why ppl would. i saw some of the posts - from what i could see, there wasnt any nudity. it was like, clothed asses. butts arent sexual, unless theyre shown in a sexual context. the posts weren’t nsfw, just maybe a little personal & a lil bit creepy. thomas was tryin to be good-natured abt smth sorta awkward that his fans get a kick out of. imo, nothing wrong w that. he made a post that his minor fans shouldnt post nsfw, but he wasnt doing anything pedophilic by reblogging non-nsfw fanart. accusing ppl of pedophilia is a pretty heavy thing, and people on tumblr like to label people horrible things all willy-nilly. i hope that trend dies, but realistically, its probs wont. in conclusion, i personally don’t think anyones a genuinely good person, but i think ppl should stop trying to find flaws in people who are really trying their best to be good in this world of evil. theres so much more to criticize and protest, and everyone’s energy should be put into things like that rather than some internet guy whos trying his best to be positive and non-controversial. get a life, yall

[flowersandstems]

I had a dream… I was mostly kind of watching at first. I was in this small house, everything was made of wood and having a handmade feeling? and honestly reminded me of what an old German cottage might look like (or at least what one could imagine the inside of our German cuckoo clock my grandma gave us would look like). But there was this baby sitter and three (or four?) Children. They kept giving her trouble and then started playing that knife game. Except they we’re using forks (idk if they we’re knives at first) and they would do it normally and hit between fingers, but as time moved they would just curl them up to avoid hitting them removing the point of the game.

The babysitter I remember looking youger at first… Probably old enough to be their mom. But she aged to an old woman as time went with grey hair and I remember there being something weird about her eyes… Like they we’re glossy and dark. I kept thinking “that’s dangerous” towards the game and she finally had enough of their crap and pulled the utensils away from them, she pretended to clean them in the sink and then sat back down.

When she sat something started happening to her. He eyes began to roll into the back of her head or something happened with them and she started falling backward. She looked like she was in distress and I remember foaming but yeah… Anyway…

She falls over, I assume dead and at some point I was hearing rock music… I enjoy rock music, but I told not to enjoy it and I was feeling I wasn’t “meant” to… Like it’s “not for me” (a common racial issue when it came to rock music for me when I was younger especially).

Then it turns into this… “American rock”… Like that music that’s super patriotic, but it felt like a similar concept to some issues with metal where the band is actually neo nazis. This was the same concept… Theyre singing about being American, and america being great, etc but they were actually extremely racist and it was a way to cover it up (aka “being a proud american” to cover up actually beig racist… Like it was code word for being white supremists, or separatists or something. Like “proud white American”).

So these guy’s music starts and they explode out of this lady’s body. Playing their instruments, they move out into the streets waving flags and wearing American flag meets biker/rocker themed clothing.

I follow them. The outside streets look like an out door shopping center, but the architecture reminded me of someplace in Europe. As the dream went on it seemed to turn into an indoor mall. I see that there’s a crowd. A small group in particular caught my eye. While most of the crowd was walking to the left, I saw these ones going in the opposite direction.

They we’re cheering and trying to amp people up. They we’re also holding a flag, but I don’t know what they we’re doing or saying and why. But they seemed to be trying to (very) subtly harass people in the crowd.

I moved in front of them/beside them, and one near the back looked at me as he cheered/yelled things. He was thin and had unruly hair, wore a white T-shirt and basketball shorts (maroon I think… It wasn’t stuff I initially noticed) and large eyes (either green or blue hazel or something). He gave me a weird look… it borderlined “this is awkward” and “this [rally/inspiration] isn’t for you”. I try to give him a high five to test him. He ignores me with the same feeling.

A blackman emerges from behind and asks why I did that, knowing that they aren’t looking to be my friends, good people, etc. I tell him about testing the guy to see if he’s accept my friendship/high five/if he really had these views or if he was just following the crowd (which had some older men in probably old enough to be his dad… Note, EVERYONE I’ve interacted with besides the lady and one of the children have been men so far… Which is weird).

I continue in their direction. Watching and thinking about my life (what I had thought about my sister was personal, but related). I think about my sister and I had seen my mom (whom I run up to, which coincidentally the thing I thought also applies to her).

Fast forward to when I wake up, I see a notification from CNN saying that Virginia has called a state of emergency because a gift broke out at those rallies.

[n0rdicalien]

Conveying the severity of insults.

In recent NEWS, a pro overwatch player was suspended for telling another player (who happens to be gay) to suck a fat cock. Which if he knew he was gay is alleged. 

I wanted to make a point though.  If this insult was targeting any male, it would be considered homophobic. 

It wouldnt be a hate crime. 

Its not a SJW thing to take actions and suffer ramifications for such toxicity. 

But why does it matter?

Okay so, not very many would see the parallels but there is an example to be made. Through out history, especially in European and OFTEN American history. Insults and degrading attitudes towards groups of people allowed these insulter groups to take action and dominate the other ‘perpetuated lesser’ group. While acknowledging its just a gaming environment. The important factor is that there are 10,000 people watching this competitive esport. 

This player is sponsored by multiple organizations. At the same time, sucking dick is associated with homosexuality when used against a man. Used in a degrading, humiliating form. Which effects the LGBT community. It wouldnt probably be much approached in a private environment. But since it was a public display... its important to show thats not something you should do as a professional. Representing such a behavior is harmful when you have a podium.

The historic example I just recently learned is. Back in the 12th? Century, the English sought conquest over the Irish. And to convince the pope to let the english do it. The english degraded the irish culture down to Barbarians, savages, pagans, etc. Which coerced the Pope into validating the conquest. Resulting in the murder and enslavement of the irish. This example isnt being used because of the murder or enslavement. But the transient/migrating effect and perspective management of words. How theyre used to convince people how to treat others. (example; how gay is sin lead to domestic violence and terrorism of gay people. Or how black people are violent lead to police brutality and a large population of POC in prison.)

When you angerly tell a person to go suck a dick in a competitive environment. How will that impact the followers? 

EXAMPLE: If you tell the world mexicans are rapists and murders, how would that effect Americans wanting immigrants from there? Or even Mexican Americans, how would it effect them? Are they part rapist and murderer? 

In a gaming environment. How would that effect your consumer demographic for the game? Especially when your arguably poster character TRACER is a lesbian? Part of the LGBT concept. And there is homophobic slander in a game thats suppose to be conceptually diverse? There is a transient? A migration of ideas/concepts.. in that insult. While you may not think about it, or it doesnt effect you. It is likely to effect someone in a vast community of viewers. And in the bare minimum way it is projected through implicit bias.

The same way “gay is sin” leads to homelessness, domestic violence, etc etc.

Please note that, there is a difference. Like I said before, if it was like a private unbroadcasted match. No one would really assert any notions on how fucked up that is other then youre an asshole. But in a publically broadcasted competitive sports environment. Its a big deal. Homophobia is a big deal, racism is a big deal. Because people today are still effected by it. 

It has the same social environment effects as it does Trump saying Mexicans are Rapists or Murders. Or Trump even being president validating KKK, Neo-nazi groups and to act out. Name calling in a professional environment validates people to act out in toxicity in a gaming environment and effects the overall community health of the game. Itll end up being a league of legends, and toxic behavior will be a general overall reason not to play the game since people have a unhealthy competitive behavior for a tier of gamers who are just starting the game.