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The second pillar of the argument Texas is making is the so-called “compact theory” – an idea that has not been entertained by serious people in a long, long time. According to the compact theory, the constitution is just a contract that entails certain duties the federal government, and especially the president, has to fulfill. If those duties are neglected, the states, understood as sovereign entities, are free to disregard federal authority, ignore federal law, and, ultimately, leave the Union. This is precisely the argument slave states used to justify secession. As Mark Joseph Stern succinctly put it with regards to Abbott’s statement: “This language embraces the Confederacy’s conception of the Constitution as a mere compact that states may exit when they feel it has been broken.” Honestly, it makes sense for Abbott and today’s reactionary Right to adopt these neo-confederate arguments. In a way, they are just explicitly emphasizing the tradition in which their political project stands, as they are once again defying the federal government and deploying “states’ rights” in order to justify inhumane brutality in service of upholding white nationalist domination. The fact that this argument was resoundingly defeated – politically and on the battlefield – does not matter to them: The Republican Party and the extremist Right are all in. Among the first to announce support for Greg Abbott was Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. 25 Republican governors have endorsed the position of Texas, pledging their support for Abbott’s fight against the federal government and for the legal theories justifying it; some are even vowing to send their national guards, itching to escalate the situation further. That is something Donald Trump would very much like – he has already called on Republican states to “deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border.” And nothing mobilizes rightwing extremists like a standoff with the federals in service of white domination: Elon Musk is on Abbott’s side, propagating Great Replacement conspiracies, the barely concealed subtext of this whole thing, by accusing Biden of wanting to bring in immigrants as illegal voters. And far-right activists have called for a “Take back our border” rally. What could possibly go wrong. [...] But as much as I am professionally obligated to caution against facile historical analogies, Republican states are, right now, openly and aggressively endorsing the argument that led this country into a Civil War. There are, at the very least, some very concerning echoes; and more importantly, there are powerful traditions and continuities. Republican governors are proudly taking up the “states’ rights” mantle to defy the federal government. On the level of the underlying political project and vision of what America should be, there is a fairly direct line from the secession of slave states to today’s neo-confederate use of the “compact” theory as a way to justify the cruel crackdown on an “invasion” of people of color. And as much as the Civil War analogy may tend to invoke misleading associations, it can actually be helpful if it alerts people to the seriousness of the situation and to the prospect of violence. Because the fact that we will not get a rematch between vast armies dressed in blue and gray meeting on the battlefield does not mean the current situation isn’t extremely volatile and dangerous, or that there won’t be violence. There is likely going to be a lot more political violence.
#us politics tag#us history#thomas zimmer#quotes#awful that US media is such a mess#that this isn't being covered well#media consolidation has destroyed a lot of good journalism#you've got news rooms firing reporters#even as we go into one of the most dangerous periods of recent history in US politics
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Maybe Bluster kept trying to eat Troy's shirt because he sensed something sinister was going on with him
#'oh he was trying to pick him up!!' well maybe he was covering his ass#or maybe he was picking him up to throw him#idk this is not an actual theory but it's also within the realm of being possible#maybe Troy isn't even being sinister. maybe he's just a silly little guy#idk man I'm talking about a horse eating a guy's shirt this isn't Serious Theory time#woe.begone#w.bg#w.bg spoilers#<- i mean kinda this is definitely inspired by the finale
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Aria Dawson (uncharted) // Siberite Akagane (ffxiv) // Alma Pataki (ffxvi) Tia Caro (bloodlines/va) // Clio Zandra (twc) // Sahar Mahin (m*rv*l)
Got tagged by @rhettsabbott @shellibisshe and @adelaidedrubman to use this meiker to create some ladies so have this variety pack of them!
tagging: @belorage @florbelles @unholymilf @strafethesesinners @confidentandgood
@shallow-gravy @chyrstis @jackiesarch @leviiackrman @deputyash and anyone else that wants to!
opt in tags ver. 1 and ver. 2
#figured its time for my own little list sorry! I just don't want to miss anyone and i am shy#but anyway!#aria thinks that nate's idea of putting a flower in her hair isn't enough to deter from the fact that her hair is#well its suffering in the humidity and its getting to be too much#Sib just enjoying some post ew recovery in the family private pool and yes its a small party#she's lonely and she loves to be social help her out!#sweet modern au Alma! she's just vibin on her way to Mysidia is all!#Tia precious tia in her element and stealing Khaki's shirt so he has no excuse to cover up his tattoos!#Clio sweet clio is just daring Nat to try and take her shirt back#because she totally will for a kiss or two or three or more and maybe a lot more#and have a shot from the time Sahar and Marc spent a few days being normal people at Coney Island!#they got to be normal for three days and sometimes that's all you need really!#tag games#picrew
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reading fic, it mentioned (as i myself have done in fic!) seasons on asgard. i remembered that asgard is flat. spent ten minutes wondering how flat seasons work. i suspect they don't. feeling a bit bad about whenever i mentioned those flat seasons in fic.
#queue#as peter quill doesn't know the earth has an axial tilt well in excess of eight degrees and that is why seasons isn't it?#but even if asgard too is tilted to well above eight degrees... the underside has nothing on it.#they can't have time zones either and the darkness hours are just the sun being obscured by their own disc i'd assume.#why does their sun set at all? i don't know! why is it even flat in the first place?#wait... does this mean vikings believed in the flat earth with a big ice wall around it conspiracy?#but being norse they'd just gone “why don't we colonise the ice wall? it's not THAT cold! we can call it Warm-Land to encourage migration.”#“day 57. we found the ice wall. it's not so bad. there are people here already. found no grapes but we're just gonna say we did LOL.”#wait (x2)... are grapes just what vikings thought of as “an exciting and impossibly exotic fruit from the lands not covered in snow?”#oh there's grapes there? bloody hell that's basically paradise then isn't it! grab the kids sven svensson my love we're moving to vinland!#flat asgard#and vikings in the tags#GET IN LOSER WE'RE RAIDING LINDISFARNE!
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Sekai fandom definitely has a complaining about everything problem but it especially has a complaining about Leo/Need problem
#yes this is about tokyo teddy bear. i think it's good and it doesn't make them all break their voices to sing#and literally every complaint i've seen has just seemed like an excuse to give it to any other unit#your issue with honami being “too soft” isn't going to be fixed if vbs or n25 had it kanade and kohane are still there#(and they give honami the correct lines for her voice as well. the way she was implemented fits)#but idk maybe it is a crime to put a very high pitched song in a lower pitch for your vas sake. who knows#i think some people need to consider if they like this game or they just like complaining#in other words: ttb cover is good. mv is good. rip to the rest of you i guess
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Look, I'm talking about diaper changes here. Specifically about factors that make them unpleasant. (Yes, we all know that the answer is "using disposables", but I'm being more specific.) You may well want to scroll past.
I will preface this by saying that yes, I know that commenting on public stuff on Facebook is a horrible idea, but sometimes the stupid is just too strong. The number of parents who think that changing cloth diapers is grosser than changing disposable ones was impossible to ignore. (If you are washing your own I will entertain the argument that you find having to deal with the disposable diaper garbage less gross than the diaper laundry, yes.)
But what gets me is that there are apparently large numbers of parents who not only don't dump diapers into the toilet (confession time: I've pretty much never done that, because when the change table in the airport washroom is located poorly, that's just not happening), they are unaware that that's what you're supposed to do. Not just "wait, you're supposed to do what?" but "that's stupid, why would anyone do that?". And yes, the follow-up wasn't "why would someone go to that much bother" but "why would they tell you to do it"
Can we maybe, as a society, agree that keeping biohazards out of the dump is a good thing?
#this isn't getting into the fact that disposable diapers are incredibly gross#I've used them#They don't wipe baby bums at ALL#you have to rely on the wipes#and if you're using disposable diapers you're going to be using disposable wipes#which also don't work nearly as well#and I know it's technically not the diaper change#but why would anyone want to use a diaper style#that results in diaper blowouts being a regular occurrence?#maybe they just listened to their parents#before modern diaper covers#and didn't realise that diapers work better now#so you don't need to deal with monthly blowouts#I didn't even carry a change of clothes in the diaper bag#because it simply wasn't needed
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Carmella: Miss Topaz is the cutest among the Ten Stonehearts. I like her.
Luka: No offense, Miss Carmella, but I'm not keen on the IPC. They nearly turned my home into an asset that could be bundled and sold.
Carmella: Mr. Luka, the IPC is a Megacorp. It's easy to pin labels on people, but at the end of it, everyone we meet is living flesh and bones with feelings. I'm also an IPC staff member. Do you hate me too?
Luka: I spoke out of turn. Please forgive my rudeness, Miss Carmella.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
I was trying to think of a shorter, satirical way to phrase this to emphasize how bad this is, but this... this is already the worst way you could've phrased it...
An IPC employee says that she likes Topaz to Luka, who is from Belobog. Luka states that he doesn't like the IPC (and Topaz, by extension) because of the horrible stuff they tried to do to Belobog. The IPC employee gets mad and claims that he's unreasonably labelling Topaz without considering her feelings. She demands to know if he hates her as well, even though he's been nice towards her this whole time and wasn't fucking talking about her. He instantly apologizes for being rude and drops the subject entirely.
Trailblazer, the 'heroic' protagonist, watches this and doesn't say a word.
#and this isn't covering#topaz being a huge dick#about belobog#to his face#and trailblazer still not saying anything#and luka still feeling guilty#for fucking DEFENDING belobog#against the group#and even the specific person this time#who tried to enslave them#oooooh boy#well#at least i can say that it was good#that i decided to wait#to finish writing#that topaz post about how the handling of her#and the ipc#is ruining her potential#to be a great villain#this event has given me a lot more material#for that#and ive only just started#this is going to be. a time.#for sure
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The amount of times this jackass negs her is off the charts. Like this isn't even the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last. I remember being okay with this ship when I first played T&T, but I can tell you with certainty I fucking hate it now.
#he's also way more fucking sexist than i remember. she even calls him on it MULTIPLE times#but it's not even this case#the language he uses to refer to women & how he treats them vs men is stark in 3-2 & 3-3#like in 3-2 he says ''a man's word is everything'' and then in the SAME SCENE says that Desirèe is a liar#who can't be trusted bc she's covering for her husband. so men should be taken at their word but women shouldn't? ok#there are more examples too i can't think of rn. i know he calls Maya ''chick'' at one point#god. i used to like him when i was younger. but now i'm older i definitely do not#i've seen some defenders say ''it's only the localization!'' but that's an irrelevant argument#the localization is the version we have and are discussing. we aren't talking abt the JP ver. it doesn't matter.#''well but Edgeworth calls Mia a bimbo / Apollo calls Athena tiger!''#that was shitty of Edgeworth and it was ONE time he was sexist in his era of shitty evidence forging vK behavior#and Apollo was never negging Athena + the nickname isn't the issue the patronizing is#(and tiger is WAY less patronizing than kitten be fr)#''you just hate him bc you're racist!!'' no i hate him bc he's a sexist asshole. and i hate you for implying that being a sexist asshole#is a trait inherent to hispanic people. my hispanic ass doesn't appreciate that you dickweed.#anyway. this dude sucks. tempted to replay 3-2 and 3-3 (ugh) again just to get a misogyny compilation#but idk if i'll have time before the AAI collection releases#(i want to finish this replay of T&T before then)
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#sprites changing in response to finding out that the thing they thought would stop the loops will not stop the loops :)#no more chirping back at birds...rip#i won't lie i half suspected that the kid would draw siffrin :( in the team portrait. i think that would have caused them damage#i'm still trying to balance how much i want to jump back and forth in loop points vs doing the whole castle over again#i should probably be killing myself more often for efficiency. and also maybe calling loop more for dialogue?#i don't want to miss stuff but the feeling that doing it this way is also causing me to miss stuff#because i'm sure if i skipped more dialogue that would also give a slightly different nuance to the dialogues. augh#ein babbles#kind of curious to know. since siffrin has (potentially plot relevant?) Memory Problems.#if i equip a memory that isn't ''memory of self'' does that do anything. given what looping tropes generally involve#and the stress on ''as long as i have a job i can keep going'' etc.#and you know. the ghosts/'reflections' in the hallways sometimes and siffrin's instinctive jump to comparing them to Sadness + 'remnants'#maybe after a few more loops if i replace self with memories of looping...#oh siffrin closes their eyes like they're sleeping when they get frozen now. fuck yeah#chewing on the story. i wonder if the record scratch ''you already have this item'' and the warning to not act suspicious is going to come#to a head. and also how many acts there are left to cover stuff#it's also very fun that since sif is the only one who keeps levels while looping the more loops they go through the closer they get to#being able to like. one-shot the sadness mobs in the castle. especially with an attack from each craft. love mechanics that reflect charact#thinking about that book in the library or secret library? that had a big shiny tree on it that we couldn't read. and the password and the#book in the dormant library we also couldn't read. big tree probably the favor tree? maybe related to the island no one can think about wit#out a headache? which might be like the loop record scratch? removed from time vs siffrin and the king's respective time crafts?#not to mention the party member side quests <3#i just started act 3 if this somehow shows up in tags no one tell me anything. unless maybe if i definitely already missed something#the way i keep misspelling dormont as dormant due to. well. the obvious lmao#wait. i want to be able to find this again. sorry everyone#isat blogging
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my distaste for rpf doesn't actually extend to the beatles because half of them are dead and idrc about the other two. like I definitely judge people for it and think its cringe to be obsessed w them but I generally dont object to rpf abt older historical or most political figures but that's a really case by case basis
#and ppl get extremely creepy about young celebrities on here so Ibjust say dni to cover my bases#like I still think it's weird but im not gonna block someone for writing about like frederick of prussia meeting angela merkel. or somethin#idk what historical rpf writers do#and obviously even if they're dead there are people who it is absolutely disrespectful to fandomize esp young people#esp people who died from violence#but if someone were to write like. idk george bush/margaret thatcher#well I'd probably block them for being a conservative ig but that writing isn't going to ruin anyone's life#so who cares. also idk why I picked bush I hope he suffers in every way possible#you know. it depends. USUALLY it's creepy as shit on here and has literally ended ppls friendships#so I don't support it but depending on the situation it can be funny#cor.txt
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[Additional Image Description: On a grey background, there are five small black line art illustrations lined up across the center. The first is a sword with a hooked blade pointing upwards, the second is a hand with magic curling up out of it, the center is a castle with wavy lines extending from it into a dark sky, the third is a beaker with steam curling up from it, and the last is a shortsword pointing downwards. The sword has a few dark red shading lines. In the lower right corner of the fanmix cover is the title, "heart of my own," in dark red medieval calligraphy font. End Additional Image Description.]
HEART OF MY OWN - A FANMIX FOR CASSANDRA DE ROLO IN THE TIME OF THE BRIARWOODS
Overgrown - machineheart // Edge of the World - Within Temptation // Ashes and Rust - Wynnie Stone // Take Me Home - The Paper Kites, Nadia Reid // Nobody (Live) - The Crane Wives // The Tangled Tree - Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker // Heart Of My Own - Basia Bulat // Don't She Run - I Draw Slow // Murder City - Abigail Lapell // Until the Fire - Ladytron // Control - Halsey // Lament - Mount Moriah // Catch the Light - Haroula Rose
Fanmix on YouTube
Fanmix on Spotify
#cassandra de rolo#cr1#music#fanmix#id in alt text#described#remember how i was like i spent $8 or whatever it was on paint from cvs because i wanted to make the cass fanmix a painted cover?#l + ratio + i did not have time + my camera isn't working so i can't even do a minimalist painted version#so here's literal clipart (not actually clipart its free use images from pixabay but lets be real. stylistically. its clipart)#you can see what my Vision would have been (i wanted to paint the above in medieval manuscript illustration style on a black#background where instead of the (very nice) castle in the center it would have been the sun tree/tree from the de rolo crest#with curling branches and roots filling the whole paper above and below as well#honestly i think artistic vision clip art edition turned out good! captured the vibe. even found a sword that looks like craven edge.#this is another thing i never made a follow-up post about and i'm going to do that rn (pandemic talk incoming)#i'm stepping away from the fandom by the live show because i can't watch them do a live show in a pandemic#like friends are staying in the fandom and i don't judge/care!! i don't *want* to leave i just can't watch or do art and fic for a#work of fiction after it gets real life human beings killed#thats my uncrossable line#its an incredibly sad and fucked up situation#and this week i'm trying to finish up some fanworks (this and another mix and two fics) that i had done or over half done pre-announcement#so i can get that out of the way and focus on. i guess irl is not the word but keeping in touch with fandom bros and practical stuff for#what i think will be a shitty last couple of weeks before the live show itself
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i think that melancholy is just a part of who i am now. lol
#the feeling of being distant and other has wrapped itself around me so tightly that it's like a living breathing entity of its own just.#growing like vines inside my organs . or something.#i dont even know just imagine branches and leaves and plants covering a skeleton and a beating heart -> the melancholy that lives within#i dont think this is a bad thing. i mean if i can learn to manage living with depression and im not romanticizing my illness... well then#it's just a trait isn't it?#i was melancholy before i was clinically depressed lol#z.post
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i swear to god if i call my derm tomorrow and they tell me they haven't heard from dupixent and don't know what i'm talking about i'm going to fucking THROTTLE SOMEBODY!!!!
#i have a bitch of a rash in my armpit and it's pissing me off and being a ptsd trigger#i have exactly 3 shots left and i've already been rationing them#we're nearly halfway through the year and i still haven't gotten my new prescription. i was supposed to get it in January btw#the derm doesn't seem to know what's going on at dupixent and dupixent doesn't seem to know what's going on at derm#i've been on this med for nearly a decade and have NEVER had this happen before#DO YOUR FUCKIJNG JOBS FOR GOD'S SAKE. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK!!!!#this isn't even getting into my other medication that i also haven't gotten yet this year. that i'm also supposed to get in January btw#and i've been out of that forever because they decided to short me on it for no reason and i was like well#i'm about to get a new script for the year so i'll just wait til then. then insurance decided not to cover it for the first time ever 😐#i'm so fucking upset and tired about this can someone please do their fucking job please please please i'm gonna lose my mind#i shouldn't have to call every goddamn week and be like hiii did you guys do your job yet? :)#darryl speaks
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okay so I'm very much an odd man out on the toaru sub for not being excited or super hyped to read gt8 and I honestly have no idea why that is so I figured I'd ask if anyone else here on tumblr dot com is feeling the same way or if it's literally just me lol
#the cover reveal like a month back the b and w illustration reveal like a week or so ago and reading the preview all did nothing for me#like idk if it's just some sorts 6th sense telling me that gt8 isn't going to be that good as a standalone volume bc it's obviously meant#to lead into gt9 and maybe even gt10 but#also I'm not a big fan of kingsford or mut's designs at all. they feel either too cluttered in mut's case or like a random mash of stuff#that doesn't show us the essence of who the character is in kingsford's case#kingsford's hat is the only thing i like about her design lol#toaru is going full vtuber/ark knights character design mode and i don't like it bc it's not being done well here lmao#mine#toaru#toaru majutsu no index#i will read gt8 once it's done being translated cause I'm in no rush to do so#idk maybe it's just this arc in general that I'm not feeling
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me: yeah i probably shouldn't spoil everyone's t3 covers haha..
also me:
#this isn't even fanservice btw. this is me-service. i wake up in the middle of the night and think about bunny girl kei#i could talk about shun and kei's covers for hours meanwhile my first thought while assigning salamander to yurika was. hungy#IT'S DEEPER THOUGHTHFJJFJF IT'S DEEPER THAN THAT#there is something so. scary about shun being portrayed as a zombie if you think about it#like. your brain physically can't memorize anything. you know so well that you're capable of forgetting your own name.#and then you get portrayed as a brain-eating creature that can't even speak properly. how fucked up is that#also congrats kei you went from a catboy to a bnuuy!!#💔prisoner 003: ishizu shun 💔#🍓prisoner 005: sanada kei 🍓#🎀prisoner 008: maruyama yurika 🎀
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I just want to be done with this one stupid class I don't wanna do shit for it anymore
#ramblings#neg#like genuinely what if i just gave up#i have like 4 assignments left one being the final exam and like#what even is the point if i'm not gonna continue college#it's not like i would even do good in the final bc like half the shit in it isn't covered in the class#either that or it's just not expanded on or explained well enough#it's been the same for the midterm and most of the quizzes#they tried to cram a class that should take a whole year at least into a single semester#and cut so much stuff that is literally crucial to passing with a decent grade#like what is the point really#god i'm so fucking glad i dropped everything else now i know i would've fucking lost it by this point if i hadn't#honestly the only reason i didn't drop this one too is bc i missed the period where i could drop it without paying#since it was on a different schedule than the others i still had enough time to drop them before they charged me for it#which is fucking stupid by the way. making you pay to leave#they should give ppl refunds when they drop out i think#not like i paid for anything since i at least got enough financial aid to cover it all#but anyways fuck this gay earth i hope the entire college institution burns to the ground and no one has to deal with this shit ever again#i'm so fucking tired man#i've never wanted to give up on something more than i have on school#i'd rather do literally anything else
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