#today i'm infuriated

[perfectlyvalid49]

Today is January 27th, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I'd like to get some stuff off my chest.

First, I'd like to take a minute to point out that it is not Yom HaShoah, which is the day Israel (and by extension large portions of the Jewish diaspora population) uses as Holocaust Remembrance day. Yom HaShoah is on the 27th of Nisan, a date that was selected to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, centering Jewish resistance in our own story. That date was selected nearly five decades before the UN picked January 27th, which was selected to center our white saviors who came to liberate Auschwitz. This is utter bullshit. And no excuses for not being able to handle a moving date on the Gregorian calendar - April 19th would be the Gregorian equivalent, and it was not selected.

Having said that, given how many infographics I've seen over the last four months about how people are increasingly denying or doubting the Holocaust, I figure any day that acknowledges it is a good thing, so yeah, let's take two days to remember. I think it's worth it.

So given that this is the Holocaust Remembrance Day that centers our goyishe friends, let's talk about how our goyishe friends should observe the day.

1. It is likely that you never learned a lot of details about the Holocaust. Holocaust education usually boils down to, "and the Nazis put Jews in camps in order to kill them, and a lot of Jews were killed in gas chambers, and about 6 million died in all." Go learn some details. Read or watch an account from a survivor.  Learn about the medical experiments, or the death marches. Learn some details about what the gas chambers were actually like. Try to understand the horror. Learn about the SS St. Louis or the Evian conference in 1938 where almost every country on Earth decided it was better to let the Jews die in Germany than to allow them into their own countries.

2. On that note, take the time to understand that anti-semitism neither began nor ended with the Nazis, and that even the "good guys" were incredibly antisemitic.Try to recognize that the antisemitism that was present where you live right now in the 1930s didn't just disappear, it just went into hiding. Think about where it might be hiding now.

Basically, because this is the Holocaust Remembrance Day for the goyim, I want to focus our remembrance of what happened on the goyim. What did they do? What could they have done to help? Why didn't they? We can come back in May for more Jewish focused learning, but the Holocaust could not have happened without A LOT of willing goyim, and I think we should spend the day remembering them and their actions.

And as a side note: if you happen to read this and you've chosen to spend the day engaging in Holocaust denial or Holocaust inversion, then know that my hope for you is that something happens in your life to teach you empathy and basic human decency. And I hope it isn't pleasant for you.

[sherlock-is-ace]

Once again I find myself enjoying the perfect queerplatonic relationship in a fandom while forced to interact with the most qpr erasing people on the fucking planet 🙃

[yoonia]

On a further life development...

One of my cats had gone missing. Please pray that he returns home :(

[byanyan]

can i just be emotional on main for a sec & thank y'all again for sticking with me & supporting my weird little brand here these last few months while i've been like. worse than ever about getting any writing done? just like. hhh. all of u putting up with my shitposts & liking the hcs and whatever else i shove out onto the dash while i'm struggling with energy for replies, and everyone who still wants to plot & develop our dynamics despite me being the WORST at keeping up with dms (& being somehow even worse at being the one to actually initiate dms), and!!!! those of you who continue to indulge me by sending me asks despite the fact that you've been waiting 5 years for me to reply to our thread!!! i appreciate u guys sm, like i don't think u actually understand just how much. i mean this so sincerely: thank you

[thevioletcaptain]

i'm supposed to be sleeping (went to bed like an hour ago) but i spent a decent chunk of today working on chapters 5 & 6 of as a friend and now my brain refuses to shut the hell up about it. which means that instead of being unconscious i've just spent 20 minutes rewriting the [first morning back at the bunker after everyone knows] scene on my phone, and i genuinely hope that it is actually as funny as it currently seems to my half-asleep brain.

[flagsontheland]

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[silverselfshippingchaos]

I fucking HATE how the fandom treats m.ine. it's so bad 😭

[theheirofthesharingan]

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

The lack of content on Itachi in canon is driving me up the wall. A lot of his characterization relies on fan interpretations and opinions you see on the internet because there just isn't enough of it in canon. And people keep interpretating his actions based on their own judgement (sometimes even ignoring what's in canon because it feeds their bias).

A little bit of more stuff on him shouldn't have hurt anyone but we never get to see Itachi as his own person. Despite being as popular as he is, he never gets any exposure that goes beyond Sasuke's characterization. Itachi is there to further Sasuke's story, not to have his own storyline, no matter how interesting it is. If it doesn't help Sasuke's plot, the narrative hardly mentions it. He's only a plot device to carry on with one of the main characters' story.

And it sucks because there are some loose ends I'd like to know about when it comes to him, though no independent of Sasuke. Only if Kishimoto had spent some more time on Itachi and given some explanations. That would be great

[blujayonthewing]

[aquareegia]

*pacing around in my room because i'm pissed off and need to rant but have no one who cares about those things*

[stars-inthe-sky]

UGH.

[darcymariaphoster]

Today, on my way home from work, my phone battery was dying so I decided to conserve it and listen to the radio instead of the music I have downloaded or Pandora. Gods, I won't do that again.

Why are the only stations that come through in my area six country music stations, one Christian music station (that actually has two different channels blocked out), two Christian talk stations, two 80s music stations, at least four (that I am sure of) news stations, and one classical music station?? (I didn't count one particular station because I have no idea what they have going on; it's such a hit or miss station.)

I eventually settled on the classical music station, yeah.

[hel-phoenyx]

I had discussions (sometimes very heated) with people that are abstentionnists and yk I could understand it to a certain degree even though I don't agree

Today the fucking party created by a Nazi got 1/3 of French seats in European Parliament, and our asshole of a President thought it was THE moment to make us vote again for OUR Parliament.

I no longer understand abstentionnists.

[the-knightswind-case]

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[thefloatingstone]

I spent the entire day rendering out the super cut of the Velma review which ended up being a 15gig video file. So I spent all day uploading it to youtube. The video is 4 and a half hours long and contains all the previous 4 parts with no new footage. The 4 parts already on my channel don't have any copyright claims on them.

After spending the entire day doing this, while spending further hours making sure I have every timestamp in the video description which requires me to watch my own 4 and a half video at 1.5 speed which is still at least 3 or so hours long, the video gets a copyright claim on it for 20 seconds of muted footage of the Clone High cartoon where I talk over it.

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So now I have to edit 20 seconds of footage in a 4 and a half hour video, render it out to another 15gig size video file, and then upload that 15gig video to youtube all over again and HOPE no other phantom claims happen despite none of the previous parts already on youtube having any claims on them.

I am so exhausted...

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: April 19

"Save It for a Rainy Day" by Kenny Chesney