#when they are actively commiting genocide

[marstyler42]

The attempt to market Eurovision as non-political as if an event where the winner hosts and gets to market their country however they please the following year could ever be non-political is honestly laughable. I've watched Eurovision every year since 2016 and as an American some of those years required a lot of work to find ways to watch and I'm boycotting. Fuck Israel and the ebu

[genericpuff]

Remembrance Day doesn't hit so well a week after half the U.S. voted in a literal Nazi.

[punkrogue]

some fucking idiot: when we say "magneto was right" we're saying he's right about society and shit not supporting his terrorist actions

me: don't lump in with your cowardly ass i'm in full throated support of his terrorism. sentinels, purifiers, the mardies etc are all real and exist and want mutants dead and literally no one gives a single shit. they'd rather pass the mutant registration act and make "scaly lives matter" jokes on twitter then help stop the genocide of mutants. it's a good thing actually he's blowing shit up and he should do more of it actually.

[spotsupstuff]

Does Boreas like listening to music?

i mean...

depends, really

after the Mass Ascension, he's cursed by all those devices randomly going off all over him. fun fact! "Walk Like a Man" by Frankie Valli is in the Eo playlist Specifically cuz it's the sort of music that often plays in this case. it's annoying, gives B headaches and he's just overall tired. doesn't help that he usually can' find the things

but anyway; before all that he still didn't normally listen to music by himself. he just doesn't see a point in it (as a person and also as a Gen 1- just like Moon, Boreas can't really understand feelings communicated by art forms. neither does Zephyr, Orion, Spore, Gem n so on)

but! Sparrows used to hang out with him for a few hours each time before she went to Zephyr to plan out repairs and resources/parts offered and made by Boreas. and well, after she married Euros and the whole Rot situation passed, she was able to just kick back and chill with Boreas like with proper family member. which means that she played him some of her music, since she's a music gal

despite his lack of ability to really understand it, he did secretly like these music hang outs Sparrows started and learned to quietly enthusastically await them. they had quite a few Talks™ during them (and eventually they resulted in Sparrows teaching him how to sing)

he ALSO has Euros for a brother (/son son sonny boy) so he didn't have much of choice but to listen to His music too. n then Haboob and Notos came by too and Euros was immediately like "oh i know what to do. girls girls girls!!! c'mon and let's harmonize. one and two one and two!" while on call with B and there it went. n then "Boreaaaaassss!!! BOREAS!!!!!!! come on, join us!!! we need a bass singer in here! your voice is deeper than the goddamn Void Sea get in here."

[chaiaurchaandni]

after the 2nd israeli massacre of alshifa hospital

[theefaggotamerica]

i wonder if people from my hometown know that their irish ancestors would die of shame if they saw them waving the is***li flag alongside the irish one

[superchat]

Nazi prick

[missabnormal]

Tom Taylor purposely not mentioning that after this punch Jon goes to make a speech about fascist Superman’s inner good man and conveniently having Jon peace out of the Injustice world while fascist Superman looks like “oh wow, could my son have a point?? Should I have considered morality while I’m currently acting as a dictator that has killed innocent people and has permitted his allies to do the same??”  

Sorry, Mr. Taylor, Superman should have sat down with Hitler and talked about how Hitler was doing bad things, but Superman hoped that he would take a better path and stop committing genocide xoxo your buddy Superman ❤️❤️❤️ 

[twipsai]

thinking more,,

[dadbodbensisko-moved]

the prime directive is Good actually. flawed, but mostly Good. it's an anti imperialist philosophy and if starfleet went around "correcting" the cultures on planets as they see fit, it'd get real white-man's-burden-y real fast. but also in cultures where people are being abused, star trek explores the line between imperialism and helping.

like in modern times, there's often no easy answers. how do you prevent suffering while also not imposing your cultural values? the federation has a hard boundary and honestly i understand why they do.

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

not my online friend trying to have the "not all zionists" conversation with me rn

[arosebyan0thername]

Probably the most controversial take I've ever posted here but I think if you assume everyone who supports Palestinian liberty is also inherently and irrevocably antisemitic, that's maybe a you problem and not their fault

[wahbegan]

So i'm playing Assassin's Creed III right now, right? That's the one set during The Revolutionary War and lemme just say this game has actually made me significantly LESS patriotic. Hard to do since we're already starting at just about base level zero, but the more i learn about the founding fathers, the more i hate them.

For example, i had no idea Benjamin Franklin was an absolute fucking dog of a bloke, that one's going to live in my head rent-free forever. Second of all, the protagonist is Kanien'keha:ka and it really, truly puts into perspective how utterly fucking trivial the shit that set off the American Revolution was when you're playing as someone whose people are experiencing actual, LITERAL genocide. Baffling from a gameplay perspective as well because they expect you to actually give a shit about this crap, but i digress

The American Revolution truly was a hissy fit thrown by right-wing shitheads over taxes. No wonder the alt-right stormed the Capitol, they're the kind to have a whole revolutionary war, historically. Somebody fetch me that gorgeous monologue from Killing Them Softly

[probablyasocialecologist]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms. The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even basic steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment. At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism. They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

Jason Hickel

[drunk-on-starlight]

Pre-chip introduction, the clones were actually just kind of evil huh.

[marxism-leninism-meowism]

where's that one meme about everything being hamas