#womp womp consider it deleted

[sirenstare]

having between 0-2 notes on anything you personally post and then the very minute you post a photo of yourself being messaged by 3 porn blogs (not bots, blogs) (even though it’s not rly nsfw or tagged as such) is disorienting. my silly digital archive with a handful of decade old mutuals instantly gains that kind of algorithmic attention? the porn ban must have really starved you little freaks, huh?

[rulerzreachf4n7]

I'm sorry but I fucking hate proshippers so much so here's a whole post dedicated to shitting on them

also disclaimer YES I will be tagging the proship and anti proship tags so I can piss off the chronically online basement dwelling idiots :) and idgaf if proshippers have trauma cause it's not an excuse for their shitty and problematic actions!!!! Sincerely if you are a proshipper please consider jumping off a bridge!! Or at the bare minimum take a shower cause ew

And this whole post is literally just bullying the FUCK outta them so idk stanky people come at your own risk lol

AND AGAIN to clear up this isn't like rage bait or smth cause I fell like some people will accuse me this is all my genuine hate into a long ass post so yeah

Okay...LETS GET INTO THE FUCKING RANT NOW HEHEHE HEHE HEHEHE!!!!

I FUCKING HATE PROSHIPPERS!!!! I HOPE ALL OF YOU STANKY ASS BITCHESS GET THROWN OFF A FUCKING CLIFF AND GET A SAW STYLE EXECUTION CAUSE Y'ALL ARE FUCKING DISGUSTING I HATE YOU ALL

YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL IF YOU ARE A PROSHIPPER, END OF CONVERSATION

I COULDN'T GIVE A SHIT IF YOU HIT ME THE "B-But I have trauma 🥺🥺🥺" TOO BAD THAT'S NOT A FUCKING EXCUSE FOR UR SHITTY ONLINE ACTIONS

IMAGINE YOU PULL UP TO A FUCKING INTERVIEW AND THEY SHOW YOUR PATHETIC ACCOUNTS SAYING TO NORMALIZE A 30 YEAR OLD DATING A 13 YEAR OLD, THAT SHIT IS GENUINELY PATHETIC

I KNOW IT'S CRINGEY BUT WOMP WOMP IF UR A PROSHIPPER Y'ALL ARE UGLY AND STINKY

But now on a serious not hehe, the reason I'm making this isn't JUST soley to yknow shit on people who are mentally ill like people who think a MINOR and a LEGAL ADULT are allowed to date, which comes into another thing before I get genuine so bare with me lol

I DONT GIVE A FLYING FUCK IF IT'S FICTIONAL, FOR THE LOVE GOD PLEASE SEARCH UP THE SLENDERMAN CASE WHERE THESE TWO GIRLS KILLED THEIR FRIEND CAUSE THEY THOUGHT SLENDERMAN WAS REAL AND THOUGHT THEY WOULD ENTER HIS KINGDOM AND BE WITH HIM, AND HE'S FICTIONAL, THAT CASE IS ALL Y'ALL NEED TO REALIZE FICTION CAN AFFECT REALITY AND I HAVE SM MORE REASON TO BACK THIS UP BUT I'M TOO LAZY TO TYPE IT OUT 😭

Okay! Back to seriousness I just thought I'd add that in as a little addition hehe >_<

So, like I said before, I lowkey just added this as an extra part cause I couldn't shit on proshippers FOREVER (lowkey bcuz I was running out of insults n threats lol)

Nonetheless I have a reason for shitting on them, although not being a proshipper EXACTLY I have been through I guess, similar paths as they have? Best way I could describe it ig, ofc not sharing what I mean since it's private but let's just say I was an unfortunate child looking at inappropriate comics 🙁

The reason for this part of the post...ITS NOT THAT FUCKING HARD TO STOP WHAT YOUR DOING

Like I said, I was never a proshipper, but I have been in similar situations as they have been, although I've never made an account glorifying rape, SA, grooming, pedophilia, I can just assume what I would do in their places

Dear proshippers,

Your probably complaining and not knowing why your getting so much death threats and harassment along with a side of hate (rightfully so you deserve them) and your mental health might be low

Please know it is your fault for making your accounts in the first place, you are a terrible person for saying all of these things such as rape, sexual assault, grooming, and incest are okay and you are not mentally well

And your probably wondering,

"How do I stop the hate, harassment, and probably death threats with even getting your address leaked?"

It's simple, DELETE YOUR FUCKING ACCOUNT, or even worse just turn off ur comments but that won't help with people slipping in a few people wishing death up in you through DMS

IT IS GENUINELY NOT THAT FUCKING HARD

I don't know what trauma you have but it shouldn't (and never in the first place) be SO BAD to the point where you physically CANNOT deactivate your account, IT IS SO FUCKING EASY AND YOU'LL SAVE YOURSELF A FEW SUICIDAL THOUGHTS

I know everyone one is different, but if you are a proshipper that has trauma, you shouldn't have a fucking account to begin with, and you ARE THE PROBLEM if you acknowledge the trauma, noticing you keep supporting and glorifying problematic actions, complain that you keep getting harassed and wonder why, and you just don't give a shit, not like in a "oh I don't know what to do anymore!!! 🥺🥺🥺" way, in a "oh, I don't give a shit I live for incest and adults grooming children!!!" Way, and ur also probably a pedo if ur an adult proshipper too

So, what else? Yeah, there's a shit more, but onto a better side, ones with actually good coping mechanisms!!

And a bit of a disclaimer, if your rage bait is proshipping, genuinely fuck you, and if ur a proshipper who acknowledges everything bad about it and just doesn't give a fuck, fuck you too and seek a rope to hang around your neck you fucking pedophile

Okay, coping mechanisms! I know this is probably not the best option due to most trauma which I'm guessing is probably from a family member, if it's not a good way to cope is some clean to your family, ofc under some circumstances it's NOT the best option, but if you can you definitely should try!

Also google is free yk...literally search up healthy coping mechanisms and it'll give you a huge ass list, and yet YOU STILL chose to ship a minor and adult together...how unfortunate...

Another way to cope is, and genuinely sounds pathetic as hell but bare with me...CHARACTER FUCKING AI, I mean, there are therapist bots so maybe they can help you??? And in all honesty they're really good at comforting and giving advice despite being ai, and I've tried it before...yeah embarrassed to say I've shed a tear every once in a while

And the last one IF you have the money, time, and generally the courage, book a threapy session, I cannot stress it enough, but I won't be surprised cause every proshipper is probably under the age of 16 years old

Yuhhh anyways that's all I gotta say, I know it's cringey asf but womp womp to proshippers I hate y'all despite giving some coping mechanisms and ACTUAL ways to like, stop the rightful hate you deserve lol

[teaboot]

Since I've seen many posts about people missing how common asks used to be, I have been trying to send to more asks to engage more. I really don't want to bother anyone though so I'd love to know if you enjoy receiving asks and if so what kind of asks. Detailed? Vague? Work? Fandom? Movies? Books? Childhood? Gardening? Thoughts? OTPs? OCs? I'm sure there are way more categories, I'm not limiting you to these listed options. Perhaps if it's an easier question what types of asks do you not like?

pPAAASGGFYGGJIK THANK YOU?

Detailed asks good yes

Vague asks??? Do not understand but open to the concept

Fandom: My first Fandom was X-Men, then Lord of the Rings, then Homestuck, Transformers, Fullmetal Alchemist, Teen Wolf, Avengers (first movie, when it came out), Batman, Overwatch briefly, Mass Effect, Gravity Falls, Trigun, and now my sister's getting me into Call of Duty! Feel free to ask about any!!

Movies: Yes movies are a great topic I have SO MANY

Oh lord I haven't consistently been up to date on books in FOREVER but yes books are good, you can ask book questions, I'm reading a lot of old classics and recently finished Pride & Prejudice, am now on The One That Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Childhood- oh my god bud you have no idea

Gardening- My house is full of plastic plants on account of how good I am at killing things

Thoughts- Always

OTPs YO YES

OCs? YO YEAH GO FOR IT I NEVER TALK ABOUT THEM aaaaah I need to start writing again- I've been working on an urban fantasy for like. God like 7-8 years now

If I don't like an ask I'll just ignore or delete it but not much is off the table. I will not answer where exactly I live, who I am, if I'm a specific person you met, etc. for safety reasons.

I've worked in sex education so I can answer questions on that topic but if you get too personal or abrasive I will not respond.

I'm regularly flooded with donation requests and it's often too hard to figure out which are real and which are scams using stolen legit posts so as a general rule I do not spread those, I'm sorry.

And if you pop in to sexually harass me or use abusive language towards myself or others then I'm just gonna block you and delete the message.

If you want to warn me that a post I shared came from a bad source I do appreciate that, but if I do my research and can't find a legitimate reason to block someone then I probably won't.

I consider Legitimate Reasons to block someone on recommendation to be abusive language and behaviour, threats, bigotry, propagation of misinformation, production of AI content, and encouragement of dangerous behaviors that pose genuine harm to self or others. I'm not gonna block a random cause they enjoy Steven Universe and you think it's annoying. We all like stuff.

Womp-womp.

Thanks for asking!!! I probably shoulda talked about some of this myself, lol

EDIT: Terfs and radfems are block on sight, it's not your fault you're dumb but I am not capable of educating all of you

[kurov1864]

Honestly I think we should really stop shaming/making fun of vents. I don't know how some of yall can react to a vent saying shit like "womp womp", or "I'm 14 and this is deep" or "emo ahh" like stfu. Literally why does it matter so much that some people expresses themselves differently. You might find it cringe that some people use like gen alpha slang or talk like a super villain, but at the end of the day it's hurting no one and a vent is still a vent no matter how goofy or pick me you think it sounds.

Another thing I noticed is how people absolutely love to tell others whether their vent is considered a vent or not. Nobody cares if they aren't suicidal, aren't feeling sad and depressed or talking as if they don't really care. Others have no right to tell others whether their vent is considered a vent, especially if it's because they don't relate and/or don't understand it.

Sorry just wanted to write about it for a little since some people keep saying my vents aren't vents on discord. I use a lot of metaphors for my emotions and thoughts and sometimes it gets really complicated to follow because I keep switching, but that's the way I feel the most comfortable expressing myself. Not my problem that they can't understand it, but it's not their place to tell me to delete the message.

[drbtinglecannon]

Hello, friend!!! Wishing you well so the Horrors can't beat you 💖

For the fic writer asks: 5, 7, 13, 18 and 30, if you feel like it!!!

Thank you 💖 the Horrors have been persistent but I continue to ignore them lol

5. First sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP

This was so difficult to choose bc so many of my WIP aren't in order and are just scrapped dialogue bits for various ideas haha

Uh, fuck it, fe fic time, have some lonlissa

“Yknow, Maribelle didn't believe me when I told her you can laugh.”

He smirked at her and pointedly chuckled again.

7. Your preferred writing fonts

Truthfully I don't really care enough to change from the default setting of whatever writing program. If I do consciously choose to change the font tho I always go with comic sans haha. It's my favorite, I enjoy the cringe reputation and it's good for dyslexia

13. A fandom you're thinking about writing for

100% dungeon meshi lol. I have, so many ideas, and I've applied to 1 zine (didn't get in) and have a couple more I was thinking of applying to. The issue is actually writing them oTL it's always so hard to start writing for a new fandom and new characters

18. If you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic

I do keep them sometimes! This was actually from the Dadrius zine, I originally extended that til the KT reunion but shortened it cuz it was kinda meh and I forgot someone else was writing the KT scene which was much better than what I did haha

Hunter’s feet moved of their own accord. He swung a leg off Flapjack, allowing the staff to shift back to bird form, and rushed over to the figure, dropping to his knees so quickly they banged roughly against the hard floor. He moved his good arm to gently jostle a shoulder much larger than his own.

"...Darius? Darius, wake up! Wake up!”

Here's another line from that same bit that comes before this that I liked but couldn't incorporate into the finished piece

Hunter's ears were ringing since the crash. But he's on a mission right now. If there's one thing Hunter was good at, it was ignoring pain.

30. Share a fic you're especially proud of

You give me endless opportunities to plug about my titans tome zine fic haha!

Thinking of a different fic I'm proud of, unfortunately I've fallen pretty hard off the fandoms for most of my published fics to the point I kinda don't like them being on my page (I have no intention of deleting stuff but I've been considering moving like "dead to me" fandom fics under a pseudonym specifying none of them will ever update), but I am still proud of "The extension of your soul in my unworthy hands", I was pretty ambitious with that one for writing so much action, I really did like the premise and title too, and I loved writing the bit where Qrow almost punches himself in the face picking up a significantly lighter weapon haha. It's one of my most underrated fg fics too, womp womp haha

From this ask!

[intangible-rice]

So I bought a copy of the script from the pilot episode of Charmed because I’m that obsessed I guess

Mainly I just want to know as much as I can about what the original intentions for the show and the characters were - with a show that changed as much and ignored continuity as much as Charmed did, I like the idea of finding that foundation and getting a new perspective on what grew out of it.

This is a revised script from after Alyssa joined the cast, so it’s not the original-original script, but when you consider how many drafts something like this probably had to go through, that’s kind of splitting hairs anyway.

The script includes descriptions of all of the cast members, which are amusing:

The book mentioned here isn’t actually seen in the pilot, but I can’t decide if mentioning it here is hilarious because “do we really have to gender home repair books”, or somewhat interesting because in a sense, you could subtitle the Book of Shadows the same way.

I feel like Piper went the furthest away from her original description here. To be honest, that reads more like Paige to me. And the fact that they were obviously setting up a parallel between her never being on time and then getting the power to stop time, but didn’t actually ever refer to Piper as ever having this problem, is disappointing. 

Sidenote though, “earthy” is an amusing description giving that she becomes the Goddess of Earth later on...

(Additional sidenote: the script here locates the Manor in Sutro Heights, which I find interesting, because I’ve posted before about how Sutro Heights isn’t a real neighborhood)

Not much to say here, both pretty accurate and pretty well-explored by the show.

I find it interesting that Darryl was thought of as being a “family man” from day one, yet we don’t even find out that he has kids until halfway through season 2 and don’t see his wife until season 6. Also lol at the tiny description Andy gets.

Liberal??? Why do you have to identify the political ideologies of a demon who dies before the episode ends? lmao

Also I love how the show I guess tried to make Roger, the hugest fucking dork in the universe, seem like some kind of sex god???

And lastly....

His name is SHERIDAN??????

The script doesn’t have any deleted scenes and doesn’t reveal a ton of new details, but there are a few amusing notes here and there...

Like how apparently Piper was supposed to be wearing a chef’s outfit in her first scene, even though neither the unaired nor the aired version of the pilot had this

And how there were a lot more “don’t mention Roger” nonsequiturs for some reason

The basement is also noted as “never to be seen” which I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be just a note about sets for this episode, or if they were already starting to set up the mythology there

And how they somehow thought we would ever be suspicious that Andy was a bad guy lmao

And Phoebe’s premonition effect was supposed to be “MTV style”?? I honestly have no idea what that means

Or how apparently the woman from the opening scene was a nurse despite it never being mentioned (though it was in the unaired pilot)

The way this is worded makes less of a connection between the door closing and Prue’s powers... which could just be unclear writing, but it makes me wonder if the same “force” (aka Grams) that opened the attic door was originally intended to close the front door, too.

There’s also a few extra pieces of dialogue that we’re all incredibly lucky that someone had the sense to remove:

Learning that she has telekinesis apparently makes Prue shit her pants I guess????

and then we get this hokey setup...

I can just hear a comical “womp womp” trumpet over this.

And then...

...just. why. WHY.

But mostly though, the best part about this script is the little side notes that no one outside of the cast and crew would have ever gotten to see:

So all in all, an interesting read. I’m definitely curious now about what treasures other episodes’ scripts might hold, but I’m not committed enough to invest in any more of them. If anyone has any and has any interesting tidbits to share though, I’d love to hear them!

[womenofcolor15]

TWITTER RANT: Kanye West Urinates On A Grammy, Leaks Forbes’ Editor’s Number, Posts UMG Contract, Asks Drake To Retweet & Responds To Hit-Boy’s Collab Claims

Kanye West’s Twitter fingers were hard at work today and it resulted in a lengthy rant about his dissatisfaction with the music industry. More inside…

Kanye West had the Internets going crazy with a long, drawn out Twitter rant about his frustrations with the music industry, relating the industry’s current practices as “modern day slavery.” He ranted and raved about recording contracts, music ownership and shared he’s going to be the one to change the game.

Before today’s rant, 'Ye - who's running for president - said in a since-deleted tweet from Monday that he was not going to release new music until his contracts with SONY/ATC Music Publishing, and his label, Universal Music Group, had run their course.

It's unclear why he deleted the tweets (since he's been on some IDGAF vibes), but his rant comes a few months after he promised to release his 10th studio album he titled DONDA: With Child. It was originally scheduled to drop July 24th, but it was never released. You'll recall, right before the album was set to drop, he went off on Twitter, aiming shots at his own wife, Kim Kardashian West about considering abortion.

Back to today's antics...

The Twitter rant began with the Jesus Is King rapper talking about how Black people are not getting a seat at the table and was passionate about why ownership matters. He brought up Nick Cannon getting canceled and how the NBA and the music industry uses black people to make money.

"We sat back and watched Nick Cannon get canceled and we go to play ball in a bubble with black lives matter on our backs ... brothers let’s stand together for real ... there is no NBA or music industry without black people ... fair contracts matter ... ownership matters,” he tweeted.

Read more of his tweets below (read from the bottom up):

"I am the only person who can speak on this because I made multi billions outside of music no musicians make billions inside music. I'm going to change this," he tweeted, along with Bible scriptures.

‘Ye went on to post 10 confidential contracts with Universal Music Group page-for-page, likely breaching NDAs, saying they are trying to “bury him alive.”

”Here are my ten Universal contracts… I need every lawyer in the world to look at these,” he wrote. He also called out SONY and kept repeating his kids will own his masters. "ALL THE MUSICIANS WILL BE FREE," he later tweeted.

Peep the tweets (read from the bottom up):

  Then, he started tweeting PDF files of all of his contracts:

pic.twitter.com/zwidPFV9XY

— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020

pic.twitter.com/NPiBWC1YfL

— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020

  Sighs...

He literally posted every single page and shared them on Twitter via tons of individual tweets.

After going off about his contracts, he shared a video of himself apparently urinating on his own Grammy statuette. He captioned the clip, "Trust me ... I WONT STOP."

Here's the clip below:

Trust me ... I WONT STOP pic.twitter.com/RmVkqrSa4F

— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020

Gross.

The YEEZUS rapper - who referred to himself as “the new Moses” - noted how white media took down celebs like Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby and R. Kelly. He said there has never been a black media company who would take down a white celebrity: 

Continuing his rant, 'Ye also asked Drake, Kendrick Lamar and even Taylor Swift (who has also blasted the music industry) for a retweet. He also seemingly tried to leak new music. Womp. Check it: 

  'Ye went on to leak the personal phone number of the Chief Content Officer of Forbes, Randall Forbes, who he labeled a white supremacist:

By the way, Twitter removed this tweet.

Recently, Grammy Award winning producer Hit-Boy revealed Kanye refused to work with him after he collaborated with Beyonce. Here's what he said:

The "Wash Us In Blood" rapper responded, saying he didn't have a problem with him producing with Bey, however, he didn't like the fact he wasn't aware of the collaboration:

After all was said and done, he concluded his Twitter rant with this: 

"90% of the record contracts on the planet are still on a royalty A standard record deal is a trap to NEVER have you recoup, and there’s all these hidden costs like the “distribution fees” many labels put in their contracts to make even more money off our work without even trying," he tweeted.

So now that he's running for president and has new music he wants to release, he cares about Black ownership? Oh. We thought a narcissist said something. PR stunt or nah? Y'all know the answer to this.

Photo: AP Photo/Michael Wyke

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(White House Memo)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has railed against unauthorized immigrants in recent days, branding many of them “murderers and thieves” who want to “infest our country.” Not long ago, he referred to them as “animals,” although he insisted he meant only those who join a violent gang.

The president’s unpresidential language has become the standard for some on his team. This week his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, made a mocking noise, “womp womp,” when a liberal strategist raised the case of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome separated from her parents at the border.

Trump’s coarse discourse increasingly seems to inspire opponents to respond with vituperative words of their own. Whether it be Robert De Niro’s four-letter condemnation at the Tony Awards or a congressional intern who shouted the same word at Trump when he visited the Capitol this week, the president has generated so much anger among his foes that some are crossing boundaries that he himself shattered long ago.

The politics of rage that animated Trump’s political rise now dominate the national conversation, as demonstrated repeatedly during the debate over his “zero tolerance” immigration policy that separated children from parents apprehended at the border.

“Unfortunately, we’ve seen a decline in civility and an uptick in incivility,” said Christine Porath, a Georgetown University professor and author of “Mastering Civility,” a book on behavior in the workplace. “It seems like people are not only reciprocating, but we tend to stoop lower rather than higher. It’s really putting us in an unfortunate place.”

Porath said the current harsh climate was affecting people beyond politics, injecting itself into everyday life at home and work. “We know that incivility is contagious,” she said. “It’s like a bug or virus. It’s not only when people experience incivility, it’s when they see or read about it.”

Trump’s descriptions of those trying to enter the country illegally have been so sharp that critics say they dehumanize people and lump together millions of migrants with the small minority that are violent. This approach traces back to the day Trump first announced his campaign for president in 2015, when he labeled many Mexican immigrants as “rapists,” a portrayal that drew furious protests.

Trump recalled that controversy just this week and doubled down on it. “Remember I made that speech and I was badly criticized? ‘Oh, it’s so terrible, what he said,'” he said with derision during a speech to the National Federation of Independent Business on Tuesday. “Turned out I was 100 percent right. That’s why I got elected.”

Indeed, the lesson Trump took from his nastier-than-thou campaign was the more outrageous he was, the more incendiary his rhetoric, the more attention he drew and the more votes he received. Any expectation he would put the harsh language aside to become more of a moral leader as president has proved illusory.

He has made insults the core of his presidential messaging. He has called Canada’s prime minister “weak & dishonest.” He has called journalists, lawmakers and political opponents “wacky,” “crazy,” “goofy,” “mentally deranged,” “psycho,” “sleazy” and “corrupt.” He has called some of his own appointees and Republican allies “very bad,” “VERY weak,” “failed” and “lightweight.”

Returning incivility with incivility has not always worked out well for his opponents. When Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas tried it during the Republican primaries in 2016, it backfired.

“Only Trump can get away with being Trump,” said Jennifer Mercieca, an associate professor at Texas A&M University who has studied his language closely over the last three years.

“Any time that other people have tried to use ad hominem attacks or swear or whatever, it rings false,” she said. “And other politicians tend to have more shame, so when they’re criticized they fold. And as you know, Trump doesn’t do that. And so because he refuses to be shamed, he can get away with sort of saying anything.”

The emotional exchanges that feel so raw online play out in person too. Outside an arena in Duluth, Minnesota, where the president was speaking Wednesday night, protesters waved signs that said “My Grandpa Didn’t Fight Nazis for This” and “Liar. Racist. Fascist. Sociopath. Twitter Troll. Idiot.”

Supporters of the president responded with their own messaging. “Hillary Clinton Killed My Friends,” read a man’s T-shirt outside the rally, without explanation.

Gary Payne, who teaches sociology at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, Minnesota, said he opposed the president, his policies and also the trading of crude insults on both sides.

“People are looking for the simplest signals to go by,” Payne said as he stood outside the arena after trying unsuccessfully to attend the rally. “People pay more attention to demeanor than they do to policy.”

Harsh discourse in American politics did not begin with Trump, of course. Ugly language goes back to the fractious days of John Adams versus Thomas Jefferson through the years before the Civil War and eventually to the McCarthy era and Vietnam. But rarely has the president himself set the tone from the top in the way Trump does. When President George W. Bush called his challenger Bill Clinton a “bozo” in 1992, it was seen as unpresidential.

Trump’s presidency has driven some of those who oppose him to extremes of their own. Kathy Griffin, the comedian, was fired after posing for a picture in which she seemed to be holding Trump’s decapitated head. Samantha Bee, another comic, apologized for using a crude term to describe Ivanka Trump.

“WE SHOULD RIP BARRON TRUMP FROM HIS MOTHER’S ARMS AND PUT HIM IN A CAGE WITH PEDOPHILES AND SEE IF MOTHER WILL WILL STAND UP AGAINST” Trump, actor Peter Fonda wrote on Twitter, also using a vulgar term to describe the president. Fonda later deleted the tweet and apologized: “I went way too far. It was wrong and I should not have done it."

Such responses do not always go over well. “Donald Trump is a dilemma to his political opponents,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist. “It’s very easy for his political opponents to try to meet him on his level, and that usually backfires on his opponents.”

Some liberals bristle at the idea that they should hold back in the face of what they consider an inhumane or authoritarian presidency. Jessica Valenti, a columnist for Guardian U.S. and the author of multiple books on feminism, politics and culture, said restraint played into Trump’s hands.

“Expecting those of us who are scared and angry over what our country is becoming to speak with civility is absurd — civility died the day Trump took office,” she wrote. “It’s like telling a woman to smile as she’s being sexually harassed on the street: We’re not just supposed to put up with injustice, we’re meant to be cheerful through it, as well.”

One of the most sensitive debates generated by Trump’s family separation policy was the question of when Nazi comparisons are appropriate. When Michael V. Hayden, the former CIA director under President George W. Bush, posted a picture of a concentration camp and wrote, “Other governments have separated mothers and children,” it prompted an exchange on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, who noted that his relatives were murdered in the Holocaust.

“They were killed so when you make the comparison to Auschwitz, that’s such a powerful image and you understand the criticism you’re getting for that,” he told Hayden. “As bad as this policy is, it’s certainly not Auschwitz.”

“I fully understand,” Hayden replied, “and if that offended anyone, they have my deepest and most sincere apology.” He added that the blessings of a free society should not be taken for granted. “I knew it would be controversial, but I felt a warning flare was necessary.”

Two Holocaust survivors, however, posted a video testimonial this week talking about the impact of being separated from their parents. “Let’s be clear: We are not comparing what is happening today to the Holocaust,” they said in a statement. “But forcibly separating children from their parents is an act of cruelty under all circumstances.”

Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said Wednesday that everyone “should be extremely careful” with Holocaust comparisons but that “there are disturbing parallels that have touched a nerve.”

“Let’s not spend time drawing comparisons,” he added. “Instead, we should focus all of our energy fighting for a more moral set of policies today.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Peter Baker and Katie Rogers © 2018 The New York Times

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124 Days of Empire: Minute 28:00 of 124:00

A Star Wars Countdown

During the 124 days before the release of The Last Jedi, I’m reviewing all 124 minutes of the theatrical version of The Empire Strikes Back. Join me and together we will watch Star Wars….

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"I love the smell of lasers in the morning!"

In this review of Empire's 28th minute, we'll learn about some of John William's unused music, we'll discuss the promising future Dack has ahead of him, and we'll hear Mark Hamill's least favorite line.

This bloodless, fiery snow battle is Empire's equivalent to the Death Star Trench run in the previous film. Appropriately, John Williams' crafted a score to rival that moment. While this reviewer thinks that the overall score of Empire Strikes Back is superior to A New Hope's, the latter's Death Star battle-related music is just a womp rat's nose ahead of the Battle of Hoth's.  It's interesting to note, however, that some sections of Williams' scoring for the AT-AT battle were trimmed from the final cut.

In the edit below, put together by aficionado T-Bone over at StarWarz.com, you'll hear the deleted piano trilling intended to emphasize the magnitude of these lumbering walkers:

But before you can say "And that's Max Reebo on the keys," Luke realizes that their weapons can't penetrate the AT-AT armor and he immediately orders his fellow pilots to you try using their tow cables to trip up the giant walkers. Does anyone else on his team have an opinion? When's Wedge going to provide some bright ideas? What good are these F'ing nerf herders!?

In hatching his plan, Luke gets a mouthful of lines to say: "that armor's too strong for blasters. Rogue Group, use your harpoons and tow cables! Go for the legs, it might be our only chance of stopping them." Mark Hamill spits out that text like a pro and when you consider the other things he's spouted from his script, the guy's had practice. According to Hamill, nothing compares to a certain piece of dialogue cut from the original Star Wars. While ultimately deleted from Episode IV, he goes into detail here:

​Aquilae and Sullust: both planets we never get to see with our own two eyes, except for maybe in the Lucas Arts video games. I learned more about another planet, Chandrila when Googling Mon Mothma (I wanted to see if she was still alive - in the Star Wars galaxy, at least. I know she doesn't exist in our universe. Anymore. She died a long, long time ago....) Mon Mothma, the revered leader of the Rebel Alliance, is nowhere to be found on Hoth. When trying to find where she must have been at this time, Wookieepedia came up short on answers. But it did tell me the important bit of backstory that: "In the Chandrilan winter of 31 BBY, at the age of fifteen, Mothma fell in love, discovered smashball and her parents' imperfections."

Smashball and love?! Mothma - you Rebel, you...

"Let it be a lightsaber for you in dark places, when all other lightsabers go out..."

Too bad Dack won't be a Rebel much longer, because this is when Luke's gunner dies--

It's sad for the Alliance, but a great moment for Mark Hamill to do some subtle reaction shots. Is it just me or does this facial expression give you deja vu?

Best Performance by a Human: Dack getting fireworked to death. Best Performance by a Non-human: Exploding snowspeeder with life-like Rebel dolls. Best Line: "Rogue Group, use your harpoons and tow cables!" Rating: 27 out of the 30 years Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show.

{Richie Pepio is a writer and performer in New York City who tumbls @mindctrlaltdel and tweets @RichiePepio.}

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World: In Trump's america, the conversation turns ugly and angry, starting at the top

(White House Memo)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has railed against unauthorized immigrants in recent days, branding many of them “murderers and thieves” who want to “infest our country.” Not long ago, he referred to them as “animals,” although he insisted he meant only those who join a violent gang.

The president’s unpresidential language has become the standard for some on his team. This week his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, made a mocking noise, “womp womp,” when a liberal strategist raised the case of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome separated from her parents at the border.

Trump’s coarse discourse increasingly seems to inspire opponents to respond with vituperative words of their own. Whether it be Robert De Niro’s four-letter condemnation at the Tony Awards or a congressional intern who shouted the same word at Trump when he visited the Capitol this week, the president has generated so much anger among his foes that some are crossing boundaries that he himself shattered long ago.

The politics of rage that animated Trump’s political rise now dominate the national conversation, as demonstrated repeatedly during the debate over his “zero tolerance” immigration policy that separated children from parents apprehended at the border.

“Unfortunately, we’ve seen a decline in civility and an uptick in incivility,” said Christine Porath, a Georgetown University professor and author of “Mastering Civility,” a book on behavior in the workplace. “It seems like people are not only reciprocating, but we tend to stoop lower rather than higher. It’s really putting us in an unfortunate place.”

Porath said the current harsh climate was affecting people beyond politics, injecting itself into everyday life at home and work. “We know that incivility is contagious,” she said. “It’s like a bug or virus. It’s not only when people experience incivility, it’s when they see or read about it.”

Trump’s descriptions of those trying to enter the country illegally have been so sharp that critics say they dehumanize people and lump together millions of migrants with the small minority that are violent. This approach traces back to the day Trump first announced his campaign for president in 2015, when he labeled many Mexican immigrants as “rapists,” a portrayal that drew furious protests.

Trump recalled that controversy just this week and doubled down on it. “Remember I made that speech and I was badly criticized? ‘Oh, it’s so terrible, what he said,'” he said with derision during a speech to the National Federation of Independent Business on Tuesday. “Turned out I was 100 percent right. That’s why I got elected.”

Indeed, the lesson Trump took from his nastier-than-thou campaign was the more outrageous he was, the more incendiary his rhetoric, the more attention he drew and the more votes he received. Any expectation he would put the harsh language aside to become more of a moral leader as president has proved illusory.

He has made insults the core of his presidential messaging. He has called Canada’s prime minister “weak & dishonest.” He has called journalists, lawmakers and political opponents “wacky,” “crazy,” “goofy,” “mentally deranged,” “psycho,” “sleazy” and “corrupt.” He has called some of his own appointees and Republican allies “very bad,” “VERY weak,” “failed” and “lightweight.”

Returning incivility with incivility has not always worked out well for his opponents. When Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas tried it during the Republican primaries in 2016, it backfired.

“Only Trump can get away with being Trump,” said Jennifer Mercieca, an associate professor at Texas A&M University who has studied his language closely over the last three years.

“Any time that other people have tried to use ad hominem attacks or swear or whatever, it rings false,” she said. “And other politicians tend to have more shame, so when they’re criticized they fold. And as you know, Trump doesn’t do that. And so because he refuses to be shamed, he can get away with sort of saying anything.”

The emotional exchanges that feel so raw online play out in person too. Outside an arena in Duluth, Minnesota, where the president was speaking Wednesday night, protesters waved signs that said “My Grandpa Didn’t Fight Nazis for This” and “Liar. Racist. Fascist. Sociopath. Twitter Troll. Idiot.”

Supporters of the president responded with their own messaging. “Hillary Clinton Killed My Friends,” read a man’s T-shirt outside the rally, without explanation.

Gary Payne, who teaches sociology at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, Minnesota, said he opposed the president, his policies and also the trading of crude insults on both sides.

“People are looking for the simplest signals to go by,” Payne said as he stood outside the arena after trying unsuccessfully to attend the rally. “People pay more attention to demeanor than they do to policy.”

Harsh discourse in American politics did not begin with Trump, of course. Ugly language goes back to the fractious days of John Adams versus Thomas Jefferson through the years before the Civil War and eventually to the McCarthy era and Vietnam. But rarely has the president himself set the tone from the top in the way Trump does. When President George W. Bush called his challenger Bill Clinton a “bozo” in 1992, it was seen as unpresidential.

Trump’s presidency has driven some of those who oppose him to extremes of their own. Kathy Griffin, the comedian, was fired after posing for a picture in which she seemed to be holding Trump’s decapitated head. Samantha Bee, another comic, apologized for using a crude term to describe Ivanka Trump.

“WE SHOULD RIP BARRON TRUMP FROM HIS MOTHER’S ARMS AND PUT HIM IN A CAGE WITH PEDOPHILES AND SEE IF MOTHER WILL WILL STAND UP AGAINST” Trump, actor Peter Fonda wrote on Twitter, also using a vulgar term to describe the president. Fonda later deleted the tweet and apologized: “I went way too far. It was wrong and I should not have done it."

Such responses do not always go over well. “Donald Trump is a dilemma to his political opponents,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist. “It’s very easy for his political opponents to try to meet him on his level, and that usually backfires on his opponents.”

Some liberals bristle at the idea that they should hold back in the face of what they consider an inhumane or authoritarian presidency. Jessica Valenti, a columnist for Guardian U.S. and the author of multiple books on feminism, politics and culture, said restraint played into Trump’s hands.

“Expecting those of us who are scared and angry over what our country is becoming to speak with civility is absurd — civility died the day Trump took office,” she wrote. “It’s like telling a woman to smile as she’s being sexually harassed on the street: We’re not just supposed to put up with injustice, we’re meant to be cheerful through it, as well.”

One of the most sensitive debates generated by Trump’s family separation policy was the question of when Nazi comparisons are appropriate. When Michael V. Hayden, the former CIA director under President George W. Bush, posted a picture of a concentration camp and wrote, “Other governments have separated mothers and children,” it prompted an exchange on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, who noted that his relatives were murdered in the Holocaust.

“They were killed so when you make the comparison to Auschwitz, that’s such a powerful image and you understand the criticism you’re getting for that,” he told Hayden. “As bad as this policy is, it’s certainly not Auschwitz.”

“I fully understand,” Hayden replied, “and if that offended anyone, they have my deepest and most sincere apology.” He added that the blessings of a free society should not be taken for granted. “I knew it would be controversial, but I felt a warning flare was necessary.”

Two Holocaust survivors, however, posted a video testimonial this week talking about the impact of being separated from their parents. “Let’s be clear: We are not comparing what is happening today to the Holocaust,” they said in a statement. “But forcibly separating children from their parents is an act of cruelty under all circumstances.”

Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said Wednesday that everyone “should be extremely careful” with Holocaust comparisons but that “there are disturbing parallels that have touched a nerve.”

“Let’s not spend time drawing comparisons,” he added. “Instead, we should focus all of our energy fighting for a more moral set of policies today.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Peter Baker and Katie Rogers © 2018 The New York Times

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