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Pour one out for a real one.

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From the linked article: “…tolerance, viewed as a moral absolute, amounts to renouncing the right to self-protection; but viewed as a peace treaty, it can be the basis of a stable society. Its protections extend only to those who would uphold it in turn. To withdraw those protections from those who would destroy it does not violate its moral principles; it is fundamental to them, because without this enforcement, the treaty would collapse.”

Some very eloquent notes on violence as a necessity for resistance.

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you can't support the normalization of the usage of singular they/them pronouns and then say you don't support people who want to normalize it/its because it's "too weird," as if using singular they/them pronouns isn't clearly weird to a lot of people.

you can't refuse to acknowledge an identity because it's "weird," they're all "weird" in the eyes of cisheteronormative society. people who use neopronouns like it/its, ze/hir, xe/xem, thon/thons and others don't deserve to have to settle for they/them if that's not what they use. it doesn't matter if something is "weird" or not. let go of the compulsive need to assimilate and just let people express themselves freely

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one thing i think is so Neat about atla is how all the main bender characters have an arc that corresponds to their "opposite" element. zuko's arc is about the capacity to change yourself and your worldview, and the culmination of his arc is learning a move inspired by waterbending. katara is all about passion and drive, wanting to become a great waterbender and fight for what she believes in, and over the course of the show she comes into her power. toph's arc involves getting free of her restrictive family and connecting with a community, and aang's arc is about learning to stand fast in his beliefs and confront difficult issues head-on. it's a beautiful bit of symmetry that reinforces the show's point about the illusion of separation

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She would have run amazing fan websites 🥺♥️

@thisweekinfandomhistory y’all would love this

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If Luigi murdered a homeless black guy going through a mental health crisis on a train, Luigi would have been exonerated because of a technicality that said homeless guy was dying anyway or some shit. They’d ask “what about his family?” If Luigi stabbed and killed some brown people instead of shooting some CEO, the police nor the FBI would not have placed bounties on him nor began a manhunt like they didn’t when the exact thing happened on the same exact day in the same fucking city only minutes apart.

Terrorism is not only a socially constructed term but a politically charged one that is dictated by what action that the labeler deems impermissible. When health insurance companies deny, delay, and depose millions of people to their inevitable deaths, it’s not deemed terroristic. It is an acceptable social murder and let’s not soften the term because it is in fact murder that they are committing. But that man’s one act exposed what the authoritarian class thinks of us all. We aren’t valuable.

And that should make you violently fucking angry.

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"Good night, son.

Good night, changeling who tried to kill and take my son's place before I stopped you and adopted you.

Good night, time-traveling assassin from the future who tried to stop my son fulfilling his destiny before I adopted you, too.

Good night, dark dimension counterpart of my son who comes out at night.

Good night, daughter."

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i had a 4 hour drive today so i put on the revenge of the sith audiobook and the part where palpatine tells anakin to kill dooku came on right around the time that i saw a cybertruck and for a brief and beautiful moment when he said "do it" i had the urge to ram my honda full on into that shitty ass car

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you gotta be as gay as possible on the computer otherwise alan turing died for nothing

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Anyways I do think it's incredibly important for people who aren't trans women to talk about transmisogyny too, and to condemn it when you see it in your own social circles.

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Cnfndbsksaja I’ve been reading articles about the ceo shooting this morning so when I scrolled past this my immediate thought was “what kind of conspiracy theory is this?? The CEO’s body was found very clearly dead”

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ID: grainy image of a white woman glaring at someone in a beanie and hoodie who has their back to the viewer

do not. respond to my doylist criticism with a watsonian explanation.

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Musician: Jesse Welles

Posted 11Dec2024

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Israel burned alive more families in Gaza now. More than 60 martyrs in Gaza today. The images and testimonies are horrific.

A great depletion of attention on Gaza recently, this is not my personal opinion, but an opinion shared among many Palestinians. Let’s all remember that every single day is the worst day of their lives in Gaza. Israel is massacring and ethnically cleansing and abducting at an increased rate. Never stop talking about Gaza, please. Please follow Palestinian journalists on the ground in Gaza and share their news, they ask this of us everyday. Please honour them.

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How would you explain in simple terms that androphobia isn't real and that painting it and wrapping in trans colours doesn't make it any less non existent? Right now all I have is anger. Because how do you tell some tguy or transmasc that what he's experiencing isn't "hatred for men", but rather regular misogyny and transphobia? I'm so tired of this nonsense. And I'm transmasc so it makes it worse. I really feel isolated because it feels like most guys out here have wildly internalised misogyny and can't fathom that they're being oppressed because society views them as lost women lol

You aren't being hated because of your masculinity in and of itself; you are being hated because you are transgender. You violate the gender binary, and so you are attacked and oppressed. This transphobia can manifest in hatred for your masculinity, but it cannot be understood as related to "androphobia". I don't think that saying society views trans people as "lost women" or "failed men" is particularly helpful; rather, we're all violations of the artificial gender and sex binary. Don't misgender us in an attempt to define social dynamics.

Were you a cisgender white man, the qualities you have that society considers "manly" would give you structural advantages. Were I a cisgender woman, the qualities I have that society considers feminine would continue to target me for oppression. Structurally uplifting cis women helps me in turn; there is no way to structurally uplift cis men, because they are already the top of the gender hierarchy. Structurally uplifting trans people, of course, helps us both.

You're angry, and not for no reason; there very much are issues that transmasculine people suffer. Cis MRA groups were angry about the draft, about disabled men, about the criminal justice system- and disability rights and an abolishment of the military and carceral systems are real, valid causes! But MRA thought directs that anger towards feminism. MRA subreddits had posts about men expressing very real isolation and ableism, side by side with blaming women like Anita Sarkeesian and the early metoo movement for their problems. Here on tumblr, we see TMRAs condemning any terminology that allows transfems to describe their oppressors an participating in harassment campaigns against outspoken trans women.

Spend some time asking yourself; who are you angry at? Who's telling you to be mad at transfeminists?