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when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,

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If you ever need proof that South Korea is a neocolony of the USA and the ruling class of South Korea does the USA's bidding, in the list of banned books that the Lee Myung-bak admin rolled out in 2008, 50% of the books banned were because of anti-government sentiment, which included anti-americanism.

In the 2011 updated list, they added even more anti-american books. You might notice that this was during the waning years of George W.'s presidency and Obama's first term. That's because Hell Joseon is real and it's created by a bipartisan effort by the USA to maintain its oppressive status.

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i deactivated my twitter. ppl can find me here or on bluesky. idgaf anymore LOL

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you know i think i’ve come to the conclusion that the answer to “but what if a cis woman is traumatized by men/male presenting people/whatever?” irt safe spaces is this: if you can’t be in the same room with someone you assume to be male or a man without feeling triggered, it probably means you have a lot more solo therapy and healing to do before relying on group therapy or other communal healing.

because how do you decide who gets to stay and who gets kicked out based on a cis woman’s trauma response? is it based on appearance? should intersex women with facial hair not be allowed because beards are triggering? should butches and studs not be allowed because masculinity is triggering? should talk broad shouldered trans women who don’t want to voice train not be allowed because low voices are triggering? is it based on identity? should a pre transition trans man who came out two days ago not be allowed because he’s a man? is a nonbinary person with a full beard and deep voice allowed because they are not a man?

because if you base your entire set of rules for who’s not allowed in the safe space on what makes cis women uncomfortable or triggers them, you’ve just made that space unsafe for trans people. and you need to decide if you’re ready to own that.

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if you think you haven't heard this before, think again! and if you think you recognize that opening sample, think again, again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtJDq7f_EF0&t=2s&ab_channel=bigmanio

Tracklist:

Undressed • Thursday At The Blue Note • A Week Next June • Your Woman • White Town • The Shape Of Love • Wanted • The Function Of The Orgasm • Going Nowhere Somehow • Theme For An Early Evening American Sitcom • The Death Of My Desire • Once I Flew

Submitter's Note: "Your Woman" was a UK No. 1 (peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100) and is White Town's sole hit single. It has been sampled and covered by many different artists, and the 2007 film "I Could Never Be Your Woman" starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd was named after it's title line.

Spotify ♪ YouTube

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Please help me. I have nothing else.

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This is Farah's 'GoFundMe' (she's not that far off from her goal :) ) -

You can clips of the situation people are facing in Ghazza that she's uploaded onto her Instagram handle - farah.n.ammar.

The entity delights in taking away these people's limbs, sight and dignity - the football players, the journalists, just every day humans.

Please boost and raise awareness.

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handala حنظلة

From approximately 1975 through 1987 Naji Al-Ali created cartoons that depict the complexities of the plight of Palestinian refugees. These cartoons are still relevant today and Handala, the refugee child who is present in every cartoon, remains a potent symbol of the struggle of the Palestinian people for justice and self-determination.

Naji Al-Ali wrote( Handala was born ten years old, and he will always be ten years old. At that age, I left my homeland, and when he returns, Handala will still be ten, and then he will start growing up. The laws of nature do not apply to him. He is unique. Things will become normal again when the homeland returns.)

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western azerbaijan: yet another false narrative from azerbaijan, paving the way for potential genocide sources: video/pdf/monumentwatch

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Most of you were either not born or old enough to remember the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon and the scale of the terror Israel inflicted. In 2006, Israel killed about 1,200 in Lebanon in 34 days which was the whole duration of the aggression. Yet, today alone, Israel killed close to 300 in Lebanon. This intensification is the direct result of the way Israel faced absolutely no consequences for its unprecedented violence in Gaza for a whole year.

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the european quest for indian riches changed the world so irrevocably, and it leaves these terrible echoes, for those that live in the caribbean now are deemed west and east indians and the native americans deemed indians too and when india is finally opened up inevitably the forms of immiseration evolve. but the plunder continues.

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Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:

The Center for Biological Diversity and 20 partner organizations petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to protect diamondback terrapins as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Aquatic turtles who live primarily in coastal marshes and estuaries from Massachusetts to Texas, these animals have declined by 75% across most of their range in the past 50 years.

“Tens of thousands of terrapins are drowning in crab traps each year. Without the lifeline of Endangered Species Act protection, they’ll sink into extinction,” said Will Harlan, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity.

In many locations along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, terrapin populations have been wiped out completely.

Drowning in crab traps is a leading cause of death. These traps are submerged cages with funneled entrances that catch both crabs and air-breathing terrapins. Around 3 million crab traps are deployed each year by recreational and commercial crabbers, which kill tens of thousands of diamondback terrapins annually.

In addition, between 25% and 50% of all crab traps are lost or abandoned annually in coastal waters. These derelict cages — called ghost traps — kill tens of thousands more terrapins every year. Researchers estimate 60,000 to 80,000 terrapins are killed in active and abandoned crab traps each year.

Yet simple, proven solutions exist that could save terrapins. Bycatch reduction devices installed on crab traps have no negative effects on crab harvests, but they reduce diamondback terrapin deaths by 94%.

Terrapins are also threatened by habitat loss from sea-level rise and development. They’ve already lost half of their original wetlands and are expected to lose up to 60% of their coastal marsh habitat by the end of the century.

As these animals travel farther in search of habitat, thousands of egg-bearing females are killed along roads each year. Increasing pollution, poaching, predators, boat strikes and climate change also threaten them.

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im not on the browser that has post trimming enabled so, enjoy thoughts on the craft 400 times

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I just truly disagree that it's a morality play, or a cautionary tale. It's a story about how making deals with devils is the supreme expression of abdication of will (not, as I saw mentioned elsewhere, an expression of "magic and willpower" at all). All of the girls have to give up their power not only to each other but to Manon, without any move to protect themselves. They do it from a position of immature lack of understanding and are easily convinced the way to achieve their goals is through magical shortcuts, because they are impossible goals and wishes to achieve otherwise.

Not only that, but the shortcuts they take, take them further away from themselves and their values, the strengths they have cultivated through adversity. It would take true willpower to face the difficulties of their daily lives and come out of the other side of those difficulties through time and endurance. I don't think it's a moral failing for them to be immature, broken, and desperate, but it does make them likelier victims and those same motivating factors make them vulnerable. Abusers and users look for that, magical or otherwise. I think the point is that they did have power, they didn't know how to use it and didn't follow guidance or warnings on how to use it. Sarah has privileges and guardians looking out for her wellbeing that protect her to some extent, while the other characters who have a more complicated relationship with privilege due to disability, race, and class, have nothing to protect their magic from being taken away. There's nothing moral about it because morality/being good doesn't save any of them. Magic isn't about morality, it is about will and subjugation of will, and the girls make the classic blunders that make deals with the devil, or anyone unscrupulous, so dangerous. I don't really see Sarah's ending as terribly positive either. She has survived the encounter with her magic intact but also pacted herself doubly to Manon to survive, and her personality remains altered, distant, and aggressive. If anything, it seems she has been retained as a tool, and protected Bonnie and Rochelle by driving them away from her. I could get into Nancy being more of a threat to something like Manon because of her willingness to demand use of his power, but this is already super long LOL

Anything based in a Protestant construction of witchcraft is going to have Christian underpinnings, which this certainly draws on, but that doesn't mean the same moral judgements have to flow out from it, basically. I think if it -was- intended to scan more as a morality play, then Rochelle at the very least would have been treated differently. We're given all of the tools to sympathize with her to an incredible extent, and at the end of the narrative all we know is they don't have access to their magic at that time (not necessarily forever). To what extent I can see it as a cautionary tale, it seems much more like a way to teach "what mistakes not to make when doing magic/setting intentions".

the thing about The Craft (1996) is that i think it's a really great movie about lonely outcasts getting revenge on their tormentors with the power of homoerotic female friendship so long as you turn it off halfway through when they get to the beach. that's it that's the end of the movie nothing happens after that don't worry about it