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In a similar sense to how "leftist infighting" is often code for the sentiment of "there are communists and anti-communists in easily predictable conflict and I am an anti-communist" the phrase "queer infighting" is often code for the sentiment of "there are tma people and transmisogynists in easily predictable conflict and I am a transmisogynist"

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Me waking up going straight to tumblr

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I think more than anything if you aren't viscerally disgusted by suburbia and what it represents and the kind of spiritual rot inherent to it then I don't think anything I say, no matter how exhaustively I try to explain myself, will ever bridge the gap in understanding

Like if you think about suburban fantasies and shit and think "What's wrong with this, this is cozy and fine, idgi, who's being hurt here, you guys are being jerks" and not "Mass Grave Of Smothered Souls" I don't know how we could talk about like, art, politics, life

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picture this you're 14 you fight with your mom like 24/7 and you decide to watch one of the most iconic animes ever to say you've watched it (and one of the rebuild movies released not too long ago) and suddenly it's 4 am and you are in hysterics because you havent watched anything that depicts depression so accurately . and it had cool robots and biblical imagery . and you're supposed to be Normal ?

my semi annual reawakened love for evangelion more like . if you didnt watch it as a depressed teenager you fr missed out

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my semi annual reawakened love for evangelion more like . if you didnt watch it as a depressed teenager you fr missed out

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I absolutely hate it when you're trying to talk about the inherent propaganda in characters like Superman or Captain America and how they are fundamentally tied to imperialist American values and ethics and people argue that they have to be fundamentally leftist or progressive because they are creations of Jewish immigrants. And beyond everything else, there's something so bizarrely infantilising about acting like Jewish immigrants are somehow incapable of creating pro American propaganda. The fact that these characters were often power fantasies doesn't negate the very real imperialist values they also symbolised and defended narratively.

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gonna start using this rothko card deck for divination

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severance once again proving that a twist is still good even after everyone already called it and that changing something just because the audience figured it out is the dumbest thing they started doing on television

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youtube should give viewers the option to grade video essays like it's a high school english class assignment and if the median grade is below passing then they stick a huge png over your video advising that this is a vlog with slide show components. if the youtuber ever goes "umm. I'm not going to attempt to pronounce this" at any point then they're genetically altered to be able to survive underground and let loose in an endless series of catacombs built beneath their home to live the rest of their life as the fabled town troll.

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“Mean girls all grow up to be nurses!”

“Mean girls all go into social work!”

“The mean girl to teacher pipeline!”

Y’all, these are just pink collar jobs. The reason you think there’s so many “mean girls” in these fields is because they’re all like 97% women. Of course some of them are gonna be assholes. There’s assholes everywhere.

We get it. Your job isn’t like other girls’ jobs. It’s a cool job.

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A conversation at the DMV.

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I don't mean to be rude but many, many adults back then did not think the iraq war was for oil and that weapons of mass destruction thing was pretty widely believed among the average American who saw 9/11 as the worst event since world War 2. If not for weapons of mass destruction they genuinely believed that people in the middle east would conduct another 9/11 on them and americans were ideologically committed to the war through pure racism. I don't remember about the general public atmosphere much from that time period since I was a kid but I do remember seeing pictures of the iraq war and the second intifada that my parents showed me and now asking back about that time period they, immigrants with arab Muslim heritage, tell me about the racism they faced and not much major national pushback. Americans kind of just let the iraq war happen.... and even Abu ghuraib photos were not enough to convince many Americans that what happened in iraq was a violent, awful genocide that their sons and daughters fought directly in. Even the genocide in gaza the average american was not as personally invested as they were with iraq in the ideological and boots-on-the-ground support. Til now you can probably ask most people what they thought the war was for and they might answer oil but they also might say stuff like "fighting terrorism" and "freedom" or something.

But yes the idea that gwb and his associates are even semi relevant these days is really a crime and they deserve to be treated like monsters.

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Sigourney Weaver, Alien, Ridley Scott, 1979

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gonna one day pass as a guy and infiltrate a group of straight guys and then fujo it the fuck up