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I know this is a popular sentiment but as an expat who has lived abroad for the past few years and is returning to the states this year, there are problems everywhere. You’re leaving the government, yes, but you can’t escape the sentiment. Even here in Japan there are still people who genuinely support Trump and people who believe the same things as everyone who voted for him.

And while I understand that some people HAVE to leave the states for their safety and would never begrudge anyone doing what they need to do to keep themselves safe, as someone from a small town in a very red area in a red-leaning “swing” state, I’ve long come to the conclusion that leaving won’t make it better. People who leave the rural areas for urban areas don’t make the urban areas more blue, they just make the rural areas more red.

Imagine if you will, a pot of soup. Republicans are fire, and they’ve turned up the heat. The pot is going to boil over, but the democrats have ice cubes. And if you’re constantly throwing in ice cubes you can keep the soup from boiling over. For some people, they’re tossing in dozens of ice cubes with political activism. For some people, they can only add one ice cube for just existing. That’s fine. That’s enough. But if you give up, if you leave, if you say “well they’re gonna make it boil over anyway so what’s my one ice cube gonna do?” And enough people agree with you and stop adding their ice cubes then the soup WILL boil over. The same way your vote mattered, your ice cube matters too.

god i fucking hate constantly googling “best countries for expats to move to” because this is my home. this country has always been my home and i love it so much for what it could be without the corruption taking over. its beautiful and full of all different kinds of people and theres so much to explore and the flora and fauna are spectacular and i genuinely feel so sick at leaving this behind but i just cant stomach the thought of this country’s fascist direction and im scared that if i dont leave soon ill never be able to leave in the future. if anyone seeing this voted trump, you made the wrong fucking choice. you voted control and money over freedom and care

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The irony of this is, to the best of my recollection, I was taught as a kid in my US Christian church that the reason why the common people in the Bible (not the religious leaders, just the everyday people) were so against Jesus at the end was because they were EXPECTING HIM TO BE A MILITANT LEADER and they were WRONG. It was always framed as “the people thought the messiah would be a strong leader who would help them overthrow Rome, but Jesus doesn’t care about politics he cares about children and sick people and being kind, so they didn’t like him and they were bad for doing that.”

So. Yeah. Love that for us.

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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They DO be always going to the clinic in the ABO manga/manhwa

Healthcare issues reflected in yaoi ✊😔

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Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

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HenRen prompt for fic writers that I think would be neat:

Star Trek AU: Medical Officer Hen & Head Scientist/Engineer Karen. Maybe they get trapped on an alien planet. Maybe Karen is always having “lab accidents” that need medical assistance. They adopt a whole brood of galactically diverse kiddos.

Soo I’ve been watching 911 lately and ummmm I am so confused?

Like, how is Buddie (Buck/Eddie) the most popular ship from this show, the one that broke containment and is now plastered everywhere on tumblr, even though it’s not canon?

While there are so many other canonically queer characters from the very first episode? Like… hello? Hen and Karen have been around since the very beginning and they’re practically paid dust? Meanwhile Eddie was introduced in the second season and I knew his name through socmed osmosis while I had no idea Karen even existed.

Also I just looked them on Ao3 and Buddie has over 32k works while Hen/Karen have only 1900-ish. And out of the first 5 results, only one has them as a main ship. The rest are Buddie fics 😭

Like. I’m very new to this show (just finished season 3) and obviously very new to this fandom so like. Is there something I’m not getting?? Can someone please explain this to me?? 😭😭😭

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GO APOLLO GO

SIC 'EM

EVERYONE LEND HIM YOUR STRENGTH!

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youtube is pulling this bullshit again

praying for the firefox gods to save me once more...

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the edit itself

this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point

Im not even american but im having a great time with this

DONT LET THIS DIE

credit to miraculousgastropod for the original

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I ran out of clean underwear ONCE on a weeklong camping trip when I was like EIGHT and I’ve never recovered.

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I’ve always been a casual but vehement lover of imagine dragons for their musicality and the beats but also because in my teenage years they were one of a scant few artists that always had bangers and popular songs on the radio that WEREN’T about love or sex. I found it endlessly refreshing and is one of many reasons I should’ve figured out I was ace a lot sooner than I did.

I have a confession to make. I enjoy the music of imagine dragons, okay? when I hear one of their songs I find it a pleasant experience. I bop my head along like nobody's business. I formed a psychic bond with "demons" in high school when I. uh. performed it as part of a small acappella group (<- digging myself deeper). and the beat after the last note one of my fellow performers passed out and dropped to the floor like a stone while standing center stage. I like the overproduced pounding beat thing they've got going on. I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry. may god have mercy on my soul.

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Okay but can anyone articulate the mindset that leads older people to feel like they NEED to know people's gender identity all the time? Like what's going on there

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Drag Race season 17 Queen Reveal

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As an American living in a country with amazing public transit, half of me is a big fan of being able to walk to the grocery store or take a train downtown but for middle-distance trips with multiple stops at different places that aren’t on the same train line…. I do miss being able to drive…

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My favorite absolutely bonkers Christmas song at my old job at a grocery store tied the line of absurdity and horniness that baffles me to this day.

There’s no way to “Whistle ‘neath the Mistletoe” in a God Honoring Way

an incomplete taxonomy of christmas music

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NOTHING SHOULD GO [ONLINE] YOU WOULDN’T WANT IN THE HANDS OF THE PERSON WHO HATES YOU THE MOST

There's something that I find equal parts hilarious and terrifying.

On one hand it is so funny watching the generation previous to mine (I was born in 84) absolutely say the most unhinged shit online, doxx themselves, and get fired, after spending my entire childhood teaching me online opsec because every stranger was a potential murderer. Social media done rotted their brains.

But on the other I'm seeing kids coming up, seeing them spew all their personals online, and using that to model their unsafe behavior and put themselves at incredible risk because the internet actually got way more dangerous than it was, ironically, when I was coming up being told I had to basically outsmart the fuckin CIA. Now the actual CIA and other bad actors (government, private, and individual) really are out there and these kids are watching fucking meemaw post a photo of the front of her house practically captioned with her fucking SSN and thinking, "yeah, sure, the adults know what's safe."

I gotta be a fuckin millennial about this and beg younger folx to listen to the VCR generation: hide yourself online. Nothing should go there you wouldn't want in the hands of the person who hates you the most.

Be safe, be smart, be a fucking ghost.

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i genuinely think ocd is incredibly underdiagnosed bc i will see people posting what are obvious rituals, compulsions, intrusive thoughts, spiralling, hyper morality, etc and its like Have You Considered This Might Be An Issue