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Stupid fucking Loser

Actually saw the Jamba Heart in Aeon Hero (Light)‘s Time Rip in Super Kirby Clash! Pretty lucky to have seen it, I guess

Footage recorded on the german version, in Handheld-Mode

Saw it again today

And once More on the Ides of March or whatever

Aeon Hero (Dark) is also here!

The dude really like his heart

Guess what’s ba-ack!

💜

My boss was like “Do you have any idea how much money we’re losing” like who cares, it’s not like they would give it to me otherwise

Have our investors tried making coffee at home and not eating out so much?

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.

They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.

The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.

BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.

The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.

I think this model is the best one for several reasons:

  • It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups
  • It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.
  • It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader

This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.

The creator of the BITE Model considers abusive relationships to be two-person cults.

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doberbutts

As someone who grew up in the Mennonite church around one of the biggest Amish populations in the country… both Amish and Mennonites are cults. Outsiders view them as “quirky” and “harmless” because they’re not DEATH cults. Doesn’t make them not cults.

i fucking haaate being a castle guard dude the king's coat of arms is fucking stupid and all the female courtiers laugh at my tabard. can somebody come usurp this guy already

oh AWESOME someone sent the king this post and now i'm getting drawn & quartered for treasonous speech 🙄 real cool and mature sending my employer a vent post i made on my PERSONAL BLOG. thanks a million.

LOLLLLLLL he got dethroned by his nephewwwww!!! execution avoided!!! someone will come along and free me from this oubliette soon i bet

I love it when I tell doctors that I'm a LARPer and an endurance hiker and one of the most frustrating things about chronic pain is how hard it is to go to the park and do my favorite physical activites, and they'll look at me like a dog that's just been shown a card trick and ask, "Have you tried exercising?"

Brother, you don't even know how bad I wish we could try exercising rn

Chronic illness patients: so I really like to do [physical activity] but it's gotten like, physically hard to do lately

Genius doctors: have you tried increasing your physical activity?

"I'm so fucking good at health."

I once had to patiently tell a doctor "I don't really think it's ethical to ask me to exercise my way out of a pain spike?" and she looked like it was the first time she'd ever really thought about it.

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snaxle

yea tumblr staff does not give a shit about their userbase and i think it's very apparent when they throw a creepy ass picture of buggy staring directly at you onto the side of the screen and make it impossible to get rid of unless you use an ad blocker.

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snaxle

and i KNOW who buggy is! i know he's a one piece character and that ad is for the live action adaptation because im actively invested in the series! i know he's one of the main antagonists of the east blue saga! i like him! but what about the people who don't know who the hell he is? staff has absolutely no care for their userbase who are psychotic, has absolutely no care for their userbase who have clown related phobias, has absolutely no care for their userbase who just straight up DONT wanna be forced to see a scary looking clown looking directly at them and not being able to get rid of it, and etc.

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snaxle

like i don't have any major phobias of clowns and i like buggy as a character and i fucking had to go try shutting the ad off. it's fucking ridiculous i hate this website

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lg5

It's crazy that these strikes are happening given that all the writers and actors are asking for is less than 0.3% of the revenue these studios make.

This is what gets me. The writers and actors aren’t asking for much but these CEOs are digging their heels in

WELCOME

TO THE FIRST ROUND OF THE COPAGANDA CLOBBERFEST!

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“You know that trope? That one trope *Everyone* hates? The trope in which a well meaning antagonist to our heroes, one looking out for the good of a certain community, suddenly does something horrible and drastic to make not only them, but the ideology they stand for the most villainous of all?”

NOW IS THE TIME TO BATTLE THEM OUT! Like Ken dolls, fighting for survival! Like your Polly pockets discarded in the closet, we’ll see which of these bitches jumped that slippery slope harder! Whose character did numbers on y’all, and blew up a bunch of grandmas and babies and hospitals with it!

ROUND ONE

SUPERFLY from TMNT: MUTANT MAYHEM vs JET from AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

Superfly propaganda:

“He just wanted humans to accept his mutant brethren and protect them. Sure he was going to commit genocide but he thought that was his only option. (Or was he? It seemed like he was going to expose people to mutagen.) His first memory was human private police killing his dad and burning down their house. And his other interactions with humans supported his belief that mutant kind wouldn’t be safe among humans. Armed civilians used to attack them for just being mutants. And people continue being violent until they realized that mutants were trying to save New York.”

Jet propaganda:

“had all the right intentions of fighting for his nation and all the wrong ways of going about it by:

flooding an entire village which would also harm the earth kingdom people living in the village that he claims he’s protecting

robbing the elderly and defenseless just because they’re fire nation, we don’t even know if he was a colonial official or anyone with power or just some random dude

fixating on zuko and iroh maybe being firebenders instead of like. helping smellerbee and longshot make a living

he did some good things, like arguably taking care of all those children in his forest robin hood lost boys treehouse compound and I’ll even include the food heist on the ship to ba sing se (I feel like it was unnecessary but also really funny and not truly harming anyone so it goes here) but all of that is massively overshadowed by the whole flooding-the-entire-village thing

thank goodness for sokka”

“He was the leader of a group of freedom fighters in the earth kingdom going against the fire nation and was generally a good guy, up until the writers decided that he should target an entire village of civilians out of, idk, blind rage or something. Then he came back for a few episodes in season 2 in which he was brainwashed by the dai li and when he was finally able to escape their hypnosis he was abruptly killed. Oh and he was just a kid.”

“a teenage boy who dislikes being colonized and so decides to flood an entire town out of existence. he later gets brainwashed and dies for continuing to dislike being colonized”

Always feel free to rb with more propaganda :)