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Imagine you're an actor on Gotham Knights and you're planning to come out for pride month 2k23 and you confide this in human low battery smoke alarm MISHA COLLINS and he proceeds, before you can come out, to vague tweet about how of someone comes out while he's on his "meditation retreat" he's very proud of them and the insane destiel cockles girlies assume this is about human manscaped ad Jensen Ackles and now you can't fucking come out because everyone is going to lose their fucking minds about whether you coming out means jackles is straight and you can't even bitch out Misha because he turned his phone off while he's getting his asshole bleached in Tahoe
every day the supernatural fandom sends emails.
which they do because Misha Collins is committing psychic warfare against them WHAT THE FUCK
this tweet is less than a day old and i can already hear in the hall of the mountain king.
This is where the violins come in.
Leftist post about DPRK: you have been lied to about DPRK, it is a pretty normal country under siege by the west. It is not a hereditary kingdom under one man rule. It's citizens are human beings. The government is fine. You have been lied to about DPRK
The people who have been lied to about DPRK, but think they're smarter & more empathetic than the other riffraff who have been lied to abt DPRK:
you wake up. you're a middle schooler. you meet a boy on IMVU. he's emo, and you like that about him because you're emo too. he sends you an AMV. you click the link. a black screen. "naruto vs. sasuke," written in comic sans, made in windows movie maker. and there... there he is. the anime boy you will spend the rest of your miserable teenage years obsessing over. sasuke. sasuke uchiha. sasuke, the lone wolf of the shinobi world. he's sad. and miserable. and so, so cool! you watch him, not yet knowing the impact he will have on your developing psyche. linkin park is playing. don't stay, forget our memories, forget our possibilities.
you're enthralled. transformed.
a week passes. ep 48, part 2 of 3 is slowly loading on youtube. a bowl of ramen sits on your desk. it's you're favorite thing to eat now. slurp slurp. just like naruto, you think.
years pass. decades pass. you change. become an adult. stop being emo. develop an iron deficiency from your ramen-based diet (you only eat it because it's cheap now). you'll never be a ninja. you'll never be a fighting dreamer, etc. but still. you watch naruto. you rewatch all 720 episodes, including all the fillers. you rewatch it, even though you know the ending sucks (and, if you're being honest with yourself, a lot of the beginning and middle parts, too). but still, you keep watching that garbage. you keep slurping it down, holding out infinite hope, searching for that high you felt as a pre-teen watching naruto for the first time. and then rock lee drops his weight and... woah! that's still fucking awesome actually. yippee!!
how do i start to read marxist leninist/leftist stuff ? i searched on the internet but it’s super confusing lol
the most important value for me as an ML is anti-imperialism, so i guess i'll always recommend that people start with works centred on that
some suggestions below (all books should be available either on marxist.org or as pdf/epub files on libgen)
about the colonization of america. not explicitly marxist, but it's probably done more to radicalize me than any other piece of writing. this is the pile of corpses capitalism is built on:
Within no more than a handful of generations following their first en counters with Europeans, the vast majority of the Western Hemisphere's native peoples had been exterminated. The pace and magnitude of their obliteration varied from place to place and from time to time, but for years now historical demographers have been uncovering, in region upon region, post-Columbian depopulation rates of between 90 and 98 percent with such regularity that an overall decline of 95 percent has become a working rule of thumb. What this means is that, on average, for every twenty natives alive at the moment of European contact-when the lands of the Americas teemed with numerous tens of millions of people-only one stood in their place when the bloodbath was over. To put this in a contemporary context, the ratio of native survivorship in the Americas following European contact was less than half of what the human survivorship ratio would be in the United States today if every single white person and every single black person died. The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. That is why, as one historian aptly has said, far from the heroic and romantic heraldry that customarily is used to symbolize the European settlement of the Americas, the emblem most congruent with reality would be a pyramid of skulls. - David E. Stannard
2. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed. - Vladimir Lenin
3. The Wretched of The Earth by Franz Fanon
Let us look at ourselves, if we can bear to, and see what is becoming of us. First, we must face that unexpected revelation, the strip-tease of our humanism. There you can see it, quite naked, and it’s not a pretty sight. It was nothing but an ideology of lies, a perfect justification for pillage; its honeyed words, its affectation of sensibility were only alibis for our aggressions. A fine sight they are too, the believers in non-violence, saying that they are neither executioners nor victims. Very well then; if you’re not victims when the government which you’ve voted for, when the army in which your younger brothers are serving without hesitation or remorse have undertaken race murder, you are, without a shadow of doubt, executioners. And if you chose to be victims and to risk being put in prison for a day or two, you are simply choosing to pull your irons out of the fire. But you will not be able to pull them out; they’ll have to stay there till the end. Try to understand this at any rate: if violence began this very evening and if exploitation and oppression had never existed on the earth, perhaps the slogans of non-violence might end the quarrel. But if the whole regime, even your non-violent ideas, are conditioned by a thousand-year-old oppression, your passivity serves only to place you in the ranks of the oppressors. - prefrace by Jean-Paul Sartre
4. Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa I have talked a good deal about Hitler. Because he deserves it: he makes it possible to see things on a large scale and to grasp the fact that capitalist society, at its present stage, is incapable of establishing a concept of the rights of all men, just as it has proved incapable of establishing a system of individual ethics. Whether one likes it or not, at the end of the blind alley that is Europe, I mean the Europe of Adenauer, Schuman, Bidault, and a few others, there is Hitler. At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophicrenunciation, there is Hitler - Aimé Césaire
5. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
probably the most accessible introduction to communism that doesn't demonize countries that have undergone—or attempted to undergo—a transitation into socalism (like the ussr, cuba, etc.)
The very concept of "revolutionary violence" is somewhat falsely cast, since most of the violence comes from those who attempt to prevent reform, not from those struggling for reform. By focusing on the violent rebellions of the downtrodden, we overlook the much greater repressive force and violence utilized by the ruling oligarchs to maintain the status quo, including armed attacks against peaceful demonstrations, mass arrests, torture, destruction of opposition organizations, suppression of dissident publications, death squad assassinations, the extermination of whole villages, and the like. - Michael Parenti
Oncest at it’s finest
Onceler
Greedler
date of origin: 10th of july, 2014.
Oncest at it’s finest
Onceler
Greedler
date of origin: 10th of july, 2014.
before we get carried away with this new unironic love for tumblr maybe we should question why staff never seems to enforce their 'community guidelines' when it comes to terfs/transphobes
wow, i wonder why that happened
ah, well...
at least tag me coward jmj
oh sorry my bad, i just assumed you'd be obsessively checking my blog anyways
before we get carried away with this new unironic love for tumblr maybe we should question why staff never seems to enforce their 'community guidelines' when it comes to terfs/transphobes
wow, i wonder why that happened
ah, well...
before we get carried away with this new unironic love for tumblr maybe we should question why staff never seems to enforce their 'community guidelines' when it comes to terfs/transphobes
i don’t think tumblr actually eats asks i think that was made up by someone who was caught in the crossfire of some petty tumblr drama years ago and we all just ran with it because it’s both plausible and incredibly convenient. for the record if i don’t answer your ask it’s because i didn’t want to. peace peace ✌️
It doesn’t eat asks nowadays. It actually used to be a thing you could test. We know what caused it.
It’s been fixed for a long time, but if your ask contained “…” in it, Tumblr would eat it: You’d get the notification but there would be no new ask in your inbox. We eventually found out it was “…” that caused it through trial and error, and eventually, it was quietly fixed, but for years, spaghetti code in tumblr just didn’t allow you to triple ellipsis others in any capacity. Seasoned RP blogs back in the day would include this tip in their About, even: “Don’t send asks with … in them, Tumblr eats those”.
every day i learn about another way this hellsite used to be even more fucked up than now
if you wanna call yourself anti-imperialist while living in imperial core countries, the bare minimum you can do in almost every circumstance is simply not advocate for the US (or your respective country) to intervene
the bar is so low its literally on the ground and even that's somehow unachievable... if you want to go a step further than just not saying anything though, try advocating against intervention, we know what happens when our states get involved and it's not good for anyone other than our capitalist ruling classes
Pepe Atsume
date of origin: 29th of december, 2015.
Genuinely 2022 has been an amazing year for tumblr memes
I mean we had so many good ones:
And Now
In general something has definitely been in the water this year when we look back at the memes.
When you see a good meme but you have an aesthetic blog
date of origin: 20th of september, 2015.
this is such a great relic of 2015 tumblr specifically… Pepe at peak popularity before the backlash of him being labeled a hate symbol (the “rare pepe” era), the clear delineation between “meme” and “aesthetic” blogs, that moment when vaporwave had moved beyond being an obscure art movement with clear political intent to a vague collection of visual motifs (pastels, grids, plants, neoclassical imagery) and became synonymous with just the word “A E S T H E T I C” (but before being absorbed into mainstream 80s nostalgia, still seen as vaguely countercultural). truly takes me back, what a beautiful thing to see
As a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, Elizabeth Holmes decided to transform diagnostic medicine so she dropped out of college and used her tuition money to start her own company, Theranos. Ten years later, Holmes, pictured here holding a micro-vial, is on the cutting edge of medical technology — her new blood testing method allows hundreds of tests to be run using only a few drops of blood. And, Holmes’ methods are cheaper, faster, more accurate, and less invasive than conventional methods which often require a separate vial of blood for every test. As Holmes told Wired.com earlier this year, “I started this company because I wanted to spend my life changing our health care system. When someone you love gets really sick, most of the time when you find out, it’s too late to be able to do something about it. It’s heartbreaking… We wanted to make actionable health information accessible to people everywhere at the time it matters most. That means two things: being able to detect conditions in time to do something about them and providing access to information that can empower people to improve their lives.”
read more from A Mighty Girl
Reasons you should adore Elizabeth Holmes:
Wow. How have I never heard of her before!?
One guess…
date of origin: october 8, 2014
