Voting matters. #VoteBlue
Joe Biden is so oblivious to culture war bullshit it makes him an ideal counter to DeSantis.
DeSantis: "We have to deathpill woke moralists"
Joe Biden: What? .... Anyway, back in Scranton we would make our own concrete out of tiny sea shells.
I ask again, what is the purpose of school resource officers other than to instill discomfort in the student body? Other than to brutalize and single out select “problem” students at random, often marginalized ones? There was not one single time during my academic career when I was glad there was a school resource officer in the school. It was a teacher who disarmed a student at my school. Every time there was a violent brawl, it was a teacher who inserted themselves in the middle to stop it. It is teachers who put themselves in front of gunmen to protect their students while the coward cop sticks his thumb in his ass in the parking lot.
“I got my life back.” Now you can spend the last 10-20 years sitting on your ass, receiving a pension. Those 14 children you failed to protect will never know the privilege of getting old. They’ll never get their lives back.
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Fran drescher opposes vaccine mandates just fyi
y'know, this is a great way for newer activists to start learning how real coalition building works and how demanding purity is the poison that kills movements in the cradle.
Good morning to the trans man loudly slamming his girlfriend in the bunk above convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, and ONLY the trans man loudly slamming his girlfriend in the bunk above convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell
i genuinely dont care if the creation of all media comes to a screeching halt btw i will very gladly live with no new movies no new tv shows no new anything for years if that's what it takes for the people who create them to be treated like human beings. i hope every other facet of the entertainment industry goes on strike too and i hope all the ones that havent unionised yet will. i want media creation to become completely impossible and i want the people who could make it possible again to hold out until they get every single thing they want. btw
I want to thank the Barbie movie, because not only it's going to be a masterpiece that will change my life, but it also made me realise that Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds are in fact two different actors
we'd all watch Deadpool vs Ken let's not even act like we wouldn't
Ok yes, but ken would be be sooo nice to Deadpool that Deadpool would not kill him and we would just start shipping kenpool. Or DeadKen, idk. But we would start drawing pictures of them kissing on the mouth.
I wonder how rich christians keep themselves convinced that they're not, like, the super villains of real life
"it's god's will that I make everything as shitty and lame as possible for everyone everywhere" ???
wasn't the whole premise of christianity supposed to be that if you do shitty things that you very much are judged
So there was a dude named Calvin who decided that whether you go to heaven or not was decided at the start of time, based on your actions in life, and modern Christians in sects that follow that idea (all the major American ones) decided that meant the things Good Christians do are always good and deserving of heaven
when good people do bad things, its actually good, because theyre good people who are definitely going to heaven, which means they cant do bad things.
when bad people do good things, its actually bad, because theyre bad people who are going to hell, which means they cant do good things.
also, if you werent a good person, you wouldnt be rich, you would be poor. the simple fact that you are rich is proof that god loves you more than all the dirty poors, which means youre a good person and none of the things you do are ever bad.
any attempts to make life better for other people are actually bad because if they were righteous their lives would already be good, and the only reason their lives are bad is because they are bad people. if you do good things for those people, who are bad, then youre actually doing bad things, because youre encouraging them to keep being bad. if they want to be good and have a good life like you, they just need to start being good and get a job and make lots of money, and then theyll be a good person.
american christianity is not built on any actual, reasonable interpretation of their religious text, nor is it founded on any sort of consistent or legible moral code. it is founded on the idea that good people are born good and bad people are born bad and good things only happen to good people and bad things only happen to bad people, and any mental gymnastics necessary to make that philosophy work are justified because the alternative would mean actually doing some introspection and changing ones behavior, which is actually the devil talking to you and telling you to stop being good.
the point of it all is not to encourage evil people to be good. its to convince evil people theyre already good and thus deserve all the nice things they have, and to convince good people theyre already bad and thus deserve all the bad things that happen to them.
This is also why American conservatives apply their morals in a completely detached way to their leadership. It does not matter that trump broke and continues to break every concept of sexual morality that they hold, because he is on the Right Side, and is thus a Good Man, and any appearance of evil is by definition fleeting and unimportant. By definition, nothing Trump can do is evil to them.
On the other hand, no matter how good someone on the left may seem, they are categorically evil so what good they do must be a trick designed to make you trust them, or secretly evil somehow (giving the starving food makes them lazy!! Is that what Jesus would want!?)
Now where you might think this breaks down is when a conservative is poor and thus by just world theory deserves it. But how they actually think is that they are poor because of all the evil leftists doing the will of Satan and ruining everything. Because in their religion god can be overpowered by satanic forces of [insert here things their leaders tell them to hate, like gay people]. Think of how many articles conservatives run about gays people killing god and such. And that is why bad things happen to good people.
It is a world view completely detached from reality and the supposed texts of their religion that runs on hate and resentment of the other as a source of religious fervor. People are racist and homophobic or otherwise hateful so hard they have a religious experience about it, and that is where much of american christianity is at.
here's my hot take about my generation and people younger than me (I'm 22 years old)
The reason current teenagers and people in their really early 20s are conservative on accident and have such shitty takes on the internet is because our generation was much more sheltered than previous generations and because we were raised to be ok with orwellian servailence and that is 100% the fault of our parents, Reagan Era kidnapping panics, and the rise of technology all coming together to prevent us from doing the sketchy shit that sends parents into panic mode but which is also completely fundemental to childhood development. If your parents had even a crumb of money to their name and even a shred of free time they started tracking your phone as soon as it was possible to. I did not experience this because my parents are actively trying to live like it's the 1990s and still have not gotten cell phones of their own, and did not let me have one until I was 18 years old and it was no longer their choice, but literally over half of my friends in middle and high school had their phones tracked by their parents at some point or other, and we would occasionally find this out, not because their parents told them, but when we were trying to do the aforementioned sketchy shit and their parent's car would pull up. And I would, like a reasonable person after finding this out, encourage my friends to just leave their phones at home, and their response would be "What if I get kidnapped" or "My parents are just trying to keep me safe"
This in my estimation has lead to a combination of kids being terminally online because they do have internet access and are better at deleting search history than their parents think they are, but don't have the freedom to go out and do shit without their parents' knowledge or consent, so they have the most privacy from the people who control their lives while they're on the internet, and kids not having the real world experiences they should have, not knowing how to connect with other people irl, not feeling comfortable leaving the house because of the horror story lies their parents told them to make them ok with the surveillance they were inflicting on their kids. Kids these days are growing up in the fucking panopticon when they should be out in the woods playing with knives or stealing cigarettes from their older sibling and going out to an empty parking lot to smoke them or whatever and that shit is sticking with them into adulthood. Things that were "tee hee we could get in trouble isn't this so fun and daring" in the 1990s and 2000s have become in the 2010s and 2020s things that are "If I do that without texting my parents some sort of lie to excuse where my location is my parent's car will pull up and I will get grounded for the next two weeks."
Like even when I was 19 I had a 16 year old friend who would volunteer their time at a food shelf and that's how we knew each other. We would talk about dungeons and dragons together, and the game store was 4 blocks from the food shelf. One day we left the food shelf earlier than they had told their parents they would and they got punished for that. We were literally just going to look at dungeons and dragons miniatures and dice, which was self evident if you could see where we started and how far we walked and where too. I have to assume that this isn't uncommon. It's wrong, but it's not uncommon.
Ok it has become apparent to me that people do not understand what I mean by conservative on accident.
Nobody my age is voting republican. Let's be clear on that. With the exception of a small minority of gamer gaters and people who were raised in actual cults most people my age are either commies or good liberals who votes straight blue down the ticket. This is because of the greta thunberg effect. We're all afraid of dying of thirst because there's no water anymore at the age of 35. Wealthy white children are no longer safe with the republican party which has become less of a political party and more of a death cult, and white children are less wealthy than they used to be (I specify white because POC by in large never voted for the party of the southern strategy for obvious reasons). We as a generation are so insanely blue that they're trying to raise the voting age to 25 about it.
This liberalism and party affiliation doesn't preclude them from being conservative on accident. What I mean by that is... Well
No kink at pride is a great example. The assumption that pride should exist at all makes them think that they're immune to conservative logic but they're still trying to enforce a dominant ideology onto a minority group. That person who made the tweet about how you shouldn't have sex in houses where there are children in the other room and if you can't avoid it you're a sex addict. That's a great example of like straight up puritanism coming out of the mouth of someone who proports themselves to be a leftist
If you ever see a discourse that feels like an obvious psyop as an adult and you can't understand why these supposed leftist youths are falling for it it's because that kid has never had sex in the woods and had to try to buy plan b under their parent's nose. My generation is dumb about sex. We're dumb about drugs. We're dumb about theft. We moralize literally everything. We're so dumb about stranger danger that we never learned how to community organize so while the vast vast majority of us are crushed by existential dread about debt and climate change but we never do anything about it because we just don't know how to organize because we're raised to see everyone else as a threat and we never went to or organized parties as teens because our parents would always know and stop us.
They managed to invent a generation that hates capitalism but fully buys into individualism and who is supportive of queer people and way less monogamous than previous generations but who still buys into the base assumptions of the nuclear family and thinks sex is evil. The levels of politics going on here are way weirder and stupider and more complicated than "young people vote republican and watch Fox news"
I've never seen anybody explain it so well
It is morally correct to be horny on main.
If we really want to fight against this puritanical culture that seems to be hell-bent on running sex workers off the internet and banning pornography wherever they can find it, you have a moral duty to post hole on main. Doesn't have to be your own hole but you got to post it.
New copypasta just dropped
Same guy
Reblog hole to destroy bloodlines and oppress Christians
Zuckerberg is in such better shape than Musk, and is trained in combat sports. This will be humiliating if Elon shows up
I think the rich should engage in bloodsport for the entertainment of the masses more often. Let's get Kissinger and Cheney into a ladder match.
“What News Story Are They Burying?”
Reminder that if a billionaire CEO does something outrageous in the news, this should always be your first question.
Today that news story is that Meta, Zuckerberg’s company, is blocking all news content in Canada for Facebook and Instagram due to a new law requiring compensation to news publishers. Facebook is using its vast resources to apply public pressure to stop the laws of a foreign government and protect its profit margins. And they are getting sued by Malaysia.
Police supporters regularly admit that the police are the bad guys. They just don't care.
Since the SCOTUS just declared it legal I say we make March 3rd DON'T SERVE STRAIGHTS Day. If they want to make discrimination legal then let's make them eat their words.
"Most didn’t want it to be known that they were gay, but a few did indeed call in sick, claiming that they were unable to work because they were homosexual. Indeed, one woman from Smaland even managed to get sick benefits from Social Security on this basis."
Malicious compliance works.
In fact I think we should bump this up to perhaps three times a year. March 3rd, Black Friday, and Christmas.
