me a few years ago: its so weird how right wingers always wanna blame the "elite" given that alot of them are in the global 1% of wealth and therefore almost by definition the same "elite" they claim to hate. weird right? lol right wing logic makes no sense

me now: oh my god they mean Jewish people. its always been Jewish people. and the insistence of online leftists to use words like "elite" and "cabal" (to refer to a handful of ultra rich people who dictate a lot of how our lives are run) kinda makes them sound like antisemites too. maybe this whole idea that the world is run by a select few is a gross oversimplification which only serves to reinforce antisemitic stereotypes... oh no. maybe i have a lot of shit to unlearn. maybe i need to start vocally defending Jewish ppl. also local community building is the only way out of this

Elite to leftwingers: the rich billionaire fucks constantly screwing over the lower classes

Elite to rightwingers: Jewish people because of propaganda and a medieval custom.

No, you missed the point of this post.

Elite is an antisemitic dogwhistle no matter who's using it and just saying "but we mean billionaires!!1!1" doesn't absolve you of that. The notes on this post are chock full of Jews saying they don't trust ANYONE (regardless of political affiliation) who uses Elite in this way. Antisemitism is alive and well on the left.

Even if we know exactly what we mean, we have a responsibility to explain it in a way that doesn’t include rhetoric that can/will be abused by fascists to twist our words into their ideology. When you describe the 1% as the elite, you are giving fascists the ability to more easily recruit from the same pool of people you are trying to reach. You are giving fascists the ability to hide themselves in your spaces. You give them the ability to market their own genocidal ideology as leftwing. And you leave the door open for their ideas to actually affect the way you see the world. This is commonly seen with a lot of leftists adopting a some very conspiratorial ideas based on a lack of understanding of how systemic capitalism really is vs the assumption that it’s being run and constructed by the 1%. The 1% aren’t some shady string pullers. They’re just manifestations of the system they exist in. Ascribing to them the agency within the system that the word “elite” commonly implies has, does and will inevitably hold the doors open for antisemitism.

Daaaaaaamn and then the way they refer to themselves as 'elite' to get that dogwhistle started in the first place...

For fucks sake I hate them so much right wing go to fucking therapy challenge 🤮

seeing people be like ‘I know it’s going to be hard to support the sag strike because movies and shows will stop coming out but-’ is so fucking funny like can I introduce you to a beautiful concept called the million billion movies and shows that already exist that you couldn’t even get through in a lifetime if you wanted. welcome to heaven <3

your favourite actors, directors, writers, musical score writers, cinematographers, editors etc all have back catalogues! Go check out their other works! Read interviews and find out what their favourite films are and go watch them! Rewatch that 4 season show your really enjoyed years ago and see how different characters and scenarios affect you now compared to then!

your favorite youtubers and content creators are about to be offered some tantalizing tv/streaming deals so we're all about to find out who the real working class allys are

someone's gonna get cancelled doing this and they're gonna cry crocodile tears over how difficult it is to make a living as a content creator and i'm telling you right now we are NOT going to buy it, got it? scabs deserve no sympathy

It is hard making a living being a quote unquote "content creator" still not an excuse to be a scab

This.

Trying to make a living from YouTube is like constantly running along the edge of a knife in clogs, it is incredibly stressful, it is mentally destructive and you do a truly obscene amount of work for genuinely very little compensation relative to the hours put in.

A big one-time payout from a streaming deal from some desperate studio jackoff could be life-changing, but it does not come for fucking free. The money they are offering you is money they have ripped directly from the hands and mouths of other creatives.

If you saw someone rip food out of someone else's hands and then offer it to you, you wouldn't fucking take it, would you? If you have a shred of decency you'll tell the guy to give the fucking food back and go get fucked. And if you were the one getting food ripped out of your hands, you'd reasonably expect the people around you to have that same solidarity with you and not accept it.

The industry will try to abstract this as much as possible - they're doing it in the press right now, "oh it's just a bunch of rich, selfish Hollywood elites making a play for more money!" is EXPLICITLY an attempt to get you to see the union members as something other than your fellow workers - and they'll try to pull shit like "oh the strike has nothing to do with you, you're not a member of the union and you won't see the benefits so why should you sacrifice this opportunity for them" and so on.

They're trying to make the issue more distant and abstract, to alienate you from your fellow human beings. And in response we must make it closer and more concrete.

The money they offer to a scab is taken from the hands of a union member. They are offering you a union member's student loan payments, their rent, their food budget, their kids' college funds.

Do not take it. It is not and can never be worth it.

I didn’t miss that social cue I just thought it was stupid 

‘i saw your social cue but am ignoring it in the hopes you learn to use your words and communicate like an adult. hope this helps’

If you see this post, back up your writing

something that rly creeps me out…..occasionally ill see videos or articles for christians or christian missionaries that say something like “what you need to do is make friends with non christians and really get them to trust you and THEN you start preaching to them and bringing them to jesus” and that is….man how much would it hurt to know that the only reason someone’s hanging out with you is to convert you to a religion you were never interested in. maybe this is a real friend, someone you really really feel like you connect to, and all of a sudden you cant hang out with them without being scared they’ll bring out the jesus stuff.

charlie youre blowing my third eye WIDE open

hahahaha like a year ago I tweeted “Christianity’s attitude toward Jews resembles nothing so much as the attitude of a man toward a woman who won’t fuck him” and people got SO MAD at me

“You may not be hurting me intentionally, but even then I have a right to walk out of this relationship” has revolutionized my concept on human connection for real. Like someone doesn’t have to be an awful person for me to walk out of something that’s making me uncomfortable?? I can still decide enough is enough in spite of a person’s best intentions??? Mind blown

Outright rejecting perversion and eroticism is a surefire way to give perversion and eroticism a stranglehold on your life.

"I'm not like those freaks" you've already lost. It does not matter what you are, you're a freak to someone. Own it or it owns you.