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What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day
Ok I found it it's called "the lesson of the moth by archy" and it's by Don Marquis
I think Americans in general should maybe start taking xenophobia more seriously. Because with the. Everything going on in the world right now. It's gotten really really bad. And while lefties might not be reactionary to the same extent as republicans it's still very much prevalent. I went to dinner with my family recently and the stuff they said about my cousin's family who emigrated from Russia made me feel like I was losing my mind. He's 2 years old. How are you going to discriminate against a baby with a clear conscience. Then you read the news and it's like "China is spying on you with TikTok and weather balloons" and you hear people on all angles of the political compass repeat it. Are you hearing yourself right now. Are you for real
This, but the entire Western world. You are not immune because you're from Australia or Canada or France or wherever the fuck, this is not an American problem this is a problem of the Western world in general you do not get a pass just because you're not American.
you call these ppl out for their xenophobia but the thing is these days, if you’re not using blatant racial slurs against russians or chinese ppl or physically assaulting them, it’s not considered xenophobia by a lot of ppl. Russophobia and sinophobia have become so normalized and ingrained in the western perspective just in the last decade that saying shit like “china steals” or “russian meddling” is like saying trees are green. Like what do you mean, i’m just stating a fact about their society/government/culture/etc, that’s how they are, how is that xenophobia, are you a russia/china bootlicker, etc etc etc
“rap is the worst music genre” “no actually it’s soul” “no actually it’s jazz” “no actually it’s ska” “no actually it’s r&b” hey guys do you notice a common denominator in the genres you hate or is it just me
genres people have said are the worst in response to this (including the deleted comment section)
funk, house, reggae, disco, gospel, bluesgrass, dubstep, country.
introspection done: zero
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Cuba is genuinely such an inspiring and beautiful country. It's not just that its people passed a referendum to legalize gay marriage and adoption, but that it came after a year of consultation and modifications by Cuban citizens and activists which made it go way beyond just gay marriage to being one of the most progressive family laws in the world, and was itself enabled by Cuba's 2019 constitutional referendum which was also voted on by its citizens. Cuba is in lockstep with its people and that is why its revolution persists even after 60+ years of sanctions, invasions, and destabilizations by the US empire.
"You can put a man on the Moon but you'll never put an imperialist in Havana." - Fidel Castro
Happy 70th 26 de Julio, imperialism and its running dog the United States will never win against the people of Cuba
This probably sounds obvious, but I learned today that prisoners aren't protected by OSHA regulations, and that this is another reason why employers are so eager to utilize this modern slavery. It's only a couple cents an hour, less transportation costs than the overseas sweatshops, and if you want people to work with hazardous materials without proper training? That's fine too! Prison labor is the ultimate free market solution!
If you want to really change the world, prisoner rights and prison reform is the way to go. Removing the ability of the ruling class to effectively punish the population frees everyone to challenge them in meaningful ways. Arbitrary violence and incarceration is how they keep people scared and divided. There is no crime in our society that isn't generated by our society. Even the worst ones you can think of.
Prisoner rights are human rights. Prison abolition is mass freedom.
My body does not have to be perfect to be loved by Allah (SWT)
– “Perfection” by Salamatullah Eldritch
I made a post a while back mainly talking about shitty takes from muslims on Tiktok, and ended up talking about my view of self-love, as someone who was born disabled and who has struggled with body image throughout my life. I decided a while back that I wanted to turn part of what I said into a poem and illustrate it, which was a bit ambitious, but I stuck to it. And here’s the final product. I’m pretty proud of it.
The verses in the background are the first 4 verses from Surah at-Tin, because it’s probably the verse I think about most when thinking about the idea of being made perfect.
[ID: A four panel comic. Panel 1: A niqabi wheelchair user at sunset. Text reads: My body isn’t Perfect. But it doesn’t have to be Perfect to be Holy.
Panel 2: A person sits in a dark room in front of a cracked mirror with a golden image reflected in it. Text: I do not have to love My Body for it to be Sacred.
Panel 3: A hand cupping an arm with golden scars at the wrist. Text: My flesh does not have to be unmarred to be Blessed.
Panel 4: Light shining through a widow into a temple, illuminating cracked stones. Text: A Cracked temple stone is still Hallowed Ground.
Each image has a watermark reading Salamatullah and each image contains a verse from Surah at-Tin in Arabic in small transparent font in the background. /end ID]
[ID addendum: The four verses are:
وَٱلتِّينِ وَٱلزَّيْتُونِ . وَطُورِ سِينِينَ . وَهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ ٱلْأَمِينِ . لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِىٓ أَحْسَنِ تَقْوِيمٍ
Translation: By the fig and the olive. And [by] Mount Sinai. And [by] this secure city, We have certainly created man in the best of stature. End addendum.]
you're telling me this radish is getting its dyke on?
Please don't ask me for relationship advice unless you are prepared to receive some truly upsetting information because some people are ready for the "He's exhibiting the literal textbook signs of a psychological abuser and you need to get away from him before he successfully cuts you off from your support network" talk and some people aren't
FOR WHOEVER NEEDS A REMINDER:
This applies to ALL relationships btw
leftists on twitter are so mad at this guy for pointing out something that is fundamental to economic organization under modern imperialism lol. imperialist powers take over other nations economies, transform them to be primarily focused on key commodities for export and destroy the rest of their markets for other goods so they depend on selling these specific few commodities to the rest of the world. do you think that under a socialist government people in these countries would want to continue economies based on export of one thing or reorganize their economy to be more self sufficient and actually serve the people directly involved in it. everyone loves to point out stuff like the CIA’s involvement in the coup in guatemala but lose their shit if you point out the implications in their daily american life
ocd is not fucking destigmatized
"intrusive thought" gets thrown around by assholes talking about putting strainers on their heads or stepping on a leaf who in the next sentence will say "if your thoughts are about actually hurting people they should put you in a psych ward". compulsions and rituals get seen as proof you're "crazy". ocd insight CAN be delusional, even. pocd and sexual ocd is especially demonized, though even something as "harmless" (to others. not *us*) as contamination OCD is still mocked, belittled, and seen as a sign something is fundamentally wrong with you. I have seen people twice my age advocate for violence against anyone who thinks the way I've been forced by my mental illness to think since i was 6, maybe 7 years old.
OCD is not destigmatized.
i'm trying so hard not to hate myself. i make endless mistakes and try not to yell at myself about it. instead, i listen to my favorite playlist. i make myself a warm pot of soup. when i hesitate between bites, i remind myself that my body is good simply because it is my body. and that i am good simply because i am me. i do not have to make myself smaller. i do not have to give and give and give, even after there is nothing left. i make a mistake and i try to forgive myself. ignore the swelling of guilt in the pit of my stomach. perhaps shame will always be a voice in the back of my head. but it does not have to be the only voice. there can be one that's kind to me. even when i think i do not deserve it. especially when i think i do not deserve it.
literally fuck companies that don't want their employees to act "unprofessional" in front of customers. I'm at a five guys rn and the employees here are joking around calling orders back and forth to each other and saying things in weird voices and laughing with each other while they work. Someone just came in for their shift while I was waiting for my food and was greeted by the whole kitchen with a secret handshake lookin thing. It was so silly and cute I love seeing ppl have fun at work and I know my food's gonna be bomb bc the ppl there are having fun with each other. Let employees be people and friends and have fun what is the issue!!!!
Hate to be the guy who takes this post very seriously but the reason bosses don’t like this and don’t encourage it is because what follows is talking about wages and treatment at work and then unionizing lol
This
What some people in this community fail to understand is that Femme is a ROLE. It is not an aesthetic description. It is also not merely being someone who is sexually attracted to butches. You NEED to read the literature and to talk to other femmes to understand what's being asked and expected of you. If you're calling yourself a femme but you're going around actively making butches feel less safe and objectified, then you have completely failed. You either need to drop the label or completely reassess and change your behavior from the ground up.
I still think it's insane that the known fact that the CIA used NATO to give paramilitary training to neo-Nazi terrorist groups all over Europe gets enough attention in the Broad Debate TM
It was known as Operation Gladio and (Officially) ran between 1956 and 1990, during the course of which nearly every European country had a neo-Nazi terrorist group armed and trained by the CIA, NATO and often their own intelligence agency. They started with the notion of being stay-behind in case of Communist invasion or victory in the elections, but then shifted their strategy to trying to crush the broad Left (socialists, communists of all stripes and Anarchists) by both directly attacking us and by carrying out terrorist violence and having their friends in the police blame it on us. In Italy, where we know the most about the operations of Gladio, they carried out dozens of terrorist attacks, killing and maiming hundreds and leading up to the Years of Lead as the Left responded to the violence by defending itself. But Italy was not their only area of operations - there was a branch in most European countries, and there has not been sufficient research to establish exactly what these groups did. In Sweden, where I'm from, the local branch is suspected of being Legion Wasa, but we simply don't know because there has never been an inquiry of any kind, for example. But this might very well be the link explaining how Nazis got a hold of a bunch of millitary hardware that they used to launch a spate of robberies and murders, as well as tossing handgranades at offices and members of my union, the syndicalist SAC.
Again, we'll never know if NATO was the reason my political beginnings was carried out in an atmosphere of fear and defensiveness, but the fact that it might have been is in itself remarkable. Whatever the truth of that, we do know for a fact that they've injured and murdered hundreds, and from the only country where this was ever properly researched.
Heya folks I’m glad to be making fewer of these kinds of posts but unfortunately Eli and I got injured a few nights ago and his meds were 19 dollars which isn’t too bad but we live paycheck to paycheck and now we’re short 20 bucks. And the injuries require us to change our bandages at least twice a day with medication application. We’re out of bandaids. We could use 30-40 dollars for bandaids, to cover meds, and gas. Please reblog and donate if you can Ty 🧡
Also I do sell adult content. Pictures are 5 bucks! Videos (30-60 seconds) are 15!
20/40 please keep reblogging if you can 🧡
*explaining kitchen appliances to my pet medieval knights* The microwave, or Micheal the Wavious, and metal fork, or Sir Silver Prong, are sworn enemies and can never cross paths lest their meeting spell destruction for all.
