Big mood for me these days:

Absolutely

El Diablo Cojuelo masker, Dominican Republic, by Estefanía Moronta

This is applicable to every single struggle the oppressed fight against for freedom.

I have been following the Russian-Ukrainian conflict from the beginning. When Ukrainians began attacking Russian civilians and civilian infrastructure with Western weapons, the Western media and leaders said- "There is nothing wrong in attacking citizens; the citizens must know that their government's forced occupation of Ukraine can lead to such attacks. War can come to their doorsteps, they must revolt against Putin." However, the same hypocritical West has been declaring every attack on Israel by Palestinian resistance groups as a terrorist attack.

if you are purposefully ignorant about the genocide happening to the people in palestine and congo, fuck you. seriously fuck you. we are living through a time where we have all of the information of the world at our fingertips and you still choose to purposely ignorant and support the oppressor, the colonizers.

i’m tired of trying to educate ignorant people and getting called chronically online because i care about the innocent people getting murdered. if you are purposely ignorant, you are just as bad as the people committing the atrocities happening in gaza and congo.

free palestine 🇵🇸

free congo 🇨🇩

Babies are dying in Palestine. Children are being hacked to pieces in Congo. Women are being mass raped in Sudan to the extent that they have to take medicine to prevent pregnancy once the inevitable happens. Gaza is being starved. Children in Congo are used as slave labour. Sudan is going through famine.

People are being butchered, starved, bombed and raped en masse and yet all you see is people from first world countries whining. You see Americans lose their heads over ridiculous issues. You see the British more focused on the affairs of their royal family than the active genocides all over the world. You see Ukrainians receive billions and billions of dollars in military assistance, you see them being supplied with tonnes of weapons and equipment when the situation in Ukraine is a hundred times better than the aforementioned countries.

America is draining its coffers supplying foreign countries with unimaginable amounts of money when their own people are starving and have no access to healthcare. While the people of Maui are still suffering the aftermath of an earthquake with little to no governmental assistance.

The poorest, most vulnerable countries are the only ones truly standing up against this unfathomable evil. Only the oppressed understand the plight of the oppressed. Every struggle helps other struggles. Every single atrocity currently happening is linked to the actions of a handful of colonial and imperialist powers.

Not for the first time, the western world has dismally failed the oppressed. We have no sympathy for anything that happens in the global north because we get no sympathy or assistance from them. We are entitled to feel that rage. We are entitled to feel that apathy. The world has failed those that need to be fought for and when the time inevitably arrives, they will find no love, no sympathy and no assistance from us. Die mad about it.

the end of capitalism is impossible (no, it is nigh)

or at least that is what people think.

people can imagine the end of the world easier than the end of capitalism.

they cannot fathom a society that doesn't need money. where people create things and do jobs not only because they enjoy them, but because their needs are actually being met by the civilization they're in.

i don't think people realize the state of our world. well. maybe they do, but they don't think deeply on how unnecessary and destructive it all is.

we produce things - food, entertainment, even lives - which we immediately discard. i mean this very literally. people do in fact do this with children.

some people lack so much self awareness that they don't really think about what it means to bring a child into this world. somehow they've forgotten how shitty it was for them. somehow they've forgotten how hard it was for their parents. or how our world has gotten progressively worse.

the climate crisis has reached a tipping point. our governments have not as been as useful as they could be. our technology is mostly used for nonsense and not furthering humankind/the planet.

we could be so much more.

ofc i am a disabled trans man of color. i work to make a living. i have not been lucky enough to be born into a wealthy family. or even a family that is particularly loving, if i'm being honest.

but i have been blessed in other ways. just as i have been cursed in other ways. some of them are connected. like my intelligence is a blessing and curse. as is my physical beauty. as is my awareness of these matters. my calling too.. to be involved in the spiritual world and cultivation..

many people before me have seen ways to end capitalism. even now we have those solutions.

i can't imagine advanced aliens live the way we do. that they use their technology to destroy and take. to subvert their own kind.

but maybe in their past they were like that.

i just hope we can get to a future where we're beyond this

Current times in the U.S. are NOT as similar to 1776 as they are to 1932 Germany

I've been saying for a long time that America is currently in its Weimar Republic stage, and if we don't stop the creeping neofascism now, we will go the way of earlier fascist nations. Probably, we will never be as extreme as Nazi Germany, but we might very soon look much like a neofascist contemporary nation like Viktor Orbán's Hungary.

Given this, I was happy to see the comment below made in response to an opinion column in the WaPo by Charles Lane: U.S. institutions are polling about as well as King George III did in 1776

"No, not 1776 at all. Far more like Germany in 1932, when a demented clown and his party of bigots and bullies told millions they’d been stabbed in the back by liberals and socialists, that they could make Germany great again and have anything they wanted, that everything they wanted made sense — if they would only elect a demented, debauched political party and its scheming head to lead the country and join in a hysterical campaign of demonization and vilification of less than 1% of the population. "These same people pretended to be a movement espousing family values, where a woman’s place was solely in the kitchen, raising children and going to church. They held mass rallies where they encouraged their followers to jail their opponents and use violence against people who got in their way. Once in power they outlawed abortion, homosexuality, and jazz, suspended constitutional and legal rights, and claimed only white, blue-eyed people were deserving of life and liberty. "Democracy is so very fragile. Turns out it only takes only a witches brew of fear and demonization to undo in a flash what institutions and constitutions have worked to create and sustain over many generations. When brutish, loud-mouthed bullies promise to make your country great again, this is really what they have in mind." --cbl55 Sylvester the Cat, commenting on a WaPo opinion column: U.S. institutions are polling about as well as King George III did in 1776

Hetalia: World Stars the best moments of the English dub. part 1 episodes 1-6 Because the English dub of Hetalia has no right being so funny.

Other Parts World Twinkle World Stars Part 2 Beautiful World Part 1 Beautiful World Part 2

☃️Brazilian traditional looks☃️

A slice of an introdution

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Art by unknown, if you who it is from, please warn me and I'll give the proper credit

This outfit featured in the drawing is traditional from the North East region, which is the one I'll be rambling about since is the one I know the most

This outfit isn't used for day-to-day and casual ativities, but mostly for special events.

The dress' name is baianinha

Before going into more details, it is important to highlight how the country, and specially the North East part of it were influenced by african culture.

The Africa is a wide and huge continent, full of the most diverse cultures, some of which, due to the diaspora, were bought here.

The Brazilian culture is, fundamentally, a mix of indigen, african and portuguese culture. Our language was a contribuition of the Portugueses, and many of it was also influenced by the Tupi (one of the most spoken indigen languages in the territorry), from which we have many many many words. The enslaved black people bought here also bought their cultures, and that was a big influence for the cuisine, the dances, the kid games and the clothes. We all know what Europe looks like and their culture doesn't differ much so we know what portugueses bought (some influence in the cuisine, the clothes ofc, the dances and stuff).

Dependong of the area of the country you're in, some specifics aspects of the culture may stand out. For some historical reasons (I won't be explaining here becaude it would make this way longer), the european imigrants from Modern Era went mostly to the South, and the black enslaved and no-more-enlaved were concentrated in the North East; the native people (indigenous brazilians) managed to stay in the North, and as so you can see a larger influence of White Culture in South and South East, a larger influence of Black Culture in the North-East, and a larger influence of Indigenous Culture in North.

The baianinha outfit has its roots bonded to afro-origined not only culture, but religions, like the candomblé and ubanda, in which the praticers use similar clothing. In Bahia (North-east), one of the most black influenced states of Brazil, this one is quite of a symbol.

Lechones masker, Dominican Republic, by Charles Fréger

KEEP TALKING ABOUT CONGO!!!! 🇨🇩

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If you have any fun fact about the Dominican Republic please tell us and I'll reblog it!

"The empire is only partially based on nazi germany, it's actually primarily based off the united sta-"

NO!! IT ISN'T!!

George Lucas has been very clear! The empire is very explicitly based off of the nazis thematically, aesthetically, politically and in methodology!

There is only one-ONE!-instance of Lucas comparing the empire to the US, and it's when he compares the fight between the Rebels and the empire to Vietnam against the US, but he wasn't talking about the politics of the two or making some kind a commentary on the US! Lucas was talking about the numerical and technological disparity between Vietnam/the Rebels and the empire/US, he wasn't saying the US is the empire!

The major US analogy in SW is the late Republic of the prequels, with the political corruption and out of control capitalism and the power of corporations over government, but its ultimately still an exaggeration and Lucas makes a point of saying (through the Jedi and Senators like Padme/Bail) that the Republic is still worth saving, it can be good, and it's end is ultimately a tragedy and loss for the galaxy

Honestly this whole stupid "empire is the US" thing is just childish "US bad" mindset, contrarianism, and tankie "the US is uniquely evil and source of evil" nonsense all mixed together and applied to SW in an attempt at coming off as enlightened