"You did a really good job" "I love this" "This made my day" get tf out of here with that meaningless sentimental bullshit. Your words of flattery mean nothing to me. Your job as my follower is to make me FAMOUS. If you aren't reblogging my posts, you might as well keep your mouth shut, because it's clear that you don't really care about making me FAMOUS.

i swear to god i hate twitter people

Growing number of women report being punched on NYC

it's so frustrating to see the ease with which people take israel to be representative of all jewish people somehow. like yesterday I was reading the news and it said something like 'the jewish and the palestinian side of the conflict' as if jewish people are a hivemind and universally support israel. ultimately I think that's a narrative that just benefits israel and if you buy it I'll conclude you respect neither jewish people nor palestinians, you just respect colonial interests

Hot take: I dont want king charles to die from his current sickness.

Cause while it'd be very funny, honestly at this point im more upset and worried about the insane amount of money that'd be spent on his funeral and William V's coronation than any joy I'd feel from seeing another rich royal racist pedo die. That money should be spent on the people rather than celebrating some inbred people who happened to decend from William I.

sometimes I will just suddenly wake up at 6am, randomly feeling mad about brexit

anyway since this apparently needs to be said again, anyone insisting it is immoral to vote in any election, especially not the US Presidential election this year, is getting immediately reported and blocked for election interference on-sight.

get the absolute fuck off my blog if you think "actively campaigning on dictatorship and having me and anyone like me raped and then murdered the moment he's installed" and "not liberal enough but can be pressured into it" are "def the same!!!1!!"

god willing

kinda annoyed by a lot of online discourse of gbbo that I think is at least partially caused by those talking about it not actually watching it

bc when you do watch it you really start noticing the divide between the judges and the contestants, and so much of the criticism that then goes to generalise brits only really applies to the former.

yes, paul and prue are gammony little fucks who declare themselves experts on other countries' food they tried once and call any ingredient that can't be grown in somerset exotic and can't handle spice to save their lives

but here the contestants are, a variety of ages and backgrounds and who bring their own cultures into their cooking whether they're from scotland or the philippines, who try to innovate with flavour and technique no matter how much paul sulks, and who staunchly continue their attempted assassinations of the judges via somewhat spicy food (y'all are doing god's work)

so when (also mostly british!) people's snide online commentary is then used to piece back together this narrative that paints our entire country with paul hollywood's shitty little spray tan, it's kinda fucking insulting.

(also shock horror, mexican cuisine isn't as popular or commonplace here as in the country NEXT TO MEXICO, stop the fucking presses! how dare people not know how to pronounce a word they've never seen from a language the vast majority of us aren't taught! fuck paul hollywood tho lol)

Can't even mention that a store near me is clearly using abusing the TFW program because they refuse to pay little more than minimum wage in a high cost of living area (also you won't get benefits and you'll only be part-time) because the fascists and right-wingers will jump in to say it's about immigration and white replacement.

No, it's because rich white people want to hoard even more money and found an intentional loophole to both make more money (via paying employees less) and also have more power over employees, employees who may or may not know Canadian employment laws (or safety laws) and even if they do, don't have the ability or support to try to hold the company accountable.

You can absolutely criticize the federal government for keeping the loophole open but it predates Trudeau by decades and it was Harper who both expanded the program and added a way for companies to fast-track TFWs. It was also under Harper that companies started firing Canadians (or not hiring them) and then requesting permission to mass-hire TFWs instead.

But the way the right wing talks, you would think Trudeau started this whole thing and the poor multi-million and multi-billion dollar companies are being taken advantage of. Also that housing prices, lack of new developments, and zoning issues started with Trudeau and are the fault of mass-immigration he has a boner for instead of being an issue for decades and experts warning this would happen if governments didn't act ASAP.

Instead the neolibs and cons kept cutting back and kicking that can down the road, a can that started being kicked by Mulroney and the Conservative Party.

i forgot one of the things i hate most about the arcana is how openly hostile every single fucking character is to julian. it's so stupid. every other love interest besides julian and lucio are besties or at least like each other, but julian is despised by the others and the narrative itself past the point that it even makes sense.

sure at first they can hate him, that's fine, they think he's a murderer, but even past that it's STILL constantly "oohhh julian's stupid julian's childish julian's work and interests and passions and sexual preferences are all so funny and silly and worthy of ridicule by everyone despite his discomfort and without his consent but also we're going to frame it as 'good-natured ribbing' narratively even though it's objectively just bullying" biting and clawing and maiming and killing. i hate these writers so fucking much.

EVERY OTHER CHARACTER is allowed to be portrayed as competent at their job and hobbies, even lucio to an extent. but not julian!!! julian sux lol!!!!! julian a Medical Doctor puts more trust in science than magic? omg BIGOT! julian who does not like, trust, or have any interest in magic, and has never studied it, can't tell when something is ""obviously"" magic to experienced magicians and assumes its effect to be medicinal? wow he's so STUPID OMG... julian uses strange methods in his practice like leeches? a common old-fashioned treatment in a old-fashioned setting [nevermind that it's a FANTASY setting and leeches may very well be effective in broader applications than irl (and yes there are modern irl instances of medicinal leeches why does everybody act like leeches are so wild and crazy medicine-wise?) in this universe? like they might literally just work? we don't know?] he must be a total hack lol i bet he gives patients cocaine too!! he was a pirate? bet he was bad at it! he's an actor? bet he's bad at it!

not to mention how WEIRD they are about his identity. like for a game that supposedly takes place in a world with no identity-based bigotry julian suuuuure faces a lot of what looks a lot like homophobia and bottom-shaming. don't worry you don't have to be threatened by him he's not a REAL man... no no he's cis we just mean he's submissive. but that's something everyone's allowed to tease him about, also, even though that's obviously inappropriate and mean as fuck. just. GOD. i fucking hate these devs. it's so fucking gross and stupid and weird. it doesn't even make sense, it just makes the other characters seem like assholes for how they're treating him, and especially when they write portia to bully him it doesn't even sound like her. i'm in hell. i'm in hell.

sorry for anyone following me/friends seeing the past few reblogs a violent attack took place in my country last night so I'm just processing everything 😭😭

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the Ireland I'VE known for over/lived in 7 years is nothing like this. as someone who had to move to Ireland for a better life THIS IS JUST BEYOND INSANE

People from the global north who's looking into moving to Latinamerica to work remotely, please

PLEASE

PLEASE

Don't

Seriously

I don't care how expensive your way of life has become in your country, solve that with your people and your governments

Why are you dragging us into it? Why messing with our economy and way of life like that? What's to us anyway?

WHY DO WE HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE TO YOU AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND WHEN YOU'RE THE ONES MOVING INTO OUR HOUSE

YOU LOVE TO SHIT ON FOREIGNERS WHO DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH

WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE TO SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE

IN

OUR

HOUSE

Fuck off, seriously, you're nothing but parasites here, making life harder than it already is

GO HOME

i'm realizing through this book i'm reading (same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the pacific northwest) that like... yknow the conflation between homosexuality and pedophilia. well i've realized why that is, and that it's more than just all "sexual perversions" getting lumped together by homophobes. but also insanely enough more mundane

it's literally that for many decades, the only concept most people were able to have of gay men were through the lens of it being a crime. aka arrest records and the newspapers telling you who got put in jail last night. obviously gay men who were only having consensual sex with other gay adult men did get caught sometimes, but you could only catch them if they were doing it in public, if you were sneaking around in their private home, or if someone involved ratted them out. and if you ratted someone out, whatever motivation you might have, you were also ratting yourself out, so why would you do that? but if you were underage, especially if it was non-consensual, you wouldn't be in trouble at all. so of course the majority of the "immoral acts" charges are going to be between an adult and a minor.

not only that but apparently "youth" in referring to a young person used to literally mean anyone under the age of 21. and the vast majority of charges that read "engaged in immoral acts with a youth" it's referring to like a 17 y/o or even 18 or 19. so then ppl in later decades read that and misinterpreted it too.

and that's literally it lol..... it feels obvious in hindsight but i never would have thought about it. crazy what bias confirmation does.

on the topic of teenaged incels, I think that a big failing of the left in recent years is to make almost no effort to appeal to working class people with "bad politics" and instead write them off as morally lacking/inherently ignorant instead of the potential allies that they actually are. This isn't to excuse incels/right wingers/whatever but it's an undeniable problem that young boys, literal children, are increasingly turning to the right and becoming radicalised within incel spaces online. simply writing them off and not giving an ounce of thought or empathy to their humanity and the reasons why fascism might be so appealing to them is not the solution. a big reason why a young boy might become an incel is, imo:

they are poor, depressed, anxious, socially outcast. these are things that happen to almost everyone under capitalism to some extent. however, they're then, thanks to identity politics, told by liberals that they shouldn't complain, because they're "cis white het men" or whatever, when actually objectively they ARE having a hard time. because society sucks and everyone's having a hard time. and they take this to mean that cis white het men are now being oppressed rather than correctly identifying the issue as being based in class, as being a natural product of capitalism.

these are boys who have grown up in a patriarchal society that basically teaches them they've a right to, essentially, ownership of a woman. when this obviously is "denied" to them they also take it as a sign that they're oppressed. imo porn is a contributing factor in this, as they've grown up with unlimited access to women's bodies which also gives them a sense of entitlement.

I am not saying "poor incels wahh," nor that others might not have it worse. it's terrifying seeing what boys are saying on the internet and irl. I am saying that ultimately recognising the humanity of these people (and this also goes for trump supporters etc too) rather than just seeing them as morally impure irredeemable villains would be more productive. Anyway this Mark Fisher quote:

Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common disorders. Indeed, it is their very commonness which is the issue: in Britain, depression is now the condition that is most treated by the NHS. In his book The Selfish Capitalist, Oliver James has convincingly posited a correlation between rising rates of mental distress and the neoliberal mode of capitalism practiced in countries like Britain, the USA and Australia. In line with James’s claims, I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?

[image] Obliviously homeless man sitting on concrete, with a thin quilt and a cup of coffee. Text was changed to, "Share if you think homeless veterans should come before tax breaks for the Rich.

There, I fixed it for them.

Original read, "Share if you think homeless veterans should come before immigrants."

Which is, to my eyes, victim blaming. Many immigrants are not moving voluntarily.