#fuck ir regime
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This friday was the IR parliament (and AoE) election in Iran. The participation was quite low, as was expected. The candidate with the highest number of votes in Tehran, a city with about 18 million citizens, had slightly over 100k votes. According to the regime, only 24% of Tehran eligible citizens voted.
Every candidate for the parliament election has to be evaluated by the regime for qualification. The criteria is for the candidate to think aligned with the IR values. Which basically means that all of those candidates are more or less the same. A lot of us are done voting for IR. Why would you vote when you don't have a representative. When you're not allowed to have representatives. I'll vote when it's not a theocratic regime anymore. When at least some of the candidates stand for equality, freedom, and justice. Not Islamic republic values, which are basically oppression, misogyny, hate, and terrorism.
Ps, here some people have to participate in elections in order to not get in trouble at their workplace. Most of these people put null in their vote because they don't want to vote for any of the candidates. Therefore, there's a noticeable difference between participation and legit votes. The number of participants would be even lower if we didn't have an authoritarian regime.
Ps2, other than the parliament, we have an Assembly of Experts who have the power to disqualify the Supreme leader. But the candidates must first be evaluated by the Guardian Council, which consists of 12 people. Six of them are assigned by the Supreme leader directly, and the other six are voted by the PMs. So again, everyone is basically the same person qualified by the Supreme leader.
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#still not over the insane george orwell post that got reblogged onto my dash yesterday#i unfollowed the person who reblogged it#because either A) theyre a tankie or B) their criticial thinking skills are sub-fucking-zero#like 1) the OP of that post was just copying Hakims awful video on Orwell#2) to read animal farm and come out of it with the interpretation that Orwell was saying that the animals and hence the proletariat in the#USSR were just innately unintelligent shows a reading comprehension so bad its not even like piss poor. its piss impoverished#3) if a post is like ''also look X said Y Bad Thing'' without providing any of the context as to where that quote comes from theyre likely#being deliberately mishonest. it is easy to take someone out if context to make it look like they were saying something they werent which is#exactly what the OP of that post was doing. they took one sentence of Orwells writing on the nazis and Hitler to make it look like Orwell#thought Hitler was a swell guy when actually Orwells writing was about the dangers of charismatic tyrants like Hitler and their rhetoric#the entire thing was about how Hitler was able to amass such power and popularity and use that to his advantage#not every despot is so easy to pick out as dangerous or so easy to detest. hitler was hardly the first charismatic tyrant in history#OP also conveniently left out the fact that like the next sentence is orwell being like yeah no i would fucking kill this man which wow#thats a glaring omission. imagine if people decided to look up what OP was refetencing to verify irs veracity#4) OP does not mention that Orwell fought in La Guerra Civil alongside communists and socialists and anarchists etc.#he fought against the nationalists. he took a bullet to the neck during the fight. he was very much against francisco franco and his fascist#regime who were allied with Hitler and the Nazis#mentioning orwells participation in the spanish civil war really undercuts any of those arguments#5) you know who was actually allied with Hitler and Nazi Germany? STALIN#at the beginning of WWII the soviet union and nazi germany were in alliance. stalin and hitler did not have fundamental ideological#differences. if hitler had not betrayed stalin the soviet union would not have joined the allied powers#your uwu anti-fascist communist idol joseph fucking stalin was joseph fucking stalin. he was a fascist dictator whose actions deliberately#caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. he like vladimir lenin before him did not care for the ideals of marx#marxism leninism is a meaningless political ideology#the soviet union was not a communist paradise. neither stalin not lenin cared about the proletariat#i said this in my tag ramble yesterday but if you want to see a leader who actually followed marxist ideals go look up thomas sankara#im just rambling in the tags today to get out the lingering frustration i have
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thinking about how hundreds of Ukranian mercenaries showed up to help the IOF begin its ground invasion in Gaza around the same time US special forces showed up yet people are still supporting the militaries and governments of the regimes giving real material support to genocide
The US cancelled COVID subsidies and gave that $50bil to Ukraine.
The US took 14bil in funding from the IRS (which is so understaffed and underfunded it can only afford to go after poor people in audits) to give to the Israeli occupation and genocide of Palestine.
Like, Ukraine's still fending off the obviously immoral Russian invasion but still somehow has fighters to spare to support massacring indigenous people?
And it just so happens that funding the US's proxy war with Russia is also killing disabled, marginalized, and oppressed people of color in the US and Palestine?
how fucking white to manage such effective investments in genocide
#anarchotahdigism#free palestine#death to all states#death to israel#death to america#genocide joe#anarchism#anticapitalism#eugenics#covid#wear a mask#genocide#ableism#mordantivore
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[Text ID: It's never felt more like a 'Fuck western lefties' time for Iranians than now! My people are struggling socially and economically under the rule of a fascist dictator terrorist regime, getting beaten murdered and silenced by a corrupt government, that is vastly unpopular, day in day out. Now we're at the brink of a costly war on top of everything. And western left wingers are CHEERING ON THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC! Twitter and Instagram are full of dumb westerners acting like the IR is some kind of hero here. Fuckin hell. Two terrorist regimes are going at each other, the result is going to be more misery and civilian deaths. More destruction and casualties. There's nothing to cheer for here.
I can just hope this won't escalate into another humanitarian crisis. God knows the world doesn't need more war and loss of innocent lives right now. /End ID].
This is some of the most liberal shit I've seen on this here. "Ah yes Iran should just allow Israel to kill members of their government with impunity, of course".
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Finale Part 1 -
The old great Atlantis is a glorious, epic and legendary city deeply woven into our own history.
Aquaman Arthur King of Atlantis feels ton of a heavy waves hitting his heart pounding at him.
Shaking his head he holds on to it sighing so loudly, he rolls his eyes and stomps his gold trident.
Arthur’s eyes slowly crawls up to see a dark shadow in the back of the wall walking in a diagonal way.
The man now faces him head on Arthur lock eyes with me waves at him Arthur throws his ass.
Puffs out his chest with big huff landing so hard right the figures chest it stands with out a reaction.
The figure backs up out of the light moving into the shadows once more he is getting closer.
The man stood behind Arthur’s thrown his hand into the air taking hold of the throne he grabs it firmly.
Arthur jolt letting his hand placing it on his shoulder, he kisses his cheeks more than once.
“Let me go, release me at once, I am a king and I command you.”
“Mwahahahahaha”
“Why are you laughing?”
“Because you have no control asshole”
“King my ass!”
“Yes Master! You enslaved me”
“Arthur? Arthur answer me”
“Fuck off!”
“What? Arthur?”
“I said fuck off”
“You have no idea”
“Arthur is mine “
“Go ahead use this powers”
“Their futile “
“Your efforts are too”
“I am your ending and beginning “
“I am retribution “
“I am death”
“Succumb “
“Submit”
“Obey”
The end
Finale Part 2
Hal Jordan of Green Lantern section 581 New Earth Galaxy flew down form the sky like a emerald shooting star crashing to earth.
A distress signal alert breaks through to his ring blasting louder as he lands a true man of the intergalactic regime of space cops his ring is on alert.
It a darkly lit black pitch area with haunting tone to ad effect the sea of risks and the area is completely abandoned properly this property builders.
“Hal Jordan watch out” the ring yells as a gigantic splash of water rushes onto him.
“Fuck! Who the…Aqua lad” he questions in disbelief at the sight.
“So glad you received our call.” Aqua lad says a mischievous smirk covers his face.
“Why have you betrayed me?”
“Betrayed you? A rose is rose Hal”
“Call it what you want but we are here to pluck you from society.”
“You have got to be kidding me”
“If you must be such asshole about it”
“I’ll water board you till you do”
“Nnnnnnnooooo!”
“What was that? “
“Aahhhuyyygghhh”
“Mwahahahahaha”
“Should have listened “
“The sale pitch was good”
“Instead you will surrender in pain”
“No choice in the matter”
“Time to apply the pain.”
Asguard has fallen neatly a thousand times in over millennia times about a billion past that because it’s a kingdom. All kingdoms fall, they have an expiration date and yet some do survive.
“I deign thee to take on Odinson”
“Thee Great Thor”
“You are under arrest”
“I have no time for the trickery”
“Who deign to step on Asgard?”
“Will earn thyne ire and face mine wrath”
Thor swings his hammer in the air crackling with a force do thunder a storm is brewing over its entirety.
“I said you are under arrest”
“Me Thor? Stop this foolery”
“I must make leave”
“Yeah to OA”
“Ah! A Member of the core “
“Problem?”
“Not for me but you “
“Everyone fell to my sway and now you will as well.” The man says stabbing him with his mental construct of a sword.
“Who dares…..aaahhhh”
“Sir Yes Sir”
The end
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2/12/14
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A Gang Member Of 12 Years Old
Had To Rescue Her
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Got Her Pregnant Twice
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Of Bush Hell
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There's salt in the tags, so read at your own risk.
#I'm gonna talk about syria#first of all if you think the situation in Syria is anything resembling black and white you're just wrong#something happens and all of a sudden everyone had 30 years experience working in the foreign service and state department#IR may not be science but it's really fucking complex when you're dealing with just state actors.#you throw in multiple state actors playing out in a separate state with non state actors#and surprise it's a fucking shit show#I really get frustrated with the administration as much as the next person#and if we full on invade Syria it's gonna be my ass going there so believe me I care#but if you're opposed to these strikes because you're hoping on the Trump Hate Train#do yourself a favor and research the situation#being uneducated and then making these emotional posts is just dumb#airstrikes as a deterrent when the Assad Regime used chemical attacks on their own people is not as a concept a bad thing#like holy shit people the US may not be perfect but have you done some research on Assad?#ISIS is not the only issue in syria#if you're opposed based on the principle that we should not be involved in that part of the world#then I absolutely respect that stance and that makes a lot of sense#but if you're opposed because you think this strike was somehow the US attacking the Syrian people#we targeted military targets and chemical plants#now civilian collateral casualties is ANOTHER VERY BIG ISSUE#idk it's a very complicated situation#so stop acting like experts when you're not#and form your opinion based on more than just what you see on CNN and then read on emotional posts on social media
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how does one handle wyb and the pro-china/anti-taiwan propaganda 😬 fuck this one is difficult. reality check over here.
@potteresque-ire has a great post discussing all of that, which can be found here.
Although I feel the need to clarify that I don't share her view on this point:
I assume they agree with the government’s political stance unless clear evidence otherwise
which often becomes known, BTW, because their holders have been arrested or jailed
Because claiming that mainlanders must support the regime’s values unless they are willing to be arrested or jailed showing otherwise - that just doesn’t sit right with me.
It seems to me that nothing can be assumed to be a voluntary choice when someone is under duress. Especially when someone’s access to information about those choices is censored and restricted. If I don't know that Cheetos contain preservatives, is it really fair to say that I like preservatives just because I love Cheetos? I think not.
There have been some good discussions in the past about possible reasons/signs GGDD might not be as onboard with all that as might be assumed based on their shows and social media posts.
And on some levels I’m wary of even talking about it, because I doubt very much there’s a single person in mainland China who wants attention drawn to the ways in which they might not be aligned with the CC*P. Especially not someone who is expected to perform and behave as a mouthpiece for that regime.
All that aside, I personally will not be watching any of their propaganda shows because I feel increasingly uncomfortable with all of it. But I look forward to watching the other dramas they have in the works. I'm really enjoying Legend of Fei right now.
For fans who do want to support and watch the propaganda dramas but want to view with a critical eye, I recommend browsing through my sociopolitical analysis tag. There are a lot of discussions and some great metas from other bloggers that you might find helpful.
For my thoughts on GG and DD and their involvement with propaganda projects and posts, this post pretty much covers it (although it’s about DD, the same applies to GG for me).
#sociopolitical analysis#brotherhood and stuff#your political disengagement is a weapon against you#ask
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Ninjago/Avatar au Pt6
The second half of Book 2 (hopefully)
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
So Garm finally reads the letter from Wu. It starts off as a normal pseudo-journal entry, but after it mentions finding the Garms old armor, but no body, it turns into more of a normal letter. Wu says that he’s missed his brother since he was banished, and that he hopes that they’ll be able to see eachother again soon if Garm is alive, and ends with Wu saying that he normally burns the letters he writes to Garm, so that no-one else finds them, but that he feels hopeful that this one could actually get to him. It’s touching stuff.
Lloyd picks up earthbending almost immediately, unlike Aang. The element Lloyd is going to struggle to learn is fire (if you don’t count his airbending being self-taught. He picked up airbending really, really fast, but bc he’s been making stuff up and trying to do what Maya did with her waterbending [Maya’s had decades to hone her style tho, not just three-ish years, but he’s like someone learning ballet only from YouTube, for only a couple of months] since there are no more airbenders [or so they think, bc none of them saw Morro airbend at the North Pole]), and I’ll get into why that is when it comes up. They haven’t had Garm start to teach Lloyd any firebending bc they’re trying to go in the order as much as they can, but Garm has finally convinced Kai to learn more than just the basics, and he picks it up really quickly.
Meanwhile, Morro is taking care of an injured Wu (and accidentally making him suffer through poorly-made tea). Now, Morro is onboard with Wu wanting to leave the Fire Nation behind; unlike Zuko, Morro isn’t trying to win back the favor of some distant parent, the only family he’s ever known is Wu, and he’s not about to abandon Wu for a bunch of people who would probably kill him as soon as they could no matter what he did for them, and Harumi made it clear that no-one in the Fire Nation is going to be extending them any mercy.
Once Wu wakes up, Morro does yell at him for doing something as stupid as taking a hit from a well-trained firebender to protect a stranger (Wu hadn’t gotten around to telling Morro ‘hey, you know that guy with the big burn scar who’s traveling with the Avatar? That’s my dead-but-not-really-dead older brother. Pls stop trying to stab him’, and Morro wasn’t there when Garm revealed his identity in the North Pole), until Wu tells him that Garm is his brother. This leads to Morro yelling out ‘You mean to tell me that the Avatar is my cousin?!?!’ And that how Wu learns that Lloyd is Garms son (’wait, what?’ ‘Have you really gone this long without noticing that the Avatar calls your brother his dad?’ ‘I’ve had a lot on my mind, give me a break!’), and now he thinks that Garm and Maya are married with three kids, one of whom is the Avatar.
They make their way to Ba Sing Se, with the help of the White Lotus. Wu isn’t the leader of them (he isn’t super old in this au, imagine what he looked like in S9, with the mustache), but he is a fairly respected member. I still haven’t come up with a Jet character who would work, and I am open to suggestions. If I do find a good character, they will definitely throw hands with Morro (mb Shade? Just cut out the romance subplot in S1 and pick a couple of EM’s to be the other freedom fighters?). And yes, Wu does get his tea shop in the upper ring (Steep Wisdom), and Morro tries to be happy and supportive, but even though he is fine leaving the Fire Nation with Wu, it does still feel like he wasted years of his life, both in chasing the Avatar and just trying to prove himself to everyone back in the Palace, so he’s pretty grumpy.
Now back to Team Avatar: at Maya and Garms insistence the kids have been picking out their little mini-vacations. They know that they only have a limited amount of time before the comet arrives, but Garm and Maya want these kids to be able to be, y’know, kids, at least a little bit, in spite of the fact that they’re growing up in a war-torn world. Kai want’s to check out that glacier-spring place by the desert, it’s kinda underwhelming, but they get fruity drinks out of it. This whole time Kai and Cole have been getting closer to each other. Kai feels a little guilty, like he’s betraying Zane’s memory, but talking to Maya and Garm about it does help him start to feel better, and it helps his over-protectiveness start to abate a little.
Jay wants to pick a really cool mini-vacation to impress Nya, and he asks the people who are in the glacier place if there’s any place around those parts, and ends up learning that about a year ago some lady showed up saying something about a huge spirit library in the desert that she was looking for. They never saw her again after that, and figure that she must have died out in the desert. When pressed (and payed) one of the artistically inclined staff members roughly recreated the sketch of the library, and vaguely remembered the area on the map she said she was going to search, and with that Jay has his mini-vacation picked out.
They set off and find the library. Cole chooses to stay outside with Ultra (who can’t fit inside) bc he thinks they’ll be safer if the only earthbender stays outside incase something goes wrong, and if they need to get out of there fast he’d only slow them down with his legs. Everybody else heads into the library and meet Wan Chi Tong (did I spell that right? I’m too lazy to check), who agrees to let them use the library if they 1) don’t intend to use the contents of the library against anyone else and 2) contribute something to his library.
Lloyd and Nya both use their wanted posters (they both thought they were awesome [Lloyd bc he’s 13 and Nya bc you can’t convince me that Nya wouldn’t be thrilled to have a wanted poster bc she’s been fucking with a tyrannical regime] and incredibly accurate considering the art had to have been done by someone using other people’s descriptions, and they totally intend on framing and hanging at least a few of their posters up in their rooms when all this is over), Kai has a copy of a poem that Zane wrote for him, Garm has his brothers letter (he doesn’t want to give it up, but he has nothing else), Jay has a blueprint from one of his inventions, and Maya has a copy of a story in a series that Koko had brought back to the South Pole over the years. Wan Chi Tong comments that about a year ago a researcher had arrived and had offered him another part of the the same series. He mentions that they should be careful, as she never left, and has been primarily researching the Avatar.
Everyone has an idea of who this mysterious researcher could be (except Jay), but they decide to be cautious all the same, just incase she isn’t who they think she is. They all start discreetly searching for anything that could be used to help them fight the Fire Nation, and they end up finding and empty placard saying something about ‘the Darkest Day in Fire Nation History’, but when they go to check part of the section on Fire Nation (that library was enormous, y’all cannot tell me that Zhao was able to destroy absolutely everything that the library had on the Fire Nation. It could only have been the last few decades/mb centuries of Fire Nation history), as well as a campsite that was full of scrolls having to do with the Avatar and different bending techniques (and a few misc scrolls about random things like cooking, engineering, etc). As they’re poking around the campsite, who else comes around the corner but Koko!
She has her nose buried in a scroll as she’s walking, so she doesn’t notice them all until Lloyd happily calls out ‘Mom!’, and goes in for a hug. Koko drops the scroll and has a happy reunion with her son and husband, as well as with Maya, Kai, and Nya, and she and Jay are introduced to each other. Koko explains that she’s been able to stay in the library so long was bc she managed to get the fox assistants to like her enough to start bringing her food and water. She also explains that she’s been doing nonstop research into the Avatar State, the Air Nomads and airbending, and the Fire Nation (though she’s really quiet about that part so they don’t catch Wan Chi Tongs attention and ire) and shows them that planetarium thing and that she discovered the eclipse. (How did she make it out to the library without a flying companion or something? SHe’s just that much of a badass.)
Koko had been saving up supplies and charting a course out of the desert, and planning to leave the library as soon as she could, but now that they’ve showed up with Ultra she can just grab her things and go. Someone, probably Jay, gets a little too vocal about how they have a chance to beat the Fire Nation, and cue Wan Chi Tong sinking the library and trying to add them to his ‘collection of specimen’. Garm and Koko are a dynamic duo, with Garm distraction the angry spirit while Koko gathers all of her scrolls and supplies together while Maya gets the kids to the exit.
Meanwhile, Cole is holding up the library, and trying to help Ultra fend off the sandbenders that showed up to capture and sell the dragon. Cole is able to put up a bit more of a fight than Toph was (meaning that he was able to get one or two good hits in) bc being in the desert doesn’t impair his vision (the sand does tank his mobility just as much as it would anyone with prosthetic legs tho), but he isn’t able to stop them or even hold them off long enough for everyone else to get out. Cole, despite being initially afraid of the large dragon, had quickly grown to be one of Ultras favorite people in their group (like, third favorite. Kai will never admit that he’s jealous), and is pretty upset that he wasn’t able to save him. More on Ultra later.
So Lloyd is really upset about losing his companion, just as much as Aang was. He doesn’t act out (for lack of a better word) as intensely as Aang, since Ultra wasn’t the last thing he had left of his people like Appa was for Aang, but Lloyd is still rightfully pissed off. He takes off shakily on his glider, leaving everyone behind before trying to search for Ultra and the sandbenders, ignoring his families protests. Koko starts working on getting them out of the desert using the route she had plotted out (using the sun and shadows to orient them and get started in the right direction), and starts planing out how long her food and water (she had the good sense to bring those from the library) will last between all of them. The answer is: not long enough.
Kai (and mb Jay too) is the one who has the bright idea to drink the cactus juice, bc while Kai, like Sokka, (and Jay tbh) is smart enough to know that drinking a strange liquid out of an unfamiliar plant is a bad idea,but the fact that it is a stupid idea doesn’t stop him. Wait, y’know what? Jay definitely tries the cactus juice, but instead of acting as out-of-it and inebriated as Kai does, he acts like he does in S9, weirdly chill and disconnected from reality. He’s still tripping balls, but he’s reacting to it differently from Kai. Cole just ends up carrying Kai piggy-back, even though the sand makes it harder for him to move (he’s crushing, and he’s the only one [adults included] whose physically strong enough to carry him for long periods of time) (also Kai awkwardly and drunkenly flirts with him. Everyone pretends not to notice for Coles sake) and everyone else takes turns holding onto Jays wrist and leading him through the desert or else he would have wandered off and died.
Lloyd gets back to them, landing hard in the sand, holding back tears bc even though he’s upset and could use a good cry he knows that they need to conserve as much water as they can. He’s got his family there to comfort him (even if Kai and Jay are kinda incapacitated atm), which does help him a bit, but he’s still rightfully upset. They find the abandoned sandbender skipper thing, find the vulturewasp hive, and come across the sandbenders. Cole is able to pinpoint the sandbender (no idea who this guy would be, Ninjago character wise) who lead the others to take Ultra via his voice bc Cole a) was trained in a myriad of performing arts thanks to his father, primarily singing b) has perfect pitch and c) never forgets a voice bc of that.
Lloyd goes full Avatar State, but is comforted and calmed down by his parents while everyone else books it. The sandbenders tell them that they sold Ultra to some guys who were going to take him to Ba Sing Se, and then they take them out of the desert (with the sandbenders getting the Death Glare from all of Team Avatar the whole way. Koko totally punches the sandbender who lead the others to steal Ultra once they’re out of the desert.)
They make their way to Ba Sing Se on foot, with Lloyd trying to get a handle on his emotions (and worrying everyone in the process), and they run into a family with an expecting mother/wife (I am also taking suggestions for who these characters could be. I’m pretty tired while typing this so I can’t think of anyone) and try and get on a ferry to Ba Sing Se. Cole, whose father is well known and wealthy, uses that fact, his double amputee status (he ‘accidentally’ slips out of one of his prosthetics. Kai catches him before he hits the ground), and his acting skills to get them tickets without passports.
And we get best girl Pixal back! She helps Team Avatar help the pregnant family go through the Serpents Pass, and it goes pretty similar to cannon, except instead of a situation where Sokka is overprotective of Suki, Jay picks up on how much Pixal likes Nya, and sees that Nya, his crush, reciprocates those feelings, and gets a bit passive-aggressive w/everyone, but Pixal especially. It doesn’t last long, bc Jay is a hormonal teenager who realizes he’s being a dick fairly quickly, but it does help fizzle his crush on Nya a bit (sorry again to any hardcore Jaya shippers who were hoping for that in this au, but it’s really not my cup of tea).
They also help deliver the couples baby, but Maya and Koko are the ones helping take care of that. Team Avatar get to the outer wall, just to see a huge Fire Nation drill heading closer and closer to the wall, ready to start tearing through it...
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the voting ends today but the fight almost certainly does not
Republicans are filing increasingly desperate and ridiculous lawsuits trying – emphasis on TRYING – to have votes thrown out because they’re big old losers who know they can’t win legitimately.
If you’re the kind of person who can get into the weeds of federal court filings on elections, you probably already have your hair on fire. If you’re not, I don’t recommend picking up the habit right now. It’s just going to make your head swim. These are so incoherent and meritless that even our corrupt federal judiciary and plenty of conservative state judges have frequently brushed them off. I get the sense that Trump’s lawyers are more hoping to win those cases than trying to win them. What they seem to be trying to do with these lawsuits is some mix of the following dishonest things:
depress turnout by making people feel like he can just have their votes thrown out so why bother;
set something, anything, up on track for the Supreme Court, which Trumpworld is (not unreasonably) confident they have sufficiently corrupted;
create a general sense that there’s some authority other than the voters who get to decide this election.
That is what makes me think Trump’s plan to barricade himself in the White House and tweet out a declaration of victory the first moment Fox News reports a good exit poll for him is only mostly about his pathetic need to self-soothe with an autocratic display. He’s also making one last go-for-broke play for the public narrative. He thinks – again, not unreasonably – that if he says he won, then he’ll get a bunch of “Trump Declares Victory” headlines and chyrons, which puts a thumb on the scale in terms of how people frame any resulting developments in their own minds. It’s not a good strategy, it’s more of a hail Mary, but it’s the only potentially helpful option he’s left for himself.
All of this has, once again, summoned the specter of the 2000 election.
We can’t look one day into the future. But we might be able to prepare ourselves for it if we look about twenty years into the past.
There’s kind of a fable that’s built up around the 2000 Florida recount that Republicans were just tougher and savvier and wanted it more, while Democrats clumsily Ned Starked everything up. It’s important to reject that premise as fundamentally abhorrent. In a functioning democracy, campaign strategy is irrelevant after Election Day, because voters are in charge. The Gore campaign, to its credit, was buying into the basic premise of democracy, and had therefore planned their campaign around trying to win an election fair and square. When you punish or condemn people for that, you are ceding ground to the fascists and agreeing to fight on their terms.
The Bush campaign was just fundamentally not operating from the premise of democracy, but from the premise that elections are merely a weak opening bid from the electorate. Before anyone even knew there would be a recount, they had already gamed out a scenario where they could win even if they lost. The contingency they’d planned for, that struck them as most likely, was actually that Gore would win the Electoral College but Bush would win the popular vote. They planned out a whole pressure campaign to create enough of an uproar to give some friendly Republican state legislatures somewhere just enough of an excuse to award electors to Bush even if their constituents had voted for Gore. That wasn’t the scenario they ended up facing, of course. But when you do those kind of war games, you have to think about what your opponent would do, which means the Bush team was ready to hit the ground running with a whole bunch of things they had been expecting Gore’s campaign to do. The core point of whatever they were going to do was always to create an excuse for the nuclear option of having Republican state legislators send Republican electors to install George W. Bush no matter what their voters wanted.
One major difference between then and now is that generation of Republicans knew what they were doing was abnormal and wrong, so they kept it under wraps. Now they’re so high on their own supply that they brag about it to The Atlantic, because they genuinely don’t realize that people will object and try to stop them if they give up the element of surprise.
In 2000, the nuclear option of state legislatures just ignoring their voters to install Bush was not something the Gore campaign could have reasonably foreseen, and even if they did have an in-house psychic to warn them about it, it’s not something they could have realistically stopped except by winning with the biggest margin possible, which they were already trying to do. In 2020, Republicans are basically trying to run the same play, but against Democrats who very much are as prepared as they could possibly be, and by “Democrats,��� I mean Democrats at every level. Inside the campaign, Biden campaign senior adviser Ron Klain ran Gore’s recount effort in Florida, and is therefore the last person to have any illusions about the opposition. Their lawyers are fucking beasts. Outside the campaign, Democratic voters have already voted, dragged their friends out to vote, and are amped for whatever fight tomorrow brings.
And, unlike 2000, any formal government processes are going to have to go through House Speaker Nancy D’Alessandro Pelosi, and honey, she is not having it. Remember, Pelosi has already thwarted not one but two Trump regime connivances to steal elections. In 2018, she successfully deterred any attempt to undermine Democrats’ midterm victory. And with her crisp, digestible, precision strike impeachment strategy, she neutered the HUNTERGAZI plot that Trump had every intention of using to sabotage the election this year. (God only knows what other schemes she headed off by making an example out of the pressure campaign against Zelensky. Any foreign leader or official who might have been tempted to cave under similar pressure by Trump got put on notice that trying to appease him quietly was not going to make their lives any less complicated.) No wonder she felt emboldened to tell the Trumpist wing of the Supreme Court to sit their asses down if they know what’s good for them.
What Democrats – and other small-d democrats and progressives – can do, we’re doing. You need to take heart from that, and brace yourself for a couple of stressful weeks.
Unfortunately, we can’t control everything. We can’t control what Trump will do to seize the narrative, and we can’t do much about how the press responds. And again, I’d point back to 2000 as a cautionary tale. Did you know that most of the networks actually called the race right, and they did it pretty fast? It’s true! Early-ish that night, they called Florida for Gore. And, as a subsequent investigation showed, Gore got more votes in Florida! But the ballot count was tighter than it should have been – a lot of registered voters who were likely to have preferred Gore were kicked off the rolls in a racist purge – so they did a reasonable thing and retracted the initial analysis to say the state was too close to call.
I did say most of the networks. I’ll give you one guess which was the outlier. John Ellis – head of the decision desk (ie, the decision of when to call a race for one candidate or the other) at Fox News and first cousin of candidate George Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush – somehow knew something about the Florida vote count that the Associated Press didn’t. Late that night, as Gore’s numbers were actually ticking up, Ellis called Florida for Bush. (I might’ve been more circumspect making those implications five years ago, but these people have forcefully rejected the benefit of the doubt.) The other networks, embarrassed by the earlier retraction and exhausted after a long night, leapt after Ellis like lemmings in five minutes flat.
This created a narrative that seamlessly dovetailed with the Bush campaign’s evolving strategy: a Bush win was a fait accompli, so why was sore loser Gore insisting on this recount, wasn’t it taking way too long? Of course, the truth was that nobody actually wins an election before the votes are counted, so if Bush really wanted to get this over with, why was he so resistant to having so many votes counted even once?
Because, of course, while Bush’s top campaign people were out in front of the press loftily insisting that this recount was an irrelevant waste of the country’s time and attention, Republican lawyers were down in Florida doing everything they could to run out the clock. Deadline after deadline loomed and then passed with a bunch of Federalist Society hacks badgering and haggling over every single ballot. Said Federalist Society hacks included John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
So legal correspondents and voting rights advocates, unfortunately, aren’t crazy to have their hair on fire about the Supreme Court once again doing what happened next in 2000: the court ordered all the counts to stop until arguments that it scheduled for the day before an arbitrary deadline. Then they handed down a decision that even they knew was so incoherent and indefensible that they said it wasn’t supposed to be used as precedent in any other case, even though the Supreme Court’s job for over two hundred years had been to hand down rulings that lower courts could use as precedent.
(Seriously. Guys. If Doc Brown ever tosses you the keys to his DeLorean, your mission is to go back to 1999 and run Chief Justice Rehnquist over with it. Then – and this is important – back up and run over him again. Twice. Then you can go buy stock in Google or feed Trump to zombie vampire bats or hit up a Borders or whatever.)
If you’re not really familiar with this story, you’re saying “wait, what? Why did people stand for this bullshit?” FAIR QUESTION. There are a lot of reasons, though no excuses. One reason that’s been previously underrated, I guess, is that Bush hadn’t spent the week before the election running around telling everyone who would listen that “what we’re gonna do is, we’re gonna make ourselves a huge pain in the ass while people are trying to count votes, and then we’re gonna whine about, ‘why is it taking so long to count all these votes?’ Heh heh heh.”
If he had … well, I’m pretty sure at least 538 Floridians would have been alarmed enough to make a better choice than they ultimately did.
I always want to be able to share an action item. This time, I can’t. (Unless you can vote but haven’t yet, in which case, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING ON TUMBLR, GET YOUR ASS IN LINE AND STAY THERE.) I don’t know what the world is going to look like six hours from now. It’s entirely possible that there’s a Biden blowout big enough that Trump just gives up and flees the country. But assume we’re not going to get to take the easy way out of this. Get organized and stay fired up. WE RIDE AT DAWN, unless Florida and/or Texas breaks our way by 10:30, in which case, WE DRINK AT 10:31.
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Ok uh DND HEADCANONS aka welcome to fantasy queer eye
Ava: A tiefling paladin. Bonar Fidea ("BONER?" "Shut the fuck up Sal.") Is sworn to her mission to protect the group of travellers she's met. Especially when faced with a particular half orc,,,ahem, Bonar is intent on doing good, not for the cost of gold, but to perhaps wipe her hands of bloodshed left over from a suffocating war that she refuses to talk about....just a shame that the rest of her party doesn't agree with the motives.
Mimi: Dwarf fighter named Viet Clearwater ("'Cause she drags her enemies through the fucking mud!"). Dwarf milf -
("wait," Lace squints and Mimi grins. "How is she a milf??" "WELL. You know that thing where a woman gets out of the fire and shakes her head? That's that." Everyone waits for a moment before nodding appreativatevly.)
- who worked in a blacksmiths for many years before meeting Sal's character and ending up joining his kid onto becoming fantasy bounty hunters for a few months before meeting the others. Viet's personal mission is to get a beach day yet each plot ends up derailing her from it each and every time.
Finn: Druid Elf called Roisen-Mae Maylar who worked in fantasy Greggs before Bonar robbed them and Roisen-Mae was the one who was sent after her due to him being "the new guy". Long story short, Roisen-Mae realised he was underpaid and joined Bonar in her avenging for justice, quickly realising that "justice" was conceived of breaking into places and killing people in order to free others. Roisen-Mae kinda wishes he could go back to Fantasy Greggs but...he likes the feeling of adventure in his blood, likes helping people in such a freeing manner.
Sal: Elvish Bard named Chester. Out here playing the top hits of "I want thy love" and "I was created for loving thee." With the backups of Wulf's character. Realised that he could get more cash and that there was...fuck, there was something magic about his voice that struck the monsters and mysterious assassins often sent after the party for some reason.
("Wait so you're some sort of siren?" Pascal had begun to laugh as Sal sqwuaked in indignation. "No! Its- its magic! Shut up you solar piece of shit!")
Sure, murder wasn't was Chester was expecting. But fuck if it ain't gonna be fun (skksks ngl I'm...half wondering if Sal would let his dnd character be in love like I am with him and me being ace sksk)
Mahogany: No character since they struggle with grasping the game but they usually have someone sitting on their lap while they watch everyone play and suggest actions. Sometimes they're allowed to be monsters but often Mahogany is just there to get some cuddles.
Pascal: Orc rogue named Solgrindr The Rugged. 100% he's here to get jacked and each mission allows him to gain One Ab. His guns are huge but his heart is even huge-er and Solgrindr speaks with a fiery passion to sell his training regime and to collect a million fantasy numbers. Since. U know. Solgrindr has earned these by now.
("So you're a Chad?" Mimi squints and Pascal lifts up a hand in offense before Sal interjects. "YEAH PASCAL YOU AN INCEL?" Pascal cried a minute later. He just wanted to be ripped, was that too much to ask?)
Solgrindr is but a man of his whims and what's a bigger whim than a fiery battle and an even hotter romance? ("His sole goal is to romance Chester." Pascal says, smiling viciously when Sal chokes from across the table.) Its just a shame he hasn't been able to live up to his full power yet...
Edith: A half-orc paladin called Yanag Broifstïgnäh who is...basically a carbon copy of Edith but no one's gonna exactly argue with a 6'something Norse angel who everyone excluding Wulf and Dae, are attracted to her. Yanag fights with the same ire and power anyone else would have done to protect her party entirely. She gets a magical axe that apparently washes her into an entirely new and powerful form only once every game.
(Finn frowns, tilting his head curiously. "You made Edith into a magical girl?"
Doe blinks and for a moment, Finn shudders when his own eyes meet his. "Yeah. Is that what that's called? Coolio.")
Yanag saves and romances a woman with every town they go to, but it raises questions when she seems to deny their affections, just as its suspicious how black tar-like veins seem to spread on her the more she uses this power.
Wulf: A human ranger called Bob Greenson. Your average, typical human man who just so happens to believe in fate and adventure! He shall charm everyone and fight the good battles!
("So." Ava squinted and Edith tried to not smile. "He's playing as himself...but a human man?" Her question seemed to get a rough snort out of Edith and a slight nudge of the shoulders. "Aye, but 'tis what makes the man happy I suppose.")
Of course, Bob is on a strict mission to product review as many weapons as he possibly can for his company, Weap'n'throw, while perhaps finding a few good spots to camp out for the ol' family? How's it goin' neighbour? Sure there are some sale issues, what with everyone wanting to murder Bob, but what sales pitch doesn't come with a bit of haggling, hm? With his mighty band of sales assistants, please speak to Chester on aisle three for magical trumpets!
Adonai: Dungeon Master! It's a relief to be themselves and to still be able to interact with the games and everyone else. Doe was worried at first that they would have been left out while everyone got to be something different. They would have joined, but the idea of yet again forming a whole new identity, trying to find the balance and shifts...it sounded exhausting. They couldn't handle it.
Ava patted them and told Doe that they didn't need to be someone. They could think up the scenarios and risks and Joys. It wasn't often that they got an opportunity to take over and simply have fun with risking Mimi's life or trying to create romantic scenarios between Edith and Ava. Doe takes great pleasure in being the DM and it isn't uncommon for them to modify their body for certain campaigns.
Lace: A half-elf wizard named Elvish Presley (Everyone groans. Mahogany weeps. Edith demotes her Valkyrie ways. Sal becomes a nun.) Elvish is interested in learning all sources of magic and why their world works. Is there anything connecting them all? A reason for them being here? Elvish is determined to find out, no matter what the cost...mostly of himself though.
Whether he admits that he wouldn't allow his team to get hurt or not, that is entirely Elvish's thoughts and feelings alone. Quick! Put that healing spell away! We can't let these people know that we feel and yearn! But little does Elvish Presley know, everyone is aware that he is a giant nerd with a giant heart that weeps when Bonar rescues him from the angry orgre who's wagon dealership they ruined in a quest.
Dae: A dragonborn ranger named Torpa Armani who dreams of becoming a famous writer-
("Th-that's bas-basically what y-you do anywh-anyway." Morde squints as Wulf grins while Dae flushes and shakes his head. It's a weak argument, to hear your clone try and deny the elaborate romance novels he writes about his friends.)
-But! Sometimes you just get whisked away onto wild and heart melting adventures. Its hard to ignore how good it deeps to help other people with their problems. It seems that Torpa may just be finding out that there's more to life than romance or tragedy books for them. Especially if they seem so insistent on carrying a weapon and being willing to put their trust and faith within other people once more after being outcasted for who and what they are.
Peach: A tiefling ranger named Puddles Skipclear. Puddles was once a water nymph, but had been cursed into a more physical form that didn't allow her to touch water. She is bound to dry lands until Puddles is able to break her curse. Unfortunately, Puddles doesn't even seem to know what curse bounds her and changes her for possibly forever.
(Morde is quiet for a moment, not meeting his clone's eyes guilt makes his eyes and body dim and slouch. Dae does the same towards Mordecai and everyone tries to ignore the guilt that isn't there's suddenly shifting around the room.)
She likes the people she has chosen to travel with. They're silly and their quests don't always work out, but they're honest in helping Puddles and she wants to trust in them when they say that they will help her remove her curse. They're all rather different from her water sisters that faded away and slipped out of Puddles' too physical fingers, but she's begun to have high hopes about what this mission could mean for her along the way.
Mordecai: Orc rogue named Vecivus Brogun, who is a well renewed theft despite his size. Parties could only dream of having him upon their sides. It's easy to steal things from countless people, but it's harder to steal the secrets. Especially when such a strange party seems to hold so many of these secrets. Some of them have simple ideas and wants, but others?
Oh, there's mystery to them and contrary to what others believe about orcs, Vec is far more easily aware and shifty than most. If only the others would realise these and help him out with a few gigs...after all, is it so bad to steal from a dragon if said dragon had so many riches that he would have hardly noticed if a few went missing?
#headcanon#the leather bound angel (ava)#ocean powerhouse (mimi)#he has a heart made of cotton (finn)#he speaks of holy fates (pascal)#the living stardust (sal)#the monster of forgotten midnights (mahogany)#she was a rose with soft thorns (edith)#riding the wild winds (wulf)#he will set your fears free (lace)#diamond of the rough (dae)#dusk filled head (mordecai)#underwater garden (peach)#G OOO D THIS TOOK AN AGE
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It's never felt more like a 'Fuck western lefties' time for Iranians than now! My people are struggling socially and economically under the rule of a fascist dictator terrorist regime, getting beaten, murdered and silenced by a corrupt government, that is vastly unpopular, day in day out. Now we're at the brink of a costly war on top of everything. And western left wingers are CHEERING ON THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC! Twitter and Instagram are full of dumb westerners acting like the IR is some kind of hero here. Fuckin hell. Two terrorist regimes are going at each other, the result is going to be more misery and civilian deaths. More destruction and casualties. There's nothing to cheer for here.
I can just hope this won't escalate into another humanitarian crisis. God knows the world doesn't need more war and loss of innocent lives right now.
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MEET THE MERCERS...
BILLIONAIRE DOMINIONIST SHITBAGS WHO HAVE FINANCED MUCH OF THE CURRENT CRIMINAL REGIME. “DADDY” AND “DAUGHTER” (MM-HMM...) EVIL SHITS GIVING BILLIONS TO REPUBLIKKKAN TERRORISTS.
EVIL HAS A BIG FOREHEAD! NO, REALLY...LOOK AT ALL THE TRULY EVIL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS RIGHT NOW...INCLUDING TRUMP’S BEST BUDDY EPSTEIN (WHO DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF!)
THEY HAVE FUCKING FOREHEADS THREE STORIES HIGH!
OH, AND “DADDY” OWES THE IRS OVER $7 BILLION!
THEY HOLD COCKTAIL PARTIES WHERE THEY AUCTION OFF JUDGESHIPS TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. THEY ARE VILE AND DISGUSTING INHUMAN MONSTERS!
THEY ARE TRAITORS TO THIS COUNTRY!
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As an Iranian
Yesterday I saw that famous “Iran before DEMOCRATS” post (and the one where someone who I’m assuming had good intentions posted that supposed Iranian response to it). And like. Both these posts are in extreme bad faith. So much that I want to punch both people who made those threads on Twitter because the first post
demotes the reasons for the IR Revolution to something as nonsensical as “women wore miniskirts”
demotes the actual problems the people of Iran face on a daily basis after the IR Revolution to something as trivial as “women can’t wear miniskirts anymore
Like. Sure. Let’s ignore the part the Westerners played in siccing the animals that were the revolutionaries on us Iranians. Let’s ignore the entirety of the events that led to it. The reforms that happened in the White Revolution, the entirety of the assassinations done by the Tudeh and Mujahideen and the nation-wise suppression that followed. The SAVAK, everything. “Iranians could weak miniskirts and now they can’t”. Sure, why not.
And then the second post
Pretends that the people of Iran have the right to wear what they want outside of their own homes in complete bad faith
pretends that Chadori women don’t exist and that they don’t openly and outright harass the other women, and that the State doesn’t back them
that Iranians haven’t been through 40 long-ass years’ worth of civil disobedience, risking imprisonment in some of the worst prisons in the ME and actual state-sanctioned rape to be allowed to wear what they want -to be allowed not to cover all of their fucking face
That freedom to wear what you want is the extent of what an Islamic regime has done, this last 40 years, to my people’s Civil Rights.
It assumes, and maintains, that clothing is the extent of the torment we’re going through at the hands of the IR. As if the suppression doesn’t matter. As if 1,500 people weren’t killed in a matter of 3 days just for protesting against rising prices of fuel and as if this isn’t something that happens approximately once every decade. As if people haven’t been forced into indoctrination, literal brainwashing, and 1984-style kowtowing by the Mullahs. As if we aren’t being conscripted into fighting for the Regime’s stupid-ass Imperialist ambitions in the ME (The Shia Crescent). As if the Regime’s activities in the ME hasn’t both created and prolonged the ongoing Syrian, Iraqi, and Yemeni conflicts. As if they aren’t the primary party responsible for the fact that Israel and Palestine can’t find the peace they were supposed to get after Oslo. As if their butchering, raping, and outright cannibalization of Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians in Syria and Iraq hasn’t made us the most hated people in the entire ME for stuff we don’t even have control of.
Stop. Just stop playing the part of a poor man’s WW2-era anti-interventionist. Stop pretending that the IR wasn’t responsible for the shit that led to Suleimani’s execution. Stop pretending like you care about Iranian’s lives when you glorify Soleimani, when you try to pretend that an outright puppet of the worst totalitarian regime in ME History was telling the truth when there are so many holes in that stupid “perfidy” bullshit that you can literally pretend it’s Swiss Cheese. Just stop. We don’t want your “Help”.
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Já tem tempo que não escrevo aqui, esse que é o lugar onde mais me sinto a vontade para me abrir, meu refúgio, meu cantinho onde quase ninguém, exatamente 99,999% das pessoas que eu conheço não podem ver.
hoje quero falar um pouco sobre mim e como estou atualmente quanto a tudo, a minha vida e tudo que ela engloba. começar falando desde o início é o básico e o mais sensato a se fazer, então vamos lá.
primeiro quero falar sobre o que já fui, e bom, já fui muitas coisas, já fui uma criança extremamente agitada e hiperativa, já fui uma criança que sempre era dita a mais bagunceira da turma, já fui o mais palhaço da turma, já fui o mais alegre da creche, da escola e da rodinha de amigos. sim, já fui uma criança feliz, mas também, já fui uma criança que ao mesmo tempo que fazia amizades fácil, era solitária, já fui dito como o inabalável, mas você e eu sabemos que isso já tem tempo, né?!
já fui um adolescente zoeiro, um adolescente que adorava ficar admirando as abelhas e formigas enquanto elas tinham seus afazeres, já fui um adolescente extremamente comunicativo, um adolescente que amava ver filmes de kung fu, que amava jogar no playstation 2, já fui um adolescente muito sorridente. já fui um adolescente muito cabeça dura e rebelde, já fui um adolescente que começou a despertar interesse infelizmente nas meninas mais cobiçadas, já fui um adolescente sortudo aos olhos dos outros por ter conseguido beijar a menina mais bonita da sala, mas também aos meus olhos, já fui um adolescente sortudo por ter beijado quem EU achava a mais bonita da sala, ela com todo aquele jeitinho tímido e sorridente, tipo de pessoa que não faria mal nem a uma joaninha, afinal, quem é que faria tal crueldade não é mesmo?! pena que ela se foi.
já fui um jovem com muita convicção do que eu queria pra mim, tanto em relação á pessoas quanto ás outras esferas da minha vida. já fui um jovem briguento, mas que sempre brigou pelo certo, já fui um jovem delinquente? talvez. já fui um jovem que não poupava esforços pra ver quem amava bem, já fui um jovem que movia montanhas pelo que ou quem defendia, já fui um jovem que descobriu o amor, não o amor de mãe e filho, mas aquela outra forma que as pessoas tanto pregam, já fui tão feliz por ter descoberto e vivido ele, definitivamente posso dizer que foi o ápice da minha felicidade. já fui um jovem que teve dificuldades em demonstrar o tanto de sentimento que tenho pela minha mãe, ao mesmo tempo que já fui um jovem que não media esforços pra demonstrar o desprezo pelo meu pai. já fui um jovem sorridente e sim, realmente já fui um jovem feliz, sem depressão, sem ansiedade, sem pensamentos suicidas ou quaisquer outros pensamentos ruins, pois é, já fui esse tipo de jovem, mas como você e eu vimos até aqui, o verbo ser foi extrema e excessivamente conjugado no passado.
agora, quem eu sou?
cara, que pergunta difícil, me faço todos os dias e todos os dias a resposta muda.
digamos, que eu sou tudo o que eu não era antes, ainda existem resquícios do que já fui, mas confesso que cada dia diminuem.
hoje tenho 23 anos, sou um sobrevivente, sou as cinzas de tudo aquilo que ja fui pra mim e pra outras pessoas, mas não me lamento muito por isso, eu aceitei esse meu novo quadro, essa minha nova realidade, afinal, nós seres humanos vivemos mudando, vivemos deixando de ser algo, por exemplo, a cada segundo que passa deixamos de ser novos e ficamos cada vez mais velhos. a cada 7 anos todas as células do nosso corpo são trocadas e as antigas morrem, ou seja, a cada 7 anos temos uma nova versão de nós mesmos “nova” em folha. pera??? olha essa contradição, a cada segundo que passa envelhecemos, mas a cada 7 anos temos uma nova versão de nós, é bem louco, mas só tem um desses lados que prevalece, o primeiro, afinal, somos mortais, apesar dessa recauchutagem, a cada segundo que passa menos tempo temos pra ser novos em folha, quantos “7 anos” mais teremos? sei nem se estarei vivo quando terminar esse texto, quem dirá daqui á sete fucking anos.
hoje sou o cara que não vê mais sentido em nenhum tipo de relação, manterei as que tenho claro, mas zero vontade de novas e é engraçado porque há poucos meses ou semanas atrás eu ainda me perguntava se algum dia voltaria a amar alguém, mas a conclusão que cheguei foi essa, de que não faz sentido. não tem porquê fazer esse rolê todo nem por mim nem por ninguém. alguns podem julgar como uma possível perda de humanidade, mas o que vou dizer pode parecer bem pesado, talvez seja, mas também vejo que é bem realista.
eu atualmente sou bem a favor de não existir, minha maior frustração atualmente é estar vivo, infelizmente, sim eu, aquele que já lutou pra caralho dia e noite pra tentar fazer as pessoas não cometerem o que agora eu dia e noite penso em fazer.
sou adepto ao pensamento de que não vale a pena, nada do que eu fizer vai mudar o final de tudo, se eu começar a amar alguém, em algum momento essa pessoa vai me deixar, seja amizade, seja término, seja divorcio, seja morte, assim como eu o farei à qualquer pessoa que estiver comigo. as coisas acabam, tudo acaba, a vida acaba, eu não vejo sentido mais no meu trabalho, não vejo sentido mais no fato de todo dia acordar e levantar da cama, me alimentar, porra cara, que porra eu to fazendo aqui? no que eu agrego? sei que minha mãe me quis, sei que ela quis o terceiro filho, mas caralho por que eu ? me desculpa, mãe, você sempre foi incrível, sempre foi a melhor pessoa na minha vida, sempre foi a batalhadora que eu tanto admiro e amo, sou grato por ter me colocado no mundo, porque através disso eu conheci muita coisa, vivi muita coisa boa, mas cara, que porra de sentido tem eu continuar aqui? vai dar sempre no mesmo.
ok, talvez eu sinta que os nossos corpos são a prisão de nossas almas, talvez eu esteja começando a entender o porque o ser humano busca tanto a liberdade, sempre temos a sensação de liberdade em alguns momentos da nossa vida, mas nunca é a liberdade definitiva. por que será? talvez por isso, talvez nosso corpo carnal seja a prisão e os momentos de liberdade que passam, sejam os banhos de sol ou a famosa condicional, o regime semiaberto talvez? pelo menos eu enxergo assim atualmente, uma visão pessimista, talvez extrema? pode ser, mas é como eu consigo enxergar as coisas agora.
conversei sobre isso ontem com uma pessoa, ela tentou me motivar a voltar a treinar, porque eu vou ser um ótimo professor e bla bla bla, agradeço esse esforço, mas não vejo sentido. talvez você que esteja lendo tenha a noção do que é passar os dias torcendo pra acontecer algo que te leve desse mundo, eu não acho algo triste, não mais, pois, no meu caso eu quero essa liberdade, me sinto preso em algo que eu já sei o final e eu não quero que esse final demore, não mais, não quero chegar ao ponto de começar a esquecer até do que falei há 10 segundos atrás ou ao ponto de estar sendo mantido vivo por aparelhos sendo que quero ir, porque se eu ver que tá chegando a esse ponto e eu pedir pra darem o fim que eu tanto mereço e não o fizerem, eu vou ficar extremamente puto, ah mas eu vou morrer muito puto, de verdade...
sabe, apesar de tudo o que falei, no fundo sinto saudade de muita coisa que já fui ou pensei, mas como que faz pra resgatar? como faz pra voltar a ser e também, por que eu faria isso né?! é um misto de querer e não querer e afinal.... eu já sei o final.
o fato é que, atualmente eu vejo a vida de uma forma totalmente diferente do que eu via há 3/4 anos atrás, eu me vejo de uma forma totalmente diferente e vejo as pessoas de uma forma totalmente diferente também.
e o meu maior desejo atualmente sabe qual é?! até isso mudou, antes eu desejava nunca ser esquecido, mas agora o meu maior desejo é que as pessoas comecem a se acostumar a me esquecer, que elas comecem a me esquecer, que aos poucos eu seja riscado da vida delas, porque quando eu partir, isso poupará vários ml de lagrimas à elas. afinal, um homem não morre quando seu corpo para; um homem morre, quando deixa de ser lembrado e eu não quero mais continuar vivo. não quero ser imortalizado na memória de ninguém. quero ser apenas mais uma poeira cósmica passageira sem qualquer ligação com nada.
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Ok so if you claim IR had more romantic implications than IH, then why do think Kubo ended with IH being canon? Don't tell me you're still thinking it was a big fuck you to SJ because that theory is plain BS. More like a last ditch effort to validate your ship's worth.
Have you looked at the material for the 2020 Olympics? Do you see Bleach anywhere in it? It’s dead, is it not? So first you have to explain how that fact is “plain BS,” because if it was, you’d be enjoying your “canon ship” instead of playing Mad Max with us, sweating furiously as you proclaim “We’re not desperate! You’re desperate!”
You know, in “a last ditch effort to validate your ship’s worth.”
I think it’s pretty apparent now, given the Trump regime, that projection is the most immediate, common, and reactionary tool employed by those who are desperately trying to deflect attention away from their own failings. Right now, in my inbox, y’all are basically engaged in repeating his performance of “No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet!” with a healthy dose of his “alternate-facts,” and claims of a “biased media” to boot. You veer between exhibiting a persecution complex and wallowing in your supposed victimization one moment, and you go on belligerent attacks exhorting how “bigly” you’ve won the next. That’s not even accounting for the malformed logic.
The resemblance is honestly uncanny.
Anyway, I don’t have to explain how I know that the truth is Kubo screwed all of us, including you. I know it. And you know it. I know you know it because you’re here.
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