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#us politics#republicans#conservatives#tweet#twitter#x#@esqueer_#alejandra caraballo#robert e. lee#confederate states of america#fuck the confederates#confederate pride#fuck the confederacy#confederate monuments#elon musk#fuck billionaires#eat the rich#2023
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South Carolina will close state offices on Tuesday to mark Confederate Memorial Day.
The observation of the holiday is every year on May 10. South Carolina is among a handful of states in the South with such an official holiday. State offices in Alabama and Mississippi closed down for their Confederate Memorial Days late last month.
South Carolina chose May 10 because it is the day when Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson died in 1863 after he was wounded by his own troops and the day Union soldiers captured fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Georgia in 1865.
A bill that would allow state employees to take the Juneteenth holiday or any other day instead of Confederate Memorial Day unanimously passed the South Carolina Senate in March but is stuck in a House committee and will likely die when the session ends Thursday.
The bill began as a proposal to add the Juneteenth celebration on June 19 as a new state holiday. But instead of adding a 14th holiday, the bill would create a holiday that state employees could take any time they want.
It wasn’t immediately clear from the language of the bill whether state officers would have remained closed on Confederate Memorial Day like they do currently or of they could end up closed on Juneteenth.
The General Assembly will meet as normal on Tuesday.
Former Congressman and current Democratic candidate for Governor, Joe Cunningham, renewed his call for an end to the state holiday known as Confederate Memorial Day and replace it with Election Day.
Cunningham said he first proposed removing Confederate Memorial Day in 2021, shortly after launching his gubernatorial campaign.
"This is another example of how our state continues to live in the past. It’s embarrassing. When I’m governor, we’re going to end Confederate Memorial Day and make Election Day a state holiday instead."
The state of South Carolina has officially observed Confederate Memorial Day since 2000, when the legislature added it to the state calendar as a compromise after South Carolina became the last state in the country to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, according to Cunningham's release on Tuesday.
Cunningham said he would fight to end the observance of Confederate Memorial Day, replacing it as a state holiday with Election Day.
#us politics#news#sc#south carolina#2022#biden administration#confederate sympathizers#confederate memorial day#fuck the confederates#fuck the confederacy#Juneteenth#election day#make election day a federal holiday#Joe Cunningham#american civil war
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Not even just Canadians, but everyone else also has to stop acting surprised when they find out Canada commits/ed war crimes & has committed genocide and still actively does it and isn't any better than the United States. What is there to be surprised about?
#even the whole 'Canadians are so police/nice!' thing isnt true.#theres white ppl here with confederate flags on their trucks. in canada.#** polite not police fuck this autocorrect
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robert e lee was a fucking idiot and a terrible general and im not sorry for saying so
#from katya#not a tag#sorry for civil war posting i just feel very strongly about how much i hate the confederates#especially lee. and jackson.#stonewall jackson is my no. 1 enemy other than nathan bedford forrest#and my no.1 union enemy is obvi joe hooker.#but i study mostly the 11th corps so we been fucking knew
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#confederate statues#fuck the confederacy#republican assholes#maga morons#resist#traitor trump#crooked donald#republican family values#republican hypocrisy
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Jasper as a character is so interesting because he ends up a Confederate because he can't actually empathise with the slaves and because he simply accepts cruelty around him, and then when he becomes a vampire he literally can't ignore others suffering because it hurts him, but even decades after he becomes a Vegetarian he still can't get a hang of it partially because he still can't see humans as *people*. Idk there's smth to be said about him becoming a vampire because of his own cruelty and then being eternally in horrific pain because of said cruelty that fucks.
Jasper's whole life is a curse & i love to see it
here we have a Confederate supposedly so empathetic that he acquired a "gift"... yet not so empathetic as to recognize he was fighting for the enslavement of an entire race. despite seeing the consequences of slavery literally every day. now, the man who spent his last human days denying the humanity in others is forced to spend his immortal life being slapped in the face with their emotions. forever. hueeueueueu-
yeah, i would call that "gift" a curse, actually.
if Twilight weren't a horror story, we might see a discussion between Jasper/Bella about how immortality forces you to confront the darker side of your nature (e.g. "there will come a day when the societal beliefs imbued unto you leaves you standing on the wrong side of history"), & Jasper's journey with finding love & humanity. OR, y'know, he could've just had ONE (1) line where he says "yeah i'm not proud of my service." simply, if Twilight weren't a horror, Jasper could see the error of his ways & change for the better.
HOWEVER. Twilight vampires are "mentally frozen" when they turn, so Jasper is likely still a racist who does not regret his service. no matter how many times he is confronted with his cruelty, he won't change. meaning whatever life he chooses, his gift dooms him.
wow! eternal curse!
we see evidence of this frozen mental state in his decision to go vegetarian. he doesn't switch bc he feels bad about killing humans:
"I could feel everything my prey was feeling. And I lived their emotions as I killed them. [...] You've experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in a room affect me." (Eclipse, Ch 13)
note the dehumanizing term "prey" & the focus on himself. he laments not that the human lives he's taking have value but that their dying moments harsh his vibe.
the irony! trapped as an empath while never possessing the ability to be an empath! CURSE CURSE C-
herein lies a bigger, juicier curse: Jasper is, himself, (hot take) enslaved in the sense that he will never know freedom, philosophically speaking, due to the choices he made in life. the series tries to paint him as a master tactician & competent leader; fanon often paints him as a free-thinking amoral black sheep. in reality, he simply obeys the commands of higher authorities & abides by their worldview regardless of how toxic it is to himself or others.
in the beginning, he had María.
he entered the Southern Vampire Wars not by his own volition but stayed because he was content not having a choice. however one feels about María, the fact of the matter is 1) as a newborn he was stronger, bigger, & faster than her & could have run away or overpowered her, 2) had the "gift" to identify emotions & could KNOW when/if she was malicious or manipulating him, & 3) could have escaped by influencing her emotions to make her disinterested in him. at any time in the 100 years they were together, he could have left. he talks about never knowing a life outside the war & discovering "options I'd never dreamed I had." ok???? run 100 miles in any direction & you would have seen a life outside of war. BOI-
instead, he took comfort in being submissive & adopting someone else's ideology. not only did it remind him of his past, but it meant he had no need to reflect on his actions or beliefs. he prefers others dictate his worldview & order him around even if it means being unhappy. he only left because he was going to be assassinated, & even then, it wasn't until someone else told him another life was possible that he "realized" another life was possible.
notably, the period where he's most free— living with Peter & Charlotte— is his rock-bottom where "the depression got worse." but, again, not because he realized the value of human life: "I was so wearied by killing [...] even mere humans."
then he meets Alice.
Alice, who has visions of being vegetarian & converts him so they can live with the Cullens. Alice, who dictates how her family should live their lives to the point where she manipulates them. Alice, who goes so far as to dress the Cullens, who orders Jasper to wait in the car while she & Bella go shopping, who Jasper refers to as "truly [...] one frightening little monster" because for all his experience she can still beat him in combat.
his eternal soulmate is authority.
despite being unhappy with his vegetarian life, as it makes him feel weak & coddled & a liability to everyone around him, he follows the lifestyle because Alice tells him to.
then there's the Volturi, another authoritative body. "We owe the Volturi for our present way of life," says acclaimed bootlicker Jasper Hale, who in the same moment shudders at the atrocities they committed, yet strangely sees no other way for a governing body to keep the peace... so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
but, since Carlisle outranks the Volturi as an authoritative figure in that he more closely aligns with Jasper's new worldview, Jasper sees no problem deposing the vampiric governing body if it means his sister-in-law of like 2 months can keep her demonic spawn. so i guess we don't really owe the Volturi that much
to his credit, we see glimmers of him questioning his leaders: 1) his decision to leave Maria, 2) his considering switching diets to defeat Victoria, & 3) going against the Volturi. but, again, these decisions are all just a result of his self-preservation & submitting to the higher authority du jour.
in the end, he has the perfect storm of conditions that would allow him to escape the prison he's created, to find freedom & to love humanity unconditionally... but he won't. Jasper's ultimate curse is that regardless of whether he realizes the enslavement of his own self, he will never leave his cage because it's cozy & easy & allows him to never think for himself.
AAAANYWAY Jasper's life sucks & he's trapped in an eternal prison of his own making. lol
#twilight#twilight renaissance#the twilight saga#jasper hale#twilight meta#twilight headcanon#you're right there really is something to be said about jasper the shitfuck confederate ending up in this situation!!!#like it would be tragic if it wasn't so comedic and if he didn't display a modicum of self-awareness!!!!#you make a great point about how he accepts cruelty his whole life and even when he's unable to ignore it he just is forced to accept it fo#ever#the absolute *chefs kiss* curse. smeyer coudlnt have written a better curse if she tried#in fact i do believe ALL the cullen gifts are actually curses in their own way#and it's so delicious to think about it that way#god i just love thinking about twilight as a horror#you're right riote- It Fucks#thanks for sending this my way!#cheers~
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Happy Confederate Surrender Day to all who celebrate!!!
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for real, we need to tear down Confederate monuments and replace them with Sailor Moon and Pokemon ones
#Pikachu and Usagi have done INFINITELY more for the American people than the Confederates did#I mean the bar is so low it's in hell but STILL#sailor moon#bishoujo senshi sailor moon#usagi tsukino#sailor moon meme#fuck the confederacy
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One of the most ignorant and foolish Republican talking points is the lie that the Democratic Party started the KKK. It was started by disgruntled ex-Confederate soldiers and had no ties to the Democratic Party at all-that is undisputed historical fact!
Today Klansmen belong to the Republican Party and the Confederate flag is flown by Republican politicians and prominently at Republican events like Trump rallies. Today’s Klansmen openly endorse Trump and other Republicans.
While the Southern states that joined the Conederacy were largely Democratic at the time there is no proof that the Klans founders even voted Democratic and they were definitely not acting as its functionaries. This is cheap propaganda to try and get African-Americans to stop voting Dem and start voting for their oppressors in the Republican Party, aka the GOP.
Anyone who ever took an American history course should know that all the remaining racist “Dixiecrats” were expelled from the Democratic Party in the 1960’s, the Civil Rights Era. These ancient racists were warmly and openly welcomed by the Republican Party as part of its “Southern Strategy” to win Congress and the Whitehouse by creating a geographical/geopolitical base in the former Confederate states.
#republican assholes#ukraine#fuck Putin#traitor trump#the KKK was not started by the Democratic Party#America First is a KKK slogan#the KKK was started by disgruntled former Confederate soldiers who had no ties to the Democratic Party#today Republicans support the KKK
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#us politics#tweet#twitter#x#@rightwingcope#republicans#conservatives#alt right#confederate states of america#confederate pride#fuck the confederacy#fuck the confederates#2023#robert e. lee#unite the right
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jasper moodboards are the funniest fucking thing on twilight tumblr i'm sorry
#...is it petty if i make this post?#too late i'm doing it anyway#oh my god#it's SO RIDICULOUS TO ME#i saw this one moodboard. the middle quote was a quote abt how hard it is to be an empath#and still take care of yourself#HE'S A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER LMAOOO#also even in canon he's not. like. particularly empathetic#he's just manipulative! he gets his power from being manipulative & 'charismatic'!#if anything the empathy is a curse that he EARNED#& is doing his best to ignore#like. he canonically wishes he wasn't an empath bc it makes it harder for him to EAT PEOPLE#so the pinterest mental health inspo quote really killed me#also there were a bunch of grainy aesthetic cowboy photos and like.#the cowboy aesthetic is. first of all. very funny to me#AND he's not a cowboy#he's (again) A CONFEDERATE CAVALRY OFFICER#THERE'S NO CANON EVIDENCE HE WAS EVER A FUCKING COWBOY#also. come talk to me about the actual fucking history of cowboying in texas#and get your fucking aesthetic photos out of here#did you know that most texas ranches pre-war (62%!) enslaved their cowhands?#ONCE AGAIN. HE'S A CONFEDERATEEEEEEEEE#(& the time when he was human would've been. not really the time for him to even feasibly be a cowboy? spanish fever & cattle quarantine <3#so. anyways.#fanon jasper remains the funniest thing ever to me
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#psy's no punctuation posts#history tag#and yes for our viewers at home: I’m pretty sure Stonewall Jackson had autism. we’ll never know for sure but after reading about him.#he displays a fuck ton of autistic behaviors / symptoms#been reading Rebel Yell slowly and this guy is a fuckin trip to read about#i think the author works too hard to justify Jackson’s pro-confederate stance and that rly annoys me but the book is well written otherwise#so I’m still reading it. but I notice that and it’s a little annoying#i don’t mind the book discussing his complexities because that’s just necessary but something about it feels off yknow#I don’t like this guy but he is very interesting to read about at least
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the gator tillman tag here is so funny like why tf are you guys so surprised that he’s written as a confederate sympathizer and not an uwu loserboy angel with daddy issues. hes a fucking cop in rural minnesota.
#gator tillman owns a confederate flag??? fork found in fucking kitchen come on guys#like i was just as excited as everyone else to see joe keery play another failboy but i knew from the start that i wanted that twink dead#not that im mad at anybody over this whats worse is the people who still want to fuck him honestly#like i cant imagine anything more nightmarish than getting handcuffed onto a bedpost by an incel with a dont tread on me flag#gator tillman#fargo fx#fargo season 5#fargo s5
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What is Nakba? I’ve seen it mentioned a bit recently in relation to the conflict.
The eviction of 750,000 Palestinian Arabs (mostly into directly adjacent Arab countries that had been named "Palestine" less than 20 years earlier) should inspire basic sympathy. So should the Allied firebombing of Dresden, all those German women and children drownburning in melted asphalt... horrible. Or General Sherman levelling Georgia and South Carolina, when, as any Southern partisan will be happy to tell you, most of those people never even owned slaves.
War is hell - try not starting one. And that goes double for a war meant to preserve unearned racial-religious supremacism with an explicit goal of exterminating the Jews down to the last baby.
Palestinians have a right to hard feelings. Their "allies" need to stop being pathetic and get over the Confederate Lost Cause of the Left.
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