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Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:
15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.
None of the hijackers were from Iraq.
None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.
None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.
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wordsoup420 · 3 months
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Hot take: it's fucking idiotic to call someone who is just calmly trying to explain their actions or emotions 'rude'. It's ESPECIALLY idiotic to say that to a small child. You'll end up turning them into a fucking doormat unable to speak up for themselves (me)
Kids can't properly control tone yet. I ESPECIALLY couldn't due to autism. So to hold a kids tone to the importance of the tone of an actor on set to get the correct feel is completely idiotic. And some teen girls literally *just sound like that*. They aren't "being rude" that's just what her voice sounds like. They aren't "making excuses" they are genuinely trying to fucking communicate their reasons so that an understanding can be reached. This shit is why EVERYONE SUCKS AT COMMUNICATING AND WE NEED TO FUCKING STOP DISCOURAGING HONEST AND OPEN COMMUNICATION
Most kids are innately honest until they are taught to lie by society or their parents. By making them FEAR honesty. By punishing them for communicating you are teaching them to lie. You are making lieing feel like the safest option even when you punish for lies. Because at least with the lie there's a chance of no punishment, but with the truth you'll 100% get punished.
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bisquitt · 2 years
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i’m sure i’ve said this before but punk clothes *should not* be expensive. if you are buying expensive “punk” clothes for the aesthetic, you aren’t punk. the point of punk was and is to reject commercialism and the exploitation of youth by corporations and governments. you know why leather jackets are a staple of punk fashion? bc leather jackets were abundant in thrift stores after greaser culture ended in the late 60s or so. black hair dye was cheapest at the time, so a lot of punks had black hair. the patches? meant to be diy. expensive “punk” style clothes go against punk culture on a fundamental level.
my current battle jacket is from a plus size consignment store, and i *only* bought it from there because it was the first jacket across multiple stores that was in my size. when my favourite the clash t-shirt didn’t fit me anymore, i cut out the logo and made it a patch to put on a shirt that did fit me. most of the patches on my jacket and backpack are handpainted or embroidered by me.
the only reason punk clothes should be at all mildly expensive is if you’re buying from a small business. the patches and pins i dont make myself i buy from small businesses off etsy. even then there are shops like retirementfund that do $1 screenprinted patches. VoodooLuxe and LovelyAlternative both have handmade riot grrrl pins for $1.50 each. this isn’t sponsored or whatever, i’m just saying that there are so many better places to find punk clothes and accessories.
punk isn’t just an aesthetic. punk culture is diy for a reason.
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bonniebbunz · 2 months
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hey what if I made a whole ttrpg system with encounters and everything based off of @littleguysdaily and their system wouldn’t that be funny guy hey what’s wrong why aren’t I laughing
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cornsyrupfromhell · 4 months
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the-uncanny-dag · 28 days
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Just had a new type of the "thought there was a cute dyke in the pic, but it's just a dude" experience when I liked a fanart of a skinny girl with black hair surrounded by skeletons, but then it turned out to be one of those bitch ass kids from Percy Jackson :\
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fankawashitpost · 1 year
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mp100 ???% arc hits different for me as neurodivergent. The way characters in the show talk about ???% reminds me of how people describe their relatives "becoming someone totally different" during a panic attack or meltdown. How many people, even well meaning, treat The Diagnosis as a separate entity, some all-corrupting demon haunting an innocent. But MP100 is like "no actually it's just an intrinsic part of you, it doesn't make you any worse than anyone else but it doesn't make you better either, and suppressing it does more harm than good"
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goldstampofapproval · 3 months
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You know you fucked up when people don't make fanart of your movie but they're making fanart of the CONCEPT ART for your movie
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theghoulfieri · 1 year
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there is something very special about radios in media. they are machines that pluck voices out of still air. They amplify echoes of the dead and the dying. They are a means of communication as well as community. They shorten the distance between lovers as well as enemies. they allow us to broadcast our thoughts into a vast silence. is someone listening? They give us no way of knowing either way.
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Yet again posting about Castlevania Nocturne again because this show has an iron grip on my brain.
I've seen some Castlevania 'Purists' complain about Annette being different than in the games and I am. So so baffled. Nocturnes Anette is so much more interesting and fascinating than the original Annette was ever and could ever be. She's not even really a character in Rondo of Blood for crying out loud! She only exists in the games to be the damsel in distress and prize for Richter to get at the end of the game. She is not a character. But now that she finally gets to be a character people get pissy because "She's not like how she is in the games" when the real reason they're mad is they can't handle seeing a badass woman of color standing up for herself.
And while talking about Annette, I'd like to take a moment to appreciate how we're getting to see more than just the Revolution in France. As someone who has a fascination in the French Revolution, I really liked how they're also bringing up the Revolution in Hati (saint-domingue) as we tend to just focus on what was going on in Europe and France at this time, but important Revolutions were also going on all across Frances holdings that still effect what's going on. And getting to see it from the perspective of Annette, a former slave who liberated herself and helped in the Revolution is really cool, especially getting to see her Yoruba heritage from her parents, and her religion. It's also neat to see Hati Creole being used. While this show does have some flaws, Annette is not one of them, and if you're having trouble accepting that then. Idk what to tell you
Anyway back to obsessing over Alucard (and also Juste Belmont)
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getting older can be so amazing? you get more familiar with yourself. learn tips & tricks for troubleshooting your own brain. trial & error helps you build routines that minimize discomfort, maximize reward. your preferences/interests don't get set in stone, but you do find out which ones are going to stay with you in the long-term, and which ones are fun but transient joys to appreciate in the moment.
you learn that the world is so much more complex than you were taught, and that that's okay, and that there's an endless supply of things you can learn or watch or experience or think about if you want to. if you're lucky, you loosen up, stop putting so much pressure on yourself. if you're lucky, you learn to recognize that negative inner voice, and whack it with a baseball bat until it hushes up. if you're lucky, you learn to treat yourself gently, not because you are fragile but because you are worthy of gentleness. (i hope you are lucky.)
and some things will change. some things will get better. some things will get good. and maybe you start to recover from the dehumanizing stress of childhood/education. maybe you learn the power of your own autonomy. maybe you learn how to walk away from bad situations (which is a superpower even if you don't realize it yet). and you get to choose your own clothes. and your own food. and which relationships to pursue! and what you do with your free time. and with your life (but don't worry you get to choose that gradually). and that's crazy! and sometimes scary. and extraordinarily, indescribably precious.
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nonsense-repository · 2 months
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twistedtrashposts · 2 months
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Bruh wtf is up with the Kalim vs Jamil discourse.
Canonically, they're both children that can't control the circumstances of their birth. It's neither of their faults, hello?
Of course Jamil would be resentful of his situation. And while he's wrong to blame Kalim for it and take it out on him, it makes sense. He's not able to do anything about the people in power. Kalim is the only one he has access to. If he was going to lash out at anybody, the only person he could do it to is Kalim.
And the resentment has literally been kept from Kalim. He has no reason to suspect Jamil holds this resentment because the adults around them have done everything to prevent him from learning about it. The only person that could have told him was Jamil himself, who feared for the safety of himself and his family if he fell out of the Al Asims good graces.
In an ideal situation, Jamil would have communicated his feelings and Kalim, being the sweet boy he is, would have set him free without a second thought, despite the fact that it meant he would no longer have anybody he could trust in his home. But they are not in an ideal situation. And as things are now, while they're both still teenagers, neither of them can change things yet.
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bisquitt · 1 year
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i feel like i’m going insane, sustainability does not equal minimalism. neither does buying a bunch of overpriced shit that claims it’s “ethically sourced”. you know what’s sustainable? fixing shit around your house. thrifting. patching clothes and handing them down. a community garden. potluck dinner parties. farmer’s markets. a barter system among friends and neighbors. kindness. love among community members. capitalism is not sustainable, both in the environmental sense and the longevity sense.
like. buying from small businesses is a good place to start. as is larger businesses being as close to carbon neutral as possible. but materialism is what’s driving us as a planet into an early grave
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lisandyk-baby-eating · 3 months
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