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aowski · 2 years

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The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world. There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. Dreadful indeed it is to see a starving child, but the answer to that is not to prevent the child's arrival but to restructure the world so that the child can live in it: so that the "vital interest" of the world becomes nothing less than the life of the child.

James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

#civilized #wretched of the earth #status quo #slaugher #enslavement #bombs #children #conscience #vital interests #james baldwin #baldwin #gaza #palestine #slaughter of the innocents

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pratchettquotes · 6 months

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Ponder rolled his eyes. These things always sounded fine when he worked them out in his head. He'd read some of the old books, and sit and think for ages, and a little theory would put itself together in his head in a row of little shiny blocks, and then when he let it out it'd run straight into the Faculty and one of them, one of them, would always ask some bloody stupid question which he couldn't quite answer at the moment. How could you ever make any progress against minds like that? If some god somewhere had said, "Let there be light," they'd be the ones to say things like, "Why? The darkness has always been good enough for us."

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

#ponder stibbons #unseen university #the last continent #discworld #terry pratchett #wizards #academic #faculty #assistant professor #coworkers #progress #new ideas #tradition #status quo #bloody stupid question #good enough for us

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lowcountry-gothic · 4 months

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The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their ‘vital interests’ are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the ‘sanctity’ of human life, or the ‘conscience’ of the civilized world.

James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

#quotes #james baldwin #civilization #status quo #slavery #torture #humanity #genocide

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lurkingrabbit · 21 days

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Status Quo

#status quo #art #doodle #hazbin hotel #alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel vox #oc #vox #hazbin hotel oc #helluvaboss oc

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she-is-ovarit · 10 months

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"The LGB community", "The LGBTQ community", "The gay community", "the queer community", etc...

These phrases are used among conservatives, radical feminists, and trans activists/gender ideologists, and just broader culture alike.

Portraying the homosexual and bisexual population as one "community" is disingenuous, in my opinion. There isn't one, overarching community.

"The woman community"

"The poor community"

"The elder community"

Etc.

It doesn't make much sense, and acts to both politicize and stereotype ("you're all the same"). This choice of words isn't just normalized for homosexual and bisexual populations, but also for people of color, tribal/Indigenous groups, and disabled populations. i.e, "the black community", "the Indigenous community", "the disabled community", "the deaf community", "the autistic community", and so on. It also portrays social cohesion under whatever may be the current mainstream culture or belief systems within these groups, which might not be true but instead driven by broader culture or more privileged individuals.

Lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people are a population or a group, with several communities. Lesbian biker communities, communities of gay musicians, etc.

When we refer to marginalized/oppressed groups as the "XYZ community" and use the word "community" as an umbrella term, as stated above this effectively associates mainstream cultural norms and ideologies existing within these populations as cohesive, accepted by all, and in many ways being what defines them. This is (in part!) why, for example, being unsupportive of BDSM turns into others accusing someone of being homophobic, because they associate the leather and BDSM community with the LGB population, since this community or culture is what is currently mainstream among gay and bisexual people. Participating in BDSM, leather, and queer theory are not what defines being lesbian, gay, or bisexual. These things are subcultures or subcommunities which have gone mainstream, and what is mainstream is often pushed by and/or is what benefits the most privileged within a population.

My pitch is that it is beneficial to replace "community" with "population", "group", "people", etc., to make distinguishments between "broader gay culture" and the actual people, and to adopt framing that understands that there exists several communities within specific groups instead of just implying there exists one community true for everybody.

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formulalfc · 4 months

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okay nobody is gunna care about this but i was talking to my grandad about my record player and the fact i'm trying to make my collection of vinyls bigger but they're just so expensive sometimes

and he's pulled out a box of maybe 100 vinyls and told me to talk what i want????

i shit you not there's status quo, pink floyd, bob dylan, blondie, van halen, genesis, bruce springsteen, the who and like so many more

i have hit gold people ( no beatles tho :( )

#formulalfc #vinyl records #vinyl #bruce springsteen #genisis #status quo #led zeppelin #blondie #pink flloyd

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undergroundrockpress · 5 months

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Status Quo, 1974.

#rock photography #Status Quo #1974 #1970s

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progressivemillennial · 5 months

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A good reminder on Black Friday, the most capitalist of days! Just because we are born into a capitalist world doesn't mean it has been or will always be a capitalist world, nor does it mean that there isn't something better for humanity than capitalism.

#capitalism #paradigms #politics #us politics #progressive #quotes #quoteoftheday #divine right of kings #status quo #black friday #ursula k. le guin

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metalcultbrigade · 8 months

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Monsters of Rock 1982

#metalcultbrigade #metal #heavy metal #rock #classic rock #hard rock #saxon #status quo #ian gillan #gillan #uriah heep #hawkwind #anvil #classicrock #classic metal

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void-thegod · 3 months

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oddity versus the status quo

i am neurodivergent. i think that is pretty plain when you get to know me. how i act, how i move.

i am barely restraining my personality, my soul, in this body

i don't think like others do. but i have many of the same thoughts

how odd it is, when i act on those thoughts, unlike others

people say they understand. they say they feel the same things that i do. yet are affronted and surprised when i act on my feelings and thoughts

they are much too big for me to contain. people relate to that.

but somehow it is different when i do it. something about the way i go about it

yet everyone is different. right? there is no such thing as weird or normal, right?

that is so disingenuous. so hypocritical.

people complain about working. about how much bullshit they put up with. yet they do not quit. they continue.

and somehow it is a virtue to continue harmful patterns

but we are supposed to break those, are we not? we are supposed to change and grow into better forms - better people

yet when you make such steps -- especially as a neurodivergent, queer, and/or brown person -- it is seen as different. like. "how dare you want more"

but there is more to be had. more that i need to survive. than just a paycheck.

peoples' bodies, minds, and souls are corrupted and sickened by so much in our world

lying to ourselves, being inauthentic, staying in toxic environments, being in relationships with people who are not for us -- that has become the norm.

how could you think less of a person for removing themselves? regardless of the risk? regardless of the pay?

my safety, healthy, and freedom are my highest priorities. those are inseparable from any of the things i mentioned.

so what am i supposed to do, except pull away from much of humanity and what it has built?

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datshitrandom · 8 months

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Darren Criss at Hamer Hall | status quo | September 6, 2023 | 🎥 via Jenn

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pratchettquotes · 1 year

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"Juliet, you shall go to the banquet," she said aloud, "and so shall I."

"But I think Mrs. Whitlow won't like that," said Juliet.

Something was still bubbling inside Glenda. It had started in Shatta and lasted all day yesterday and there was still some left today. "I don't care," she said.

Juliet giggled and looked around in case Mrs. Whitlow was hiding near the bus stop.

And I really don't care, Glenda thought. I don't care. It was like drawing a sword.

Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

#glenda sugarbean #juliet stollop #mrs. whitlow #unseen academicals #discworld #terry pratchett #banquet #status quo #empowerment #courage #resistance #agency #change #rebellion #expectations #i don't care #drawing a sword

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lifonse · 2 months

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Okay sorry guys dialovers posting again but I miss it so bad sometimes. I seriously do. I remember when dark fate was coming out and id check the website every day for updates/just to look at the character art and listen to the voice lines😭😭😭 anyone remember akuichansera💔💔 I used to post tuis picture ao much

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vodkaandsnakes · 2 months

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On this day, February 25, in Type O Negative history:

Type O Negative play The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ (1994)

Bloody Kisses is #12 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart (1995)

Bloody Kisses is #169 on the Billboard Top 200 chart (1995)

The soundtrack for the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts is released. The soundtrack features a collaboration between Type O Negative and Ozzy Osbourne called "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (originally by Status Quo). Somewhere out there in the ether, a Peter-only-vocals version of this track can also be found- it's definitely worth listening to as well. (1997)

Type O Negative play the American Theater in St. Louis, MO (2000)

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tinker-the-prol · 9 months

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Normies:

Individuality on a social level

Bootstrap mentality, fuck the poor, become the boss

Collectivism on a personal level

Do/like what's "cool", buy buy buy, don't be "weird" & shame anyone who is

Radicals/queers:

Individuality on a personal level

Do what you want as long as it harms no one; enjoy what you want, dress how you want, love who you love, fuck who you fuck

Collectivism on a social level

Help others, everyone should have their needs & wants met, etc.

Which one of those sounds more appealing, more like freedom?

Individuality is a virtue, but the individualism we are sold is not. They tell us as kids to "be ourselves" and "be unique" but when we practice these things we are shunned and shamed.

I would argue that the individuality that is deemed acceptable isn't individuality at all. It's not difference, it's indifference. Boot licking your way to the top isn't uniqueness, it's not a virtue. It's cowardice and they should be the ones ashamed of themselves.

With respect to the religious, we may as well assume we have one life to live. Do you really want to spend it like this? Join us! Be yourself, stop worshipping billionaires, kiss a person of the same gender as you, fight nazis, defend the oppressed! Let's change this world so that we can be ourselves without being treated like shit!

#queer #individuality #status quo #be yourself

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alpaca-clouds · 2 months

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Musing about Dreamworks

I have recently rewatched a lot of old Dreamworks stuff and I realized something: The way a lot of Dreamworks stuff breaks with the hero'e's journey is actually a really good thing.

If you watch Dreamworks movies and compare it with Disney or even Pixar, there is the quite obvious difference that for the most part Dreamworks heroes and heroines are underdogs, while Disney heroes most of the times are not. It is also the reason I think that a lot of queer folks found themselves in a lot of the Dreamworks stuff early on. I for sure can say I did. It is super easy to read a queer subtext into quite a few Dreamworks movies.

Compared to Disney there is also the fact that Dreamworks seemingly never felt the need to use their protagonist's marginalizations, when there, as a way to advertise. It was simply something that was there...

But there is this other big thing.

Disney movies for the most part very clearly follow the Hero's Journey, but in a way that they are so very married to the Status Quo. You know, often in the Hero's the Hero returns home - which Disney usually takes as "the hero returns to the Status Quo". The hero changes, but the world around them doesn't. Because Disney usually says: "The world as it is, is alright."

I could probably go into the depth of the MCU here, but to stay with animation, let's talk about Disney's one real underdog story: Aladdin. The central conflict arises in the first place because Aladdin is of a much lower status and hence cannot court Jasmin. This is basically what leads to the inciting incident and everything. So, the solution in the end is? Well, Aladdin gets a free pass. But in general there is nothing much changed about the class structure of the world.

Meanwhile almost all Dreamworks movies involve the world around the heroes changing. In Shrek the world has to learn to accept ogers. In Kung Fu Panda more than anything it is Shifu who needs to learn the lesson. In Megamind the way that the populus of Metro City treated Megamind was the issue. And most notably probably How to Train Your Dragon, where the vikings needed to learn to work with the dragons.

One can almost make the argument that Dreamworks movies in general reject the status quo. In fact, heroes that want to re-establish the status quo will need to learn that it actually was not a good thing. Be it the animals in Madagascar returning to the zoo and finding it was not at all what they remembered, or be it Puss in The Last Wish learning that his status quo (him having the many lives) was not good for him.

I can very much say that starting in my teens, when I became more interested in animation, I always liked Dreamworks Animation better than the other animation studios in the west. And yes, I quite early learned about the queer readings of Shrek for example. And I was able to well realize that Dreamworks was better in a lot of their messages than Disney was (and clearer).

But I actually never pinned down, why Dreamworks felt so much more progressive until I started to think about this recently. That Dreamworks actually allows for the world around the heroes to change and in some cases address systematic oppression.

And don't get me wrong. Like from a production side and behind the scenes, there is still a lot wrong with Dreamworks as well. They absolutely tried their best together with Disney to keep down the pay for animators and stuff. There was definitely also some cases of discrimination and bad conduct. But just from the side of what the movies themselves say? Yeah, no, I see myself a lot more in the Dreamworks stuff than anything Disney ever made.

#dreamworks #dreamworks animation #kung fu panda #puss in boots #madagascar #shrek #how to train your dragon #hero's journey #status quo #progressivism #media analysis

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