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infinitysisters · 1 year

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“Once upon a time, when politics were more evenly divided among the elite and less central to their identities, the residents of these affluent bubbles signified their social status through the material symbols of conspicuous consumption: European luxury cars, expensive golf club memberships, and brand name private schools for the kids.

But then the great cultural revolution arose on the campuses of the nation’s designer colleges and universities that served as finishing schools for America’s elite. Suddenly, there was a new language with which to display one’s elite educational pedigree. Any ordinary American could object to “racism,” but only a special kind of baccalaureate conferred upon its holders the specialized vocabulary of “white supremacy,” “black bodies” and “the carceral state.” Deploying this lexicon and ostentatiously displaying the opinions they represented became the new signifiers of gentility, cosmopolitanism, and social superiority. It was the dawn of the Great Awokening.

But like all status signifiers, this refined vocabulary exists in a competitive market. It has to evolve to hold its value. As each political posture goes mainstream, its value depreciates as an indicator of one’s rarified status. New, even more avant-garde positions are needed. Mere police reform isn’t enough — we need police abolition! Not only do we think it’s fine to be trans — we salute our own daughter for going on puberty blockers!

For the elite, keeping up with the Joneses means committing oneself to ever more radical activist agendas. The fading memory of Gender Studies 201 is no longer sufficient in this cutthroat arena. The business executives, lawyers and doctors of America’s SuperZips are compelled to hire DEI consultants to bring them and their employees up to speed on the new revolutionary etiquette. They enroll their children in country day schools that instruct kindergarteners in the fallacy of biological sex, providing them with a head start on the other kids they’d be competing with for a Stanford admissions slot.

This radical grandstanding is a new thing among the educated elite — or perhaps an atavistic thing. But scratch a centimeter deeper and you’ll find the same elite that’s always been there, and this, too, has become a hallmark of today’s political left. The contempt for the masses, with their vaccine hesitancy and their latent fascism. The abiding reverence for credentialed experts. The disdain for political dissent and the pathological need to control the public discourse. It’s all still there, just dressed up in revolutionary drag.

The children of the ruling class have colonized the left, and are using its moral language to malign the broader American public as a bigoted, ignorant, dangerous mob. To protect the “vulnerable” and “marginalized” from this threat, they demand the ideological allegiance of every elite political, cultural, and media institution; the social and professional ostracism of dissidents; and the enforcement of speech codes both online and off. “Social justice” has become both a status signifier for the American establishment and a tool to discipline the rabble.”

- Leighton Woodhouse

#society #politics #luxury beliefs #class hiding behind race #america #the west #ideology as religion #secular pieties #wear your flair #no cost religion #parasitic religion #bullshit #wtf happened to the left #moral exhibitionism #Leighton Woodhouse #nailed it #culture

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sleepyminty · 3 months

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So the new ordeal call 2 leak and uh

Oh no

Ooh noooooo

OOOOOHHH NOOOOO

#my baby nooooo #during ort fight ritsuka only worn down but still has some fight left meaning whatever the fuck happens in oc 2 is finally getting to them #fgo #fgo spoilers #fate grand order #fgo ritsuka #ritsuka fujimaru #fgo ordeal call #the dead inside look actually crushed me #its so gudaover #OC2 WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HIGHSCHOOL FLUFF STH THAT RITSUKA LONGED FOR WTF IS GOING ON HERE #type moon #lasangle when i get u

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volitioncheck · 4 months

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i think i wouldn’t hate disco elysium’s collage mode nearly as much if it weren’t for 1) the way that it was marketed in such a tasteless, soulless manner, let alone the fact that it was a last ditch distraction from a dead on its feet studio piloted by dumbass thieving execs and released on the day of the court declaration, and 2) those dumbass fucking stickers

like if it had been included with the base game from the start and had been titled something a bit more tasteful and in-line with how i would have liked the feature to be marketed as— something like “exploration mode”, something that perhaps could only be unlocked after completing the game for the first time, AND didn’t have those stupid as hell visually and tonally incongruent with the artstyle stickers, i would have applauded it as a nice little bonus for being able to study and appreciate the 3d models and environments for reference.

#it is just so bleak man.#i have no words left to say for the latest development at zaum studios so instead i will just remember how fucked up this was lol #those stickers are the same energy as that dumbass fucking christmas card they put on steam.#cutesy fanart is awesome and all but don’t muddy the tone of the actual source with it. why is that necessary.#for gods sake what happened to boundaries #again i probably would take a different tone to even the stickers if #it had been done under the original creators (which i don’t think it would have‚ which is my point‚ but say hypothetically it happened)#but with the circumstances the way they are it is impossible to not view it all as tainted with a veneer of absolute tastelessness #and a disrespect to the source material and a sorry attempt to appeal to the shallowest parts of ‘fandom’#like you can add cartoony emoji faces and a sticker with harry and kim as cats. or their hands with the caption ‘best friends!!!’ (wtf lol)#and a frame with a bunch of pride flags being waved around (hard to articulate why i feel doubly annoyed of this one.#your corporate pride parade aesthetic is showing again. also it feels… lazy)#but you can never‚ ever erase the fact that you are parading around a stolen IP that you are entirely out of touch with #and one that you clearly have *no idea what to do with*#(something that we’ve all known for months with these hints but today has finally been basically confirmed as the sequel seems to be #officially cancelled with the last of the original writers’ crew being laid off)#how could you have known what to do with Elysium? how could you ever have?#hope you have fun with your stickers. rot #disco elysium #me talking

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royboyfanpage · 4 months

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Thinking about goons who are new to Star not knowing that the Arrows also know hand to hand combat

You see one run out of arrows and you think you're safe until they start sprinting at you full speed

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daylighteclipsed · 7 months

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Remember how ReCoded just casually drops the fact that this is a “true memory” from the heart of Destiny Islands even though we literally see Riku get swallowed up by darkness in KH1, we watch it happen with Sora before the islands get totally wrecked like this, so how could Riku also leave through this portal afterwards

#what the fuck is even happening at the start of kh1 ???#you know what else is weird? the door in front of the secret place that looks like the door from the pink heart station #when the memory of sora running in there is shown in ddd the door is not there #also the fact that riku says the door is open but when sora runs into the secret place it’s still closed #and then it bursts open and kairi’s heart goes inside him - her body’s already gone -#sora’s blown back out onto the beach and suddenly everything’s fucked up outside #it’s just a little piece of the island left you can’t even see where the secret place used to be #so i mean . ? was some of that a dream ?? was he asleep before he got knocked onto the beach ??#if riku wasn’t physically gone at that point then where was he lmao ???#or is this like a different riku? is this a time travel thing or memories from a reset or ??#wtf is going on

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boilingheart · 1 year

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YEAHHHHHH 2023 IS THE YEAR OF FAIRSHAW KISSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why do i keep drawing flynn on the left,,

#bheart art #fairshaw #YEAHHHHHHHH THIS IS MY LIFEBLOOD DUDE!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO LIVING MY BEST LIFE #I AM MY OWN DEMOGRAPHIC #LITERALLY WHY HAVEN'T I DRAWN FLYNN ON THE RIGHT THO WTF IDK WHY THAT'S HAPPENING #HE'S ALWAYS ON THE LEFT. WHY DO I ALWAYS PUT HIM ON THE LEFT.

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mettywiththenotes · 2 months

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It's weird how Hawks went straight from "Dabi" to "Touya", like they are on a first name basis or something. Like I know the whole analysis of it is probably that using his real name is to show that he sees him as more than a villain now because of Dabi's ties with Endeavor

But I'm just thinking, specifically, what does this mean for if Dabi and Hawks ever interact again? Is Hawks just going to call him Touya now?

#im so excited to see if these two interact again #the dynamic of it all?#'we pretended we were friends but actually we were betraying each other and we never believed each other in the first place anyway #and you're the reason my wings aren't as powerful as they were and you left scars behind #and for some reason you revealed your real name to me and you knew mine??#and now that my hero wants to atone for his past sins i want to help him #which unfortunately means helping you too'#like?? wtf i need to know what is going to happen if they even step into the same room again #bnha #bnha manga spoilers #bnha spoilers #dabi todoroki #hawks #mettys posts #metty posts

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wandasaura · 3 months

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it’s Mother’s Day (for UK), would r and/or nat get wanda aka best mommy everrrrr a Mother’s Day gift as a joke?

lmfao when nat first uncovered the mommy kink during their college days, she got wanda a card and some flowers because she’s an asshole… wanda spanked her with those flowers in the communal bathrooms and natasha found out just how much thorns hurt when they’re pricking her ass. doesn’t mean she regretted it though

#they left the fallen rose petals on the floor for everyone to wonder wtf had happened #yail: asks #a: anon #answered.#𝒶𝒸𝒸𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 ꔫ #minors dni ৎ୭

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harringtiddy · 9 days

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I need fics to fix this and I need them now

#911 abc #911 #buddie #eddie diaz #911 season 7 #evan buckley #wtf happened #i begged them not to kill off my father (bobby) and instead they took my SON.#bring Christopher back plz #i so badly wanted him too stay with Buck if he needed space from Eddie and not go to Texas :/#and GERARD?? seriously why. cant he just keel over and die.#why would he even be allowed back after he previously left this specific station due to multiple complaints against him like huh??#i just need to focus on the fact that Bobby is alive and that Mara can see her family thanks to angels known as Madney

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httpiastri · 5 months

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dams drawing challenge……

at least they could laugh about it 😭

#this lineup 💘💘💘#sweethearts #love them so much #their dynamics will work very well i think #i mean we knew they were friends before too but this will be very cute #idk what happened to jms spa drawing but #his f2 car? hello??#like drawing that well with your regular hand would be hard but he did that with his left??? wtf #im crying #@lacii you probs could draw that well with your weak hand and that scares me #in a good way #f2 #jak crawford #juan manuel correa #formula 2 #formula two #dams racing

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greylight32 · 5 months

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I stop checking the dndads tag for five seconds and now for some reason everyone is making Glenn pregnant?

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #glenn close dndads #dndads glenn close #wtf?#I left for five seconds #what the hell happened?

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ying-doodles · 2 months

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// webtoon spoilers (ep 136)

... HUH???

What the FUCK was that???

He made Javier go after the Heart of Winter???

Of course that was a TERRIBLE idea, that was just a distraction so that he could get to him!!

HE CURSED HIM??? "FACE YOUR TRUE NATURE"??? EXCUSE ME???

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING??? "Turn everything into a wasteland..." "We have the power to do that." Hello???

... I'm just fcking BAFFLED-

#ying talks about tged #the greatest estate developer #tged #tged liveblog #tged spoilers #ep 136 #this is the bone dragon arc all over again #so many changes have happened and i'm just left here wondering where the hell the plot's going #lhm i'm going to kick your ass cause wtf was ANY of that??

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celestialmick · 7 months

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every day i wake up and wonder what happened to Ed's ship. Like he got on the Revenge and and never stepped foot on his ship again.

#will we ever find out wtf happened to it #did he leave crew behind to run it?#did he just abandon it?#who's in charge of his ship since both he and izzy left it #i need answered #our flag means death #ofmd

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professionallydeadinside · 10 months

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Women (the mosquitoes) want me (my left leg) carnally

#MORE BITES :((( BUT ONLY ON MY LEFT LEG :(((#none on my upoer body and only two on my right leg wtf is happening #sorry to kill a girlboss but I need this bitch dead #my post

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evilkitten3 · 6 months

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whenever i read any naruto fanfic i always assume that during the team seven scenes obito is hiding in the bushes watching whatever's going on and thinking bitter thoughts at kakashi

little fuckin. shrub edgelord

#naruto #naruto shippuden #uchiha obito #team seven #and then i get confused when he doesn't know something that happened when he wasn't explicitly stated to be onscreen #wdym tobi wasn't watching the zabuza mess wtf r u talking about ofc he was #he left when haku died tho. for some reason

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eggtrolls · 21 days

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turns out I don’t have the flu or (probably) bronchitis, I have COVID the remix

#I’m the only person left in New York who still wears a mask on the train and this happens to me wtf #Egg talks

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