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It's a common pattern that has happened since the beginning of time. When you call out abuse in a way that blames a clear "other", people applaud you. When you call out abuse in a way that requires people to question their own patterns, the same people get defensive.

Call your ex a narcissist and describe him in a way that makes him seem mentally ill, and you'll be supported. Call out systemic male privilege, and you'll be met with hate.

Call your parents narcissists and describe them in a way that makes them seem mentally ill, and you'll be supported. Call out systemic authoritarian parenting, and you'll be met with hate.

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Sits on your dash

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happy birthday to all the tbs in the southern hemisphere!

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TIL that Harvard professor Tom Lehrer was asked at the age of 84 by rapper 2 Chainz if he could sample his 60-year old song. Lehrer replied, “I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?”

via ift.tt

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He drinks a whisky drink (action) he drinks a vodka drink (bonus action) he drinks a lager drink (hasted action) he drinks a cider drink (action surge)

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attack on @skunkes of AL...... :] love love love big fat men hallelujah auuu also imso glad iwas ableto like last minute get attacks done dis year YAY iwas stressing sobad w it ticking awayyy like noo... iwantto play..

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every time a tgirl is convinced she has no worth beyond sex or kink an angel loses its wings

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i really like in fiction when they're like oh no!!! the bad guys are about to win!!! and Character Who Keeps Trying To Sacrifice Themself For The Greater Good is like. gentlemen i have an idea

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Disco Elsyium is not enough. We need more explicitly socialist fictional media.

This is important from like a serious, anthropological, society-wide reason. Like it or not, you are not going to get any more eople involved in the movement by just shouting "read theory" at everyone.

Yes, reading difficult texts is an important skill, but you are not going to be able unite the worldwide proletariat enough for any substatial revolution if that's literally all you have.

Listen to me.

Literally all people know is capitalism.

Capitalist realism has convinced the people living under it that this is just the natural order of the world, that there is no feasible alternative to it that could ever exist. Capitalism has become so all encompassing and suffocating that it is literally easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Even people who know it is explicitly bad think socialism is an impossible alternative because they have not been allowed to seriously engage with it at all.

In order to make people more willing to look into socialism as a concept, we need to break it into the public conscious. Direct action and praxis is one way. This is going to sound dumb, but fictional media is another.

As much as socialists like to hate on liberals for always viewing the world through the lens of pop culture media (ex: Harry Potter, LOTR, Star Wars, etc.), fictional media is an important and impactful part of our modern society. It has been so for decades, if not centuries.

Fiction not only reflects our society back at us, it can alter it given time and volume. It's some of the earliest media we're exposed to from childhood onward, and helps form the basis of our personalities, worldviews, and relationships to each other.

Fiction forms a huge part of the hegemonic ideas of our society.

Capitalists wouldn't be spending billions of dollars on propaganda movies that glorify the military and other instruments of capitalism and it's reinforcement if it wasn't effective propaganda.

If you get people comfortable enough with engaging with socialism as a fictional concept, you get your foot in the door for opening them up to it in reality.

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Imagine if every time you walked into a room you were that cowboy in a new town and the entire room went dead silent as the door flaps squeaked back and forth and drunks in the corner looked up from their cards and the guy jangling on the piano stopped playing and stared at you like you had three heads and a tumbleweed blows by even though they don't belong indoors and anyway that's what social anxiety feels like

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Guess who's state just won the "Worst State in the US" award! 🙃🙃

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The Muppet Movie (1979) dir. James Frawley

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A world with one culture is a world with less places to be from. When we take seriously the idea that some languages are “prestigious” and others are a “waste of time,” we allow a worldview where only people who were born certain places have something to say.

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