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my absolute number 1 rule for not spreading misinformation and dogwhistles on the internet is if a post mentions a "they" and does not explicitly and clearly state who "they" are, you don't share it. unfortunately every day i see this rule broken. do better.
#'but i agree with everything else-'#yeah that's the point#it's not about blatant falsehoods#it's about shifting blame#from specific individuals and institutions#to an unspecified 'other' ready to be filled by whatever group is the most convenient scapegoat#and because that scapegoat is so often jews#yes this is#antisemitism
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None of our hands are clean
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jin guangshan#mianmian#The secret meaning behind one of the jin members scuttling off is:#I couldn't make three people work out in the remaining panels and per my rule of '3 attempts and take a different approach' he had to go.#Sometimes there are meaningful reasons why something happens in the background. And sometimes it is like this.#Let's just say he saw what was about to happen and got out of there before mianmian started throwing hands.#Okay no more delay. The sheer boldness to call WWX a killer in a room full of people who wear their war body count as a badge...#It's about hypocrisy yes - but it is also about how the narrative shifts on the same action depending on the frame.#Because at the end of the day...the blood on our hands is still blood on our hands.#Both the deaths on the battlefield and the deaths of the Jin's abusing the Wen remnants are still deaths caused by another.#They are also deaths that - depending who holds the frame - are noble acts to protect others.#But it isn't supposed to be about who was right and who was wrong.#It is about the need to be seen as the victim to avoid culpability.#Because if you aren't responsible you don't have to be held accountable. You don't have to grow or change.#If someone takes all the blame then there is no need to reflect on your own faults.#We have to protect our fragile ego from the mirror lest it shatter and we have to remake it anew.#Horrifically enough...even if WWX spared the Jin guards or even never ran into Wen Qing#He wouldn't have been able to escape being the scapegoat. He downfall was set into motion a long time ago.#My goodness...What a deliciously tragic story Wei Wuxian's first life was.
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she’s like if the virgin mary smoked a pack of pall malls every day 🚬
#sims 4#the sims community#simblr#ts4#sims 4 edit#mysims#drawing/editing these tears took actual years off my life#editing this in general did but the tears were my hell#her name is norma jean named after her grandmother but she goes by either jeanie or jj#she works at the local convenience store and bartends at night when shes able to pick up shifts#shes the worst bartender in existence and refuses to lift anything over 2 pounds#she once convinced a customer to buy her a sweater because she looked a little cold while working#she lied and said her manager never lets them turn on the heat and casually mentioned pennys was selling her favorite sweater#and then described in detail exactly where the sweater was in the store#all she had to do was blink her big brown eyes and call them baby a few times and they immediately folded#she goes to church 7 days a week even though she hates it because that's what she did when her mom was still alive#and its one of the few things that helps her feel close to her mom#her mom died after she had to drop out of highschool to take care of her#she holds a lot of resentment for having to give up such a big part of her life#but at the same time blames herself for not being able to make her mom better#she doesnt believe in banks and hides money around her house to store it but she's also super forgetful#she'll randomly find money around the house and then treat herself like it was present she meant to leave for her future self#she loves crosswords but treats it like a fun game and refuses to check if her answers are ever right#there's ur fun little facts about jeanie 🫵🏼
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“I missed.”
sorry for being cringe I just thought it was about time I drew their double life permadeath. ignore anything that doesn’t look right (pearl definitely didn’t use an iron axe) I just wanted to make a finished piece because it’s been a bit :,))
anyways here’s the version without blood if anybody wants it ^_^
#mxmarsart#cw blood#tw blood#I will never move on#what do you MEAN bdubs acknowledged he missed when they were ghosts#and then immediately started shifting blame to literally anything else#oh I’m so ill about them it’s not even funny#anyways happy pride month#impulsesv#impulsesv fanart#bdoubleo100#bdoubleo100 fanart#clock duo#clock duo fanart#impdubs#for tagging purposes#pearlescentmoon#pearlescentmoon fanart#double life#double life smp#double life fanart#trafficblr
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i'm so serious The Pitt is the kind of show that would just off their main character to REALLY drive home how much an overwhelmed medical system is breaking its healthcare workers
#im scared#especially with all the foreshadowing#and then season 2 is about abbott and the night shift#But jack being there gives me some comfort#I don't think he'll actually do it#also what do we think makes him break down like that???#Like yes he's had a day#but do we think it's jake or collins#or did he miss something and blames himself??#this is a screengrab from the og trailer btw cause i keep seeing people debate who's gonna talk him down#its clearly our boi abbott#the pitt#the pitt spoilers#dr robby#jack abbott#noah wyle#the pitt hbo
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This outdoor cat argument is pretty common and always short-circuits my brain, because I don't think any other discussion on the environment draws comparisons like that.
Imagine if I went around saying that it's fine if we removed regulations in the oil industry, because strip mining is worse.
Or that habitat loss is the main cause of the decline in endangered rhinos so we should focus on that instead of poaching.
Or that we shouldn't bother recycling, because the pacific garbage patch exists.
There are a lot of problems in any facet of environmentalism and our relationship to the environment but I feel like that's not a particularly good excuse to just... give up. It's just a strangely bleak look at the world.
#it just shifts blame and shuts down the conversation#which i know is the intention of that argument#but if you think about it for more than a few seconds it is just strange#and kind of sad#outdoor cats
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after act 2 I thought Sky is the hexcore manipulating Viktor.
after act 3 I thought Sky is the real Sky, both she and Viktor are being manipulated by hexcore as they see their magic as something good when it actually isn't.
but 1: if that's real Sky why did they change her model
but 2: how can she possibly see their magic as good when it literally killed her? did she thought "it killed me but revived Viktor so it's ok"? alright
then, I believe, when she realized all this evolution is NOT good, it was too late to persuade Viktor. she be "he won't listen to me anyway lol bye" so her death does nothing to his hexdamaged brain.
and then we see Jayce persuading him in like 3 minutes. I'd believe Jayce meant more to Viktor than Sky but it was Sky who was with Viktor all this time when he rejected Jayce right after his resurrection. It was Sky who inspired and guided him in his herald path.
and they made her to be just a metaphor for his humanity to discard when she was a REAL person with her OWN mind and POWER to affect Viktor. well guess she wasn't.
thank you arcane for senseless second fridging of a female character with big ass actual potential. mwah.
#added a thought in comments!#I do respect viktor & jayce brotherhood. nothing bad about them but something there is really unfair#viktor isn't viktor after his first death surely we can shift the blame onto his goofy ass but still#I'm still digesting the show so I can change my mind#but now as everybody's talking about that I wanted to add my brain process ahaha#arcane#sky young
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you know what makes me so queasy? the progression from “i once was poison ivy, but now i’m your daisy” → “pick your poison, babe, i’m poison either way” and “i’m the death you chose, you’re in terrible danger”
#taylor swift#ttpd#the tortured poets department#imgonnagetyouback#the albatross#reputation#don’t blame me#she shifts into a healthier mindset in regards to this theme at the end of the albatross#see: “i’m the life you chose and all this terrible danger”#but knowing that for a period of time she did revert back to feeling like she causes pain and damage to everyone and everything she touches#just makes my stomach turn#it’s so devastating to think about#*
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12 Shredder: puts Karai in a situation that gets her mutated
12 Shredder: Why would Splinter do this?
LEGIT:

Even Tiger Claw was like, "Ayo, u sure about this?" But Shredder really thought initiating a fight in the same room where someone is hanging from a rope for dear life wouldn't have any unintended consequences😭
#answering your asks#i almost launched myself into a tirade about how genuis the writing there was to show how shredder will go to any length to shift the blame#i /might/ do that another day idk—it wouldn't be anything that someone else hasn't already spoken at length about tho lol#tmnt#teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt 2012#tmnt 2k12#tmnt shredder#tmnt karai#meme#memes#eric andre#2012 shredder#2012 karai#oroku saki#karai#i never know what last name to give her in the tags lol
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heartbreaking: this viral post is saying things you completely agree with in the most irritating way possible
#mumbling#goD#thinking about that one cringing = pearl clutching post i saw a while ago#legitimately good points and the only time i’ve ever seen someone point out the linguistic shift#of ‘cringe’ going from verb to adjective and how that takes the blame off of the people DOING the cringing#like yeah! that’s it that’s the thing i’ve been trying to figure out how to say!!#the insidious shift from cringe as an action of the beholder to a property of the beheld is not only worth examining#but demonstrates a seriously important way our brains can be affected over time by language#that was something i didn’t even notice! sure it bothered me but i didn’t know how to express WHY#and i think it’s so cool to see someone finally manage to articulate smth that’s been pissing me off for years#HOWEVER#my god was op’s phrasing annoying the hell out of me for some reason#just written in such a grating writing style i couldn’t bring myself to reblog it even though i really wanted to
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Jordan and Wesk switch bodies for a day pt 2?
Re5 Edition!
Bonus Re5 Sketches that I did too, ignore how wonky they look:


#clearly jordan does not gaf about his pristine hair. how dare you!#he has a reputation to uphold and you got him running around looking like this😭😭😭#really struggled with these ones but i like how they turned out anyway#ESPECIALLY top left wesker holyyy#after this yk damn well wesker injected several weirdo viruses into her body#thank you for the req !! <3333#resident evil#oc x canon#albert wesker#resident evil oc#biohazard#oc#re oc#biohazard oc#fengshuioc#fengshuispeaks#jordan manalang#jordsker#resident evil 5#yea ever wonder why re5 jordans appearance is also crazy different like her personality shift??#wesker is to blame <\3 peak toxicity please break up
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Parts from the Stan Swine Before Time Commentary that makes me wanna study him like a bug
"But, uh, off camera, prior to this adjusting my tie in the mirror, I was downstairs trying to figure out how to get my brother back from that dimension that he… through various means wound up in. Partially my fault. Partially his. Who could really say? Y’know the point is, I wasn’t just the curmudgeon I look like here."
"This was a tale I told to Mabel to um, y’know make her see the real me because sometimes the truth is hiding within a lie. Y’know like, you might tell a lie like uh “I fought a monster for your pig” and the truth is you’re directly responsible for the pig getting stolen b-but the deeper truth is you would’ve fought a monster, right? It’s like a, it’s sorta like a truth turducken; lie, truth, lie, truth– y’know who’s really to say what is real and what is not? Certainly not Soos! He has no idea what’s real."
"Uh, yeah I’m pretty sure [McGucket] was responsible for getting us to… fall off of this [rope]… wait, let’s wait and see… yeah, there it is- called it! His fault. Sometimes I remember things being someone else’s fault but this case I was right! All McGucket."
"So what you’re watching right here, me tussling with a pig, getting attacked by a dinosaur, plummeting into a ravine, this was not how I expected this day to wind up. But, uh, push comes to shove, y’know, I’m not a bad guy, right? Like… how many of you, looking at this video right now, how many of you think that I’m gonna let this pig get eaten by a monster? Is that what you think of me? Not gonna do it. Not gonna happen."
"I can’t remember how we got outta this one. Did we, did we die? Am, am I in the afterlife right now? I seriously can’t recall. A dinosaur came for us, I must’ve done something really amazing, personally, myself. Maybe I, uh, oh whaddya know, actually it was Soos!"
#what is wrong with him <3#him and his relationship with blame and kinda being aware that he tries to shift it away from him constantly#....urgh unfortunately the phrase 'take responsibility' has been forever tainted for me by a certain fanbase#stan pines#stanley pines#(....stan going 'needing a memory gun is weak shit watch this' @ the blindeye cult)#mr avoiding shit at all costs even though it's gonna come back to bite him he's like me fr fr#him being so desperate that hes not perceived as 'bad'....#still so curious about how he actually described the portal fight to the kids
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can I be a hater for a second whenever I see the fic trope of “Talia purposely told Jason about Tim to get Jason to attack him” I’m like guys I’m gonna be real with you I don’t think Talia would care about that little boy at all
#Like 1st of all the attempt to shift the blame for Jason’s behavior on Talia is lame as fuck I Know What You Are (a misogynist)#2nd of all correct me if I’m wrong because I am not completely familiar with the ins and outs of Talia’s Evil era but is there any canon#basis for Talia feeling like Damian’s place is threatened by Tim? Like not only did yall make that up it’s also dumb#I know fic is all about making shit up but I’m being a hater regardless why is Talia always the villainess fall guy for the sake of Batfam#reconciliation fluff? (I Know What You Are)#dc#Batfam
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imagine if, for once, the "cycle of violence" wasn't about how the oppressed side has to forgive and forget, or that killing a mass murderer in self defense makes you just as bad, and maybe was instead about something that's actually proportional, like fuckin.. idk. romeo and juliet I guess?
#arcane critical#it seems insulting that the lesson is always that if someone from the oppressed side responds with violence to the brutality of the system-#-then they are bad and have to learn to “just be nice” to their oppressors#shifting the blame onto the oppressed. and also implying that they deserve it I guess?#kinda getting away from topic and just rambling about general media trends that arcane s2 reminds me of
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something has snapped in me I feel like a hippie. I lay awake for two hours last night thinking about the feasibility of making my own dye pigment. what happened at the turn of the year bro
#cant even blame it on getting someone else's blood this was a pre blood shift#i need a local barter charity economy STAT#not art#also may have had a teeny tiny psychotic break there for a while but i couldn't do anything about that so we cool.
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