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Was tempted to tell off a terf for directing the usual “transmascs are damaged/confused/traitorous/brainwashed women” narrative at me today but on second thought I think I’d actually like to broadcast this one to a wider audience

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It’s so funny to me how republicans share news that’s just text on a screen. No articles linked no studies or research just words on a plain background like “co2 heals infertility and makes cocks bigger!” And they all share it and add caps lock captions like “DAMN SKIPPY!!! SHARE THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND STOP THE DEMONRATS!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!” Just all day text that says anything wtf does 1048% spike in the nervous system mean???

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Honestly part of the problem with this obsession with only consuming unproblematic fiction is that people are less likely to acknowledge when something is harmful. If you so much as say hey this one joke in this one episode was offensive fans will write you an essay on why it wasn’t. Because they’ve created a world view where this is basically accusing them of being a bad person who has committed an unforgivable sin.

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Not a popular opinion on tumblr I know but I would argue character death is good for stories, actually, and often a death with long narrative consequences is much better use of a character than having them linger with no more important plot beats to hit.

Character death isn’t writers being mean to viewers or something characters don’t “deserve,” it’s an important part of narrative and plotting to give stories stakes and emotional beats. The work making you have an emotion is in fact the point, not something to avoid.

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This could be something written by The Onion, but Republicans are genuinely beyond parody.

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gotta be honest I just fundamentally don't get the concept of hatewatching. like sure I've put a dumb movie on during a get together with friends to get silly entertainment out of it. but whenever another disney live action remake or harry potter thing or whatever comes out and I have to see posts on my dash being like "boycott it! if you REALLY have to see how bad it is at least pirate it!!" I'm always like. bitch you live like this? you watch movies you know you'll hate? you take time out of your day - and you have a limited number of days on this earth - to watch a movie you'll hate, when there are so many great movies in the world that you could love? I'll never understand it.

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It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn't just the "unalive" "grape" alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like "gay" "hell" "fuck" etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It's so tiresome and I'm sick of it.

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"but the text never explicitly stated it!!!" hey, so that's actually what they tried to teach you in those english classes you barely passed 😁

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"autistic people need instructions for every simple task" okay how about we talk about the neurotypicals not following clear instructions. what do you mean it didn't work the way you wanted, i gave you the instructions. oh you didn't follow them? you didn't see where i clearly indicated the directions you were supposed to follow for this task? and you're shocked it didn't turn out right? you decided to pull a Jared I'm 19 and go rogue? you're surprised the road less travelled isn't fucking paved because no one travels it? do you get off on this

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This might be a shocking concept to some folks, but what if some media is specifically made to be deeply examined and some isn’t

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i get back from my lil me day touching grass (sand), open my phone and the first thing i see is the US fucking bombing iran and the media manufacturing consent to invade the middle east like its 2003 again holy fuck im so tired

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Okay so let me get this straight, I (someone of Jewish descent) am an antisemite for supporting a socialist in the NYC mayoral election over a rapist, because that socialist is a muslim?

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so luigi mangione is framed by the media as the killer, the assassin, the terrorist, etc, and the feds enforce his guilt through sensationalist bait, but a literal assassin we have video evidence of entering the houses of the people he was killing is still only a suspect

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It really is 2003 again Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

Like, all Republicans did was replace Iraq and gay people with Iran and trans people.