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the problem with watching buffy the vampire slayer for the first time when you're 13 is that it will fundamentally reshape your brain chemistry to the point where literally all fiction becomes buffy the vampire slayer in different fonts. "watch another show!" you might say, and believe me i have! i promise i've watched many other shows since i was 13. but the problem is that all those other shows as well as films, books, podcasts etc. are simply deviations of buffy the vampire slayer to me. it's the holy text, the primary source. everything else is just commentary.

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Oh shit.

Might be wise to change your passwords.

ETA: Yeah, the article is a bit vague on some of the details. I note that, and will look into this further.

But frankly, some of my more crucial passwords are overdue for change,... so I'm changing them anyway.

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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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you know you're good at your job when every single person tells you "thank god you're back"

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My official position is that Luigi Mangione is innocent because he's not the real killer and whoever the real killer is is also innocent. Two different people who are both innocent.

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If someone claiming to be a plainclothes ICE officer tries to kidnap you, you should legally be allowed to kill them maybe

Remember, MAGA said Jan 6 insurrectionists were antifa dressed up as MAGA.

Every accusation is a confession.

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What did you mean, "More military resources were spent rescuing art and dancing horses than were spent rescuing Holocaust victims"? I've never heard about this.

Because it’s the truth, but the narrative that the US likes to spin is that they’re the Great Saviors Of The Jewish People from the Holocaust–but that’s bullshit.  

There’s a good summary article here: “The Monuments Men” Shows How America Saved Paintings While Letting Jews Die

In short, no food for Jewish refugees, no bombing of the tracks to the extermination camps, no place to flee to, no support of any kind.  One British officer said in a 1943 conference, that arranging for the release of large numbers of Jews “would be relieving Hitler of an obligation to take care of these useless people.”

But paintings?  Oh, that they could find time and money and resources for.  Supreme Court Justice Roberts, who had said that he had no time for saving Jews, found the time to chair a group tasked with saving the art–the Monuments Men.

The core quote for me is this:

Meeting with a U.S. senator in 1943, Rabbi Meyer Berlin (namesake of the future Bar-Ilan University) remarked: “If horses were being slaughtered as are the Jews of Poland, there would by now be a loud demand for organized action against such cruelty to animals. Somehow, when it concerns Jews, everybody remains silent, including the intellectuals and humanitarians of free and enlightened America.” Two years later, in a sad fulfillment of Rabbi Berlin’s dire prediction, U.S. Gen. George Patton diverted U.S. troops to rescue 150 prized Lipizzaner dancing horses, which were caught between Allied and Axis forces along the German-Czech border.

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And today on "Hamasniks using words they don't understand..."

For the love of fuck, people. I'M NOT A ZIONIST BECAUSE I'M NOT JEWISH! ITS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO BE A ZIONIST AND YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT WORD MEANS!!! It's a Jewish word for a Jewish concept, one that YOU CLEARLY HAVENT A FUCKING CLUE ABOUT!!

If yall had even TALKED to ONE FUCKING JEW about what Zionism actually is, what Judaism actually is, and let them answer without interrupting, you would get it! But you dont because you just hate Jews without even knowing them! You hate them because someone else told you to hate them! Because your culture was BUILT on hating them!

You wanna know how I know?

Because I used to hate Jews too!

But I got better! It literally took ONE Jewish friend! I made my first Jewish friend and talked with them, at length, about their traditions and their history and their faith and the history of oppression against them! I was shown how I had been deluded by a lifetime diet of blood libel conspiracies, like YOU! But then I made the painfully conscious choice to look inside myself at the parts of me that were filled with hate. I confronted my hate and chose to be better than it, and to become an ally of the Jewish People and an ally of justice!

YOU CAN CHANGE TOO! No matter how hateful you are right now, and anti-Zionism IS antisemitism, you can change! You can learn to spot the propaganda and dissemble it to find the true narrative of hate behind it!

I am fucking begging you to be normal about Jews long enough to actually learn what Judaism is about from the mouths of Jews in their own words. To learn about the history of injustice against them and the hatred and abuse they have survived. To learn about their rich and beautiful history of resistance and resilience. To learn about their complex and inspiring traditions and philosophies.

Ending antisemitism is the only way to ever achieve a Free Palestine. Talk to Jews in good faith, listen, and don't interrupt. You will see what I saw.

If I can turn away from Jew Hate, so can you. I wasnt a lost cause and neither are you.

You dont have to be hateful forever.

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i like rocky horror picture show idk

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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Also it's like. Antipsychotics weren't made to "reduce psychosis" cause we don't have that kind of science in psychiatry. What they do and do well is reduce your cognitive function and all around sedate you to a point where you are unlikely to have the energy and ability to act out/cause trouble as a result of being mentally distressed. And while I am not saying that this can't be a relevant relief for a psychotic person in some cases, it sure isn't the straightforward biomedical solution to schizophrenia it's made out to be

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i dont want this post to be like one of those "if you arent talking about this then you're evil" moral ocd posts but. i gotta talk about this.

i only just today heard about Kumanjayi White, a 24 year old disabled Warlpiri man who was killed by northern territory police on May 27th. He was handcuffed and forced to the ground, face down, with an officers knee on his neck. He was walking around a grocery store, by himself. A worker at the grocery store described him, saying, "One look and you can tell he's got special needs".

A poor and disabled Aboriginal man was killed in the northern territory and i can't help but notice the similarities to George Floyd. Murdered in a public place, knee on the back of his neck. Only difference is i havent heard a word about this anywhere, in the news or otherwise, since it occured 2 and a half fucking weeks ago. where's the anger? i dont like making political posts, i hope this doesnt break containment its just. god its fucking pissing me off right now.

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happy birthday, asshole!