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Debt ceiling negotiations // updated trolley problem?

We will blow up the bus unless you use it to run over people

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This likely reflects poorly on me for following the wrong people but I’ve seen a few “Biden worse than Trump posts”

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett vs Jackson

Coup in Bolivia, attempted coup in Venezuela + almost started wars with Iran and North Korea vs ended occupation of Afghanistan

Biden is a US President; he is evil beyond redemption and I hope he suffers before he dies and Trump was horrifyingly worse.

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Fmk

Father, Son, Holy Spirit

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Season 1 Bashir is SUCH a chaser omfg

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Worf is such a painslut

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Tumblr don’t fail me now

A friend of mine is looking for SFF book recs

yes:

inspiring

engaging

thoughtful

original

BIPOC

female

no:

angry

depressing

inaccessible

neolib

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This ignores the fact that Rowling WAS an anodyne liberal during the peak of the fandom, and even then I never saw someone say “they’re just Santa’s Elves” I saw “yeah *awkward face* *change topic*” ditto people pointing out that Umbridge is implicitly raped off screen or the naming of Cho Chang. The goblins being antisemitic is the only thing from that era I remember people defending as saying “this is just European folktales” to which someone else would grimace and add “though of course those folktales” and trail off and then everyone would reflect on the prevalence of antisemitism in early modern Europe and change to subject.

I guess what I’m saying is we don’t have to ask “what sound this critique look like if JKR was a milquetoast liberal and not a goose stepping fascist because the criticism and transformative works from like 1998-2018 answer that question

like seriously, im sorry ive been keeping this in my back for a while but i got to say it, the whole house elves being slaves is silly, they are elves, they are literally santa's elves, they are the oompa loompas, in the chocolate factory that is hogwarts, that is the thing they are meant to evoke, dumbledore is a very literal willy wonka/santa claus figure and the elves working at hogwarts are supposed to work under the same "dont think too hard about" logic that those other stories are supposed to work under.

but then rowling goes on and fucks it up by actually trying to make the story serious and gritty and have real life consequences and a real life grounding. but any criticism that doesnt take this into account is fundamentally, purposefully dense and dishonest about the framing of the thing they are tackling

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DSA needs a little more D/s Gay imo

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I have never watched an episode of Seinfeld but posts like this make me understand why people would, I think

george forgets which neopronouns his partner uses. elaine starts dating a guy with her birthname, and discovers his birthname is elaine. jerry takes newman’s comment that he isnt “really” butch because he uses bath salts to heart. an ominous horoscope drives kramer to audition for rupaul’s drag race.

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What is wrong with me

So there’s a trope “you can’t be friends with someone you have a crush on”

And I am like the opposite I am almost exclusively friends with people I have a crush on or would like to fuck or date. (A lot of my friends are exes who broke up with me).

But like from the general conversation this seems like it is generally labeled bad/unhealthy/toxic behavior and just like

What makes someone only friends with people they are at least a little attracted to? Is it just from being super shallow?

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I swear that the hotter I think someone on OKC us the more likely they are to be ace.

I think it has to do with style and aesthetic?

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Ironically I was just remarking to my best friend that since braking up 2 years ago our relationship has improved by a huge amount and we are much more emotionally intimate than when we were dating 🤣🤣🤣

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What’s the hottest thing a woman can do and why is it leyning

*yearning intensifies*

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Benoit Blanc is trans

Exhibit A:

I rest my case

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hilarious how in gtn harrowhark spends all this time writing instructions for gideon to make sure she stays out of trouble and meanwhile it’s harrowhark who’s passing out in random places, stealing heads off of bodies, and actively antagonizing every other person in the room at all times

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WARRIOR NUN S2 | Ava and Beatrice small Moments.

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List of true things

1. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is an act of imperialist aggression.

2. The invasion wrong and the ethical response is to support Ukraine/undermine the invasion.

3. The not the only act of imperialism going on in 5783 and people have finite capacities so many people must focus more on other struggles.

4. We will go farthest when we are in mutual solidarity across our disparate struggles.

5. The USA is an empire and has a self-interested foreign policy and does what is right only by chance or accident.

6. The reason the US is supporting Ukraine is to curtail Russian hegemonic ambitions and maintain the US’s global hegemony. Part of that also means upholding the norm that countries cannot change their borders through war.

7. Impact matters more than intent is also true when the intent is evil - that the US government aids Ukraine out of pragmatic realpolitik cannot negate that it is the right thing to do.

8. The US is wealthy beyond all sense and the expenditures on Ukraine are not in any way preventing the US government from providing food, shelter, medicine, or education to its people.

9. If Putin was ousted and a new Russian regime restored Ukrainian integrity tomorrow the US government would not redirect even $1 of unused aid to helping poor people in the US.

10. Arguing that the Ukraine aid money would be better spent on improving the welfare of people in the US is a false scarcity mindset that ignores the fact that US capitalists can easily afford to do both and are choosing to support Ukraine because it aligns with their interests and are choosing to let people in the US starve because that also aligns with their interests.