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Honestly the thing that makes discussions of culture of all forms on the English-language internet so exhausting is the ever-present "epistemological stinginess" if you will, of every discussion. Namely the idea that everything in the world (except, implicitly, all of the works that the interlocutor in question Personally holds most dear) is ultimately reduceable to its most negative aspects and that you ever see someone enjoying something Problematic sufficiently "uncritically" you then have carte-blanche to shamelessly and constantly emotionally blackmail them about it while continuing to ignore any positive aspects to the work that might actually draw them to it

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Lesbian Lovers Kissing In Tiananmen, 2006

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Return of the king

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Free pdf.

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(Lesbian OP) "women are more attractive than men"

(The replies)

"Hey, I'm a man and this hurt me worse than anything else in the world. My wife left me this morning and this post was my final straw. I'm standing in my bathtub right now with a pistol in my mouth and it's your fault you bitch. You bitch. You cunt bitch"

"Aaaaand this right here is why everyone hates lesbians."

"What about trans men????? You're saying you hate trans men??? You're saying you want all trans men to kill themselves??????????"

"Hey op this is a lil uhhh....yikes! Just a reminder from your friendly neighborhood Cheese Goblin™️ that people of ALL genders and sexual orientations are attractive. MEN ARE VALID. MEN ARE BEAUTIFUL. MEN ARE LOVED. Sexism towards men will NEVER be okay, and if you disagree you can fuck right off *gif from Good Omens*

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Since Ballymena erupted in three nights of anti-migrant riots last month [June 2025], tranquility has returned to the County Antrim town. The rioters, after all, got what they wanted. They won. Dozens of Romanian and Bulgarian Roma families that fled have not returned and those that remain keep a low profile – they do not linger on the streets and are scarcely visible. The mobs who smashed windows, burned houses and battled police in order to expel Roma – and some other foreigners – from this corner of Northern Ireland see it as a victory. “That’s them away back home. Everybody is relieved,” said Leanne Williamson, 42, who witnessed, and endorsed, the unrest. “It was madness but it was long overdue. The Romanians were ignorant and cheeky. Everyone now is at peace.”

(article from 19 July 2025)

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Are they ‘trauma dumping’ or are they just discussing their life experience and you are such an asshole that you can’t stand to be confronted with information that makes you uncomfortable for 0.005 seconds???

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Passover seder at UC Berkeley’s Gaza solidarity encampment (via twitter)

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“This particular project is about my father, but it’s also about so many other people’s fathers. There are so many people who were involved in the Panthers,” she says. “So many people have a file like this on them, many of whom are still in prison, or many of whom might not have a child who happens to be an artist and can use their family as a way to talk about the greater black community and American history.”

source

That whole exhibit is fucking amazing. It should be seen by everyone.

#BlackArt #BlackPanther

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Bolivia; Colombia; Cuba; Indonesia; Iraq; Libya; Malaysia; Namibia; Nicaragua; Oman; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; and South Africa - have committed to implementing the six measures immediately through their domestic legal and administrative systems.

1. Prevent the provision or transfer of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel.

2. Prevent the transit, docking, and servicing of vessels at any port…. in all cases where there is a clear risk of the vessel being used to carry arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel.

3. Prevent the carriage of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel on vessels bearing our flag… and ensure full accountability, including de-flagging, for non-compliance with this prohibition.

4. Commence an urgent review of all public contracts, to prevent public institutions and funds from supporting Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territory and entrenching its unlawful presence.

5. Comply with obligations to ensure accountability for the most serious crimes under international law, through robust, impartial and independent investigations and prosecutions at national or international levels, to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes.

6. Support universal jurisdiction mandates, as and where applicable in national legal frameworks and judiciaries, to ensure justice for victims of international crimes committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

china, brazil and mexico attended the summit, but seem to have refuse to sign onto the measures. there's an additional date set for 20 September 2025 for additional states to join the 12 states in adopting the arms embargo / prosecution guarantees. no broad sanctions or military intervention.

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(Lesbian OP) "women are more attractive than men"

(The replies)

"Hey, I'm a man and this hurt me worse than anything else in the world. My wife left me this morning and this post was my final straw. I'm standing in my bathtub right now with a pistol in my mouth and it's your fault you bitch. You bitch. You cunt bitch"

"Aaaaand this right here is why everyone hates lesbians."

"What about trans men????? You're saying you hate trans men??? You're saying you want all trans men to kill themselves??????????"

"Hey op this is a lil uhhh....yikes! Just a reminder from your friendly neighborhood Cheese Goblin™️ that people of ALL genders and sexual orientations are attractive. MEN ARE VALID. MEN ARE BEAUTIFUL. MEN ARE LOVED. Sexism towards men will NEVER be okay, and if you disagree you can fuck right off *gif from Good Omens*

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saw people talking about this guy and this is actually disgusting

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I think back to Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul every so often and I really cannot recommend it enough. It truly is one of the most eye opening documentaries about North Korea, interviewing a number of people who left North Korea and now live in the South and discussing the actual objective conditions they find themselves in before and after leaving the North.

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People who insist on jewish victimhood anywhere in the world rn are so fucking embarrassing. Israelis are not suffering and it's absolutely ridiculous to pretend like they are while Palestinians are literally writing their last words online is self centered and is based on an israeli jewish supremacy that so many people just accept. Its maddening.

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like i'm soooo tired of this conversation around centering jewish feelings when jewish people are not the group currently going through a genocide - "antisemitism is on the rise" is only something you could possibly say or believe if you ignored the very actual rampant rise in islamophobia and not once have i heard someone say the phrase "centering palestinian feelings" because even through empathizing with their victimhood it's seen as an abstract suffering that's affecting how jewish people are being treated.. ridiculous - it is not the people in palestine's fault that the people who are slaughtering them are jewish and claim to be doing so because they are jewish - that's the actual antisemitism you should be taking up arms against not the tightrope you force everyone else in the world to walk when speaking about gaza