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Ok, but now without joking, Paris is just derived from the roman name, Lutetia Parisiorum.

Which in turn comes from the Parisii, the roman exonym for the local gallic tribe.

As for what that exonym meant... (Shrugs.)

PARIS WAS NOT NAMED AFTER PARIS HILTON YOU DIPSHIT

source?

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Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the term "Balkanization" date back to Eastern Question and collapse of Ottoman Rumelia?

Making it predate the foundation of NATO by decades?

Hey guys, remember this from National Students for Justice in Palestine earlier in 2025:

Because apparently NATO should have just sat back the whole time and made no attempt to prevent genocide.

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Obviously preaching to the choir here, so I hope this breaks containment, because I want to see the lay of the land on this site.

Reblog so this breaks containment. Thanks.

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What the heck happened here.

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Oh, cool. Had missed that completely.

oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

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That Tumblr death note poll having over half of voters say they would use it to purge their political enemies puts so much of this site into context. Almost nobody here is progressive you're all just aspiring inquisitors and tchekists looking to purge the world of the unholy through fire and sword. The only guiding moral principles on this site are that might makes right and that the strong should do as they please while the weak suffer what they must. It genuinely contextualizes all of the awful behaviors that are accepted as normal here.

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this blog hates donald trump

Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁

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Yeah, even ignoring the massive red flag that is the anachronistic palestinian claim... You can poke holes big enough to sink an aircraft carrier on their claims, and their coverage is more spotty than service in a horror movie.

Where the hell are the Circassians, for example?

On native-land.ca the only “indigenous territory” in the Middle East is “Palestine”

Unlike every other indigenous territory they show “Palestine” has the exact same “traditional borders” as the current state of Israel- including the Golan Heights which was not actually part of the British mandate for Palestine (I made a mistake- that’s no the Golan my point still stands though the historic borders of ancient Palestine thus is not (like why don’t they include any of Jordan in the supposed Palestine when Jordan was part of the mandate for Palestine))

Also note how supposedly there are no other indigenous people in the region. No Kurdistan, no Assyria, no Druze region.

This indigenous advocacy group is working to further the aims of a colonial empire.

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You can only reblog this today.

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Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.

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I value comments much more than kudos.

I really don't understand how "without getting kudos or comments a fanfiction author is going to assume that people who clicked their fic didn't like it" became a controversial take.

I don't know why some people think an author should imagine, or guess that people who click their fic enjoyed it it when nobody is telling them that.

If you're re-reading a fic constantly, or leaving it up in your tab so that it re-loads every day for a hundred days the author is not going to know that unless you tell them. They'd love to hear it. It would make their day.

And if you don't tell them you liked their fic, there's no reason for them to assume you did.

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"Ao3 should allow multiple kudos" "I want to be able to leave more than one kudos"

COMMENT ON THE FUCKING FIC

I SWEAR TO GOD NO ONE COMMENTS MUCH NOW WHEN THE ONLY WAY TO SHOW APPRECIATION FOR A SINGLE CHAPTER IS COMMENTING AND I AM NOT HAVING THIS BULLSHIT BE LIKE TIKTOK WHERE NO ONE EVER COMMENTS POSITIVITY

FOR FUCKS SAKE JUST COMMENT ON THE FUCKING FIC YOU DON'T NEED A MULTIPLE KUDOS BUTTON YOU NEED ACTUAL WORDS

TRUST ME ON ANY WEBSITE OR APP I POST COMMENTS AND WORDS ARE 10X BETTER THAN ANY PLAIN LIKE AND WORDLESS REBLOG IF YOU LIKE SOMETHING LEAVE WORDS

COMMENT

ON

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FUCKING

FICS

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Had to remove it myself.

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

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I've been trying to keep this blog more fandom-focused, and keeping political stuff to my main. I don't always succeed, but I try.

But for a moment, let me just get up on my soapbox and give a quick message.

I am a Jew. I am a "Zionist" in the direct and explicit sense of "I support Jewish self-determination and sovereignty in our historic homeland from which we were exiled" and nothing more. I do not support Netanyahu, and would dearly love to see him jailed. I am not an Israeli citizen. I feel that war crimes have been committed during Israel's war with Hamas, and those crimes should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

However, I view accusations of a "genocide" against the Palestinians by Israel is nothing more than Holocaust Inversion, and an insult to survivors of actual genocides. Were there horrible, terrible things happening? Yes. Was it a deliberate and organized attempt to wipe out the Palestinians? No. You can tell, because they're still alive.

And the only way for people to square that circle of "Why are there any Palestinians still alive if Israel is trying to kill them all, given the military power Israel has?" was to engage in disgusting antisemitic conspiracy-mongering.

If any of this offends, there's the Unfollow button.

Now, I bring this up presently because I got a lot, and I mean a LOT, of antisemitism aimed at me from people I once considered acquaintances, associates, even good and dear friends.

One of my less... salutatory character traits is that I hold grudges. I'm not as bad as my father, who holds grudges until they die of old age and then has them stuffed and mounted, but it's something of concern to me.

That being said, when I see on my activity page a notification for a New Follower, and I recognize the name as someone who accused me of supporting genocide, or even personally killing Palestinian children...

Yeah.

I feel that grudge is warranted.

It's the audacity of coming back after more than a year and expecting everything to be fine when they called me a monster, a murderer, and worse, where I basically go, "Nope. You can fuck right back off."

To many of them, this was a fandom.

To me, this was personal on a level they cannot comprehend.