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I don't think USAmericans understand the gravity of the situation they are in. Why don't you look into your history books for how this particular strategy has fared out instead of condescending to a third worlder about how I couldn't possibly understand the nuance of political mobilization in the USA?

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All you stupid bitches had to do was vote for Kamala. Oh my GOD.

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Isn't it cool and fun that every fictional matriarchal society is ontologically evil and strangely fetishistic. Isn't that fun

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listen up folks he may be a paleolithic racist who failed upwards until he was in a position to give tens of billions of dollars to enable a genocide but you're mean and that's worse. remember the human.

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My two yr old is looking through a book about prehistoric art and she saw a picture of those cave painting of hands and she held up her own and said "hand!" And I gotta be honest. That hit

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You know things are so normal in America when a government agency has to say we are not the gestapo. With your help we can raise the number to 500% increase in ICE officer assaults

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Source

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you really can’t unsee american military propaganda in movies like once you start thinking about it you are doomed to be the friend who’s too political when people put on an action movie for the rest of your life

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like i'm literally trying to put this as simply as humanly possible. the way that you are taught to view what it means to be a canadian or american or brit or whatever, the idea of Who you are, has built into it that by being From There you are fundamentally different or better or more Real than the rest of the world, and this is conveyed to you both overtly and subtly from an extremely young age, sometimes passively and sometimes directly, and you are taught these basic assumptions about the world, they become part of the way you navigate the world before you really have the words to explain or describe it. and i'm telling you that people born in the global south are typically not told these things, not conveyed this about ourselves from childhood, this is not something we are taught. the assumption, from an extremely young age, is that the world is full of "real people" and "real countries", whatever that means. there are more specific sectarian or communalist things taught to us depending on where we live and other aspects of the material conditions we are born into, but the basic assumption of "my country is the only real country in the world" and "only people born in my country are real people" is not universal, you did not enter this life thinking that way, it is something ingrained in you. and you can choose to unlearn that, or you can choose not to, but if you whine on the internet about people from the developing world being mean to you because you are insisting on your right to not view us as human beings i think you are too far gone

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fresco fragment depicting two women | c. 1 - 75 CE | roman

in the j. paul getty museum collection

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never forget mcdonald's flag at guantanamo bay flying half mast for madeline albright one of the architects of the iraq war. us empire heritage moment

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John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)

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fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

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WHEN ON PERIOD:

do not crash out

your feelings are NOT valid

do not send that text

don't kill yourself. lock in

do not act on negative emotions until at least 2 days have elapsed