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you know that thing that faux progressive liberals will do where they're like

"look, i'm completely against the chauvanistic attitude that the USA should rule the world. but if the USA doesn't rule the world, then Russia and China will! I don't know about you, but I'd rather have the USA rule the world than Xinnie and POOtin! and that's why it is imperative to maintain global USA hegemony forever and ever at absolutely any cost."

like, why do they say that shit at the beginning if they're just going to immediately contradict it?????? if you actually love usamerican hegemony and chauvanism, just say that!

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Hey friends, baby Marxist here! I’m starting to feel like technology corrupts the pure soul of man. Has anyone tried turning back the wheel of history so that we can return to a state of perfect innocence?

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I need perisex people to understand that the 'corrective' surgeries done on intersex children are nothing like bottom surgeries for trans people. Not just because of the lack of consent, but also because it is literally not the same surgery.

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[ID: Two images made to look like night-time photos of unicorns. /end ID]

My day job is analyzing wildlife photos, and I've been getting this strage creature on camera recently... can anyone tell me what it is?

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"During the past month," this Constitutional-Democrat writes, "have often thought about him. I have tried to imagine him. I have looked for his face among passersby, I have tried to guess his name in the long list of unfamiliar names which appear every day in our newspapers. With each passing day I have less and less doubts that he will appear. Who is he? A military man, of course. An officer A subaltern or, maybe, a young captain. At the present time rank has no importance. The road is open to talent. He will be bitter, persistent, monstrously ambitious but he will know how to hide that. His mind is quite cold, sober, free from the slightest illusions, as supple and sharp as a rapier. Words like "motherland", "freedom", "proletariat", "equality" "democracy", "socialism", and "universal happiness" make no appeal whatsoever to him. He watches, waits and calculates. On July 3rd, after the shooting on Sadovaya I thought for one moment that I had seen him. The excited crowd surged like an ocean. And then, like a swimmer on the crest of a wave, on the shoulders of a group of people an officer appeared wearing a leather jacket with three wound stripes on his sleeve. Slung over his shoulder was a rifle that he had just taken from a Red Guardsman. He was of medium height, graceful and lithe. His brilliant dark eyes had a keen, piercing look. His profile reminded me -it was, of course, only an illusory impression -of the young Napoleon. Can't you hear the distant sound of his steps, reader? In the blue shimmer of the Petrograd white nights do you not notice a gigantic shadow rising from the earth into the skv?' Well, there they are, the dreams of the bourgeoisie! The bourgeois sees very clearly that in the blue shimmer of the Petrograd white nights stands the gigantic shadow of the victorious proletariat rising from the earth to the sky. He sees it and trembles with fear and dreams of this shadow being screened by another one, the longed- for shadow of a Pussian Bonaparte carrying a rifle snatched from a Red Guardsman, the shadow of his beloved dictator, a cynic to whom words like 'motherland', 'freedom', 'proletariat', 'socialism and 'universal happiness' make no appeal whatsoever. As for him being a subaltern or a young captain that is sheer nonsense, just fine words. It's a full general, not a subaltern they're looking for. Perhaps the very one 'whose whole life has been spent in devoted service' and who 'as a temporary measure has brought back the death penalty'. But all these Arbuzyevs are reckoning without their host. These professors and attorneys still think of the masses as a mob, the manure of history. They are still quite sure that they can attain their ends by ministerial combinations.

The Blue Notebook, Emmanuel Kazakevich

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"I'm just a swirl" -ice cream cone who uses TikTok

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like truly why should i have some special care for the full-time 'independent artist' as though they're more important than any other artist and more specially worthy of consideration in my politics than any other business owner? i thought art came free with our humanity! some of the best artists i've ever known do it on the side of their full time job for little to no money

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the thing is. knowing someone experiences hallucinations or trouble reading facial expressions or communication difficulties or any other symptom CAN help you to understand their behaviour and respond to it appropriately. but knowing someones diagnosis is never as helpful as it is to listen to them when they talk about how they can best be accommodated. and if “can you please speak slower” (for example) sounds like a ridiculous request from someone without a diagnosis and a reasonable one from someone with a diagnosis. well you’re the dick in that situation

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🪆 dollgirlthing-txt Follow

i love being a doll. dolls are the best thing in the world

🦹 hero-boy Follow

Personally I'm an action figure and not a doll but I support you ✌️ You do you man

🦖 jurassicjake Follow

I love being an action figure. action figures are the best thing in the world

🪖 gi-joker Follow

i couldnt stand being a doll lol. love being an action figure so bad

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can you all make your own post

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okay, can we talk about the infighting in the toys community?

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I'm at a :.|:; for words.

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they got trans bitches on here named shit like Die

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listen to me, really. I am holding your two hands tenderly in mine. being part of a privileged group and benefitting from systemic exploitation without meaning to is not the same thing as being an inherently trash person who makes the world worse by living it in. that's not what that means. I'm telling you this for two reasons, 1) so you can chill the fuck out and be at peace with yourself without feeling like you're draining the universe of value, and 2) so you don't go onto oppressed people's posts about systemic privilege and exploitation and react like they've just told you that you, personally, should not exist because you're a man who lives within the vicinity of a supermarket that sells chiquita bananas. you're just gonna have to put some trust into your own brain and hold on to both the ideas that you're on one of the dominant sides of a set of global scales of injustice and that you don't have to shrivel out of existence about it. it can be difficult to reconcile those ideas at first, but it's completely possible and worth doing. if you don't, then you start constructing a worldview where you believe that either you have a civic duty to self destruct or you start vehemently denying that these systems of oppression exist, both of which are Bad and Not Good. peace and love x

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Welcome to being a Latina you get THREE types of representation:

-Sexy

-Single mother

-sweat shop worker.

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[ID: Two headlines from 2001. The answer to terrorism? Colonialism. Liberating the Women of Afghanistan. /end ID]

One thing I think USAmericans should be very wary of right now is the subtle (to them) and very blatant (to us) way that orientalism and feminism are being weaponized

Because I’m already seeing the rhetoric from news and govt officials about the barbarous brown man and the poor oppressed muslim woman who needs saving - the “saving” being the bombing, destabilization, and complete destruction of entire countries

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(cw: sexual assault) the pedophile -as it is understood outside of academic circles- is a mythical creature. the idea that a complete stranger who kidnaps and sexually assaults kids is their biggest threat is absolutely insane; not one case of CSA (child sexual assault) in a hundred looks like that. CSA is committed almost uniformly by adults in a preestablished position of authority (such as family, family friends, clergy, or teachers) and in a way that a victim who doesn't know what sexual assault looks like will be left unsure what happened to them. without knowing concretely how sex and sexuality works, would you be able to tell the difference between molestation and the various other forms of unwanted physical touch and abuse kids are regularly subjected to? would it even seem that different? but parenthood and the submission of youth to adults as institutions are threatened by the reality of CSA. adults need to justify their ownership of children through an imagined outside threat constantly held at bay through their diligence. the truth - that putting yourself in such a position of authority over children directly enables abuse (including sexual abuse) - is thrown aside.

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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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wow this is really clever because [USA law that isn't applicable in the country this is happening in]!

OP you need to get a lawyer because [USA law that isn't applicable in the country this is happening in]!

um but it's literally illegal for them to [thing that isn't illegal in the country this is happening in]

I'd really recommend you contact [US group who aren't in the country this is happening in]

oh here's a link for [thing that isn't applicable in the country this is happening in]