#Citzen

[calibre61]

Don't need to spend lots to enjoy and have fun with watches.

[ladyddanger]

thinking about the events of the dsmp hundreds of years later being just a bunch of stories.

In a village nestled between tall pines children play Manberg Vs Pogtopia, the names of nations and reasons for war long forgotten as they hit each other with sticks and tackle their friends to warm summer grass.

When their mothers tuck them in that night they tell them stories of a snowy wasteland, so ancient it still holds the scars of long wars forgotten. They tell them of the wasteland’s inhabitant, the greatest warrior this world has ever seen. His name is lost to history but warriors still pray to him on the eve of battle and tie ravens feathers in their hair in his honor.

If the children misbehaved that day their mothers tell them a different story, one of a masked man who steals bad children and drowns them in the sea.

There’s a crater a few miles east of the village in the middle of the marshlands up by a glittering ocean. The crater is so deep that you can throw rocks off the edge and never hear them hit the bottom. Legend says that once upon a time the goddess of death had a son who walked this earth and when he died in her rage and grief she tore into the city that once stood there with her bare hands and ripped it from the earth leaving nothing but a crater behind.

On long sunny evenings in the inns that dot the coastline bards tell stories of a cursed city of gold and glass buried in the heart of a desert where it snows. They whisper the city is full of riches but nobody who looks for it ever comes back.

On stormy nights the Bards tell a different story, a story of a town that sits over a slumbering god. Strange things happen there. Red vines sport up over night. If you listen closely, the people say you can hear them talk. Everyone there has red eyes and cold cold hands.

If you start at dawn and ride in the opposite direction of the carter you can reach the vault before nightfall. The locals claim it used to hold a faceless god guarded by a king but time has weathered the vault’s defenses and the towns children dare each other inside its walls, running though the tight passages.

An old fairytale says if you follow a small barely visible path from the doors of a vault beyond you’ll reach a forest full of trees so overgrown they block the sun. The fairytale says if you walk to the heart of the forrest there’s a prince sleeping there, nestled in the flowers and weeds. The fairytale says his true love and his knights are long dead. The fairytale says he dreams the whole world in existence. The fairytale says a lot of things but nobody really believes it.

[kurokrisps]

HAPPY JUNETEENTH!

♥️💚🖤

[ezxthan]

[cotidianoseeder]

Can we just talk about how Imperium is a perfect representation of fascism and Nazism?

I can't be the only one to have noticed how Imperium is identical to a Nazi-fascist nation, it all fits together perfectly!

"Fascism is an ultranationalist and authoritarian political ideology characterized by dictatorial power, repression of opposition through force and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Although fascist parties and movements present significant divergences among themselves, it is possible to point out several common characteristics, including extreme nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and economic freedom, belief in a natural social hierarchy and the dominance of elites, and the desire to create a community of the people in which individual interests are subordinated to the interests of the nation. Opposed to liberalism, Marxism, socialism and anarchism, fascism is positioned on the extreme right of the traditional political spectrum."

I barely know where to start, it's all just so identical. The first thing we noticed when seeing Imperium for the first time is how it gives off the vibe of being a completely closed country, in addition to being extremely advanced in technology.

Features that match:

1) Cult of the leader: Certainly one of the most visible characteristics when thinking about Imperium. There are several posters of the Empress all over the city, the inhabitants are always trying to impress her by giving salutes, especially the "Hail to the Empress" which honestly reminds me a lot of "Hail Hitler". Everything is for the empress and to make her proud.

2) Nationalism: It's all for the good of the Imperium and its citizens, no matter if you hurt dragons, humans or anything else. Nothing should and can harm the honor of the Imperium.

3) Emphasis on militarism: The light mechanism that Sora created with good intentions was transformed into a weapon of war! We always see Imperium soldiers patrolling the region, as the entire city is made for attack and has an exceptionally strong defense.

4) Media control and censorship: It's super obvious that all media is controlled by Imperium, and honestly, I think they can even create channels that pretend they don't belong to the government to say that Imperium is a "democracy".

5) Worship of tradition, xenophobia and eugenics: "We must not let Imperium mix with all these savage cultures." Honestly, in Dragons Rising this was one of the lines that stuck with me the most. At the same time the Empress said this, my mind actually confirmed that this was the same as a fascist regime. This whole issue of Imperium being a more advanced and superior culture, the people of Imperium are more intelligent, stronger, beautiful, evolved. Anything else outside is inferior and automatically a source of strangeness and must be eliminated as quickly as possible.

6) "Sacrifices are necessary for the greater good": This is more focused on Nazism itself, but the part about lying about dragon energy, claiming that it was a safe place reminds me a lot of the Holocaust. I watched a documentary on Netflix called "Holocaust Killers: Ordinary Men" or something like that, and if I'm not mistaken, in that documentary it was said that the Nazis created false news about the camp. They showed the inhabitants of Germany that it was a safe and extremely fun place for Jews, although in reality, they were in sub-human conditions and suffering both physically and psychologically. Another point is that they used the experiments on humans there to claim that it was "a necessary sacrifice" to ruin the lives of the Aryans. For Imperium, it is also a necessary sacrifice to trap dragons and put them in ill-treatment conditions, as it was for the "good" of the race.

Furthermore, there are several other details that I don't even remember, I should watch the series again and after that I would have to read a book about fascism. But something that really interested me was the Imperium Teen Protection force, do you know who else resembled them? Blackshirts, a leader support group, a "national security militia"…. BOOM! They are identical to the black shirts of Italian fascism! Okay, not so equally, while the group of teenagers is considerably smaller and less violent, but in general they have the same principle, even the same color of clothes (of course there is the issue of black being a cool color and matching the modern kingdom design).

Honestly, nothing convinces me otherwise, and I think that if you study history and watched the series you certainly felt the same connection with this historical moment. Let's face it, if Ninjago wasn't a series for children, everything focused on Prime Empire would be MUCH more violent. I'm sure they could even put in a "Hail Beatrix", criticize the moral and religious issues (conservatives certainly wouldn't like it, there is already a trace of criticism towards them in the canon, imagine that explicitly). So, this was my first opinion about Ninjago Dragons Rising and I really love this connection they made, especially while many far-right conservative movements and neo-Nazi movements (unfortunately rising from the ashes, these people have to study more history from good sources) continue to emerge. So that's it, sorry for the horrible writing and the bad translation, I don't speak English and stuff like that! I hope you enjoyed it and have a good day!

Note: This post does not aim to defend any far-right movement or neo-facist view. It's just my opinion related to the series, if it seems like I defended these movements, I'm sorry, but that's certainly not my intention.

[sebfreak]

Everyday I see more and more israels propaganda falling apart because people learn the truth. And trust me while I feel anger while reposting all these terrible pictures and videos and news, I also feel a positive feeling I can´t name because Israels true face is coming out more and more.

[kim-kitsuragi1908]

Hey, it's that person with the whole sock-burning-creature dilemma again. The offender has since graduated from burning my socks with matches to using my own lighters and throwing them in my fireplace. I even caught him trying to microwave one (he didn't know how to work the microwave).

I was able to get a better look at the offender and have a (somewhat) detailed description of him. He is tall and thin, dresses in dark clothes, doesn't appear to have any hair, and has entirely white eyes. He has no pupil. He also makes this odd *rattling* noise when I approach or shout at him. It sounds like a rattlesnake's tail mixed with an alligator hissing.

Understood; please do not approach the creature, and lock yourself in a secluded room with some alternative exit as *soon* as possible. Our resident cryptid expert in the office will be making way to the scene shortly. Stay safe, citizen.

[ghostbreadovni]

The storyboards from the Winter King episodes are so interesting, holy shit.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Gotham Brodacasts: Oh no, Riddler scaped from Arkham, he is dangeorus! We are revoking all his TV priviledges and entertaiment options on general. No more game shows or trivia nights until we catch that bastard. While we wait have caution!

Riddler: *is in a hotel room in Egipt drinking his Chai and waching an egiptian gameshow* *his notebook is open in a docs fold with "what to do next?" and under is "visit the Labyrinth of Hawara", "does Egypt have supervillains?", "do I even want to be a villain?", "maybe travel to Agra", "sure as hell never going back to Gotham"* No, the answer was cleary Mount Vesuvious, you dumb fuck!

[desperatecheesecubes]

Holy fuck I did not miss day light savings time I FORGOT THE SUN WOULD SET AN HOUR LATER UDBSHDVJSVDH

[cryingforcrocodiles]

messi in the morning with zero sleep was totally worth it btw

[sanestmegapoliscitizen]

he took my fuckig.n banaba.

[h01vd4l]

[transfemlogan]

2 THE PERSON THAT SENT ME THAT ANON. ME TOO!! BUT SHHH

[satellitesunset]

everyday I'm fighting the urge to be a complete hater !! yet I ever so bravely choose not !!

[may-grant]

my least favorite kind of stupidity are the people who insist undocumented people in the US are stealing jobs and living off government benefits and are using their “country’s political agenda” to come and vote here like if you’re that passionate about immigrants and undocumentation please research how it actually is. you know nothing about being undocumented vs. being on a visa vs. becoming a US resident vs. becoming a US citizen