#Divide Conquer

[justbeingnamaste]

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

– Malcolm X

[darkmovies]

Totally Killer (2023) Date de sortie : 06/10/2023 Réalisateur : Nahnatchka Khan Scénario : David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver, Jen D’Angelo Avec : Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie

[odinsblog]

🗣️ Pay very close attention!

Please forget, for a moment, that many people live in the intersection of simultaneously being Black + LGBTQ + refugee + Asian. Instead, I am asking you to look at how the Republican culture wars are pitting one identity against the other.

DeSantis has banned any mention of Gay and Trans people, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, Critical Race Theory, and much more… but now he is mandating Asian American history.

Florida and other Republican controlled legislators around the country are whitewashing and erasing Black history from school history textbooks, while also making Asian history a requirement. ⁉️

Please be just a little bit curious.

You must ask yourself, why?

WHY would an abjectly racist politician ban one culture’s history, but require another’s?

DeSantis is playing Asian people, the “model minority,” against—in his eyes—all of the “less desirable” minorities: Black people, Lgbtq+ people, etc. etc. etc. It’s a classic divide and conquer strategy.

Please see his ploy for what it is. We are all stronger together. Republicans know this. It’s why they’re working so hard to drive wedges between us.

Don’t fall for the okie doke.

[hajihiko]

I've been sitting on this for months and decided I just dont wanna refine it anymore. So here

[successionable]

i don't think we're talking enough about how tom and greg rocked up to logan's wake together even though tom was last seen accompanying shiv (back to their apartment, presumably) and shiv was last seen lying in bed alone

[reality-detective]

This is how they divide the people 🤔

[uncanny-tranny]

r u chill w non transitioning ppl?

Why wouldn't I be? At one point, every trans person who is transitioning was once someone who wasn't (whether or not that was a choice or their need is a separate discussion).

Hatred of any kind of trans person is not a Righteous or Good Thing - every single trans person has their place, their entitlement to safety, community, and respect of who they are

[caitlynmeow]

Bela: Cassandra, keep an eye on Daniela today. She's going to say something to the wrong person and get punched. Cassandra: Sure, I’d love to see Daniela get punched. Bela: Try again. Cassandra, sighing: I will stop Daniela from getting punched.

[ssstarlighttt]

here’s a silly little surprise for y’all! i made a video of all of my singing voice headcanons for the gang in pedestals! i decided to make this while trying to build a playlist of songs for the band, and added some silly little bits of info here and there :)

[haggishlyhagging]

Women are unique, whole, brilliant entities. Each woman is a universe unto herself. Each woman is a revelation.

Men have exploited this relentlessly. Divide and conquer is their strategy, and it has been deployed to devastating effect to keep women apart. Men, as the parasitic entities they are, and in their attempt to stay in power, relevant, and centered in women’s lives, have done what any entity at risk does: fight tooth, nail, and claw to survive.

Why are men at risk? Because they are an evolutionary dead end, and they know it. They understand on a subconscious, visceral level that it doesn’t matter how many scientific breakthroughs they discover, or how many athletic events records they break, or how many resources they hoard. They know that if any future for humanity exists, they are not coming with women on the journey.

Men only ever evolved as a way for women to share their genes with each other. Share. Not dominate, not control. Egalitarian distribution of DNA codes, intentionally done to create more and more unique, whole, and brilliant entities.

If humanity is to survive, it will only ever be because women as a class turn their faces away from division amongst each other and unite to save one another and our planet. And men know this, and men, in their trembling and fear, knowing they are doomed, are hoping beyond hope that their strategies to maintain dominance will force women to find a way to save men, too. Because without us, they are evolutionary toast.

[odinsblog]

Effectively, Netanyahu's entire worldview collapsed over the course of a single day. He was convinced that he could make deals with corrupt Arab tyrants while ignoring the cornerstone of the Arab-Jewish conflict, the Palestinians. His life's work was to turn the ship of state from the course steered by his predecessors, from Yitzhak Rabin to Ehud Olmert, and make the two-state solution impossible. En route to this goal, he found a partner in Hamas.

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he told a meeting of his Likud party's Knesset members in March 2019.

“This is part of our strategy - to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

—BENJAMIN NETANYAHU actively supported Hamas, to sow division amongst Palestinians and undermine a Two State Solution

[burningtheroots]

"Not like other girls" vs. "not all men" — patriarchal division

We all know the popular "not like other girls" (or "not like other women", respectively) trope.

I‘ve been thinking about it a lot recently and what really annoys me is that society teaches young girls and women that girlhood and womanhood are inherently "bad" and hence not being like other girls and women is "good" and "desirable".

While many people believe that it stems from the girls and women themselves, I‘d like to emphasize the impact of growing up in a deeply patriarchal, misogynistic society and system which ultimately influences the steps we take.

The world we live in is built on female oppression, exploitation, rivalry and division. By ensuring that girls and women believe in what the patriarchy teaches us, men ensure their power and authority as we‘re busy trying to "fit in" and prove that we‘re the "good girls/women". Girls and women are conditioned to look down on other girls and women and aspire to be different — to be validated by men that they‘re not this flawed image of girlhood and womanhood.

Once we have internalized these misogynistic beliefs, we start to make our lives revolve around them and also spread them further. That‘s a common technique used by oppressors — divide and conquer.

Now we have lots of girls and women who desperately want to be different from other girls and women, who want to be as close as possible to whatever gets them men‘s approval and highlights that they‘re actually good instead of "flawed" like the rest.

Girls and women are always either "too human" or "not human enough". Whether it‘s looks, interests, personality etc.. We‘re trained to make entire lifestyle choices based on other people’s men’s perception. We‘re forced to balance between idealized womanhood and demonized womanhood.

The solution we’re presented? Putting other girls and women down to "prove" ourselves.

And it‘s not like there aren’t any tools for this, in fact, the patriarchy provides them abundantly.

The beauty & diet industry strive to divide us.

Fun activities which are still "gendered" to this day strive to divide us.

The media, social platforms and advertisements strive to divide us.

Sexualization and objectification strive to divide us.

Relationships with men strive to divide us.

Even when men commit atrocities, they divide girls and women, not men.

On the contrary, men and boys are taught to be united. Not in a coddly way, perhaps, but in a way that gurantees solidarity and immunity when needed.

"Not like other boys/men!" isn‘t a thing, instead, we got "not all men!", a.k.a. "I‘m like other men and because I‘m not bad, they aren’t, either!".

Whilst men are more prone to violence and deliberately inflict emotional and physical pain on others on a much larger scale than women, boys and men aren’t taught that it‘s desirable to be different from other boys and men. Rather, they‘re taught that it‘s good, desirable and admirable.

Instead of aspiring to be different — to be better — their focus is on defending men as a whole and excusing or justifying their misbehavior, whereas we‘re told that we must hold each other accountable for the tiniest missteps, especially when they involve men.

Girls and women are taught that their existence (& humanity) in itself is flawed, undesirable and needs to be strictly regulated, judged and altered.

Boys and men are taught that their existence (& humanity) in itself is self-evident, desirable and worthwhile.

That‘s why I put female solidarity and sisterhood above all else.

That‘s why I proudly say that YES, I am like other girls and women. We aren’t a monolith, we‘re individually unique, and yet we share the experience of being female, and we‘re united in our mere existence as women, and we don’t need to put other women and girls above or beneath us, or allow us to be alienated from one another.

[theiravshade]

"Important moment...completely unspoken…there was originally some scripted language, and they both chose not to say them, which is a great decision."

-Martin Wood, Director of Stargate SG-1 | Divide and Conquer

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[uncanny-tranny]

Yes, all disabilities are going to present differently and look different and may even have vastly different needs, but at the end of the day, if you're disabled, you're likely going to have more in common with a differently disabled person than you will an abled person. The sooner you recognize how similar you are to other people (and seek out similarity/solidarity), the sooner you realize that your needs will never be fulfilled without each other. Divided, you are an easy target. Alienated, you are at risk.