#Tiger Capital

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Fidel Castro visited New York for the third time in April of 1959. At the Bronx Zoo, he devoured a hot dog, fed elephants, and poked his hand into a tiger's cage.

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Photo: NY Times/Getty Images/BBC

[faaun]

we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

[one-bat-day]

Canon anti capitalist Nightwing

Also canon dick therapizes by listening to circus music

[striveattemptfail]

being a nerd is getting ridiculously excited by finding academic papers in my leisure time

even better when they're available for free

[rileys-basement]

I'm still reeling from and thinking so hard about the “You can do things without me! …You’re so good at it” from Chess to Kate because on one hand I can assume what it means but also what does that mean???!?

[jessaerys]

i make this post like every other day but sweet jesus illustrating freelance for a living is by far the best most priviledged case scenario for someone like me (undocumented, uneducated, unbelievably mentally unwell) and yet every day of my life i have to suck it up and accept that making art for a living has completely siphoned off the joy out of drawing, my lifelong companion that made life meaningful in a terribly hostile home enviorement. and now i have to listen to [redacted] from r@ndompenguinhouse send me Notes that keep making this ~queer YA~ novel cover progressively more boring

[dawns-beauty]

I would be so comically bad at living in Skyrim. It snowed several inches and I'm already longing to be in bed under a pile of blankets (and cats.)

[rottenlittlefink]

Google, how do I stop feeling guilt, shame, and impending doom every time I need to take a sick day :3

[crispyafterdark]

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A Rasslor Highlight Reel-the Main Event: Rasslor takes on the Justice Friends and Monkey!

[sharonisthebettercarter]

I understand what your saying, it's just that I have 0 sympathy (let alone empathy) for Homelander's grown ass. Also, Homelander is fictional. Finn from star wars went through hell and he managed to leave.

i understand that from a place that you might not like in all honesty.

have you considered that maybe part of why you feel that way is because... society taught you to feel that way?

finn is a different person from homelander with a different situation from him. yes, different. because finn *at least* had a *catalyst* or epiphany of some kind required to recognize and then *move* on or forward from his situation. homelander *has not*, and to some degree it is doubtful he will get that.

and to be the bearer of bad news yet again, generally? that's not necessarily a *realistic* take on abusive situations and correlates *directly* with survivor's bias.

this is super duper important to remember. just because *such and such could do it*, does not mean *oh well this guy can too*. it just doesn't. that's why the word *survivor* exists.

and as of yet, homelander is not quite a survivor, but he *is* still a victim...

even worse that society perpetually uses survivor's bias *against* victims but that's not okay either. one or two people surviving and getting out of a situation doesn't mean we suddenly stop feeling or caring for victims still stuck in the same situation, could you imagine???

honestly, idk HOW the world manages to function with bullshit like this, but picture this.

two planes going down heading towards the ocean full of people.

survivor's bias creating a lack of empathy is like one plane suddenly fixing their problems and no longer being in trouble, and because *that* plane fixed its issues, the other which mind you is *STILL GOING DOWN AND IN MAJOR TROUBLE* is just expected to *magically* correct course and no longer be in trouble, and if it doesn't well fuck all those people who are about to die--

when WHAT THE FUCK!?!? that's not how life fucking works!!!

and yet this is the bullshit CAPITALISM especially super promotes. because one billionaire is clearly worth far more than a billion poor people and deserves his wealth WAY more than the homeless or hungry for... reasons i guess.

*in capitalism, a majority of people *MUST* FAIL in order for a select few to *super succeed* and benefit, so OF COURSE *survivor's bias* would be heavily promoted to keep the idea popular among those suffering. we all think "well if *I* could be that ONE..." except, statistically, the likelihood of that is slim to fucking nothing! this ideology does not remain exclusive to financial situations, it *translates* to other parts of society and *destroys* healthy thinking*

and to a degree i get it, empathy is not an easy thing to feel. i know some forms of neurodivergence cause difficulty with this. for me, it's this too, except when i'm not the densest motherfucker on the planet, i *can't* turn the setting fucking off, even if i wanted to (and it is hella overloading, overwhelming, and exhausting).

i can't *not* feel it, even for (and especially for well written) fictional characters, even for real people i might not want to admit deserve it, or even if i don't think they deserve it, sometimes *especially* if i don't think they deserve it.

very very very very rarely does it just... 'check out'. it is a genuine problem.

but understanding the human psyche to the fullest extent is *how* we *break* these cycles of abuse, repair the damage, and prevent it from happening further. and that requires *empathy* in every single sense we can possibly bring it forth.

the reason creative people bother creating shit like the boys isn't just to entertain, it's because good artists tend to *see* the problems in society and in turn often want to help *amend* them by teaching lessons with their creative works.

if we as a society want to improve and change and get better in reality, we'd do well to start listening and noticing in fiction.

good fucking GAWD if i have to see more and more of the white tiger situation from humanity--

listen. humans are fucking STUPID.

we hunt white tigers to near extinction. inbreed them to high hell which causes a shit ton of problems while fucking up their genes. AND THEN PROCEED BLAME THEM FOR THE PROBLEMS AND GENES WE FUCKED UP AND CAUSED INSTEAD OF TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR OWN ACTIONS--

the gene that makes them white is actually a harmless genetic variant that is the same gene that makes a chicken white. it is with no doubt the HUMANS that fucked up the white tiger gene pool. but let me put this in a different sorta place or perspective.

WE made homelander.

we all played a part, because we're all part of a society, we enabled and allowed him happen, the abuse to occur, and then his abuse to persist, and if we feel *nothing*, truly *nothing* for this THING that SOCIETY created when WE ARE PART OF IT.

we. are. just. as. fucking. GUILTY.

and we should... really take some fucking accountability for that hot mess... least that's how i see it. can't *not* see it.

[wonderwomemes]

They did it

They killed Santa

[dorindameddler]

Musk blaming Twitter revenue drop on “activists” is so funny also really indicative of the way right wingers think. When random right wing people complain about shit they don’t like that’s free speech but when lefty people do it it’s automatically activism

[citrusitonit]

THERE ARE WHITE STRAWBERRIES?

[dougielombax]

Oh of course blame the striking workers as usual!

Stupid creatures!

Fucking capitalist brainrot has practically become a religion in this sordid country!

You can always count on these dumb fuckers to disappoint! Fucking hell!

Fucking Celtic tiger bullshit!

[lonewolflink]

happy 6th championship anniversary to the 2018 washington capitals :)))))))))))

[pilgrim1975]

Rudolph Wright, last to die in California for a crime other than murder.

It was January 11, 1962 on San Quentin Prison’s notorious ‘Condemned Row’ on the top floor of North Block. Caryl Chessman, California’s notorious ‘Red Light Bandit,’ was long gone. Executed on May 2, 1960, he was a mere memory. An enduring memory, granted, but dead and gone all the same. Merle Haggard, in for robbery on a three-to-fifteen-year sentence, was paroled just over two years previously.…