#WEVE RIDDEN THE STARS | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ilytyun · 4 years

Text

random questions tag !!

(aka me exposing how boring i am skskxjxk)

thank you so much to @spookybias for tagging me, you’re so kind !!! i love things like this they’re so fun😭😭💖

no. of relationships: 0 :”)

no. of breakups: 0 (consequentially !!)

no. of kids: 0 !!

no. of brothers: i have 1 step brother but he’s never around so i always forget he exists haha

no. of sisters: 0

no. of surgeries: if wisdom teeth removal counts then 1 !!

no. of tattoos: 0, i’m debating so hard on whether to get one or not but my grandparents would disown me lol

countries you've been to: 2 !! usa and mexico !!

been in an airplane: yes, it scares me the older i get😔

been in an ambulance: no !!

sing karaoke: yes i love karaoke !! i used to go every friday with my friends in high school, so much that the owner of the bar the karaoke room was in gave us discounts and stuff !! i want to go again sometime when covid gets better hhh

ice skating: i used to be able to but i can’t anymore😭 i’m too afraid of falling haha

been on a cruise: nope !!

driven a motorcycle: i’d never !! it looks so dangerous

ridden a horse: nope~ i hate horses they look so scary

stayed in a hospital: no~

favorite fruit/berry: apples or watermelon !!

favorite day: friday !!

favorite color: i really like purple nowadays !! pink is pretty as well

last text: ‘JdkdskJWSKSM YESSSS LOLLLL ITS THE REFINED MATURED COUNTRY/FOLK GIRL TAYLOR WEVE BEEN WAITING FORRRRR😭😭😭😭’ (in reference to taylor swifts new album skkskssksksk)

coffee or tea: coffee !!

favorite pie: apple~

favorite pizza: plain cheese😔 you know i look at all my answers and i’m so basic but for what LOLLL

cat or dogs: cats~~ i’m so allergic to them but dogs scare me haha

favorite time of the year: fall !! i love fall vibes sm😭

met a star: nope, hopefully it stays that way too !!

flown a helicopter: no !! i’m so afraid of heights lol

been on tv: maybe..? i was in a dance group with some friends and we performed at our city’s korean independence day,,, i think it got broadcasted but honestly i don’t remember lolxkxmskskl

broken my leg: thankfully not~

seen a ghost: no but i do believe they exist😳

been sick in a taxi: nope !!

seen someone die: no😰 what kind of question is this bahaha

nickname: gon is actually part of a nickname that i used to have !! haha, i have lots of nicknames though because my real name is pretty versatile and boring~

zodiac: not to get annoyingly specific but i’m a leo/virgo cusp😭

height: 5'1!!!

hogwarts house: hufflepuff !! fun fact i’ve never read harry potter but i still took the quiz for fun hehe

last thing i googled: ‘youth over flowers iceland ep 2’ !! i’m into kang haneul and jo jungsuk recently !!

song stuck in my head: after the storm by kali uchis and tyler the creator !! that song bumps so hard !!

followers: ncksJWKSMZ THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING BUT I ONLY HAVE 9 LMAOOOO i’m a new blog so what can i really expect !!

hours of sleep: it varies !! if i don’t have anything to do the next day i usually get ~7, but if i do then i’ll get around 3

lucky number: i hate numbers so none... it used to be 18 though hehe

favorite song: recently it’s sofia by clairo !!

random: i used to be good at eating spicy food but a few years ago i ate spicy soup noodles and threw up😭 it’s because it was summer so it was really hot outside and the noodles were probably too spicy for me to handle🥺 ever since that day i’ve been bad at eating spicy food LOLLLL💀💀💀

but that’s it !! i literally don’t have any other mutuals so i can’t tag anybody, but if you see this then please just do it !! it’s so fun hehe💖

#thank you again for tagging me !!!😭💖💖#gon.note

1 note · View note

viralhottopics · 8 years

Text

What You Need To Know About The Milo Yiannopoulos-Michael Flynn Connection

On the surface they seem like very different scandals: Lt. General Michael Flynn resigning as White House National Security Adviser last week after lying about speaking with the Russian ambassador about sanctions before the inauguration; the British Breitbart senior editor, Milo Yiannopoulos, dropped as keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday, and losing his book deal with Simon and Schuster on the same day, after clips surfaced of him promoting sex between an adult and a 13-year-old, and reveling in learning his oral sex technique from a priest who abused him as a teen.

But the quick spiral downward of Yiannopoulos is actually the cultural equivalent of Flynns political free fall, as both caused consequential Trumpian casualties amid full-blown disasters. Both men were backed by Donald Trump, and were expected to provide a function that in both cases is still murky but seems quite nefarious. (We still dont yet know all the details of Flynns relationship with the Russians, for example, but the reports of top campaign officials, of which Flynn was one, in constant contact with Russian intelligence operatives during the election is cause for great concern.)

The quick spiral downward of Yiannopoulos is actually the cultural equivalent of Flynns political free fall.

Both men are close to Stephen Bannon, Trumps power-hungry chief strategist who came from Breitbart, where he was chairman and which he dubbed the platform of the alt-right, the online version of the old-fashioned white nationalists and white supremacists. In both cases, Trump, perhaps with Bannons urging, looked the other way of clear problems these men had in their pasts.

In the case of Yiannopoulos, who hassaid Bannon made me into a star, his rise as a supposed college campus free speech crusader with his attention-grabbing Dangerous Faggot Tour across the country in the past year, and a major book deal that would net him high-profile TV appearances, had him primed to be leading a possible Trump Youth Brigade. That was in fact an early action taken by Trumps kindred spirit, Vladimir Putin, who informallycreated his own youth brigade in Russia, the Nashi movement, to help him tighten his grip. And anyone whos studied history knows that authoritarians and dictatorscreate such youth movements to command authority and silence dissent.

In both cases, Trump, perhaps with Bannons urging, looked the other way of clear problems these men had in their pasts.

Trump did dismally with millennial voters except for white millennials, who voted for him over Clinton 48-43 and he barely eked out an electoral college win while losing the popular vote. But with the rise of the alt-right, which has received the kind of media attention about which some young people who are predisposed to the message might find hip, Trump could pull in more of those younger white voters, however small in number, to boost a re-election. And bleached-blond, young and rude Yiannnopoulos, rising higher, could surely help in that regard.

Yiannopoulos speaks the grievance-ridden language of Trump whom he affectionately calls Daddy similarly attacking political correctness, and giving young people permission to act on racist impulses.Yiannopoulos brutally mocks colleges and universities attempts to fight hate speech against minorities and protect students from bullying and violence on campuses, expressing the resentment prevalent among those who feel threatened by diversity and a U.S. that is demographically changing.

He grotesquely uses his identity as gay as some sort of badge that allows him to attack other minorities and defame feminists, transgender people, Muslims and immigrants, and he gets support from the white supremacist, anti-Semitic alt-right, despite his being gay and Jewish himself (something weve seen many times over in the past among those used as tokens). Yiannopoulos called Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization and promotedracist harassment online of comedian Leslie Jones, forcing her off Twitter. He also uses his gayness as some kind of false proof that Trump is pro-gay since he must be if Yiannopoulos, a gay man, supports him.

Trump has returned the favor. When the University of California, Berkeley, canceled Yiannopoulos speech three weeks ago, Trump threatened the school with pulling federal funds.

Just as Flynn provided an ally for Bannon on the inside, taking on factions within the White House, Yiannopoulos has helped stoke the hate against the opposition to Trump on the outside. If he grew bigger, he could be much more valuable to Bannon and to Trump.

But like Flynn, Yiannopoulos fell in a startling crash as of this writing his future even at Breitbart is in question largely because he wasnt vetted before his debut in a much larger spotlight. Like Flynns Russia connections known since 2015 when he was photographed at a dinner table with Vladimir Putin at an event in Moscow Yiannopouloss comments, in which he talked of adults having sex with teens, have been around on various interview clips online for months. But after he appeared bedecked in strings of pearls on Bill Mahlers show Real Time last weekend, viciously defaming transgender peoplewithout challenge from a pathetic Mahler (though getting some powerful pushback from comedian Larry Wilmore), a lot of people were wondering who this idiot was.

The fact that hed been chosen by CPAC as keynote speaker revealed how far conservatives would go in towing the Trump line, kicking off their annual conference with a hardened Muslim basher and someone who might enthrall the crowd of younger activists who attend CPAC. But the announcement of his speech raised eyebrows in addition to Yiannopouloss profile. And so it wasnt a shock that tapes that had been around for a long time, buried online, suddenly were seized upon by other conservatives on social media, such as the group Reagan Battalion, who made the comments go viral. Within hours, Yiannopoulos was out of CPAC while Simon and Schuster pulled his book, which was due in June and surely would have been part of his ongoing campus tour.

The fact that hed been chosen by CPAC as keynote speaker revealed how far conservatives would go in towing the Trump line.

But no college will now want Yiannopolous within a mile, and conservatives wouldnt dare criticize them for keeping him away as they have in the past because theyve now silenced Yiannopolous themselves at CPAC. He is essentially shut down from organizing at the very venues that were his life blood, where he promoted racism and misogyny and brought in youth for Trump.

This episode also means that Bannons zeal, and his distrust of anyone who would help in vetting people and ideas evidenced by his getting Trump to rush out a Muslim ban days into the administration, without the agencies given input could be his downfall, as well as Trumps. In the meantime, we should count it as a victory that Flynn and Yiannopoulos, both dangerous, have crash-landed.