#amurrica

[toughtink]

been avoiding election news all evening since there's not much i can do now, but i'm already seeing the god awful takes from blue staters about how unsalvageable the south is, let's just fucking cut off florida (an EXTREMELY PURPLE STATE with lots of obvious fucking VOTER SUPPRESSION) and doom everyone fighting for a better life there hahahaha they all deserve it for living in such a terrible place hahahahahaha gross.

don't be that person. the entire fucking american south is fighting an uphill battle against fascists, and those commenters would rather sit on the sidelines and scoff than do anything to help.

[memequeenstorage]

Seems legit

[fizzingwizard]

Watching John Oliver talk about the US letting 20 mil monkeypox vaccine doses expire instead of offering them to other countries with outbreaks

and thinking about how I went to a restaurant with my boyfriend the other day and when we were midway through dinner a waiter came over and said, "We have just one portion of purin left and will have to throw it out tonight. Would you like it for free?"

of course we were like wow yeah thanks. we got a free purin so it wouldnt get put in the trash. the restaurant would rather we eat it and not make a profit than just waste it.

purin is delicious but basically just sugar. not really healthy.

now monkeypox vaccines. those sound healthy. probably shouldnt go around wasting those.

waste not want not

[violet-ianthe]

Drift Away - Uncle Kracker

[forsooth-verily]

Finally filled out my benefits enrollment today after putting it off so long. My work is using this interactive AI this year that explains it all to you step by step and it? fucking? works?

I mean I'm still a titch mad that something so infantilizing is so dang informative. But like I was mid cat eye when I found myself listening to the ins and outs of my 401k, like speak on m'dude tell me more.

[james-p-sullivan]

ahhhhhhhhh i just bought plane tickets for my first solo flight 😭

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

"Goop" is a good, self aware name, it pokes fun at itself. A bored rich lady can buy a jade egg and laugh it off at the same time, it's just goop.

"Riviera Orchard" is oh so lame. It sounds exactly like the moniker a social climber armed only with an outdated edition of the preppy handbook would have picked. "It's classy", two words no upper class person ever uttered.

That said, the "Roop" (lmao) launch put me back on divorce watch: she's Amurrican, staying in Amurrica, and keeping the house. It's got that vibe, right?

You're very right, though. This is definitely Meghan staking her stiletto in American soil - she is not ever going back to the UK. She's done with it all.

It reminds me of the Hugh Jackman meme, "all he wants to do is sing and dance but they keep making him be Wolverine." All Meghan wants to do is play with her flowers and bake cakes but they keep making her be a royal Duchess.

Well, now she just gave them the ammunition to exclude her. If all she wants to do is play with her flowers and bake in her kitchen, the BRF should let her. No more invites back to the UK for anything.

[dumpfrontdesk]

hiii figured i'd do a proper intro for a change :>

i'm mel, short for melrose but mel is fine

i'm 18, my birthday is in june :)

my content is mostly just my thoughts about audios/shitpostsĺ

this is a sideblog, my personal tumblr is @/catherdalbunny, same as twitter

my favorite characters are gavin and porter ❤️

i'm from amurrica

aside from redacted audio i just play alot of fortnite tbh

dm me!! let's be friends!! i don't bite

[amarriageoftrueminds]

i don't get how some ppl have such short memories for the creative decisions marvel makes

people saying that james gunn(??) should write Bucky bc of rocket's arc in gotg3... did they forget that we already know what gunn's thoughts on Bucky and his autonomy are? none of them were remotely good, and it also involved rocket and his ableist running joke of wanting to dismember amputees replacement limbs off. marvel would rather humanize a raccoon than a human who was tortured and enslaved by nazis.

or how people will rightfully criticize all the available info feige puts out re: Thunderbolts for calling Bucky a villain... but then turn around and preeptively praise that he might have "long" hair (the WS cut) so out wondering why marvel keeps putting Bucky in winter soldier style designs whenever they villainize him again. it happens in both comics and mcu consistently. obviously those in charge want to keep him as the WS villain role and not progress his character and don't care why people liked the WS story (the development it set up)

or how some complain that Sam was unkind and victimblamey towards Bucky in tfatws, I feel like those got too into fanon!Sam that made him a therapist bc of his veteran work, but Sam re: Bucky started out wanting him to be put down like a dog, and consistently complained about Steve treating Bucky with kindness and empathy. fatws Sam wasn't OOC, he was always a military man whose empathy never extended towards the POW captured by Nazis and always regarded him as a potential threat that he has to tolerate, that was in character. the actual fault is the mcu not exploring the dynamic a super patriotic US military man not extending empathy towards a a ww2 vet for fought nazis only for said nazis to be hired by the US a lá Project Paperclip, but LBR the disney-owned and USDoD-funded marvel studios is not financially incentivized to delve into those topics in any way that doesn't ultimately end with "woo, Captain Amurrica, red white and blue stars and stripes, stand for the flag wooo! ignore anything close to critical in this project and embrace patriotic centrism!"

I already hate how long the last one got but another thing:

the way that Steve's mother and his Irish heritage (during the early 1900s which makes it more significant in that point in history) are given to shine, we don't even know her maiden name, even the story of Steve's father and how it's supposed to parallel Steve going to fight European fascism in both world wars, none of that gets any attention bc marvel as a franchise cares more abt the generic patriotism to dive into the characters

There's never enough talk about how post-CATWS mcu demoted Bucky from titular character and arguable secondary protagonist as a foil and parallel for Steve, be his alternate supersoldier/superhero journey based on who the world chose to lionized and who to exploit in the seedy underbelly and shady deals w nazis, but post-CATWS mcu (specifically CACW) robbed Steve of the chance to have Steve's (not Cap's, Steve's) character be explored.

Becayse why tf does that terrorizing billionaire have more screentime on what is (nominally) a sequel to Steve and Bucky's movie? We learn more about tony's annoying ass billionaire parents in a desperate attempt for pity than we do about either Bucky or Steve's families… the most we get is a name drop of Steve and Bucky reunion scenes that were clearly cut short if you compare them to the trailers of the movie.

the russos are branded as hacks (and maybe this is me still being bitter as an OG cacw-hater) but after they revealed in interviews that they kept re-editing and re-shooting civil war until half of test audiences sided with tony, that should've been where they were forever banned from filmmaking. that's not making a movie, that's making a product to sell action figures (unfortunately true for most of marvel if we're honest)

"Captain America: the Winter Soldier" nay have listed them by their titles, but that movie is pretty much the only time we see Bucky and Steve as characters most of the time, it's literally the only own with flashbacks to their relationship before the war, before "Captain America" even existed, to where it was just Bucky and Steve.

the vast majority of the marvel franchise treats them as only "Cap" and "Winter Soldier" their actual characters get lost by "creatives" who only have a superficial understanding of them as just two types of action figures to collect, they don't know Steve or Bucky, so we get sequels constantly about "Bucky's a killer robot who must be browbeat at every turn" and "Steve's most important thing in his life is the cap shield and legacy" as if their stories weren't centered around how Bucky was NOT the killer robot and in fact Steve's damn-near guardian angel character before the war and even during (literally killing nazis before they could touch Steve) and as if Steve didn't throw away the shield and Captain America title in each of his movies in favor of what's actually important to him: his oldest protector and the one he wants to protect in return, Bucky.

marvel doesn't even understand Bucky and Steve, they treat them as WS & CA, even though their core canon never showed them caring about the "legacy" and patriotism, it was always incidental at best or an obstacle that gets in the way. the most patriotism was in catfa, but it was always a mantle forced into Steve and his hero team (Howling Commandos) were purposefully diverse and non-American majority recommended by Bucky when Steve joined Bucky in the war to fight nazis. But now marvel wants to retcon in this stuff with lines like Bucky calling Hydra "my people" instead of his oppressors and torturers like they actually were, and storylines about how the patriotic legacy and shield are Steve's whole identity instead of Bucky speaking up and pointing out that none of the other characters actually knew Steve, they only knew "Cap" and "Mr. America" and that Steve literally abandoned the shield as his last public choice with it, so none of it even is his legacy at all.

the sheer gall of (in defense of infinitywar/endgame's BS) people claimed that Bucky would finally get focus again in tfatws, but in the end, only catws gave us flashback scenes of Bucky (and Steve!) before the war before the superhero stuff, meanwhile the d+ show didn't even acknowledge that Bucky's direct family's kids are 1000% alive (he had a big family!) and heard of the real uncle Bucky, and instead the show claimed that Bucky is closest to HYDRA… the ones who tortured him into a mindslave… and he said it to a government mandated therapist (institutionalization by the state) who works for the same government who had the hydra-nazis on payroll and funded Bucky's torture…

no one at marvel even gave a thought about Bucky's family or the direct fault the gov has in his abuse.. no one on screen points out that the state that's institutionalizing him as a felon literally owes him reparations. they could've done a storyline relating to other IRL groups and family descendants who are owed reparations for the USA's domestic and international crimes and how Bucky is a similar case, but instead it's about how Bucky has no family that he was violently imprisoned from and how he's the one at fault and how the government mandated oversight says Bucky should be apologizing for what they funded

Bucky has so many blatant similarities with victims and descendants of IRL state human rights abuses that those states refuse to recognize, but marvel isn't willing to frame in a way that makes the US look bad because they're too busy being patriotic and "respecting the shield" and flag symbols and "legacy" and pretending like the shield is so so so important to Bucky or Steve and retcon out the parts where the shield and the captain america stuff was discarded easily at the emotional climax of each of the first 3 movies in favor of protecting what actually mattered more: each other….

but patriotism tho, the new Cap & WS who replaced Bucky & Steve are too patriotic to point out that the government literally owes their (cuz both ssr/shield & hydra were agencies by them) their two most famous supersoldier experimental test subjects a lot of money and apologies for a long laundry list of reasons

[arsenalgbt]

ooo for your top 5 asks: top 5 arsenal moments??

*cracks knuckles*

even back then, I have never really sung praises for ozil. but this one particular fucking goal versus Ludogorets. I will, and I repeat, I will fucking pay to experience it for the first time again. and again. Groundhog Day me. inject it. play this on my fucking funeral.

2. the day I KNEW nelli was special was when he scored goals during preseason in amurrica (aka since day 1). but this? this was up there cuz of my hatred for Chelsea of course lmaooooooo mind you he was only 18!!!!!!!!! 19?

3. I'm sorry you JUST HAD TO BE THERE. town or cities beginning with A. Joe: LONDON. there was a time when all I had to do was to watch this video and everything was alright again... sokratis cameo...

4. IT'S NOT AMERICA? SORRY YOU FINISHED AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY. nah. nah man. stop whatever ur doing and watch it now.

5. hello?

[toughtink]

stuff the gop wants to ban after they kill roe and abortion access:

same sex marriage

oral and anal sex

gender affirming healthcare (this is already happening)

contraceptives

in-vitro fertilization

pornography

interracial marriage

basically anything related to personal privacy protections

this is going to be Bad.

[taylortruther]

Rae I was listening to miss Americana the song and I have to say… the meaning of it kinda eludes me lol

Could you write an analysis for it? I understand it’s sort of a metaphor for Taylor’s disillusion towards America but idk I don’t get it lol why is it set in a high school scenario? Also it seems to be a joe love song as well…?

the high school setting is to express the disillusionment taylor (and many others) felt during the trump admin - she was once america's sweetheart, writing songs about being 15 and growing up. plus, high school cliches are iconic american symbols: football, school pride, cheerleading, etc. so it's a way to tie in her own musical history with american history and the present.

in the first verse, she's basically saying she loves amurrica, but shit is getting scary - she can't support it right now (so she rips up her prom dress). also, she literally left the country around the time trump was elected, so i think the "i ran for my life" lyric is pretty literal.

throughout verse 2, she's making references to why she's scared. trump won, republicans with awful personal/political track records (like blackburn) are winning, and lots of people are happy about it.

and people are whispering in the halls about her being a bad bad girl because she has a reputation, she's been publicly raked through the mud... and it could also be a reference to hillary clinton being treated similarly.

personally, i think the references to "it's you and me, that's my whole world" are both references to her relationship with joe (as they were falling deeply in love and ran away together, which she was criticized for, and iirc taylor also said joe supported her becoming more political? someone fact check this) and her relationship with american politics in general. she's sad, scared, wants the country to be better than it is.

hope this helps!

[thenextcelestialchapter]

Me at anyone in my entire life that has ever told me to chill:

Bitches my feelings ain't muted. My expressions and mannerisms are never gonna be beige or grey. I am bright red and blue like AMURRICA--!

[sporkspud]

made my own post to not take over that other one but the THING is that american informality is going to (has) ruin my LIFE. I don't know at this point if I need to move to a more structured culture or a properly less structured one (the answer is to try both) but as a 'tism american "informality" is not REAL informality it's *fake* informality (fake news) it's formality masquerading as informality it's power structures with the crossbeams and zeroes sticking out and *yet* you're forced to pretend it's all one easy familiar family because aMURRica! equality! "Call me by my first name," your boss says. "There's no paid overtime."

[alazyparallelworld]

amurrica centric warning but. isn't it wild that retroactively, danganronpa v3 has become a critique of 2023 entertainment industry