#but white supremacy was too far apparently

[hussyknee]

cant put my finger on it, but Taylor Swift feels like walking racial microaggression

[odinsblog]

Lmao. Twitter user georgina4781 is like, “I hope future generations judge you by the same social standards” — aka: being against white supremacy, Apartheid & imperialism that destroyed the lives of literally MILLIONS of Black and indigenous peoples. And they said that shit with their whole entire chest out! You and your pesky “modern standards” of …. *checks notes* …. not enslaving entire countries and depleting said countries of valuable material resources.

Look, Imma let everyone in on a little secret here: throwing down the, “BUT THEY DIDN’T KNOW ANY BETTER BACK THEN” excuse is 💯bullshit. But white people can be counted on to stay eating it up. Because that false framing serves a purpose.

Are we really and truly expected to believe that absolutely noooobody back then had any inkling that things like slavery, colonialism and Apartheid were evil? Nobody at all back then knew it? C’mon now. See? More “white innocence” bullshit. You think Jeff Bezos doesn’t know that people dying in Amazon warehouses is easily preventable and him not taking precautions to avoid more deaths is “bad”? People know wrong now, and they knew it back then. Still not sold? Okay, how about this: if nothing else, the Black and indigenous people being colonized knew it and expressed their views, but colonizers intentionally ignored them and did not listen to them. And I’m pretty sure we won’t need to search very hard through history books to find white people who knew it was wrong too. Just because their voices did not prevail doesn’t mean that “everyone back then” somehow did not know better. Many knew better and simply did. not. care. Kinda like Jeff Bezos right now.

When we accept the false premise that “they just didn’t know any better back then,” we are allowing a form of whitewashing history to happen — we are allowing today’s racism deniers to deftly delete the agency of colonizers, and replace their cruelty and greed, with innocence. And POOF! Just like that, the myth of white innocence is maintained, and the cruelty and greed behind all imperialism is parsed, equivocated and whitewashed away into something less heinous and more palatable.

And the thing white people seem to call “bringing up the shitty parts of history” is literally what everyone else, under ordinary circumstances, refers to as the truth, but apparently everyone is supposed to stay quiet so that colonizers and their beneficiaries can continue whitewashing history and continue pretending that it wasn’t really that bad, or advise everyone to just “get over it” because was “a long time ago,” or eventually argue that it never happened at all.

I’ll let you in on another secret: white people who want to downplay & deny racism love to throw racism into this far away safe space called, “the past”. I’m reminded of an old saying that goes something like, “your grandfather may have chopped down the tree, but we are still suffering from no shade today because of his actions.” An incredibly bad paraphrase on my part, but the point is, Uju Anya is a survivor of war and genocide caused by recent colonialism, and the person who was instrumental in that - in chopping down the proverbial shadetree - just died. Uju Anya is still experiencing the loss of diaspora caused by Queen Elizabeth’s kingdom, and telling her how to process her very real and very current grief is so presumptuous that I would need to live a million years as a white person to even begin to comprehend how presumptuous that is.

White fragility is a hell of a thing. But demanding that the still-living and still-impacted descendants of imperialism just shut up so that European whites don’t have to be reminded of their queen’s active role in colonialism … that’s strait up bullshit.

Apparently American conservatives aren’t the only ones upset with honestly talking about theories critical of racist systems.

Sending out much love to Uju Anya, who is now having Jeff fucking Bezos, one of the richest white men in history, and others harass her and lecture her about “kindness” and “respectability politics”.

[choose-your-own-dentistry]

I remember watching a video about wonderbread fetish guy that did a deep dive into him and why he asked for so many of those odd commissions. And it's a lot but basically amounted to a white supremacy fetish and Nazi shit. So not exactly something that was just weird and harmless.

The wonderbread style commissions weren't the only thing and I do get the feeling they were a nasty metaphor for rich white women "stuffing" themselves with "white bread" but he did a lot of these "white women destroying environment" type shit too and apparently was super ultra mega far right republican with some shady actions and history.

I'm not saying this to be rude or condoning the people who condemn the fetish from a surface level without really knowing the full story, but I am saying it helps to be informed. He's apparently been banned multiple times from 4chan which that's gotta be some kind of sick level of achievement, even if it is for nonstop bothering people with his fetish.

Personally, I think it would be fine if he really just happened to love blonde white bimbos and wonderbread that much. I take issue with how deep the rabbit hole and other shit goes and I do think artists especially not only should be aware, but obviously have a right to decline business and association with him.

i feel like the real problem here is the nazi shit. but every time i saw someone mention him, it was because of his weird fetish, not because of his political views or shady actions. in the eyes of the average person he is a cringe sexual deviant first and foremost. i wonder why that is.

of course artists have the right to not work with him, but you know what would really help them make that decision? focusing on the nazi shit

[theblogtini]

Talking about the documentary, Liz Garbus had an interview with Vanity Fair apparently. She said BP lied when they said they weren't asked for comment to discredit the documentary. As far as I remember, they walked it back later, after realising that someone did send an e-mail with an ask to comment but it was a third party production company that they weren't able to verify because they didn't reply to any follow-up e-mails from the Palace. But as usual everything has to be the fault of evil Palace.

She also says it was her idea to include the racism, colonialism and white supremacy to 'connect the dots to larger historical issues' and that H&M were open and willing to do it, even though they 'might not have originally considered' it - is this where Meghan's comment from The Cut comes to play?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11672507/amp/Director-Harry-Meghans-Netflix-series-claims-Palace-tried-discredit-documentary.html

So here's the thing - no one WANTED the palace to comment. They sent the request for comment because ethically, it's the right thing to do. But they didn't really want a comment which is why when the palace was trying to verify who the 3rd party production company was they didn't make it easy. They just ignored them.

Honestly, I think that Meghan's comments from The Cut interview were because by the time she did that interview, they knew they had fucked up. They knew around the time of the Jubilee that they had let it all go too far - that they had created a situation they probably weren't going to be able to come back from. Their popularity rates in the UK were abysmal, and around that time they were starting to fall in the US - and they realized that the Netflix doc and the book were going to make everything much, much worse. Because that's when we started hearing rumors about them trying to kill the book and push back the docuseries release date.

They signed the Netflix and Spotify deals out of desperation but also out of anger. They agreed to do all of that stuff when they were really, really pissed off and hurt. And when they thought that they would have production deals and speaking engagements rolling in left and right. And once cooler heads prevailed, and deals never came through, it was too late - they had signed the deals and Netflix wanted drama.

[benicebefunny]

It's sickening to see people framing Nathan's panic attack as "instant caramel" or him getting what he deserves for leaking Ted's panic attack.

It pains me to see disability framed as a punishment, as a result of a moral deficiency, as something that happens to bad people. That's the moral model of disability all over again. It's nothing new; equating disability with immorality or divine punishment is one of the oldest forms of ableism.

It's also kinda ridiculous that people think this was Nathan's Very First Panic Attack. In S1, we repeatedly see him run away from anxiety-provoking situations. What do you think he was having off screen? A Panic at the Disco!? The press conference was just the first time that the writers spelled out, "Hey! Nathan has anxiety just like Ted." (Something they didn't know they needed to do until they saw the horrific reaction to S2 Nathan.)

Up until that press conference, a majority of fandom was unwilling to read Nathan as disabled. After S2, fandom was very much pitting the ableism Ted experienced versus the racism Nathan experienced. (Nathan experiencing the intersection of ableism and racism was beyond consideration.) Nathan's (internalized, intra-community) ableist actions were always measured as far worse than anything he could ever experience personally. Ableism against a white disabled man was awarded Most Vile Thing Ever.

Which is a thing that happens all the time in real life disability communities. In the US, white people are the default disabled people; our experiences of ableism are given the most weight and attention. Disabled people of color are erased and accused of being ableist against white disabled people. It will take decades (if not centuries) for disability communities to heal from the the pain and division wrought by white disabled people's investment in white supremacy.

Viewing white disabled people (especially white disabled men) as The One True Disabled who experiences the Purest Ableism creates a skewed picture of intra-community oppression. Disabled people of color are hyper-scrutinized, while white disabled people are assumed to be incapable of true ableism.

This is why Nathan leaking Ted's panic attack is seen as the Most Ableist Moment in the series. It's also why Ted trying to My Fair Lady the autism out of Nathan is seen as a kind of charity--even by autistic people who have the community knowledge to recognize why Ted telling Nathan how to talk, when to laugh, and how to move mirrors how we are treated irl.

(Do not misunderstand; I am not saying that Ted's internalized ableism excuses Nathan's internalized ableism. That's the thing about internalized oppression: it's bad and it makes everything worse.)

After S2, the fandom's view was very much, "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at ableism."

But that changed this week--as soon as Nathan's disabled identity was too apparent to deny. Now it's, "I can also excuse ableism."

It's terrible, hurtful, and ableist to portray a panic attack as just deserts for bad behavior. Equating disability with punishment is a step backward. What does that say about real life disabled people? Are we disabled because we are bad? Do we have flare-ups, pain, panic attacks because of something evil we did? Do our bodies reflect our sinful nature?

I realize that some of the people saying Nathan is being punished with disability may in fact be disabled themselves. They may have panic attacks. And to them I say, Buddy, you are playing a dangerous game with more lives than your own. The moral model of disability is not a path to victory.

[j0iryyde]

Can black people be mermaids? A theory about elemental spirits

There is something to be said about why Halle Bailey has been receiving so much racist backlash ever since it was announced in 2019 that she was cast to play Ariel in the live-action depiction of the little mermaid. While a lot of use we’re excited for the news to see a black person in a movie about a mermaid, others weren’t very fond of it. In fact some even had racist responses. Some will disguise their racism as the lack of “redhead representation”. Or even will use the argument that since Poseidon is a figure in Greek mythology, Ariel should be white. We’ll get to that part later. 😏

When Black Panther came out in theaters, it was like a holiday for black people. That movie currently has the record of the highest grossing marvel film in history, and the highest grossing film for the year 2018. Why? Because it depicted black people as the leaders of the richest fictional country in the MCU. However, the same thing happened when the trailers released, racist comments left and right. It’s almost as if since y’all can’t keep us in cotton fields anymore, at the very least y’all can watch us in movies as the lowest beings of society to bring comfort to your racist hearts.

Whenever black people enjoy and celebrate something, we get mocked for it. But I digress.

In the eyes of mainstream media, apparently they won’t let a black person be the main character unless they agree to be in a film where their oppression is the main subject.

White people and white supremacy constantly goes out of their way to put down melanated people as nothing more than a slur, or a “token” that white ppl can use to seem “progressive” or “edgy”, or even to fulfill some sick fantasy.

So of course some of y’all can’t possibly imagine somebody black being an elemental spirit, like a mermaid.

Not to mention, so many of our cultures and religions, which for the most part we’re nature-based, are demonized to this day. Look at these industries that white people have created that are destroying the earth. Look at the stereotypes that are given to black and indigenous spiritual practices (hoodoo, voodoo, Santerìa, brujeria, Lucumi, Ifà, etc). The programming that we’ve received that keep us from stepping into our spiritual power because it’s considered “evil” is phenomenal.

Now let’s get to the good part:

Many people speculate that white people don’t even belong on this planet. Which isn’t too far fetched. Look at what white supremacy has done to so many cultures around the world, all of which are NATURE BASED. Look at the way that y’all burn in the sun. Look at the way y’all appropriate our cultures.

In recent years I’ve been seeing a common theme of the earth having a much higher vibration, a very long time ago, where elemental spirits could thrive, until unfamiliar, foreign industrialization and colonization ruined the earth causing these spirits to lose their powers and even disappear over time. That’s assuming that these creatures existed in real life once upon a time, which I personally believe they did.

Melanated people are literally creatures of the earth. We belong here. So in terms of elemental spirits, such as mermaids, fairies (fae), nymphs, angels, minotaurs, etc., It would make a lot more sense for those creatures to be melanated. Not white.

It’s not impossible for a mermaid to be black, in fact it would be the most possible.

[facelessxchurch]

That's acceptable. For reference, a lot of nasty, vaguely leftoid people have basically Gnostic ideas- they believe the world is fundamentally bad and and flawed that there is an evil force controlling everything. In their case it is White Supremacy or the patriarchy or whatever. That's why I'm fascinated by ideas that clearly categorize as Gnostic appearing organically in the fiction produced by woke left authors like Landy- Darquesse as an evil world-maker/demiurge is a clear example of this.

The way I understand the far-left is that they have Rousseauian views and not Gnostic ones. As in, all people are good but society corrupted them and forced them to do bad stuff to survive. Apparently, that's where their soft stance and crime comes from.

Needless to say, I disagree with this. People fucking suck and it's getting worse every day.

Also, for as much as I hate Landy, I don't think he is woke, he is just playing along bc he is completely spineless. Wait until there is too much backlash against woke stuff and watch how he shifts with the wind. The only things that's actually woke about him are his pedo vibes.

And by the way you describe Gnostic ideas that wouldn't apply to Darquesse bc she doesn't influence. She either destroys or she recreates. Everything she does is very physical and it does not affect the minds of people. To me to influence someone is to move someone's mind and heart.

[malikismindful]

Peace and Love, Black Family! It is so apparent that Black ppl in this country are far too comfy straddling the fence! Some of us have as much interest in Black Liberation as we do with flying rockets to Mars! We, as a race, appear to be more than pleased with going to work everyday to survive in a social order that has never, and will never give back to us what we truly deserve! We all scream about survival, paying bills, and being who we we need to be to keep ourselves above water! But who is bucking the system? Who wants to dismantle the system? Who wants to GET ON CODE AND STAY ON CODE? Who wants to “stick it to the man?” Where are the f’n revolutionaries at? Revolution and anarchy doesn’t have to be what will get you arrested, but it does have to be something that is NOTICEABLE! I don’t notice us doing much but clinging to the world of White pseudo-Supremacy more and more! Yeah, we all need to thrive and survive daily, but can we give some energy to where we will be as a race in the next 5 years, at least! 🤷🏾‍♂️ We need to consider what can and will benefit us from now on! This is just a question of concern! I definitely don’t work to better my position in this world! Everything I do is for the complete and total dismantling of the Matrix! GET ON CODE. STAY ON CODE.🩸💣🔫✊🏾 BLACK POWER! #black.#power #love #man #woman #empowerment #revolution #race #only #loyalty #on #code #blackpeople #fathers #revolutionary #matrix #truth #knowledge #consciousness #freedom #strategy #unity#blackfamily #blacknationalism #african #panafrican #discipline #malikismindful https://www.instagram.com/p/CgxCYVqOGA59pBT31cTotoqKHhQ2pNGiPp8p5k0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[90363462]

The Tale of Kanye West, From Dropout to Letdown

The story has gotten so far that not even fashion can save him now.

Original photo by Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images. (Digital COMPOSITE BY SARA DELGADO)

In this op-ed, writer Shelton Boyd-Griffith examines how Kanye West’s recent behavior has affected his influence in fashion and beyond.

How did we go from this, “We shine because they hate us, floss ‘cause they degrade us/ We tryna buy back our 40 acres.”

And this, “I say f— the police, that’s how I treat ‘em/ We buy our way out of jail, but we can’t buy freedom.”

To this: “EVERYONE KNOWS THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER WAS A SCAM, NOW IT’S OVER, YOU’RE WELCOME.”

And then this: [questioning the cause of George Floyd’s death] “They hit him with the fentanyl. If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”

It’s the tale of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, from a radical artist of the people to a mouthpiece of anti-Blackness.

When I originally started this essay, the thesis centered around Ye and his recent problematic antics within the fashion industry. I wrote that, if we’re being honest, Ye feels safe and at home in fashion because, systematically, fashion has always been a safe space for anti-Blackness, misogyny, fatphobia, and all-around bigotry. More often than not, the industry has bought into the same tropes and ideologies he believes in. Brand and corporate accountability have become especially important in recent years, a welcome sign of progress — particularly after the 2020 racial justice protests — though it doesn’t always last. In my view, the success of the demand for accountability has been hit or miss.

Things may be finally taking a turn, as storied fashion house Balenciaga has said they are severing all ties with Ye, as reported in WWD on Friday. In response to a query from WWD, the parent company Kering said, “Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist.”

Of course, while this is big, Ye’s antics have ballooned beyond the fashion industry recently and, well, I have some thoughts about that too.

As for those shirts from Paris Fashion Week, this kind of anti-Black trolling is relatively standard for Ye. He is addicted to attention, and the folx of the internet and the fashion industry, in particular, kept fueling him up to that point. I personally believe he’s so incredibly focused on distancing himself from the notion of average Blackness that it does not matter with whom (45) or what (white supremacy) he associates himself with. He loves to exist within the “other” space. Somehow he’s convinced himself that he’s not like the rest of us [Black people] because he is supposedly somehow “enlightened.”

It’s apparent that Ye feels safe in right-wing-adjacent spaces, which is why it was unsurprising when he appeared on Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, a platform known for its controversial takes on matters around raceand misogynistic rhetoric. Ye likely felt comfortable that Carlson and his fan base would provide a haven for him to spiral out, spewing his harmful ideologies and soundbites. “We’ve rarely heard a man speak so honestly and so movingly about what he believes,” Carlson said as an introduction to the interview (?—if you can call it that). It’s likely that a viewer would see Ye’s appearance on the show as a green light for the anti-Blackness Carlson regularly churns out.

During that self-administered interview (because Ye basically spoke to himself), the rapper continued to double down, offering up even more stomach-turning hot takes. From continuing to let the masses know that Trump was his “boy” (even with the current legal, moral, ethical, and antidemocratic storm surrounding 45, Ye still doesn’t show any desire to distance himself), to weaponizing religion and going on a fatphobic tirade.

“The media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal,” he says, using Lizzo (yet another Black woman) as a target for his internalized self-hate. He then went on to say that being overweight was neither in fashion nor in vogue, and — here’s the kicker — that promoting body positivity is “demonic.” As a Black fat body in the fashion space, I know this conversation all too well, but him weaponizing religion in this way takes on a whole other meaning. It’s dangerous. But at this point, that’s his intent. He seems to want to use shock and awe and weaponize his ideologies, which contradict the inclusive steps the fashion, media, and culture spaces must continue to take.

Following his Tucker Carlson performance, Ye took to his platform (social media), going on a series of antisemitic rants based on historically dangerous tropes, which resulted in him being locked out of Twitter and Instagram. Adidas recently announced that its Yeezy partnership was “under review,” and JPMorgan Chase also severed its relationship with the rapper weeks before his most recent tirades, according to The Daily Beast. We need more of this. More action.

He continued his press run, this time on Revolt TV’s podcast Drink Champs, dishing out several antisemitic comments (again) and disparaging falsehoods about the death of George Floyd. After the show aired, and Ye’s disgusting comments reached the masses, the family of Floyd stated their intent to potentially pursue legal action against the rapper. N.O.R.E., the cohost of Drink Champs,has expressed “regret over allowing Kanye West to make controversial comments during the podcast,” and Revolt has removed the episode from streaming platforms. Though there are questions around why the episode even aired in the first place (and why Ye was left unchecked about his tasteless comments in real time), I want to reiterate that this should be the end result. There should be repercussions for his rhetoric.

If, after seeing those shirts and after witnessing him double down on his anti-Black, antisemitic hate speech, you still choose to support Ye, you are making a bold statement. As a former fan, I’ve gone through the full scope of trying to dissociate the art from the artist, making excuses/creating dissertations about his actions, etcetera, but to loosely paraphrase The Devil Wears Prada, Ye sold his soul to the devil when he put on his first MAGA hat. From then on, it was clear that this was a deeply troubled man with some internal issues with his identity. I believe it’s the same space in which Black right-wing extremists (like his co-conspirator Candace Owens) thrive.

It’s dangerous to associate his ideology with mental illness. He’s no messiah. He’s not a genius. He’s an insecure man plagued with internalized self-hate who has reached a certain station in life that he feels somehow excuses him from the realities of being a “typical” Black person.

It hurts to see the complete lack of regard for Mike Brown, Manuel Ellis, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and the countless Black lives that systemic racism and oppression have taken from us. And what’s even more painful is that he doesn’t care. In the past, he used his platform to shine a light on the issues and injustices disproportionately affecting Black people,and now he’s willingly a mouthpiece for the very things he used to rap about. It was even announced this week that he was in talks to buy the controversial conservative platform Parler (which is quite interesting, considering Ye’s friend Candace Owens’s husband, George Farmer, is the CEO). This is who he is now. He’s all in.

I want us collectively to let him and others like him exist in their own orbit and not feel the need to engage continuously. That’s what men like him want. It’s like his life force counts on the engagement, the clicks. As we push for more inclusive, safe-affirming spaces, there’s no room for this behavior. After weeks of watching him spiral, my message is this: Let’s all agree to leave him (along with other problematic voices in the industry) to his own devices, in his own orbit, and shift our focus instead to creatives using their practices and platforms to effect change, fashion brands that represent the world we aim to see, and issues that matter.

Way to self destruct your own career. Shutting up is free for a reason

[dominadajarvispokan]

Apparently they are keeping an eye on my post, but I’m blocked so I can’t reply. No matter.

This is my response to why I do not buy the OP's claim that Dracula is an antisemitic caricature.

The eponymous vampire is the scion of an ancient warrior tribe best known for defending the borders of Christendom. His descendants as well as ancestors are repeatedly said to be noble and admirable people, barring the ones who consorted with the Devil.

So right there I ask, what kind of Jew-coded villain is said to belong to a warrior race? Much less a defender of Christendom. What kind of Jew-coded family is repeatedly spoken of in such glowing terms?

But let's move on.

Our ancient evil drinks human blood, and in doing so creates an army, or dare I say, a pandemic of vampirism.

Since when was blood-borne contagion a part of the Blood-libel? Or maybe, just maybe, this was a new and different beast unrelated to the Jews which also happened to be a blood-sucker.

But let's pretend that the contagion here is a metaphor for the OP's so-called reverse imperialism and colonisation. That Drac wants to turn the entire world into slaves for his coven of vampires.

For reasons that are not clearly spelled out, he has chosen to target the heart of the British Empire, rather than literally the rest of Europe with its numerous metropoles, which are headquarters of other powerful colonial empires such as the Portuguese, Spanish, French, and yes, the Dutch.

The problem is, Jews were hated in all of Western Europe. So why is his master plan specifically built on evading the European mainland (to the point that he chose to sail around it), rather than infiltrating all of those countries. Remember this creature is feared as far as China. What prevented him from conquering every country that fell on the Trans-European railway line?

What, he can take on Britain, but they're too much for him?

But maybe he really is an anglophile, as the memes claim. Or maybe this is a case of creator provincialism, in which aliens always invade the USA (or in this case, Britain).

Now for what he actually did. His modus operandi is the control of animals (none of whom like to be controlled, incl. the Norwegian wolf unimaginatively named Berserker), association with gypsies, and preying (for food, and to create an army, but in a very rape-like way*) on women, children and the insane.

The OP spoke of "what resonances were being invoked to evoke horror". They claim it is the use of libelous stereotypes typically ascribed to nineteenth century British Jews.

But has the OP read the book I wonder?

Because the horror of Dracula does not lie in the vampire.

It lies in the fact that Jonathan Harker ignored the natives. In the fact that the four men failed to loop in first Mrs Westenra (on the pretext of sparing her a fatal shock) and then ignored Renfield's pleas on the grounds that he was previously insane. The real horror lay in the fact that they exploited Mina's skills and then excluded her purely because it was 'not women's work'.

The horror lay in the fact that the only reason Dracula could gain any sort of foothold is that our White Male Protagonists constantly ignored and belittled the marginalised people - the natives, women, the insane.

That the war against Dracula was finally won only by the re-inclusion of Mina in the campaign.

It seems in their fervour for proving Dracula to be an antisemitic screed written for a White British audience, OP completely forgot that it was a harsh criticism of toxic male stereotypes and white supremacy, written by an Irish author.

*That is entire the extent of sex and sexuality in the book BTW, that their hunting and feeding is akin to sexual predation. There is no commentary on repression or expression or anything. Just the implication that male vamps are like incubi, and female ones are like succubi. Both common monster templates that date back to ancient Mesopotamia.

Citations:

I suppose there is something in woman’s nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood.

Chapter XVII, 30th Sept, Mina Harker's Journal

He told me that for days and nights past—weary days and sleepless nights—he had been unable to speak with any one, as a man must speak in his time of sorrow. There was no woman whose sympathy could be given to him, or with whom, owing to the terrible circumstance with which his sorrow was surrounded, he could speak freely.

Ibid

She has man’s brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and a woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination. Friend John, up to now fortune has made that woman of help to us; after to-night she must not have to do with this so terrible affair. It is not good that she run a risk so great. We men are determined—nay, are we not pledged?—to destroy this monster; but it is no part for a woman.

Chapter XVIII, 30th Sept, John Seward's Diary

There are no fewer than five separate occasions after this entry in which all the men (except Quincey) congratulate themselves for keeping Mina out. Why would Stoker go to such an extent to tell us this, I wonder.

[pashterlengkap]

Right-wingers freak out because Miss France has “woke” short hair

Look up the original definition of “woke” circa 2020 and you’ll find “alert to racial prejudice, discrimination and white supremacy.” Now, for muckraking tabloids and probably Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), “woke” apparently just means “short hair.” Related: Far-right Republicans are now calling Mike Johnson “woke” over LGBTQ+ military provisions Mike Johnson’s views are extreme, but some Republicans don’t think he’s extreme enough. The newest definition comes in the wake of 20-year-old Eve Gilles taking the title of Miss France last Saturday night. The French beauty representing Nord-Pas-de-Calais snatched the crown sporting a pixie cut straight out of a 1990s supermodel lookbook. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Promotions (occasional) * Week in Good News (one on the Weekend) * Week in Review (one on the Weekend) * Daily Brief (one each weekday) * Sign Up It was the first win for a Miss France contestant with short hair in the competition’s 103-year history. Eve Gilles, a woman with short hair wins miss france and the tabloids get angry saying the judges have gone ‘woke’ as her hair isn’t long. i feel they’ve gone with a fabulous 80/90 vibe and a look that is strikingly different from the other woman. #MissFrance pic.twitter.com/ho9AcKTPzR— emma woodcock (@Green_Yogi) December 18, 2023 “We’re used to seeing beautiful Misses with long hair, but I chose an androgynous look with short hair,” explained Gilles after the contest. It was a win for “diversity”, she said, adding that “no one should dictate who you are.” The model-thin beauty queen, who grew up wanting to be an equestrian, shared during the contest, “I would like to show that the competition is evolving and society, too. That the representation of women is diverse. In my opinion, beauty is not limited to a haircut or shapes that we have — or not.” “Every woman is different,” she added. “We are all unique.” But not according to the right-wing outrage machine ginning up a controversy that doesn’t really exist. Leading the charge: the UK’s far right-leaning Daily Mail. “Critics said the kind of long hair favored by previous winners – and Gallic female icons such as Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve – would have been far more appropriate than a short pixie bob,” snarked the British tabloid, without quoting those critics in particular. The Franco-phobic Telegraph jumped on the scrum as well, describing Miss France as “boyish” and “androgynous”. And according to more than one post on Elon Musk’s X, Gilles’s triumph for “diversity” is just another rigged result of the left’s obsession with “woke”. “Miss France is no longer a beauty contest but a woke contest which is based on inclusiveness,” read one tired take. “We don’t care about her haircut, but the androgynous body is obviously there to serve as woke,” read another. It was left to French-American actress Beatrice Rosen of 2012 fame, and no “woke” fan herself, to disarm fellow right-wing critics with a spirited defense of Gilles. “I understand that there is a real element fed up with the wokism that they are trying to make us swallow 24/7, BUT, in the same way that we can criticize a religion but NOT the faithful, I find the sometimes nasty criticisms regarding Eve unfair and counterproductive.  “Attacking the physical is an attack below the belt, and putting the weight of the total ideological criticism of Wokism on a young woman of 20 is unfair. “This young woman is pretty, and feminine ‘despite’ her short hair. I was and still am an admirer of the singular beauty of Audrey Hepburn, Linda Evangelista, or Jean Seberg, all 3 very thin with short hair, and who nevertheless are female icons who have been adored in the whole world.” Bravo à Ève Gilles pour son élection à Miss France 2024. J'ai lu les critiques et voici mon… http://dlvr.it/T0ZVJ1

[katieputnam18]

Dylan was a bit of a Micromanager from Kate Putnam on Vimeo.

Part 13: We asked how Dylan is so protected and after a check-in got a hard stop from my angels because everything is heading in the right direction for the good guys.

***** Corruption at the Top. Idaho 4 "Investigation" Moscow, Idaho. So, the Chief of Police is "out of town" or compromised?

The Organization. Moscow, Idaho, and...Delphi, Indiana? If you know, you know. #truecrime #tarot ***** Part 11: What part does Ashlyn Couch the mystery 6th roommate play in the Moscow, Idaho story? youtu.be/QboF4kq7knI?si=pRYuW7nTvv5MiCr5

Part 10: The Deacon at Christ Church. Formally known as the HOT cowboy? youtu.be/xeEY89YEGdk

Part 9: Is Christ Church Daddy Warbucks? youtu.be/1tQnwu_tgLU?si=Sr7SSbvshiJvKBql

Part 8: Asking Ethan, what happened? Ethan Chapin Mediumship Reading youtu.be/l0ervdiS10c?si=kT_EkUAP3z9gLMwq

Part 7: Emma Bailey and Demetrius Robinson are in trouble but their families are in more trouble. youtu.be/X2t4qRMSrGk?si=SVKPr2UbZzzHctsv

Part 6: Emma Bailey needs to change direction youtu.be/48QMuR_IXaM?si=T4YDFXJi6EO89l_F

Part 5: Tonight, Our Hot Cowboy Needs a Hug. And what is Daddy Warbucks Doing Here?youtu.be/0LjsB928XSk?si=qqe3JyaY42fjRmfl

Part 4: What Was The Hot Cowboy Doing at 1122 King Road 3 Weeks Later? youtu.be/0RIhVC0A80s?si=6UzhlSPX2krTHCWb

Part 3: Quinn, who's your daddy? youtu.be/H_18pUy5qhk?si=qC6BrJWHkU4SEyXr

Part 2: Corruption at the Top. Idaho 4 "Investigation" Moscow, Idaho. So, the Chief of Police is "out of town" or compromised? youtu.be/MqSNfBXFNmg?si=oggNrSF5HcT87PYo

Part 1: Moscow, Idaho. The Feds Are About to Be the Hero's. youtu.be/zb6FgZ84vI4?si=fGl20Al2Bh0WSlaq

Corruption at the Top. Idaho 4 "Investigation" Moscow, Idaho. So, the Chief of Police is "out of town" or compromised?

**** Unraveling the Dark Side of Moscow, Idaho: A Battle Against a Lethal Nexus of Sex and Drug Trafficking

The Ongoing Struggle to Dismantle a Ruthless Syndicate's Grip on a Community in Moscow, Idaho.

In the shadowed alleys and secluded corners of our society, a malevolent force has been thriving, preying on the vulnerable and leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. A network intricately woven, where sex and drug trafficking converge, has taken root, entrenched by a reign of fear and intimidation.

Local residents, gripped by a sense of powerlessness, have borne witness to the brazen audacity with which this insidious web operates, further entrenching the atmosphere of fear.

However, the tides may be turning. As the gravity of the situation becomes apparent, the U.S. government, in a resolute bid to sever the lifeblood of this malevolent entity, has embarked on an unrelenting mission to choke its supply lines. Through strategic collaborations, intelligence-gathering, and targeted operations, authorities are inching closer to dismantling this ruthless syndicate.

Through vigilance, perseverance, and a shared commitment to justice, we must collectively work to dismantle this insidious network and reclaim our communities from the clutches of fear.

Only through unity and unwavering resolve can we hope to eradicate the scourge of sex and drug trafficking that has plagued us for far too long.

Be sure to watch @CrimeCircusCult playlist on the research he's done regarding this case and BK: youtu.be/gkcf8Z24ng0?si=olNs6eIJmOrf0rTr

Watch the rest of the Idaho Corruption Playlist Here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLioo_yoPDyDXynXU4k7BYm3IIrBFWLkPC&si=jVeQD8kp9VDntnFs

***** The Cowboys, The Cult of Odin, corruption, White Supremacy, Cover-Ups, and Backdoor Deals.

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true crime, tarot, Idaho, tarot reading, corruption, cult of odin, idaho4, truecrime, cowboys, true crime podcast, tarot card, psychic, psychic medium, psychic, clairvoyant, 00:00 Introduction 00:13 Why is Dylan so Protected? 00:23 Which Cards to Use?

[shrinkenvy]

Medical doctors are jealous of the rest of the charismatic society of whoever Indian people twinkly people celebrity people, easy three year old children, right Mark

Wow, it is really possible that Dennis is buttfucking Mark

I can’t prove that he’s a paedophile I don’t know that he’s a pedophile. I don’t know that he has molested his daughter, but I do get a really nasty style of narcissism from him and it does indicate that there is a high potential for child moleststation or children living with their parents far beyond the appropriate time frame.

That is not anything that I have put in the air Rachel so you need to tell your daddy not to steal from little girls because the fact that Dennis has probably had his cock jammed very far up Mark’s anus is not my fault.

And it’s not my fault that you can’t find work I know that Mark would probably hold a grudge against somebody like me, and then those other guys would have his back for five seconds until the gangsters informed those restaurant owners of the truth. Anyway, I didn’t turn you into an inbred, but Mark is not gonna get away with ruining my life and you’re not gonna get away with a goddamn thing, either a woman like my grandmother will drag your ass.

 No it’s true. I used to be the nice one, but I had too many encounters with skinks trying to wear my energy and tell me that I am a piece of trash and now I apparently can’t find work apparently anyway, but I’m supposed to help some white supremacy, incest skank for stealing from me

How does that work for me? You know what I mean

It doesn’t

I know that a couple of police officers are on my side. I just don’t know which ones always

Mark, the fact that your daughter is allegedly unemployed at home you would not have just told me that to set me up to believe a certain way because you just would not do that. Basically it really does look just as bad as what people say.

Poor people and rich people

I assume Stephanie, Bryant is in a similar situation. She’s dealing with genetic abuse or are you guys sucking her ass today for fake?

Once you’ve already thrown away your incestuous stock, you can’t go back and say oh we’re going to take care of Stephanie and Rachel

You could’ve taken care of them by keeping your hands and penises away from them

But yeah, yeah Richard, I know that you guys really take care of your glasgow girls around here that’s why we’re knee-deep in incest

And that one guy got to get it off his chest that he actually pays a mortgage motherfucker, unlike you you lowlife

Little life oh, come on now everybody likes me nobody gives a rats ass about you

[hanzi83]

Wrestling Racism Discourse

Whenever I think maybe for a week I can stop doing a blog because I got my thoughts out plus I am doing it often on the podcast, and whenever I tell myself I am not going to be sucked into the wrestling discourse, you know I always end up giving in because they can manage to have so much thrown at you and if you are online consuming it and other promoted mental illness, someone like me who has mental illness, starts feeling really vitriolic to the system that helps organize and gimmick the discourse where we still don’t want to admit we are basically playing characters online who are trying to act like human beings and I feel I am one of few who is trying to break through from this real life kayfabed shit, and because this discourse is planned out, even if the lawsuit goes nowhere, the fact that is has become cannon online, is basically the system playing with people’s emotions, having their shills set more fires as the world is burning, we need to add more comedy to the situation because apparently we don’t have enough of that in our world. In the last decade, they promoted more diversity and inclusion even if it was still limited, I thought we were going in a more revolutionary direction, but it feels like so much as imploded, that we are now pushing back against the system that is racist, and people who used to claim to be truth tellers are now making excuses for larger racist issues, but will call out the most transparent and cartoonish, over the top shit, like people complain about forced diversity when it seems like a liberal agenda but I never remember a time where the ideology of white supremacy has now a diversity headcount, normally people like that go off on forced liberal minded shit but when people realistically call out the system for the racism, then all of a sudden the people who shit on the diversity head count then use it as a badge of honor when bigger issues get brought up. Like even this situation with the writer who is suing the company, there has to be this fucking doubt about if she can prove this matter, but hasn’t there been enough obvious racism and corruption to kill any benefit of the doubt for this company. If I put this specific situation to the side, in my personal opinion, these entertainment institutions have always had their hand in fundamentalist level shit and it is obvious by who they are aligned with politically, how this alleged mafia world can destroy people’s lives for exploitation so there can be a future documentary about the fall of that person, because once you are a public figure, especially these days, everything is for sale. I know people online want to act like that is not realistic, while they continuously get worked by planted online narratives, and having to cling on to a kayfabed reality of WWE being pure because they momentarily got rid of Vince so you could prolong your unhealthy obsession for this fandom. This isn’t one of those “You people” type of rants, because I feel bad for the brainwashed, and I have empathy for people who used to be human but now reduce themselves to be uncharismatic cookie cutter regressive edge lords, because the system is gonna destroy them. You can get mad at what I say as you and your group chats secretly analyze and make elitist jokes, you can keep doubling down, but the more and more you cross the line in the secretive way you do, it will eventually seep it into your mind, some people can make break free from there but some of these people enjoy this way too much, it feels like you could very well be broken for a very long time, and if it is not there mentally, your nice aesthetic could crumble down. That is how exploitative and mentally ill I perceive the system, even if you don’t buy into my “conspiratorial narratives” I can at least look at the patterns of stuff in the political and entertainment world. There has to be a reason why there seems to be some kind of far right wing pipeline from pro wrestling and since we are headed into a world where we are sports entertaining ourselves into fascism, it becomes scary to see what kind of mindset and regressive shit influential people are doing. 

So these pitches were so over the top and I am not saying they are not problematic at all but I feel since everything becomes material for online narratives, it feels a way for the attitude era reboot online to amplify the racist shit and kind of in an “ironic” way try to amplify the ideas because they want that reality and they constantly will advocate for it but if they have to see someone who is out of the closet and using their identity as part of their character, you have to see people like that cry about it because they might accidentally get an erection because they are self hating closeted people who have embraced sensationalist anti LGBTQ shit and that isn’t people who “don’t give a fuck” they have to make it seem like that so it feels like it is the early 2000’s again and like most bigots they rather be problematic as the cool straight guy rather than doing it because there is self hatred there.  No one who is am employed social climber online politicking for a gig can be taken seriously about their takes on these limited guise of racism, when you have reduced and dumbed down Vince McMahon to an America’s dumbest criminal level villain who randomly calls every other black employee Shelton, because if we make up a narrative that is spread online so we can embrace made up shit and think we are owning Vince. People who got their gigs have tried to discredit everyone who called out a racist system, and didn’t have a mental breakdown the appropriate way. I don’t forget. AEW shills don’t have a leg to stand on when a lot of people piled on Big Swole for not even saying anything too offensive, but valid criticism, she could’ve even gone deeper I feel, but even that tamed down criticism had to push a bunch of racists to call her all kinds of names, and then a bunch of the mentally ill shills, not the over the top mentally ill shills, but the ones who create chaos so they can act out them being the “Jim from the Office” role, those mentally ill shills then suddenly had problems with the company and they could only do it so we facilitate the fucking ego of someone who has already been vindicated in CM Punk. Not saying I don’t empathize with the guy and understand being in an abusive and mafia system it will fuck you up, but sometimes it feels like he has been so into this system that he is creating his own problematic cult and it only matters when he fucking gets screwed over but because someone like Swole is not a big star, it is okay to pile on her and throw her away. Sorry that shit is not acceptable. I will always bring it up. People also owe ACH a fucking apology, and a bunch of these fake ass shit head mental health advocates online saying “Just because you are mentally ill, or have a break down, doesn’t men you can be an asshole” I am not saying if someone crosses the line you don’t prevent it from getting worse, but dealing with a racist system and it goes deeper than just a racist shirt, already dealing with enough of pressure that comes from being a minority in this world, especially a mafia industry that has had some of the worst racism, mental and physical abuse, and corruption, and people gave him a more aggressive exile because he didn’t mentally ill the right away and these people don’t actually care about mental illness because they don’t disclose what drives mental illness to be fueled and they don’t talk about the layers upon layers that could break someone down. 

I am just saying we will look back at racism and past ignorance and denounce it and pat ourselves on the back because it isn’t like how it was back then, but the systemic shit has never fully been explained in this mafia world, and you don’t know how much this shit has advanced and we have paid social climbers to keep up a limited narrative and a lot of times it has lead to going more to the regressive side. This is why people take wrestling seriously because this has seemingly been the playground for other fields and industries have taken from to put out in the atmosphere to manufacture consent. Like when people had an issue with the Apollo Crews character, people online were told that it is racist to not give this shit a chance and it made me second guess myself, because maybe it would be used to mock racism from society and WWE has done that before in 2005 when the Mexi Cools debut, their initial promo was about how this is how America sees them and sarcastically encouraged them to mock them and then proceeded to call the crowd gringos, and then it never got mentioned again and it went on to just be the standard stereotype and this is what Apollo Crews’ gimmick turned out to be. It feels because someday there will be a documentary correlating past shit with current controversies that are real but they are presented gimmicked, this is why they keep throwing repeated documentaries and introducing them back into the public sphere because there will be more twists and turns. If you accept that this might be the reality then it would expose how exploited cogs in the system turn out to be fucked up mentally and some will just go into major depression or others become more successful even if they become more mentally ill, but now they will use their mental illness to use resources where you can fund social experiments and causing more chaos into the world. It feels between the 9/11 character, telling Bianca to talk more “ghetto”, Shane Thorne being a guy who hunts people and one of the people pitched was Reggie, which is not good aesthetic, it feels like it is just another way for WWE to further cement themselves as villains because they have been going that way in general, and when their political affiliates will regain whatever power, they will double down on creating a more regressive product. Like it is easier for the fandom and maybe some of the analysts for this to exist so we can keep denouncing this, but no one is gonna politic for more progressive characters, like when Muhammed Hassan appeared, normally I would get mad that some Italian gets to play the Muslim and for a reduced stereotype, but because I felt his promos in the beginning for inclusive for Muslims to feel like they had a valid gripe against the racism, I felt like I was included, it seems like they will make sure to put effort that there is nothing radical about any character. You can’t even have characters acknowledge in kayfabe there has been racist behavior normalized. MCU just finally started doing that shit, and even in a limited way people will shit on it but they are okay with the regressive shit existing because they can pretentiously denounce it but actually wanting that discourse to exist. We have become parodies in that regard. You would think some of the progressively minded people in the industry would advocate for that, since by default regressive shit is the right wing status quo. People gained credibility for calling out another cog in the system in Hogan who I feel has been designed to be this scandal like figure because that is where the entertainment storylines were going, but what gave it away that it was gimmicked for Hogan mainly, people were ignoring other racists like Flair and we waited until sexual harassment claims to “cancel him” but is he really canceled or was this another way for another celebrity to make this right wing pivot. Again everything I am saying might have some truth, but these are my opinions. Remember you who decided I was to be irrelevant and discredited have weaponized my mental illness, so I am not allowed to use my mental illness to put out theories since I am not important to the masses anyways. 

So this woman will probably have to deal with harassment and people downplaying her claims and they will have trolls look up shit she ever posted and discredit her so they can knock another minority down a notch like you did for that other woman writer who WWE hired and then suddenly the radio shows like Busted Open and other shitty system shills, ones who claim they don’t even watch WWE, suddenly were invested in destroying this women’s life, making fun of her comedy even though their online boosted humor is not that enthralling and I have seen it done by better people. Like even with Mercedes leaving right, I feel like because WWE has systemic control of the entire industry because they are that powerful in my opinion, I feel like when people leave and go onto shine somewhere else, they still orchestrate the booking so Mercedes is supposed to do better outside WWE because they never properly utilized her in kayfabe despite having a loyal following and because Noami is not on Mercedes’s level as far as internet credibility etc, people think they know what her limitations are and make her seem like she is irrelevant and not as talented because she may have not have had the best storylines in the WWE, like WWE doesn’t do a good job limiting people’s full potential, but besides being really athletic, in 2015 before Becky/Charlotte/Sasha aka Mercedes debuted, Naomi was killing it on the mic, she didn’t flat out called out racism, but her promos had that tone of her not getting as many opportunities etc and it was really compelling and people forget that and even though I liked Team BAD, it felt like it kind of didn’t ride out the momentum of what Naomi’s character could’ve been, and I saw potential, and despite her booking she has gotten cosigned by Beyonce and people are into her, but even in the “outside the WWE” narrative, you have a bunch of paid social climbers always doing subtle racist shit and rooting for her to fail and acting like she can’t be anything bigger and a lot of it is fueled in racism. This shit is normalized and this isn’t just random crazy assholes, these people in my opinion are funded by the system to constantly put that out there. So this racism is beyond this over the top scandal that is leaking out and it won’t get any better, it will just create more limited conversations that will always end up bargaining with the right wing side so they can always sneak in their fucking bigotry and ignorance while people are not allowed to have revolutionary characters, they want the regressive nature of bra and panties matches, but they are scared to have another Nation of Domination, or another Muhammed Hassan. We have to give this industry the benefit of the doubt constantly and present it like a mom and pop shop and compare Vince to whatever cartoonish boss from your favorite fucking television show. 

You have to understand how the entertainment we consume daily and has been part of our lives have helped encourage this manic behavior. I was on Stern Show, i don’t know if any of you reading knew about that, it is not like I ever mention it or anything but when his fandom, the regressive types missed his 90’s persona of ignorance because they viewed him going politically correct, so to appease that fandom I felt I needed to say the craziest and most shock jock level thinking even if Howard Stern officially says he doesn’t support that, he will say if you are interesting he will ride with your call, but if you try to act normal he will get rid of you and only when he sense some instability in your head he will amplify you up and laugh at the regressive shit so you feel kind of pressured to do that shit but officially I can’t really put it on Howard, even though you have a feeling someone of his stature wants that kind of shit, so when people think that this shit in WWE is so random and over the top, what kind of culture has that company fostered where people think this is the stuff that would get approved. We have to continuously give these entertainment institutions and corporations the benefit of the doubt. Don’t think because I don’t get my face punched in, that people with power will use their power to amplify more shit to fuck with me, or make my life more uncomfortable. Everyone can be touched, I don’t ever think nothing won’t happen to me, I know I have their attention with my blogs, that is why there has to be extra effort to drive me crazy by having more more ignored and not acknowledged but they miscalculated because they figure I would just explode and go away but me giving my opinions about how this could play out or how this might be playing out, they do get nervous and they have to align with the trolls who have harassed me over the last decade, they have been on the low right now, but when they are on the low that is when I feel the real planning is going on. And anyone who tries to speak about about shit in various ways other than the kayfabed and limited shit, people get fucked with, but I just lose my mind when I see calculated racism being used while we try to create other gimmicked ways for this to be presented. I am supposed to take people’s concerns about physical health seriously when people love to amplify situations where people’s lives are more in chaos and you are making their followers worse mentally since everyone is now kind of part of a cult. Instead of talking about how this mafia industry could possibly have their initiations and sacrifices to the system where injuries are supposed to happen, trust me if they didn’t want injuries to happen, they could easily fix shit to prevent shit in this day and age. Again my personal opinion, like what MJF said which was in real life kayfabe because he mentioned the pay window and winning the match but I hate when these people tweet and delete and then the company’s shills can lie about the responses it got that they swear were so vitriolic, not saying there isn’t that but generalizing the fans when the system is the one who trains these people to accept this. Ever since the Benoit/Eddie situations, people read the riot acts of how it needs to be more safe and it took a while to getting used to because of the attitude era made us immune to thinking it was a big deal, so now you had a generation give a shit about what these people face, and now we are undoing it more and people can’t just change it so now injuries become subject of discourse. So if MJF really gave a shit, he would call out the bosses that want that kind of shit to happen, in fact people will think WWE is too clean cut on some level, but I feel they advocate for it to happen in other organizations because to me it is part of the initiation process, and maybe someday it can change. Also the way these athletes are this day and age, nothing makes sense, I don’t believe it is just good exercise and healthy living, I will be fully conspiratorial right now and think that there is like a fucking super serum these mother fuckers are taking, maybe they can even afford an illuminati clone, who fucking knows. It is impossible for someone like Bobby Lashley to look 20 times younger than he was 20 years ago. This is why I say these celebs are not like regular people, doesn’t mean they don’t deal with some serious shit but they have to make shit relatable, but I don’t disagree with MJF’s sentiment of not trying to kill yourself, and these companies constantly promoting it while pretending they take the health seriously, if I am judging it by the basic rules you are applying, then it just shows me how exploitative the entire thing is. Maybe that is why I cling on to these shitty conspiracy theories because I wouldn’t want to believe people are this fucking soulless that they even have to practice how to emote human vulnerability on queue. So when sports entertainers shills start generalizing the entire community it gets fucking annoying and as much vitriol as I have for other cogs in the system, my main anger is and will always be this shitty system that creates this hell hole yet we continuously give free passes to it and we love to have these heel turns take place, you know John Mulane is going heel, he planted his seeds by first having people hate him for the parasocial shit of him breaking up with his girlfriend, I don’t care about that shit because most of these celebs are in open or fake relationships, part of their storyline arc now is their relationships, then they gimmick his whole appeal about his drug addiction so now it gets used so it can create art, but on tour he brought out Chappelle unadvertised and not being considerate to people who maybe wouldn’t have gone if they knew he was there, and now the John Cena Hollywood hairdo, it is signs of someone going to be used to being a fucking heel since everyone is becoming one these days. These political analysts will reduce and dumb shit down so we are in this right wing vortex of Candace Owens and Steve Crowder so even though they are both pieces of shit, we have to love one side for a little bit, because again everything has to be levitated with comedy and we just continue to water down that more. And you wonder why I just watch Sopranos rewatches, because nowadays I think humor is at its most useless. I am not saying there isn’t anything funny but it feels like everything has to have humor latched onto it and when we keep doing that, we are watering this shit down, haven’t you gotten sick of that already? Does everyone have to be a fucking comedian? This world is going to shit and every day they are normalizing more shitty laws and continued oppression of marginalized groups only for us to represent the issue by what a celebrity is going through but then we have to sports entertain that too, where we are not getting to root causes of some of the repeated behavior in this world. And for what? More documentaries, more social climbers to aspire to be the main character in this discourse. This is how unwell our entire society is and I know, I know, you will get more mad at me rather than getting mad at the people who helped create this and help fund it. Everyone has to devalue everyone and I am not fucking different, I don’t like getting all irrational and lash out because I feel people are selling their soul and to make shit worse and become status quo type of people, why would I want to root for people to get more success so they can become more awful, because the system tries to make you that, some people are not completely gone and they try to counter the propaganda to some degree, I don’t want to be nihilistic, just because I don’t have desire to be in this world as it continues to crumble, doesn’t mean I don’t want other people to be happy in the future and maybe they can be free from this shit on some level. So you might not like my fucking message, but maybe on  some level I am sabotaging myself from getting a gig because if I do, then I will have to become a soulless hypocrite who is being lured into the dark side, I can get myself canceled and then blame the wokeness for it and because these people who get canceled want to hang on to relevancy, the right wing are the only ones saving them, and I know I am not likeable, maybe I would be a better committed heel, it sure as hell easier than trying to be the good guy, but I want to maintain not being a full piece of shit where I fucking trivialize people who have a right to be angry at the system for the shit they do to people, the constant trauma, I am supposed to join that side and become an elitist so I can put people down because I can’t lash out at the real powers that are making me this miserable person. I might never find peace, and I have accepted that, but I don’t want to end up being regressive, I don’t want to be the guy who becomes more conservative the older I fucking get. Maybe being irrelevant and being able to express my irrational thoughts has made it a bit easier not to fall into regressive habits, because anyone who tries to collaborate with me, seems like they are sent to be the voice of the system narrative and keep an eye on shit I am saying. Again if this is not true, again chalk it up to my mental illness and reduce me to a guinea pig and parody that you mock because I don’t want to be an elitist type of person, I don’t even want to be around that kind of shit. If these people wanted to make this industry more exciting, they would let real inclusion to get a voice instead of a diversity headcount, you want everything else back from the shitty and overhyped attitude era, but you don’t want any progressive shit and since we live in an era where it is post BLM protests of 2020, it feels like it is like how it was 20 years ago, where they pushed back against social consciousness and we marketed fake anti establishment people like an Eminem, or Steve Austin, or a fucking Tony Soprano, and we are doing that now, where the person who is “anti establishment against wokeness” gets more traction than someone who wants some more revolutionary change and someone claiming shit is racist, they have now pushed back against it because they might use sensationalist examples of people who had agendas or shadiness behind them to discredit their entire point. So yeah it sucks, and I know me being sad about this going this way is music to people’s ears but trust me, as much as you hate me for going about it the way I am, one day you will be faced with having to deal with these thoughts and the more you double down it will keep getting worse but maybe you are in a mind state where you don’t need to worry because being protected by the system you don’t have to be accountable. I have to be accountable, I have to put disclaimers because I can’t technically prove every theory I have and I don’t expect people to believe me 100 percent and that is fine, I have to accept it. But you have to accept that not everyone has to go down the regressive lane and get a bag to help make the world worse, because when I was dumbed down, me putting energy into shit that I didn’t know was destructive, is bad enough for me and I always tried to look at all angles because even the conspiracy world has even limited people’s thinking and they are the ones who think they are critical thinkers. 

Anyways per usual, this blog gets out of control, but every day the wrestling world knows how to fucking get me to react to this nonstop discourse over and over. I look like the biggest hypocrite who can’t separate from this shit, I really wish it was not this way. I hope there is some progressive revolutionary shit but chances are we are not ever getting that, the more people who buy into the system, they will then have their propaganda that they will be okay with even if it means you can kind of be forward thinking to some degree. Who fucking knows. I clearly don’t have the solutions because look at me, I am irrelevant and my aesthetic is all the wrong things with this fucking world apparently but you guys are good looking and have suits and are going to important events etc, so clearly you are the better person because there hasn’t been a fucked up person who has a nice aesthetic before, but you have the propaganda machine creating villains to match the aesthetic so when they discover my blogs and podcasts, you can lump me in with the worst, and I accept people will assume the worst, but as long as I know I am not the biggest piece of shit on this planet, I will sleep as comfortable as I can be. But whenever this discourse gets propped up, this is what the system wants, mentally ill behavior where we are at each other's throats. So maybe you didn’t like how I put this shit out there, but I am sick of the same repeated discourse over identity politics when there is not gonna be a real solution presented, it is just designed to push back so people can say that political correctness and wokeness is what is driving this world crazy and not the normalized fundamentalism within the guise of entertainment taking us into a more fascist future. Congratulations I guess.

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ARTIST RESEARCH

KAZIMIR MALEVICH

"...a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of abstract art in the 20th century. Born in Kiev to an ethnic Polish family, his concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms (objectivity) and subject matter in order to access "the supremacy of pure feeling" and spirituality" - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/kazimir-malevich-1561

Vakar, Irina Anatolʹevna. Kazimir Malevich - the Black Square. Edited by Friedemann Malsch and Zelʹfira Ismailovna Tregulova, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2018.

NOTES + QUOTES FROM ^ ABOVE READING:

“But the Square embodies the idea of victory over more than “cosmic forces and biologism.” as Kruvhenykh wrote. It is juxtaposed to the sun as a cultural symbol - of reason, beauty, divine source. Does that mean that it therefore symbolizes the forces of evil and darkness? No, that is not so. As we know, the avant-garde asserted itself in the struggle with Symbolism, with the principle of symbolization. Malevich did not seek to replace the symbolic meanings with which the sun was endowed; he wanted to abolish them. For the artist, his Square is first of all simply a black plane unburdened by any visible allusions. In that sense, Malevich’s new painting is completely “realistic,” and more precisely, really, because it “depicts” only itself; hence the second name of Suprematism, “newly painterly realism.” Later Malevich would see other more complex meaning in his work; but the signification of the Square would proceed in a different way that it did in Symbolism” (Vakar 24). 

“The painting consists not of two but three layers of paint. The first, apparently, is a finished Cubo-Futurist painting, over it in the central part a square composition of related colour surfaces (let’s call it proto-Suprematist) is begun but not completed; the artist covered it with lacquer and then covered it again with black paint” (Vakar 25). 

“Malevich told us that for the Black Square he created a special paint: velvetly, which did not shine or shrivel” (Vakar 25). 

“The Square is a special painting; it does not fit in to any exposition and does not tolerate any neighbors, demanding separate space for itself - every curator who has worked with this painting knows that” (Vakar 31). 

“Malevich confesses: “It was terrifying for me, too, to bid farewell to the world of images… in which I lived and re-created and accepted as the reality of life. But the feeling of lightness tugged at me and led me to the complete desert which became without images, only sensations, and that became my substance” (Vakar 50).  “Konstantin Stanislavsky defined talent as the ability to astonish. In art there are not many examples of artists who can astonish. Sergei Diaghilev told Jean Cocteau: “Astound me! I’m waiting for you to astound me!” Malevich astounded humanity with his Square. And continues to astound” (Vakar 52).

^ Black Square (1915)

^ White on White (1918)

I have come across Malevich's work on several occasions now and am mostly interested in his monochrome works such as White on White and Black Square. I love the layering and the attention that the paintings demand from the audience. This is something that is mentioned in nearly every reading I have done on Black Square - that people spend a long time in front of these works just trying to decipher and visualise what they are seeing.

I like that the paintings demand something from the audience, I think this is an important and valuable quality of a work and I think my black paintings are reaching a point where they too are starting to demand attention from the audience. I want people to stand in front of my work for longer then they usually would because the painting demands it from them. I think it's a strong element as I spend a long time with the painting as I create it over a prolonged amount of time and in return I think it's fair to ask the audience to spend time with the painting - but the painting has to be strong enough to demand that of the audience so I have to keep working so I can get to that point.

"His Black Square (1915), a black square on white, represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far and drew "an uncrossable line (…) between old art and new art"; Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918), a barely differentiated off-white square superimposed on an off-white ground, would take his ideal of pure abstraction to its logical conclusion" - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/kazimir-malevich-1561

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