#far right agenda

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

At this point, the MAGA Republicans have an agenda on education. It's focused on defunding and destroying higher education (since the college educated don't vote MAGA Republican, they are in a sense the focal enemy) and destroying confidence in and defunding primary and secondary education. All funding from primary and secondary education would then be shifted to institutions which in fact engage in political indoctrination to support MAGA Republican through, these are Catholic schools and white Evangelical schools. Hillsdale College in Michigan, a fundamentalist church-affiliated academy for production of the Stepford Wives or the Republic of Gilead, provides the model for the small quantum of higher education that can be tolerated.

[tomorrowusa]

People were previously warned about Republicans being placed in positions of power.

Being a slacker on Election Day or wasting votes on impotent third parties are  excellent strategies for putting neo-fascists in power.

There’s no such thing as an unimportant election. There are no unimportant elected offices. The other side knows this and they never fail to cast their votes.

Register and vote in every election and get like-minded friends and family members to do the same; be persistent but polite. Only you can prevent totalitarianism.

I Will Vote

[imkrisyoung]

Fascist nations take advantage of the people’s suffering. They talk a good game, saying that they’ll solve their citizens’ problems so that the people will support these. That’s how they get into power.

It’s happened many times before. Perhaps the worst time was before World War II when Germany supported Hitler because he knew that the Germans were facing unemployment and poverty, and they thought he would solve the country’s economic problems.

Hitler only made things worse by using the most marginalized, the most vulnerable people as scapegoats. He blamed Jews, LGBTQ people, disabled people and other groups he hated for the country’s problems, and he didn’t stop with Germany—he took over other European countries.

If you don’t think history can repeat itself, think again.

We’re starting to see the same thing happening in America, Canada and Europe. Times are hard, and the far-right politicians know this, so they’re trying to get as much support as they can from people who feel like they don’t have anything left to lose so the far-right can get into and maintain positions of power.

And who are the ones who are getting screwed in the process? BIPOC, queer and trans people, disabled people, women, people of marginalized religions…the list goes on.

But guess what? These politicians don’t care.

We must be vigilant in the fight against white supremacy, and in fighting for justice for the marginalized.

[afragmentcastadrift]

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[lifeofdai]

"Overthrowing the government in the US, either by force or from within, the UK Charter City nightmare and these other projects around the world are all connected. The main aim is to establish a network of strategically placed, fully independent cities around the world, that will not only engage in a race to the bottom of standards for their residents but will also exhaust the natural resources of their surrounding areas. They will be parasites on the countries and communities to which they are attached, leaching everything from them while contributing nothing, never mind the fate of those unlucky enough to have been trapped within their boundaries. This will ultimately lead to the establishment of a powerful cooperative trading-defence partnership between the world’s biggest businesses that have no desire other than to protect their own interests. Controlling trade routes around the world with private security forces, financed by a never-ending supply of tax havens and exploitable cheap-labour, even has the potential to massively upset the global balance of power. If a trading and defence cooperative of billionaires and their exploitative businesses can achieve this goal, it will be the realisation of a dream decades in the making. Wealth and power unchained, ending democracy once and for all."

[ilynpilled]

“jaime did it mostly for self preservation” “he did it bc he was ordered to kill his father” are not only blatantly incorrect and borderline illiterate reads of what is in the text but idk why people find it unfathomable that someone like jaime would want to prevent thousands of people from violently burning alive. like it is not actually a difficult moral equation which is why it is at the center of jaime’s arc and his relationship to his society because he realizes that the ethical constructs of westeros seem to be in opposition to this very obvious moral choice as seen by how the situation could even escalate to the point that it does through the enablement of the tyrant by the respected institution of the kingsguard and the uncritical upholding of the honor system over an actual coherent moral code. same with the scorn he receives for killing what everybody acknowledges as an objectively horrid tyrant who harmed innocents and violated law that knights are also sworn to protect and uphold and actually contradict by not acting against.

[romanceddawn]

bakura: i am only using him to my advantage

me, yaoi-brained: yugi being so cute in his mind and him being so over protective, this is definitely ship content 😌

[sarah-dipitous]

I’ve been having the terrible thought that the texts I get from political groups are kind of like a hydra. Every time I text Stop to unsubscribe, I get subscribed to three more (because they now know it’s a valid phone number and someone IS on the other end)

[lunaticus]

Thank you for what you said on that post about Usopp and Zoro’s post-water 7 relationship; I hate when Usopp’s actions in water 7 are treated like he was just being a brat. While I agree an apology was necessary, personally I think the way Zoro went about obtaining it would cause more problems in the long run if the narrative didn’t back him up. Giving your friend the cold shoulder and demonstrating that you’re fully willing to leave him without even trying to talk things out? That whole sequence left a very bad taste in my mouth. Sorry for going off in your inbox but tldr I appreciate what you said

ok ok listen, i get what you mean, ive been there as well, i too thought in the past what zoro did was wrong and unfair, and i still partially think so, but what really cured this conflict for me was that zoro said all that, thinking he's so damn rational and mature about it all, saying if the first thing usopp says isn't an apology he won't accept him back, and then usopp comes and ofc the first thing he says isn't an apology bc it's usopp, usopp who's always a little slow, usopp who always needs that extra shove to be honest, and while we probably all agree that this is a highly emotional distressing situation for an insecure guy that could have been avoided, zoro too is under a lot of stress, torn between staying true to his words or staying true to himself and the crew, the whole crew including usopp, and he too decides to not hear what usopp says, just like luffy, bc no matter how much zoro values loyalty and discipline, he breaks his own vows here for others, for usopp, bc he ofc wants usopp back on the crew as well, he said so himself that having usopp back is the best possible outcome for them (and as i like to argue, it's the only outcome for them as a crew in a long run), and they are all so young, "playing pirates" including zoro, bc they're not pirates first no matter what any of them says, they are nakama and nakama don't leave one behind

also can you imagine the dwelling anger zoro had to face from the others? nami and chopper are obvious bc they both think that this whole thing is stupid from the beginning and they are already very emotional about this, it probably feels weird to zoro that sanji is agreeing with him which kinda makes zoro wrong by default (what's up with sanji is an entirely different story but that's for another day), robin doesn't have the full picture while franky has a very one-sided picture that nearly none of the others seem to be aware of, and luffy... well luffy tries to be a good captain since being a bad captain had led to this situation in the first place, so he tries to be nonchalant about this, and im pretty sure he is to some extent, truly believing that if usopp doesn't want to return to them, he can accept that, all while stressing over so much on the tje inside bc the way he breaks once usopp apologizes speaks for itself imo

i also kinda think zoro is actively trying to be the bad guy here, but that's also for another day lol

[theminecraftbee]

side note about last days: i say it’s detective noir-inspired in the tags. to elaborate, it’s not detective noir—it’s an urban fantasy thriller and for one thing it’s not nearly bleak enough to truly be noir fiction lol. but it is inspired by a lot of the noir tropes i know. it has vibes. class is a thing here. corrupt institutions leave our heroes with few places to turn. our heroes are willing to do some not-so-morally-upright things for their ultimate goals. it’s set in a dirty city filled with dirty secrets. but largely, i think, i’ve taken from my favorite piece of noir writing advice i’ve ever seen: “you need a dame with a past and a man with no future”. pearl is probably the single most detective-noir inspired character here; she’s not a femme fatale, sure, but a dame with a past…?

anyway make of this whatever you will fic’s not done yet and as i said it’s merely inspired by noir i wouldn’t even begin to claim that’s the genre it’s actually in. like I said. urban fantasy thriller/detective story thats a bit too bright and fun for that, and with protagonists who are probably way too likable and have a bit too much hope to be noir protagonists, lol. just wanted to elaborate a little bit about that one tag,

[plasma-packin-mama]

wip wednesday :] working on redoing an old lineup i did, but this time featuring all the characters i initially ran out of room to include bc i did it in my sketchbook LOL

[cats-in-the-clouds]

i keep getting stuck being forced to take classes i despise and that have no relevance to me so i’m going to go all malicious compliance on every single assignment and subtly insult the class material and/or professor

[latinokaeya-moving]

WAIT. fuck. i was idly looking at the weapon ascension materials descriptions and remembered how convinced i am of vennessa kaeya parallel narratives

[intelligentchristianlady]

That's What She Said

MTG was interviewed on Fox News by Larry Kudlow. She explained why she was pleased that Tom Emmer had dropped out of the race for Speaker:

"His voting record, he voted against President Trump's transgender ban in the military. He voted for the Democrats’ gay marriage bill that allows churches to be sued if they don't support gay marriages. He also, you know, once had supported the voting rights, the national voting movement that was completely against what we stand for [sic] so that we can't have that for a speaker of the House." (x)

And there you have it--voting rights are anathema to the right-wing Republicans in the House.

[strwberieswsugar]

what if baji is actually shinichiro’s trigger and not sanzu?? the desire to save mikey, baji always being present for the accidents, the hallucination when he starts seeing shin instead of takemichi when he’s dying.. this could also be how shinichiro is still alive/trapped in another time line?? because baji was there so if he were the trigger and he shook his hand when he was about to die it could’ve worked like how it did for takemichi and naoto????

[forgondor]

not a clue why this particular one is sticking so much but since i watched glass onion I CANNOT get Whiskey saying “I love my boobs. Oops! Sorry feminists!” out of my fucking brain