Millenials and Gen Z, you guys have heart and drive and power. Use it.
Activate, band together and make sure Tr$mp doesn't come close to winning. Vote Blue
This is a strategic election. This isn't the moment for an independent candidate (I'm saying this as an Independent). This is a time for a massive blue wave to tale out the tyranny and racism and homophobia like a tsunami.
Things I am learning: people are....nice? This feels like a very supportive environment to ask questions and actually have them answered in a non snarky/shitty way.
Continuity is not necessary. I can (theoretically) vent about my DND campaign in one post and in the next post reblog a meme about how desantis is a fascist and then write 500 words on why peanut butter is a staple dietary necessity.
hey y’all. recently in the tags of a lot of posts about palestine, i’ve been seeing stuff like “israelis are terrorists” and other general anti-israeli sentiment. i just want to remind y’all. it is not the fault of the average israeli civilian that there is a genocide in gaza. no israeli civilian is personally responsible for the apartheid system or the genocide. why are we dehumanizing people on such a wide generalization? hell nah. that’s facist shit and i refuse to partake.
Valhalla is not heaven, and other reasons fascists are dumb dumbs.
The utterly, bewildering, so funny it's depressing thing about neo n@z1s and blanc enthusiasts being so fucking quick to appropriate Norse iconography as a symbol of their "proud heritage" is that they consistently demonstrate a grasp on Norse Mythology as deep as the Marvel Cinematic Universe does. Not a dig on the MCU, but, let's just say creative liberties is an understatement when it comes to representing Norse Mythology.
The primary point of interest boils down basically to the concept of the "exhalted warrior death." As fascism is the ideology of hero worship, on a surface level, this makes sense. Old Norse Culture was one largely defined by conflict and vikinging as a trade.
Many Norse beliefs are shaped by, designed to inspire and exhalt the warrior who fights without fear. Their society in part relied on "the hero warrior."
Couple things though:
1. Not all Norsemen were vikings, and you REALLY aren't one.
You think the Norse belief system was so heavily lazer focused on a single profession in what needed to be an entire functioning community everyone that wasn't a viking was poopooed to damnation and/or a dishonorable life? No bitch. "Hel" in Norse mythology is just where the dead ARE. It's a very morally neutral place to be. Hel be vibin'. Odin, Freya, and possibly Njord were collecting souls for a very specific reason. That being . . .
2. The souls of warriors were being brought to Valhalla (among other places) to train for a final battle THEY WERE DESTINED TO LOSE.
Y'all fucking forgot about Ragnorok didn't you? The souls in Valhalla are being conscripted to a suicide mission. It's a place of honor to be chosen, but it's not a reward.
The training is apparently honestly a bitch in a half in it of itself supposedly. I guess you get god mead, though. Sit next to Odin at the big boy table, maybe. An afterlife of pain and awaiting doom for beer and for daddy to notice you.
That's the thing, though. Valhalla isn't supposed to be Heaven. It aligns with many other Norse Myths in that it exhalts to bravery in the face of certain annihilation. Valhalla as a function of beleif designed to psychologically break past the human instinct to prioritize self-preservation. The quality in which it exhalts is not the hero's death, but embracing doom. THAT'S WHY Odin chose warriors who died WITH WEAPON IN HAND, as in, they already faced one destruction, they can face another.
The army of Valhalla weren't even the only deaths of honor Odin recognized one could achieve. The Volva were all very much in Hel once they died, and they are all distinguished as Odin's special little future-seeing squad in the mythos too. And that's JUST Odin, ignoring the other gods who chose souls for their armies.
Norse mythology, ironically to the point of head-exploading farce, spits in the face of the concept of the Hero's Death as defined by fascism. "Dying for the cause" is a Christian/Abrahamic value that they are retroactively interjecting into Norse belief because historical self-insert fanfiction that is the Arian Mythos. There's no fucking point in training and fighting in Ragnorok, everyone is destined to fail, everyone knows it, and that's the fucking point.
The concept of Ragnorok and Valhalla was not even universal among the Norsemen. The inevitability of death and rebirth is just kind of a given as a natural truth in most pagan beliefs. Everyone you know and love is going to die, and then something else will come from the ashes. Literally "chill bro it be like that sometimes."
And if that's not enough to convince you fascists don't actually know shit about Norse mythology, I can tell you all about how fucking gay it is.
News media being systematically killed off, Meta deboosting political content, and Google potentially killing off the news tab, it really seems like the oligarchic billionaire class no longer want us accessing news sources anymore.
Fascism is at the gate and every tool to bring attention and fight it is being killed off or suppressed.
Homophobia/ racism pushed by capitalism and conservatives
Yet another example ab how capitalism and right wing ppl will do anything and everything for Profit. You have to blend in in order to have a chance. People will use the church for money as we saw in many examples (ex. France). Capitalism doesnt allow us to be free. Dress coding at work and in school because if people are supressed that way they can get Controller easier. Think about it. You cant be yourself in workspaces because it gets made weird to control. Obviously this isnt enough for capitalists. They will be homophobic to get cheaper workers. This goes as far as manipulating the Population thru church and the govermemt to hate on poc or queer ppl.
Again, this wasnt enough for them, capitalists and facists went as far as not hiring biologically different workers. This has been ongoing. Of course when the Bourgeoisie gets exposed they dont admit it and blame it on the Individual people in Power, whilst Promoting the same things, just hiding it. People do not see this. HOW
This goes as far as using for ex. Pride month to make more Profit. While showing their "support" for the queer community. In a couple years, i bet the goverment will use Blm month...... ironic.. isnt it
In View a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate this visage no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi now vacant vanished however this valourous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent, vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volitioni, the only veredict is vengance; a vendetta held as votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate, the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of most verbiage veers verbose, so let me simply add that its my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V
Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the house, is just another in a line of followers direct from the Project 2025 playbook.
For those unfamiliar, Project 2025 is a conservative manifesto designed to consolidate direct Presidential control of all assets in the Executive branch of the US government, using Unitary Executive theory. This "logic" is based on the vesting clause of Article 2 of the US Constitution. It will eliminate all checks and balances on the office of the president.
This playbook includes replacing all personnel with pro-Trump supporters, banning gender-affirming care and language (even the term gender affirming), gay marriage, abortions, and anything not white, Christian, or conservative.
It would turn the US into a Christian theocracy. A place where AFAB women are breeding stock, and homosexuality becomes a criminal offense again. It would turn the office of the President into a dictatorship.
Johnson has voted against Gay Marriage, against certifying the 2020 election, and is a threat to what's left of this so-called country. His election as speaker of the house is a direct attack on freedom.
We can no longer bury our heads in the sand. We can no longer stand idly by and watch as fascism returns to power. This looks more like the Weimar Republic in 1923 than the United States in 2023.
For any who doubts that this playbook exists, or views this as some Right Wing conspiracy, I invite you to read this document for yourself. This is real. This is a threat. This is not a test.
Some jackass keeps spray painting swastikas and slurs on the fences in the woods in my apartments. I'm in need of ideas for both mundane and spiritual ways of stopping their shit. I said a tiny spell last time I went by, but I'd like to do something more solid. Apartment office is taking several days to cover these up too.