#im just... utilitarian

[phanchester]

Congrats, Biden wins the election. What are you doing next to ensure trump 2.0 doesn't win? Voting harder? The Democratic Party has a responsibility to elect a reasonable candidate that they think can win. If Biden is truly electable, he'll win! He'll adopt policies that will be popular, and people will respond. If he isn't, then people regardless of whatever the fuck is happening with Republicans have a right to voice their discontent. That's how politics works, whether you think that's pragmatic or not.

The primaries literally just ended. It's June. Bodies are actively dropping in Palestine. It's not that leftists think they're better than you, you're just acting wildly unempathetic to try to draw the conversation to Voting when people are DYING!!! Like actively being bombed and having their bodies blown apart while you talk about elections.

And like, it's almost ironic because literal US citizens are dying in Palestine! You realize Palestinian and American are not two seperate paths that can't intersect right? People who could exercise their holy right to vote in Palestine are dying because American bombs are dropping on them.

Anyways this is a long rant to say maybe just don't be an asshole? Cause you and 22,000 thousand people who reblogged that weird post sound like massive fucking assholes. And xenophobic with the annoying ass Russian bot myth. Surprise!!! there's commies in America, how terrifying. Born and bred in the US of A.

look - i'm australian so all the american election content i am consuming is purely from that perspective. however, here's my general understanding of what's happening -

both trump and biden are going to have the same foreign policy. this is not only because of voting but because of lobby groups and international relations. i know this from an australian perspective because our prime minister was once upon a time very pro-palestinian - he even started a "friends of palestine" group - but that all went out the window when he became prime minister simply because of the grip international relations (particularly with you guys, the us) has on us. realistically, no one is going to rise to power and change the general us foreign policy perspective. however - i do think trump will further exacerbate it and not work under the guise of a ceasefire

trump has significantly worse domestic policies. i know biden hasn't done a lot either, but trump will 100% make worse things happen even faster. trump will take steps to make transitioning harder and even illegal for minors, he will only recognise two genders, he will keep trans women out of sports, he will deport non-white citizens based on their 'ideology' or parents, and he will completely surround himself with an echo chamber in the white house. why do i care? america is the hegemony. every government looks at you guys.

i'm not a biden supporter at all - from an australian pov, most people i talk to, even the hardcore liberal party members (liberal party is our right wing party) think the choices you have for this election is ridiculous. honestly i don't completely know what i would do in your position, and i am also not in a position to dictate anything.

but right now everyone i know thinks that trump will win. most people i talk to are certain of it. yes, both are or will be assisting a genocide. america is inherently pro-israel and every candidate the democratic party will choose will be funding a genocide. it's horrific, but realistic.

i think you shouldn't minimise the us election by comparing to the genocide in palestine. us is still the hegemony - china is the only competitor, and it is has nowhere near the amount of pull that the us has. every country has its eyes on the us. when a domestic policy is passed, the world reacts. discussion about the election should be held - not in replacement of, but beside discussion and awareness of the atrocities in palestine.

i don't have the certainty or the position to tell others to vote for biden. because i truly get it - i think people have the right to be upset, and that will be reflected in the elections this year. but only one is an openly white supremacist climate denier convincted felon who has committed sexual assault - and that is why the rest of the world is scared

[consultingfujoshi]

some thoughts wrt the two established "romances" in severance so far (burt/irving and helly/mark) inspired by @figmentof who pointed out how irving had to find out mark and helly kissed from the corporate video in s2 e1 and how he must have felt seeing his co-workers' love affair like portrayed like that, and how it ties into the queer narrative at play here which uses workplace dynamics and policies as very clear analogues for real-life prejudice against queer couples. I mean, just look at this:

it's not just documented, but celebrated. used as propaganda for how the conditions on the severance floor have improved. proof that the severed workers are happy. and how even though he is unaware of the sociopolitical meaning of all this, lumon is very not-subtly telling him that what he had with burt is inherently lower and less valuable than this.

irving doesn't even know homophobia exists and yet he is still affected by it, it still seeps into every corner of the way his and burt's romance progresses. burt is positioned as an unacceptable love interest from the jump. irv is actively discouraged at every turn from pursuing it. their friendship is viewed with disgust and apprehension from their coworkers. burt working in a different department that's hated by MDR. dylan himself not being homophobic in the sense he opposes their relationship because they're both men but his attempts to keep them apart still has a parallel sort of prejudice behind it and still ultimately has the same effect as if it WERE driven by homophobia. irving is made to feel perverse for wanting contact with burt. he's told this is for his own good.

and then, just as they manage to overcome that immediate resistance from their peers and escape to a place where they can explore this blossoming romance on their own terms, burt retires. for all it matters to irv, he's dead. and then irving is given the option to live the rest of his life with grief that will never heal, or kill himself too, because there is no reality where they get to be together. that's just the way things are. of course they wouldn't get to be together. he was unreasonable and childish for ever hoping that could happen. this is just the way it goes for innies. he's told to get ahold of himself and not make a scene.

but the thing is, the standards are not the same for all. a heterosexual romance gets upheld as the shining example of success and fulfilment for the severed employees, whilst a homosexual romance is ridiculed and invalidated, and written off as something that was simply never meant to be. and even more importantly to irving, a heterosexual romance is APPROVED OF by lumon, and by extension, by kier. irv held back from allowing himself to even call his and burt's relationship a romance, because his god had told him it was wrong, he followed the handbook, thinking this was what kier wanted, and then finding out after suffering the worst heartbreak imaginable because of it, that this WASN'T EVEN TRUE. it's simply just that someone like HIM doesn't get to have something like this. his love is not the kind of love god wants. he does not approve of irv's love. cynical and manipulative though that approval may be (even within the context of the corporate video, the helly/mark romance is only being celebrated to further the narrative that lumon care for their workers, but the point still remains that it was THEIR romance specifically used to suit this end), when your entire life has been in pursuit of that approval, it must be devastating to learn it was never on the cards for you.

he and burt even used the fact kier met and fell in love with his wife in the same circumstances as them to justify this to each other - and they were RIGHT, god does approve of falling in love with your coworkers - this simply just doesn't apply to them specifically. and if irving needed any more proof that he no longer has a place at lumon, that he's better off not existing at all than existing with this pain that cannot be remedied, pain that won't even be acknowledged for what it is, a symptom of a sickness which plagues the entire severance system, pain that he is simply expected to choke down and get over - this is that proof.

and that's the POINT. they're TELLING us that this is unjust, and there's a double standard. they're using the ways the innies experience romance and the difference in lumon's reaction (lumon being the collective of all the management we've seen, lumon as a singular entity) to burt/irving vs helly/mark to comment on how queer people are not afforded the same level of respect or validation IN REAL LIFE, for their attachments, their love, their pain, their suffering. it is NOT just incidental that irving's romance is with a man. it would not WORK if his love interest was a woman. the POINT is that they are both men and how that puts them at a disadvantage, even if they aren't aware of the prejudices of the outside world, even if they don't TECHNICALLY apply on the severance floor, there are very clear analogues which still end up oppressing them in equivalent ways that they would be suffering if this were a normal workplace in the outside world.

it genuinely sickens me to my stomach that even in a world so divorced from reality and the sensibilities of regular society, a queer couple is still made to suffer and feel inferior in a way that perfectly mirrors their real-life counterparts. how they will never, EVER be allowed to exist in a world where their love could thrive freely and uninhibited - they never get to taste the joy our world has to offer people like them, but they are still somehow subjected to all the pain it has to offer them regardless. it's such horrifically devastating writing. it makes my skin crawl. I can't stop thinking about it

[lightbulb-warning]

so has anyone figured out WHY there is the Need To Share our Artworks™ or is it just the vibes and our Soul apparently

[craptainkirk]

Part of the reason i like captain kirk as a character is that he will put everything on the line on the CHANCE that something can be done. He's always thinking that there has to be a way, and if not they'll create one. He's also so feelings-oriented and will fall back on his hunches when needed and his hunches are in fact treated as something sacred. I'm the same way in every regard and it's something i've always been criticized heavily for (I've constantly been told that i don't think things through and i'm chastised for being reckless). But that's how captain kirk is and he's treated as if that's his own unique genius. He's respected for it and we can see how if he weren't to take the risks that he does then they'd all be doomed in so many situations. This isnt really well written but im just thinking out loud here... ok... End post

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

obsessed with their different reactions to being called starcrossed lovers

[c1trvswurld]

idk how to describe it but hanzo would be such a nihilist while genji would be such an existentialist?

like hanzo would be a hardcore nihilist in the way where created meanings and labels mean absolutely nothing to him and have no value (esp when he left the family clan to sort of hardcore reject their values) whatsoever while genji believes the meaning in our lives is the utmost important thing, if not why were humans created.

Genji draws a line because he deems it foolish to simply say nothing matters and to never create your own meaning from it while hanzo wouldn't even bother drawing a line because even if he did it would be fake and serve no value to him?

while they both do agree at some level with their philosophies there are some fundamentals that they are very differing about

[greenieart]

Some extra Bain designs I made in preparation for Artfight!

[remusawoooo]

oh sweethearttttt ☹️☹️

parent -- sirius

what if we stopped breathing, what then???

[sniffanimal]

i should start designing masc planners for guys and dudes and butches. i like the planner im using a lot and use it frequently but its hard to be masc when someone asks if you're free and you pull out your sweet orange blossom planner and flip to this week and the header is like 'she believed she could so she did' and you say yeah man i am free

[revindicatedbyhistory-moved]

diversity win: the leader of this shady order of possibly murderous wizards is open minded

[thedevotionaltour]

i havent even read enough gl to justify the feelings and emotions i have about kyle i just have the lovers heart and also something wrong with me. and my projection. in my mind he's just like me. and he would have loved college vending machine frozen cheeseburger and heating it up in the microwave at 1 in the morning because he was bored and didn't want to work on a drawing assignment on 20" x 30" paper that was due tomorrow in his freshman year. he would have loved going to the club to push off finals work that's creating the worst stress known to man in his brain. and he would love to annoy the fuck out of his roommate when high and avoiding homework on a saturday.

[resonabilis-echo]

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[gwenlena]

im gonna get this essay out the way dead quick and then go get cinnamon rolls as a self-reward and then ill get back to being a real person ill be back in maybe 2 hours

[nikomedes]

me, watching me put “carolina low” on another oc playlist: “oh. so this one ALSO has southern gothic ambiguous bloodlust”

me: “MAYBE”

[gamingdotcom]

hold the fucking phone wyll. you're going to stand there and tell me you dont understand why this man is willing to sacrifice himself for someone else. YOU are saying this. man who... well. i have some questions. im going to have to sit and chew on this, sincerely... i dont know what to make of that

[doomdoomofdoom]

Make CEOs afraid again.

Most politically successful assassination of a head of state by a massive margin