#it was probably the most informative and useful post

[starlight-shadowbanned]

Thank you for this; I think you're very right that the media bubbles we're in absolutely inform how we approach these things.

I think for me, while I do think that probably most of the people putting up the posters supported the war, I didn't see the intent being "and you need to support the war." I did see tearing them down as "acknowledging these people as humans deserving of sympathy complicated my narrative" or "these are not humans deserving of sympathy."

My media bubble: On October 7th, I was an antizionist. I had a lot of antizionist friends. My social media sphere was a mix of Zionists and anti-Zionists. What I started seeing almost immediately (as in, before the end of the day) was Jewish antizionist friends and non-Jewish antizionist influencers posting on their instagram stories about how this is what decolonization looks like and sharing a slide that read "do you only support decolonization in theory?" Multiple people I knew in real life for posting this, including people I was good friends with at the time and people whose house I'd stayed at.

Various non-Jewish influencers were posting nasty shit too; one of them even posted a drawing of glorifying a Hamas paraglider. I reached out to a few, but many made posts telling us "Zionists" (read: anyone who disagreed with them) to fuck off and not message them.

(I imagine they were actually getting nasty and probably racist messages that it was valid to get mad about, but I got caught in the splash damage).

Basically, I was seeing a lot of people agreeing with October 7th, supporting it, and trying to explain to me how the victims, survivors, and hostages deserved it. I was told that living in Israel (or living near the border of Gaza) is an inherently violent act that renders one no longer a civilian. I was told many times that the Nova festival-goers deserved it because they were "partying next to a concentration camp."

(Over the ensuing weeks, things morphed from support of October 7th to denial. I was told that Nova was only attacked because it was "in the way" and that civilians were only killed when they were caught in the crossfire. I was told that Israel was lying about the deaths and also that they did happen but Israel did it by shooting Israelis from helicopters and was covering it up. The same folks who had been praising Oct 7th were now trying to convince me it didn't happen. A handful still are.)

Meanwhile, from the Zionist Jews and Israelis in my life (and a few non- and antizionists), there was just an outpouring of pain and fear, followed by organizing and efforts to support the affected communities. Actually, at first, there were just countless posts on facebook of pictures of people's loved ones, from people trying to figure out if the people in them were safe, dead, or held hostage. That turned pretty quickly into memorial pictures and pictures of confirmed hostages as people started to get answers.

There were also people supporting the war, yes. Including friends and family members, and I found that deeply upsetting. I tried arguing with them, to no avail. They got upset with me too, for supporting ceasefire. Many of them went to a big rally in DC that fall. It was nominally not explicitly in support of the war, but... it was implied.

I was dimly aware of American politicians making their canned formulaic posts about it.

I attended two pro-Palestine protests. The second one had slogans that I found so upsetting that I dissociated for several hours, because I perceived them as advocating ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel-Palestine. I felt a little betrayed by all the folks who'd told me that "of course no one wants that."

Throughout all of this there were multiple callout posts going around (with thousands of notes) about how I was a Zionist. The climate was of course that Zionists are evil and should be blocked on sight and never listened to, and also they're so evil that you do not need to be kind or courteous to them. So I had several really nasty interactions with folks, who wrote me off as a Zionist and treated me like something they found on the bottom of their shoe.

It felt for a very long while like I simply had no political home -- no way, if I wanted to be in community with others, to staunchly oppose the war and express genuine care for Palestinian lives and anger at Israel without having to also support, deny, or downplay October 7th. And especially no space to be antizionist without supporting, denying, or downplaying October 7th. I was caught off guard, initially, when I saw that the antizionist world supported October 7th -- because I had considered that to be my political home.

So that's the backdrop for me. A world where people loudly supported violence against Israeli citizens and believed it was deserved and just. So, when I saw pictures of torn down posters, it was in that light -- the people who made clear they don't care and that they hate it when people show sympathy to harmed Israelis, simply making it clear they don't care and that they hate it when people who sympathy to harmed Israelis. I also saw it as an attempt to hide Hamas's actions and try to keep people from knowing about or remembering the hostages because it contradicted the straightforward narrative of "Israel bad, Palestine good." They didn't want people to ask "wait, but what about these hostages?" and to have to be at all nuanced, even if that nuance was just "yes, but the presence of the hostages doesn't justify genocide, and in fact a ceasefire is exactly what will bring the hostages home." That response seemed simple enough to me, and it still baffles me that that's not the path people took. I heard about the "manufacturing consent for genocide" line and frankly did not believe people; I thought they were just saying that as an excuse. I do still think many were.

I have seen from these responses though that some number of people do and did genuinely see things that way; I still think there's much to be unpacked there, and maybe is even harder to get through to people, but... yeah.

no like fr the way that a lot of people look at israelis -- there's no group of people on earth i look at that way. literally no group of people where i'd look at posters of hostages from that group and go "that's obviously genocide propaganda i'm tearing it down." certainly not any group of people where i'd watch a video of their house blowing up and hear a woman crying for her dog in the rubble and point and laugh.

i can't even imagine having that response honestly. i can imagine apathy sure but glee? over people suffering? looking at a whole nationality that way? there's no way

i think that has to corrode your soul. i mean how can't it?

[joejhang]

THEA MULDANI DISCOURSE

if you're a hardcore thea hater do us all a favour dni w this post

THEA DID NOT GROOM KEVIN. lord the amount of INSANE takes i see about kevthea makes me want to bash my head in. THEA IS NOT A FUCKING PREDATOR. nora did make a post about this already but i'll reiterate the CANON FACTS for you all: thea and kevin didn't begin a relationship (romantic or otherwise) until they were both legal adults. the age gap between the two of them is maximum five years. there is no evidence to suggest the two of them had any kind of an intimate or close relationship before kevin's freshman year and their age gap isn't anything crazy it's not like kevin was freshly 18 and thea was like 30 so there was no huge gap in maturity. nora also makes it clear that their relationship was not the same as the toxic sexual encounters many of the other ravens had. much as some of y'all don't like kevthea (which i understand), it has to be said that they did actually have a relationship with each other. they passed each other notes and actually cared to get to know each other. nora doesn't really suggest there is anything unhealthy or toxic about their dynamic on its own.

yes i do think kevthea the ship has problems. however i think the toxicity is due to the environment they were both in (a literal cult) rather than either kevin or thea. the main reason i don't ship kevthea hardcore is because their relationship is borne from a very abusive very codependent very toxic environment that neither of them are healed or fully detached from. i honestly think it would be better for them both to just clean the slate and not pursue a relationship until they're more well-adjusted and free of the nest. that being said, i actually trust nora with her characters, so i'll let it rest.

i don't even like thea that much but some of y'all are literally just misogynists. i don't think it's a coincidence that one of the most hated characters in the series is a canonically black woman, especially when contrasted against the all white, male main characters of the books who arguably all have a very fucked moral compass (except for jean and jeremy. sometimes). considering she has like four canon appearances in the series and she is still one of the most hated characters in the fandom for YEARS says a LOT. smells like misogynoir to me.

i also think a lot of people forget that thea is also a victim of the nest. probably more than the average raven because of her race and gender. it's already been said that she faced hatred and copped a lot of shit during her time because she's half black, and jean makes it clear that women weren't highly valued in the nest as well. that combination of her identity did her no favours as a raven and y'all just want a perfect victim so bad don't you. of course she has a twisted way of thinking of course she's not well-adjusted or gentle or particularly kind she's a veteran from the nest and their vicious cult mindset that's not something you can just shake off, and neil, jeremy, kevin and jean all say that ravens graduate but never leave the nest. you all forget how prickly and bitchy and mean jean and kevin can be as well, probably courtesy of the nest, but for some reason their flaws are brushed over and even endearing but thea's are enough to despise and hate her passionately. crazy and suspicious.

yes a lot of the thea discourse is somewhat valid because i do think her responses to kevin + jean's trauma isn't particularly tactful or sensitive but i've said it before and i'll say it again. what do you guys expect her to fucking do??? riko is dead and tetsuji is nowhere to be found. if y'all want her anger and indignation you have it. she wasn't just totally chill and fine with the abuse they suffered. yes, thea made some ill-advised comments, but it's pretty clear she didn't know all the information and the facts about what happened to kevin/jean were so muddled anyway i don't really understand how you guys wanted her to respond. also note that andrew, neil and kevin also don't have the most gentle and sensitive responses to trauma either and yet they never get as much hate as thea does. which is insane btw. i love the boys but actually let this woman REST.

tldr thea isn't my favourite character but i feel the need to defend her because this fandom sometimes makes me genuinely crash out. she is NOT a fucking predator and she is also a victim of the nest. while she's not perfect she's also a character we know next to nothing about and the amount of hate she receives is actually batshit. sorry idc.

[curioussubjects]

i keep trying to write a post about frank and adhd, but i always get stuck because just. there's a lot to be said and i keep coming back to this:

frank's adhd is as foundational to his characterization as asd is to mel's. i really could go scene by scene pointing out how everything about the way frank moves, talks, thinks, and idk emotes is tied to his adhd. it's not all that the character is obviously, but it informs so much.

some further related thoughts:

i also think he's undiagnosed; mostly because of that line about how everyone in EM has adhd, which screams projection to me. and i get this may very well be me projecting also lol but: that line feels like that pre-dx mood when you go most of your life suspecting something is a bit off and hey maybe you have add lol but nobody ever takes you seriously because you're good at school and generally well behaved/not overly disruptive. so yeah nbd we're all adhd here amirite. yeah.

speaking of being undiagnosed (kinda spec but kinda not): if he's managing his adhd w/o medication it's 10000% because he works in a thriving environment and isn't the primary caregiver of his children or the one responsible for housekeeping (if i had to guess his share of the chores are the ones that get done on a less frequent basis bc of his long hours).

and another thing: i wonder how much of his life was spent in thriving environments, actually, because if that was the case then his coping skills are probably mostly reactive and few, if any, are proactive (unlike mel who we see has both types and is fairly good at putting them to use).

i'm also very intrigued by the way the adhd masks the drug addiction. i've talked about how careful frank's been with managing the addiction, but i think he had an easier time getting away with it because whatever agitation the withdrawal and stress cause wasn't too far off from his baseline (see: collins not finding frank being defensive about being called a junkie as odd; she instead assumes he's being cranky bc he's regretting buying the dog). at the same time, he's so focused on the bigger narrative of how he doesn't have a problem, that he just...leaves his baggie of stolen pills in plain sight inside his locker. i've seen people look at that as a sign of hubris, and i don't disagree, but with how careful he's tried to be it's funny to think he also just missed the trees for the forest there (which is such an adhd thing to do).

[angxl-k9]

I have a sincere and genuine question (one which you are free to ignore)

But I wanted to ask about why you’re pro endogenic/willogenic/nontraumagenic etc.?

I dont ask to stir controversy, but rather because i think I want to understand more about it all and am reaching out to see others experiences in why they believe/see the world how they do

In my early exposure to/learning about systemhood I was taught a lot by those who don’t really like/believe the nontraumagenic claims. As I see more and more of the community and its variations- I find myself more unsure about what is or isn’t true. I ask here instead of consulting the internet because finding clear research on the topic has been increasingly difficult for me and I find I’m not sure exactly where or how to look

Obviously you are probably not the information god of this subject, but i guess I’m looking mostly for your outlook/view on things to just really hear from others in the community on a subject I’m struggling with

hey anon. the biggest reason i’m pro-endo is because i’m part of a mixed origins system. but, i see that that probably isn’t a satisfactory answer to most people wanting to learn more hahaha

the second biggest reason is, well, i am not anyone else nor am i in their brain, so i cannot tell if someone is telling the truth about their experiences or not. therefore, i have to take what people say at face value. if they say they’re a system, i have no right to tell them no, they’re not. that right only belongs to them, and to some extent their psychiatrist/psychologist/therapist.

another reason: the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. just because there is little research into endogenic systems doesnt mean they’re not real. there’s not much undeniable evidence of aliens yet people still believe that they exist. why? because like the human brain, the universe is infinitely complex and we just don’t have the time, money or equipment to study every single aspect of it, especially if those aspects don’t pose an immediate threat on us as humans. endogenic systems themselves aren’t being hurt by their plurality, unlike with did/osdd systems who face severe symptoms with their disorder. in a medical perspective, there’s not much point researching something that isn’t harmful. did and osdd need research so that the systems with those disorders can actually function. endogenic systems with disorders, if they have them, usually have disorders that are already being researched all the time, such as autism, adhd, ocd, bpd, (c)ptsd, etc. so there are already people trained in dealing with those disorders that can help endogenic systems with them, as they would help anyone with them.

however, in saying all that, there actually IS research on endogenic systems, just not as much perhaps as disordered systems. i’ve found some research papers that i like and think are unbiased and fair, so i’m going to make a google doc with links to them, or to where you can download them, and that will be at the bottom of this post. i do think these papers do a lot of help for the endogenic community, especially against sysmedicalists and anti-endos who rely solely on medical evidence and research in order to believe in something (which i absolutely disagree with, i believe we should take what people say about their identity and just believe it without needing ten medical papers to back it up).

i hope this brings a little clarity to my stance on endogenic plurality, and obviously this is just my stance. there are many other systems out there who have different and perhaps better reasons for believing in endogenic plurality. if you’re on reddit at all, i highly highly encourage you to go to r/plural and have a look around there. the people there are so lovely and many of them would love to give you even more resources.

anyway, i hope you have a great day anon, and i hope you find the answers you want about endogenic plurality!

here is the document

and another link to a spreadsheet of more resources

[smytherines]

thinking about that six months Owen spent captured by the Russians again

I've always liked the headcanon that post-fall he was haunted by visions of Curt too. That could be explained by Owen gradually losing his mind from the amount of pain he would've been in, or from a head injury, but there are other possibilities to throw into the mix that are consistent both with real life cold war era espionage and with the spy genre

He is a British spy with operational knowledge of both UK and US intelligence, an extremely high value prisoner who just destroyed a multi million dollar Russian weapons facility. He almost certainly would've been kept in isolation in a KGB facility, and given the information he had it seems likely that he would've been (at the very least) repeatedly interrogated. This is the same organization that canonically turns a four year old girl (Tatiana) into an assassin, so I think it's reasonable to assume that Owen's time in a KGB facility was not a pleasant experience

The more familiar physical forms of torture probably weren't necessary on account of his injuries. But there are several types of "soft" torture that don't leave physical marks or injuries, and were widely used during the cold war era. The first is just isolation itself. Prolonged periods of isolation can lead to severe anxiety, hallucinations, psychosis, obsessive and intrusive thoughts, paranoia, problems with impulse control, increased risk of self harm, and delirium (and that's even in people with no preexisting physical or mental health conditions)

Other possibilities include sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, transit torture (just constantly keeping prisoners moving so they can't rest), mock executions, etc. They all lead more or less to the same severe mental health effects, so I'll avoid going too in depth there because some of it is pretty disturbing

So I imagine Owen there, alone, injured, badly burned, having nothing but time to ruminate about what happened, his only company being hallucinations of his partner. Maybe for a little while he holds onto hope that Curt will rescue him, or maybe he thinks that Curt must've died in the explosion too and now he's being haunted by the ghost of the man he loves

And at first it's almost a comforting thing, imagining the person he felt safest with to help him survive. But the more his mental state devolves, the more the hallucination shifts. Taunting him, forcing him to relive it, confirming every paranoid thought-- that Curt never loved him, that Curt just wanted a convenient fuck and someone to do all the boring bits, that Curt would be disgusted at the state Owen's in now. That Owen was foolish and naive, that his love for Curt was a weakness that nearly destroyed him, and the only way to survive is to cut it out like a cancer

And Owen's in such bad shape that even after six months in Russian custody, the first thing Chimera has to do is nurse him back to health. They reset the bones that didn't heal properly, they do skin grafts for the burns, but there's no undoing that six months in isolation. So Owen sweeps up all those jagged pieces of himself, papers over them with a new identity. Not a person, just a weapon, a means to an end

From Owen's perspective, Curt destroyed everything that meant anything to Owen-- his identity, his career, his body, his mind, and perhaps most importantly, his relationship. So Owen dedicates himself to destroying the only thing Curt truly cares about-- being a spy

And on the staircase, Curt insists that it's not too late to fix this, that Owen can turn on the people who rescued him and get a pardon, that things can go back to how they used to be. But there is a bottomless pit between the man Owen used to be and the man he is now. There's a break that can't be healed, can't be fixed. The future is happening, and it isn't going to wait for them

something something the horror of staying alive

[impossiblefeat]

ESPIO FACT: Espio is the ONLY friend statue in Sonic Generations that's in a combat pose instead of a surprised one. My man was READY.

[lesbianslovenamari]

I was reading DunMeshi and was so confused by this phrase that I decided to look it up

(Do correct me if you think this isn’t accurate cuz I just used google)

But I find it frankly hilarious that Chilchuck is using slang from various parts of the British Isles out of nowhere in the last volume??

(I’ve now had someone explain to me that apparently it’s not uncommon for certain uncommon types of informal Japanese to be translated as slang from specific areas, typically around Britain, in English)

First of all I’d alr seen people jokingly headcanoning him as Irish on here (which was an idea I absolutely love)

ALSO I come from a part of the UK where I’m very familiar with the term ‘git’ but had never heard of a version with an e and I also had no idea it meant the same as ‘bastard’

(I have considered that this could just be the regular meaning of the word ‘get’ but I thought it wouldn’t grammatically make sense here so I assumed it was slang esp cuz he would totally call someone a git)

Anyways I’ve checked other translations and it’s not the same so I find it so funny that this one (which I’m pretty sure is the official English translation) included it

(^ another version I found online)

Anyways this is the translation I have and used as an example for this post, which I’m pretty sure is the official English translation:

Edit: Btw also check tags I kinda wrote this when I was drunk on sleep deprivation

[thelaurenshippen]

open ai made a little post about how they chose their chatbot voices and two things stood out to me:

a) I am genuinely pleased and surprised that the voices come from specific real people that they hired and paid, rather than being built off of all of the data open ai has scraped. the voice for siri did one job for one company 20 years ago and now she is literally everywhere without ever being compensated by apple or even acknowledged as the voice. there's simply no way she was paid enough in that original job. whereas, open ai says "each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products." this could mean literally anything (what market rate are we going above? does continue mean they get residuals or get paid for doing more sessions?) but, christ, at least the actors are doing it with full knowledge of what their voices are being used for and can decide for themselves if the compensation is enough

b) the post talks about working with "award-winning casting directors" to get the voices. first of all, yay for paying casting directors! we love to see it. but they also say the CDs received over 400 submissions in a week and they state that like a big number and it's just...not at all. and look, without knowing the intricacies of the casting process, it's hard to know what approach the CDs took - it's very possible they were selective from the jump and 400 is a lot from the pool they were tapping. 400 would be a lot if you were going to the agencies directly and asking for names, but there's just no way in hell open ai went after big stars for this. so it would've been a pool of unknowns. in which case, 400 is laughably small. even if you're not using the big casting sites like actorsaccess, I've worked on projects with CDs and their own internal systems where we've gotten over 100 submissions for a single role. I've posted roles on casting sites and received literally thousands of submissions in just a few days

look, I have a very limited perspective on this - I am not a casting director (imo, one of the most important and undervalued jobs in hollywood) and I, in fact, hate the process of casting with a passion. but 400 just seemed like such a tiny pool to pull from and, idk, it heartens me! it's heartening to think that there's very little interest from actors and agents to be doing this kind of stuff. and absolutely no shade to the actors who did--I want actors to get their bag however they want as long as it's, like, safe sane and consensual, you know? but there's something encouraging about thinking that open ai hired some big casting agency to get their foot into the voice acting door and people didn't come running

[aashiqeddiediaz]

lowkey wanna drop this post about ibuprofen vs naproxen (im a med student and i have a masters degree in pharmacology so those are my credentials xD).

(cw pharm mumbo-jumbo) buck's allergic to naproxen, which is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). Ibuprofen is also an NSAID. these both are different in their mechanism of action, because ibuprofen is non-selective in blocking COX-1 and COX-2, and naproxen is selective for COX-1 only. this leads to some overlap, but not a lot in terms of allergic reactions. (there's like. a helluva lot of biochem involved in this so im not gonna go into it but basically, they're not the same drug)

now, some people will have you avoid NSAIDs altogether if you're allergic to one, particularly if you have a super adverse reaction to one. so if buck were to have severe reactions to naproxen like anaphylaxis, he probably should not be having ibuprofen just for the risk of another adverse reactions (and get an epi-pen dude).

however, we don't know what his allergic reaction is. if he has a milder reaction, like...maybe hives, GI upset, or something, he still might be able to take ibuprofen with no problem at all. and honestly, if he has ibuprofen in his own apartment, he probably can take it with no problem xD so...im so sorry, but it's not quite the plot hole or catch-all that you might think it is xD

[rolandkaros]

as someone who pays very little attention to rackets, which one does karo use? and what do you think of it? (prompted by the ask game)

she uses a head speed! (it looks like she switched from the radical to the speed in late 2018 or early 2019)

head isn't as popular on the wta as it is on the atp, and has kind of been (metaphorically) losing stock in recent years, but still a very popular and well-trusted brand.

the speed in particular is same racket as jannik sinner and novak djokovic, so obviously is a well touted racket (though novak uses a custom one so it doesn't look the same, but it is technically based on the speed model). though, important to note that it's pretty common for the rackets that pro players use to actually be different from the versions sold to the general public, so although all three of them use what is advertised as a head speed, the specs are probably different between them (and not the same as what can be bought from retailers).

the speed is supposed to be a balanced racket for both control & power (control meaning e.g. how easy is it to redirect the ball, change speeds, actually maneuver the physical racket, etc....power meaning...power). control and power are kind of put at opposite ends of the racket spectrum, so a lot of racket brands will have a power racket (e.g. head boom) a control racket (e.g. head prestige) and a balanced racket (e.g. head speed).

honestly it makes sense that she used the radical before as well because that's head's all-around racket (literally advertised as being for all-court players, and was better than the speed for spin). it's difficult to know exactly why she switched because the specs of the radical and speed now are quite different from what they would have been at the time, but i'd speculate she probably just wanted to add more power and decided she was less concerned about optimizing spin (the speed is still probably a better spin racket than the gravity or boom, for example).

these are the specs for the head speed pro, which i would guess is probably the closest to what she uses...but like i said, grain of salt (i did see some speculation that she uses the mp and not the pro, but that was from 2022, which would have been slightly different specs anyway since the newest generation of the speed came out in 2024):

CPI is head's "control power index", which basically is just a quick way to identify "is this primarily a control or power racket". 300 is right in the middle (as is to be expected), with 200 more control and 400 more power.

the main difference between the speed pro and the speed mp is that the mp has a 16/19 stringing pattern (which is the typical pattern). an 18/20 stringing pattern like on the pro is a "closed" pattern and is supposed to give more control. the pro is also ~10g heavier (more power, but also more physical strain...though i'll admit i don't know exactly how significant 10g is). still, the speed is one of the lighter head rackets.

in terms of balance, all head rackets are "head light," meaning the weight of the racket is closer to the handle than the head. the speed is middle of the road compared to the other head rackets.

the headsize of the speed is on the larger end (same size as the gravity, which is the only other racket at 100sqin; the others are all at 98sqin) which offers more power. but again, grain of salt because the headsize especially is something that can vary a lot from the retail versions of rackets.

so yeah, basically exactly what it says on the tin: it's a racket that's meant to balance power and control! seems to fit her game well, though again i am curious why she switched from the radical because in theory that should fit her game more. but the difference between the two isn't massive, so again, probably just preference for more power.

[sonknuxadow]

sorry mild hater moment incoming but . idk what it is with s/onadow fans (not all of them. just a very loud subsection) specifically and making every little thing shadow does about s/onadow even if its the biggest reach imaginable and immediately going "omg s/onadow" every time hes confirmed to be in some upcoming thing . or being so obsessed with the ship and letting it warp their perceptions of things so much to the point where they act like every little thing is a hint from sega that theyre in love for real. and they cant admit that its not canon or that just because they choose to interpret certain things romantically doesnt mean that thats actually what sega/the writers intended even if theres an obvious non so/nadow explanation for it

before people take this the wrong way i dont hate the ship i dont think that its completely baseless or that everyone who likes it is wrong and annoying or anything . but some of you look like this if im being honest

[enjoyvoidblack]

Was midway through typing out a defense of Jon's decisions in light of how everyone (including Jonny) seems to think he could've done much better, but then I remembered he walked up to Jude Perry's front door and knocked and yknow what post cancelled actually. For that alone this man is an idiot (affectionate)

[etrangeres]

i wish everyone saying "come to [European Country]! we're not as dumb!" a very go to hell

[hesgomorrah]

does several hours of intense research to write gay smut about a sitcom from the 1970s

[hikineet-trash]

Anyways if you see me being horny about spacebats at 7-godforsaken-A.M....(Tone: uptalk, false suspense, setup to a punchline.)

No you didn't. (Tone: Flat delivery, faux-severity, punchline.)

Mind your own business. (Tone: Ineffectual non-serious threat.)

[sturionic]

IMPORTANT UPDATE, TODAY:

This is not about Canada. This is about Greenland. They are in serious danger.

"We need Greenland for national security and international security," Trump said, taking reporters' questions in the Oval Office. "So we'll, I think, we'll go as far as we have to go," he continued. "We need Greenland. And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland. And, you know, we'll see what happens. But if we don't have Greenland, we can't have great international security." Trump added, "I view it from a security standpoint, we have to be there."

Vance is currently doing a press conference, as we speak. He is saying there are "no immediate plans" to use military force in Greenland and that it "won't be necessary" because he and Trump believe "the Greenlanders are going to choose - through self-determination - to become independent of Denmark."

THAT IS NOT A 'NO' TO INVASION. THAT IS AN 'OR ELSE.'

Territorial expansion for the sake of territorial expansion, using military force, is very much back on the table for the USA. It is in fact a primary agenda of this administration. For all the Americans in my notes saying "Oh he would NEVER, the government and Congress and the military and American citizens would never let him invade Canada" - would they do the same for Greenland? Would most Americans put their employment or safety on the line to protect Greenlanders? Are those lives worth any less because the USA hasn't been pretending to be their best buddy for decades?

We already know Congress is fine with sitting by and letting any given administration, Democrat or Republican, murder innocent people as long as they're far enough away. We know this. Why would it change now?

Donald Trump Is Not Joking About Annexing Canada: A Fucking Timeline

December 3, 2024: Trump's quip about Canada becoming 51st state was a joke, says minister who was there (CBC News 🇨🇦) <- This is when it could have feasibly been a joke

January 7, 2025: Donald Trump is quoted in a press conference directly stating his intentions to annex Canada (New York Times, timestamp 0:45 🇺🇸) <- This is where Americans should have stopped telling Canadians it's just a joke

REPORTER 1: Are you also considering military force to annex and acquire Canada? DONALD TRUMP: No. Economic force.

February 7, 2025: Trudeau says Trump threat to annex Canada 'is a real thing' (BBC 🇬🇧) <- This is where the Commonwealth starts to take it seriously

Trudeau suggested Trump has floated the idea of taking over Canada and making it the "51st state" because he wants to access the country's critical minerals. "Mr Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing," the prime minister said.

February 9, 2025: "Trump's national security adviser: 'I don't think there's any plans to invade Canada'" (NBC News 🇺🇸) <- CANADIANS NOTICE THAT THIS IS NOT A VERY STRONG DENIAL OF POSSIBLE MILITARY FORCE

February 10, 2025: Trump Confirms He’s Serious About Wanting Canada As 51st State (Forbes 🇺🇸)

Fox News host Bret Baier asked Trump whether Trudeau was right in telling business leaders the U.S. president’s threat to absorb Canada is a “real thing,” to which Trump agreed with Trudeau and responded, “Yes it is.”

February 12, 2025: ‘Trump effect’: How US tariffs, ’51st state’ threats are shaking up Canada (Al Jazeera 🇶🇦) <- This is where the rest of the fucking world outside America starts to take it seriously

February 18 2025: CBC releases podcast episode: "What if the U.S. invaded Canada?" (CBC's Front Burner 🇨🇦)

March 4, 2025: Canada Eyeing NATO Ally's Nukes To Deter Trump 'Threat': Candidate (Newsweek 🇺🇸), British nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Trudeau party candidate (The Telegraph 🇬🇧)

“I would be working urgently with [European Nato allies] to build a closer security relationship… in a time when the United States can be a threat,” said [Canada's] ex-foreign minister and finance minister at the final Liberal leadership debate last week.

March 4, 2025: Prime Minister Trudeau: "What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us” (CTV News 🇨🇦)

March 7, 2025: BC Premier David Eby: “We know the president in back rooms with Canadian officials has said he wants to redraw the border" (Global News 🇨🇦)

Eby: "If this president wants to annex Canada, he should save his breath to cool his soup, it is never going to happen.”

March 7, 2025: How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious (New York Times 🇺🇸) <- This is where American news media starts to treat this as maybe possibly not a joke

March 9, 2025: U.S. Congress bill aims to prevent funding of invasion of Canada (CTV News 🇨🇦) <- This is where you should understand that military force is ON THE TABLE

March 11, 2025: Canadian opinion of U.S. falls sharply; 63% take Trump's threats 'very seriously' (National Post 🇨🇦)

March 13, 2025 (TODAY): Trump threatens to acquire Canada, Greenland while next to NATO chief (Global News 🇨🇦)

“To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state...This would be the most incredible country visually,” [Trump] said. “If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it, between Canada and the U.S., just a straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many many decades ago, and it makes no sense.” -Donald Trump

And hey, just for fun, let's contrast that with another quote:

First of all, I would like to emphasize that the wall that has emerged in recent years between Russia and Ukraine, between the parts of what is essentially the same historical and spiritual space, to my mind is our great common misfortune and tragedy...I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia. -Vladimir Fucking Putin, the year before launching an attack on Ukraine, which everyone also said he was joking about and definitely wouldn't do (2021 essay, Kremlin official website 🇷🇺)

I know you're overwhelmed, Americans, but please stop saying this is a joke. Canadians are anticipating an invasion, possibly within the year. This is not a fucking drill.