#the muskrat is at it again

[blueteehood]

Ok. So. Muskrat (aka Elon Musk) decided it was a normal and reasonable idea to pick a fight with one of the Brazilian Supreme Court’s Ministers. Allow me to explain it.

Context is essential here. Alexandre de Moraes* is the minister responsible for 2 ongoing extremely high profile cases against Brazilian democracy: the domestic terrorist attack in Brasilia in January 8th (yes, our own version of January 6th) and another one that investigates digital militias that are being accused of spread misinformation, hate speech and trying to diminish the legitimacy of our electoral process**.

During the course of those investigations (that have been going on for a few years) de Moraes has determined the suspension of social media accounts of some of the people being investigated. Among that, people who have claimed that ‘maybe nazism was fine, actually’ and a lot of other shit. And because of that, Muskarat is accusing the minister (and by extension, our Supreme Court) of censorship and attempting against Brazilian democracy. Because obviously he knows more about Brazilian Law than us mere Brazilians. 

Well, can de Moraes do that? Yes. Yes he can. Free speech is a constitutional right (art. 5º, IV) (unless you hide behind anonymity), but you know what else is determined by our constitution? That ANY attack to our fundamental rights or freedom is to be punished by law (art. 5º XLI) AND racism is a non-bailable and imprescriptible crime (art. 5º XLII). So no, YOU CANNOT say racist shit or things that go against Brazilian democracy, because the right to free speech is not an absolute right, there are plenty of exceptions to it (in the same article where it’s established, even). 

I guess it's kind of obvious, but let me make it clear: Elon Musk, famous for saying things that would be considered a CRIME according to Brazilian Law, is accusing our Supreme Court of “censoring” people that are being investigate exactly for using social media to commit crimes. 

I could go on a wild tangent here about how our Constitution is, notably and  historically, a product of our civil rights movement post 40 years of dictatorship, or how Brazilian Justice System is based on Civil Law while the American System is Common Law and there are fundamental differences on how they both work, or or I could go on a whole spiel about the social and political and ethical implications of some guy deciding he could wildly and publicly speculate about the works of a democratic country as if we didn’t have, you know, SOVEREIGNTY, but you know what? Fuck him. Brazil is not your goddamn back yard, Muskarat. We can take care of our own problems, fuck you very much. 

* There is a lot of shit going on in our Supreme Court, and I’m not here to defend Alexandre de Moraes from criticism.  Just, ya know, stating the obvious.

** Brazilians are very proud of the safety and speed of our electoral process

[sunderberry]

and angel was so proud of himself for being able to carry mr-hollow-bones husk over here

based on the hc where husk died from falling, and that's why his demon form is an ironic mix between two animals that should not be taking fall damage

so yeah he's afraid of heights and that's why he doesn't fly

aftermath:

they'll be okay

[my-craft]

Twitter Migration Part Two: Electric Boogaloo

[baconcolacan]

With regards to current events, tbh I actually have a bluesky account but,,,,being a born and raised tumblr brat part of me doesnt see the point of migrating there, when I can yap all I want on my tumblr lmaooo

[flowerbloom-arts]

It was midnight. Then one o'clock struck. A little after two the Muskrat woke up and wanted to get out of bed. He staggered sleepily downstairs and stopped in amazement in front of the sofa which stood across the door. 'What an idea!' he muttered, trying to drag it away, and then of course the alarm clock that Moominpappa had put there started ringing.

(...)

'Oh, it was only me,' said the Muskrat peevishly. 'I just wanted to look at the stars. I forgot all about your stupid Groke.'

- Finn Family Moomintroll

Also inspired by the Shin Moomin episode Useless Scandals Are Useless

[kisekiii25]

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[existennialmemes]

If elon musk had been born to middle class parents his only legacy would've been being that creepy dude who leaves one star reviews for businesses, if the women that work there wouldn't flirt with him.

[jewishbarbies]

how do you claim with a straight face that you didn’t mean to be antisemitic when you so publicly agreed that jews control the world and heavily influence literally everything on the social media platform you own where you have millions of followers. and then go “I’m not antisemitic! see!” and take a trip to Israel to meet netanyahu. like, first you perpetuated the jews control everything antisemitism and then pulled a ‘I have jewish friends’ and your jewish friend was the most right wing piece of shit jew you could possibly tokenize and straight up tokenized him.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Lowkey shocked there hasn't been a fanvid already of Blue Eye Samurai and Dessa's "Dutch".

Only lowkey, though. I understand. It didn't come out until after people already had their Festivids assignments, and a lot of vidders will be in crunch mode until the deadline two weeks from now.

[aunti-christ-ine]

🙄

Ugh.

Apartheid Clyde strikes again! 🫣

[blueteehood]

i think muskrat will lose his custody of his son to his ex grimes and damage inflict on his eldest kids

Anon tbh I know nothing about the custody laws of whatever state they are from so I cannot give you a legal commentary on this.

As a random person on the internet giving an opinion about famous people drama, I can only hope for the best possible result for the children.

[the-witch-of-merrigod]

New album from mothy to be released at Comiket on August 13! Based on the fact that the twin rabbits here are likely Arte & Pollo, its probably safe to assume this is continuing the plotline of E.A.T PROLOGUE. I don't trust myself enough to translate the name of the album (and by extension the first song), but it's something about twin rabbits playing a flute (or another similar woodwind instrument). Second tweet poorly embedded up there is a promo video for the album, presumably featuring the instrumental for one of the songs--the text in the promotional image on the left mentions a "Demon's Flute", and the text in the video mentions that the twins disappear.

There are six songs on the album (3 new songs and their off vocal versions). The first one is the same name as the album, which I don't trust myself enough to translate, with vocals from the Kagamines. The second one is "Atelier Horloge", with vocals from Kasane Teto. (Atelier is French for workshop/studio, and horloge is French for clock.) The third song is "Sister Clarith's Peculiar Evening", with vocals from Hatsune Miku and Yuzuki Yukari. This will be mothy's first release using Teto and Yukari!

The album is illustrated by Ichika and will have an 8 page booklet.

mothy also gave a brief introduction for each song: the first song is bright and upbeat, the second song is bright and refreshing, and the third song isn't bright and is also dubiously a song at all. He also stated ten days ago that he plans to upload a video for the new Rin & Len song before Comiket, but only if he can finish it in time.

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

I think Alfie is finally quitting twitter everybody quick help me pester them into moving here

[vegetable-soup-wizard]

Now that Twitter is X or whatever the fuck, the most genuinely funny thing that could happen was if all the people elongated muskrat fired got together and just… made Twitter. Just regular same Twitter from before, and everyone just went back over there

[thetetra]

I am so pleased that he doesn't get to name anything something so stupid.

[internet-goblin]

I'm sorry to bring a hellsite (derogatory) drama to Hellsite (affectionate), but I just can't help myself.