#this is because it is about opposing the government + systems of oppression and making subculture music about it. 👍

[devilfruitdyke]

honestly i just need people to realize they dont have to be punk

[eroguron0nsense]

Garp, Fascism, and Parental Failure

Garp is truly one of the most interesting One Piece characters for me because of the extent to which his dogged, relentless devotion to a fascist system–and the supposed "order" it promises to uphold in the face of anarchy or rebellion–perseveres no matter how many times it fails him and his son and his grandsons. He's fully aware of the deep-seated corruption and atrocity, and feels some kind of moral obligation to bend its rules to protect the innocent (as we can see with his attempts to protect Rouge and Ace), but when faced with widespread femicide and infanticide, genocide, slavery and endless examples of egregious cruelty, he is unable to comprehend the notion that the system is indefensible, or that the only moral choice he can possibly make when faced with that level of atrocity is to leave and resist it. His son recognizing the inherent, inexcusable failures of the World Government and its armed enforcers–literally quitting the force to start a revolution– changes nothing. The order to slaughter pregnant people and infants at Baterilla can't convince him otherwise. The countless instances of bribery, the tolerance of atrocity from state-sanctioned privateers, everything about the history of the Valley of the Gods are all things he's aware of, and takes issue with, but never comes to the conclusion that he cannot affect positive change within a system designed for oppression. The public execution of his grandson–a prime example of the marine's fundamentally irrational, arrogant, vindictive cruelty clearly bound to blow up in all of their faces even before their Pyrrhic victory at the summit war–makes him waver, but even when confronted with this obvious, indefensible injustice against a child he raised and rescued by people seeking to murder him on live TV and desecrate his corpse as a show of power, he cannot bring himself to act against it in any meaningful way no matter how much it hurts him to leave his grandson to die. If he can't veto it, he'll stay Vice Admiral and suffer through Ace being sacrificed on the altar of fascist state control, and functionally leave Luffy for dead in the process while he's at it. He fails every single person he wanted to love–Ace, Luffy, and almost certainly Dragon–and allows himself to be reluctantly complicit in countless crimes against humanity again and again and again because he's so deeply steeped in this notion of preservation of order through state control that he convinces himself that even this disgusting, atrocious, fundamentally flawed and untenable excuse for a government is better than abolition, better than revolution, or just the act of expecting accountability or literally anything better from the systems that issue false promises to protect you. Dadan beating the living shit out of him and calling him a failure as a grandfather, as a self proclaimed defender of the people, is one of the most important scenes in the Postwar Arc because a lesser series might frame Garp as a tragic, helpless figure suffering more than anyone else due to conflict of love and duty, but One Piece refuses to whitewash his actions/inaction or allow the grief and suffering caused by systems he's complicit in to take precedence over its real victims: the D brothers.

There's so much I could say about statism and anarchism and the ways people have internalized the supposed necessity of state violence to the extent they can't oppose that violence even when it ruins them or their loved ones, but that horrible indoctrination and its devastating consequences for both him and his family are what makes Garp so fascinating to watch and so thematically/politically important to One Piece as a whole.

[luimnigh]

A complaint often leveled at superhero media is the idea that Villains are Active, and Heroes are Reactive. That villains are agents of change, while heroes frequently defend the status quo.

And in a world where it's becoming increasingly clear that the systems and institutions need to change in order to make the world a better, more equitable, and habitable-into-the-future place; this is an idea that sees many decide that superheroes are symbolic of those standing in the way of necessary change, and are purposefully ideologically opposed to changs.

However, I don't believe this is an intended message of the genre, but merely a consequence of the fundamental premise of the superhero.

A superhero is a:

morally good

individual

who has the power to do great violence.

Atler any of those three elements, and you're no long dealing with a superhero. The first nets you a villain or an anti-hero, the second instead defines an organisation or a nation, and the third just leaves you with your average person.

But the problem is that those elements combine to create something that is not capable of the widespread societal change we need in real life.

The use of violence to enact change is morally contentious. It is a dangerous way to go about things, because violence is inherently a dangerous thing, and can easily escape the control of the person who starts it. It is generally seen as only acceptable in extreme situations.

But it is the superhero's main form of power. A superhero solves problems with violence. But to solve societal problems with violence is not morally good except in the most extreme situations. Therefore a superhero cannot enact change through violence unless the risk of violence is outweighed by the actual violence caused by the opposing force. Otherwise, they cease to be a superhero, as they cease to be morally good.

And at the same time, as individuals, superheroes cannot unilaterally enact change. That would be imposing the will of a single person, or a small group of people, on the majority. A single person who violently imposes their view of the world is a dictator, and dictatorship is generally seen as morally wrong. And thus, the superhero cannot be a dictator and remain a superhero.

So the very premise of a superhero limits them from enacting societal change, while remaining a superhero.

But supervillains are not bound by such limitations. At the same time, however, a supervillain not being morally good means the societal change they enact will always be a negative change, either because the violence of their methodology risks the innocent, or because of their imposition of their worldview on the populace will always violate the right of the populace to self-determination.

So that's why you only see superheroes fighting to enact societal change when they're up against explicitly violent oppression, either in the form of dictatorial governments or individuals violently imposing their worldview on others, i.e. supervillains.

This is all not to say that no superhero media hasn't ever been made with regressive politics in mind, or hasn't character assassinated an ideology before. Plenty have.

But I am saying that a genre where violence is the main form of power has to be very careful with how their morally good figures use said power, or risk putting out negative messages about the use of violence.

With great power comes great responsibility, not only in how to use the power... but also in how not to use it.

[decolonize-the-left]

Hi I've had an influx of followers again so I wanna say hi and tell y'all a little what I'm about.

So hi, I'm decol. I'm a grown Ojibwe leftist living with my trans gf and my kid ❤️

You may have noticed I posted a lot of politics. Lately it's been Free Palestine but thats because it became my new normal. Before I became so focused on Palestinians liberation tho, I posted a lot more other things. Human rights, trans rights, women's rights, Im mentally ill and AuDHD and post about mental illness stigma, landback, calling out white supremacy, decolonization, etc. My blog has been political for along time but always on the side of human rights and fighting oppression. But that's just liberal stuff. What makes me a leftist is that I don't believe states or borders are good for people.

Let's get into why that is.

I support life and believe that a state or government fundamentally opposes life.

I also support whatever means necessary the oppressed seek to gain freedom. I don't think it's my place or anyone else's to say liberation can only look one way. Especially when it's often from privilege and a myopic view of comfort that most us speak.

There wouldn't be so many people being oppressed if there weren't so many people dedicated to their own comfort instead of liberation. Nobody should have to Vote to have human rights and if in fact any oppressed people had allies we would not have had to march for them either. We shouldn't have to earn our human rights from a majority that didn't want us to vote in the first place and nobody should have to do it now.

I think voting therefore is also a fundamentally flawed system that no amount of voting blue will change because it is not the Votes that must change, but the people who are casting them. It's the people in the majority who are not demanding equality and the people in the majority who are leaving others to fight for themselves.

But I do unfortunately live in a society that continues to use and weaponize that system anyway for their bi-annual puppet theater where they watch BIPOC fight and bid on who will give us more rights .

I think few people see this for what it is and even less are willing to demand the change necessary to give all people a proper and equal voice. Such is the nature of the majority is it not? They may pretend to hate injustice but remember that myopic view of comfort they have? Injustice is included with it, free of charge.

So yeah, you will see me advocate for certain things on this blog that may contradict the views I've stated at first glance. But It's just me working within the framework that I have been given.

For example I'll push for presidential candidates despite the fact that I support Landback and believe voting is flawed and the country is fascist. Because I know we are far from an organized revolution full of intersectional solidarity and realistically I must work within the framework I have. Which is a shitty voting system and a population who doesn't even fully realize why it's so shitty.

Or you'll see me support violence when I support saving lives. And that's because I also believe the language of the oppressor is violence and likewise that anyone who's ever tried catering to their "better conscience" has found that oppression wouldn't exist if the oppressors had a conscience to appeal to. Violence is the answer sometimes and I've found that sometimes it's the only answer that a state will understand.

To that end...I don't want to hear about any state military anywhere. Every single military on earth has done some seriously fucked up shit. I know this. You know this. I don't support any military anywhere. Period.

I don't think anyone is innocent either. As I've gotten older I've realized it's been made clear that race and religion are part of everything including our headlines today and that's it's been that way for a long time. Even freedom and liberation and oppression have been racialized and as a native 'leftist extremist' I've seen that firsthand. I've learned that both sides will lie to make the other look bad without taking accountability for whatever awful thing they did themselves.

Power corrupts. And it's why I support principles and ideas behind a movement and not necessarily the specific people of it or even the movement itself and it's why I will ALWAYS disregard any attempt to undermine a movement because the people leading it were found to have flaws. Of course they did. And of course they're being politicized. Such is the reality of the Us vs Them political landscape. Anything to make the other guy look bad.

It's up to us who were going to stand behind despite their flaws. It's up to us to decide what principles matter to us. And I refuse to let perfection be the enemy of progress. Because I understand a lot of people in 2024 have been spoon fed puritan ideas that have made them believe most movements are not good enough to support. Either they don't follow their ideology perfectly or their tactics are too aggressive or their goals are "unrealistic." It's always something.

I don't subscribe to this puritan 2.0 logic. Nor do I believe that it should apply to everyone. I didn't ask to be held under a microscope for example. I'm just a Tumblr blogger. Yeah I blog about a lot of politics and such but that's because I like politics and such lol I'm not a representation of anything but myself, but you'll find I too have been politicized in ongoing race and theological wars. "Why would you say x if you support y?" says anon in another attempt to make all supporters of Y look unreliable and bad for their opinions on X. As if my singular bad opinion is somehow a representation of everyone else who supports Y and not just my opinion specifically on x.

I also want to be very clear that I'm still learning :)

I don't know everything about everything yet and as such I'm sure I'll fuck up or say the wrong things or use the wrong terminology sometimes.

Please just give me a heads up. Don't be a puritan about it and make a whole post about how ignorant and harmful I am or something, especially when it's been made clear my intentions are not to offend or exclude anyone and I would Never intentionally do anything like that.

I try to educate myself on topics before I speak about them but lots of the things I discuss on my blog require a lot of knowledge to be spoken on in confidence. I am often not confident lol. As a native tho it annoys me to no end when people use the excuse that "well I didn't know enough about the topic so I stayed silent and didn't share opinions on it at all ever" because that's also a puritan act thats detrimental to movement and helps to maintain our status as 'Irrelevant Concern.' So I try to educate myself and show support, tho sometimes it isn't as well worded or educated as it should have been.

All I ask is you have some grace when that happens as I have good intentions. Additionally if I ever fuck up Please tell me. I do not ever want to make someone feel like shit cuz or singled out cuz I said something ignorant I shouldn't have.

Some people choose comfort and don't acknowledge when they fucked up. I try to pride myself on Not doing that and correcting myself where others can see and learn from it too.

Not everyone wants to learn tho. Those are the people I don't understand. Those are my opposers; the people standing indifferently in the way of progress while oppressed fathers beg for them to move aside. And what is he to do with the child dying in his arms? Just allow this man to keep being the only obstacle to saving them? Of course not.

And so I aggressively and vehemently stand by the opinion that self defense in this way is never wrong. Let all the ignorant white supremacists die if they have to and let all their allies cry about it. I don't care. White supremacists fundamentally oppose life which I support. And so I fundamentally oppose white supremacy the same way I do a state and as such I openly call for their destruction as well.

This is getting long so I'll wrap it up.

TLDR:

Human rights are to be taken by any means necessary if they were not given to you. The people with-holding them don't get to complain about how you get them and either does anyone else especially if they aren't helping you get them now. Additionally, people should be given room to grow but choosing not to grow is a choice too so don't tolerate the intolerant who stands in your way. If you can cut him down then do it.

PS:

My asks are always open. I get a lot of mean, bad faith asks and so I answer most asks with this mindset and I'm trying to be better about it but if you send one in good faith and my attitude sucks, please don't take it personally.

P.p.s

I share a lot of politics and upsetting things and images on my blog. I don't feel the need to tag every post because So Many of them are this way..

However, the posts that are especially bad ARE tagged

My trauma/trigger tag is: decolstw

This is a catch-all tag. Gore, white supremacist violence, historical hate crimes, and the like are all tagged with this.

[nerdylilpeebee]

the skin whiteners shows that racist beauty standards that favor whiteness or paleness are still horrifically common even amoung POC. There are fucking sweatshops all over the global south all run by western companies and like a shit ton on "convenient" produce (bananas, coffee, sugar) come from modern plantations. also what do you mean by corporate greed =/= capitalism, like thats the driving force behind our current system. Again the hawai'i tourism relates to colonialism, again. Im talking about Nonblack artists piggybacking off of black mediums to get rich. Also the apartheid thing kind of makes me think that the genocide you are talking about (and just seems to be farm attacks) is using scare language. Genocide implies a government hand. I dunno, the alt right seems to have power because of the JAN 6 RIOT, Y'KNOW THE THING THAT HAPPENED 3 YEARS AGO REMEMBER THAT? AND LIKE, THE LEGALIZED SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION? Yes poor white neighborhoods are also overpoliced but thats Whataboutism, you are changing the subject

also TBH, I think that the worldview that proudly proclaims that everything is just fineeeee and that no systemic racism existssss everrrrrrr is significantly and vastly more black and white than one where it does.

Okay, but THAT'S NOT OPPRESSION. Poc adopting "racist beauty standards" is not white people oppressing poc. It's not racist oppression.

Sweatshops are absolutely fucked up and stupid, but they are not racially motivated and do not mean poc elsewhere are oppressed. That is a corporate greed thing, not a racism thing.

Corporate greed is not capitalism. Capitalism as a system is all about free trade. What you are thinking of is corporatism, Hun.

Colonialism. Right. Cuz Hawaii's government favoring tourism for it's economy totally means poc are oppressed by white people, even ones that don't live in Hawaii, a non-white majority state.

"black mediums." What black mediums..name them and then how that's racist. This is a free country, and if those mediums do not have rules banning white users they are not black mediums and do not have a right to cry racism if non-blacks use them, let alone try to blame it on white people if non-blacks "get rich" on them.

Sure, Hun, cuz killing people en mass because of their race isn't genocide if they're white. We get it you're a racist.

And honey, sweetie pie, the Jan 6 RIOT? where there were no casualties on the side of the cops caused by the "rioters" but casualties on the "rioters" side? That's fucking funny given the summer of riots BLM performed with the government not even trying to stop them, black people blatantly supporting the riots, claiming it was their right to burn shit down and it was racist to oppose the riots or even defend yourself from rioters cuz "property doesn't matter over black lives. UwU". You wanna call Jan 6 a riot when they didn't even destroy property, I'm so fucking done. What's even more fucking funny is that there is no legalized sexual discrimination. That is not a thing.

And no, that's not whataboutism, you listed black neighborhoods being overpoliced as a form of oppression black people face. I pointed out white people face it too, meaning it is not racially motivated, ergo cannot be racist oppression, ergo cannot be racism even by your shitty definition. And I never changed the subject. I was literally on fucking subject, you just don't like me proving that what you listed is not racism.

And that's funniest fucking thing you've said so far.

Motherfucker, WHERE DID I SAY SYSTEMIC RACISM DOESN'T EXIST??? You wanna claim I'm changing the subject while you're putting words in my mouth. Systemic racism does exist, but really only the conviction rates you listed was systemic racism, and oh guess fucking what? Even in America white people face systemic racism too (legalized discrimination in hiring processes, for example, being the majority of police violence victims, being able to be murdered with clear racial motivations without it being labeled a racist hate crime, etc), and systemic racism existing does not mean you cannot be racist to white people.

Again, you are just mad that I am not agreeing with you. I never changed the subject, I never said systemic racism doesn't exist, I just don't follow your nonsensical "power plus privilege" view on the matter (which in itself doesn't make sense as the vast majority of white people hold no more power or privilege than any poc, and there are poc with far more power AND privilege than the average white person).

[sixty-silver-wishes]

So usually I don’t read the Daily Beast (often sensationalized news/tabloid outlet), but I clicked on this article today:

I can’t tell if I’m angry at the author of this article or feel extremely sorry for her. Essentially, she’s a lesbian conservative who’s feeling disillusioned by DeSantis’ anti-LGBT policies. But some of what she says is genuinely making my head spin:

DeSantis has been governor of Florida since 2018. He’s built a platform on being anti-LGBT since around 2020, and only now that he’s released an advertisement that makes absolutely no departure from his previous statements and actions, suddenly you’re shocked?

I’m sorry, but “limited government, personal responsibility, and individual liberties” like what? The government keeping themselves out of the decisions women and trans people make with their bodies? Personal responsibility like recognizing one’s place in systemic injustice and working to right it? Or do you mean “personal responsibility” in the conservative ideological belief of only looking out for oneself and not one’s community? Individual liberties? This woman lives openly as a lesbian, and it sure as hell wasn’t conservatives that gave her that right. By “individual liberties,” is she only talking about not caring about issues until they affect her own freedom? Because that’s exactly what’s happening. Conservatives have been working for years to oppress the LGBT+ community, but as long as this particular woman isn’t feeling threatened, it’s fine. She can even join them in oppressing members of her own community, until they actually turn on her, which, surprise, they did.

The ignorance here honestly breaks my heart. DeSantis “tarnishes the image of the conservative movement” by being homophobic? What image did the conservative movement even have in the first place that positions them as a champion of LGBT+ rights? DeSantis isn’t “going against conservative principles” by being a bigot; he’s embodying them. Those “conservative values” the author is championing are exactly what got him to where he is now. The author is shocked at his bigotry, but as of writing the article, she’s still ignorant to the fact that because she’s only looking out for her conservative “individual liberties,” she and the rest of our community are in danger.

Ms. Yvonne Dean Bailey, I doubt you’ll see this, but I feel sorry for you. But the truth is, DeSantis is not just one bad individual tarnishing your ideology. He is your ideology, and the only reason why you have the freedoms you speak of is because of generations of sacrifices by the LGBT community fighting against those “conservative values” to give you and the rest of us better lives than the ones they had. Conservatives may say they promote “individual liberties,” but what that means is stepping on the most convenient marginalized group to give more power to a privileged demographic that gets smaller and smaller the more they’re allowed to oppress people. Being a conservative lesbian woman is not going to stop them from seeing you as a lesbian woman, and therefore a target of homophobia and misogyny. Your ideology and “values” will not protect you from them.

I don’t hate you, Yvonne Dean Bailey. I think you’re ignorant, but I don’t hate you. I’m scared for you, just like I’m scared for myself and every other person in this country. I hope you take the long, painful, terrifying journey of introspection and deconstructing the harmful values you’ve spent so long supporting, because I want you and our whole community to be safe. You can do a lot of good if you keep questioning and thinking. But please, Yvonne Dean Bailey, as a queer person who lives in Florida, I want you to understand what’s going on, and despite what you’ve learned, bigotry doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You’ve taken the first step, but it’s not the end. Please keep moving.

[qqueenofhades]

re the product of their time bullshit, it just always makes me want to gnaw my own feet off in frustration because not everyone who was "of that time" was an irredeemable shithead?! people have been opposing empire and colonisation since...... forever. not just the people being oppressed either - white abolitionists in england weren't somehow immune to "their times" and slave owners weren't innocent victims of their surrounding cultures. she was literally born in the 1920s - as if nobody had ever opposed the monarchy or imperialism before then?? like racism hadn't been invented yet??

Also, she was alive until like, 6 hours ago?

"She was a product of her time?" SHE WAS ALIVE UNTIL LITERALLY TODAY! YOU DON'T GET TO COMPARTMENTALIZE HER INTO SOME NICE OLD GRANNY WHO DIED 100 YEARS AGO AND COULD NOT HAVE POSSIBLY KNOWN/CHOSEN TO DO BETTER???? THAT IS NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS???

Besides, as you point out, the Product of Their Times is always a bullshit excuse, because yes, people have always known that systems of large-scale oppression and exploitation were wrong even as they were happening! Moral or critical judgment of these systems is not a Modern Perspective Only! And this idea that the queen was somehow excused from learning about this, or had no responsibility and was just dragged along by those Bad Olde Time Imperialists in the government, or had no power over the entire apparatus of state of which she was the idolized head, or was just a harmless nice old lady with cute doggies, or We Should Respect Her Family's Feelings!!! or... [insert nonsensical white people excuse of choice here, etc etc etc]

Anyway, yes. This.

[moonlayl]

Rant

I know it’s not healthy but I’m actually really struggling not to let rage consume me. Like I’m shaking right now.

On one hand you have Zionists, who literally either a) outright deny Israel’s war crimes b) question the validity of Palestinian sources and deaths (despite there being fcking proof) or c) justify what Israel is doing and parrot around the bullshit arguments you see everywhere that don’t really make sense, and that you can’t even discuss because there’s nothing to say

And then on the other hand, you have people who are against what Israel is doing but seem to think a ceasefire is the ultimate goal or that everything will be fine afterwards (???) and are opposed to actually changing the status quo and actually liberating the Palestinian people. It’s like “yeahhhh! Israel shouldn’t bomb Palestinians the way they are, butttt Israel itself isn’t the problem, Netanyahu is!” Like shut the fuck up, the entire system is built on oppressing Palestinians.

You do not support Palestinians right to live, exist, be free, and have their rights if you don’t support a complete change of what Israel is, and if you don’t support the liberation of Palestine.

And don’t even get me started on the “support Palestine!!!! But not resistance 🤪”

“Israel shouldn’t be carpet bombing but also they DO have the right to defend themselves” defend themselves from WHAT? The people they’re occupying?? Do Palestinians not have a right to defend themselves from those oppressing them?

Wtf is even the point of your “support” at this point??

And then on a third hand (I’m too tired to word this better) you have the pro Palestinian crowd, who aren’t stupid or evil (for lack of a better term) or naive like the ppl I described above, who do support Palestinian liberation, yet at the same time stand against the liberation of other people, specifically other Arabs.

HOW???

I just had this pro Palestinian person literally tell me that Syrians should accept their oppression under Bashar Al Assad and shut up about it because they’ll never be able to fight it and they don’t deserve to be failed or to be free. They were literally mocking the millions displaced and killed in Syria. How the fuck do you champion yourself as someone who cares for human rights and stands for humanitarian issues, yet not allow that to extend to Syrians? Or Yeminis? Or Egyptians? Or Libyans? Or Lebanese people? Or literally everyone else??

Like what is wrong with the Arab شعوب that makes them so uncaring, so hypocritical, and so shitty?

I don’t understand.

The amount of pro Palestinian people either bootlicking the shit out of Assad or Sisi or whatever, like has everyone collectively lost their damn minds?

How do you fight for one group of oppressed ppl but be happy about another group being oppressed just because you personally don’t like that country?? There’s so much discrimination and it’s so frustrating to witness.

Why do our communities have to fight over who’s deserving of freedom or whatever, when the answer is, we all are, and every country that’s being oppressed by another or its own government, deserves to be free and liberated?

I have zero respect for those who try to belittle what Bashar Al Assad did or who praise/defend him to any capacity.

And I understand it’s probably better for me to take a step back or just not engage or whatever, for my own mental health, but at the same time, the rage at people’s cruelty, people’s disregard for human life, and the no jistixe occurring everywhere in the world, don’t be calmed and so t go away if I ignore it.

That anger is still gonna be present. How do you “positivity!!! Mental health!!” Your way out of literal oppression, war crimes, and injustice??

I don’t even know anymore. I’m gonna keep trying to share news/resources etc… even though I’ve been lacking for the last little while.

[colorisbyshe]

Random spicy question: is there a privilege wildly accepted on social media as a thing, but that you don't think actually exists? Personally, I'm not convinced "pretty privilege" exists. What even are the parameters here? A good bone structure? bc I keep seeing ppl with "pretty privilege" that always say "oh well I'm at my house so of course I'm busted" and like, all privilege is conditional, but if this privilege needs them to wear make-up, have a skin care routine, or plastic surgery then idk.

Hmm, can’t really think of any.

Pretty privilege is very clearly a sort of misuse of the word privilege and fits more of the casual usage of the word as opposed to referring to a real axis of oppressor/oppressed but does also tap into a real intersection of a lot of forms of exactly that—misogyny, racism, ableism, classism, and fatphobia.

How we perceive appearance and what we value in appearance is obviously quite informed by our systems of oppression and someone’s ability to achieve those norms is obviously a privilege.

The fact that it’s a higher bar to clear just furthers that—like beyond those who are “naturally pretty,” being able to afford procedures and cosmetics and clothing is obviously tied into classism. Having “good genes” cannot be divorced form things like fatphobia and ableism.

And tbh privilege being a somewhat high maintenance thing is kinda… always how oppression/privilege works. Like, people have to lobby for laws and forms of governance to maintain things like white privilege. There are people who dedicate their entire lives to ~the grind~ so they may lord their wealth over other people (obviously not all people working hard for money are doing that but some are).

So, like, would I say “attractiveness” is an axis of oppression, no, but only because that it is really an expression of multiple axes of oppression and is extremely time sensitive because of bodies and features are now trends—which is sort of the point. Only the wealthy have the sort of transformative power to stay on trend.

It’s kinda like fashion. Obviously there isn’t “well dressed privilege” as an axis but it’s pretty easy to understand that “well dressed” people are often treated better and that what is considered fashionable is often disctated by racism, classism, and misogyny (and tied into the gendered policing of fashion is homophobia and transphobia). And that lots of fashion isn’t made accessibly to fat people or disabled people or is considered to no longer be flattering on fat or disabled people.

Conversations about pretty privilege tend to skirt this a lot but like… that’s because most people online don’t know what they’re talking about or jsut want to use the conversation to either self victimize or self flagellate OR boast or do a combo of all three.

[goingrampant]

The Boys #2 notes, pages 10-11, 15-17, 22-23

Okay, so, the main Butcher and Wee Hughie dialog following the godawful rape joke has the two go on a stroll through the park, (cute?) Terror at their heels, while Butcher gives his recruitment spiel. Butcher first acknowledges Wee Hughie's emotional pain in the loss of his girlfriend, calling it "diabolical". Interestingly, the show portrays Butcher's use of that word (almost?) solely in a hyperbolic meaning of "really cool", but this usage seems fairly literal, that a Supe killing an innocent human woman and getting away with it is literally an act associated with the devil; it's evil. Butcher explains that he used to run a team to keep Supes in check so they wouldn't do things like that--or that Butcher's team would seek vengeance afterward--and says that he's been reassembling this team. All the interspersed segments of him recruiting Frenchy, the FFFemale, and Mother's Milk are flashbacks of him doing so the previous weekend.

There's an interesting distancing between the two men and America. They're both European, and they don't like America and its government even though the Boys are funded by the CIA. Wee Hughie calls Americans "cunts," and Butcher agrees. There's an extent to which American patriots are willing to accept anti-American humor, and I imagine the general toxic masculine atmosphere and likable American side characters being enough to secure the comic series' target demographic. With that in position, the anti-American humor does allow for a critical look at the American culture and authority structure that nationalistic propaganda was aggrandizing at the time in 2006.

Wee Hughie asserts a belief in wild conspiracy theories about what the powers that be are really up to: It's aliens. Aliens are behind everything; the government is covering up aliens, and all the weird little things unfair about the world or that make him nervous can be attributed to aliens.

Butcher shuts this down. It's not aliens; it's the Supes. It's capitalism run by and for Supes.

I think this is an extremely flawed attempt to shut down antisemitic conspiracy theories and put forward a simplistic leftist message. There's no Elders of Zion secretly operating from the shadows and all that's wrong with the world can be attributed to capitalism functioning as normal. Given that everything else in the comic looks like Nazi propaganda, though, I'm going to say you need to be explicit and not play games with metaphor. Have Wee Hughie say he wastes time on chans, reads Nazi propaganda, now thinks the Jews are behind everything, and have Butcher shut this down and say there's no Jewish conspiracy, just capitalism working normally and corrupting people the way it's been doing since its inception. Without being explicit, it opens the door for edgelord readers to view the comics as dog-whistling Nazi propaganda. Sure, it's not aliens; it's the diabolical capitalistic upper class (wink, wink).

Also, this means that prior to The Boys #2, page 16, Wee Hughie was a metaphorical neo-Nazi. And it's portrayed as silly and harmless, with Wee Hughie as a deeply sympathetic figure. Basically, even with the charitable reading of the alien stuff as a way for the comic to oppose Nazism, it's still not very good at opposing Nazism.

Butcher redirects Wee Hughie's energies to anger at the Supes, who Butcher wants to "stamp on" and "stop 'em fuckin' things up for everyone." Supes are singled out as a group of people representing the oppressive system, who are okay to fight, maim, and kill, because they are fundamentally bad guys. It still plays in the same sandbox as antisemitic propaganda. The scene actually reminds me of Christian Picciolini's description of being recruited by a neo-Nazi skinhead gang (see his TED Talk).

The TV show does it better by portraying everyone with realistic human nuance, dropping the alien thing, and making it clear that Vought and Supes represent specific ideas of capitalism, police, and fascism. Also, by virtue of it being an audiovisual medium, they play a clip of A-Train laughing off his accidental killing of Robin instead of Wee Hughie just taking Butcher at his word that he bugged the Seven's HQ and has tapes of A-Train doing so. It's good storytelling and uses good writing and portrayal of the different characters to make it read less like a retelling of the Turner Diaries and more as an antifascist revolution text.

After walking into the dark of night, Butcher stops on a bridge in an overt metaphor for transition and gives Wee Hughie a gift of several thousand dollars before inviting him to New York to join the Boys. He does so in the next issue, which has, of course, another big rape scene. *sigh*

[the1975attheirverybest]

https://twitter.com/MercuryJax/status/1682468577310576640?s=20

so i saw this thread on twitter and at first I got it but I'm a bit confused because while matty speaking up might make restrictions tighter surely that means no one is then allowed to say anything about what is going on therefore only leaving the very people who will get hurt to do the work??? and as much as the band have ultimately got out scott free they were not at no risk? like there was still a chance of imprisonment or violence? and I swear I saw someone mention how international awareness often helps push for change in these types of circumstances? and if he were to be an ally in the traditional sense by uplifting the voices of those in Malaysia is he not directly putting those people at risk? but I don't want to be like "you should be grateful he tried his best" but blaming him for speaking up seems counterproductive when the issue is the government?

also what you said earlier is so so so sweet genuinely 🥺 - 🐸

Yeah, I mean, like I said to the anon before, there was no damage-free option here. But I think the least acceptable option to the band would’ve been to say nothing at all. Like in no world was the 1975 going to perform in a homophobic country, take the money, do and say nothing, and walk away.

Also, like I said yesterday, if we only ever made acts of resistance when outcomes were 100% favorable (like nobody getting hurt, the band not getting blamed, no risk for any involved, etc) then nobody would ever do anything. But that’s not how the world works. Sure, as leftists or progressives, ideally, we would love for the band to have said what they said, and for the people of Malaysia to have been 100% exempt from any consequences, and then for the government to have said “ah yes we have now realized that we are oppressive and it’s bad and wrong and we shall change. Thanks Matty Healy, we truly needed you to knock some sense into us.” But that’s impossible and that wasn’t even the point of the whole thing.

Yeah, sometimes extraordinary circumstances like this do bring in international attention. Like, I can only speak on the U.S. but sometimes, a country will be struggling with health issues or with war or with systemic discrimination for agessss. And the US will be aware. And do nothing. Until just by accident, an American who happens to be visiting the country, ends up being caught up in whatever struggle or issue the country has, and then SUDDENLY! All the white people are horrified and up in arms about it. It’s a sad truth but it is how the world works. Cuz of white supremacy. So, yeah, Matty and Ross being dragged into the conversation has probably made it reach the eyes and ears of others who wouldn’t have cared.

I mean, all the people in my ask box degrading Matty right now, where were y’all all these years when Malaysians were being oppressed well before the 1975 even went there?

So, I guess what I’m saying is that the situation is probably somewhere in the middle of those two seemingly opposing possibilities. There’s likely some truth to both kinds of responses. But I think it wasn’t the intention behind this wasn’t to like fix homophobia once and for all. So it not being perfect means it’s fallen short. No. They never claimed to be politicians. Let alone Malaysian politicians. They saw an injustice. A group of people who are not as able to speak up for themselves. And they decided to do their part. It’s a STEP in the direction of having the conversation. But there’s still a lot to be done.

[nitro-nova]

I had been listening to people about the recent tragedy that is a repeat of previous tragedies and is guaranteed to result in inaction and was having thoughts about what would and wouldn't fix this.

At its core our country's population suffers primarily from being shackled ball-and-chain to a populace subset that through the generations has waged culture war after culture war with us, willing to tear down foundations and warp the legal system and poison our society in the name of white supremacist christofascism.

The common thread of these mass shootings is not simply that there's far too easy an access to guns, it's that our country is a hotbed of extreme right wing domestic terrorism, and underlying that is a faction of our society that refuses to coordinate and accept the other half as their neighbors and kin.

Mass shootings today are an echo of serial killers during the civil rights movement. The notion that women, people of color, gays, trans people, and others in this vulnerable side of our society deserve better is one that sparks in our heinous half a desire not just to oppress but to murder. It is the blood lust itself that is the issue.

I feel that some time has passed that feels appropriate to move on to discussing the incident. I gave it pause because I'd rather just try to process the fact that children were murdered and there will be more mass shootings of this nature. But after thinking and hoping and dashing the hopes, I want to break down just who can and will actually address this crisis.

Most conservatives and a concerning number of neoliberals believe in turning schools into fortresses. The suggestions range from comical (booby traps) to dystopian (arm the teachers arm the guards train the students to fight for survival). This is not addressing the problem at the root, it's prone to pushing blame on the victims, and it's traumatizing children. It's a kinda natural response when you're completely unsure what to do. But mostly it's just conservatives refusing to try anything their "domestic enemies" suggest. Basically: it's wrong to go this route and it doesn't even work.

The government has already proven that it is unwilling to address mass shootings at a Federal level. Basically, one party is opposed to a gun ban, and the other sees the issue as one of the tools they can use to acquire votes. That's one of the core problems with party democracies. If you solve problems and have little left to campaign on, then what will motivate people to vote for you? And then the other party walks all your progress back, anyway.

You may see a new assault gun ban in the coming months but it will only decrease the mass shootings as they exist, and I don't know if it will actually decrease all that much. I'm also unsure if we should even be doing a gun ban.

The first thing I can think of (spoiler: it's a bit moot) is legal precedent. Banning guns in the sense of overriding the second amendment is a dangerous path to tread that I am confident our government is not competent enough to navigate. When you codify the repeal of an amendment, you set the legal precedent that said amendments can be taken off of the table. We already know that this is possible, but it's also a Pandora's box. On the other hand, I have no doubt that our uglier half of our nation spares no thought for these consequences and intends on pulling this very trigger just to spite the innocent they wish to attack. So if they're going to do it in the future, anyway, that renders this point moot.

The other half of this is that disarming the public makes it more difficult to resist or combat an oppressive regime. But that point depends on what their idea of resistance is because most anti-government militias tend to get shut down and an individual is not going to do much of anything. Most of the non-revolutionary tactics that work better against our government do not involve guns. But on the other half of this, banning and confiscating weapons as a means of giving the government more power and control over our public is a goal for both of our parties.

A third aspect of the gun ban is that it is impractical to implement without some degree of power overreach, and there is a lack of trust in how that power will be used. Many states do not use gun registries or permits. That means gun ownership is still a wild west, and even though you can pretty easily acquire guns that were owned by people not willing to resist the law, that leaves out all the people keeping their guns a secret. What's the answer, here? Give police the power to search homes and confiscate guns? You think that will go well? You think that won't be something the police will abuse? It should be noted that the gun ban from 1994 allowed people who already owned assault weapons to keep them, but since it's been so many years, we have more ownership of assault weapons (mostly by candidates for mass shootings) than ever before. So who would an assault weapon ban without the teeth (that will inevitably be used against us) even protect? And what about the legal precedent involved with THIS mess?

The "common sense gun laws" crowd needs to understand that even though the answers are simple, the situation is not.

A similar response is increasing surveillance. Introducing a surveillance of websites known for being hotbeds for extreme right wing thinking not only grants more power to a government known for turning against vulnerable people, it's also unlikely to work. While right wing sites have plenty of centralized sites, there are countless decentralized locations where a lot of domestic terrorism is suggested or planned. It's equally as impractical as it is lending power to the wrong hands. Besides, they're no doubt doing this, anyway. The NSA have combed through 4chan and Stormfront before and probably watch it nonstop.

I see a lot of people who claim that we need to make mass shootings less of a televised event, but not only is that unlikely to happen due to profit motive, it's also a Pandora's box due to the first amendment. Maybe, *maybe*, we could manage to regulate the media's response to these crises with FCC standards on reporting on mass shootings and serial killers. But it would likely be challenged and it would be a long battle just to get news stations to not stoke the public panic and despair that these murderers want in their entitled murderous outbursts. Maybe we could do this, but it'd be an uphill climb to do something that doesn't get to the root of the issue. Even if we managed to regulate news stations, there's no shortage of individuals running podcasts, social media accounts, and so on to spread the sensationalism instead.

So to summarize what is unlikely to work:

Fortifying schools, synagogues, etc (proven ineffective)

Banning assault weapons like in 1994 (only results in a slight decrease and is riddled with complications and implications)

Minimizing sensationalism (impossible, probably even for TV)

Increased surveillance (riddled with complications and unlikely to be possible)

The common thread with all of these suggestions is to respond to a threat that should be incredibly rare in the first place. The question we should be answering is, "how do we make these threats more rare?" This is part of why the gun ban made an impact on mass shootings.

But coming back to the earlier point, the mass shootings and serial killings during this period and the civil rights era have had a common thread, a violent hatred of women and minorities, largely held by entitled white men. The fact is that these mass shootings are one of the consequences of a culture war.

That is as far as I am at, right now. Because then the question becomes, "how do we decrease the entitlement that our culture instill into men that destabilizes/radicalizes them toward this violence?" And it's a tough question to grapple, for me.

[hanzi83]

Return of the Scattered Mess

I haven’t written one in a bit, it is weird because I went almost 3 years without writing one because I didn’t need to as much since doing the podcast, but then recently I got in the habit, whether for better or worse to the people reading and consuming it, and now that I haven’t done one in a while it feels weird. Normally I have irrational feelings always flowing through my head about the state of the world and it is moving further to the right and all there really is to counter it is sports entertainment and limiting narratives, even if you say you oppose the evil of the far right because then you have to automatically blindly defend the democrat side and people who think they are smarter will scoff at the thought of both parties being the same, like I know there are bad faith actors who will just use that as an excuse to defend the new right’s personalities and sprinkle in some “anti war” talk and then think you are better than everyone else and it makes you more anti imperialist while always defending these sensationalist culture wars that really are about product placement with outrage marketing, and argue in favor of the far right leaning point to put people in marginalized communities in danger. But people who scoff at the notion of both parties being the same, when apolitical people who have lived through conditions of systemic shit that has happened to them and it has been happening under democratic leadership and republican leadership, people are not gonna look for the nuances of why the parties are different, maybe if people explained it like pro wrestling, it would be easy to kind of explain to the people who might not be as smart as the people who want to be thought leaders but act too elitist to distribute the information in a relatable way and then let dumbed down people continue to be lured into right wing cult like social circles online. Like here is the thing. I don’t know the exact rules of politics and what is legal and what is not but is it fair to say that someone who has committed so many fucking crimes and has people who are breaking the rules to defend him, and nothing is happening to them and they are still able to run for president and go to Waffle House for a photo op, and his ilk going on podcasts showing off about crimes they may have committed by “accidentally admitting” it, and nothing happens to these people, is it safe to say the parties involved don’t play by the rules that every day person plays by. It is like pro wrestling in that in kayfabe within the program, they have these legalities within kayfabe and it comes off as a parody and people often say “That would never happen in the real world, that’s not how it goes” but is that really true when literally all the crimes committed that we have learned about the last 20 years from the corrupt elements of government, are still able to just walk around and be free while the social climbing accounts just boo and hiss. I know it is frowned upon to be a conspiratorial person, and yes some of the “conspiracies” are coping mechanisms because it would break my being from within that people’s death and oppression is used to fuel sports entertainment in the MSM and that includes the alt media and the online funded shit, I know I am not supposed to think people in the alt media are compromised because they play clips of the MSM being dumbed down caricatures with overproduced promos, and pretend they are better because in 2023 making your entire personality dunking on the MSM is the most revolutionary thing you can do, people think there is no corporate interest in the alt media, because most of the takes from a bunch of alt media people are just as much establishment bullshit 90’s contrarian shit which is why they want to reboot the 90’s and early 2000’s where the “anti establishment” persona was coming off more genuine but the “anti establishment” establishment persona is one of the most overplayed hands with how watered down it is, like if someone like Tucker was really tugging on the cape of the establishment, you wouldn’t hear about him online or anywhere else, he would not be allowed to catch traction, but instead he has a bunch of shit heads who pretend to be anti war then go on his show and not call him out about the other pro war shit he has said, and the thing is there has never been a time where I haven’t felt more confused because it feels like the supposed anti establishment types are the ones who are being booked to be these “truth tellers” while they don’t disclose to their audience the problematic shit their guests are up to but if someone is supporting Ukraine, then it is like their entire personal character is attacked for everything they might be pure about and because this narrative online is that people in the legacy establishment and media say things about certain people on the right, you don’t want to sound like an establishment person so it feels like by the right wing think tanks and billionaire funded personas that cater to the online contingent, they are the ones who come off like they are telling the truth because they might adopt an anti war persona and might have a couple of “conspiratorial” things that might be true to people who are apolitical, while adding a bunch of other twisted right wing shit to the theories and you think you will have establishment liberal types will give nuances of what is going on around the world when they blindly shit on any conspiratorial thinking. Like I know right wingers have doped the 9/11 inside job thing and then they have then gone onto an anti trans panic to fuel their audience and following to act reactionary but it feels the only “woke” thing the progressive types can say about it is that it was funded by the Saudis, like they imposed something on poor old innocent US empire, and corporations, and other institutions and other public figures and officials do business with them and we think the money is being forced upon them, but don’t you think they do it because maybe people agree with their fundamentalist bullshit? For some reason, you cannot think that and the right wing who claim 9/11 was inside job then have no issue doing business with people who helped fund it, one would think that maybe powerful people don’t give a shit about the people oppressed, taking away people’s rights and somehow I am supposed to trust people who call out other foreign governments who never hold their own accountable. This is why a lot of people who have felt the lies and suffered from it might not give a shit about what the US has to say about shit because there have been so much shadiness. My whole thing is, they are still presenting a country vs country aesthetic when it is more about the far right powers taking over all over the fucking place. They want to self preserve about the warnings of what is to come, but then at the same time you levitate these threats with comedy and America’s dumbest criminal presentation, because these kinds of things could never be presented in a way where it has to be a fucking shitty reality show, because of a bunch of shit heads have to pretend they are side characters on Succession while people are gonna be harmed by the rhetoric going on, and this is why it is easy not to root for people who socially climb up in a system, because on the surface it feels they purposefully get worse, I get told a lot to get some help so I can feel better, and I can cop to my mental issues etc, but there are things that are not exactly facts that will ensure I will never fucking heal mentally because in order to get backup, I have to cosign from a side, and people thought once I got kicked from the Stern Show that I would then get lured in to get back up from the right wing side who would only attack Stern for being more PC when he has always been a system puppet, so if I were supposed to get back up, I would have to do what other people, who got fucked by the system, would do and align with problematic people and by the time they get their story out, people are not gonna give a shit about the root cause because now that person is going to the far right wing side. I have been left in the dark and I had to watch what I say or do because people who control my life could make shit even more uncomfortable and it can be so fucking under the table that no one will give a shit until they can officially prove it and make it into a fucking documentary for the future. That is the world I am supposed to get better in when everyone else has gotten worse, maybe their aesthetic is better because everyone judges the book by the cover while grown ass adults who are supposed to be leaders in whatever clique or institution are some of the most fucked up people on the planet and constantly make sure everyone is in constant misery and pain and gaslighting people into acting more reactionary. People will say this is what life is and the more people sell out, they will justify why people should be able to spread hate speech without and repercussions and make excuses while condemning people from the marginalized side because they will use a propped up sensationalist viral moments to justify it and get their takes propped up by more and more right wing leaning people and because they have fooled people into thinking because Lockeed Martin is holding up a fucking pride flag, that somehow the system loves the marginalized, when it is designed for pushback at an even more aggressive rate to discredit everyone from the general community, they make it seem like everyone is on the left, they think showbiz is run by liberal satanists, when to me it is run by conservatives fundamentalist shit that is under the guise of “liberation” because they are not the caricature right wing fundamentalist, but it is 2 sides of the same coin. 

It has been a while, so I am all over the place. But I think people have lowered their expectations when reading one of my blogs, they will definitely make fun of a dumbed down guy trying to articulate, and also some of them with evil intent will use the anecdotes of the experiences I have had being dumbed down and not use it for the sake of good, they will use to then double down on brainwashing dumbed down people into buying into their propaganda, and what is scary now is that people who want to sell out and not admit they are fucking phoney scum who built a reputation being anti establishment and they can’t give up on that one and maybe these people chose the wrong era and year to do this which is why they need the aesthetic of the 90’s and early 2000’s because they want to retread everything from that era even though it is watered down but if you get a bunch of people to prop it up and you are protected, you can use the guise of a progressive or someone who claims to be left/anti war and then find a way to constantly defend the right wing and when you attack the right wing, it is normally because you want to buy into Veep level in fighting which then forces people to have to advocate horrible people’s argument because you are training people to side between 2 people who have fascist aspirations, so the same people who are better than MSM are the ones who are lessening the threat of what is going on and this is who is supposed to be thought leaders. It would be one thing if people just sold out, but they can’t admit it and they will send people to lure me and others into that kind of thinking because as someone who is dumbed down and would just repeat and regurgitate talking points from people I viewed smarter than me, so you agree with the sentiment of what they say but then they will start cosigning other shit that is fucked up but because it is not as established as the the other corrupt and fucked up things, it means that I can’t ask any questions because at a certain point, these thought leaders just want to be cult leaders, they claim to be atheists but they want to be the gods/religion you worship. They can pretend to be anti establishment, but at the end of the day they have all become Steve Austin in the main event of WM17 shaking hands with Vince McMahon and then still later on try to do their anti establishment persona after the fact but by then people already see you as a caricature and parody who plays the hits for the live. And because these social climbers want to get up there as well, they will do work at their behest, they will be the soldiers and court jester for the billionaires, but people should study what I call the Sal Govenrale method, and this might be a deep cut but most Stern fans still consume my shit for the most part, but the method goes he is someone that was allowed to torment people Howard worked with and other people and he would be full of life and feeling good he is getting approval from Stern and he would help bury people for him and then he got his dream job of working for them, and then that is where he was put on display to become a sports entertainment caricature who dumbed himself down despite being talented and he would be the one who would keep Howard’s ignorance alive while Howard would scale back from being that guy because he was presenting himself as a more liberal guy. But I can assume the humiliation Sal felt where they chastised him for it on air was designed to happen like he was the only stupid one doing that kind of shit. And that is what everyone who is an online social climber will be forced to succumb through. How will anyone ever get better being in that kind of system where you will have to act worse and get worse mentally. I know the future of what is possible with how things are playing out and I don’t want to be here. It becomes disheartening to see people I used to hang out with become these caricatures and elitists, and then the news I would consume because I didn’t trust the western MSM media, and now it has become useless because they all ended up becoming shit and there is no one I feel other than a few at the current moment, but now I have to keep my fucking guard up with what information is being put out there. I used to think I was a free thinker because I listened to what the internet says, because it was easier and less established than the bullshit and lies MSM have told, and people in the establishment never explain why people can be lured into those circles and how sophisticated all this shit is, but we limit the conversations of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia etc by what it was presented as 30 years ago and think it is the exact same, the tactics are a lot more trickier because we don’t think they are orchestrating shit to happen so it helps the media fear monger so they manufacture consent into buying into upgraded ignorance. But what do I know huh? I am a dumbed down guy and my life is utter shit, you can tell me all the things wrong with me and you will just give me more ammo for why I shouldn’t have to be here. I don’t have anyone or anything really. The only hope at this moment is that if I drop dead now at my current irrelevant status, then at least I wouldn’t have to worry about anyone really knowing or giving a shit. 20 years ago I couldn’t articulate my visions but I could see the world was moving in a fucked up place and I just wanted to drop off from it and then I got famous and for a while it gave me a thrill and made feel a bit better even if it was being put on front street to be reduced to a whack pack parody and people would take their cues from Stern to drive me insane and push me into more mentally ill tirades and when someone has mentally ill tirades and now with everyhing that they accuse of being in my head solely and my own imagination, this is what is left of me, trying not to succumb to the pressure of being lured into becoming a reactionary because I used to buy into this shit back 10 plus years ago, when I was consuming alternative entertainment and media and now it feels like they are gonna be in the position as MSM 20 years ago when they are cheering on an illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. This is why my current conflict with Ukraine and Russia is not as intune as other people, because I have been used to the lies from western media, that for some reason to be considered a cool “anti war” person, I have to think that this is on the same level as what happened 20 years ago, and the ones who are doing the pro Ukraine shit, some of them who are establishment will basically do it in an imperialist mindset of acting like saying the US did bad shit in the past is the biggest moment for them to let out an audible scoff.  Sometimes I feel like neoliberals and neocons do the same shit of opposing each other but either way you will cosign their view and you will be lured into some kind of fundamentalism regardless. It is just the same people who claim to be anti war because they say they oppose wars happening but you are pro racist shit head by defending cosigned public figures being uplifted by racist groups but then claim anyone who shows support for Ukraine not to be invaded as the Nazis. These people use to be respectable in that they would call out the obvious caricature like shit in the MSM but now all of them with their platforms have become the same people they would make fun of. They have all become Jay Leno or they have all become Dennis Miller and they want the same type of cults from the Opie/Anthony/Howard Stern pipeline. I have never seen so many people who make their entire personality trait being anti MSM but then think they are in better positions than everyone else because they will cosign white supremacy in a grander view but they won’t view what they do as helping white supremacy because we limit the narratives of that to be this over the top example, it is so over the top, people think it is framing the MAGA types, and there will be claim of Feds etc, and I agree with the right on that on some level, but not that they are framing the right wing, but they are making it look that way and why can’t I believe that there are feds much like law enforcement that have white supremacists in it and that are actually helping the far right by making it look like they are specifically targeting them, even if they gotta throw some of them under the bus, but between these FBI whistleblower talking about corruption within it, and suddenly the right wing trusts the FBI when it comes to that, not that they couldn’t organize and book the storyline to look that way that people are being punished for being anti Biden and if the democrats were the most dangerous, we wouldn’t know that they are covering shit up but it is all over the internet purposefully leaked because we still view the internet as some underground chit chat room, so we don’t think we are supposed to know this shit, but literally everyone is talking about the stuff that people claim is censored, it is like when Gorilla Monsoon suspended Vader, yes officially in front of our eyes we saw it happen but it wasn’t really happening behind the scenes. Same logic, it is kind of like discussing who is president while horrible shit is happening because it is like blaming the world champion of a company but ultimately the bookers who run shit are the ones creating it, and by that we buy into this anti establishment candidate because you can spread the system didn’t want them to rise up even though we are seeing them nonstop and hearing about them. 

I am trying to go over jotted notes I had written down so I am gonna be moving from thought to thought, like I will improvise from the top so when I look at the list, hopefully I have gotten more of the topics off my mind but this list has been compiled for the last week or so and I just wanted to fucking write. I am not Hemmingway or anything, just a dumbed down conspiratorial thinker who lives in his parents basement from a grand conspiracy which you are not supposed to believe because there are no forces at the top to suppress me and it is all made up in my head so you shouldn’t take any of my theories seriously since you have helped reduce me to that and weaponized my mental health, so apparently it is frowned upon for me to weaponize it back of what I think is going on even though I have no clue what this world is and I really never understood it from the day I was fucking born. I know a lot of people feel how I feel, some people have crossed over to the system where their problems will get worse for them because they will either be put on front street and the system will humiliate them for shit that they were initiated into or you become a powerful person who then puts people’s lives through chaos and there will always be cults to defend these people nonstop and we have these conversations by limiting it and act like it is a regular relatable thing when none of this shit is relatable to regular people. It just bugs me seeing political shit which affects people’s lives on the long run being used armchair quarterback shit and dumbing it all down while a bunch of you anti establishment types are doing free promo for politicians who want fascist shit to take over or some pretentious product placement under the guise of talking about diversity so people can use that as an excuse to sensationalize against marginalized people and because I have almost been brainwashed to some extent and I have caught myself when I can see the thoughts going in the wrong direction, it makes me worried that as everyday passes by there is gonna be more sophistication of ignorance that will resonate at some point because all of us are susceptible to being brainwashed and being ignorant. People get mad at me for not being completely brainwashed. Bad faith actors have use their bad intentions while pretending they care about people in their community but then advocate for problematic shit and downplay the systemic shit that goes on in the entertainment world. Thing is when the establishment narratives are shit by default, I know people will get offended that I don’t trust the establishment, but because they have had lies nonstop all the fucking time, it is easier for people to fall for the lesser established things and they won’t recognize they are being conned into fascism, I know these words are overused but it perfectly describes what the world really is but the establishment have overused it so it doesn’t seem like it is cool, like it is with how discredited establishment type might pick on hip hop for some of the destructive themes within it, but those same people never mention the incentive to perpetuate and sensationalize the art and even the artists themselves, so it is like you throw it under the bus and then people who do propaganda with their art will then point out at a corrupt system as why they shouldn’t be called out for doing propaganda. So who would want to be on the establishment side, how can you point out the dangers within the entertainment when the other side of the argument are establishment types or the fundamentalists. Entertainment has played a role in manufacturing consent to get us to think certain ways and people only think corporate think is only being incorporated into this shit in this current day when it has always been there and it is now been incorporated in the areas where showbiz has expanded, which is in politics and social media. The legacy shit is the stuff that still makes the main money but the real entertainment is now what our lives is because we have manifested all our favorite stuff into our realities, and we continue to double down, we all think we can improve but when it is a mafia system, there is no way to ever be completely sane anymore. And this is why we will never ever get to the full root causes if we just pretend that entertainment has played a role in it, and they are using sports entertainment to bring in more fascism, like you can bring on experts from different fields to the surface to cover these topics, but ultimately they all have to do sports entertainment, and the right has been able to do that better which is why they get so much social traction, it also helps that by fooling people into thinking the underground shit is online so the information we are seeing, we don’t think that is part of the grand view, we all think we are taking in information that we are not supposed to see, and they can present their “awakening” as fighting back when they are on the side that is favored, which is why all these products they are boycotting will give into them, they can talk about how their objective is to fund this and talk in code so they can have plausible deniability just like that dude Clay Higgins who is giving vague military coded messages about knowing bridges and then suddenly the 195 highway is fucked up from some random tanker that had gasoline in it, but again we are not allowed to get conspiratorial and these people who think that, they will say “we can beat them with ideas” but they will shutdown conspiratorial thinking but then pretend that Matt Walsh’s shitty hate filled documentary is just words and we should beat them with ideas but they limit the ideas and these people get to call themselves progressives and go on right wing platforms and act like they represent from progressives despite someone like Cenk shitting the bed when he ran for congress. They can pretend they are regular fucking people but they are in the know of where this shit is going and that is why they are attacking the democrats in the easiest way possible because it is a lot better than how the MSM does it. They have someone like Ro Khanna on and grill him about the gimmicked debt ceiling talk but then don’t question his support for Modi all of a sudden even though he condemned him in the past, but because you grilled him a couple of times about the incompetence of the debt ceiling talk, I am supposed to think you are the most true to everything and everyone. And now because anyone can be media personalities in this space, now we have to subjected to a bunch of uncharismatic jerkoffs, before when I just took them as journalists or media who weren’t supposed to be these personalities and actually were being a bit more true, it is easy to stomach but once these people sell out and become a lot more horrible, it becomes obvious how shitty their pretentious personalities are with their sitcom level banter.  I have to hear from anti establishment types about how the establishment doesn’t want MAGA CM Punk and MAGA Steve Austin, in Tucker/Trump, to win. Yet they are doing whatever the fuck they want, and because I point that out, then it means I don’t know shit because I am not falling for the kayfabed reasons why they are allowed to get the traction they get. Even the people who say they oppose that shit are still limiting themselves, like you can’t expect people to get mad at Saudi related shit, and I am not saying you shouldn’t be mad at what they do, but when acting like your own government or the corporations within the country are doing business, you think these people are being forced into doing business, and not that they enjoy doing it because this is the liberal take from people, for some reason they can’t talk about the overall plan of it because we buy into country vs country shit. And I think everything in this current day is a lot more advanced and this is why we will constantly talk in circles etc. We kayfabe the information of why we are seeing shit now or we know about shit now, the fucked up thing is if we admit this life we are born into, we are put into a game we didn’t volunteer to play, then it would expose that in this system we can never get better and we will never have the correct information no matter what the new narrative is supposed to be for the next several years that is agreed upon by delegations within the system. 

I have noticed they have used product placement and advertising for movies etc and use identity politics with it that the right wing will be ignorant about because they hear about diversity, in this era they are gonna push back, there was a push for it in the 2010’s to be more progressive and we thought we were going in a more positive direction even if we weren’t all the way there, but it feels like much like how it was in the 90’s that there was some kind of social consciousness going on and now in the 200’s and late 90’s, people started pushing back against anything be called racists and the people who would call out something for being racist, it would have to be on the level of Ben Affleck breaking down and almost crying when talking to Sam Harris and Bill Maher, even though they were being anti Muslim but it made Ben look like an emotional reactionary who couldn’t handle the “truths” from these Muslim experts in Bill Maher and Sam Harris, so recently with the claims of racism that exists with the Little Mermaid, it didn’t do well in other places and there is blind call of racism even though Black Panther did well, I have no idea, every movie seems to break records for some milestone they just made up for the discourse but it felt like one of those obvious claims of racism where it might not be there and people are being too reactionary so it makes people think that anything can be racist now and it helps push back against any claim of racism in other areas and at the end of the day, this is Disney funding this discourse, they probably fund the racist and negative shit heads and they fund the ones who will limit their opposition to the racist shit heads. And all we are doing essentially is using real problems for this product placement, I notice people who associate with TYT are doing it a bit more and it is not a coincidence they are doing it while the main hosts of TYT are moving into more of a right wing trajectory where Ana Kasparian is quoting a Koch Bros think tank poll about how Gen Z and Black people want more government surveillance, and she chastises them in a general way for complaining about oppression but want more surveillance, and she never retracts what is inaccurate, but she will retract for right wing accounts to use. Those are tactics she is using to change people’s narrative and she wants to pretend she is better than MSM. I am waiting for the prank to be over, and this whole time Marlon Wayons has been playing her in this elaborate real life version of a White Chicks sequel. You think any of them who get conspiratorial about going anti left, why wouldn’t they go conspiratorial about the organized efforts happening to create chaos into this world and help fund viral moments so people use that to create more culture wars. I feel a lot of stuff that goes viral, is designed to go viral because it is supposed to persuade us into buying into more horrible shitty culture war bullshit. You think anyone in the alt media has the balls to maybe call out the right wing for having people on their payroll to do shit and organize more chaos, we just deny what they are saying but you are also limiting what you can say about how the system could operate even if the new right will mislead and act like they are calling it out but they will project because whatever they are accusing others of and feel so confident about it, makes me think they are the ones behind it, like the Aryan Freedom Network, they will claim its feds, but there is a faction called that, but people will scoff at the fed talk, but it’s possible for factions to exist in these places where some of them would be into that kind of shit, but that conspiracy the right wing won’t like because I am supposed to think that they would be framing the right wing for shit and they will use how they have done it to other people in other communities, but then when they have an alleged radical BLM person doing something violent, they automatically believe the story 100 percent. I am all over the map but I needed to write this today in case the world is ending today with the potential of a civil war breaking out since 2020 was just the calm before the storm of what is to come and how vitriolic everything has become. It makes me regret even falling for some of this supposed “leftist” front from people who have now become people who aligned with far right wing people, and only cosign victims if they agree to align with the far right, and dumb down their dangers because they seemingly are not “corporate” because they are streaming on Steam Yard on a bad wifi connection. The way some of these people got me was criticism of Israel and defending Palestine, and no one in the western MSM establishment would never cover it properly and throughout the last decade, I would fall for more normalized propaganda that would be anti Semitic, and then other years I would figure it out and think these people are the ones who are telling me the truth, but now they are ending up promoting anti woke garbage, talking about how RFK is gonna change the fucking game, or eating one of those realistic cakes in the theme of Putin’s asshole. And now it is like I feel I have wasted time with people who seem like they are speaking truth to power. And I notice this attitude from that contingent online where they purposefully become negative about everything because it comes off more genuine than being overly happy which can also be toxic, but people really think that people into positivity are the only assholes, it is just the people who are into dark shit will be more seedy and shady with making themselves look like the Jim from the Office while they are creating scenarios to make it look like people into positive shit as the people who are the main ones who are sociopathic, to go to that much trouble to look sane, wouldn’t that be insanity? It is like the same people who pretend to be online fans of shit, who clearly work for these showbiz places to put pressure on women to have sex appeal, otherwise they won’t prop them up so they will want that from their favorite celebs, but then they will spend their time online partaking in shitty gender war shaming women for being sex workers while prostituting themselves mentally for edge lord fundamentalism. Forcing people to do shit is the issue, if you want to be more reserved or if you want to be more liberated by showing titties, go ahead. I support what people truly want to do but if either side of the argument is forcing a narrative, that is the issue I have. I mean what kind of world am I even living in at this point. I am living in a shitty fucked up world where 20 years ago, I never thought I would be alive to be on a glorified internet message board to see Barbara Streisand quote Memphis Bleek lyrics to own Donald Trump who happened to steal nuclear secrets. That would’ve been a scene in a Mike Judge movie. Now I worry about waking up and worried about the air and the fires, and I know climate change is responsible, but I can also think people are given incentive to cause the world to completely fucking burn, because that is the direction we are going, I actually had a vivid dream about this 12 years ago about the world burning and I chose to stay in the basement as it was happening because I didn’t have the desire to save myself and it was probably better for humanity for me not to be here anymore, and sometimes it feels like that shit is happening and it feels more of my dreams are manifesting into this real world to some extent.  

I am going in circles and I am not making much sense, but for this Trump shit, I will say this, they have managed to keep this guy in the news for so many fucking years even if they said they hated him and you would think by him being in the news, I figured people would move into the direction of exposing what is really happening but both sides are limiting the argument. I just know enough that this guy is never doing time, I would love for him to do time, I don’t get people who say they are against the powerful, but then they somehow always find a way to defend Trump because they are not getting him for the right crime, and there are other corrupt people who haven’t gotten theirs and listen if you tell me that other powerful people will get theirs then I don’t give a shit, and I figured the anti billionaire, kill the rich type of people would be happy that one billionaire is getting exposed, but at the same time I don’t buy into the hoopla of anything bad happening to him because he has been able to do so much the last 10 years that it feels like the “hatred” from the establishment has made him more powerful and he is able to be seen as the victim being picked on by the system. I don’t know if Biden did any corrupt shit they say he did, but he is a politician in the mafia system so yeah a lot of apolitical people who think it is corrupt will believe that Biden could be doing shady shit, but I can also recognize that the people pointing it out don’t mind other corruption but as long as their people are the ones doing it and then projecting onto everyone else. And the closer it gets to all of this really imploding and becoming the worst shit ever, it feels like more and more trusted people in the alt media especially are crossing over to the right wing side and they get mad if Biden will pardon Trump, but then they want Biden to pardon him if he does get arrested so he can beat him at the ballot box. They are lucky no one understands politics completely because these supposed “smart” people can basically dumb their arguments down to shit, and then I am the asshole because I don’t understand political rule when they are ones who have to make up all these rules for why this is happening when it makes no fucking sense. Even going as far as putting out the narrative of this case going past the next election if Trump wins it then he will pardon himself, like if these guys are playing by the rules advertised why does someone who have this much corruption tied to his name allowed to run? Because they don’t give a shit and they never have and all of this Trump shit has helped the new entertainment dollar while watering down everything in the process. MAGA people will call this shit a hoax because they will deny he did anything even though it can officially be proven, but I call it a hoax in that it is just serving as a culture war and sports entertainment and the end goal is to take us into a more fascist world. MTG can keep derailing shit and nothing happens to her, all these people can call for the guns to be used and getting ready to fight because they can make it look like Trump is going away so they were pushed to this, but this shit has been in their favor and some people who oppose Trump or claim to, will only get off on owning the right wing with shitty jokes because we need 50 more Trump impressions because he didn’t say a word properly, people have helped lessen the threat of him and the funny thing as shady and shitty the MSM is, they at least on record have self preservation of being right about a lot of things on paper even if they have been shit, but the lesser established alt media are the ones who in the future are gonna be the people who look like what they accused the establishment of being 20 years ago. But no one is preventing Trump from running, they can say it is officially on record, but if we know about it, and he is still doing it then they are not stopping him. Anyways this has been just a scattered opinion piece to get thoughts in written form to put out there because I haven’t done much writing lately when it comes to blogs. Not that it really makes a difference nor does anyone really give a shit, I am not some expert in writing obviously. I kind of just write where my mind goes at the moment and sometimes I can do some decent work but you can tell most of the time, I have no idea what I am doing and that is basically the story of my existence on this shitty planet, and I know I will never get better and I wish every day I could be off it, but I am stuck in here. This can’t be reality, I have to believe we have already died and this world is just fucking purgatory

[thorne1435]

The idea of "Tyranny of the Majority" makes me so fucking mad.

I'm sure at least one person who believes in that has a good reason to, but all I hear when someone says that is "Noooo, democracy would lead to not-my-positions! That's bad!" I do not think that the "Majority" is capable of "Tyranny." Those things are fundamentally, diametrically opposed. If almost everyone likes something, it just...can't be tyrannical! And I mean that unironically. Most examples of "tyrants" (hitler comes to mind) don't win by popularity. They win by their opponents infighting or their government's system being flawed in a way that they can exploit, or both. You can see how Donald Trump took advantage of this too, given that he lost the popular vote back in 2016 (to Hillary. Fucking. Clinton. need I remind you).

Like, I get that we think "The Public" is kinda stupid sometimes, but hear me out. Do you really think that the majority of people in a direct democracy (i.e: no representatives, one vote per person for everything) would vote for things that would cause human suffering? Particularly, suffering onto you.

If you think that they would, I want you to be honest with yourself and ask one question:

Why would they do that?

Is it because you realize that your political views are unpopular enough that the majority of people would not vote for them? (In other words, are you an "Ideological Minority"?) Why should we give ideas like that an advantage? They've already failed, if the majority doesn't agree. You're just raising the chance of the largest possible amount of suffering to be brought about by the vote. If your beliefs are good enough, people should be able to come back around to them, and if they can't, well, then either your ideas are bad or the education system is flawed. Those are both serious issues and both have solutions.

Alternatively, is it because you don't have faith in the majority to look after a relatively uncommon identity? In other words, are you a Demographic Minority? This is the only point that I actually respect. Personally, I don't think the majority of people would vote to oppress a racial or sexual minority as long as the ideas are presented fairly. But, how do we guarantee that those ideas are presented fairly? We need to be sure of our education system and our news media and, on a much broader level, our researchers in every field. Right now, with so much corporate involvement in all of those areas, I think it's very hard to trust any of that. But that's something to strive for a solution to. Separating corporations from education, news, and especially the sciences is a good idea, and I admit that I'm not sure how to go about it. If that's why you think we need institutions like the Electoral College or Congress then, I guess I can respect that. I still don't like the electoral college, but your concerns are noteworthy.

Here's the thing, though. The shitty right-wingers who dare to call themselves "Libertarians" don't really seem to care about that. They aren't demographic minorities, they're ideological minorities. They want the electoral college because they're afraid of liberals caring enough about other human beings that the Republicans never win again.

But that's a good thing! If the people agreed with Republicans, then Republicans wouldn't be so afraid of the loss of these things they've come to rely on, like the Electoral College. And they defend it with "Tyranny of the Majority" because they think that Tyranny is when the government disagrees with them.

[anthonybialy]

Policy of Errors

Claiming everyone else gets everything wrong is just another error.  The worst violators are mad about misinformation and don’t even have a sense of humor about irony.  People who never get anything right failing to smirk about it is not even the worst part.  Noting what they do believe here in reality hurts feelings and causes, which is sufficient proof for them.

Every single hoax confirms the liberal worldview.  Those are a fun few days for true believers. Trifling details like accuracy are for the intolerant.  Noting the constant stream of hate crimes in contemporary America is backed up about everything but the facts.  The feeling is what motivates Democrats, as it sure isn’t results.  Guardians against fascist racists are still convinced a MAGA Hate Squad is roaming Red State hive Chicago.  Jussie Smollett was attacked by everything but attackers.

Every charge against cops is believed by those who don’t believe any against criminals.  It only seems backward if you believe the entire criminal justice system is a farce designed to oppress the underprivileged.  

Overwrought liberals act reflexively in a way they claim those they impugn do.  It’s surely not the first time they think everyone else holds the same bleak personality characteristics they actually do.  Meanwhile, their belief system causes the problems they claim to remedy.  Proclaiming cops do bad makes stopping actual abuse harder.  It’s not the first time incentives go haywire because those who don’t grasp them encourage perverse ones.

Sneak in if you want to be treated like royalty.  Border sob stories reflect how Democrats only have sympathy for people in America who aren’t allowed to be here.  Uncannily, the pattern is the same with legal criminals.  The few things retailers manage to stock get stolen.

Foes of mean arrests and prosecutions enjoy acting like shoplifting is no big deal and just a way of coping with poverty, anyway.  You don’t want children to starve, do you?  Everyone struggles to make sure minors get enough calories during the era of Bidenomics.

The president’s grifting crackhead brat has to rip off others: how else would he make money in Dad’s economy?  Genetics indicate there are no useful skills no matter where one climbs the family tree.  Hunter Biden is just like his dad, and they both think they’re being complimented.  That bit where he was caught establishing a new standard for corruption showed us a lot about his defenders, too.

Eager suppressors assured us they were protecting the world against falsehoods as they violated the concept of open speech to promulgate one.  You’re now free to tweet regarding the scandal about the scandal.

Don’t be racist by noting the commie cabal which inflicts horrors upon citizens and the rest of the world as policy is responsible for what it did.  Chinese despots have to pretend China behaved.  I’m unsure what excuse Americans excusing a monstrous regime have. Are they ideological allies, bravely fearful that legitimate criticism will provoke bullies, or unable to distinguish between ethnicity and autocracy?  The answer doesn’t matter when the options are all repulsive.

The lengths America’s noisiest homegrown critics will go to defend a particularly appalling tyranny couldn’t serve as a more blatant example.  Perhaps those indignant on behalf of schemingly incompetent commies who infected the world are secretly admire the control of information in defiance of alleged absolute truth.

Gender is a whim.  Believe it or get treated like a witch.  Complicating the simplest observations is the cause of those most opposed to how things are.  Foes of the rather easy way to determine who’s a male or female are surely as dedicated to evidence on other issues.  Fanatical practitioners smugly announce they believe in science, which is the least scientific notion possible.

The presumption government will help can safely be classified as misguided.  It’s been disproven consistently enough that we can call it a lie if we’re feeling less generous.  The excuse of ignorance means not knowing a thing about current events, which is sadly likely among those whose reply to regrettable news about their ideology is “Fox News!”  Wondering what possible evidence could be on the side that figures every interaction requires political guidance is irrelevant, as they’ve made up their minds.

Those who get everything wrong are deeply concerned that you’re spreading lies.  The First Amendment’s whole point is that we can sort it out ourselves, which frightens control freaks who neither tolerate differing opinions nor challenges to what they risibly deem cold cases.  Jittery censors don’t believe in any sort of open market or natural right, and consistency is not always admirable.

Controlling alleged hate speech means anyone who disagrees.  There’s an ulterior reason just like everything else woke sputterers claim, namely that they’re as disconnected from the truth as they are productivity.

Psychological projection is the only productive liberal industry.  Business sadly thrives.  Making a show of calling everyone else a fibber is intended to distract from their own bouts with truth.  Robbers call tip lines blaming others.  I’m sure investigators will be thrown off by the blatant distraction.

If you didn’t want coercion with the sheen of legality, you should have thought about that before being bossed around.  A politician should decide everything except if babies get to be born, according to those obsessed with accuracy.  Lecturing about biology while averting their eyes from sonograms is merely the most egregious hypocrisy by those who commit sins they accuse everyone else of transgressions.  Everyone else is a phony, according to the most prominent examples.

[crushedcookiebutter]

Christianity Rant

just saw a bumper sticker with the word "unashamed" and a cross (obviously christian). it got me thinking.

nobody said that christians should be ashamed of themselves. at least, there's not a massive social movement saying that people should be ashamed specifically for being christian. they're incredibly far removed from what oppression actually is, to the point of any opposition or criticism from anyone at all is perceived as a calculated social attack on their way of life. but at this point, it's impossible to exist in america without some kind of influence from christianity, whether you follow a christian (sin/righteousness) morality system, using cash ("in god we trust"), or just saying the pledge of allegiance ("one nation, under god").

christians want to be oppressed so badly. they want to be treated in the way that jesus was treated when he was alive. but in order to be treated like that, you have to exist in opposition to the current system that has been set up.

this brings up the more recent tv show about jesus, called "the Chosen." it's meant to be a more realistic, entertaining retelling of jesus's life, as opposed to the average preachy, whitewashed retelling of jesus's life. one of the show's catchphrases is told by jesus: "get used to different." he's shaking up the status quo and teaching people to live better lives. it's a good story, but also a dated one.

you see, jesus and his teachings were seen as an attempt to destroy the current system for its revolutionary ideas that challenged the current dominant religion, the dominant government power, and the status quo at large. if you're starting to see the irony, good. you're catching on.

christians love jesus, to a disproportional degree if I may say so. in the same breath, however, they unapologetically uphold the status quo because they're afraid of change. does that remind you of somebody? it should. it's closer to the people that framed jesus and had him killed, rather than jesus himself.

christians always talk about jesus and how he was hated by most people for his beliefs, because they can't really say that modern christians are hated for their beliefs. hell, their religion CREATED the country. the USA is a christian nation by nature, which means that it is literally impossible to be christian and a religious revolutionary.

there's no shot in hell that jesus would be christian if he were alive today (timeline logistics aside). at least, he wouldn't be the type of christian that modern christians want him to be. if he were alive today, he would be pissed about their strange practices and harmful ideologies of minorities. he'd make fun of them at every turn. he would chill with prostitutes and other jobs that are looked down upon. and that would piss christians off--you know it would.

if you don't think christians would hate a religious revolutionary with a harem of 12 men, that criticizes the way the current dominant religion operates, as well as not fitting into the political structure they believe in, then you haven't seen modern christianity.

most christians love jesus and always talk about him, but they would hate him if he were alive today. and he would hate them, too.