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So by the 2010s Temeraire would have been a political figure for literally 200 years. imagine the tumblr politician discourse:

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It’s so fucking stupid to put a politician on a pedestal like y’all do with Temeraire. You know he voted for a bill that said only unmarried women can have bank accounts, right?

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Yeah, he voted for that in eighteen fucking seventeen you dumbass, when literally the only way for a woman to have her own bank account was to be an officer in the aerial corps. That bill was an expansion of rights.

Like look if you want to criticize the guy for being part of the imperialist war machine and furthering the colonization of Australia, I’m right there with you, but criticize him for things he actually did and learn some historical context, for fuck’s sake.

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Ok but you know he was sent to Australia as a literal prison sentence, right? He didn’t have a choice. You know this? It’s important to me that Tumblr knows this

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the point stands about the imperialism tho. And also it took aaaaaages for him to come out in favor of marriage equality even tho his first captain was probably bi.

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Politician makes compromises to get shit done and doesn’t voice unpopular opinions when it would lose him votes, news at 11

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All of this is fine actually but I don’t know why Tumblr—the socialism website— doesn’t seem to fucking care that all his early writings are super capitalist yay resource extraction bs.

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HE WAS HATCHED IN 1805. DO YOU IMAGINE YOU WOULD HAVE PERFECT MARXIST THEORY A DECADE BEFORE MARX WAS EVEN BORN.

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He said he hates the MCU :/

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lol based

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today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

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Cuomo concedes and Zohran Mamdani declares victory. Nice.

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a couple of years ago it was like a switch flipped and I discovered that I could change myself on purpose and it was so liberating

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(gripping the skink with both hands, pale and feverish, sweating and shaking as I look at myself in the mirror) “killing a character is a valid writing choice that can be a crucial plot mechanic and lend beauty and depth to the story as a whole” (wretches up blood into the sink) “even when it’s my favorite character”

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I dont really fuck with american pop culture and its discourses anymore but Beyonce celebrating ethnic cleansing with her tour shirt is tooooo on the nose

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the entire budget of the US military should be reallocated to insect research

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This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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i think we should maybe start killing people

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I have a ko-fi now if you wanna send money to me that way.

I also accept donations via cashapp and venmo at @kellanium for both of them.

I'm currently off work for the summer (long story) and i need some help making rent. I'm at 255 of my current goal of 1000.

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not to sound like a weak, morally impure centrist over here, but i think online leftist communities need to be a little more accepting of the concept that most people are just. not that well informed. we live in a society that provides access to an overwhelming amount of information and yet which discourages actually diving into much beyond the surface level. Most of the people you meet out in the world are just not gonna know much about a lot of what you care about, but that's not the same as being against those things, or being unwilling to learn, or being unnamenable to those ideas. Our modern society is an unending cascade of information and misinformation and disinformation and filtering through that shit enough to actually have a solid grasp of a subject, let alone a nuanced antiestablishment political take, is a skill that takes time and effort to develop, time and effort that is in very short supply. It really bothers me when I see leftists talk about how capitalism keeps us down by taking up all our time and energy and making recovery, both physical and emotional, cost what little we can afford, and then turn around and get upset that people are politically uninformed. On some level, you gotta meet some people where they are, and have a little faith in them to be open to new ideas and information. Ignorance is not inherently intentional, and it's not the same as antipathy.

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Potentially hot take but one of the reasons we need art and music in schools is that, taught correctly, they are ideal avenues for teaching kids how to do something, kinda suck at it, keep going anyways and improve over time.

And THAT is one of the most valuable skill sets a human being can have. THAT is the skill set that unlocks soooooo many others.

A LOT of people I see with anxiety and depression do not have this skill set. To suck at something is a threat. Proof that they are doomed to suck at it forever. And then, often, that either THEY suck forever or the task must be stupid/useless/pointless (whence we get AI art fans who have decided actually making art is pointless and degrading the labor and skills of others is fine because these are useless skills).

Or you get the freeze- the inability to try things in case you fail. The sudden lancing shame and humiliation or hopelessness. The sense that anything you haven't learned by now you can't learn. Which is so heartbreaking and so untrue.

I just hate it.

"What if I write it and it's bad" "what if I draw it and it's bad" "what if I play it and it sounds bad" DOING IT BAD IS HOW YOU LEARN TO DO IT GOOD! You can't skip the process of leaning and the process is FUN if you let it be what it needs to be!

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Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.