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She was murdered along with her three month old son

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What if we celebrated misogyny, but in a feminist way

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It must not be understated how much WW2 was sold to the people of Germany as a war against, principally, the tyrannical Soviet Union - against who the Third Reich, while carrying out the Holocaust, manufactured stories of supposed atrocities, attempted to accuse of genocide, and whatever else. It was sold, principally, on the anticommunism agreeable to fascists, conservatives, liberals, social-democrats, anarchists, trotskyists, and whichever other segments of Germany's vibrant prewar leftist mileu would offer their condemnations of the USSR as just as bad as the Nazi state, really - that was the line by which they sold the genocide.

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noah caldwell gervais is the only seattlelite ill forgive

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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Don't know why this needs to be rehashed but "authoritarianism" does not exist as a meaningful political category or avenue of critique and saying "it's not actually anticommunist it's just anti-authoritarian" is literally the basis of "leftist" anticommunist mythmaking for like 100 years lol

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Quiet Quitting is when you're not doing anything wrong but the vibes are off

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Don't know why this needs to be rehashed but "authoritarianism" does not exist as a meaningful political category or avenue of critique and saying "it's not actually anticommunist it's just anti-authoritarian" is literally the basis of "leftist" anticommunist mythmaking for like 100 years lol

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Protesters, Smith said, “would say, ‘Children are dying. This is a huge humanitarian crisis.’ And they’re right about that … and by the way, I do have some sympathy with these people. If there are members of Congress who won’t meet with them, I meet with them. All the time. So they have an opportunity to be heard. They’re not trying to be heard. They’re trying to silence people who disagree with them.”

Asked what kind of protest might be appropriate, Smith cited a recent instance in an armed services hearing in which “people came in and they didn’t say anything, they just held up bloody hands. And the chairman noticed that and said, ‘You can’t do that, you’re out, and they got up and left.”

this election year is gonna be sooo good guys. remember, vote blue, no matter who!

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While we're at it: using language that downplays genocide is a form of genocide denial.

Joe Biden isn't doing a bad job, Joe Biden is providing material support for genocide.

Israel isn't handling the situation badly, Israel is committing genocide.

Employing euphemisms minimizes the reality of this genocide. It's disrespectful and dangerous.

If you are more uncomfortable with the word genocide than you are with the reality of genocide, then you are not prepared to be part of any serious discussion. Work on that on your own time.

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94 people are known to have died from 2012 to 2021 from being injected with knock out drugs after being brutalized by the police, more than half of them were Black.

Not a day goes by without discovering some new depth of this Country's depravity

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made for the hegemon edelgard zine a while back!

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A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

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I don't have any fucking words for this, just a deeply evil fucking society

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English added by me :)

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