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hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to you can now tell alexa to "open the voice of trans" to hear a transgender man's personal traumas by neku
alexa is a true ally
musou wrote
Reply to you can now tell alexa to "open the voice of trans" to hear a transgender man's personal traumas by neku
nothing i ever hear about these devices makes me sad i don't have one
devtesla wrote
Reply to The Kickstarter Union is getting scolded by their bosses for being too white to unionise by neku
that letter in an embarrassment
neku wrote
Reply to Obamacare for the firearms industry by flabberghaster
this dude is getting hazed by the firearms industry
flabberghaster wrote
Reply to the Dabbing Democrat Beto O'ROurke wrote a story about killing children when he was a teen??? by neku
Had way worse politics in highschool. Just god awful. If i met high school me today I'd say bash the fash.
musou wrote
Reply to the Dabbing Democrat Beto O'ROurke wrote a story about killing children when he was a teen??? by neku
he's a texan hugh grant for people who write erotic fanfiction of IRL politicians
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to the Dabbing Democrat Beto O'ROurke wrote a story about killing children when he was a teen??? by neku
yeah i wrote shit like this when i was a teen too and was a randroid to boot. we're often completely different people from who we were decades ago
devtesla wrote
Reply to the Dabbing Democrat Beto O'ROurke wrote a story about killing children when he was a teen??? by neku
honestly that he was an edgy teen makes him more relatable tbh
hollyhoppet wrote
Should have paid for a building instead
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to comment by flabberghaster in Ilhan Omar Is Winning by devtesla
this is a really good post
flabberghaster wrote
Reply to Ilhan Omar Is Winning by devtesla
I just read a Washington Post article about her and it's really pissing me off.
The center and the right have found that smearing her in the same way as corbyn is really effective, so now anyone who says "hey how about we stop supporting a regime that blows off protester's kneecaps with snipers" is actually an antisemite.
It's immensely frustrating. And it's especially dangerous because if you conflate those two things what you're doing is reinforcing the idea that israel and Judaism are the same thing. So whatever evil Israel does you're imputing onto jews at large.
Not to mention the conflation of "nation" with "ethnicity" plays strongly into ethnonationalistic rhetoric. If "Israel" and "Judaism" are the same then "saudi arabia" and "arabs" are more closely aligned. Same goes for whiteness and western countries.
The whole thing fucking sucks at every fucking level. And we all now they're just doing it because of lobbying and foreign policy agendas. They don't actually have sincere beliefs on this, these op ed writers and politicians who are after ilhan omar and corbyn.
cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote
by measure of the charts that get posted here, this is a v good chart
it is perfectly awful in every way.
hitto wrote
oof
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by musou in been too long since we've had a good chart here by hollyhoppet
lol
musou wrote (edited )
If the jewel which everyone desired to possess lay far out on a frozen lake where the ice was very thin, watched over by the danger of death, while, closer in, the ice was perfectly safe, then in a passionate age the crowds would applaud the courage of the man who ventured out, they would tremble for him and with him in the danger of his decisive action, they would grieve over him if he were drowned, they would make a god of him if he secured the prize. But in an age without passion, in a reflective age, it would be otherwise. People would think each other clever in agreeing that it was Unreasonable and not even worthwhile to venture so far out. And in this way they would transform daring and enthusiasm into a feat of skill, so as to do something, for after all, "something must be done." The crowds would go out to watch from a safe place, and with the eyes of connoisseurs appraise the accomplished skater who could skate almost to the very edge (i.e. as far back as the ice was still safe and the danger had not yet begun) and then turn back. The most accomplished skater would manage to go out to the furthermost point and then perform a still more dangerous-looking run, so as to make the spectators hold their breath and say: "Ye Gods! How mad; he is risking his life." But look, and you will see that his skill was so astonishing that he managed to turn back just in time, while the ice was perfectly safe and there was still no danger. As at the theatre, the crowd would applaud and acclaim him, surge homeward with the heroic artist in their midst, to honour him with a magnificent banquet. For intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick, and reality into a play. During the banquet, admiration would reach its height. Now the proper relation between the admirer and the object of admiration is the one in which the admirer is edified by the thought that he is a man like the hero, humbled by the thought that he is incapable of such great actions, yet morally encouraged to emulate him according to his powers; but where intelligence has got the upper hand the character of admiration is completely altered. Even at the height of the banquet, when the applause was loudest, the admiring guests would all have a shrewd notion that the action of the man who received all the honour was not really so extraordinary, and that only by chance was the gathering for him, since after all, with a little practice, everyone could have done as much. Briefly, instead of being strengthened in their discernment and encouraged to do good, the guests would more probably go home with an even stronger predisposition to the most dangerous, if also the most respectable, of all diseases: to admire in public what is considered unimportant in private— since everything is made into a joke. And so, stimulated by a gush of admiration, they are all comfortably agreed that they might just as well admire themselves.
Sören Kierkegaard, "The Present Age," 1846
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by neku in been too long since we've had a good chart here by hollyhoppet
it's like the perfect storm of strawman arguments and lack of depth in critical thinking
neku wrote (edited )
i feel repulsed by this image in a way that i do not usually feel when i see images like it. it's like, the opposite of looking at a happy kitten or something. just. yeugh
ellynu wrote
Reply to ted cruz's new facial hair by razz
convinced me to vote for satan thank you
neku wrote
Reply to ted cruz's new facial hair by razz
i dont want to think about that but thank you.
twovests wrote
Reply to ted cruz's new facial hair by razz
haven't seen it but i am horrified
Emily wrote
Reply to Taking Kamala Harris Seriously by devtesla
i wont and you cant make me
razz wrote
Reply to Taking Kamala Harris Seriously by devtesla
man fuuuuuck this lady and her anti-truancy horseshit. poor families end up with obscene fines or maybe even jail time because their kids are missing school. meanwhile mrs. harris kicks back in her posh multi-million dollar home, safe and secure behind not one, not two, but three padlocks on her front door.
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by voxpoplar in rip in peace "mastodon" by hollyhoppet
Hmmm I’ll keep an eye out on my timeline for an instance that would be a good fit for you
voxpoplar wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in rip in peace "mastodon" by hollyhoppet
I'm on mastodon.social. I'd move but I've no idea where to move to.
hitto wrote
Reply to the dorito by devtesla
it hurts