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guerillas-of-history · 7 months

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Hi! Love your page and everything I've learned from it. It's really opened up my eyes to alot of things that I've never even imagined! Which is why I have to ask because I can't find a correct answer or logical thought process to it.

Why does the U.S support the appartied Isreal state? I truly can't come up with a logical reason to it and really sorry if you've brought it up before but I'm truly lost on why it's been like that.

Thank you for the work you put in to this page 🌻

Dear anon, thank you so much for your kind words, I am truly glad you think so. I apologize that its been a few weeks since you sent this, I've been trying to articulate a satisfactory and succinct response. With the monumental events currently underway, now is maybe the most appropiate time to try and answer.

U.S. support for israel started in 1948, with president Harry S. Truman being the first world leader to recognize the state of israel. This was because Truman's old buisness partner Edward Jacobson spent years laying the groundwork alongside zionist leader Dr. Chaim Weizmann (who would become israel's first president) this was in the aftermath of World War 2 and European powers were exhausted and former colonies were starting to rise up and throw off the imperial yoke. Simultaneously the Cold War began to take shape, the Middle East with its oil and strategic waterways such as the Suez Canal proved to be one of the sought after areas for American hegemony, concurrent to this the Soviet Union had been supporting secular Arab Nationalism as a counterpoint to the nascent zionist state. Perhaps the two most important events explaining the unequaled support for israel by the U.S. are the Six Day War in 1967 and The October War of 1973. In the 1950s the CIA recognized israel as a "logical corollary" against the radical nationalism growing in the Middle East. In June 1967 israel defeated the combined armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in just six days, israel then proved to be the United State's greatest ally in the region capable of both defending and projecting U.S. interests. In 1973 Egypt and Syria launched a massive suprise attack on Yom Kippur, the war was fought to a relative stalemate with heavy casualties on both sides. Henry Kissenger traveled between the nations and help negotiate a ceasefire utilizing what became known as "Shuttle Diplomacy" the U.S. used the aftermath of the war to subvert Soviet influence, particularly in Egypt. America laid groundwork for normalization of ties between the two foes, with it being finally cemented in 1979, even though israel is almost universally despised by the Egyptian people. Since then U.S. support for israel had only increased exponentially with israel becoming by far the largest recipient of American aid since WWII. In 2016 then president Barack Obama gave 38 billion dollars alone, through a defence agreement. U.S. support over the last half century have enabled israel to grow into the monster it is today, israeli apartheid and systematic oppression of the Palestinian people is one of the greatest crimes of the last one hundred years.

This is an incredibly complicated question, and I'm sure I've missed some key points and its hard to summerize this subject concisely. I haven't even gotten into domestic support for israel as well as other external factors. If there are any specifics you would like to know please feel free to send me an ask or message me directly, and if anyone has other valuable input I highly welcome it.

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powerpolyculeshowdown · 1 year

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hey I read the homestuck epilogues and this is the situation: in one timeline dave and karkat get together, the end.

In the other while they're still doing their will they won't they jade says that the three of them should just date each other her and dave in red-rom and her and karkat in black-rom. (and if i remember right she insinuates they they could date each other too) but they really don't have a solid conversation about the whole thing and just kinda go along with it. The three of them date for a bit before all the hs kids have a big fight about growing anti-troll politics and fascism of the government karkat gets (rightly) heated and isn't really supported so he leaves and stops talking to the other two (also starts a rebellion) so dave and jade keep dating to the point where they get married, years go by. After everything's settled a bit jade and dave join karkats rebellion, but its pretty insinuated they never talk about EVERYTHING UP THERE, and just agree politically. At a certian point after this dave has a conversation with (bc it's homestuck) Obama about everything and says that he's gay and overall is pretty miserable about the whole situation. (there's more but its a bit heavy)

since I'm on anon, I'll say, I think that there are some pretty interesting things in the epilogues (like reading bad end fic) and I think that having two timelines where things go differently and parallel is interesting, but there are a few characters like Jade (and dirk tbh), who I feel are only given one story, only one end defined mostly by their lowest. Jade is lonely and has been since the beginning of the comic, she truly seems to think that making herself part of the equation will stop dave and karkat from dancing around each other and make each of them happy. If she can do that and make herself not alone anymore then great. I don't think that it's completely out of character for one timeline, but in the other she gets put in a coma pretty much immediately, removing the opportunity for her to have a "good" end (pesterquest is actually incredible though full recommendation). I don't know, I don't think that it's completely out of character, but overall the story doesn't do jade justice: showing her at her best and not only her worst it's probably the theme that they're trying to embody with her but even then it would need to be more directly confronted.

sorry for hs dumping, the epilogues and their reaction I won't say are good... but they are fascinating

also feel free not to respond if you don't want to invite hs discourse

its ok u dont need to apologize. idk i said it before i never finished the comic, but i also didnt like anything i saw about the epilogues or homestuck 2 so might judgement is biased on what i knew about them from up to where i stopped reading, like 3 years ago. i have a bad memory and might've forgotten stuff about jade that would make that decision in character? i'll say there's a difference between an under negotiated polycule and a forced polycule. and my issue w the other ask was the implication that jade forced karkat and dave to be in a polycule with her. if that's true it feels ooc for me but maybe its not, idk, maybe if i had finished the main story i would agree. anyway this polycule gets less exciting (to me) the more i learn about it :(

#polyasks

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the-collector-of-souls · 3 years

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since when was ur blog piss yellow why are you so obsessed with piss huh ur alllllwaaaays talking abt piss. kinda weird tbh

Shut up no I'm not

#ask #anon ask even though its obama

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antiyourwokehomophobia2 · 3 years

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I feel like its so hard to bring up anti-make up and anti-shaving views in the black lesbian scene because most femmes are pro make up and shaving and the studs approve of it and also partake in the shaving too, i feel like it will be met with more hostility than it would with the whites. I dont even know how to start.

Hmm. I've never thought about this particular issue too much but I will say that you're absolutely right.

Honestly, this ask is kinda blowing my mind because I never payed attention to this but that doesn't mean I haven't subconsciously taken note of it. Like, I read this ask and every interaction with a black femme went through my head I was immediately like "anon is spitting facts".

Take my answer with a grain of salt because I'm genuinely going off the top of my head: I think the reason it's much harder is because black women are already seen as manly. Michelle Obama is a straight and feminine woman and look how many times she's been compared to a man. Even though she adheres to femininity she's still treated this way and black women notice that and then they hear all of this "don't shave" and "don't wear make up" and it's like... Really? You want us to be picked on even more? You really want us to be perceived as more masculine by having hairy legs and hairy armpits? You want us to go barefaced when the make-up wearing first lady is still referred to as a man? Are you serious?

I think it makes sense why they're so hostile towards the idea. Even feminine black woman are called manly and aggressive and angry and so why the hell would they want to aid that image by walking around with hairy legs? A trait that is obviously associated with men.

As for studs, I think the reason they partake in shaving is because they don't want to be seen as even more manly than they already are. I've heard men say time and time again that they'd "fight a dyke" and "if you act like a man I'm going to treat you like one" and so having hair on their bodies makes them feel even more vulnerable to male violence. Either that or they're simply not immune to female socialization, masculine or not lmao 😅.

So, anon, I believe that that's why you'd be met with more hostility than you would with white women because white women don't get referred to as manly nearly as much as black women do. In fact, I can't remember the last time I heard a white woman be referred to as manly.

I'm regards to "where to start"? Let me know when you find out lmao. I feel like it's hard because us black women are really alone. What's the quote? White women will always choose their whiteness over their womanhood? I feel like that's true especially when you consider that not even black men have anything nice to say about black women so why would people of other races? I'm sorry anon, it really sucks but my best idea would be to make friends with black lesbians and then tell them your ideas and hope that those ideas stick and spread like a bad case of rona lmao. Best of luck ❤️

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imagitory · 3 years

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Why do so many people hate AOC? My (Republican) teacher called her crazy, but she seems nice. I thought she was a waitress or something so she had to climb her way up so she knows what it’s like to be a struggling minority.

I don’t know if you’re the same Anon who asked for my political opinions before, but if so...hi! Good to hear from you again! :)

Okay, so first off...I frankly don’t know why your Republican teacher called her “crazy,” for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is anything but. I find her an incredibly intelligent, articulate, and brilliant young Congresswoman, and I think we could use a lot more representatives like her, instead of some of the lobbyist-funded, decrepit old fossils we currently have in office like Mitch McConnell.

Most of the hostility against AOC comes back to her -- like Bernie Sanders -- being a democratic socialist. As I mentioned in that other post, socialism has been a “Boogeyman” in this country for decades now, even though a lot of people truly don’t even understand what it is. Socialism is an economic system that can be applied to a political system, whether it’s communism or a democracy, and in this case, democratic socialism is a philosophy that argues that capitalism is inherently incompatible with the ideas of freedom and equality. Therefore democratic socialists generally believe that the government’s role is to protect ordinary people from predatory capitalist practices...and as you can imagine, Republicans most definitely don’t agree with that. They believe that we should give corporations and the aristocracy complete freedom to do as they will, with the (misguided) thought that their success will “make its way back down” to the lower classes. (A philosophy championed by Ronald Reagan as “trickle-down economics,” which may I just add has been proven to be utter bull sh** more than once. The best analogy I can make for it is to give someone a glass of water and then argue that that water will “trickle down” to someone else standing under that first person with their mouth wide open.) In short, democratic socialists are the GOP’s complete opposite -- not just because of their differing attitudes toward wealth and the corporate system, but because of whose policies have actually proven to be beneficial to the common man and the economy as a whole historically.

AOC champions a proposal called the Green New Deal, which is based off of FDR’s New Deal from the 30′s and 40s, which helped end the Great Depression. We had a thriving middle class thanks to FDR’s so-called “socialist” policies...while the two most recent Republican presidents we’ve had have overseen dramatic economic recessions. Even Obama, who is not a democratic socialist but is a mainstream Democrat, saved us from Bush’s disaster. So I’m still kind of stunned that any Republican can try to lecture us about how good they are with money and the economy as a whole -- but hey, it wouldn’t be the first time that Republicans tried to rewrite history to serve their own agenda. The Green New Deal also advocates environmentalist reforms, and many Republicans have stock and financial interest in the oil and coal industries, which would be impacted by Americans giving a sh** about the environment and about the damage we’ve done to it.

Admittedly as well, when discussing what Republicans don’t like about AOC, one can’t completely ignore that this is a charismatic young Latina woman who was a member of the working class and yet is a graduate of Boston University. You can’t lambast her for being “too young and inexperienced,” when she’s running intellectual circles around her older colleagues, and yet you can’t call her a “snobby elitist” when she was waiting tables and bartending before joining Congress. She also is pretty damn fearless when it comes to making her positions known and fighting for those positions -- like Obama, she can’t be bribed or intimidated by those who disagree with her. To top it all off, she is also very active on social media and in engaging with her constituents, making her incredibly popular not just among the people she represents, but among young progressives as well. In short, AOC represents -- I believe -- to a lot of establishment politicians the fact that they are on their way out and that their politics and way of doing things are antiquated and out-of-step with what many Americans want. Again, though, this is just my take.

#I'm still kind of surprised anyone wants my political takes but...hope my opinion helps at all?#please make sure you're doing your own research and getting other perspectives too though!#I no doubt have my own biases and blind spots as do we all #and of course as always we currently live in a free country so if you disagree with me that's cool #unless you're an alt-right racist in which case kindly go away #excuse me politics coming through #alexandria ocasio cortez #opinion #oh boy here i go

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morningsound15 · 4 years

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I agree with you that the whole political system in the US is rotten to its core. I don't know what it is, but it's not a democracy. And yes, Biden won't bring the structural change that's needed. However, don't you think it'll be easier to get any change at all if after the election we get a blue house, senate and president? (Not to mention the supreme court seats won't fall into Republican's hands.) I mean, at least this way there's a chance progressives can get some of their causes through.

okay, so this is like the only ask i’m going to answer about this because i do NOT want this page to turn into this, this blog is the only part of the entire internet for me that isn’t entirely devoted to politics, organizing, radical education, theory, community-building, mutual aid, agitation, etc. i do that on literally every other social media platform and i do not want to do it here. that said i will answer this ask, i guess, though not exactly in the way you asked it i’m just gonna dump my thoughts on electoralism & this election here and i apologize in advance for how long this is going to be

to your general ask: yes, some people believe that. that is a reason many people are participating in this election (i go into that further down). my objection is not to the idea of participating in this election, the idea of voting, or the idea of voting for joe biden. it’s the entire framing of the situation & it’s the complete disregard for any people who have decided not to participate in this election, or who have decided to participate in this election & not vote for joe biden (i am NOT talking about republicans or trump supporters, that is a party of fascists & white supremacists & i am NOT talking about them, i’m talking about young people and the disaffected left). i’ll explain (under the cut so it doesn’t clutter y’alls feeds & so hopefully i won’t get as much hate because if there’s one thing i know it’s that no one on the internet reads)

what i object to is the framing of joe biden as anything less than an active enemy of the left & progressives. (the left & progressives are not the same thing, but they are both to the left of the dem party so i am putting them together for the sake of this argument but progressives are not leftists, though some leftists do describe themselves as progressives & vice versa, just want to put that out there to start.)

what i object to is the framing of joe biden as an ally. this kind of “at least he is willing to be pushed” “at least he’s already been pushed to the left by progressives” “at least he’s willing to listen & maybe with enough pressure we can get him where he needs to be!” “at least maybe a biden administration will support the policies we want them to!” because he’s not willing to learn, he’s not willing to help, he’s not willing to listen, he’s not willing to support progressive policies to tackle the healthcare/climate/war/imperialism crises or do any of that stuff. his policy goals, his entire campaign is basically to figure out what is the absolute bare MINIMUM thing he needs to do in order to say that he’s “moving the country in the right direction” so he can get elected & so he can get political cover from well-meaning but ultimately extremely sheltered dem figureheads while at the same time actively standing in the way of any real reform, progress, change, abolition, justice, etc. that’s his goal, he’s been very clear about that fact, i do not need to go into all the ways he’s already said & proved that! it’s obvious in his speeches, in the entire dnc (i watched every night of the dnc hoping for someone to lay out a good reason for me to vote for biden & i came up with 0 thanks democratic party), the people he has running his campaign, the donors he has, the lobbyists he hires to write his policy platform, the way he cozies up to billionaires, racists, segregationists, war criminals, and the way he always has in order to ‘maintain the order of politics’ & it’s gross & we don’t really need to go into it. he’s a capitalist, he’s a corporatist, he takes $$ from pharmaceutical companies and oil lobbyists and he is not a good person. BUT! many progressives know this and believe this, & still are voting for him. that is fine.

but we have to remember that joe biden is not our friend, he is not our ally, he is an enemy of the left, he is an active obstacle stopping us from achieving what we want to achieve (liberation, equality, justice, the dismantling of capitalism). so let’s not get it fucking twisted, like we need to be clear about that from the jump. we shouldn’t talk about him like he wants those things, like he’ll help us achieve those things, because he doesn’t, and he won’t, so we do not need to talk about him like he does. it is damaging to the progressive left of the democratic party to talk about biden like he’ll help us achieve any of our goals, because he won’t. we will need to fight just as hard if not HARDER under a biden administration to get the things we want, because we’ll be fighting with the people supposedly in our own party too, and they (along with the political machine they worship & kill themselves to support) are going to do everything they can to demonize and push out the young progressive diverse left, to break their spirits & destroy the political potential of the few politicians they actually do like, because that’s what they’ve always done, because the progressive left represents a threat to institutional capitalist white supremacist power. so our job would not be EASIER under a biden administration. it will just be different. we have to be very clear about that when we talk about what might happen in november.

now, that’s NOT TO SAY that there are not good reasons people have for voting for joe biden. i’m not telling people not to vote for joe biden and i am not telling people not to vote. that’s not what i’m saying. you just have to understand what this country is, what these politicians are, what they want, and what they are going to do to achieve what they want. just don’t lie about it. and only when you understand all of that can you make a truly informed decision about this upcoming election.

you can support joe biden for a lot of reasons. there are a lot of people whose politics don’t align with mine who want me to vote for joe biden, and there are people whose politics do align with mine who are making the choice to vote for joe biden. and the things that the latter group says, stuff that i find persuasive, is stuff like “joe biden is an enemy. donald trump is also an enemy. putting joe biden into office is better for the cause of liberation/leftists/revolution because he is a weaker enemy. he is a weaker opponent. we might be able to do things with him in office to help us tinker with the way our system is structured that will ultimately be for the benefit of the true left wing of this country, which will help future political actors survive in our rigged electoral system and maybe actually gain & maintain political power.” (stuff like abolishing the filibuster, getting rid of the electoral college, packing the courts, systemic changes that we need to make if we want to wrest control of this broken political system from the hands of fascists and white supremacists - many of whom sit inside the democratic party too, so let’s not get that twisted. all of these proposed changes, by the way, it’s important to note (unless i’m incorrect which i don’t think i am) joe biden doesn’t openly support or advocate for ANY of them, so let’s not get THAT twisted either.)

here’s the argument i think you’re making anon, from the mouth of comrade Angela Davis (libs love to weaponize angela davis’ words on biden without comprehending any of her politics or supporting her abolitionist policy positions, also there are other abolitionists who do not agree with davis here but i digress):

“In our electoral system as it exists, neither party represents the future that we need in this country. Both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism. But the election will not be so much about who gets to lead the country to a better future, but rather how we can support ourselves and our ability to continue to organize and place pressure on those in power. And I don’t think there’s a question about which candidate would allow that process to unfold… if we want to continue this work, we certainly need a person in office who will be more amenable to our mass pressure. And to me, that is the only thing that someone like Joe Biden represents.”

i don’t know if i fully agree with that argument per se! but i understand it, and i think it’s valid and valuable, and i understand arguments like that, and they are persuasive to me in many ways. because the republican party maintaining power is the way we slow-march into fascism, but also the democratic party getting/maintaining power is the way that we continue to slow-march to neoliberal destruction of the planet. so they’re both bad, obviously. but there are people who think (maybe they’re right! i’m swayed by this argument) that the biden administration would be easier to manipulate, easier to transform, than a trump administration.

(the counter-argument would maybe be that there are a lot of fucking liberals paying attention & even showing up in the streets right now because donald trump is the president, and if donald trump is no longer the president they’re gonna go home and be quiet and go back to brunch and close their eyes and plug their ears like they did with obama, just like they did during standing rock and ferguson and occupy, and be like “oh kamala harris wore CHUCKS on an AIRPLANE look at how COOL she is don’t you remember when there was a COOL war criminal in the white house?” there are people who are going to do that if biden/harris win, and that’s risky to me! like that is a risk we need to be talking about. i see that as dangerous. now, that’s not to say that’s more or less dangerous than what we currently have, it’s just a different kind of danger we need to be cognizant & wary of. and it’s people who post statuses like “fuck you all if you don’t vote for biden you privileged snowflake how dare you look at everything biden’s ever said done or promised he will do and decide that you don’t like that and you don’t want a part of it how dare you you fucking cuck you fucking idiot you support fucking fascists you fucking idiot” who make me lose my mind because like shut up! you don’t know what you’re talking about. there are people who know what they’re talking about who have decided they’re going to vote for joe biden and there’s people who know what they’re talking about who have decided they are not going to vote for joe biden, and you know what they don’t do? they don’t fucking fight each other, they don’t attack each other, they understand & support the reasons their comrades have for taking the action they are taking. and that is just what this is about. stop yelling at people that you don’t know who are making choices you don’t understand just because you don’t understand their choices.)

(this is even assuming biden will win, which is unlikely, or that trump will relinquish power, which is unlikely, or that there will be a peaceful transference of power and not a full-scale right-wing armed militia explosion of violence on american streets after november 3rd, so let’s all really be prepared for what might be coming in the next couple months!!!! all of these arguments mean next to nothing when we don’t even know what kind of violence awaits us in november)

it’s just psycho to think that joe biden is anything but an enemy. he is an enemy. and you can vote for an enemy and you can have your reasons for voting for an enemy, but don’t sell me shit and tell me it’s gourmet.

that’s mostly what i object to. the framing of this. and i’m not telling people not to vote for joe biden i’m not telling people not to vote. i think people should vote, because for those of us who are able & haven’t had that right stripped away from us or stolen from us by our own government, voting is easy, it’s literally the easiest thing that you can do because it’s also the LEAST politically effective thing that you can do. it’s like step fucking 1 because its impact is so low. that’s not a reason not to do it! that is not a reason not to do it. voting is important because any functioning society needs to have an engaged citizenry and an engaged electorate. now we don’t have that here, but you know what i’m saying. electoralism is a conditionally useful tool of enacting change and what we choose to do with that tool is an individual choice and there are people who are making different calculations than you, and they’re coming to different answers. and those people are often radicals, they’re often poor, they’re often black, or indigenous, or undocumented, or incarcerated. they’re often the most marginalized people in this society who are making these kinds of non-voting decisions, and it’s racist and misogynistic to assume that it’s all privileged white kids who are making that choice, because it isn’t, okay? it fucking isn’t.

and it’s so crazy because it’s always white cis libs who are talking about how important it is to get out and vote and to vote for people who aren’t like you and to vote for someone who isn’t you and it’s like, the black radicals i know are not voting for biden! they just aren’t. they do not see the electoral system or the fucking presidency as the thing that’s going to help & protect their communities. so instead they’re organizing on the ground, they’re distributing food & funds & housing comrades & fighting the police & helping elders shop and pick up medicine & making sure kids have internet access so they can go to school and that is what people are doing on the ground. they aren’t all up on instagram or tumblr sharing voting memes & telling people to hold their nose & “just vote for biden he’s the best choice we have” because they understand that for their communities, that’s not what liberation looks like. that’s y’all doing that goofy social media shit.

political power lies with the people always. the people collectively will prove whether or not the biden electoral strategy (of appealing to older, conservative/moderate, white voters in the midwest instead of young voters, poor voters, and voters of color all over the country, but i digress) is successful. whether or not his strategy is successful, the responsibility for the outcome of this election lies SOLELY with the biden campaign, capitalism, voter suppression, white supremacy, and our undemocratic election system — NOT the individual voters. know your enemy & know which system you need to fight. hint: it’s not apathetic or disengaged voters.

vote for whoever you want to vote for. don’t vote for trump, obviously, he’s a fascist do not vote for him. but for people who are not fascists or white supremacists, just try to understand what you’re doing and your position in the world & in this political system & act accordingly. not voting is not an excuse to do nothing; if you are choosing not to engage in electoral politics the expectation is you should be working twice as hard to make sustained impacts and improvements in your community. and if you ARE choosing to engage in electoral politics, the expectation is you should be working twice as hard to make sustained impacts and improvements in your community.

if what you think the liberation fight is is making sure you turn out at the ballot box on november 3rd, if that’s how you think you are being the most helpful, it isn’t and you’re not. you’re doing something, sure, and it’s not bad. like i did this, this was my job for a year, my job was to register voters and get young people to vote. i don’t have that job any more because i don’t believe that’s the solution. i just don’t believe it’s the solution. i don’t believe we should be talking about this upcoming election like it’s a solution, because it’s really just another problem we’re going to have to face and tackle, and we can’t talk about this election like anything is going to be solved if joe biden is president instead of trump because it’s not, and it won’t be, and these people are all our enemies, and we have to treat them like they are. that’s not to say don’t vote for them, if you understand all that & that is the decision you come to! just know what you’re voting for, and know what it means.

whatever, i’m not gonna keep going on this, rant over forever just had to spit that out somewhere and if i put that shit on my Facebook i would get unfriended by every white lib i went to high school with so fucking quick…

#now back to your regular programing #long post #rant #us politics #political rant #apologies 5ever for this #anonymous #asks

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festeringfae · 6 years

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If you don't mind me asking, what are your issues with john mulaney ? :)

No prob! It’s not anything where it’s like he should be in jail or anything, and it seems like he’s grown over the years, but I see people kind of...romanticize is a a dramatic word, but like, project stuff on to him because they like him that glosses over a lot of his past flaws in a way that makes me more offended by those flaws. Like, for example, he did a joke acknowledging the Louie CK thing, and someone giffed it with the caption “of COURSE John Mulaney was the first person to make a joke acknowledging the MeToo Movement,” as if John Mulaney in his stand-up specials had not:--done the infamous set where he says you couldn’t make Ocean’s 8 with a cast of all women because they’d be too busy arguing [tbh I haven’t seen him comment on the new movie at all, and idk if that’s a graceful thing to do or shitty, but I do wish he was playing the James Corden part and donated his salary or something]--done a set about Bill Clinton where he talked about him like he was a cool ladies man, including saying things like he “never forgets a bitch.” This was pre- the presidential debate where a lot of women that Bill Clinton raped were gathered by Trump right before hand to speak about it, and before Monica Lewinsky realized her relationship with Clinton had coercive power dynamics regardless of if she thought she consented at the time, but it’s obviously it’s been public information for a long-ass time that Bill Clinton is a rapist and that Monica was his 22-year-old aide. --told a lot of jokes about people thinking he’s gay even though he’s not along with that famous one about the homeless gay person spouting nonsensical stuff at him. My general vibe (personally) with these jokes is that they were made without realizing the homophobic connotations to them but they still made me feel a little icky, and to his credit I get the impression Mulaney might have picked up on this, because while he does make a joke in his new special about his dad maybe thinking he was gay, he executes the joke in a way where the “gorgeous twink” he’d hypothetically be banging in college isn’t a punchline and the phrase itself is used incidentally. Also on SNL he wrote the character of Steffon, so...there’s that.-- the new special itself leans in the first half leans a bit into a “back in the good old days” type of vibe for a bit, nothing that outright offended me but any kind of implication that things used to be better because they were simpler is going to make my dog ears perk up to see if they hear a dogwhistle. Once the special turns to talking about politics in a way that explicitly condemns Trump (and? shockingly? acknowledges that there were legitimate problems with Obama doing some of the same things and that therefore some of the Trump threat is exaggerated but he wasn’t paying attention to politics back then instead of mindlessly claiming Obama is perfect, while also acknowledging that comparing Trump and Obama is a false equivalency because Obama is a functioning adult? Good for you, John Mulaney!) --idk if there’s other jokes about little people/dwarfs/people-with-dwarfism (i’m ignorant of the connotations of the different terms) but I know people have raised concerns about a pattern, which I agree with on the basis of Uh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NctoAyRDtzUand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAQRtjvtQRoactually, you could probably sum up the problem as “wrote Steffon”, because watching those 2 sketches back to back really sums up “homeless person problems, jokes about little people, jokes where gay men aren’t explicitly the punch line but its heavily implied, featuring bonus g*psy slur and other forms of casual liberal racism thrown in occasionally at random.

Anyway, I can tell you were genuinely Just Asking anon, but @ anyone else I’m not saying don’t watch the guy nor am I pretending I don’t enjoy a lot of his work, so don’t start anything with me over it.

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unrepentantwarriorpriest · 7 years

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@ask-anvil First off thanks for stopping by, a fun fact based banter is always enjoyable. Its a pity that you didn’t bring any, honestly I am deeply disappointed in you. I had hoped that my first hate message would be from someone, idk, worthier. Unfortunately for both of us it just happens to be you.

Thank you however for attacking me personally, instead of any of the posts, facts, or arguments I've made. Also thank you for your clumsy attempt at an emotional attack. The problem is that for me to be insulted by you, I would have to respect you or your opinion. Thankfully for my selfish self-esteem, neither is the case. Also, I find it quite entertaining to be poorly scolded about service and duty by someone with experience in neither. I can only assume that you are the anon from Loki ask.

Now onto the meat and potatoes.

If I upheld my oath? If we are going to talk about which president was going to make me fulfill my oath against all enemies foreign and domestic, it would have been the last one. Obama broke damn near every rule in the book, threatened the Constitution, and actively armed and funded enemies of America for his entire term. So…

My duty to protect citizens? Show me Trump's internment camps, show me the homosexual re-education centers, show me the mass arrests of innocent people. You fear a boogeyman who couldn’t care less. He’s not after you, calm yourself. You know what though? Trump has arrested over 1500 pedophiles in his first month, that’s over 3 times what Obama prosecuted all of last year. That’s at least 1500 children he just protected. Which also happens to be 1500 more people protected than all your

combined.

Hes against Muslims? Because of the of the Security Ban? You mean the one from Obamas list, that Obama used, while bombing those same countries? Is he against Muslims because he is rightfully concerned about the vast uptick in Islamic terror attacks? Or that he is once again rightfully worried about Europe’s refugee crisis? The crisis that has increased crime, murder, rape, etc. exponentially. Or because ISIS has literally said that they infiltrate refugee groups as a strategy. Or did you mean the comment about a registry? That nobody has made any move towards?

Free speech? Because he doesn’t like CNN? WHICH MIGHT BE BECAUSE THEY KNOWINGLY PUBLISHED A FALSE STORY ABOUT HIM? Do you think he’s against free speech because he excluded some news groups from the info pool? You mean like OBAMA DID MULTIPLE TIMES, during his administration?

Human rights? I'm not even sure where to go with that one honestly.

As for my being a disgrace to the uniform and my fallen comrades,

You know nothing about this, you could read a hundred books, and a thousand posts

and still have no idea what any of those things means. So don’t preach at me about things you know nothing about. Also your opinion does not negate my citizenship in this great nation,

also your opinion does not grant anyone else i.e illegals citizenship in this great nation. That is all.

#ask #me #haters #libtards #liberallogic #loki

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Why are you suddenly freaking out now that Trump is president? The government has always been evil.

Gee, I don’t know! So, let’s just take a look at the ways it’s affected me IRL.

Maybe it’s because one of my good friends, who only didn’t go to grad school because he was offered a government job that was precisely what he was looking for after he graduates, is now SOL in a couple of months.

Maybe it’s because my significant other, who had basically their entire life planned out job-wise in what they wanted to do and how they wanted to use their degree and what they were really passionate about, isn’t going to be able to do what they wanted to do, thanks to a massive hiring freeze that doesn’t look like it’s ever going to go away and cuts that look like they’re just going to keep happening, and happening, and happening, regarding the specific area they wanted to work in.

Maybe it’s because of my own passion and what I really wanted to do in my life to help my country and its citizens (because, surprise surprise, the Marines made me proud of the good people in my country, and gave me a burning desire to do something for them) getting more or less flushed down the toilet. There’s me, the religious studies major who wanted to get a position in the government to help promote religious understanding, and help settle religious disagreements–yeah, I’m sure I’ll be able to do that, what with literal Nazis in the white house. Literal Nazis who, you know, do casual things like wonder if people of other religions are actually people, for example! Yep, my pagan, Sicilian ass can definitely just work in the government to promote religious understanding, especially with my major-focus of minority religions. NOT.

Oh, yeah, and this isn’t even touching on all my fucking Jewish friends. Do you have any idea how much I am constantly low-key worrying about my friends, but trying not to mention it to them because I don’t want to stress them out? It’s a fucking lot. Antisemitic hate crimes are on the rise, literal Nazis are in the damn White House. Things are quickly turning into a ball of shit that’s rolling down a hill towards a dumpster fire, and I really, really don’t want my friends to get hurt because of some fucking asshole douchebag Nazis. Like, yeah, a Nazi can come after me, and fine, whatever–I’m not white in their eyes, I’m trans, I’m gay, and I know my religion puts a huge target on my back on top of everything. That’s why I’m so adamant about punching Nazis. But my friends? They need to leave my friends the fuck alone. They’re all good people, none of whom deserve to have themselves or their family hurt because of our failure of a president and who he’s decided to openly support, and who he’s decided to openly condemn (and who he’s decided to not condemn).

There’s more than just this, naturally. There’s my worries about my brothers and sisters in arms, and how this fucking loon is going to affect them and their families, there’s my worries about those in my own family who I actually like, there’s my worries about myself, the list does go on. But I think I’ve made my point.

Now, past that, what about the ways it hasn’t actively affected me, but will eventually probably end up affecting me?

Where to start, where to start. Actually, no, I know where to start–the criminalization and utter disrespect of the media. Trump and his consistent blaming and framing of the media (except for a few choice news sources, naturally, most notably Breitbart and Fox News, with the latter very much disliking him) as fake and his pushing of “alternative facts” are horrific. Our president, the leader of our fucking country, is trying to convince us that the truth is fiction and that fiction is the truth. But that doesn’t freak you out? That doesn’t worry you at all? Because I have to ask, have you even been paying attention and do you have any idea the sort of consequences this could bring?

On top of that, there’s the fact that his choices for government positions are all terrible. Betsy DeVos wants to get rid of public schools, which are already strained from not getting enough resources, Steve Bannon is deeply involved with Breitbart, meaning he’s a racist, Nazi piece of shit, but he’s also completely off the fucking deep end on top of that. Scott Pruitt literally sued the EPA dozens of times before, and he doesn’t believe in things like rules, regulations, clean energy, and climate change. The list goes on and on. To act as though this isn’t going to affect me is, well, ignorant.

Then there’s some of the proposed bills that the republicans are pushing right now, that they see they’ve seem to got the opportunity, like, let’s see, “American leaves the UN,” “America leaves the WHO,” “Life begins at conception,” “Dismantlement of the EPA.”

Oh yeah, and let’s talk about the ACA, now that it comes to mind! Now, I’m below the poverty line. I make 2k a year and I’m homeless. I don’t own a car, and currently can’t drive anyways. What makes you think that I’m going to be able to fucking afford health insurance from anywhere? But what makes things worse, is that I am definitely someone who should probably have health insurance. My body is put together with some gum, a feather, a lick, and a prayer. I’m earnestly afraid I’m never going to be able to work a full-time job that requires me to be on my feet for hours at a time simply because my knees and ankles wouldn’t be able to handle it–if just walking around for two-ish hours make it so I shake and stumble, I’m terrified what constant, consistent force would do to me. And this ain’t even touching on my therapy costs!

And the wall, and the vacation days. The wall is projected to cost over 20 billion dollars, not including the money it’s going to cost to either go around or (the more likely scenario) attempt to forcibly steal the land of border towns, the inevitable manning costs, and how the government’s estimates are usually far too low. Oh yeah, and then there’ the fact that Trump plans on taking over 500 vacation days, more than any other president in history and almost twice as many as Obama took in two terms. For that one, I just flat out didn’t even want to know how much it was gonna cost us.

Trump also bottoms for Putin, is harassing and antagonizing our allies, and is a tantrum-throwing baby who signs executive orders he doesn’t know the full extent of. He wants a circuit of court dismantled because they ruled in a way he didn’t like, fired the head of the Justice department for the same reason, and is an absolute fucking laughingstock. There’s more–believe me, there’s more–but I feel I’ve made my point clear.

Anon, I know the government’s never been the best thing ever. But to ask me why I’m freaking out over Trump, someone who’s fucking this country over and affecting my life on a personal level, is just downright ignorant and makes you look like a fucking fool.

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http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/you-are-the-racist-actually-not-me/

I just read an article that claims it’s racist to dislike someone for their vote choice. Namely, this woman is Jewish and she voted for Trump and she’s decided to call all liberals racists.

My argument: No, you are not racist if you dislike a vote for Trump, no matter what race the voter is, and she doesn’t really support her argument at all.

Summary of her argument: I think she’s saying that because she is Jewish, it is racist to make assumptions about why she voted for Trump without hearing her reasoning. Her reasoning is that Obama "grabbed” his executive powers, was trying to mind-control Americans, told the world lies about white privilege, and made America socialist.

She also thinks it’s wrong to call what’s happening in the West Bank a humanitarian crisis. Finally, she believes Palestine is awful to its people, and should let Israel take over.

HUGE disclaimers:

I’m not antisemitic or at least I try very hard not to be, though I’m aware of the fact that as a white person raised Christian in America I probably have a ton of inbred biases and prejudices that I may not even be aware of. Consciously, I’m not antisemitic.

If ANYTHING I say in this post is antisemitic and you want to let me know, please do so, my inbox is open and Anon is on. I’ve tried not to come across as antisemitic, but seeing as how the topic is a Jewish woman claiming liberals are racist for disliking the fact that she voted for Trump, I hope you can see that it’ll be a delicate line to walk.

I am not Jewish nor am I Palestinian. I’ve done personal research over the past two years into the Palestine/Israel conflict because I wanted to understand what was going on. I’ve read articles on both sides of the issue. I’m aware of the multiple solutions that have been presented. I’m not anti-Israel: I feel that as a state/country it has the right to exist. I’m not anti-Palestine: I also feel IT has a right to exist. In the end though, I’m not Palestinian OR Jewish. My experience with the matter has come through articles and news programs and eye-witness accounts. I’m not trying to make a major statement about the crisis on the West Bank with this analysis, though I do believe it is indeed a humanitarian crisis. The author of the article in fact makes stronger statements about Israel and Palestine than I do. I’m just trying to investigate why she thinks liberals are racist for disliking Trump voters.

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I won’t bother pointing out this woman has voted for a man who hates her as a Jewish person and who filled his cabinet with people who hate her, because that’s beyond the point I’m making.

She lives in the West Bank as a Jewish settler and has opened her own business. She does not think Palestine deserves to exist but also claims she doesn’t hate her Palestinian neighbors. She says that all liberals are anti-settler and racist:

“I believe in annexation and I do not support a two-state solution. And that makes me a peace-loving, Palestinian-respecting individual. I’m not the racist. You are. You, my liberal, anti-settler, anti-Trump friends who hate my views — if not me (yet) — are the racists.”

“I have read post after blog after article telling me why Trump voters voted for him. What we think, how we feel, what matters to us (and what doesn’t, like women and/or minorities), and who we are. With some serious name calling. But you didn’t ask me. And you don’t actually know what I think or feel or want or why I voted. So you are pre-judging me. Based on a whole lot of stuff.”

Yes I am. Trump’s campaign was anti-PoC, anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-semitic, and anti-LGBTA. It’s a safe judgement to make, based on a whole lot of stuff, that someone who voted for him supports his views.

“And I have tolerated — just barely — eight years of a president who not only told me what to think and feel, but told the world assumptions about me as a white person who grew up with “privilege” that just aren’t true.”

She’s said she’s Jewish. I know some Jewish people identify as “white” and some don’t. Maybe she’s talking about white-passing privilege? I’m not even touching the idea that she thinks Obama has told her what to think and feel OR told the world assumptions about white privilege.

“I have watched a president grab executive power while Congress screamed and the citizens ignored it.”

The citizens ignored it because we were happy. The president we elected was doing what we wanted him to do. Congress screamed because it was full of Republicans who hated Obama. He had to “grab” executive power (power that he had the right to use) because no one in Congress would let him do what he was elected by the people to do.

“I watched a president on the political left, who was democratically elected and is entitled to his views, create a culture of demonization of the Right in a way that is unprecedented in my lifetime. I saw policies that moved the US towards socialism. And I voted against any more years of that.”

So she voted against the rights that LGBTA people, women, disabled people and PoC have gained. The “socialism” she voted against is the same socialism that has helped thousands of American citizens get health care. So she voted for Trump for the exact reasons everyone “assumes” she did. She didn’t have to tell us, we were right the first time with our assumptions she calls racist.

This is where her arguments that disliking her for voting for Trump is racist end. She goes off-topic for the rest of the article.

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She spends the next few paragraphs talking about antisemitism in the Middle East and her experiences living in the West Bank. Experiences that - according to the research I’ve done - flip the narrative of what’s actually going on in the West Bank to make the Palestinians sound like villains. She uses a very over-used Republican refrain and talks about how Americans don’t respect the fact that we have freedom and democracy anymore and how things are so much worse around the world. None of this has anything to do with her claim that disliking her for voting for Trump is “racist”.

“While the world watches Aleppo burn and Syrian children slaughtered in the thousands every year without so much as single protest or call to action, the same world is out to show that Israeli occupation of another people is the true evil in the world.”

I’m just going to link a separate article here:

“Israeli forces have killed 31 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 2016. This makes it the deadliest year of the past decade for West Bank children, according to Defense for Children International–Palestine research.”

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/12/israeli-forces-palestinian-occupied/

Okay, so moving on from denying the humanitarian crisis happening in the West Bank...

“Jews no longer exist in those countries because of the racism/apartheid against them that is so rampant, so commonplace and yet, has not warranted a single speech in the UN or from the White House condemning it.”

She’s absolutely right. There is severe antisemitism against Jewish people around the world. But me disliking the fact that she voted for Trump still isn’t racist. It’s not racist to dislike someone because of their choice to vote for Trump, even if that person is Jewish. But she really wants you to THINK it’s racist.

Then she goes on a (still) off-topic tirade against Palestine and Palestinians and how awful they are and how they should really just accept Israel as the commanding state and their lives will be so much better.

“When I am castigated for supporting the annexation of land that some of you wrongfully identify as “occupied” (it’s disputed, not occupied, based on International Law; look it up.), you are telling me that Palestinians, whose current situation is far far less than ideal and is causing anger and sadness and needs improvement, all want to live under an oppressive, dictatorial, thug-like regime that embezzles, doesn’t provide girls with proper education, trains in hate, and has no democracy, because it is comprised of Palestinians. (Picking leaders by ethnicity? How racist of you!)”

She really, really hates Palestinians. In case you don’t believe me...

“You are telling me that “they” desire this over living in 100% freedom and democracy in a “Jewish” state that has Arab/Muslim religious rights, education, healthcare, and the ability to make change legally and effectively through serving in the government.”

Yikes. She claims earlier in the article that she doesn’t know how her Palestinian neighbors think or feel and she would never assume to know their thoughts. Yet she seems pretty sure they want to live in Israel...

“The Palestinians living in Gaza are raised on hate. They have missiles in their kindergartens and children’s bedrooms. Girls and women can be beaten, as in most of the Middle East, because of prevailing culture and the leadership. While you seem quite ready to create an official state in a “Two State Solution,” where that is where the bar is set, I don’t have such little regard for Palestinian lives. For little Palestinian girls. I want better for them. Israel can give them better — because Israel already does, for many.”

Again, in case you thought I was just grasping at the racism between the lines... This is what she really truly believes.

I’m gonna just bring back her quote from earlier in the article...

“And that makes me a peace-loving, Palestinian-respecting individual.”

Right. A Palestinian-loving individual who just spewed the intense anti-Palestinian rhetoric I had to slog through. She seems to believe that she cares for and deeply respects Palestinians SO much that they NEED to be ruled by Israel, because they are primitive, violent people who beat their women and have missiles in kindergarten classrooms.

In conclusion: no, it’s not racist if you dislike Trump voters, no matter what race they are.

#palestine #israel #racism #antisemitism

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