#divide and conquer

[odinsblog]

🗣️ Pay very close attention!

Please forget, for a moment, that many people live in the intersection of simultaneously being Black + LGBTQ + refugee + Asian. Instead, I am asking you to look at how the Republican culture wars are pitting one identity against the other.

DeSantis has banned any mention of Gay and Trans people, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, Critical Race Theory, and much more… but now he is mandating Asian American history.

Florida and other Republican controlled legislators around the country are whitewashing and erasing Black history from school history textbooks, while also making Asian history a requirement. ⁉️

Please be just a little bit curious.

You must ask yourself, why?

WHY would an abjectly racist politician ban one culture’s history, but require another’s?

DeSantis is playing Asian people, the “model minority,” against—in his eyes—all of the “less desirable” minorities: Black people, Lgbtq+ people, etc. etc. etc. It’s a classic divide and conquer strategy.

Please see his ploy for what it is. We are all stronger together. Republicans know this. It’s why they’re working so hard to drive wedges between us.

Don’t fall for the okie doke.

#politics #stop aapi hate #republicans #ron desantis #model minority #divide and conquer #martin niemoller #identity politics #weaponized identity politics #culture wars #idpol #education #intersectional feminism #intersectional social justice #intersectional womanism #feminism #womanism

[reality-detective]

This is how they divide the people 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #united we stand #divide and conquer #operation mockingbird #you decide

[caitlynmeow]

Bela: Cassandra, keep an eye on Daniela today. She's going to say something to the wrong person and get punched. Cassandra: Sure, I’d love to see Daniela get punched. Bela: Try again. Cassandra, sighing: I will stop Daniela from getting punched.

#the responsibility of an older sister towards her younger sister #but cass is a child at heart #she wants to have fun #and bela is not having any of it #the only way cass is going to learn responsibility is thu HER #because she doesn't intend on having a useless younger sister #one is enough and bela doesn't want to bother with dani just yet #she needs to work on cass first #take them one at a time #divide and conquer #this is bela's policy when it comes to managing her sisters #daniela dimitrescu #cassandra dimitrescu #incorrect house dimitrescu #resident evil 8 #house dimitrescu #resident evil village #incorrect quotes #incorrect resident evil #re8 #bela dimitrescu

[haggishlyhagging]

Women are unique, whole, brilliant entities. Each woman is a universe unto herself. Each woman is a revelation.

Men have exploited this relentlessly. Divide and conquer is their strategy, and it has been deployed to devastating effect to keep women apart. Men, as the parasitic entities they are, and in their attempt to stay in power, relevant, and centered in women’s lives, have done what any entity at risk does: fight tooth, nail, and claw to survive.

Why are men at risk? Because they are an evolutionary dead end, and they know it. They understand on a subconscious, visceral level that it doesn’t matter how many scientific breakthroughs they discover, or how many athletic events records they break, or how many resources they hoard. They know that if any future for humanity exists, they are not coming with women on the journey.

Men only ever evolved as a way for women to share their genes with each other. Share. Not dominate, not control. Egalitarian distribution of DNA codes, intentionally done to create more and more unique, whole, and brilliant entities.

If humanity is to survive, it will only ever be because women as a class turn their faces away from division amongst each other and unite to save one another and our planet. And men know this, and men, in their trembling and fear, knowing they are doomed, are hoping beyond hope that their strategies to maintain dominance will force women to find a way to save men, too. Because without us, they are evolutionary toast.

#female oppression #male entitlement #males are incompatible with health #female separatism #patriarchy #male inferiority #center women #y chromosome #divide and conquer

[burningtheroots]

"Not like other girls" vs. "not all men" — patriarchal division

We all know the popular "not like other girls" (or "not like other women", respectively) trope.

I‘ve been thinking about it a lot recently and what really annoys me is that society teaches young girls and women that girlhood and womanhood are inherently "bad" and hence not being like other girls and women is "good" and "desirable".

While many people believe that it stems from the girls and women themselves, I‘d like to emphasize the impact of growing up in a deeply patriarchal, misogynistic society and system which ultimately influences the steps we take.

The world we live in is built on female oppression, exploitation, rivalry and division. By ensuring that girls and women believe in what the patriarchy teaches us, men ensure their power and authority as we‘re busy trying to "fit in" and prove that we‘re the "good girls/women". Girls and women are conditioned to look down on other girls and women and aspire to be different — to be validated by men that they‘re not this flawed image of girlhood and womanhood.

Once we have internalized these misogynistic beliefs, we start to make our lives revolve around them and also spread them further. That‘s a common technique used by oppressors — divide and conquer.

Now we have lots of girls and women who desperately want to be different from other girls and women, who want to be as close as possible to whatever gets them men‘s approval and highlights that they‘re actually good instead of "flawed" like the rest.

Girls and women are always either "too human" or "not human enough". Whether it‘s looks, interests, personality etc.. We‘re trained to make entire lifestyle choices based on other people’s men’s perception. We‘re forced to balance between idealized womanhood and demonized womanhood.

The solution we’re presented? Putting other girls and women down to "prove" ourselves.

And it‘s not like there aren’t any tools for this, in fact, the patriarchy provides them abundantly.

The beauty & diet industry strive to divide us.

Fun activities which are still "gendered" to this day strive to divide us.

The media, social platforms and advertisements strive to divide us.

Sexualization and objectification strive to divide us.

Relationships with men strive to divide us.

Even when men commit atrocities, they divide girls and women, not men.

On the contrary, men and boys are taught to be united. Not in a coddly way, perhaps, but in a way that gurantees solidarity and immunity when needed.

"Not like other boys/men!" isn‘t a thing, instead, we got "not all men!", a.k.a. "I‘m like other men and because I‘m not bad, they aren’t, either!".

Whilst men are more prone to violence and deliberately inflict emotional and physical pain on others on a much larger scale than women, boys and men aren’t taught that it‘s desirable to be different from other boys and men. Rather, they‘re taught that it‘s good, desirable and admirable.

Instead of aspiring to be different — to be better — their focus is on defending men as a whole and excusing or justifying their misbehavior, whereas we‘re told that we must hold each other accountable for the tiniest missteps, especially when they involve men.

Girls and women are taught that their existence (& humanity) in itself is flawed, undesirable and needs to be strictly regulated, judged and altered.

Boys and men are taught that their existence (& humanity) in itself is self-evident, desirable and worthwhile.

That‘s why I put female solidarity and sisterhood above all else.

That‘s why I proudly say that YES, I am like other girls and women. We aren’t a monolith, we‘re individually unique, and yet we share the experience of being female, and we‘re united in our mere existence as women, and we don’t need to put other women and girls above or beneath us, or allow us to be alienated from one another.

#radfem #radblr #women deserve better #radical feminism #feminism #radfems do touch #radfems do interact #radfems please touch #womens rights #sex based rights #not like other girls #not all men #fuck the patriarchy #sexist stereotypes #womanhood #gender critical #female solidarity #sisterhood #divide and conquer #internalized misogyny #womens voices #women won't wheesht

[theiravshade]

"Important moment...completely unspoken…there was originally some scripted language, and they both chose not to say them, which is a great decision."

-Martin Wood, Director of Stargate SG-1 | Divide and Conquer

#Your shipper is showing #Stargate SG1 #Divide and Conquer #Jack/Sam #Richard Dean Anderson #Amanda Tapping #Martin Wood #What were the lines tho Marty #BTS #T.V.S.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

#class war #class warfare #classism #divide and conquer

[forgottendreamsss]

Divide and Conquer

That’s what the history books will say led to the success of the fascist American empire.

The American people were so busy fighting each other. Liberal vs. Conservative. Black vs. White. Rich vs. Poor. Able vs. Disabled. Christians vs. Atheists. Straight vs. Queer. Born Citizens vs. Immigrants.

These titles we’ve imposed upon ourselves are just lines they’ve drawn to trick us into thinking that we’re different. That were enemies. That there is a wrong and right within the American people, but the only thing wrong with this country is the people in charge. Our so called leaders profiting off the victimization of their own people.

“The land of the free” but the only ones actually free to do as they wish are the same ones promoting that propaganda. Most modern empires survive for a few hundred years before a revolution wipes the slate clean and those left get to try again, try to do better. America is long overdue for some change, this country has passed its expiration date. But the government has such a solid grip on its people, a grip that threatens more and more each day to snatch our final breaths right from our throats, that we can’t even imagine a world in which our voice matters. But it does, it’s the only thing that does, they have power because we let them, but it’s supposed to be an equal transaction, and yet most of us can barely afford to live while they spend our money on supporting genocide and senseless war.

And I’m sick of it. I’m so tired of feeling so useless, so voiceless, so small, when I know that our government would be nothing without us. They poison our air, our water, our food, our minds, all to keep us fat, sick, and dumb. But they forget that they would be nothing without us. They forget that the second we’re done with them and their ideals and rules, that it’s all over.

The American people need to wake up.

The American people need to take back their voice. The American people need to shout and get loud and say “No More.”

The American people need to take back their country, before it’s too late. Before there are no American people left. ✊🏾

#free palestine #free gaza #joe biden #revolt #freedom #fuck joe biden #fuck the gop #fuck war #rewrite history #there’s no time like the present #wake up #stand up #gaza #we can be better #divide and conquer #we’re stronger in numbers #fuck genocide

[odinsblog]

Effectively, Netanyahu's entire worldview collapsed over the course of a single day. He was convinced that he could make deals with corrupt Arab tyrants while ignoring the cornerstone of the Arab-Jewish conflict, the Palestinians. His life's work was to turn the ship of state from the course steered by his predecessors, from Yitzhak Rabin to Ehud Olmert, and make the two-state solution impossible. En route to this goal, he found a partner in Hamas.

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he told a meeting of his Likud party's Knesset members in March 2019.

“This is part of our strategy - to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

—BENJAMIN NETANYAHU actively supported Hamas, to sow division amongst Palestinians and undermine a Two State Solution

#politics #palestine #gaza #israel #hamas #benjamin netanyahu #divide and conquer #two state solution #hamas ≠ palestine #benjamin netanyahu is a war criminal #war crimes #genocide #never again #never again to anyone #bds #boycott divest sanction

[justbeingnamaste]

"We're here with the world's most dangerous man, the most censored man in the English language," announced Tucker Carlson in his 46th episode of Tucker on X. "But honestly, when you get him in front of an outhouse in the woods, he doesn't seem so dangerous."

TIMESTAMPS:

2:46 Alex Jones predictions

15:07 Deplatforming

21:59 Dividing us on race

25:37 The border

28:09 Austin

32:12 New World Order

42:09 Brian Stelter demon video

50:57 Depopulation

1:07:51 Food

1:13:51 Whiskey

1:16:22 Presidential election

#Alex Jones #Tucker Carlson #Depopulation #Agenda #Green new deal HOAX #Digital Currency #Divide and Conquer #Must See Video :) #Just Being Was Here #kill switch

[reality-detective]

Divide and Conquer... You Decide 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think for yourselves #think about it #think for yourself #do your homework #question everything #ask yourself questions #do some research #divide and conquer

[alwida10]

Loki season 1: divided the fandom in an unprecedented way.

Loki season 2: does what everyone thought impossible and unifies the fandom.

….

… in the shared feeling of disapproval regarding “the other” Loki fans.

#loki series negativity #loki series critical #loki series criticism #this is mostly for documentation of the crumbling fandom #the Loki series did what no Thor movie -not even ragnarok- managed #it doomed loki #Feige et al. never intended for him to keep him around as much as they ended up #all because of his massive fandom #and devoted fans #divide and conquer #they managed to divide the fandom which drives away massive amounts of fans #most of the remaining focus rather on infighting than fan-activities #it’s already obvious season 2 has much less hype than season 1 #this is the beginning of the landslide #the next installment after this will have even less #and then Loki will be remembered as he is shown in “his show” #Sylvie might prevail tho #she has potential

[haggishlyhagging]

It is necessary to realize that the most sacrosanct article of sexual politics in the period, the Victorian doctrine of chivalrous protection and its familiar protestations of respect, rests upon the tacit assumption, a cleverly expeditious bit of humbug, that all women were "ladies"—namely members of that fraction of the upper classes and bourgeoisie which treated women to expressions of elabroate concern, while permitting them no legal or personal freedoms. The psycho-political tactic here is a pretense that the indolence and luxury of the upper-class woman's role in what Veblen called "vicarious consumption" was the happy lot of all women. The efficacy of this maneuver depends on dividing women by class and persuading the privileged that they live in an indulgence they scarcely deserve. A use of intimidation in one class and envy in another effectively prevents solidarity. The young middle-class woman could be frightened into social and sexual conformity with the specters of governessing, factory work, or prostitution. And the less favored female is left only to dream of becoming a "lady," the single improvement to her situation she is permitted to conceive of, the hope of acquiring social and economic status through attracting the sexual patronization of the male. Despite the fact that class feeling prevented this from happening very often, it is a recurrent and favorite fantasy in the literature of the period. When the only known "freedom" is a gilded voluptuousness attainable through the largesse of someone who owns and controls everything, there is little incentive to struggle for personal fulfillment or liberation.

-Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

#kate millett #female oppression #victorian #chivalry #womens history #divide and conquer #the more things change the more they stay the same

[stillsurfacequietpond]

Preeeetty sure this is what the Metatron is thinking here. He has Plans.

#divide and conquer #no hate for anyone but the Metatron #ineffable husbands #a group of the two of us #good omens #good omens 2

[callese]

#just like in Portland according to mayor TearGas Teddy #divide and conquer #ftp #defund the police #defundthepolice #police brutality

[curtvilescomic]

#generations #divide and conquer #But mainly choose drunk over drama