#especially if youre american

[anotherpapercut]

this was an addition on another post but I thought it deserved its own because I keep seeing posts about marriage that would fit in on right wing conspiracy YouTube

people should be allowed to choose whether or not they want to get married. posting about how people who don't want to get married are idiots and there's no viable reason why a person might choose not to get legally married makes you sound like Jerry Falwell. marriage should be legally accessible by ALL people regardless of disability, gender or sexuality, but basic rights should ALSO be available to all and not, as this person puts it, locked behind dominant cultural institutions

#jerry falwell was like a big marriage and family conservative btw #theres a post I see going around sometimes where they basically assert that the only reason people choose not to get married #is that they think its 'too permanent' and the post is like 'as if buying a house and having kids arent permanent' #reblogging that is an autoblock for me. you have to be such a fucking ridiculous asshole to agree with that post lmfao #people have been choosing to have long term relationships that dont involve marriage for thousands of years #and they have a myraid of different reasons that dont come down to being too dumb to understand long term commitment #how far down your throat does the boot have to be for you to think the institution of marriage should be the only way to access rights #especially if youre american #its hilarious to me seeing tumblr gays coming on here making posts that sound like things southern baptists have said to me #when the missourian thinks you sound like a reactionary evangelical you know its bad

[rotzaprachim]

im shaking every single student organizer and screaming that they need to separate a demand to divest from arms funding from the demand for a university to cut off all contact with Israeli and Israeli-American scholars and students, a demand which no university will agree to because implementing it would in many cases be very illegal

#We’re not talking about personal ethics or whatever or strategy #We’re talking about the fact that discriminating against people based on ethnic origin nationality or passport is in fact a complete #Violation of almost any especially state universities legal code of conduct #And if they did that they could get sued. BY those same lefty legal aid organizations #Not to mention that in practice it would mean blockinf a bunch of researchers or students who are (by American standards) people of color #Pleaaaaase separate your radical demands from this!

[timeisacephalopod]

If American politics wants to be the funniest 2 weeks to a month before the election both Donald Trump and Joe biden would die of natural causes

#winters ramblings #theyre both old as shit especially biden that man is hanging on by his millionth dollar #and trump runs on spite but like if they BOTH died just normally because theyre old itd be WILD and id still feel bad for Americans #like damn yall your politics is nuts #aye yo terfs dont fucking reblog this i want YOU dead of natural causes too

[hazel2468]

I love how that person who was like "oh ew a Zionist" also has reblogged posts about not being antisemitic and buying into antisemitic conspiracies while ALSO like.

Reblogging posts about how Israel is a uniquely evil "colonial scar" and how Israel is "murdering children" and like. Literally straight up antisemtic shit.

Leveling criticism at Israel that positions it as a unique evil among all other countries and doing literal blood libel (IE, Israel murders Palestiaian babies in a way no other nation kills children) is FUCKING ANTISEMITIC. Israel is JUST A COUNTRY. It is JUST another nation, doing the shitty stuff that other nations do. And if you find yourself railing against Israel EXTRA hard right now, or ever, in ways that you do NOT rail against other shitty countries that do shitty things (and, I can't believe I have to say this, if you find yourself saying that the kidnap, rape, torture, and murder of any civilian ever is justified because "uwu this radical extremist group is freedom fighters"!) then you're a fucking antisemitic, racist bigot.

Like. It blows me away how so many people don't seem to see that Israel, the Jewish state (whether you agree with how it is run or not, whether you agree with how it came to be or not) gets SO MUCH MORE SHIT than other comparable shitty countries... Come on.

Because the alternative is that you DO see it. That you DO agree with all of those things that are STEEPED in age-old antisemitic conspiracy. And you agree.

#antisemitism #i/p #like #idk how to get it through to people #ESPECIALLY my fellow fucking AMERICANS #that Israel is... Just another shitty country #y'all are nowhere NEAR this loud about other shit going on #and there IS other shit going on #constantly #but i don't see you going after other nations saying they shouldn't exist #i don't see you saying China and everyone in it should be destroyed #fuck #I watched all of you say that we can't blame individual Russian citizens for what Putin and his fucking cronies do #but the SECOND Israel pulls some bullshit #you demand every jew in the world bow down and slurp on your cocks #people gor MURDERED in broad daylight on FUCKING VIDEO that the killers POSTED THEMSELVES #and you denied it happened #and then said well if it did happen they deserve it like #you could not be more obvious in your hatred for my people

[autismguy55]

controversial, but: jack being irish is a very common headcanon and i honestly just can’t see it. in chapter 2, jack says “we’re english, and the english are best at everything.” if lotf takes place in the 40s-50s like many assume, the irish war of independence had only happened about 20 years prior and ireland was freshly liberated. i’m sure we all know the atrocities the english committed against the irish, and i just don’t think an irish kid would say “the english are best at everything,” especially so soon after ireland gained independence. i don’t mean to bash anyone by the way, this is only my opinion

#it seems like most people only hc jack as irish because he’s ginger #which like. whatever i guess #but something also rubs me the wrong way about #headcanoning the first character to go ‘savage’ as irish #especially when contrasted against the ‘civilized’ englishman (ralph) #also how lotf is anti british imperialism #showing how the british are just as capable of the ‘savagery’ they accuse native populations of #so again it seems disingenuous to headcanon jack as irish #a native population colonized by the english #does this make sense? #sorry if youre irish just lmk if i’m overstepping #but i am native american and these are just my thoughts #august speaks #not tagging this 💗

[layzeal]

fellas, y'all know i'm a wwx stan and all, so because of that it's kind of an important thing i remind everyone that sunshot wwx did steal the bodies of people's grandma's. like, it's a whole thing how he did steal people's grandmas. he doesn't deny it!! he's actually quite ashamed of it!! it wasn't just wen soldiers, he specifically digged up the graves of innocent wen ancestors and made them fight their own descendants for the pure horror of it

like... the point of the story isn't that wwx didn't do messed up shit during the war. the point is that no one batted an eye when he did it back then, and even celebrated him for it. but after he defected to save innocent war prisioners, suddenly all those things he was admired for were used to demonize him.

mdzs is an elaborate commentary on mob mentality and hipocrisy that spans even beyond the protagonist. to cheapen it to some disney channel movie level of shallowness is insulting at best

(ExR and Simplified CN; chapter 66 of the webnovel)

#before anyone says ''it's okay because it was war/it's okay because they were wens'' #i reeeeeaaaaally need you to reanalyze your views. especially if you're north american #also pause and try to realize who you sound like #like... the novel straight up Says it #it's not even subtle????? #please stop making wwx boring. he's NOT boring #something something the removal of character's agency is modao's fandom biggest problem smth smth #not only wwx's but everyone else's. but this isnt the topic today #modao #lace speaks

[gawayne]

if I’m honest I’m kind of baffled that there’s anti-voting content going around. again. you cannot have forgotten so quickly how bad trump was and how hard the republicans tried to prevent you from voting. did you forget the russian bots??

#whatever #it’s genuinely disheartening to watch americans throw away their political influence over empty morals #in an election that could so easily destroy your own country’s politics too and that you can’t even vote in #alberta has been descending into authoritarianism especially around trans healthcare since 2016 #republican politics are becoming more and more popular in the federal government #when america shrugs and says actually it doesn’t matter if a fascist moron gets into office. both parties are the same. #it does send a message to right wingers internationally #it’s so frustrating. america’s cultural influence is so massive #yknow people here carry around the confederate flag and talk about their constitutional rights now. we don’t HAVE a constitution #anyway

[yardsards]

hysterectomies should be easy to just call your doctor and schedule one for next week and only cost one hundred dollars. like spaying a cat.

#eliot posts #this is jokes i KNOW it's more complicated for humans bc of how our hormone cycles work #so hysterectomies (especially full ones where you get the ovaries removed) can have unwanted side effect #BUT AT THE SAME TIME #the way medical misogyny (as well as good ole overly expensive american healthcare) makes them unnecessarily hard to get #''but what if you want BABIES some day'' no thanks. fuck them kids. #''but what if your FUTURE HUSBAND wants BABIES'' someday. no thanks. not into men. #(and trying to pressure me to carry a child for them would be grounds for divorce to me anyways. fuck you im not a baby machine.) #this post brought to you by: i feel like i got hit by a fucking bus after last night's cramp incident #i want this thang GONE

[bidoofenergy]

god laurel hell is such a good album mitski im sorry the yts were so disrespectful

#mitski #bidoof thinks #still not over tickets being $300 when they were sold at $25 she was in my city the week of my birthday #THAT SHOULDVE BEEN ME 😭😭 #im sorry the yts disrespected strawberry blonde and your best american girl and nobody and #HOW YOU HEAR YOUR BEST !AMERICAN! GIRL AND GO 'well i think it's just about gender' GIRL #okay im fine im fine #i just think if youre a yt mitski fan you should be quiet when poc especially mixed poc speak #mixed kid tag

[archivist-the-knight]

also a good way to go into fantasy society worldbuilding or just worldbuilding in general is just to remember "no animal is inheritly evil, no human is inheritly cruel and deserving of punishment for being alive, and no species is deserving of a death penalty simply for how they look. no matter what."

like. if you have a species that say. is being ruled by an evil overlord and as such rules under a very violent society. however if person of that species is taken outside of this society, they can become a better person and learn from their misdeeds. if a member of the species isn't raised inside the walls of this violent society, they'll turn out just how their parents raise them, not how the society expects them to act.

but if you have a society where the species inside of it is "inheritly" seen as evil or stupid, where even raising a child out of this environment they are still mean no matter what. stop. that does not make sense. that gives off a very weird message. it's way more compelling and thoughtful if you state that its an upbringing, or a society, that makes someone who they are, not that its "inherit." holds up hands. back away from the stage a little. no one is inherently evil no matter what even if you dont like them. and especially even if you dont find them pretty or "cool."

#eden mrraps. #it is all about the upbringing about the society and about the culture!!!! #thats why goblins and orcs are so weird. why is an entire culture of people seen as ugly dumb and brutish huh??? #yes i understand they're supposed to be seen as just something you can pit your party against if you need a fight #but... why? why couldn't it be beastly hounds. why did they have to put into the lore that they're inheritly evil so its okay #when even with magic involved that makes zero sense!!! nothing is inheritly terrible dude!!! #there is also the fact that goblins and orcs more often than not are depicted with garb and outfits similar to indigenous especially native #american tribes in a distinct “racist all indigenous people are brutish” way. which i need to bring up because thats why its so fucking #weird. its because it usually kinda reads as racist. #racism cw #ask to tag

[anotherpapercut]

genuinely it will never stop baffling me how people will wear twilight shirts and talk about team Edward vs team Jacob and then the same people will be like "I'm not basing my personality off of a piece of media (harry potter) made by a transphobe 😌" like good that's great! so you can excuse racism but you draw the line at transphobia? good to know

#remember when twilight came out and there were news articles about the quileute tribe and also if you read the books with your eyes #you know that theyre extremely like INSANELY racist #i remember reading them at age 10 and thinking 'wow this author hates women and native americans' #and i was right bc later i found out shes mormon 😐 #begging you all to take racism and especially pretty extreme racism against natives seriously lmfao

[heavensickness]

i've heard leonardo da vinci's last name being pronounced as both da vinchi and da vinsi & whenever i use one of them, some asshole always "corrects" me with the other pronounciation. so i'm gonna settle on calling him da vinky like God intended

#not having english as your first language can get annoying bc theres always some person insisting that a word is pronounced the other way #and you are like motherFUCKER that word is NOT pronounced like that. like i know it by instinct #also the way americans and brits pronounce foreign names is so annoying to me #especially japanese names etc #shitposting

[kineticallyanywhere]

I guarantee I would watch more sports if the guy at the desk switching cameras for TV was allowed a sound board with a single use of the willhelm scream per game

#imagine getting famous at your normally invisible job because you just have a SENSE for JUST the right moment #to make something funny #american football is especially had because the last thing you want to do is try to turn someone's debilitating injury into a Bit #sports #me talking #parents watching football in the other room

[bitegore]

fucking hate it when people who are hateful little bigots make posts that are completely irrelevant to the thing that they are hateful cunts about and those posts are actually really good but i know they want me personally actually dead and in the ground so i cant be like Yeah

#red rambles #terfs stop making posts forever challenge but also especially can you not do posts that make a perfectly salient point about like #people refusing to engage with languages that aren't their own bc i KNOW that's going to be an in-road to 'transgender is just an american #concept and theres no other cultures with more than two genders' (factually untrue) 'and thats why transphobia is the only #globally acceptable movement' (hateful bigoted trash nonsense) #but like americans refusing to even make the slightest attempt to understand anything in any language that isnt english drives me insane #Google translate is right there also if its six words long and four of those words are english loanwords or cognates i do expect you to jus #use your brain and get with it lmao. its not hard #i was talking about this with a friend like a month ago. how it drives me insane how some of the people around me just refuse to pick jack #anything up and get with it

[chalkeater]

Istg every time POC try to bring up a concern on racism. People will call US racist for connecting the dots. Like. Im sorry youre oblivious?

“youre racist for thinking this is racist / for connecting this to racism” hello??

#‘people headcanon frisk as black too. also a lot of ppl hc frisk as white’ #bro a lot of ppl headcanon frisk as asian to what is ur point #also im not saying people shouldnt fucking hc frisk/kris as asian ok! #if you HC frisk/kris as asian then you especially need to watch your ass #you are on thin ice with me #if i headcanond frisk as asian (which i do) i would not draw them yellow #also did i not say PREVIOUSLY that the humans being yellow in game normalizes people (especially young people) not caring?? #so people will HC frisk as asian and then no one tells them its fucked up if theyre yellow AGH. #‘UM EXCUSE ME why are you fucking hc’ing frisk and kris as asian’ bc im fucking asian???? #someone called me fucking racist?? #im asian and what to reclaim this weird fucking design and i also changed their skin tones?? #at least im not white who calls them asian and draws them yellow?? #fine. fine dont listen to me. dont listen to other asian people and other POC who bring this up #live in your oblivious world where you get mad that POC tell you shit abt this #literally every time Asian people and ESP Asian Americans bring up this issue you all get so pissed #im sorry for swearing at you?? whoever is reading this??? #weve been talking about this for literal years. #dont you fuckijng thing theres a reason it keeps getting brought up for the past almost 10 YEARS. #talking #sorry for bringing my im a poc card?? #god reminds me of what Chara was talking about last night #we grew up with debate classes and the reason for a good Discussion is bc you have to avoid fallacies right #so that means KNOWING your opponent #but in the internet were all anonymous. which is fine! you SHOULD NOT be obligated to bring up your identity at all #but do you know why in any other discussion thats why ppl online say ‘i have a doctorate and-‘ ‘ive studied thsi for 4 years and’? #and so i just keep thinking. ok so my perspective is i am asian right. #my perspective is i have heard from my brothers and sisters who LIVE in the west and their histories of racism and discrimination and propag #so im just wondering. who are the -eople mad at me?? what is your story? youre an artist who cant take criticism?? #ok logging off again to eat my fucking burger #(actually not having a hurger rn but i wish)

[aro-culture-is]

Fandom aro culture is wanting to be obnoxious about your arospec headcanons but the idea of anyone coming after you for them makes you want to scream

.

#citnamora #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod alexander #honestly i just don't understand getting mad at ppl for hcs #it's literally just. having fun with ur blorbos??? #and it's so easy to just. follow the old YKINMKATO (kink tomato) type of policy with anything (not just kink) #(for those who may not know: Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's Okay) #(meaning: you like your thing - and it's not for me! - and that's fine.) #(this is not a moral failing. this is not a personality flaw. this is just called 'we are not the exact same person.') #also especially with queer headcannons like???? bruh. #if we're totally real 90+% of gender/orientation types of hcs are self projection #and mayyyyybe 10% have more textual evidence if i'm super generous #and even then!!! look. people are COMPLICATED. we are not some sort of monolithic group. we have interconnected identities #what reads to one person as 'oh that's a Bi person behavior' is entirely informed by their specific interactions with bi-ness #and - for example - white american culture around bi-ness is almost certainly not the same as han chinese culture around bi-ness