#it should be normalised too

[torgawl]

the arguments homophobic people make against same sex couples raising kids makes literally zero sense considering they raise no problem to single parent families. the problem really isn't that there's an absent gender, because if it was they would chase and/or blame single parents and they don't.

#i never had a father and im okay with that i grew up just fine #my only problem was having to see people push down my throat my mother's ex was a father figure to me when he wasn't #just because he payed bills lol #homophobic people really turn a blind eye to abusive relationships and abandonment who actually traumatise children but look at two people #wanting to build a family who most likely have the resources to give them a happy life and suddenly the world is ending because they are #the same gender #it has no logic other than most of those people don't know how to critically read a 2000 year old book ✌️ #i don't accept religion as an excuse because there's plenty of religious people who respect others #feeling angry about homophobia on this monday morning sorry about that #if i could push a homophobe in the face rn i would imagine caring other people are living their lives and trying to be happy 😭 #by doing normal things too 😭 #how dare you be gay (out of the norm) and try to perform normal society tasks that do not alienate you further from me? #< what they sound like #they're literally just scared that a gay person can look like them and do what they do #imagine your own sense of identity being so weak... #and by normal i mean what's expected from couples obviously not having kids is okay #it should be normalised too #anyways ignore me people have a good day if you by chance read this xd

[not-poignant]

Looking forward to the new chapter of UtB! Also I learn a lot hearing your thoughts on fandom culture, and I was wondering why you think puritanism is getting stronger? Lately I’ve experienced it a lot both online and irl.

Hi anon,

I could write like a 10,000 word essay on why I think moral puritanism is getting stronger in the world, and how that intersects with increased moral panic, and 'anti' or fancop behaviour among fandom.

But I think there's more than one reason, and that at the centre of it, is the radicalisation of political extremes alongside the disdain for human life and education in the USA specifically. In non English-speaking cultures, antis are often considered a uniquely American phenomenon, for example. (They're not, but I do think some of the problems start there).

And from there it's necessary to look at:

The high presence of evangelist religion and their millions in USA politics in particular, and the influence this has on the news and government systems from the top down, affecting legislation, what we see on the media, what gets censored, who gets impacted (SESTA/FOSTA etc.) and so on. When companies like Paypal or similar say they won't support certain sites because they don't support sex workers or explicit artwork, we see extremist perspectives being normalised into the mainstream. Puritanism becomes baked into the system, and accepted as normal. And it has a domino effect, taking one thing away usually means to another thing being taken away, and by 'one thing' I usually mean like... equality, access to basic human rights, and more.

The presence of certain billionaire TERFs in UK politics actively working to destroy legislation over there gives a platform to hateful, bigoted extremists of all kinds, including Nazis (as seen in Australia recently, during a TERF event where Nazis turned up in open support). Also, I'd like to add that a lot of anti/fancop thinking is generally SWERF, anti-kink and eventually TERF in nature, and often homophobic and transphobic even when it's perpetuated by queer folk.

A long-term attack (we're talking over several decades now) on education (especially the humanities and any area that teaches critical thinking) including gutting the funding to libraries, colleges, high schools, primary schools and not increasing the pay of teachers, decreasing the general intelligence of US citizens in IQ tests across multiple metrics (except spatial reasoning). This, combined with the lack of emphasis on teaching nuance and critical thinking, means you get people primed to make didactic, black-or-white decisions and often are prone to radicalisation and black-or-white thinking. There's an increasing lack of ability to understand complex or even reasonably moderately complex thinking tasks. A great example of this was re: anti-vaxxers who said 'if masking works so well, why do you need vaccines' because there was a complete inability to understand that just because something works well, doesn't mean it works 100% of the time. There was a consistent inability too, to grok things like the swiss cheese model. That's not the only reason people are anti-vaxxers and there are some extremely smart people who are anti-vaxxers, but among broader populations, a lack of basic appreciation of nuance and risk mitigation in health was a huge issue. (And it's fairly easy to see this happening in many fandom discussions when we discuss how racism in fiction is generally not great, but that rape in fiction does not cause rape in reality.)

I know the above paragraph is long and unwieldy but it doesn't actually come close to capturing a lot of my thoughts on this so slafkjdsa it'll have to do though. The tl;dr is 'the government said philosophy and critical thinking isn't worth money, so a lot of people don't know how to do it, and anyone who can do it is often attacked or viewed with suspicion' (see also: The increasing suspicion and hostility towards experts in their field x.x). (Oh see also: A lot of people thinking YouTube videos count as 'valid research' for their viewpoints, and a lot of folks just...not ever learning how to research in general).

Something something social media privileging inflammatory and provocative takes as well as clickbait etc. encouraging people to often say things in the worst or least nuanced way possible.

The systemic attacks on democratic processes in the USA (and the UK and Australia and many other places).

The loudest and most obnoxious voices are often the people saying the stupidest shit. As in: It will feel like puritans are everywhere (and there's definitely more of them), but they're also just louder and getting more attention than they used to. It's misleading. Anti-vaxxers are actually a tiny minority for example, and antis are a minority in fandom, they're just...the loudest and the most willing to try and murder real people to defend the rights of fictional characters.

Er so. That's some of it anyway. There's more, absolutely, because I could talk about the presence of puritanism in a lot of levels of our experience/s, whether you're religious or not.

It's frustrating writing about this because I fall into the same trap of knowing that I can't talk about this in as nuanced a way as I want to, even if I get to do it in 1000 words instead of like, a miserable amount of characters on Twitter. Anyone thinking 'but it's not always like that!' or 'but not in every situation!' like trust me, I know. But if I sat here caveating everything that deserves a good caveat this post would blow out even more.

Basically if you try to stop educating your people as much, don't teach them how to research, debate or learn (yes, you have to learn how to learn), and don't give them access to basic needs, and gut your democracy/s, and the people at the top believe a fictional being cares if they're virgins or not or have abortions or not, and you don't care if people commit genocide against the children of your nation because that's not as important as the right to kill them in a moment of anger..., and you create a world where the children of your nation are primed to develop PTSD due to the fear of being gunned down while learning, you create a really great environment for radicalisation, extremism, the safety and comfort of puritanism (i.e. following very strict rules in the hope of fixing what's wrong with the world) while people look for a solution to why they feel so empty and hopeless in their lives.

#asks and answers #look don't listen to me #i just have thoughts about this stuff #and i could talk about it for a long time #a long long time #also a lot of this is echoed and repeated in other countries too #Australia has been gutting its humanities departments in universities for a decade or more #and making education harder to access #the UK has JKR literally putting money into anti-trans legislation #you have extremely powerful (and sometimes very respected) people #saying very hateful things that put the lives of minorities in danger #and it gets quite normalised - debating the right to exist for example #when these things should have never been normalised at all #also my patience with people who believe in a religion that seeks out death and harm and supports intolerance to others #(including 'hate the sin love the sinner' which is bullshit #is very low do not even try to convince me fsdalkjfsa #this post is a mess have a nice day

[anothermonikan]

Y'know I come across like, self-deprecating stuff in my archive and I think about deleting it and I'm deciding against it because it's kind of a reminder of how far I've come y'know? From the 13 year old who didn't think she'd make it to 16, to the 15 year old who got so depressed they didn't think they'd make it to 16, to the 16 year old who thought he wouldn't make it until 18, to me now, 19, being excited at the prospect of being 20! Hey Andy!!! Things got better like people said they would!! Isn't that so cool?? You found your name, your friends, what you want to do, what you enjoy doing, you want to live more than anything now. You're doing your best and I know it's hard that no one seems to recognise it but you're gonna make it through no matter how bleak it all seems!! You're doing good, and you're going to do better. I do not miss being you.

#sorry sorry it's 5am I'm sappy posting about child me again #people are too fucking mean about teenagers still btw #Like the other month I saw a post that was like 'reblog when you went through your hardest experience' #and someone on there tagged '15. only a few days ago but yeah' and OP reblogged the tags being like 'Sorry but this is so funny' #like hey. I'm an adult now. not for long yet but like. I would still point to - #- Whatever the fuck happened between the ages of 14 - 16 as the hardest years of my life. #and seeing that just. how normalised it is to shit on teenagers feelings still like. god. #yeah needless to say I did NOT like that post #I know I have some younger people following me and I need you all to know that your feelings are so fucking real. #And it really sucks that you still exist in a society that still dismisses you the way it does. You'll make it through #gwahhh okay okay back to what I was doing lol #(should be going to bed but it's not o7) #Android.txt

[spideygal]

An idea that I'll draw sooner or later:

Rob: I... feel bad about... what happened.

Gumball: So, you're apologising?

Rob: Yes. I'm sorry.

Gumball: Okay, I don't forgive you.

Rob: Gumball, I said I was sorry.

Gumball: Yeah. And I do not forgive you.

#yes this is bojack horseman dialogue that I found on YT let me be- #i feel like gumball saying that he doesn't forgive rob for the times he tried to kill him and darwin and stuff should be normalised more #is that too much to ask? <:I /gen

[cyrenaica]

I think science communication is so tricky, especially the “we need to convince ~laypeople~ to trust science!” because the scientific method is trustworthy when implemented correctly BUT the issue is often in interpretation of results, and news media often over-generalises. And also improper interpretation of statistics by scientists themselves is worrisome, less so in my field but p-value-hacking is especially bad in e.g. the medical biosciences. Which is how you get news ppl going ham over an article with a very marginal statistical significance

#I’m maybe too skeptical I will redo the maths myself if the data is available #and it always should be!! but sometimes isn’t #this post brought to you by me redoing my coauthor’s stats bc he did not normalise correctly

[pageofheartdj]

no i am not salty with how people think luca and alberto canonically have romantic feelings for each other they are just too young to realize it

cause platonic love cant be intense iguess

#i will shut up xD #i have no room to talk #i make everyone gay too xD #fdjhsjg i dunno it felt so heartwarming #to see such a close strong platonic love #i need a sec XD #i love some good intimate friendship #we should normalise strong platonic love #you dont have to love romantically to fill your heart with that person

[irascible-iridescent]

I just dont really like tv shows and I dont really watch movies and I prefer action/comdey manga and I listen to weird music so I dont ever get bothered by ppl being too much about love. I guess I curate my experience so much that I forget that other ppl dont do that

#personal #sometimes i hear somebody saying that there too much romance everywhere and im like huh? what #dgshsbshsj #also if story just have married couple or somebody is getting together but its not the main focus of the story i just don't even notice #i dunno im tired to care about that #i always felt like i should be like everyone else like i need to date i need to marry somebody i need to find somebody asap #and this was the time when i couldn't even go out in public bc i was noticing all the couples around #and feel like im not normal bc im not like them #but now i just dont care anymore like okay there is no normal actually dont try to normalise human condition we are all freaks #I do feel sad about my past experiences tho

[anauwhere]

WORDS DO MATTER. WORDS HAVE MEANING. WORDS CAN HURT AND CAN KILL. WORDS CAN RUIN LIVES. I am so tired of this trend of choosing what is bad and what is right. If you think that saying the n word in a fanfic In a clear fake context of racism THEN why using the r word in fandom spaces towards real people is whatever because it's not meant to hurt??? One of my favourite things is the usual I'm part of x community and I'm not offended well YOU aren't??? That doesn't mean it's right? We went from "dumb" is ableist to "it's OK to call people fucking mentally ill" bc it's harmless. It's not. Ableist words are the most used online and the most normalised. You can suspend the judgment but still make clear that it's better not to use a certain word not even if you say it just to say it. Calling a beautiful girl ugly even if she's not doesn't change the hurtful and bad meaning of the word. Now imagine calling someone fat or ped0 or delusional or re*Ard or f*g etc or putting white or straight before Jewish or gay to cover up the bigotry. Yes context matter but not in the way a lot people mean. If it's to insult real people using a word that denigrate a whole group of people IT'S WRONG and it is intentional harm.

#fuck these hypocritical bullying no one is offended if u say wow this is so cool it's crazy #but if u say god these people are mentally ill like they should stay in an asylum lol it's a joke relax #it isn't and i sure do take it personally and i can't even claim any of those insults bc they are still too normalised as such #everyone will just tell me to chill

[homunculus-argument]

The good thing about having friends irl who are also all chronically online, but in different ways, is that you can peer-review the weird internet sinkholes you've all individually ended up in, to assess whether any of you are falling too far away from the grasp of normality and the ability to touch grass. This new year's, we started talking about the stuff that tiktok algorithms start feeding you once you settle into a groove.

One of my firends asked the rest of us whether we've gotten any videos about looking in the mirror to check what your facial expressions look like before using them around people. The rest of them nodded along - yes, the face practice tiktoks, we've all seen it. Not having tiktok and hearing about this for the first time, I said holy shit, that does not sound like something that's good for you. Nobody who watches stuff like that is going to be mentally ok, even if they were before.

My friends looked at me in confusion and asked why I'd think that - they've all done the face mirror practice thing, to see if they're emoting like neurotypical people do, and not looking unintentionally blank-faced. Then it clicked for me that oooh, you're talking about masking, this is a masking thing. Then they asked me what the fuck did I think they were talking about.

And I admitted that I had just legit naturally assumed that the tiktok teens have invented a new kind of normalised body dysmorphia, and were posting some shit like "please check if your facial expressions are ugly before leaving the house, you should never smile in public if your smile is ugly uwu"

[flowerflowerflo]

𓏲˳˚⊹ 🧸 become obsessed with yourself.

you are stupid. i said it. there. you are stupid.

let me get this straight. you are out here listening to these people who make you insecure. you are listening and actually giving a shit about people who put you down, make you feel unworthy, inferior, less of the absolute goddess that you are. you people please, you go above and beyond to help people & change yourself for people who would never do the same and for what. for people to like you? honey nobodys gonna like you. you dont even like yourself.

listen ml you need to get your priorities straight. sit down for a sec. like. just sit and genuinely ask yourself "what do i get out of this? how does this serve me?". go on, ask yourself. all these people who constantly think theyre better than you, that they can walk all over you, the ones that dont care a bit for you with their actions even if their words say otherwise, all these habits that only make you feel more low, more insecure, and dont align with where you wanna go in any way, shape or form. honey how in the hell does any of this serve you ???😭😭

i am sick to death of seeing the word selfish everywhere the moment somebody steps up and is brave enough to try and better themselves. the amount of times ive gotten "youre so selfish" or "youve changed" or "you werent like this before" jst because i got out of the most severe depression of my life where i came close to being unalive so many times is riDICULOUS and just shows how normalised insecurity and people pleasing is nowadays.

you see, people are always trying to follow the trend, follow the leader, follow everyone else nowadays. nobody actually honours what they want & that is a reflection of their own insecurity and traumas and emotions they are too scared to face. do you really want that for yourself? youve got such big dreams, such big potential, but what on earth do you do to fulfill them?

i dont think you realise just how limitless you actually are. you can do anything. we are all born the same. its only those with the courage to get up and try who will reach what they want and achieve greater things.

GET OBSESSED WITH YOURSELF. i am so DRAINED and TIRED of caring about what people think. i like something? im gonna do it. i dont care. fuck people pleasing. what are they gonna do when youre rich and famous and successful and thriving? YOU ARE THE ONLY VALIDATION YOU NEED. life is so much easier when you genuinely could not care less, like you just dont give a single shit. you are the only person who knows you inside out and will be there with you 24/7 365. it infuriates me how self hatred is so normalised nowadays. like what the actual fuck, why would you wanna spend your entire life hating the only person whos gonna be with you every second without fail, when you are perfectly capable of reversing that???? its ridiculous.

get up. get obsessed with yourself. the only validation you should be chasing is your own. pull yourself together girl. this is ridiculous. you are so much more than this. start acting like it. be ur own biggest fan. be ur own bestest friend. everything you need is already within you. u got this. 💕

#girlblogging #wonyoungism #it girl #pink pilates princess #self love #self concept #law of assumption #manifestation #that girl #loassumption #loa blog #dream girl

[hobismilitarywife]

.

#can us ameries stop acting all naive and innocent while schooling argentininan armies on how to behave #listen crowding around bts is bad in any case #BUT we have us armies making comparisons on how they’re so well behaved in contrast to others and how we should learn from them #and like LMAO that’s the biggest joke of the century #they’ve now SLIGHTLY gotten better and don’t crowd around the members as much because bts have just visited usa so many times at this point #that their visits have now gotten normalised #i remember back in 2017 and 2018 when they used to literally surround the airports from all sides #this is i think the first time (?) jin has traveled there so of course the level of excitation is at its max level BUT tht doesn’t excuse #all the stalking yes that sucks and shouldn’t be done but i just can’t with all us armies acting high and mighty #like they were no better #there was a time when they too wouldn’t let bts’ cars go

[nunap]

LISTEN I LOVE SKZ BUT THEY WERE LOWKEY FAT SHAMING CHAN AND PROBABLY THINK THAT CHUBBY PEOPLE ARE WRONG AND CRAZY DIETS ARE NEVER HEALTHY STOP FUVKING DEFENDING THIS

#kpop stans bending backwards to defend racism homophobia fatphobia pro nazists ableism etc from and towards their faves as per usual #none of them is safe from being slightly problematic and u can accept it and understand it but defend certain stuff girl. ..shut up #remember the last time that he only drank for 2 weeks?and yall praised him he looked awful and felix too lost so much weight how's that #healthy? kstans already fat shamed the nmixx 13 yo girl when she's normal #it gets on my nerves so much how much it's normalised. international fans only mad when it's about US issues #funny how chan made the i protect u speech to staff just to be told he's fat and he should fix it #maybe chris the call is coming from inside the house.the person you'd take a bullet for is behid the trigger

[vouam]

(I believe this happened a few months ago, absolutely heartbreaking. Rest in peace.)

This tweet is currently going viral with (of course) a lot of men claiming ‘this is because of culture, not religion!’

They clearly lack critical thinking skills because while yes, the religion does not state women should be killed for showing their hair, she is still ordered to wear it by the Quran and threatened with Jahannam (hellfire). A woman revealing her hair is seen as a dishonour to the family - the exact motive for this case. Misogynistic culture obviously is a factor too. The entitlement to women’s bodies, control over their life or death, normalised violence. This case is clearly a result of both religion and culture.

Religion and misogynistic culture thrive because of one another. They use religion to justify their misogynistic cultural views and then claim ‘it’s culture!’ when something bad happens as a result.

In response to these comments from men, maybe do something about the mistreatment of women rather than play mental gymnastics because its culture not religion. Have some accountability. It’s still your culture and your religion, women are dying and you don’t care.

#radblr #radical feminism #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #gender critical #radical feminist community #atheism #islam #feminism #religion #misogyny #honor killing #violence against women

[pumpkzsafeplace]

a│s : agere & sterotypes.

when most people think of agere, they think of the main sterotypes.

" a petite individual covered in pastel colours with a room full of adorable outfits and cute toys. "

now if that's the case for you, i just want to start of by clarifying that it's completely valid to regress in this way. like i always mention, regression looks different for everybody.

however, i do think we should normalise and validate the other ways people can regress too. for some, cartoons and pastels don't work for them- and that's completely fine!

you don't have to fit into one category to be a valid regressor.

there are loads of other ways people have regressed, such as:

°❀ watching horror films. °❀ watching horror game-playthroughs. °❀ playing video games. °❀ watching youtubers °❀ watching twitch streams. °❀ watching crime documentaries. °❀ reading fan-fics. °❀ writing. °❀ doing hobbies. °❀ simply talking with friends. & probably a lot others! <3

gif isn't mine

#sfw agere #sfw little community #sfw age regression #agere blog #agere community #sfw little post #agere little #safe agere #age regression #sfw little blog #age re #age regressor #age regressive #age re safe space #age re blog #age regression blog #agere #agere lifestyle #agere caregiver #sfw little one #sfw little stuff #sfw interaction only #sfw furry #sfw littlespace #sfw only #sfw regression #sfw blog #sfw #age regression caregiver #sfw caregiver

[levyfiles]

some people are mad at steven for a moral issue, tbf. regardless of your thoughts on watcher’s streaming service he did still say he has racist and homophobic friends. he still goes to a homophobic church.

I absolutely recognise that you must have been recently introduced to The Pod Clip that the twitter teens who hate him preserved to break out whenever it's a fresh moment to rally hate against him, but I would advise anyone just receiving this clip from August 2020 being passed around with the angle that Watcher tried to hide this. I and many others were there and just know that I have a zero tolerance standard for people who show no remorse or growth when they uplift racists and bigots.

Mine and other fans who were startled by the statement hoped publicly that it would be an opportunity to clear the air for Watcher because the current political climate was just finally examining anti-blackness in everyone's biases and as someone who is mixed-African growing up in an Asian household, I know that anti blackness is and has been a normalised mindset in the Asian community.

But the thing is, months before this, Steven platformed Tammy and her colleagues to discuss how all of us can work together to stop Asian hate and one of the conversations I highlighte back then was how very clear Tammy was that allyship from the Asian community to the African-American community was tantamount to moving forward. That the us vs them rhetoric has and continues to be harmful for both parties. Ryan and Steven were very involved in this discussion and agreed wholeheartedly.

Having said that, the narrative around the podcast ep never had a chance to be discussed rationally. It really ended up skewed because Steven's response to the backlash from that clip was this

I hope that's legible to you. Many people who felt uneasy about what he said felt a lot better and his intention to say something at the top of the next episode would once again, unfortunately, get derailed because Twitter users (some who are particularly loud about loving and supporting Watcher yet constantly join in on the throng of bullying as soon as the tide turns) were adamant that they needed Watcher to post the clip and Steven's apology publicly on their youtube front page and on the main socials, to literally advertise it when the reality is that not many people were watching/listening to the podcast. For what reason would it be intelligent or good business practice to broadcast this hurtful moment so that more people could get hurt by it?

Watcher's response amid the harassment was to release a full podcast episode where they all discussed what they would do going forward to show that they are allies, not just by not being racist or homophobic but by being anti-these things. They showed that they cared about their impact. It was emotional and devastating to watch and by that time, we knew the pod was likely going to wind down. 2020 was already a miserable time and it was made worse because no matter what Steven or Watcher said at the time, the "stans" on Twitter wanted the man fired, they posted memes saying the world would be better if Steven Lim didn't exist, they wanted him shamed by his staff, and for Ryan and Shane to publicly disavow him. Many of these so-called devoted fans raided the server to yell about how Steven's alleged homophobia hurts them, most of them were white and pointedly talking over people of colour telling them "it's not your apology to accept!". It was a blood bath.

And I see waaaay too many of the same faces utilizing this completely neutral move--that of COURSE could have been executed better--to terrorize Steven, to make petitions to get him fired, commenting on his wedding photo telling him that Tammy should leave him, posting those same damn disgusting memes because you see, a whole bunch of people forgot how disgusting and evil this vendetta was to the point where even watcher's socials started to FOLLOW some of these genuinely mean-spirited individuals. They didn't give a shit about a movement or activism.

What kills me--what absolutely THROWS me--is that these same people expect to be able to return to interacting with the staff, attending live shows, buying merch and sending fan mail as soon as the hate tide winds down. All these people so concerned about a statement referencing faceless hypothetical racists and homophobes that Steven never named nor attributed any context for--as he was never given the chance--are so quick to dehumanize and caricaturize real human beings to their faces and they think this is a normal and acceptable behaviour.

You'll have to excuse me, as an older fan who has seen my fair share of normalised homophobia and racism in these communities, if I disagree.

#watcher #steven lim #discourse

[kayas-kosmos]

Because of what's happening on Twitter...

I've made a little diagram to demonstrate why billionaires and the ultra-wealthy are bad for society.

(Text in Image)

"If we view society as a body, every sector is like a different organ within the body that serves a function and works in harmony with other organs to maintain balance. Every part of the body is important for the whole thing to function."

"The ultra-wealthy want you to believe they are the beating heart and thinking mind of the society – they are the innovators who create our jobs and their brilliance drives society forward. They deserve to be at the top of society because they have earned that. Without them, the body won’t function because they are the most important part."

"In reality, they are more like a malignant tumour, sucking all of the blood (resources) away from everything else (people and the planet) to fuel its own infinite growth, depriving the rest of the body and slowly killing it. Workers create all of the innovation and keep things running, the ultra-wealthy take all the credit."

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This is a public domain image so feel free to pinch it for whatever.

Elon Musk has put the careers of thousands of small business owners who depend on Twitter (myself included) in jeopardy by completely running it into the ground. Before this, Mark Zuckerberg had already been doing the same when he started pursuing Metaverse, making Instagram and Facebook much more unusable for artists. Do I really need to go into other examples of CEOs and very normalised practise of wage theft?

Meanwhile, the UK currently has the richest Prime Minister in its history. What is this man doing with this wealth? Continuing the Tory legacy of austerity in order to line his pockets and the pockets of his crony friends. This has resulted in a devastating cost of living crisis that continues to ravage the country as people's energy bills skyrocket out of control.

My diagram is pretty basic and lacks nuance, there's definitely more I could elaborate on with this comparison but I really don't have time. I just want people to get the basic point of how billionaires view themselves vs what function they actually serve. I'm also not here to debate whether some organs are more important than others since I'm not a doctor, that's not really the point here. And no, I don't care if people think I'm being harsh by comparing billionaires to a tumour. If they don't want to be compared to one they should stop acting like one. Jeff Bezos could end world hunger right now and chooses not to.

Also, I know a lot of people are going to come at me with the argument that billionaires give away massive amounts of money. First off, people like Jeff Bezos only give large sums of money to charity a.) for the sake of improving their public image and b.) because giving to charity allows them to write it off in their taxes. Also, charities in of themselves have a lot of problems, but that's a blog post for another day. Mutual Aid is a better way to help people directly. Really, the ultra wealthy need to be taxed, of course they do everything within their power to avoid taxes.

Also:

"Earning a lot of money" and "holding onto a lot of money" are two different things. You cannot be a multi-millionaire unless you hold onto that money. If you give away massive chunks of it to enrich society, you cease to be a billionaire.

Oh and this is worth a watch, too.

Furthermore:

Also before the inevitable great man comments:

Being a billionaire is a moral failing. Nobody needs that much money.

[Slight edit here - I made the assertion that a billionaire could not spend all of their money in their lifetime, but as someone in the comments pointed out it's very easy for them to completely waste billions in no time. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have shown that].

Anyway, if you would like to see more anti-Capitalist art from me, I am currently working on a webcomic called "Flowerpunk" - a story about a group of anarchists who are trying to save the city of Wyrdon from a supernatural plague known as "the rot." The comic heavily discusses disaster Capitalism and how the rich will use mass death and destruction as an opportunity to further line their pockets.

I also like to do little anti-Capitalist doodles relating to this project, which I plan to make into posters at some point.

Please consider donating a Ko-Fi also if you would like to help support this project. I am really struggling at the moment because I've basically lost a massive chunk of my client base due to this Twitter implosion and also because of the AI BS that has made it impossible for me to get any reach nowadays. The last year or so has been an absolute nightmare for my career because of all of this.

Thank you all for your continued support! Hopefully I can re-establish my audience here on Tumblr and wherever else I decide to go.

#Twitter #twitpocalypse #elongated muskrat #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #tax the rich #tax the 1% #tax the billionaires #anti capitalism #workers of the world unite #working class solidarity #Can you tell that I am absolutely fucking done with this BS?