#it’s the constant revisionism

[lewisinho]

crofty referring to ad21 as an ‘amazing sporting moment’ seriously are they not ashamed? there was absolutely nothing sporting about it…jeez the lengths they will go to to justify the disgrace of the robbery that transpired

#TIRED #because it’s accepted by the media #it’s the constant revisionism #every time any time sky sports people open their mouths #like I know it’s the corporate line #or the ‘embargo’ as ted referred to it once #says a lot #lewis hamilton

[rickybaby]

The Daniel Ricciardo show at Silverstone 2017

Daniel got knocked out in Q1 after suffering a turbo failure in Qualifying. He would start the race in 19th and charge his way through the field to finish 5th.

Ricciardo was putting in the hard miles with the drive of the day in his wake. Not only that but he had to do the job almost twice over. An early charge up the field to 12th was wasted when he went wide and dropped once again back to 18th. He duly set about the task again and pulled off move after move, displaying the commitment and judgment in overtaking that has proved so exciting. Points might have been the target but by the time he dealt with the Force India cars of Esteban Ocon and Sergio Pérez, the Australian had made it clear he was not satisfied with scraping into the top 10. (x)

#thank you to the YouTube algorithm for recommending this in time for the Silverstone weekend #it’s just frustrating to see the constant revisionism of Daniel’s career whether at redbull or Renault #he was pulling drives like this when he never once had a championship winning car #just imagine how much more impressive his stats from his redbull days would have been if that car wasn’t constantly breaking apart on him #this man was already in the points by lap 19 when the car wasn’t anywhere near the rocketship it is today #and then you have checo missing q3 thru his own mistakes and having people fucking applaud him for making it onto the podium #in the car of today #when Daniel used to pull drives like this constantly #case in point monza 2017 where Daniel qualified p3 but then dropped to p16 after a grid penalty and he’d proceed to finish p4 #with him closing the gap to seb in p3 #and people have the guts to question why many others consider him to be the best rb driver after seb and max

[faehelmet]

legitimately logging onto twt is just depressing at this point

#txt #its always been a very Stressful app to use #but something legitimately shifted since mid october #constant misinfo + historical revisionism happening on that app #every time i log on #overall this site is much better. like it's not a Constant stream of shit like twt is #and less misinfo. and people link their fucking sources #probably just gonna leave twt altogether soon tbh! just gotta get a thing together with my other accs #and thatll be it

[seraphimfall]

sorry, but kanye shouldn’t have to verbally confirm to everyone that “yes, i literally am a for-real nazi” for people to get the message.

it shouldn’t have been allowed to get this far in terms of public platforming. we knew he was a nazi. we didn’t need to give him constant platforming for two months in order for him to “explain himself”. when someone espouses antisemitic conspiracy, BHI extremist beliefs, and holocaust denial/revisionism, they are a nazi.

if kanye hadn’t literally labeled himself a nazi, there would still be millions of people arguing that he isn’t one— despite the fact that he believes almost every core tenet of modern nazism.

the only thing this platforming has succeeded in is spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories to a whole new audience (not to mention dragging nick fuentes and milo yiannopoulos back into the mainstream). the level of normalization and indifference towards these kinds of beliefs on public platforms is terrifying.

this is what happens when people are too scared to just call a nazi, a nazi.

#kanye west #antisemitism #progressive politics #progressivism #leftism #news #exvangelical #religious trauma #apostasy #ex christian #breaking news #leftist #ex cult #ex fundamentalist #celebrity news #ex fundie #apostate #leftisbest #deconversion #ex religious #ex catholic #fuck kanye #losing my religion

[nicollekidman]

i have to say, taylor swift’s constant revisionism towards her own art is..... so annoying and disappointing to me <33333

#like at the end of the day i think that's what it is #it's the kid in class turning in the test early getting one question wrong and crying sobbing trying to retake it... girl go sit down #it's also someone looking back at their teenage diary and rewriting passages so it's less cringe like sTOP!!!

[frazzledsoul]

Probably preaching to the choir here, but I find the constant revisionism regarding Christopher Hayden's sporadic attempts at fatherhood rather frustrating.

I often see his fans argue that Lorelai "kept Rory away from him and refused to let him participate" and that "she made it uncomfortable for him." But did she? She declined his marriage proposal because he was uninterested in Rory from the beginning. She left home and moved thirty minutes away, worked her way up to a middle-class life, and made it clear he was free to do whatever the fuck he wanted. We're told he calls Rory every week (I find this unconvincing, but whatever), he sees her on holidays, he knows how to find Rory and Lorelai when he finally visits them 14-15 years after they move there. It sure doesn't sound like Lorelai hid her away and didn't tell Christopher where they lived or refused to allow him to visit her. Not to mention that we are explicitly told in season 1 that she's "always held the door open to her, you just never wanted to use it" and he agrees.

The other thing she tells Rory in that S1 episode is that "he's going to come and go as he pleases, hon, you know that." Contrary to the belief that she kept Rory away from him, she actually is super accommodating any time he wants to show up and contribute and she never rebukes him for all the times he didn't feel like it. She doesn't appear to ever ask him for money or criticize him for being a bad dad and of course, she keeps sleeping with him any time he does anything half-decent. She's raised Rory to think that it's inevitable he's going to treat them like crap and only show up when it's convenient for him and that they can never be mad at him or hold it against him because she didn't marry him when he offered so long ago. The idea that he had a responsibility to Rory regardless of whether Lorelai was willing to be in a relationship with him is not a reality in their world. It doesn't help that both sets of grandparents seem to blame the entire situation on Lorelai and don't expect Christopher to contribute in any way.

And of course, Christopher doesn't really care about Rory. He's mostly eager to act like a dad when there are cracks in Lorelai's relationship with Luke and he senses an opportunity to get in her pants (he usually succeeds at this). Once that opportunity goes away, he disappears. He drops out of Rory's life once Gigi is born. He doesn't appear to be in contact with her after he and Lorelai divorce until it's time for her graduation. After Lorelai stops talking to him once she reconciles with Luke in the post-OS period, he stops talking to Rory, too. Even the offer to pay for the second half of Rory's college education only comes when he inherits a bunch of money he didn't earn and offers to buy *Lorelai* anything she wants until Rory reorients his offer towards something practical. Rory is a means to get to Lorelai and not much more. And of course, we know from AYITL that he sends Gigi away to her mother eventually as well, giving up on her too.

This is not to say that Lorelai always behaves perfectly. She avoids telling Rory about Christopher requesting to make holiday plans with her for a few days and she does a lot to poison Rory against Christopher/Sherry in S3 because SHE'S mad at him for rejecting her and Rory feels she has to take her side. Still, I don't feel this is equal to all of Christopher's neglect and at any rate Rory is a big girl now, a legal adult, and can develop a relationship with her dad beyond her mom if she wants. Christopher doesn't appear to be terribly interested.

(Oh, and the aforementioned S2/S3 behavior is why you shouldn't be best friends with your daughter, as it's inevitable that your hurt feelings will get in the way of what's best for her and her relationship, however frayed, with her other parent. That is another topic, though).

In the end, all this does have a profound effect on Rory. She's often submissive in her relationships (especially with Dean) and lets problems fester instead of dealing with them because that's what's been modeled for her. She also regularly cheats with old boyfriends because her parents taught her that you always have a claim on your first love and that overrides whatever commitment you're currently making. And of course, in the AYITL era she seems to have copied his life patterns a bit too much, as she's got no real incentive to change at this point.

Lorelai wasn't too hard on him. She was way too easy on him and put up with too much of his shit over the years, and that had its own reverberations. Both Lorelai and Rory should have been allowed to be angry at him for his neglect. It never happened.

#unoriginal thoughts #anti christopher hayden #lorelai gilmore #rory gilmore #gilmore girls

[angelsdean]

MAX When my Dad used to look at me, there was hate in his eyes. Do you know what that feels like? SAM No.

mmm i just think it's so so very interesting that sam sincerely says no here. that he cannot relate to this experience. which could be interpreted two ways. either, despite everything, despite all the arguments with john and constant clashing sam still felt loved by john (azazel does taunt dean in 1x22 by saying sam was clearly john's favorite, which yes, demon manipulation tactic, but it is interesting that he specifically cites when john and sam would fight to dean, "it’s more concern than he’s ever shown you" etc etc). OR the other interpretation of sam's response to max is that sam is already engaging in some samcoded revisionism. in 1x08 Bugs sam already expressed desire to make amends with john. he gained some new info he didn't know before, which changed his POV on his relationship with john. john DID care, john WAS proud of sam for getting into stanford. sam is the first one to say the phrase john "did the best he could." he says he wants to find john and apologize for everything. sam also understands john's POV better now too, being in his shoes. he can understand john's grief over mary, losing jess in the same way and becoming consumed by the need to find the thing that did this and get revenge. so it's easier for him now to see john in a more forgiving light.

and by the end of 1x14 he's also expressing how "lucky" they were that john wasn't more like max's dad. and then there's dean's quiet reaction, the way his face tells a different story. the subtle expression that sam completely misses. and either sam just didn't know (likely, because there's so much dean sheltered sam from) and / or sam is revising history. and if we take future episodes into account then we Know he IS doing at least some revisionism bc young sam said "you don't want to see my dad when he's drunk" implying john could be a mean drunk just like max's dad. he might not have seen john ever "discipline" dean (like after flagstaff) or experience that himself either but he knows john wasn't someone you want to be around when he's been drinking. sam might not know the extent of john's "drunken rages" to quote toni bevell, but he's at least aware that john could be a mean drunk too. so it's just all very interesting to me that sam chooses to not identify with max in this way, despite over-identifying with him in many other ways.

#vics spn rewatch #spn 1x14 #family dynamics

[crymeariveronceagain]

thoughts on Orwell's 1984 because it took me 2.5 months but i actually got all the way through it!

oh my gosh this book is going to live in my head for an eternity

Orwell is a fantastic writer, and I really enjoyed his style. It's all very intense, and the vibe is a constant intensity. There are very few moments without a sense of being watched, without a feeling that doom lurks just on the horizon, and when, in the rare moments where that feeling of paranoia fades and peace begins to set in, he subverts it, and that's the moment something leaps out of the shadows. It's masterfully crafted and really well done.

This book is extremely obviously about socialism, and the dangers of moral relativism and historical revisionism. Sure, you can throw in other messages too, about like cult worship, secret societies, whatever. But Orwell put this world together as a criticism of the ideas of socialism and socialist ideology. He's clearly an anti-socialist, which makes complete sense, based on his background, life, and his other works, what we know about him, and even this story.

1984 follows this guy, who literally is just some guy, as he figures out he has a brain and he doesn't want to scream in hatred when he's told to.

Okay, speaking of, the amount of parallels that can be drawn from this book to society is disturbing. Like even if we go off of the idea of the "Two Minutes Hate", which is the daily time in which everyone is organized to basically yell at the person society has chosen to hate, that day, one can easily draw parallels between that and say all of social media electing to hate on this person today, that person tomorrow, ruin their life, and then move on. It's disturbing.

Also, a lot of Orwell's thesis statement in this book is on the idea of language and how it's connected to thought. He has this idea that one can only truly think a thought if one has the words to describe that thought, and if one cannot name the feelings, one cannot really be having the feelings. It's a horrifying concept, but one that basically every person needs to keep in mind. The vocabulary you possess controls how and what you think. What you cannot name, you cannot know, you cannot see, you cannot truly understand.

So like, one thing this book really tries to tell you is to pay attention to the words you use. Why do you use them? How do you use them? Where did you learn them? What are their origins? Etc etc, because, really, whoever controls the language controls the minds of the people who uses it.

I thought the romance was horribly unromantic, and it really drove the point home about the mental state of both Winston(just some guy) and Julia. Their being in a relationship is in and of itself an act of rebellion against those who want to abolish everything.

The whole point of this book really really comes back to, over and over, this idea of power. Who has it, who should have it, how it works, why people want it, blah blah blah. It's done spectacularly. You reach the last page and you sit there like "Dang. What did I just read."

Big Brother, also, is a super interesting concept that's used in the book, and I must say the idea that eyes are always watching you and might be listening to you reminds me of all those "Hello FBI guy who lives in my laptop computer and watches my search histories" memes. But in a trippier way. Anyways. Just a thought.

The total lack of privacy is so prominent in the book. Every private moment sticks out like a breath of fresh air.

If you're going to read this book, like, one thing to remember is that a) nothing is what it seems, and also b) the Party REALLY KNOWS WHAT IT'S DOING. Never think that they just say things. Never think that they don't know what's going on. Never think for even one moment that they don't know what they're doing. Because if you think that, you're making the same mistake as the main character.

The last chunk of the book is really hard to read, honestly, from a reading perspective, just because it's so psychologically intense. It's this sort of conversion process, trying to turn our beloved Winston(just some guy) into the perfect party member before they kill him. The whole torture, interrogation, conversion process is deeply grimy. It feels like walking down a tunnel but knowing there isn't light at the end. But you hang onto your hope. It's all you've got at this point.

You know that there's no way to make it out of this situation. But you keep reading in hope.

Also, the main bad guy starts monologuing. Reveals his whole evil plan. Which makes you grossed out in your own mind and makes you want to throw the book out the airplane window. It's masterfully written, and Winston is so interesting to watch, because he's the perfect person to empathize with. You wonder how long you could hold up. You wonder how long it would take you to crumble. And really, inside, you know you're crumbling with Winston. You go through the horrors of his imprisonment, and you reach the end of the book.

You can tell it's the end. If you're paying attention, you'll catch how they ruin him all the way. You'll see the moment that lets you know he's done. He's exactly where they want him.

He's renounced his beliefs, fallen in line perfectly. He's done exactly what they want. And now, now they could do exactly what they want with him.

He doesn't die. I'm going to tell you that much.

But the end of the book makes you wonder how much you are Winston. How much of your life is spent doing what every party member does. How long you've got before the interrogation starts. How long before they treat you like a heretic who needs to renounce their heresy, spit upon it, curse it, all the way while they walk to their stake.

The end of the book is sad. It is hopeless. But it is very, very real. The realest thing in this book is its ending.

The last line clenches your stomach like nothing else in the entire novel.

#1984 #that was a REALLY fun read #a dark and depressing and sad read #but oh stars was it a fun trip #1984 orwell #1984 george orwell #george orwell #orwell 1984 #1984 book #river reads books

[beardedmrbean]

Abbas could no longer hold the Grand Vermeil medal after he "justified the extermination of the Jews of Europe" in World War II, her office told AFP.

"The comments you made are contrary to our universal values and the historical truth of the Shoah," Hidalgo said in a letter to Abbas sent on Thursday. "You can therefore no longer hold this distinction."

The text of the letter was published on X, formerly known as Twitter, by Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), an umbrella organisation representing French Jews.

Dans un courrier adressé ce soir à Mahmoud Abbas, @Anne_Hidalgo lui annonce qu'il ne peut plus se prévaloir de la Médaille Grand Vermeil de Paris. Cette décision importante honore Paris et l'engagement constant de la ville contre l'antisémitisme. pic.twitter.com/7Dy2ImXfDS— Yonathan Arfi (@Yonathan_Arfi) September 7, 2023

"This important decision honours Paris and the city's ongoing commitment against anti-Semitism," he wrote.

Abbas, 87, claimed Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust because of their "social role" and not religion, saying it was "not true" that "(Adolf) Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews".

Echoing anti-Semitic tropes, he claimed Europeans "fought (the Jews) because of their social role, and not their religion. Because of usury and money".

Abbas made the remarks during a speech late last month before senior members of his Fatah party in Ramallah, and a video of the event surfaced this week.

"You (...) justified the extermination of the Jews of Europe during World War II with a clear desire to deny the genocide," Hidalgo said in the letter.

"I vehemently condemn your remarks, no cause can justify revisionism and negationism," she added.

Abbas had been given the award during a 2015 visit to Paris.

A spokesperson for the European Union said "the speech... contained false and grossly misleading remarks about Jews and anti-Semitism".

France's consulate in Jerusalem called the remarks "totally unacceptable".

#nunyas news #i'm sorry is anyone surprised by this at all

[lizardsfromspace]

The idea that the line about Elon Musk in Discovery was actually a clever clue he was from the Mirror Universe is pure revisionism. That's not how it reads at all. If that was the intended meaning Stamets would've been confused by Lorca citing someone he doesn't know next to the Wright brothers and Zefram Cochrane, but he doesn't seem to be iirc. It's clear that the characters are supposed to know who that is & regard him as a space travel pioneer, and saying otherwise forgets that they doubled down in season 2 by establishing that Tilly went to Musk High School

Like it would be a good way to retcon it now ("wow, Lorca was so obvious, he kept talking about some 21st century capitalist called 'Elon Musk' and thought my high school was named after him and not [other name] Musk?"), but the real answer to why that line is there is that Discovery's first two seasons went through like four head writers and constant staff turnover and who knows how anything slipped in there

#star trek #star trek discovery

[skaruresonic]

It’s not "schizoposting" if you’re replying to other people talking about Ian Flynn.

The term itself is ableist.

I'm not schizophrenic; I have garden-variety depression and anxiety. But even if I were schizophrenic, that wouldn't make it okay to act like I'm frothing at the mouth for stating opinions on my own blog.

I've noticed this habit amongst stans: they'll paint you as mentally unwell in order to discredit you. We've been called "conspiratorially insane" and "retarded" before. I've been told to seek therapy for being angry at the harassment I received. Hell, Kyle once told Greeny "I hope you get better soon" in response to her pointing out that Metal stated he rebuilt his body with his own two hands in the Metal Overlord fight, something that contradicted a claim Flynn made. It's just our old buddy ad hominem again, but ableism flavored.

And it's like, yeah, I am mentally unwell, no shit Sherlock, you've cracked the code. But regardless, I can still be mentally unwell and make a valid point. It's not like the mental illness completely short-circuits my ability to think.

Apropos of nothing, while I'm at it: people get really touchy if you say anything that can be skewed as "Flynn lies" or "Flynn is a liar," to the point of making sweeping grandiose claims that they'll automatically lose respect for you if you insinuate as much. (Which ofc begs questions of why.)

Lying isn't some binary yes/no type of thing. People can lie partially, lie out of ignorance, lie by omission, lie by implication, lie by obfuscation, or lie in spirit but not in letter. Not all falsehoods are capital L Lies, but by the same token, that doesn't mean they're no longer falsehoods. People can bend the truth without breaking it. Flynn projects a certain image by being noncommittal to the point of obfuscation. It's called talking out both sides of your mouth: where you say a lot of things that seem to address the question without actually having answered the question.

He doesn't lie outright. That's why I said it's annoying, because in a way it'd be easier to put his claims on blast if he were.

Instead, he drowns out the truth with verbiage. He hems and haws and doesn't offer a clear answer but instead usually winds up giving a sort of verbal equivalent of a Rorschach test so that he has plausible deniability in case his employers ever press him on his claims. Notice, however, that despite how tied his hands are, and despite knowing how people take his word dead fucking seriously, he seldom passes up the opportunity to run his mouth.

For example, "Eggman never, ever has a solid plan." The quote whose infamy earned it a spot on a TV Tropes page. He said it with his full chest, too, one of the rare answers that left no room for misinterpretation. Yet when someone relayed his own words back to him roughly a month later, he couldn't remember having said them, implying he either didn't really believe what he had said or else he has a poor memory.

More interesting than that, though, is when he proceeded to add, "But if I did [put it like that], then I was wrong."

IF I did. As if the existence of the words he recorded for the entire world to hear and posted for online posterity is debatable.

That's the kind of thing that skeeves me out at the end of the day. When you get caught in 4K and somehow it's others' ontological reality that must change to fit your presupposed narrative, not the other way around. And by that, I mean it would be somewhat easier to overlook if the matter began and ended at simple ignorance---but it's this constant evasion of blame and the underlying revisionism that creeps me out.

Flynn looks like he's admitting he's wrong while also casting subtle doubt on the notion that he said what he did. It's not just an "oops, guess I misspoke" or an "oops, guess I forgot" kind of thing, either. He pulls this sort of rhetorical trick all the goddamn time.

I'm personally on the fence about whether he does this deliberately or if it's the unfortunate byproduct of being a poor communicator: I feel like subconsciously, some part of it may be, given how BK built its name on speaking on behalf of Sega while simultaneously allowing him a platform to not-so-subtly shittalk them behind their backs. At this point I find it hard to imagine he's not doing this without some sort of agenda in mind.

And this isn't even getting into all the times he's been caught in blatant contradictions, which wouldn't be nearly so bad if everyone didn't take the man's word as gospel.

#asks

[prolekult]

Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they have spawned since. In this episode, we look at the original revisionist controversy in the German Social Democrat Party (1895-1903) as a window into evaluating both the need for a revolutionary orthodoxy, and the necessity of linking theory and action.

Key quote from the video:

The lessons of the revisionist controversy and the failure of the SPD’s orthodoxy are cutting in relation to the contemporary left in the Northern Americas and western Europe. However, these lessons cannot be mechanically applied. Instead of existing in a party culture, the revolutionary communist lefts of these regions are today a largely disorganised social milieu, peppered by sects, media platforms and personalities. Rather than a singular contest between orthodoxy and revisionism, as in the case of the SPD, there are as many orthodoxies and revisionisms as there are Marxist tendencies. The product of these social formations and their contest is a sub-culture inexorably directed to its further fragmentation, splits driven by the weight of the communist movement’s history, rampant sectarianism, an inchoate response to the depth of the contemporary capitalist crisis, and an increasingly anti-intellectual, navel gazing theatre of cruelty in the movement’s online spaces.

This is not to denigrate the work done by individual activists or organisations within this milieu, but to stress that what campaigns and work they do find successes in tend to stand upon a fleeting social basis. Since at least the 1990s, the communist movement itself has found only temporary life in the spontaneous economic and political struggles of the workers and oppressed. Outside of this, it withers, its social reproduction dependent upon the theoretical contest of an inward looking culture, limp orthodoxies and marginal sections of society. That theory is often held apart from practice is illustrated by this process. Given in blunt examples, it is striking that the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the economic and environmental crises wracking the working classes’ conditions of life have all failed to produce lasting strategic adaptations among communists in Britain, our own context, despite the bitter fissures they have formed.

To move beyond this requires much more than a theoretical struggle against revisionism, though it must contain this. As the example of the SPD shows, an orthodoxy dislocated from action is one distant from the revolutionary core of Marxist thought, however much it may formally defend what is revolutionary in Marx’s economic and philosophical work. Lenin and Luxemburg’s creative approaches to the relation between organisation and action hold the kernel for any antidote to this malaise. To the communist, the proletarian and oppressed form the subject of any serious revolutionary movement. It is the task of a revolutionary orthodoxy to find the right organisational and political tools for them to liberate themselves through constant contact with their real struggles, evaluating its role realistically by its relationship to vast swathes of society. This is the real substance of Marxist theory and organisation.

#marxism #leftism #politics #communist #socialism #philosophy #communism #theory #youtube #Youtube

[icharchivist]

But honestly, Maleagant's speech moved me to tears. Just. Being subjected to all of that horror just because of the way you were born. Being ostracized and hated and treated as less than human just because of the way you are... As a LGBTQ person, that hits close to home. That's really relevant in today's times and I'm glad the subject matter was treated with respect and they weren't made out to be the villains because they retaliated against the oppressive system. It was just really good. cries

honestly yeah, same. it genuinely messed me up.

i don't really talk about it on here but hhh my Mom is of Jewish and French&Algerian descent, and while she didn't pass down anything culturally speaking (she considers herself atheist and she did everything in her life to conceal our heritage, so i don't know as many cultural stuff that isn't just. the Trauma:tm: or just things my mom unconsciously passed down), the conversation, especially, about how much our family had lost to the holocaust when her family lived in France, and then to the Algerian war after they moved there have been.... a lot. this is something we talk about a lot.

like. i think it's why i also kinda flew off the handle a little at receiving dick jokes out of it because to me it's just. Yeah. Yeah i those are conversations that hit extremely deep especially in term of generational trauma, and, of course, current politics as well.

I think it's also like. something i'm kinda eyeing Lancelot about in case his Valiant heritage ever happen to be relevant. Because i know i've seen people brush it off like it doesn't matter because Lancelot doesn't seem to feel anything with the dragons around him or not but there's... definitely something to be had with a heritage to a culture you weren't taught anything about and yet still the ghost of knowing it could fall down on you at anytime.

I think it's really hard to find a story that really talk about genocide while also being like. fair to the victims. More often than not fantasy stories in particular end up falling into the trap of saying that there was a reason it happened, actually, or that well it's from the past you can't punish the people now :/ or stuff like that and it's. wehh.

Personally, it made me think especially about the Ainu people in Japan. I am not really well versed on the topic, but there was basically a whole genocide on the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, and i know in recent years, Japan has been trying to take some lands that belonged to the Ainu in order to build in some themeparks, and when the Ainu survivors tried to make their plea heard and have Japan acknowledge their warcrimes, the government denied it fully. (and it's not to mention how Koreans have been asking for the past decades for Japan to recognize their warcrimes and the gov still fully in pure denial it even happened. which is a similar topic that is worth mentioning)

in the past few years Japan has been under fire for their complete refusal to address the genocides and warcrimes they had commited, and there's been a really big public outcry around the world about the state denial going on and the way it also transcribe on how those genocides are... well... /not/ taught.

so i do think it's like, extremely relevant to Japanese politics. I even saw a seiyuu mention how topical this event is. This is an event that directly criticize the current Japanese policy of constant denial and stuff.

and, obviously, it can apply to any other situation where rights are denied to people for various reasons, which is extremely relevant all around the world because of the rise of fascism and the way most governments these days are completely lost in the history revisionism sauce, and it's genuinely alarming. Look at any country's politics and all of them are trying to rewrite history in some way and it's sickening.

I personally immediately connected to it because, on top of my history awareness, it's just like. conversations i regularly have with my mom when we discuss our family's past. It stung extremely close from home. even if i'm also LGBT+ this was where my thoughts immediately went.

but therefore, it's something that applies to any experiences of oppressed people who are currently having their history erased by fascist government that are trying to get rid of "the undesirable"

i genuinely think granblue dealt with the topic with a lot of grace, and Maleagant genuinely managed to pass down the politics, the pain, the history, the old hurt as well as the new hurt, just so well.

it really struck a cord with me. It was really well done.

so yeah feeling you fully on this one friend.

I think this event was pretty graceful at addressing this topic while also really anchoring itself as anti-fascist and it was honestly a breath of fresh air.

#ngl i was terrified when they started to go this direction #bc since they're also dragon people i was just bracing myself bc 'oh great secret lizard people planning your downfall cool'. #but they didn't go that direction at all and instead were just. so very good about it. #on one hand i was very worried because you never know when a story is going to betray you in those topics #but on the other it does track with granblue's general thematics #i mean the whole Erste Empire arc in the main story read as an anti-imperialism critic of imperial japan #i have the hot take that the True King and the way he showed power on Nahlgrande is anti american imperialism #(bc good fucking lord the whole scene with the Great Wall where they dropped a major beam on a population just to show they could do it) #(is a really loaded scene and imagery) #we talk a lot about how radical granblue can be especially in term of LGBT stuff #bc even besides the teasing stuff there's a lot of T talk and canon stuff and everything #but the politics of the game are really alligning left #but i'm also terrified to talk about it bc i feel like maybe i'm just extremely generous to the game bc of my own bias #but at least this event feels extremely strong on those critism at least. Maleagant ily thank you for everything. #ichareply #ichafantalks gbf #ichablogging gbf #ichablogging 4kishi #anonymous

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estoy modo pnj sentada en la cama con una constelación de pensamientos desordenados orbitando mi cabeza. vamos solo me falta estar en t-pose girando sobre mí misma.

amigas os toca ser la amiga y esto vendría a ser la transcripción del audio que podría enviar pero no enviaré.

disociando.

diría que prácticamente cada día hay por lo menos un rato que siento que no quepo en mí. de amor, de rabia, de placer al escuchar música, de im/potencia, de mil cosas. pero las mencionadas son las que más abundan. luego tengo otros momentos que más que no caber, me siento desplazada de mí misma. de pena, culpa, ansiedad, alienación. soy un cóctel, lo normal.

pero ahora mismo estoy: parte plana de un electrocardiograma antes del QRS, por ejemplo.

al final volví a ponerme enferma, y ahí sigo desde hace una semana. nada, resfriado, pero joer con el dolor de garganta y de oído y los mocos a punta pala. desde agosto esto de ponerme enferma cada pocas semanas ha sido prácticamente una constante. se ve que mis 23 no venían con salud incluida. como decimos por aquí, sap greu tan jove. y coomo me guuusta quejaaarme, vaya lata.

en fin, quiero hacerme una analítica porque la última me la hice en 2020 y parece que ya toca, pero con las olas de virus respiratorios que está habiendo me sabe mal hacérmela ahora. también quiero pedir hora con la ginecóloga y con la dentista. bueno, en realidad lo que quiero es haber ido ya. me sigo vuelve a agobiar esto se llamar aquí y allá y dar datos y explicaciones. pero es algo que arrastro y no está bien. cuando lo haga lo haré casi más por ser capaz de cuidarme a mí misma que por las pruebas y revisiones en sí.

también tengo que llamar a la DGT porque a esta payasa aún no le ha llegado el carné físico y bueno, eso sí que me causa un poquito de amsiedá. y mira que será una tontería, en fin.

desde año nuevo me vengo sintiendo un poco extraña, como desvinculada de muchas cosas o actividades por falta de energía. el frío y encontrarme regulinxi no ayuda pero no sé, me da pena.

hace un ratejo estaba aún en el sofá de la cocina escuchando música al lao del fuego y baf! he sentido frustración por estar así. tengo muchas ganas de encontrarme biennormal, motivada, sabiendo administrar mi tiempo y capaz de realizar satisfecha mis días!! tengo ganas de disciplina y cuidados de mí para mí. además de con las demás, aro

va, iba a hacer agenda pero mejor voy a dormir, que debería empezar por ahí. a ver si las próximas semanas consigo ensamblar las piezas que quisiera 🪡🧶, que seria més fàcil amb un entorn de cures (cuidados) més present i palpable però wenu sa fa lu ca sa pot en aquesta societat de merda que ens dificulta passar temps amb la gent i els espais que ens estimem

podria continuar blabla vagant però ja és tard i vull matinar (per poder rentar-me i marxar de casa havent-se'm assecat els cabells).

les meves disculpes a les que hagueu arribat fins aquí!

la recompensa (?) són aquestes dades esgarrifoses (sobre la realitat esgarrifosa que ja coneixem) de l'habitatge a Barcelona publicades al Público:

:)

bona nit i robeu sempre als rics 🖤👊

#👁️👄 conjuntivitis stay away from me tonight

[misecretoyo]

Necesito Paz

Todo comenzó cuando me entregue a un hombre que trabaja en la farmacia, su nombre es Cristian y parece ser una buena persona, de alguna manera logro conversarme de tener relaciones sexuales, debo aclarar que siempre dije que no, accedí varias veces, 5, sino estoy mal; hace quizás 1 1/2 o 2 meses me revise por la picazón tan intensa que tenia, yo pensaba que era el jabón de ducha pero resulta que tenia 2 “verrugas” allí, me asuste y lo llame, el me aplico el tratamiento (podofilina), 2 días después esas masa habían desaparecido y solo dejaron una pequeña herida a la que aplique Imiquimod 5% por tres días, el doctor dijo que quizás era VPH o quizás no, pues solo vio la marca de la herida y nunca las verrugas.

Todos los días me revisaba, sentía miedo y una especie de “paranoia”, ansiedad todas las mañanas con necesidad de revisarme, un día revisándome me vi un conjunto de bolitas en la mucosa rectal, un poco mas allá del área dentada del ano, el me llevo con el medico y me confirmo que lo que me vi es VPH, le dije que me revisara la garganta, pues sentía incomodidad y había atenido periodos febriles, lo que el vio en mi faringe me dijo que es “sugestivo a VPH”, me dejo antibiótico (azitromicina) y un inmunoestimulante (Ledestil) que le pedí, la coloración roja de mis amígdalas desaparecieron, junto con los síntomas de una pequeña infección que sentía, pero esas “ampollas” que se ven en la faringe se quedaron.  

El compro el tratamiento y un multivitamínico para mi tratamiento junto con unos chocolates y una disculpa, la verdad no le guardo ningún odio, no tengo cabeza para eso ahora.

Después de 1 o 2 semanas note “ampollitas” en mi pene, desaparecen y aparecen en otras áreas de la cabeza, creí que quizás me lastime, pero ahora aparecen 3 protuberancias al rededor del meato urinario externo, se ve que se a empezado a deformar la estructura del tejido, aplique el tratamiento pero ahora pica un poco, he gastado cerca de Q 2000.00 en suplementos, como vitamina A, E, complejo B, ácidos grasos, propóleo, etc., siento que me estoy volviendo loco, tuve muchos problemas para dormir.

Ha sido un periodo bastante difícil para mi, me siento impotente, desesperado, triste, angustiado, con miedo; sumado a esto no tengo tiempo, entro al trabajo a las 8 AM y salgo a las 6 PM, he mentido en mas de una ocasión pidiendo permiso para ir a recibir el tratamiento con el medico, ni siquiera se como decírselo a mi padres, sinceramente no quiero quedarme en el hospital después de mis practicas, pero parece ser la única salida para recibir el tratamiento y luego regresar a mi vida normal como si nada.

Busque a Dios nuevamente, he estado orando, sinceramente espero que me escuche, me siento solo y angustiado y he estado buscando en el un poco de consuelo, de paz, siento que yo solo no puedo, estoy en un lugar extraño, con gente extraña y una patología extraña para mi; no estoy muy seguro de que dios quiera ayudarme a sanar, no después de todas las blasfemias que he dicho y de negarlo masivamente pero lo seguiré buscando.

Este tormento me ha afectado de una manera indescriptible, me siento mal, como si estuviese enfermo o como si algo me enfermara, una sensación de incomodidad constante y no solo físicamente. 

Leí en internet que la enfermedad se cura en 2 años, es el sistema inmune quien se encarga de erradicar el virus, lo veo tan lejos, tengo miedo que al cumplirse los 2 años aun no me cure, tengo miedo de estar aplicándome el tratamiento de por vida, de tomar medicina de por vida, de no poder tocarme el resto que me queda de vida.

El acido que aplica el medico en las consultas en muy doloroso, pero logre ver disminución de tamaño después de 2 aplicaciones, no pediré mas permisos en el trabajo, siento que ya no me los creen, aplicare el medicamento desde casa e iré a revisiones quizás solo 1 vez al mes.

El doctor quiere que vea un otorrinolaringólogo, para descartar que no tenga también una variante del virus que cause cáncer, eso me aterra, pero tengo que hacerme valiente para ir, a parte de eso, el problema es puramente “estético”. 

Atravesar esto se me ha hecho sumamente difícil, mi ex-novio me ha vuelto a escribir, es una gran persona, hablar con el respecto a esto me ha servido mucho, tanto así que estoy escribiendo respecto a mi situación, había abandonado Tumblr solo veía publicaciones pero no escribía y ahora escribirlo me hace tener mas claro el camino en el que estoy, necesito un poco de paz porque necesito tener mi mente en orden, mi cabeza siempre ha sido un desastre y esto me callo como bomba en terreno abierto y por eso quiero poner en marcha la famosa frase que siempre digo cuando hay incertidumbre “ya la vida dirá” o “ya el tiempo dirá”.

#Necesito Paz #Paz #Incertidumbre #Tratamiento #ITS #VPH #Vida #Intranquilidad

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[...] Haz un sistema en condiciones que modere esas cosas por ti y no tendrás que pelearte con nadie por poderes OP / Los sistemas de dados complejos son lo mejor \o/

¡Hola Pikmina! Me alegro de verte por aquí, eché un vistazo en su día a los dos esqueletos de sistema que publicaste.

Desgraciadamente, aquí no puedo estar de acuerdo del todo contigo: creo de verdad que los sistemas de dados complejos no funcionan en foros.

Y lo digo por experiencia: yo era uno de esos frikis que renegaba de los amateur que crean sus propios sistemas, porque cómo iba yo, aburrido en mi casa, a crear algo más completo y equilibrado que un equipo de profesionales que dedican meses y dinero al testeo, equilibrado y revisado de su trabajo. Así que abogaba, como todo niño bueno, por usar en mis foros el reglamento de manuales tal cual, sin tocar.

Y es cierto que se consiguen cosas con más profundidad y mejor equilibradas si se elige bien, pero a la práctica, el rol por foro es un ecosistema totalmente diferente e impone sus propias exigencias.

Por poner un ejemplo rápido, muchos sistemas oficiales incluyen tiradas de defensa/esquiva/etc. Esto en un foro no es viable, porque el ritmo actual promedio es el que es, y depender no sólo de la tirada del atacante sino también de la del defensor, implica tardar el doble en poder postear cada turno de combate, lo que resulta en escenas interminables.

Y esto mismo se extrapola a media docena de situaciones más. Así que por gorda que me la pongan los manuales de Anima o de ciertos juegos japoneses, con sus mil posibilidades y combos chetos, no se pueden usar en foro tal cual.

Lo que sí se puede, y se debe hacer, es elaborar un sistema tan rápido y ligero como sea posible que, a cambio, ofrezca tantas posibilidades de construcción de personaje como se pueda.

Estoy cansado de ver foros con sistemas que me hacen leer una cantidad inmunda de posts, tablas y reglas para al final, darme cuenta de que la libertad de construcción que ofrecen es mínima: elegir clase, raza, repartir cuatro puntos de característica y ale, a subir ataque y defensa indefinidamente. ¡Esto es aburrido y hace que todos los personajes acaben siendo iguales!

Cuando estás diseñando un sistema, hay que pensar en cuántos arquetipos de personaje realmente diferentes puedes crear con él, cuántas formas de jugar. Si no tienes más una docena, hay que volver a empezar. A todo el mundo le gusta que su personaje sea único, y hay que luchar por un sistema que permita elaborar infinidad de personajes únicos no sólo narrativamente, sino también a la hora de funcionar en escenas de acción.

Por otro lado, creo que importar sistemas ya fabricados por terceros a tu foro nunca es una buena opción. Si no te gustan los sistemas, lo mejor que puedes hacer es que tu foro sea narrativo. Pero si le pones dados, tu sistema necesitará de constante revisión y de decenas de correcciones, en un proceso que sólo puede llevarse a cabo con la experiencia. Lo que sobre el papel parecía una idea cojonuda puede ser desastroso cuando lo pones en práctica en tu foro y con tus jugadores, y lo que en otro lugar sería un potencial fracaso puede funcionar a las mil maravillas en tu casa.

Todas esas correcciones, revisiones y actualizaciones con ideas nuevas son vitales para mantener el sistema tan vivo como el resto del foro, y no pueden llevarse a cabo si el staff se ha limitado a importar un sistema genérico y desentenderse porque o no entienden del asunto o simplemente no les gusta.

En resumen: sistemas complicados no, sistemas con infinitas posibilidades de personalización y buildeo sí.

#rol #rolers #rol online #opinión #consejo