Salty Post Warning
Winning after overtaking the leader in WDC standings (who has already won 6 races and will go on to win 9 more this season) three times and driving the last 10 laps with the throttle stuck: 9.6
Winning after overtaking the leader in WDC standings & winner of the previous 9 races when that driver's car had a brake stuck that led to him to retire a lap later, and your competitive team mate was told to hold position behind you, so no one actually challenged you all race: 10
I know these rankings are always controversial, but it also reminded me of just how high people's expectations of Charles are. Better in all 3 FPs than his teammate, qualified P5 but finished P2, fastest lap, and still only 7.8. Max didn't even race and got a 7.2. Make it make sense.
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I want to go on a little rant about something that's bothering me. It's a bit personal, but whatever. Maybe a little venty
So far, every time I've confessed to a crush that I liked them, they haven't liked me back, which is fine. But the thing is, I feel so relieved when they reject me. Not a relieved as in, well at least they know and that's a weight off my shoulder, but a well I am so glad they don't like me. And it's like,,,, why???? Why do I feel that way??? Like, I know I had/have a crush on them, but I'm so happy that they don't like me back. So relieved. And I don't know why. And that is why the song Turning Out by AJR is hitting me real hard rn. That's right, I decided to rant about this because of a song. Either way, I'm still so confused. Does anyone else feel that way??? Is it a response to a previous heartbreak that I really don't want to get into on Tumblr?
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( so i just ended up noticing someone finally hardblocked me on both blogs, but considering this person is a major meme spammer who never even replies to/answers stuff half the time, let alone bother meeting me half way even once despite the fact i kept sending them asking asks/liking their calls, i’m just like ‘ugh, good riddance’. i mean, yeah, we had a thread on my multi, but after i replied literally once, it ended after only one note.
they also mentioned in their rules they would block for vague posting, but i don’t recall ever doing that recently, unless you count me mentioning in my rules i might unfollow/block if i notice you interacting with two specific individuals, and even then, i didn’t once namedrop or force other people to pick sides.
like, yeah, at a certain point, i stopped sending in asks but i literally put this in my rules:‘...there’s only so many asks/memes or starters I can write/send if they keep getting ignored. Of course, while I don’t mind people taking their time with replying, I will simply stop putting in the effort to interact with you if you keep reblogging memes without ever answering the ones I’ve sent, dropping our threads after only a few notes, or not even bothering to leave a like on the starters I’ve written you to express you’ve seen it. Granted, it's one thing if you tell me OOC you have seen it and will reply to it later, but if all I ever receive is dead silence from you, I will stop trying until you put in actual effort to interact with me back.’
...but if they ended up hardblocking me due to the fact i stopped engaging with their posts, then I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU, but roleplaying is a two way street? like, if you want someone to constantly send you stuff or express interest in your content, then maybe consider putting in actual effort when they attempt to interact with you and not treat them like a number to your follower count. )
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saw some stuff on twitter and no hate to pkw enjoyers you do you but i really dont want it back for the sole reason that practically Nobody talks during that game
like youd think my nausea would be my biggest gripe with it but no - i hate that nobody talks, i hate that everyone becomes so serious all of a sudden, and i especially hate that everyone becomes so isolated and competitive during it and it just sucks the absolute life out of me
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Man I see posts about the weird bonding rituals between siblings and I'm hit with the fact that my older brother and sister did not give a single fuck about me at all
I remember one time when I was like eleven my room was a mess and I needed to get to the closet but I didn't want to step on anything so I climbed on top of my old toybox and walked over it to get to my closest but I lost my footing and the toybox was right in front of the second floor window and I smashed into the first pane of glass. I was somehow miraculously unhurt with not even a scratch from the shards of glass now surrounding me, my windowsill, and the top of my toybox. I was too stunned to move for a few minutes and was too afraid to move lest I actually cut myself on the glass. I just sat there for like five to ten minutes, my back against the second layer of glass trying not to panic before I summoned the courage to gently get off the now-glassy toybox, and I'm still frazzled and trying not to cry and I go down the stairs shaking to see my brother on the couch and my sister on the family computer.
My sister looks up from the computer and says "What was that? We heard a crash" and like in the five to ten minutes I was completely frozen and surrounded by glass both of them had heard the alarming commotion coming from my room and neither one of them thought to check on their eleven year old sibling who very well could have fallen thru both panes of glass and could be lying on the ground outside with a shattered spine and no one would have checked up on me.
I think that was the moment I realized my siblings didn't really like me that much.
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I think people need to understand that when someone says the situation in Israel/Palestine is complicated they are not necessarily saying that the discussion of who the oppressor vs oppressed is complicated. The Israeli government has been oppressing the Palestinians for a very long time, that is clear, and it is not complicated to understand that at least since the 80s they have had dramatically more financial and military power to keep control of the territory in the way they like.
However, it is reductive and dismissive to insist that there is no complexity in the potential ways to move forward to bring peace to the region. Despite what people on tumblr.edu like to believe, "Israel should never have been created" is not a practical solution to an incredibly heated geopolitical situation in the present day. Israel was created and it does exist. 10 million people live there. 74% of the population is native born and the country has existed for 75 years. Hand waving these fact away with the opinion that "they should move back to where they came from" may make you feel good about being a Radical Leftist, but it does not give anyone a road map for how exactly millions of people without dual citizenship are supposed to just up and evaporate. Nor does it acknowledge the reality that 21% of Israelis are Arabs, the very people you are claiming to want to give the land back to.
Insisting that there's nothing complicated about expecting an entire country's population to willingly dissappear with no consequences is not a productive way to think about this conflict. It ignores the many massive superpowers that have an interest in proping up different states in the region, the power dynamics involved in any land back movements, and the inevitably negative consequences of totally dissolving an established state without a plan. It is also completely and almost comically unrealistic, so much so that it makes it hard to believe that anyone who's opinion starts and ends with this idea really gives a shit about anyone who lives in the area as much as they care about their online leftist clout.
There's nothing complicated in understanding that the Israeli government is and has been maintaining an oppressive apartheid state for decades. It is, however, very complicated to come up with a realistic way to resolve some of the most intricately entangled land disputes on the planet without plunging the region into total chaos. Not everyone has to be deeply educated on every geopolitical situation, but it is very hard to take people seriously when they know nothing about the politics or history of a region and yet insist that there is nothing complicated about it at all.
There's a lot of people on this website who are getting dangerously smug about their own ignorance, and are starting to go down Qanon type anti-intellectual paths in the name of being sufficiently radical. Not knowing the details of a very convoluted land dispute isn't something to brag about online as you call for intentionally reductive solutions. You can support the Palestinian cause and be aware of the oppression they have faced while also holding off on calling people trying to do real analysis and de-escalation work bootlickers. We need to get control of the urge to fit every global issue into a simplistic YA novel narrative structure that appeals to Western revolutionary fantasies.
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