#we're not american fuck you

[embraceyourdestiny]

to any americans who feel "paralyzed" and "dont know what to do" to help with gaza:

reading a fucking book. i beg of you.

in a time of knowledge suppression is it your duty to arm yourself with knowledge.

read about americas occupations in the middle east.

read about 9/11 from outside of america and see how they inflicted senseless harm and violence to countless amounts of people and have been suppressing your rights for the past 2 fucking decades.

read about any of the countless wars from the past 30 years. especially from a civilian's. and the victims and survivors' perspective. listen to the horror stories and do not plug your fucking ears as to what your country is doing.

and read about fucking gaza and palestine and keep up with what is happening no matter how "sad" or "uncountable" you might get.

dont look away from this.

you dont have the right to be comfortable during countless active genocides.

if you're knowledgeable, you're powerful, and our current state doesnt fucking want that.

you have the power to change things if you open your eyes and scream to the world.

wake the fuck up.

Edit: please check the reblogs there are readings and ways to help

#og #truly if youre not about it your against it and i dont fuck with you because you're complacent #wake the fuck up #we're all responsible and dont you dare say you're not #americans need to stop living in the world with their eyes closed and their ears covered #look at what your fucking 'glorious country' is doing to people #everyone should be against america no fucking exceptions because america is violent and evil and needs to be stopped #then read about what america has done to the natives of their land #radicalize yourself #decolonize your mind #free palestine #land back #palestine will be free #theres too many fucking movements of just the past couple years all happening at once to act like the world is fucking fine #we are in a human rights CRISIS #WAKE THE FUCK UP PLEASE

[ozzieinspacetime]

Trevor Hills being Pathetic Blorbo #1 and your enjoyment of him being said Pathetic Blorbo #1 just adding on to the games pre-existing meta commentary is,, so good. They made him as miserable as possible and god it really worked.

#i <3 when dystopia scenarios like American Arcadia appeal to the real life audience #like. you fall in love with the character in the exact same way that the in universe audience does #and i think it provides a really interesting perspective and commentary on like. consumption and entertainment #its one of the reasons the first hunger games appeals to me so much actually because it explores that sort of. audience side #which imo is one of the best parts of 1984/truman show esque dystopia media like that #amyway. go play American Arcadia its really fucking good #american arcadia #trevor hills #we're pioneering tags here tonight ladies #teamtrevor #<- brilliant tag idea

[heavywithplot]

hello again! it’s been a hot minute, I was sick for a bit, and also living in america is a nightmare at all times and it current events kind of killed my drive to draw this kind of thing 🙃

anyway!! it’s the month of halloween!!! here’s something about some new england goth called john who has an interesting relationship with a small town god and this year, the harvest festival is going with a more ancient take on the celebrations. its about new harvest, new life, you know? and because those festival dates are important, instead of nine months, it’s one.

#if you saw me post this a minute ago pretend you didn't: i fucked up the tags and wanted to remake it 😔 #anyway! halloween!!! because we're committing to the bit: john goes into labor and gives birth in a pumpkin patch under a full moon #ngl i drew these out and gave them names so that i could justify writing part of the grand finale aka the labor/birth part of it lmao #mpreg #and re: Current American Events: we're pro choice in this household 💯

[eight-edges]

is2g y'all were happy for Loena for one whole competition but she kept delivering and now she's enemy number one. fickle ass fandom.

#figure skating #loena hendrickx #you guys are acting like she gets Russian scores!! she really doesn't!! #acting like Belgium has even a fraction of the influence of a large skating fed #adding to the tags bc someone who's from Belgium brought it up: apparently Belgium doesn't even air figure skating competitions regularly #that's the federation we're talking about here #but Loena beat all of the Americans at fucking SKATE AMERICA - and we (USAmericans) DO HAVE that kind of influence #If Loena was actually just a mid skater and SkateAm just wanted a non-Japanese champion they wouldn't have picked a Belgian #to artificially inflate #I'm just saying - isabeau was right there #be fucking honest with yourselves!!

[obessivedork]

Ada: maybe I should turn my personality off

Me (And my sole survivor): Absolutely NOT 😭😭😭🖤🖤🖤

#I will hand it to bethany esda for making that entire section getting to the mechanist OG fallout levels of fucked up in the right way #GOD. MARTA PROBABLY KNEW SOME OF THOSE PRISONERS #I feel like at some point she has to just. stop and hurl because what the FUCK. She KNEW things were fucked up. She DID. #Of course she did! But idk... I think she had this little bubble of 'well they wouldn't do this shit to their OWN citizens #this is JUST because we're Canadian and we're resisting occupation. Except Chinese americans obviously they're treated like shit too.' #and to have that burst for realsies by this quest? She's gonna have a long smoke and think by the ocean after this quest methinks #Not like. in game but cannonically to me she does #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #Ada is a sweetheart but I'm playing a stealth build so. Sorry you gotta go queen ily <3 <- does not gaf about companion perks

[hella1975]

okay still on the topic of piercings i currently have the most ATROCIOUSLY infected helix and for the life of me i cannot get the godforsaken jewellery out. i literally bought nylon gloves from home bargains today and im now covered in blood and NO CLOSER TO GETTING IT THE FUCK OUT

#pissed off. the girl i did my law a-level with works at my local piercing shop and ive fully messaged her #like heyyyyy girlie. are you open tomorrow i know it's flooded everywhere but pls pls pls #i mean in the grand scheme it really isnt a bad infection it's a very normal infection and given ive never had a single piercing get #infected before when i know some people whose bodies just reject them every single time i know ive gotten off pretty lucky #but that just means im even more dramatic when it does happen. like i know we know what we're doing at this point come the fuck on #i do like telling people that it's bc it's my american piercing tho. got a piercing one (1) time at somewhere that was not only #not my regular haunt but also in AMERICA and it gets infected. didnt do anything different than any of my others #americans dont know how to pierce ears. it's the only conclusion we can come to given the extensive evidence. sad but true #hella goes home

[hussyknee]

Not entirely sure how I'm expected to respond when I point out something is white as fuck and the person I'm criticizing goes "I'm literally PoC!!" Okay? Good for you? Get well soon??

I literally live in South Asia, a place still nursing the world's worst colonial hangover. That's like one billion brown people desperately in need of joining Bootlickers Anonymous. If I had to respect the rancid takes of every yahoo that lives here I'd have to drown myself in the sea.

Living in white countries does something odd to diaspora brains. If you call yourself BIPOC in your own head long enough you end up forgetting you're just a garden variety idiot mainlining white supremacy like everyone else.

#essay: why I hate the term BIPOC #1) it's North American as fuck #seriously the word has little meaning for Black and brown people in Europe. We're all just darkies over there bc the whites dgaf #also there's two systems of race over there. the global colour system that's a result of european colonization of the other continents #and the older system unique to the region where white Indo-Europeans hates the fuck out of everybody else #so you have to be very specific about the fact that you're coloured of skin #i mean black people in australia are aboriginals. 'black' even in the US used to be a political identity not only a racial one #2) i'm not fucking BIPOC in my own country. I just live here. #I am the default. it's whites that are alien and specified #considering we're literally the global majority‚ it would be very funny if we just called ourselves 'people' and only singled whites out #it's them that invented race after all. just so they could proclaim that white people were the master race #i know it wouldn't work bc then they'd all be like 'how DARE you call us white' like Zionists. but it would be funny #i just think that this whole BIPOC thing makes whites out to be default and makes us hyperaware of ourselves as political entities first #and fuels neoliberal identity politics that culminates in fighting over twitter hashtags and 'Diversity Equity Inclusion' bs #where they make Black and brown people mouthpieces and cops of white supremacy and imperialism #and calls it 'representation' #racism #white supremacy #colonialism #colonization #knee of huss

[thottybrucewayne]

I hate when we talkin shit about America and here come a white European trying to get they crack in like...I KNOW DAMN WELL YOU NOT TALKIN?????????

#thotty speaks #thotty rants #like you and white Americans are LITERALLY cousins you look stupid trying to 'Ahah at least we don't have racism here!' over here #Like lets keep it a bean yall get by comparing yourselves to America #you can always point to America and say 'well at least we're not as bad as them!' to skirt around criticism and not have to think #About the fucked up aspects of your home #Yall also are so so weird to Americans of color whenever they explain literally anything to you because you don't know how to be wrong #then when you inevitably start getting called out for your weird ass behavior start joking about school shootings like okay... #Crackers with crumpets vs crackers with biscuits yall SISTERS evil twin evil twin

[queen-boudicca]

Me when doing my environmental science homework, at every available opportunity:

#wish there were a class discord or a chill teacher so i could share it #fr though I'm like “oh we're talking about freshwater? hey did you know that agricultural runoff is causing accelerated eutrophication?” #and that a lot of the runoff is bc of erosion caused by the destruction of ecosystems and their vegetation that would've kept soil in place #and the runoff is mostly compromised of fertilizer and bacteria and pesticides from the agriculture and sediment from the eroded land #and that crop irrigation is so inefficient that literally 40% of irrigation water never reaches the crops #and don't even get me started on the FUCKING CORN SUBSIDIES #god those fucking corn subsidies #“hey boudicca what's the worst policy choice the us government made in the 1930s–40s?” #“was it American isolationism? maybe increased militarization? the garbage treatment of women and minorities?” #wrong! it was not stopping those fucking corn subsidies #(this is a joke obviously those other things were worse) #(I'm not actually saying this silly little agricultural practice was worse than Japanese internment don't worry) #but i AM saying that at some point they should've fucking phased out those goddamn corn subsidies #do you wanna know why California grows so much corn even though it's an incredibly water intensive crop and California is dry as shit? #I'll give you three guesses #anyway sorry for rambling my point is fuck industrial agriculture #agriculture #described

[hopeinthebox]

i was tagged by the biblically accurate angels @cordiallyfuturedwight and @aprylynn for the september round up <33

i'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this combination of tracks but i'm simply not privy to it. tagging favs if you fancy it: @thvinyl @btscontentenjoyer @spicyclematis @hoseeok @kimchokejin @jihopesjoint @eoieopda MWAH and always @monismochi !!!!!!!

#thoughts and/or feelings (delete as appropriate) as follows: #say you'll be there - and what can i say? it's a spice world and we're just living in it #de selby pt.2 - still has me by the throat. must be the domnhall gleeson of it all #pusherman - love love love but genuinely not a single idea as to where this one came from #talk tonight - potentially one of the dreariest oasis tracks and that's saying something #(i'm a manc so i can say this without risk of being clotheslined by a gallagher in town) #growing sideways - lord forgive me but i do believe it is the season of the sticks. i'm terrified that i might never have met me??? #500 psychic damage #teardrop - cover of the century. exceptional. no notes #don't let me get me - because missundaztood is an album and a half #linger - and i will be letting it!!!!! fuck #for us - she's the stand out for me. though don't worry i have already developed an unhealthy obsession with the entire album #american teenager - please for the love of god give ethel cain a chance if you haven't already. no one else is doing it like this #as for the artists. paolo nutini making a strong bid this month. i will always have feelings for you #also something something about every fleetwood mac girlie also being an abba girlie. can't fault that logic. #unrelated i need that stevie nicks barbie so bad i don't know what i'll do #tag #receiptify #mwah mwah mwah #thanks for coming <33

[stupid-sloot-headcanons]

Fascinated by the current shitshow on Twitter

Basically JP Twitter responded to Barbenheimer memes with 9/11 shitposts (they saw the official US Barbie Twitter account reply positively to a Barbenheimer edit) only for them to discover that a lot of Americans online actually find 9/11 shitposts/jokes funny and that we've been making them for years. It's almost like it's hard to faze people from a nation where things like school shootings happen all the time, and the right to say any fucked up shit you want is entrenched in the law as the most important right ever

They're a little late to the party but they get a 9/11 for effort 👌

#fr there isnt a way to affect Americans with a historical tragedy the same way smth like Barbenheimer memes affect a Japanese person #bc compared to Japan we're too individualistic/have the right to not give a fuck what you say entrenched in law/are offensive ppl by nature #seriously though i didnt consider how offensive certain Barbenheimer memes would be perceived by Japanese ppl and i think that #the meme is interpreted a lot differently over there (obviously #and with good reason). like it started as a meme because these two very different films were releasing on the same day #thats it #.personal

[kittykatrattie]

I also think sometimes we forget David is somewhat racist and ableist via ignorance. The whole Thing in Order of the Sparrow and then him not wanting to "attract diabetics" with candy in the Candy Kingpin episode?? I don't think he means to be and once he knows better he would fix it but goddamn someone needs to tell him this shit isn't ok 😭

#camp camp #david camp camp #i like 2 think that after OotS that max fully chewed him out for that stunt #''jesus fucking christ david you cant dress up as someone elses race thats fucking racist'' #and it only kinda then settles in what he did #because david was raised in the 90s and early 2000s when stuff like that was accepted #and when indigenous people were actually called indian #once max (rightfully) starts complaining about ''native american people arent fucking indian IM indian IM from INDIA' we're not the same'' #david definitely works 2 educate himself and fix that stuff in himself

[bisexualamy]

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#it actually makes me sick like physically ill how much praise is heaped onto goyishe american leftists #people who could not point to gaza on a map six months ago. whose knowledge of middle east history comes from outdated textbooks and twitte #for being anti imperial activists and well educated anti imperialists with all the right buzzwords and all the right opinions #meanwhile nothing i say will ever be good enough bc i'm jewish and palestinians are tokenized by people who care more about appearing #like someone who Listens to Palestinians as opposed to 1) doing anything material to help them (like donating money) #and 2) not spreading obvious misinformation. something that does material damage to the cause of liberation #AND further fuels the most insidious of zionist propaganda which relies on the antisemitism of ignorant western goys #this propaganda banks on their antisemitism bc it's that fucking reliable #every white western goy that harasses jews or spreads misinfo about jews or is straight up just racist towards random israeli immigrants #ppl living in the west like running coffee shops that are now having their windows smashed bc that what? supports palestinian liberation? #makes it that much easier for actual zionist propagandists to say 'see. this was never about imperialism. they want an excuse to harm you.' #'you are only safe with us' #i grew up in a cauldron of this kind of propaganda and i was playing on hard mode i got it from the orthodox #it took years of dutiful unlearning. of wrestling with some really difficult realities. of realizing that i'd been not only lied to #but information had been deliberately kept from me to keep me from knowing the true depths of the horror happening in gaza #i did not get the luxury of starting to care about this six months ago during a concerted effort to correct the record #i had to put in the effort to unlearn two decades of propaganda given to me so young i don't remember a time when i didn't know it #and i am by far not the only jew with this experience #i have put in way more effort to care about this than every white western goy with a megaphone posting palestinian flags on IG #but none of that matters bc i am a jew and for the last 5000+ years we don't get to decide how we're discussed or how we're remembered #never mind how many jewish voices (and yes! even israeli voices!) have been supporting liberation efforts in palestine for years. #who've done an amazing job reaching more people who need help seeing through the propaganda they were raised on #i can only be a token who speaks only in protest chants or i can be an evil zionist. the anti imperial work doesn't matter. #bc anti imperial work is hard and none of them actually want to do it they just want the protest photos #anyway this is why i don't discuss this on the piss on the poor website. tbh i don't trust y'all

[ace-of-hearts-and-spades]

Look, I know America is absolutely fucked in a variety of ways, and I make plenty of jokes about it myself. But something rubs me the wrong way when Europeans laugh about our lack of healthcare.

#idk man when you watch your brother growing up with a disability that could kill him if you're not careful #and u grow up to learn you have that same disability in a milder form. and realize you have some other health issues too #and your grandma develops cancer she has to get really fucking expensive treatment for #it really starts rubbing me the wrong way when non-americans are like teehee look at these dumbasses with their shitty healthcare system #yeah. we're aware. we're well fucking aware. #ace rambles #vent

[999-roses]

unpacking 'sinophone' and its sinophobic roots

so. it never occurred to me to just type "sino diaspora" into google before.

and google is like "oi!! you meant sinophone yeah? here's wikipedia on sinophone" and here's like the other top results

I'm squinting. What the hell do you academics have against diaspora using the term diaspora?? I click.

inb4 this whole rant: I have no qualms with using sinophone as a language-family-use descriptor (like sinophone media), but coming from academia or as an academic field unto itself. but. the literature about wanting to use it as a demographics thing & separate it from "chineseness". just. looook if anyone knows that they're no longer like this let me know. with what im seeing, im having a bad faith moment

so... this is the academic that's hard pushed the term for sinophone.

"crit on orientalism might be complicit for allowing Chinese intellectuals to call themselves victim under an 'unreflective' nationalism" & "but the flipside may be a new imperialism" yeah?? any more unsubstantiated claims???

What a joke!! Clearly only takes authority about Chinese history from western sources, like literally has the uncritical echo of "X country doesn't deserve territorial integrity" that literally fueled western imperialism, and not just of China. Treaty of Nanjing 1842 ringing no bells? Sigh. National sovereignty is the barest basis against overt imperialism where someone just comes over and declares where you live their colony!!! ... is this a test in how far can you stretch the definition of imperialism or colonization? lmfao, China invests in poverty-relieving measures like building houses and improving infrastructure out in Tibet, Guizhou, Xinjiang, and you have the audacity to call that colonizing?!? 我真无言了。

different article by the same person:

laughable to think that the Chinese state even bothers to think I exist, let alone talk to me about my diaspora status. (I was born in the US)

also, people are really out there saying 'diaspora has an end date' huh

here it is. here is the 'scholar' conflating American or western imperialism with things Big Bad Scary Red China does.

Clearly mixing up concepts of tributary system with colonialism, and acting like historically (other than Yuan era under Genghis) that ancient China/Chinese culture was expansionist, going around trying to conquer peoples and set up colonies. Admiral Zheng He would spit on you.

Comparing the spread of culture and language in Ancient China to the colonization and subjugation that the French/Belgium did in Africa, or the British Empire, or the Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America, is so blatantly dishonest. The indigenous people of Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang still speak their own languages and use their own scripts, and yes, they learn them in schools alongside the national language... which is Chinese!!! Yes the Hanyu writing system was adopted and adapted by many neighboring cultures in ancient times, but you literally don't examine WHY? The fluidity in its system: frequently non-Han peoples invented characters to suit their language, like there's even some Canto-specific characters that are in use today. Another reason that Chinese writing system was so popular was because two Sinitic language speakers who do not speak the same language could communicate through the same script. Yeah, Ancient Chinese scholars and dignitaries often had an insufferable elite-ness and superiority complex, but describing their attitude as subjugating and forcing other people to adopt their system? What a wildly malicious mischaracterisation!

just... mask off, gringo butt-licker.

Please. where is the "Chinese containment" policy? The white papers reaffirming what the international community agrees, what Taiwan historically agrees (tho Taiwan held that it was the true capital/head of all of China), that Taiwan is part of China?? I know this article was written back in 2010s but are you seriously comparing American weapons deals and boots on the ground with Chinese military exercises in Chinese territory that haven't harmed a single civilian? "critical" my ass!

gotta love the title of this one. yeah, I know it, I've seen it before. the Chinese or feminist binary, pick a side /s

but hey in this piece she admits she's ignorant and unobjective and out of her league sometimes?

edit: found this:

yeah that about seals it for me. anti"diaspora" sinophobe

#sino diaspora #diaspora #逆向种族分子 #long post #chen yells at clouds. more at 10 #sinophobia #sorry. personal rabbit hole. and taking things personally #we're committing ad hominem crimes today folks #sure chinese->lunar new year. im fine w that. but can you fucks stop trying to take away chineseness away from people who still ID as??? #this person is literally doing the western empire's work of laying ground for sinophobia #can't tell if this academic is a grifter or actually serious lmfao #as if american chinese diaspora don't call americans 老美 and call ourselves 老中. i mean yes i call myself 老美 when in china but hello?? #you cloak your 'expertise' in the lingua & clothes & rituals of western academics. just shake your colonized ass for white people more #reading this drivel makes me want to go into asian american studies & grab this and shake it around like a ragdoll. #but im reminded that western institutions and definitely academics unquestionably cite western sources w/o hesitation #but give anything coming out of China even just academics not anything gov related with skepticism. so it's probably a no-fly #yeah sure im a 'sinophone' but im also diaspora so fuck you. 你忘了你祖先你的族梗。你这个逆子找白人拜金去了。就你这样做榜样？让海外华裔立起来？丢死人。跟你的英文大白菜出卖同类吧 #fuck you for saying that diaspora's connection to their heritage & culture are currently being severed& should be severed & studied as such #like literally uncritical of how exactly that happens. why so many diaspora have internalized racism driving them to scrub themselves of #their asianness heck even chineseness. try to scrub it all away but you still got an asian face. so fuck you #didn't look into 'asian american studies' much before but if it's a lot like this... well. 🤨 #like this academic is so disconnected from our shared histories AHSIJIJDSIAJDAAAHAAHGGHGGG #+ my poasts #imperial core circus

[aeide-thea]

i'm never knowingly going to reblog a post that includes the phrase 'touch grass,' and that's not because i don't think it can be psychologically beneficial to get in some outdoor time if possible—i went for a walk earlier! it was great!—or to take a break from conversations that are getting you wound up, but because i think that particular wording generally reveals two things:

first, that the writer is speaking not from a place of genuine concern and sympathy, but from judgmental impatience à la 'get therapy,' which—i too have felt judgmental and impatient in my time, god knows! but when i feel that way i try to go unpack those feelings in private with a thoughtful friend, instead of pretending they constitute a source of wisdom or a helpful sort of energy to direct at people, you know? and i'm definitely not particularly interested in boosting a ventpost from someone else—who pretty clearly hasn't bothered to take the breather they're urging on others, if they're making little digs like that—as if it were actually sincere, carefully-reasoned advice.

and second, that the writer's argument embraces some seriously sloppy assumptions, which pretty immediately undermines my trust in the rest of their analysis—i mean, there's absolutely no guarantee someone's local scene will be any less parochial, just because it's playing out irl! there's also not actually a clean divide between 'people who spend time in the Real World' and 'people who spend time on the internet, which is for porn losers,' as demonstrated by a number of phenomena including, again, the aforementioned grass-recommenders' own presence right here on tumblr…

anyway. obviously we all have our own particular lines we draw around particular rhetoric that bugs us! these are just some reasons why that particular phrasing bugs me.

#language #metatumbling #like. if what you mean is 'your stance would be totally incongruous outside the microcommunity you're speaking to'? #say that! #but also—it's fine to speak to the state of affairs in a microcommunity‚ actually #you just need to define your parameters #but like. so do people who are speaking to Broader Culture bc like. *which* broader culture. #even if you mean American Cishet Culture there are. so many kinds. new york ≠ nebraska. #but anyway it's just like. stop fucking making (and reblogging) these implicit ad hominem arguments #about how people who disagree with you must be idiots and losers because they don't get out enough #if they really are wrong you ought to be able to argue against them without resorting to digs any real leftist ought to be ashamed of #and if spending all one's time in the physically-embodied socially-embedded world really stopped people from being wrong… #well. pretty sure a lot fewer people would be wrong about things‚ if that were true. #anyway i left this to rot in drafts last week for prolixity reasons #and like. it remains guilty of those crimes but they don't render its fundamental assertion untrue. #anyway fundamentally this is the sort of thing you immediately sound like a 'terminally online' loser for protesting and i realize that #but like. if we refuse to open conversational doors because we're scared of the shame bucket someone juvenile balanced on top of them… #fuck that. i decline to live in fear of implicit rhetorical bully tactics.