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levmada · 5 months

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american homophobia cured⁉️

#in the senate is crazy #ON THE DAIS IS CRAZY #but i’m somehow not shocked #kane says #wtf america

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bl4ckth0rn3 · 10 months

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So in America they actually do the thing where they put turkeys in a hotel room and then pardon them from being slaughtered in the name of their primitive colonisation feast? And that wasn’t just a made up thing for that cartoon?

I am confusion.

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alex claremont diaz #firstprince #rwarb #rwrb movie #wtf america #like seriously #*european confusion*

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dashnite · 2 years

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i made some tags but i want to talk more about some "red flag" books. sorry for any typos or if my english is incorrect at any point, it's not my first language.

i added the following tags:

let's start by saying i happen to LOVE haruki murakami and i think his philosophical takes on his books are marvelous. like i said in the tags, you HAVE to be older to understand some things that are not explicit when you're younger or on a first read-through (for example, fight club doesnt pack the same punch [haha punch] when you read it a second time, then you see the signals pointing to the end were there all along but you didn't pick up the information). that's what i mean by saying picking up undertones when you're older, you have more information to contextualize (or re-contextualize) a book.

like, imagine you're 14 and you read american psycho. you probably don't even know what a yuppie is. and by missing that you're missing why bateman acts the way he does. and it does the same thing fight club does, which is to present us with unreliable narrators. but again you may not pick that up until you're older and can understand the themes of toxic masculinity (fight club) or the objectification of women, critic to the capitalism model and mental health issues (american psycho).

i love sylvia plath but admittedly, you do have to be a certain age to read the bell jar because of its themes of mental health, depression and suicide, but those are not red flags, those are triggers. why are these people keeping away a beautifully written story about mental health issues saying it's a red flag to read this book? this makes no sense to me. and tbh i HAVE to laugh at the sticker on gone girl. "if shes reading this she probably watched jennifer's body at least once". this cracked me up. i am aware of its flaws but i love jennifer's body (and it's a fuck you to men everywhere despite the ending), and that comment is so correct. gone girl also says fuck you to men, and it should not be considered a red flag. like... grow up maybe.

now, about the thing that will probably haunt my dreams this night. HOW IS FRANKENSTEIN ON A RED FLAG SHELF?! sure it's philosophical af but i read it at a young age and as i grew up i reread it a lot (i do have this problem, instead of buying new books, i reread mine because having dynamic reading means i end them REALLY fast and i end up with the same books to read lol), understanding more and more with more age. HOW in the world is this book a red flag? i honestly can't see it. yeah it is horror and a bit sci-fi but i was reading stephen king by age 9 and i turned out (mostly) fine. this one pisses me off to no end.

anyway i don't even know if anyone will read this but i already typed everything so. i'm ending these here. if i misexplained or mansplained anything pls let me know (i'm a trans man so please fell free). and if you wanna know more about the books that i mentioned both in the tags and this post, i can try and give a trigger warning or a spoilers-free synopsis of the ones I've already read.

#bookblr #fight club #frankenstein #the bell jar #gone girl #american psycho #crime and punishment #norwegian wood #more like EVERYTHING from:#haruki murakami #wtf america #calaboca miguel #my opinion #red flag books #long post

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going-to-superhell · 1 year

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i just found out that a woman is in prison for manslaughter because she had a miscarriage????? the us is not okay

time stamp 5:38

#bro what the fuck #wtf america #america #us #usa

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360degreesasthecrowflies · 7 months

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what do you MEAN Americans don't have railings along the roads where people are WALKING on the pavement??? so cars can just drive right on and over people???

#wtf #america #wtf america #public safety

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alphie-in-the-sky · 1 year

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#r/antiwork #Robert Reich #this is america #wtf america #stolen from reddit #i love queue

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le-panda-chocovore · 8 months

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Sometimes I read post about things that happens in USA like how much it cost deliver a baby in a hospital, or the number of school shooting, or the laws about not teaching about Gay People or Gender Identity or Period, or the reciting a patriotic song each morning in school, or some other shitty facts, and each time I have this realization like "Wait you guys actually live like that ? This is not a joke ? It's not even exaggerated ?? This is your daily life ??? HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE OH MY GODS ARE Y'ALL OKAY ???" (the answer is obviously No)

It's maybe because I don't pay much attention about news in my country (I know it's not joyful but I don't think it's THAT bad) cause it makes me really depressed, and it might be because USA is way more transparent about everything that happens, but for real, what the fuck.

#still France isn't actually great I know it #last thing I learnt is that long dress are now officially forbidden in school #because islamophobia #so yeah we're nlt the nicest country to live in #but still we're not USA #you guys have it so much worse #I don't know how you're holding on #i genuinely wish you good luck #and I hope things will get better someday #usa #non american #wtf america #ps: by “THAT bad” I mean USA-level of awful

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sneverussape · 1 year

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america really likes fundamentalism and cults.

i KNEW the weirdness I was seeing on tumblr about catholicism was going to lead to/indicative of this. it was a red flag and i say that even as a catholic myself. traditional catholicism was abolished with Vatican 2. we do not practice these things anymore for MANY REASONS, one of the main reasons being that the Latin mass was too distant since no one could understand it so it defeated the point, also because the church has changed and modernized over the years. there were many sus things they corrected with vatican 2, like the catholic church being the 'supreme' religion etc. learn the history of your own religion ffs. question it. criticize it. don't try to bring back what was already CORRECTED.

miss me with the “traditional values” and “you don’t understand the doctrine” bs. by adhering to this you come off as very ignorant or extreme right-wing. tbh so many of the young trads now are really just right-wing and wanting to be it under the guise of religion even if they don’t realize it yet. fuck ALL the way off.

(i don’t even know where to start with y’all. jfc. the country is really just a hotbed now of cultish following and behavior and this is terrifying especially since the '24 elections are coming up and you KNOW this is likely related to that)

#wtf america #american culture #cw christianity #catholicism #when the pope literally already disagrees with this #I mean cmon #i'm calling it though: this is the start of many fundamentalist movements that will affect the elections #there is no such thing as separation of church and state in this country #personal

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nekodani · 2 years

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