The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people

Despite the agreement on a ceasefire, the Israeli occupation has targeted 3 citizens in Rafah now, and a number of targets are being targeted daily.

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Spent a bunch of time looking through a wiki list of all the magia recird characters today. There are some insane outfits happening in there

I can't stress enough just how wildly all over the place these magical girl designs are it as a whiplash inducing amoint of weird outfits to look at. I feel like i don't even know where to begin talking about any of it

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If I stretch my arms as far as they go, I can feel the edges of the sky

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) — Points in the Curve  (oil on canvas, 1927)

Mdantsane (East London), Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Dont get me wrong I love Brennan Lee mulligan and think he's an extremely talented entertainer and probably just a decent guy on top of that. I would hang out with him. but people really need to be less married to this particular quote of his. It's just bad analysis, it's not a true or productive thing to believe. "All fascists are bullies (and, by implication, all bullies are fascists)" is puuuuureeee cope

It's quite reductive. Some people are "bullies" because they are uninformed, or inflexible, or used to getting their way, or some other thing. Bullies don't necessarily see themselves that way.

Fascists do understand what they are doing. Take for example, the people who supported trump and at some point changed their mind. These people were duped. Conned. They believed they were supporting someone who would be a benefit to them and the country as a whole. They believed in the American dream, and that under the Republicans, people would have a fair shot at wealth. These were not fascists, they were not bullies. They are or were victims of a cult.

This brings me to why the quote above ultimately fails in application to the average Republican constituent: the average Republican constituent may act according to an ideology, but they do not consciously have an ideology. Most people vote off vibes. It doesn't matter if bullies become fascists if the question of what someone is never arises.

This was a lot more rambling than I wanted, but I've never been much of an editor, so hopefully any of this makes sense.

i honestly think "the average Republican constituent may act according to an ideology, but they do not consciously have an ideology. Most people vote off vibes." might honestly be a more reductive and inactionable thing to believe than what i was originally critiquing here.

Looking back on it, the vibes comment definitely is. , and it's probably not correct to say the other part so definitively

I often like to remind people that republican voters, statistically, come by vast majority, from some of the poorest areas of every state they’re in.

It’s very hard to think critically about the news, fact check, find sources, etc, when you just got home from your second job and you’re worrying about if you go to the doctor for back pain or if you spend money on footwear because for some reason the world is stupid, and little Timmy’s shoes are getting him bullied at school.

What most republican voters have fundamentally realized is a very important truth— someone is lying to them, the system is broken, and the American Dream they were promised seems to be absent from their lives.

What the frauds of the Republican Party have done is craft some excellent narratives that take the fear and anger of some very tired, smart, but probably uneducated people, and redirected it from the actual culprits.

Because most republican voters fundamentally understand that Something Is Wrong With This Country. They just can’t put their finger on it being, our class structure, that we are ruled by oligarchs and racists, etc.

So the republicans have since Reagan crafted a narrative that diverts the blame and keeps white Republican voters that are in poverty, blaming the wrong people for the brokenness that they so wisely recognize.

If you ask a conservative poor white republican how they feel about the ACA, they love it. If you ask them how they feel about Obamacare, they hate it, even though Obamacare is just a nickname for the ACA.

When you’re terrified and scared too, it’s hard to be your best self, and easy to let your anger and petty impulses fester. And if someone is fostering violence and hatred in you, those things energize you and make you feel empowered in a way you haven’t in a while. They make you feel like you can fight and win the future you were promised as a child.

I do think the quote from Brennan Lee Mulligan is valuable here, but I think what’s missing is that most people supporting republicans aren’t actually aware of what republicans stand for, and that similarly, being miserable and scared and terrified all the fucking time, makes for a great recipe to make a bully.

I do think Ideology predates politics, but that Ideology is a lot more fluid in all of us than we’d like to admit—more easily swayed, and also has fewer bearing on our decisions than we’d like to admit.

The trolley problem “I save two people instead of one” usually flips on its head if we find out the one person is someone we love. I do mean this metaphorically — but often we are forced to make split second decisions with limited time, information, and energy, and we may be less likely to actually act upon what we know is “right,” when we’re under pressure, or we or our loved ones are in danger—ie: budgeting to help out our friends who are asking if you can give them $25 so they don’t get an overdraft instead of helping far off strangers who may benefit far far more from $25 because they’re literally starving.

Isolation also makes people definitively worse. And being poor, being trapped in the box of the cisheteropatriarchy, is fucking isolating, and we know that isolation makes people so so much worse, the least good, least healthy and capable versions of themselves. Solitary confinement for extended periods is regarded as cruel and unusual for a reason.

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this is a very comfortable narrative to believe for sure, but the reality is that the reason that these people keep voting for conservative alt-right candidates and policies is that they see a benefit in them (no matter how trumped up the purported benefit is) and they don’t care about people they’re hurting in the mean time. you guys cannot keep excusing republican voters on the basis that they’re essentially too stupid to understand what they’re doing. they’re racist towards people in their community, they’re xenophobic as all hell, they’re pro military and genocide because as far as they’re concerned, it will benefit them, never mind who gets dicked over in the process.

this rhetoric fails to recognise the workers’ and students’ revolutions that have happened across the globe, primarily in the global south, in places so wrecked by poverty that you couldn’t even picture what day to day life is like (this is not me tokenising these places, i was raised in and i come from such a place). but you guys have this idea of americans being so exceptional at everything, exceptionally good, exceptionally poor and exceptionally stupid that you’d really rather believe that people who want you dead are just being duped into it, and didn’t actively weigh up keeping you alive versus struggling for another four years.

i don’t know how you find that excusable.

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How do we feel about crops? Any crop enjoyers here?

I’m the person literally forcing you to do f/f

The ask wasn't joking?

Also I love the derogatory slang term for this more general phenomenon, "dutyfic"

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