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i hate pinterest for always bringing these pics on my page T-T

especially this fucking painting:

if he aint like this i don’t want him.

my delusions (cus i’m a delulu bitch):

He buried his head between your thighs. The fabric of your skirt is covering his face as his hands found their place on your ankles. He knew it was ridiculous to see a man like him, a huge, grown man with board shoulders and potential to kill a bear with his bare hands, kneeling infrond of you and pleading love from you. Just a little affection from you was all he was asking for. Even if you did it with pity or by delaying he would accept it. His head brushed against your skirt as he looked up to you and inched closer to your stomach. You narrowed your eyes and raised an eyebrow. He immediately stopped and sunk back down. “Darling…” he mumbled as his thumbs caressed your ankles. “No.” you answered sternly and leaned back onto couch. “Please?” he tried again. His hands moved up to your calfs with the wanting to feel me of you. “You don’t think you can get whatever you want when you act like that, right?” you crossed your legs causing him to lift his head and then put his chin on your knee stubbornly. He refused to leave you alone. “Can’t i?” you felt a pout in his voice. You rolled your eyes and bounced your legs to push his head off. “Get up. You make yourself look pitiful.” you spat.

He clenched his jaw and sit straight on his knees. Then grabbed your wrists and pulled you foward to him, making your cleavage his view. “Do you think i care?” he hissed and nuzzled his face into your neck. Savoring your scent. “You know i will make you my wife. Whether you like it or not.” his voice stained with lust and determination. “And when i do…” he trailed off and his fingers brushed against your waist and up to your breasts. His palm covered the skin under your breasts and squeezed lightly. You felt blood rushing to your cheeks and your face burned. “You can’t escape your fate. Don’t worry, my love. You will enjoy it. A lot.” he whispered against your skin making you feel tingly with the vibration of his voice.

You swallowed and tried to straighten your posture but he didn’t let go before pushing your hair of your neck and pressing a delicate kiss. He already knew he had you in the palm of his hand. Your protests did nothing to stop him. “Get out.” you mumbled and crossed your arms. He chuckled dryly and get up, his frame towering over you as you refused to look into his eyes. “I promise.” he mumbled before leaving your room.

People seem to think “Nazi” is meant as a slur or term of abuse. It’s not: it has a straightforward, literal meaning.

After World War Two, there was a campaign to argue that Nazism had no real ideology, that it was just some group of people, to delegitimize it.

That had some value, but its downside was that people forgot that Nazism *does* have an ideology, and it never went away.

Nazism conceives of the world as a struggle between races.

That’s not “race” in the twentieth century United States “black/white” sense; Jews, Slavs, Britons and so on are all “races”, too.

And Nazis believe that races have certain characteristics, which are passed on through the blood; and that they are bound to some land.

There are a few other articles of Nazi belief: for example, that acting (“the will”) is better than thinking (a sign of weaker races).

And that the strength of a race is most strongly exemplified through the untrammeled Will of its leaders.

(If you’re thinking, “Wait, you just made an ideology around obeying people who don’t think?” you may have spotted one of the problems.)

The “National Socialism” is a very real thing, too. It’s socialism *for members of the nation.* And they decide who’s in and who’s out.

Government subsidies for “good, decent people?” Sure. Just don’t give it to those parasites.

So here’s the important thing: These ideas make up Nazism. You don’t need to wear a swastika to believe in them.

And here’s the other important thing: if you’re in the United States, you may have grown up hearing “Nazis are the bad guys” without learning *why.*

Or you may have learned about concentration camps, but not about what happened in the ten years leading up to them.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they didn’t build camps. They passed laws restricting jobs for “non-German races” (nations).

They argued that money spent on the disabled was simply a drain on society, and we should move them to hospitals.

They held angry public rallies which often included violence. Their leaders and militias flaunted the law, because they knew it didn’t apply.

They saw who they could kill and get away with, and gradually, over time, expanded that.

They encouraged “voluntary self-deportation” of unwanted Jews, by barring them from holding jobs.

When no county wanted a few million refugees, it was their proof that nobody wanted the Jews.

So camps were started up as administrative holding centers, where they could be put to good use - that is, as slave labor.

The disabled, moved to remote hospitals, were out of sight and out of mind: so that’s where they did their first experiments of mass murder.

I could go on about this for hours, but the point is: this was a story of an ideology which did exactly what it said on the label.

Not by showing up one night and starting to kill people, but slowly, gradually, building up public normalization of what they did.

When I refer to Nazis in the United States, I am not using this as some kind of generic slur against people I disagree with.

Nazis are people who subscribe to the ideology of Nazism, plain and simple, whatever organizations they do or don’t affiliate with.

Nazism is an ideology fundamentally inimical to everyone who isn’t a Nazi. It is a known and proven threat to life.

“Punching Nazis” is a way to signal to them that their ideology is not welcome in the public sphere, to keep them quiet and afraid.

If Nazis are extremely few in number, and very reluctant to speak, then their public speech becomes an opportunity for the public to rally against them, to reiterate its refusal to allow this. This is where the old ACLU “speech for Nazis” argument came from.

If they are somewhat bigger in number, they become a part of public discourse - thus legitimating questions like “well, *are* [X] people?”

To legitimize these questions is to require every such group to continuously prove their humanity, and their right to even argue back.

This is not a real counterspeech remedy. Normalizing the question of “Is [X] human?” places the burden on them to continuously prove it.

This why Nazi speech is a public danger when they are in anything but the smallest numbers.

What are their numbers? cf this Reuters/Ipsos poll from a few weeks ago: [descriptor’s note: there’s a link there that is partially obscured, I couldn’t track down the twitter thread or the link itself, because four years have passed. end descriptor’s note]

14% of people (N=5360) were neutral to positive on Nazis *when referred to by that name.* Support for their ideas was much higher.

Punching Nazis is a minor control mecanism: it silences the danger without amplifying its speech. But it doesn’t solve anything.

Historically, there has been exactly one solution for Nazis. It did not come cheap.

Never forget what Nazism is - and that when it appears, it needs to be stopped immediately and vigorously.

“Nazi” is not a slur, and it should not be used for anyone who does not advocate those ideas. But it should be used for those who do.

And for those: no peace, no sympathy, no quarter, and no mercy.

Imagine the movie about the famous eccentric billionaire getting anticapitalist themes more right than disney's whole three movies about a poor working class teenager ..that would just be so embarrassing for the MCU tbh

actually! while we're talking about bruce wayne! something that has always bothered me is when fandom flippantly groups tony stark and bruce wayne into the same category of "nasty capitalists" just because they're billionaires. or when people reduce bruce down to a "rich guy who uses his privilege to beat up mentally ill people". because those are such purposefully obtuse and ice cold takes

I really suggest looking at these two posts

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but the fact of the matter is bruce wayne / batman is aware of his privilege. he knows that money can make a difference. which is why he POURS his money into every crevice of gotham that he thinks it might make a difference. he helps fund hospitals. scientific research. art programs for kids. food pantries and shelters. the school systems. FREE schools. orphanages. clean energy. the fight against AIDS. he is involved in programs that address the socio-economical reasons that create an environment of crime (as well as advocates for rehabilitation), and assist victims of crime. he's involved in worldwide programs as well, but his city is obviously his priority.

he is also well aware of corruption. that no matter what, there are still going to be dirty cops. dirty lawyers and politicians. that money talks, and no matter how much money he personally pools into his community its not always going to be enough. bad people are still going to be bad. and that's part of why he puts on the suit.

I love horror, and uncanny scenarios can be fun, but as an autistic guy with selective mutism, I’ve seen my own disability described in horror posts exactly like this one, as one of the “somethings” that the reader’s supposed to be unsettled by. Every major horror movie that has a mute guy in it casts the mute guy as the killer, the “something” to be feared. As though my silence belies some unnatural quality about me. And I’m not gonna lie, it feels bad. I’m just some guy, I don’t want to be thought of as creepy or offputting based on my disability. I don’t enjoy the fact that I make folks feel uneasy when they encounter me.