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the way we couldve avoided everything coming out about platner now if people had taken the whole nazi tattoo thing seriously from the start back in october

Platner's entire campaign from day one has been that women need to shut up, Jews are too powerful, and he is the manly straight white man who will make America great again. "It just seems like the sort of thing he would do" is not evidence, no, but no one is surprised here; I don't even think his backers are actually surprised, they're just realizing that they need to save face because I guess sexual assault is nominally a bridge too far (but who HASN"T done a bit of intimate partner abuse).

Having a loved one in Israel is weird bcs I have every personal reason to want this war over as soon as possible, but I can't hang around and talk with other people against the war, bcs most of the people against the war in the west kinda want the person I love dead, and yeah.

A lot of people's idea of being anti war is desiring one side to completely obliterate the other through conquest, and thinking they'll be no war after that because the enemy race has been neutralized, which is definitionally the most pro-war thing you can think.

the pagan origins of the fourth of july

pagan origins of easter people voice: did you know that the 4th of july was actually originally a roman holiday! it was named after julius caesar

This is actually a pretty good analogy because while some non-Americans do celebrate the Fourth of July, it's also an objectively insane thing to insist that non-Americans celebrate because it's for everyone and just celebrates universal values

i’m not going to call myself “the friend who’s too woke” or hedge around my opinion because this is my deeply considered belief: horror literature is the theater of disgust, and the disgust that drives the vast, vast majority of classic horror media from the 1890s-1940s—dracula, jekyll and hyde, king kong, nosferatu, the mummy, universal frankenstein, the wolf man, cthulhu, and more—is the exact disgust that drove the worldwide tide of violence in the 1930s and 40s, a tide that has never fully receded, and you have NO business adapting a piece of classic horror media if you aren’t willing to put in the work to identify what is portrayed as disgusting in that property and enter into some form of dialogue with it. if you don’t want your movie to be “about” race or class or gender or sexuality or ability, you’re free to choose a source material that isn’t already about that, but unluckily for you giant hypersexual apes do not exist in a vacuum

Cathedral Dress by Frieda Lepold (via)

i dont know how people handle the world without looking at pictures of little tiny mice sitting on wheat

Everyone doing the very loserly "well, uh, we don't believe people's positions change, so our harassing him was still legitimate actually" thing needs to be asked if this means that they support Graham Platner because they believe he is still a Nazi.