#normalization

It’s just a celebrity on a red carpet wearing a red hand pin. Fashion is subjective.​ It’s just a slogan projected onto Big Ben. It’s free speech.​ It’s just a BBC presenter comparing us to rats. It’s just banter.​

It’s just a rabbi murdered in the UAE. A random tragedy.​ It’s just 50 Jewish kids kicked off a plane in Spain. A diplomatic spat.​ It’s just a girl in France. An isolated incident.​ It’s just a plot to kill us in Manchester, a firebomb in Boulder, a shooting at Bondi Beach. Just one-offs. All of them.​

It’s just... maybe take the kippah off when you leave the synagogue.​ It’s just... maybe put the mezuzah on the inside of the door this time.​ It’s just... maybe have an exit plan.​

But you’re right. It’s probably just me.

Taking plushies to places and having ESSAs

Having emotional support animals

Wearing “childish” clothing, being emo/goth/scene/alt, enjoying things other than the beige mom or clean girl aesthetics or others like that

Writing bad fanfiction and making fanart

Having “childish” fears, phobias, concerns, and worries

Having anxiety, depression, DID, BPD, ADHD, autism and other mental health issues

Being (rad)queers, trans(gender/IDs) furries, therians, otherpaws, (age/pet) regressors, xenic and neopronoun using beings, and other things typically associated with children/teens

Doing things like quadrobics and hobby horsing, enjoying things like "childish" music, games, shows, and other media, liking things like skipping rope for fun, jumping on the trampoline for fun, swinging on swings for fun, and going into bouncy castles for fun, and having other "childish" interests like coloring and crafting silly things

Liking kid's media over adult media

Having meltdowns, breakdowns, tantrums, upsetness, and other "dysfunctional" "childish" behavior

Being confused, asking many questions, asking for help, and asking for advice, but also asking for their parents and asking for things like checking under the bed or in the closet

Playing in playgrounds, playing with toys, and playing in general without children (or with the neighborhood kids)

Not always feeling happy, optimistic, energized, or otherwise positively

Being traumatized, not being traumatized, loving their parents, not loving their parents, or things like not wanting a family

not wanting to go out, not wanting being social, not wanting to talk the whole time, struggling with being verbal, being semi or non-verbal, and using AACs

Ive seen a lot of people throughout all social media post about their favourite character but the comments sre quite... weird.

Lets just say you like Mizuki Akiyama (from pjsk), and you make a cool edit for them since their your favourite character. But the comments go.. “you only like them bc of mizu5” “newgen” NO??? Thats NOT how liking a character works. You cant expect someone to like some character who got 1 frame of animation

These comments are scattered around EVERYWHERE. Its not even characters. You like a popular song, you get called a newgen, if its "overrated" you even get called a POSER. If you know too much, apparently ur trying too hard?? EVEN GAMES??? Oh.. you probably play grow a garden because its popular SYBAU😭😭

Im trying to say its okay to like a character, whether it's popular or not. On either side, your a normal person. BUT if your one of the 1% and talks like the examples above PLEASE have common sense.

Hating on a character, popular or not , is OKAY if you have a reason to do so. Not everyone has the same taste, but you cant hate people for liking the character you dislike. Thats uncool🥀

You can like Miku more other than the other vocaloids, you can like another member more than the unit leader, You can like a popular song an artist released regardless how many months or years ago was it. We're ALL human beings, we have our likes, dislikes, and favourites, and liking something popular doesnt change that fact at ALL

Guys, this is the video that gamifies the war posted on the white house's official account on X. It's not just bad taste, it's propaganda. The American government's goal is to normalize the war by exploiting the social and video game aesthetic, making it light and playful.

Thus, it alters people's perceptions, making them insensitive to such devastation. This erodes, indeed destroys, the culture of nonviolence, and therefore those in government will no longer have opposition to it. If people are insensitive, the government will be able to impose its unfiltered, forceless worldview, because citizens already accept it.

With insensitivity, you reduce resistance to conflict, making it the primary solution to problems. This makes war, in people's eyes, the only viable way to change a problematic situation. It's frightening. Think about it, this way they facilitate the recruitment of young people who, subjected to such propaganda on TV and social media, will associate real war with video games.

Young people are easily manipulated and therefore risk dehumanizing the enemy, losing empathy for their victims, who will become merely a digital target transposed into reality. It's a very serious manipulation of the narrative by Trump's staff, gradually shifting the bar toward authoritarianism, but not the classic authoritarianism we've become accustomed to in the past, but a more subtle and manipulative version. This is dangerous, and I'm deeply disgusted.