The Real Jadzia Dax

In 19th century Russian tumblr, the Serfs had to write posts for the landlords to put on their blogs and profit off of in the form of notes

Shōgun of Rollercoasters 🎢

health isn't a virtue.

people still go around acting like they've done something good in order to be able bodied and healthy. that they worked for it, that it's due to their moral fibre or good upbringing or self control. they genuinely, on some level, believe that they are a good person solely based on the strength of their physical abilities. they will resist the fact that it is largely down to chance that they were able to maintain such health. whatever they think they've built from scratch, the building blocks were already handed to them. not because they're more worthy of it, just by luck. and they really think they're worth more based on that sheer luck. i've met disabled people worth a hundred of the healthiest ableds alive.

I got algo-served this weepy little rant about how this woman doesn't trust/feel comfortable around "older trans women" (i.e. ones who transitioned later) because they're too male socialized or whatever. And part of the argument was literally that they haven't been "humbled enough" (by which she means sufficiently abused by their peers) and so lack an important kind of humility. And it strikes me that humility, when articulated a certain way, is a virtue of the panopticon in which women can pull each other down and self-surveil when one of them starts "getting above her station." Self-confidence and assertiveness then become not virtues of the self-sufficient and actualized person, but evidence that one thinks too highly of oneself. And it's part of this perverse worldview where the epistemic/political privileging of trauma becomes a means of its reproduction: the violence becomes a needed corrective to a deformed personality. But Plato has this right too: a horse doesn't become better through beatings. It's just the ressentiment version of calling someone a brickhon.

Americans be like: My grandpa 😠😠😠 served in the Korean War 😠😠😠 and killed 9 people 😠😠😠 to fund his college degree in clownery 😠😠😠 Respect him or leave the country 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬

That’s a super light story huh? My great grandfather got killed in action from a land mine to protect this country. If you don’t wanna respect the history or stand for a national anthem😁then leave to your peaceful home and fuck right off

How did your great grandpa stepping on a landmine protect this country

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Happy Memorial Day