thats the thing thats missing from america-centric discussion of fascism: this shit is global. every country in “the west” is seeing the same rise of fascism in real time, all of it focused on murdering migrants. like giorgia meloni is campaigning to deport people to “migrant camps” in albania. last year the greek coast guard outright drowned a boat of 500 asylum seekers. and as that last post said im not dismissing the suffering of people within the US, i’m just saying its so supremely frustrating that every conversation is about the minutiae of american domestic policy and not the horrifying ultranationalist global trend scapegoating arabs and africans.
my point is you need to be horrified that “border control” is an accepted talking point. you need to be aware of the fact that climate change is currently driving what will become the largest forced movement of people ever as the “third world” becomes uninhabitable. people—specifically people from africa and west asia—are dying in the name of white supremacist “borders” around the world. and whether your european or american when you see this rhetoric manifest in your country you need to push back.
Are we counting fire arms in this? Because there are far more fire arms that any other type of weapon at this point and I don’t know if those are bladed or not. Do pointed bullets count as blades? Are rounded ones high velocity blunt force trauma?
i don’t think a bullet counts as a weapon on its own? if you just have a handful of bullets, you can’t do much with them
but yea guns count
wait do you mean in total or like by type (like 2 of the same model of gun is still 1 gun but a pike and a spear are 2 weapons)? and is this currently in use or throughout history?
by type, and throughout history
i think the majority of people on this poll dont understand just how much of history bladed weapons have been the default for
bladed weapons existed before modern humans did, for at least 2 million years now
and, more importantly, bladed weapons encourage diversity in a way non bladed weapons don’t
like, the strongest contender for non bladed weapon with the most types is the club
and the thing is, like a quarter of all those types Have blades
turns out that one of the most commons things to do to a non bladed weapon is to add blades to it (bayonets, bladed arrows and bolts, bladed clubs hammers and flails, etc)
and then you have to factor in the fact that nearly every bladed tool in history has been picked up in defense or in anger
every kind of kitchen knife and every farming implement has been made into a type of bladed weapon
it is obvious that there are more kinds of bladed weapon in the world
I think there are more blunt weapons because they are the weapons that serve the most cunt (it rhymes and thus must be true)
Last night, I dreamed there was this really popular youtube channel called “WolfpackDan”, and it was a guy who literally lived with a pack of wolves in the forest, just documenting daily life.
Now, I need you to understand that Dan was not some sort of Coyote Peterson type. He looked and dressed like someone who would pretend to get drunk off of non-alcoholic beer and say “bruh” unironically. He looked like the “bro I am straight up not having a good time” guy. But there he was, literally living in the forest with a wolf pack, recording and uploading videos with his phone.
One of his videos opened with him talking to the camera about “yeah, the pack went hunting today and just made a kill”. He turned his wrist to pan his phone over his shoulder, where four wolves are pinning down and tearing into a whitetail buck who is two gasps away from death.
“We’re actually hoping to make two kills today,” he added, panning his phone the other way to show two more wolves latching onto a second deer. “The Old Lady’s pups are growing really fast and it’s getting harder to provide for them. Once they can join the hunt, that’ll be a huge weight off everyone’s shoulders.”
He panned back to the first deer, where the wolves were now tearing into the meal. “I’m really hoping they’ll leave the pelt on this one intact,” he said. “I need a new cape. Winter is coming, guys.”
The last shot of that video was him running through the trees with the pack, with a still-bloody deer hide draped over his shoulders.
I can’t remember any more of his specific videos, but the gist I got from them was that he actually was a contributing member of the pack (hence the “we”) and had been raised at least partially by the wolves themselves. Not sure how they raised him into this dudebro-looking twenty-something with a name like Dan, but they did?
Where did he get his phone? How did he pay for his data? Who taught him English? Why did he dress like that?
I have so many questions for WolfpackDan.
I don’t know why this is getting a lot of notes tonight, but I’m excited for all the attention WolfpackDan is getting, and I hope that–in whatever universe he exists–he’s getting a huge influx of subscribers and is living his best life.
Disabled werewolf born into a pack that lives wild most of the time, can’t transform. Keeps the others off camera when they’re human and just commits to the bit.
This meme is tongue in cheek, but this too is part of class warfare. In this case, keeping the law too complex for non-experts to even begin to have a chance to understand it means that only those who can afford to hire experts can protect themselves adequately and engage in ventures and activities that don’t directly relate to subsistence.
god i’m so tired of everybody’s bad faith interpretations of everything. where’s the trust. where’s the forgiveness. where’s the understanding that most things are complex and most people have many layers. and like the black eyed peas once said. where is the love
A girl at my school tried to seduce one of our (super straight-laced) math professors. She ACTUALLY sat on his desk and had a super low-cut shirt on and everything and actually leaned over to him and according to eye-witnesses:
Girl: “Oh professor, I’m really struggling but I would do ANYTHING to pass this class.”
The professor leans in until his face is just inches from hers and whispers in the same seductive tone:
“Study”
Before promptly getting up and walking away just leaving her on the desk.
So there’s the idea of “kitchen table poly,” AKA “everyone in the polycule needs to be able to sit at a kitchen table together and get along like friends.”
One of my roommates just came up with a counter idea, which is “poker table poly.” Everyone in the polycule must be enemies. No one is allowed to get too chummy or they’re kicked out. They all also likely owe eachother money.
Getting beat up after chanting “End the Arabs” and ripping down Palestinians flag doesn’t constitute as a “pogrom”
That’s the ✨consequences of your actions✨
Don’t even get me started on why calling this a “pogrom” is antisemitic at best and dilutes the actual history of pogroms faced by my people.
This is just another example of Zionists overstating the situation so they can play victim.
It just reminds me of how Zionists have been saying any criticism of them carpet bombing children is “blood libel”
Sorry you don’t get to hide behind words with significant historical context because you got beat up for being racist.
I think it’s also very important to acknowledge that while what happened in Amsterdam is NOT a pogrom and the racist Israelis were able to safely fly back on a flight facilitated by their ethno-state, Palestinians have been facing state-backed pogroms for 75+ years.
Zionism is a stain upon Judaism and Zionists are constantly hiding about terms they clearly don’t understand.
*tastes potion like a chef testing the soup* hm. needs more eye of newt.
this is hilarious + its even funnier if u kno that eye of newt is probably mustard seed
so who else was today years old when they learned that “eye of newt” is mustard seed and not the literal eye of a newt or am i just dumb
Theres even more beyond eye of newt
no wonder my potions never work the way they should
I’m sorry, but this is completely fake. You will not find any of these ‘folk names’ in any herbal written before the 1980s, because they were all made up by modern authors.
The idea that the Macbeth potion ingredients were just plants is the invention of US Wiccan Scott Cunningham who wanted to rehabilitate the historical figure of the witch, including Shakespeare’s fictional ones.
[Guy who lives in a massive luxury compound and does nothing but day drink and watch WaffleHouseFights on YouTube] “America is spiritually sick. We are fucked.”
Being at a rich dudes house is so weird. The guy has like fifty bottles of whiskey and cannot name a single tasting note for anyone. He doesn’t even like whiskey. I asked why he has so many and he says ‘it hardly ever goes bad’
AITA for convincing my younger brother to kill our mother?
I (25F) have a younger brother (18M) named O. 17 years ago, our father went away to war. Our mother was left in charge during this time, and she got a new lover (A). Our mom and A sent my brother away to live with distant relatives. I don't think A liked me very much, and he was a bad influence on our mother. When our father returned from war, mom and A killed him. I was only 15 at the time, so I couldn't do anything, but I was so upset and angry. Ever since then, my mom has been treating me almost like a servant. She refuses to let me travel to see O or even leave the house much. She refuses to understand why I'm angry--she literally killed my father!!! Of course I'd be angry!
A few days ago, she had a horrible nightmare that my father returned from the dead and murdered her(i wish), so she sent me to pay my respects at his grave. When I went there, another person was there, also paying their respects. I almost freaked out, but then I realized it was my beloved baby brother! He had returned home! I was so so so happy, especially when he told me he had been given a prophecy that said he needed to kill our mother.
However, O was a little hesitant, because he said she's our mother. I told him that it would only be right, since she killed our father, and she's been treating me so horribly.
O ended up killing both A and our mother, and ever since then he's been plagued by vengeful spirits. He's the only one who can see them, but he screams and shakes and he seems barely there most of the time. I'm afraid I might have driven him mad. I, too, have been racked with guilt. Should I not have urged him to kill our mother? Now we truly only have each other, and I fear I might have broken my beloved brother.
It's really problematic for you to post about dragon fucking. Everyone knows that humans can't consent and that dragons should be with their natural mate, the humble Ford F150 :/
The Standing Rock reservation has an astonishing wealth of fossil remains, and a relatively young paleontology program, but not much in the way of resources. Here’s the program’s Get Involved page, and here’s a really cool video talking about the subject from PBS’s Prehistoric Road Trip, if you have six minutes to spare.
The Standing Rock reservation has an astonishing wealth of fossil remains, and a relatively young paleontology program, but not much in the way of resources. Here’s the program’s Get Involved page, and here’s a really cool video talking about the subject from PBS’s Prehistoric Road Trip, if you have six minutes to spare.
Shoutout to the two coworkers today who casually announced that they were voting for Trump, then asked me who I was voting for. I told them “I did early voting, and I voted for the candidate who isn’t going to make it harder for me to exist as a trans person” and both of these women had to awkwardly try and assure me that it wasn’t personal, and it’s not like they hated Harris or anything, they actually do like some things about her, and they definitely don’t hate me, of course not, it’s just that, you know, well, it’s like, well, you know, it’s just, like, and no matter how many times they tried to pass the shovel off to me, I just let them hold onto it
What. (and I mean this from the bottom of my enraged heart) the FUCK
Sadly, a lot of my co-workers are under-informed Trump supporters.
You know the kind, they just have a very surface level understanding of him as a candidate or person. They don’t really care about the actual concepts of policies he’s suggesting or the overt racism/sexism/everythingism he flaunts. They’ve just decided there’s something they like about him that makes him worthy of their vote and they choose to ignore anything they don’t like.
Not indoctrinated, just poorly informed. Not brainwashed, just kind of uncaring. Not part of the cult, just following it from the sidelines.
A conversation I had with one of these women today:
“Jonah, do you know how a tariff works?”
“In, like, very broad, general terms, yes. Why? Do you need it explained?”
“I was reading something yesterday about it, and I’m not sure if it was right. The article was saying we pay it?”
“Yes, that’s how a tariff works. It’s a tax on imported goods.”
“Okay, but that’s a good thing, right?”
“If you’re trying to discourage foreign trade, yeah. Or pull in more money for the government.”
“But how do we pay for it?”
“Uh. We don’t pay for it directly. The company that imports pays the tariff, and then they usually raise the prices on their own shit to make up for the loss.”
“But that’s going to make shit more expensive. Tariffs are supposed to make shit cheaper.”
“They’re not. They’re supposed to make imported shit more expensive. They’re supposed to discourage imports.”
“I don’t understand this. This was gonna help the economy.”
“Well, it might help some parts of the economy, but I don’t think you’re involved in any of them, so you may not see any of the benefits of the tariffs.”
“Okay so. I thought China was supposed to pay them.”
“Remember during his first term, when there was all that talk about a big, beautiful wall that Mexico was gonna–”
“Okay, look–”
“No no, hear me out. Remember how there was going to be a big beautiful wall that Mexico was going to pay for? China is going to pay the tariffs in the same way that Mexico paid for the border wall.”
OP, I don’t know how you managed to keep a straight face when letting them figure out they fucked up. I avoided someone today who’s an immigrant but anti-immigrant because I knew I’d have no chill.
im really in a bad place i hope the sun doesnt start setting crazy early at like 4pm. i said i hope the sun doesnt set early at like 4pm that would be bad for me
just saw a post where someone put “detrans dni” and like… hey we should be supporting detransitioned people bc if we don’t terfs will
sometimes you’re wrong about your identity and that’s ok like i used to think i was bi but it turns out i was wrong and i know ppl who thought they were trans but it turns out they were wrong and it should be ok and accepted that sometimes people don’t get it right on the first try
There’s nothing wrong realizing you weren’t trans I love all y’all
Okay, so you’ve picked up Marx, maybe dabbled in communism, and now you’re all fired up about revolution. 👏 But before you dive in too deep and start calling yourself a “tankie” (or whatever’s trending these days), can I suggest something real quick? Read Animal Farm. 👀
I know, everyone knows Animal Farm, right? But honestly, I’m not sure how many of you have actually read it—and I mean really read it. Animal Farm isn’t just some cute little farm story with talking animals. It’s Orwell’s warning about why communism doesn’t work—and why it never will. 🐷➡️👨🌾
The animals overthrow their human oppressors, right? They’re all about equality—everyone is equal. But by the end, the pigs are walking on two legs, living in the house, and looking just like the humans they kicked out. That’s the point. The revolution gets corrupted, the leaders become just as bad as the ones they replaced, and the whole system falls apart. No matter how good the intentions are, when power’s involved, it all falls into the same mess. 😬
You’ve probably seen people online talking about how communism is the future, how it’s this radical change we all need. But let’s be real: look at the countries closest to communism today—North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. Does that seem like the kind of world you wanna live in? Is that freedom? Is that happiness? Are those societies thriving? Because from where I’m standing, it’s more like a dystopia. 👀
So before you put that hammer and sickle in your bio, give Animal Farm another read. It’s not just a book—it’s history. It’s a cautionary tale that shows us why it doesn’t work and why it never will. We need new ideas, fresh thinking. Use that brainpower you’re flexing for change to build something that actually works. 💡🔥
Stop identifying with the same old ideologies that have been proven to fail, and start building something better. The future’s waiting for you. ✌️🌍
