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Igneous Sigil π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ
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Alone, we can do so little, together, we can do so much - so let's kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight She/her, π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ, sleepy elder millennial malcontent
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Really put on this lately be trailers for "War Fantasy" (game) and "Landlord" (movie), maybe I'm just getting too old to find most things wearing their politics on their sleeves for applause from the choir clever instead of tiresome.
"No politics" usually means "there are only two X, the conservative socially normative and the transgressive", But as I've grown older and especially watching aggressively didactic media, I do think there's also some space of "I don't want the thesis pointed out and pushed into my face"
*dies like one of the weasels in Roger Rabbit*
Just got taken out by someone in a discord opining that they were tired of how hypersexual mech anime is and that they recommended βsomething not gay and totally nonsexual like gundam, bravern, gurren lagann or promareβ and I am consumed with the perverse need to see if this is a bit It must be
When you don't understand that deniability of association is a fucking asset:
4. This either means we need people within groups like SUTR to advocate for a diversity of tactics, including all of the above, and to not toe the party line, and if those organisations cannot agree to that we need people to organise in parallel, and *PUBLICLY SUPPORT MILITANT ANTIFASCISTS*.
I'm trans and not falling for this lol (But browsing the replies)
what is an *actual*, *specific* opinion that you hold that will be unpopular on bluesky ? Mine is that Javier Milei is horrible but probably did a better job in fixing Argentinaβs hyperinflation crisis than any of his opponents would have
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They don't break us They break upon us
I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way wonβt be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning
For all we ought to have thought, and have not thought; All we ought to have said, and have not said; All we ought to have done, and have not done; I pray thee, God, for forgiveness.
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Dwelling on this a bit after Texas Chainsaw Massacre II. A movie with some uncomfortable bits, but nothing really frightening, unsettling, or disturbing, which in some circles would disqualify it from being horror Or... maybe there's something wrong with me. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Like there's not an ounce of unsettlement or horrification engendered by One Cut of the Dead or From Beyond, but they're definitely horror movies and I'd recommend both as horror and both highly