December???? What Next??? 2024?????

december???? what next??? 2024?????

Let's be so fucking for real

I've seen a lot of dipshits saying that the widespread reach of pro-Israel propaganda in the government and media is "proof" of the classic antisemitic conspiracy that Jewish people control the media (and, by extension, the world) . And that is a ridiculous assertion, but too many people are falling for it. I'm not Jewish, but I have a baseline level of critical thinking skills, so let's think about this for a moment. Let's start by stating the obvious: Jewish people do not control the government or the media. If you actually want to have a conversation about the power of religious extremism in the United States government and media (I'm in the U.S., so that's what I'm going to focus on), then we should actually be talking about Christian extremists. The most powerful Zionists* in the United States government and media companies are Christians, many of whom believe that the migration of all Jewish people to Israel will trigger the end of the world. I'm not joking. As batshit as it sounds, they actually believe, or at least they say they believe, that once all Jewish people go to Israel, they'll all die in a glorious display (did I mention that these people are wildly antisemitic?) and that Jesus will return. So like, if we really want to talk about religious fanatics in government, we can, but it isn't lost on me how unwilling people are to actually criticize Christianity and its use as a tool of white supremacy and general fuckery.

We need to be so fucking for real right now. The United States is antisemitic as surely as it is racist, imperialist, and capitalist. The U.S. government doesn't give a flying fuck about Jewish people, and neither does the U.S. media. The same goes for media companies and governments elsewhere in the West, by the way. They do not care about Jewish people. And if those entities could guarantee their power and wealth by killing every single Jewish person in the world, they wouldn't even hesitate to try.

At the moment, Israel and those Jewish people who support Israel are politically and economically useful to the United States.** This is the ONLY reason why they're getting so much positive coverage in the media and so much "protection" by the U.S. government. I put "protection" in quotes because in reality, the U.S. government is putting Jewish people in harm's way by putting them into a position to be scapegoated for the U.S.'s own imperial ambitions in the Middle East. By working so hard to conflate Zionism with Judaism, by saying that Israel speaks for all Jewish people, by arguing that criticizing Israel is antisemitic, and therefore implying falsely that the empire-building, ethnic cleansing, and genocide taking place in Palestine is a fundamentally Jewish endeavor, what the U.S. (and the other western powers backing this) have done is turn Jewish people into their human shields. If this is a Jewish project, then Jewish people are the villains. If Jewish people are the villains, then the solution is to get rid of Jewish people. And if Jewish people are the villains, there's no need to look any further for the people behind all of this. Casting Jewish people as the masterminds behind this genocide allows the actual masterminds to get away with it unscathed. So let's not play into their hands, for fuck's sake

*When I refer to Zionism here, I'm talking specifically about the support for and defense of the settler-colonial project of Israel. And while some people have begun using the word "Zionists" as code for Jewish people, I mean people who support and defend Israel, whether Jewish or not.

**As soon as that stops being the case, the U.S. and other western countries will abandon them. They've done that shit before and there's nothing stopping them from doing that again. They're already doing it to anti-Zionist Jewish people whose support of Palestinians is deeply inconvenient for the narrative that the U.S. is trying to spin. Anyone whose Jewishness cannot be exploited to prop up U.S. interests is a liability. We know what the U.S. does to people who it considers to be a liability, right?

One of the Fandom takes that make me genuinely angry is the Sakura is weak and useless take that's literally everywhere.

Hinata barely fights yet no one argues that she's weak becuase we all know she's strong. She's a capable ninja.

But Sakura? Break mountains and throw trees Sakura? Sakura who can heal even the most deadly of wounds and cure impossibly complex poisons Sakura? Sakura who has shown time and time again that she's strong and capable, that Sakura? No, she's weak. She's trash. She's worst girl 0/10.

It makes me so angry becuase she's genuinely a great character once you push kishimotos sexist bullshit out of the way. "Why didn't Sakura have any more good fights?" I don't know why don't you ask 'I dont know how to write women' Kishimoto over there. Ask him why Tenten or Hinata or Ino didn't get more fights either.

To me the take that Sakura is weak and the worst is a vile take and it will never not fill me with visceral rage.

God, YES, it's fine to not really like Sakura for whatever reason (including "well, the things that make me like characters usually involve cool fights"), but these arguments trying to PROVE why she's useless to the story are like 90% misogyny. 7/10 for rancid (EDIT: lowered this because some people do act like this to justify Sakura being sexually assaulted or murdered in fics which uhh 10/10 rancid, don't do that, but most people are just writing her as a screechy child who needs to be taught to not be so girly, which is gross but not AS gross).

First, I will admit that I think it's fine to hold Sakura to different standards than the other female characters, because she's the Main Girl. She should be getting cool fights while side characters don't really need them. She should have wider audience appeal (just from a writing perspective) than the other girls because we spend more time with her. These are fine things to point out when discussing Sakura's writing.

But some people genuinely spend time and energy writing up lists of reasons why Sakura is objectively not just a bad character, but a bad person who didn't deserve to be on Team 7. These usually either don't put things in context or make wild leaps of logic to justify why fic writers should abuse her, humiliate her, have horrible things happen to her, etc, because she "deserves" it. Even fans of Sakura will do this, writing her being shown how she's a stupid horrible person for being a normal young girl and having to learn to be better and become "BAMF."

Like, for example, people will come after her about that horrible line where she's like "Naruto misbehaves because he doesn't have parents" and argue she was consistently "awful to him." They do not mention Naruto trying to trick her into kissing him immediately before, or that we do see Naruto acting obnoxious to/around her, because no way could a TWLEVE YEAR OLD GIRL be justified in being annoyed by the class clown!! They also do not mention that after Sasuke tells her off, Sakura does treat Naruto much better, and most of the times she yells at him are when he is being genuinely obnoxious (and yes, she does hit him a few times, but those are all slapstick moments we're not suppose to take seriously, which is why Naruto is always 100% fine afterwards). No, instead they attack her for saying "Well, I'm on a diet anyway!" when she gives Naruto her food when he's hungry because "she's not a serious ninja is she's dieting." There is no way for Sakura to win, because anything she does is just proof she's horrible.

Not to mention the twisted sort of logic these fans go through to deny Sakura any of her on-screen accomplishments. Healing isn't a useful combat skill, duh. Her enhanced strength doesn't count because she's just a Tsunade knock off. She's stupid because she's not as smart as Shikamaru. What?? Like I said, it's fine to not like her, and it's fine to think her character went in a boring direction because you don't want her to just be a Tsunade #2. But the frequency with which people act like these things make her objectively a bad person is baffling. If you applied this logic to like 90% of the cast, you'd see people being like "well Hinata watched Naruto be lonely and never talked to him, so she obviously doesn't care about him and doesn't deserve his love" but you DON'T because Hinata has big tits because these arguments only make sense if you want to go out of your way to bash a character.

Just say you don't like her and move on. If you try to argue no one should like her, you just end up being like "Well, things girls do are STUPID AND BAD" and that's not a good look.

a long time ago i watched a tik tok from an older trans woman, in her 60’s or 70’s. someone had commented on another video of hers asking “why don’t we ever see trans men from your generation? why aren’t they involved in activism?” and her response was “because a lot of them died.” she told stories abt the trans men she knew who committed suicide rather than be married off and forced to live as a woman, or died from medical neglect or botched abortions. “they would be here if they could, but they can’t because the world failed them.”

a toddler who was being saved by the red hood called him "mama" once and now crime alley kids will refer to him as mama all. the. time.

Bruce found a dead body 💀💀💀

(Inspired by: Malcolm in the Middle)