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Ishii was in a Jpop music video as the love interest.
Y’all.
I almost forgot about this, but if we can talk about it in 2024, then please, please enjoy. 🤼
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I originally read this as United Empire and was very very confused lol
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We finally had the All About Eve swerve!!!!!!!!!
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Ahhhh right right right duh lol
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And Don got a weird case, why is he around?
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UE?
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I HATE HIM I LOVE HIM I HATE HIM I LOVE HIM
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I wonder what Nigel thinks of Euphoria.
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I love that being dark and twisted for hangman involves putting on pants with flames and rhinestones 🤼
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Like sometimes it really IS fuck that smug vegan!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Honestly given how Bryan be toying with our emotions about potential injuries I've become slightly more sympathetic to Nigel's antipathy towards him 😭
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Damn Hangman!!!!!!
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And Justin got a weird case, why is he around
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Alarmism on Trumpism is irrelevant in my life. I've seen Trump behaving predictably alarmingly the whole time he's been on the scene while folks act shocked instead of doing anything. I'm a DC resident who witnessed Jan 6 firsthand & a Black southerner whose people are terrorized by his supporters.
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Anyway it's wild to me to watch all these political analysts and science folks argue with trolls just cause someone peeled off "JohnSmithManyNumbers" or the open hate symbols.
Y'all gonna "save democracy" while having a political debate with a solicitation call?
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The funny thing is that it doesn't matter if it's a Chan op, right wing funded troll farm, or foreign influence operation because the basis of sockpuppet accounts, networked together, already says this is deliberately a large scale bad actor action.
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Remember when I posted about the surveillance acct network?
Here's an example of it in action.
Account engages in open antiblackness.
Notice hyper flagging of "super democrat" type stuff in the bio. If you poke around who follows them, and who they follow, you find a bunch of other accts like it.
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And again, if we're about it, the two questions are:
a) what's the plan after winning the election? What fixes all those other issues? Or is it the same plan as always "You fuckers shut up and die quietly until we need you to vote again?"
b) what's the plan if Coup 2.0 and voting don't work?
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Deportations high? Cool. "Fund the police fund the police"? Cool. ICE camps? Cool. Bombs for genocide? Cool. Return to Normalcy (Huffing COVID)? Cool.
Anytime we complained about that it was "helping Trump" but now you got time for truth seeking? Wheeeew.
What democracy we defending?
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Also I'm watching people become super sleuths on White House visits (and I mean, yes, let's clear out BS claims) but also I'm just looking at the fact Biden wanted kids back in schools w/in the first 100 days - before kids could get vaccinated vs. COVID & no one remembers that.
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This also totally applies to online edgelords, imo.
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They think that if ANY marginalized groups get even a tiny bit of power that we're going to use that to subjugate white people.
Looks familiar, don't it?
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They contribute NOTHING to society, so they throw tantrums and disrupt governments and basically act like assholes because that's how they get attention.
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I was having this conversation with a friend this morning and I've come to the conclusion that the thing that white supremacists fear the most is being faced with the fact that nobody gives a shit about them.
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Literally every time people in the Dem party pushed for meaningful policy to stop the BS they got shouted down by leadership. Even when Obama wanted to MERELY close our open torture center in Cuba his own party fought him.
You can't stop totalitarian govt keeping tools for one close at hand.
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It turns out neither party is really crossing the bar of wanting an actual democracy and to stop people dying, which is why while one wants a totalitarian ethnostate, the other side isn't actually willing to do the proper measures to stop a totalitarian ethnostate bc it might fuck up the money.
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Nancy Pelosi doing a sudden stock dump 2 weeks before the pandemic got announced sure was a thing.
Like 2 weeks of knowing we're going to see people dying en masse and you got your money straight rather than tell the nation to protect themselves.
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1) Pretty sure most of the Dems are also getting kickbacks and insider trading deals. Maybe not to the same level as "Russia is funding us through the NRA" but honestly if Delta Air can call the CDC and make policy changes there's money there.
2) They're also getting $$$ off said violent policies.
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The reality is the two things the Dems can do that would drastically improve their odds would be to actually enforce laws against corruption within places of authority AND to push meaningful progressive policy - such as stop supporting genocide, shut down ICE camps, etc.
They won't do either, bc...
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LOL YT videos "Historian explains why replacing Biden won't help the Dem party"
Well, see, when the other side openly signals they will do a naked power grab and disappear enemies and you spend a decade not resisting, the actual candidate won't matter soon...
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On J6 they were screaming they were going to hang the VP, they had weapon caches, and folks had their emergency alarm buttons removed from their offices...
Like, where's the no-knock raids like they do for everyone they claim was pushing weight?
Democracy is on the line but they're not moving?
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Biden could have trump arrested today
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It's really that simple.
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Because they don't want to.
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Our President
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i'm furious, really fucking upset. more and more democratic senators are caving to anti-trans riders.
two riders in the 2025 national defense authorization act.
one cuts all sex change operations or facilitations thereof, for military members.
the other eliminates trans care for minor dependents
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I mean, every president is a cop
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Artists Ronny Quevedo and Firelei Báez are both inspired by Édouard Glissant. #ArtSky
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See also: "we didn't have all these genders and sexualities when I was a kid!"
Yeah, we actually did: we just locked them in asylums (true), tried to electrocute them into straightness (true), or murdered them for living authentically (also true).
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It was a "boys issue" and it was something that you "grew out of." Then we started tracking the development of folks with ADHD and looking at the ways that it presented differently across genders. That was when diagnostic criteria changed to enable more accurate diagnosis.
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Anyway, posts like the one that I supplied demonstrate that a great many people have no idea how quickly medical science or diagnostic criteria advance. And this is true within categories: before the early aughts, many folks didn't think women and girls, let alone adults, could HAVE ADHD.
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Autism was just being treated as a spectrum disorder and the cohort studies that would result in our contemporary expanded definition of Autism had just gotten underway. Neurologists and psychologists were JUST grappling with the paucity of their diagnostic categories and we taking a second look.
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Thirty years ago was 1994. I was nine and had a diagnosis for ADD (what is now ADHD) and a prescription for ritalin.
There were three kids in my homeroom with peanut or other food allergies, including my shellfish allergy.
The WHO was three years away from its much maligned obesity definition.
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youtu.be/oLKq-p2IDBM?...
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What an asshole.
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Lol just had a flashback to how my narcissistic ex accused me of having an "Asian fetish" because I'm a BTS fan. Nevermind that I don't listen to any other Kpop and don't watch anime or anything like that.
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We only tell kids about the tooth fairy to distract from knowledge of the fairies who accept larger bones for greater rewards
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Rollins talks about process and motivation for writing her poetry collection "Black Bell," and creative nonfiction project titled "Outside: Fieldnotes for Living Beyond Survival."
Performance art practices, including metalwork, are in conversation with Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time
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I saw poet Alison C. Rollins, who did archival research and learned how to weld in order to fabricate a replica of the bell collar below for a nonfiction project about fugitivity and enslaved historical figures,.
Here, she about her process and reads while wearing it.
youtu.be/HOJx_Wz2tvY?...
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Not hard for some to imagine at all.
www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/art...
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