The Yugioh world championships are in France this year and apparently Macron appeared on the official live stream to wish the players good luck which is insane in and of itself but it also resulted in one of the craziest unedited pictures of a politician in history:
I was just thinking about that… from Walmart I can see it’s not just that the tumblr leftist refuses to accept the idea of necessary evils at all. They start out that way, but when reality or peer pressure or whatever forces them into it, they jump straight into “well if this little evil is an option why not go as big as possible? Why not let Trump win and permanently humiliate America’s world standing? If you’re willing to gamble a penny for a pound, why not a million for a billion?”
It’s specifically a ‘white/affluent left’ move IMO, paired with a refusal to grow up.
So much of this shit is being in your 30s or 40s, not making peace with aging, and being shocking at thanksgiving. The fact that the pundits/profs ON social media being take-givers are from the economic segment that didn’t reap the rewards of Biden’s reforms while banging on about the working class is icing on the fucking cake.
The not-aging thing is why Bernie will probably run again and they’re all fine with it while they had to apply a microscope to Biden’s arm hairs.
But so many of them are aging un-gracefully and they want to keep on being 'the youth’ when they really need to work out how to come to terms with the fact that they’re not cool, shit isn’t catering to them and maybe if they want their friends to stick around they should try to not be insufferable sponging dirtbags all the time.
(See their obsession with being cool/relevant/defining 'the youth’ as 18 to fucking 44) and a bunch of them have this huge like. HUNGER for “SHOULDN’T YOU BE TELLING ME WHAT TO DO?!”(As long as it’s a cool revolutionary man of any age or a hot chick but she’s not too mean about it) And from a consumption perspective, piker fills that and all the other little pikers and kirks and trumps fill that and they don’t have to make any ugly choices or consider the people actually impacted, they can just shittalk mommy on thanksgiving and burn down everyone else’s lives.
It’s not like they’re going to be the ones most affected.
And they NEVER have to grow up.
Also? It’s seldom them suffering but they get to bathe in the suffering of others.
(there’s probably an article in the 'Peter Pan Left’ thing but IDK)
This is what bothered me about social work school. Everyone was white and I felt like I was in some kind of fever dream because everything I had been through–racism, race based sexism, discrimination and disenfranchisement–were theory to them. I felt like these people were looking at those of us who do suffer through a microscope or magnifying glass or something.
Woke leftists are mostly white and hold the keys to the kingdom. They hold the keys to rans/queer/race/any diversity issues, which are always told from THEIR narrative. As a black person I watched in horror as thoughtcrime and censorship became extreme on the internet to where you couldn’t say or think what you wanted without a bunch of witch hunting teenagers bullying you, and now look: y'all have turned US politics into a fucking race/culture war.
Had y'all thought to ask Black Americans anything about your stupid fucking movement, you would know that we have been successful socialists in the past (Black Panther party). You would also know to CHILL THE FUCK OUT trying to convince everyone to accept everyone and forcing everyone to toe the party lines. Nothing has ever happened overnight. Blacks have been enslaved and mistreated in the US for nigh on 500 years and WHITE CONSERVATIVES STILL DONT LIKE US. You think that it will be any different with lbgtq issues just because you scream about it at the top of your lungs and cancel anyone who thinks different?
News: We live in America. This is a massive country with so many fucking people and political entities and cultures. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE RACIST/SEXIST if they want. Unless they’re a public figure or they’re actively harming someone (harassment, hate crime) leave them the fuck alone; go your way, let them go their way.
once again needing to remind some people that mispronouncing foreign words isn’t just about not knowing how to say it; if your language doesn’t have that sound, in many cases you can’t hear itproperly. You won’t be able to hear yourself say it wrong because you probably can’t distinguish between the sounds a native speaker can. It will sound right to you and you will be wrong.
Most languages use relatively similar sound inventories overall, but make distinctions others don’t. And the way the our language centers work is they group these sounds together, allowing us to recognize that things within a given range constitute a recognizable phoneme. If your languages groups together sounds another language makes a distinction between, your brain cannot tell.
So everyone on those posts congratulating themselves for looking up pronunciation and saying “It’s Not That Hard?” Surprise, you might have still got it wrong and can’t even tell. You can look up the IPA chart and still flub it completely because what sounds right to your brain and what a native speaker will understand are totally different things!
“I might have butchered that, please let me know” is sometimes an excuse for lack of research, but it is, unfortunately, also a much more accurate self-assessment than confidently fucking it up after mouthing along to a wav file a few times.
This is one of the reasons that, historically, many people would take on or be granted new names if they stayed any length of time in another culture; it’s very common for the names from one language to simply not map to the sounds of another!
example for anglophones to understand: my first language (Polish) doesn’t have phonemes for english “th”: /ð/ (as in this) or /θ/ (as in thing). I was taught how to correctly pronounce those at school (idk when exactly, buy age 7+) and i can make this sound, but it’s not intuitive for me and requires conscious effort, so when i actually speak in english and concentrate on getting the point across, i just Do Not Bother with those sounds, either th-fronting or th-stopping instead.
Yes, I am aware of the irony of the fact that i literally cant pronounce my pronouns.
This is the only known photo of the first trans woman to have her gender legally recognized in Switzerland.
In 1914, Adine T. sent a letter to her local police to grant her a pass to dress as she pleased. She petitioned that “I be granted permission to live as a woman, to wear female clothing and to pursue female occupations, and to be considered a woman before the world in all and every respect, since my emotional feelings are totally feminine and I feel unspeakably unhappy in male clothing.”
Her gender was so clear that even the conservative Swiss government had to recognize it. Obtaining permission to live as a woman “is a matter of life and death for me,” Adine added.
111 years ago, it was the first pass of its kind in her nation (although not the first in Europe). When interviewed, Adine described herself similarly to other trans lesbians in the 20th century: “a homosexual woman in a male body.” Source: Matthias Ruoss, "Arnold, Arnoldine, Adine.”
Today’s aesthetic: when a movie intends for the audience to understand that a particular character is contemptible, but is unwilling to give them any actual unsympathetic traits, so in practice they’re just a regular guy whom everybody is really mean to for no obvious reason.
