The anon asks I’ve been getting have continued after I blocked the first one, so clearly they’re coming from multiple sources, so lemme be LOUD AND CLEAR for anyone who somehow isn’t getting this
LIKING 1940S CLOTHES DOESN’T MAKE ME A FUCKING NAZI AND IMPLYING IT DOES IS ACTUALLY INCREDIBLY OFFENSIVE TO COUTURIERS OF THE TIME WHO WERE ACTIVELY RESISTING NAZIS
That you even need to specify this shows that the pro-punching crowd can’t be trusted with punching.
“DEAF TO THE JEWS” the man shouted, holding the boombox aloft in the air, wearing an old Wehrmacht uniform.
Legions of uniformed dancers followed him through the street in formation.
Satisfied, he passed the boombox to an attendant, grasped a microphone, and began to rap.
It wasn’t the best timeline, it was true, but it certainly it wasn’t the worst, either.
tired: politics is a mask for your personal problems, and even winning society won’t solve them
wired: money is a mask for your personal problems, and even getting filthy rich won’t solve them
Politics is just a mask for a lot of complex personal problems, huh
how dare you drag my mother into this discussion of tax policy
…consider: politics is complex personal problems.
a nation is just a very large group of people. democratic politics is the fine art of getting them to come to some kind of consensus about how they want to live. interpersonal mediation on the grand scale. with guns.
That’s all well and good, but most of these people should probably work on their own lives before they turn to Utopian visions of how the world around them should be different. Especially teenagers on Tumblr.
I’m not sure how much this is about me (considering that my typical post is something along the lines of “Actually, having governments and borders and taxes is Good, and polygamy/cousin marriage is Bad”), and certainly I do have my own matters to work on, buuuut…
Much of the Rationalist Sphere on Tumblr and those around it are neurodivergent in some way, and thus have different natural intuitions sometimes, leading to Weird Politics.
Though I guess also there are teenagers. I do try and put on a reasonable face for teenagers when I know they’re watching. It’s important that people that are looked up to model good behavior. (Conservatives kind-of know this but also have too much threat pattern-matching as if to balance out leftists not having enough.)
This is Rationalist Tumblr man,
answering things way too literally is what we get paid for
and also what we do for fun
(don’t ask who’s paying, it gets way too complicated)
(and that’s not so much a defense as just, “yeah bro the locals are weird”)
Massively uninterested in anything following the phrase “his personal demons” unless it involves a bunch of wacky demon minions that follow this guy around.
“His personal demons, Laila, Kovi, and Jiala, all battled for his affection - sometimes leaving a trail of destruction in their wake!”
- back cover, Super Love Love Demon Battle!
Anonymous asked:
Based on previous relationships, my ‘type’ is subbish bisexual nerd women who I can talk to for hours on end (at least at the beginning).
My first girlfriend and I spent a lot of time together, hmn, let’s call it developing video game content piecemeal. Also worldbuilding. Lots of worldbuilding. And various other things.
But that isn’t necessary in specific. That’s just something that happened.
Like, I could name out an exact list of traits and so on, but these things aren’t usually cut and dry like that. They have to be felt out a little.
@poipoipoi-2016
In response to that last, I’ve heard enough stories about my paternal grandparents to really want divorce to be a thing that happens more often, but at the same time, I heard enough stories about Grandma and her six husbands to be deeply suspect of divorce.
I realized that something related showed up in my life. There was a guy I knew online. Black guy living in a city. His step dad had him working at his small business, and it interfered with his ability to complete school. Then he was of age, and the step dad tried to kick him out, but he didn’t have a job, so he was sneaking into the house to avoid ending up homeless. His resume was terrible, just a few cobbled-together, unformatted paragraphs. I would say “shouldn’t they teach resume writing in school?” but even if they did, the terrible step dad might have had him working or something so that he wasn’t able to attend or complete that! But he was a decent guy, and had a good work ethic, so I went through carefully building a resume with him, and he got a job soon enough after and was able to move out. It’s no wonder he had been depressed earlier! And, like, in between then, we got advice from my ex-girlfriend’s partner, who has lived the low-class life, on how to try to keep him out of the street at night until he could move out.
But how many guys like him are out there, even in this country, you know? Who don’t have a hand-me-down laptop and a connection to a bunch of random nerds who know how to write a resume for him so he can get a stable income?
So I can’t really be a true GOPper, but also the risk with the step parents stuff is real.
And so, thanks to some sneaky last-minute shopping, convenient circumstance, and a thoughtful gift idea, it would be a happy Father’s Day after all.
Actually, have other people noticed that taking ideologies to weird extremes is a Thing among thirteen to fifteen-year-olds? Because that’s definitely something I’ve noticed. Like, I once new a thirteen-year-old girl who claimed to be uncomfortable watching two women dance together because it “promotes lesbianism,” which is…not something most Catholics believe, I’m pretty sure? (They weren’t even, like, slow-dancing, it was some kind of Scandinavian Traditional Cultural Dance that only women did).
Has anyone else observed this among The Youths?
I think age tends to make ideas more nuanced, because you get more experience and the real world is complicated.
13-15 is when people develop something like an adult political consciousness, and you know what they say about new converts being the most fervent believers.
Heck, I totally did that in my youth. I boycotted LL Bean for promoting lesbianism and objected to CCM for having a beat when I was 13 or so *embarrassed emoji*
I got better, in some cases pretty quickly, but that was my nadir.
Haha, I never had ideological extreme phase, and was contrarian against arbitrary non-conformist teenage rebellion aesthetic as a teenager.
I’m probably at my most ideologically extreme right now, even though it’s orthogonal to the existing factions.
