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In the United States, very serious people will claim “justice” is done because a cop strangled a man to death on the streets in broad daylight and the cop might actually experience the worst sort of punishment we routinely give people like his victim for every sort of harm and harmless done. Might. Every day,...Read the rest

It’s worth noting that it certainly wasn’t always like this. In fact, the reason why so many early comic creators were Jewish Americans is that, like the film industry before it, Jews couldn’t get jobs in traditional media fields with established gatekeepers. And, wouldn’t you know it, early superheroes fought more than just “crime” back...Read the rest

“Your grandpa was an antifascist” works for liberals and baby leftists as their rhetorical attempt to frame fascism as illegitimate, unpatriotic, etc., but it’s ultimately based on twice-faulty assumptions. The first is the idea that things being “un-American” even should be regarded as bad; ultimately, appealing to nationalism is always a dead end because the...Read the rest

Exclusionary definitions with hard boundaries (for others) require essentialist definitions of folk to function at all. In that way, sexualities that focus on preserving “purity” end up mirroring oppressive but fragile straightness; they can invert hierarchies but not dismantle them. It is not enough to memorize that homophobes are wrong or transphobes are wrong. You...Read the rest

There’s a much longer discussion to be had here on how racism (not speciesism) as it applies to dogs, how claims about “breeding” are also applied to people, and how class also plays a role. A German Shepherd owned by, say, Joe Biden that bites someone is going viewed differently than any pitbull terrier barking...Read the rest

There are people who will tell you that to be a Satanist, you have to read Anton LaVey because he invented it, that no such thing existed prior to him. We would not grant that as so. The Satanisms that predated and have rejected his are quite rich. (In our estimation, much richer.) It is...Read the rest

You also are those moments, of course. “That’s not really me,” “that’s not who I am,” or “deep down, I’m actually…” this nonsense. There is no, “But I’ve changed.” There is no “born again.” You are what you do repeatedly, and you are everything you’ve ever done; you always will be. All of the harm...Read the rest

Tumblr @literallyaflamenot to hop in on the Hottest Discourse but: age gaps aren’t inherently bad between adults, but they are incredibly suspect in instances where one party has significantly more agency and experience due to their age. a thirty year old dating a forty year old, for instance, isn’t all that big a deal. but...Read the rest

“I’m non-violent. I can’t support that form of protest.” Then how are you squaring your support for the violence of the status quo? Not just the actual violence we choose not to count in our statistics, like robbery, theft, simple and aggravated assault, sexual assault, and murder (so long as it’s being committed by agents...Read the rest

Tumblr @lilacbreastedrollerwild how like PCOS, endometriosis, vaginismus & hell, even frequent yeast infections are “mysterious” with no well known cause and little to no decent treatment, but we have tons of supposedly well researched body fat removal methods, about 20 different kinds of breast implants, laser hair removal, and 100 different dermatologist recommended anti aging...Read the rest