Also northern Ireland

I’m sure I’ve seen a dub of this meme but with Jesse and James and Meowth

Wait do people unironically like 100 gecs. Their songs all sound like someone in a steel factory being autotuned while screaming in pain

I get this a lot, a lot of people assume I’m either gay or asexual because I never talk about sex. When I tell them I’m pan they just assume I’m gay and not at terms with it. I’m hella attracted to women, I just don’t talk about it so people assume I’m not. But then I’m also hella attracted to men and I don’t talk about that, and people assume I’m gay because of it

Oh I’m not a communist anymore! All it took was for some Christofascist to post an unhinged rant online.

Well I’m Irish so :anti-thatcher-action:

I’m around 20 and it struck me yesterday how young I look. Being 20 does not make you an adult at all

Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism :stalin-approval:

That and the 6 degrees of separation plane crash right over Walter’s house make season 2 very silly

Hamilton is about epic American founding fathers rapping and there were happy black people and that’s All That Happened

What’s the dave lore? I missed that one

Lol yeah. Two of the heroes are cops, one is a girlboss CEO, the other is a war profiteering capitalist who incited a civil war so he could sell arms.

Meanwhile, the villains are all people who “meant well but were too extreme”. Like apparently wanting equality for people without magic can only manifest as Amon, who wants to take away everyone’s magic, and is actually magic himself. Caring for the environment can only manifest as Unalaq, who actually doesn’t care about the environment and wants to destroy the world. There are no alternatives - support the oppressive status quo or be a villain.

The portrayal of anarchism actually baffles me in Korra, because they pretty much had it correct with the air nomads. In ATLA, the air nomads were peaceful, freedom loving people with very little hierarchy and no bigotry. But in Korra, anarchism is when there’s no rules and no bedtimes and everything is chaos and it’s completely individualistic. Like, Zaheer kill the earth queen and literally tear down the walls separating the rich and the poor - and then they go off to commit genocide against the airbenders for some reason? That is a completely incoherent ideology, yet the show treats it as the only outcome of anarchism.

Also Kuvira is an actual fascist who puts people in concentration camps, but she’s the one villain who gets mercy. You want to dismantle unjust hierarchies and remove barriers between nations? We are going to fucking murder you. You want to ethnically cleanse your nation? No biggie, house arrest with your family. The last straw for the good guys is when Kuvira tries to retake land that was colonised for fucks sake

My lib history teacher made me do that too. On one column was "the British built ports in their colonies :so-true: " and the other was "fucking genocide :agony-deep:

“My Ukrainian grandfather fought against the Red Army and the Nazis in world war two. Now it’s my turn to help.”

This is the funniest subreddit in existence

My god these redditors literally assumed that they would be fighting wind. “What the fuck, did the Russians just blow us up? No fair”. Absolute children

Skyrim is interesting because the main political conflict in the game is actually quite similar, at least aesthetically, to the modern day radical Democrat vs Republican conflict in America. The Empire are shiny and nice, they rule by law, they open up trade and in Skyrim they are literally puppets to fascists. The Stormcloaks are openly racist to elves, they celebrate the founder of their kingdom who committed genocide against the local elves, and they’re fighting for national independence in order to enforce their reactionary beliefs. I don’t think its purposely written like this, but I think it is accidentally quite good writing about a hopeless political struggle between two reactionary forces. There is no real good ending, the closest you can get is a temporary truce to kill the dragons before the war starts back up again.

property rights are human rights

It’s more important that landlords are able to collect rent than it is for people to have a safe roof over their heads.

Neoliberals are such fucking scum and they know it

Zaheer in the legend of Korra - is an anarchist, tears down the walls separating the poor and rich, literally kills the queen - good 👍

Then he decides to kill Korra, end the avatar cycle and threaten to destroy the air nomads for good, because he’s a crazy anarchist and that is all completely in line with crazy anarchism.

Nevermind that the air nomads are already essentially anarchists

Boobs for all who want them

Northern Ireland has been thoroughly colonized by the British. It was established in such a way that it would be large enough to make the unionists dominant. Letting the northern Irish decide whether to remain British or Irish will lead to them choosing British, because many are the descendants of British colonisers and still benefit from British colonialism today.

So why should a colonising population be allowed to decide which state they belong to? Would it be fair for the American settlers to decide whether the land they conquered was native or American? Why should the colonisers be allowed to decide the fate of the colonised people’s country?