if i see one more article, post, or news anchor talking about how joe biden is old, i’m putting my fist through a window. i feel like i’ve gone through the fucking looking glass.
this is project 2025, trump’s plan for what he’ll do if elected. whatever you think is in there, it’s worse. watch a breakdown of the highlights here. this man wants to unravel the fabric of our democracy for good - this all aside from his vitriolic hatred of poc, his determination to start ww3, and the fact that he can’t string a sentence together without telling outrageous and easily verifiable lies. his administration will start their crusade to exterminate trans people on day one, and they won’t stop there.
do not talk to me about how joe biden is old, as if that could ever matter to me more than my life or the lives of my friends and family. my little sister is 14, she’s trans, and i don’t know what to tell her when we talk about politics, because one of these people wants her dead and the other one is old and some of you are still acting like those problems are equals.
i can’t fucking stand this. i’m not hearing it this time, we are not repeating 2016. refusing to vote is not an act of protest, it is an act of complacency, and our most vulnerable will suffer for your negligence. vote like your life depends on it, because for some of us, it really fucking does.
It’s honestly frustrating hearing people talk about how Biden isn’t the candidate for the job as if we have another option to pick besides that isn’t Trump. And the lack of emphasis on how abhorrent Trump’s behavior was on the debate is disturbing. I would rather an old man that should retire over a man that wants people dead.
I will keep saying this: Biden’s age is a non issue? Why? A little office called the Vice President
That’s the thing with presidential elections, you’re not just voting in one guy, you’re also voting in the first person who will succeed them and the cabinet they picked to administer the government
and by the way, Biden’s cabinet is one of the most experienced, capable, and progressive we’ve ever had
Trump’s will be the complete opposite I assure you
from an out of universe perspective obviously the reason Palpatine refers to Luke as ‘the offspring of Anakin Skywalker’ is bcos the surprise needs to be preserved for the audience. but from an in-universe perspective it’s indicative of the fact that he genuinely believes Anakin is dead. he straight up expects Darth Vader not to consider Luke to be his own son - which as we see later in the film is emphatically not the case lmao
By this point in the timeline, everything Anakin had ever fought and cared for was either dead or presumed dead. His mom, Padmé, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan….everything Anakin loved was gone, and Anakin himself had been their destroyer, so what was there to keep him going? He’s a slave, trapped in a cage he himself had helped create. Even if he wanted to escape, there was no way out.
And then there’s Luke, genuinely reaching out and offering another option. Vader doesn’t want to take it at first, either because he thinks it’s too good to be true or because he’s already resigned himself to dying as Palpatine’s monster; but Luke keeps trying, keeps insisting that there’s still hope. And, because Anakin and Vader aren’t separate entities, Vader finally reaches back. Because that slave from Tatooine wanted nothing more than to be loved, and not even the Emperor himself can change that.
“nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life” ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level
what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i’m busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box
nuclei don’t touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.
you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.
electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.
you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.
people on this site will be like fascists are so awful! btw all of my political opponents are inhuman scum that deserve death
That is a symptom of radicalisation, the type fascism and other similar genocidal movements rely on. Fascists, stalinists and so LOVE when people go “we should kill X group, and then everything is better”, because they can plug anything into X, and people radicalised enough will be unable to realise where they end up - because when they are radicalised enough and given a choice between radicalism and being something else, they will choose radicalism.
I think a lot of people fall into this type of radicalization on both the left and right, this idea that the answer is to kill the “right” people
There’s alot of justification that goes along with this. There’s the basic justification that X group is just inherently bad- there is something intrinsic about this group, biological or cultural, that means they “deserve” to die. Another common justification is the idea that it’s a “necessary evil”. “Well we don’t want to kill them, but they’ve given us no other choice” & “if we don’t kill them they’re going to kill us” type arguments
Fun thing to note- all of these arguments were used during the Holocaust to justify killing Jews, and all of these arguments are currently being used to justify the genocide in Gaza. When I pointed out this similarity on TikTok received some wonderful harassment
This is just my personal opinion but i think violence needs to be a tool of logisticsnot a tool of morality. When there are only two choices- kill or die- i think you can and should be allowed to defend yourself and your families. The question of where that line between self defense and violence should be drawn is nuanced and has been debated for centuries
However I also think there’s a lot of people who take that nuance as justification to not be nuanced. It’s the reason you end up with people saying “eat the rich” about people like John Boyega.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say this again- i think people want a moral yardstick. A hard list of rules that they can just always apply and never have to reconsider.
And i don’t blame people for that- especially in our modern society where we interact with so many people and have to consider so many social issues and perspectives- truly deeply considering every single perspective on everysingle issue is exhausting.
But it’s also necessary. It’s necessary to consider your perspective or opinions might be skewed.
If you’re truly in the right, considering another perspective won’t make you any less right
Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.
“I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying ‘gloom’, especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies”
He was like how dare you sir I am the biggest tree fan out there
A tree tried to eat the hobbits. Tom Bombadil had to save them. There’s Mirkwood, “The Forest of Great Fear.” I’m on the side of the writer of the letter to the editor.
Because Tolkien is Tolkien, he actually directly defended the actions of all his forests and trees in this same letter I’m referencing
