i desperately need people to understand how fascism started because i am seeing many on the left gleefully walk assbackwards into goosestepping.

fascism did not start out as a far right ideology even though that is the endpoint. in order to gain power, there was a deliberate false synthesis of left and right populist ideals in order to gain a wide base from people upset with the political status quo. this is why the nazis were called national socialists. because they stole rhetoric and language from socialist movements and twisted them to their own ends.

this is why average people supported the nazis. not because they were stupid or incredibly bigoted but because the nazi party promised we will provide just as soon as we deal with the Bad People. however once nazi control was assured, the entire left wing of the party were purged. Gregor Strasser who was the leader of the left wing was assassinated in the night of the long knives.

his whole political ideology was nazism but anti capitalist. pro trade union, anti banker, pro wealth redistrubution, pro socialised housing and medicine. all of which ended in them being slughtered when they were no longer necessary. these people existed and were the useful idiots that aided in hitler taking full power.

you need to pay attention to who is saying what and why. easy answers, scapegoating, portraying whoever the outgroup of the moment as being behind every ill in the world, surface level anticapitalism and anticolonialism, reactionary leanings in problem solving. anything to get you to point at a group and declare them they enemy.

this is why you need to learn history, pay attention to the sources you get your information from and what narrative they are trying to weave out of the situation.

this is about antisemitism. explicitly about antisemitism tho not exclusively.

any ideology can be twisted to achieve bad faith goals.

if you think bolivia's recent coup attempt was a mossad operation because israel and bolivia cut diplomatic ties, thats antisemitism. cutting and re-establishing diplomatic ties is a mundane daily affair and people with agendas will try to tell you its all part of a grand conspiracy. please learn something about diplomatic relations.

if you think the IDF is choosing to launch attacks on palestine while the super bowl or the oscars or some concert is happening half a world away, thats antisemitic. its a rehash of the jews control the media and further conspiratorial thinking.

there was an anarchist commune during the pandemic that specifically refused to social distance, mask or get the vaccine because of 'autonomy' but when pushed even slightly it was because they thought the jews were behind covid.

underage sex has been justified by everything from personal freedoms to repopulating the chosen race because bad faith actors will find a line of rhetoric they can exploit which exists in all political identities.

every ideology has the means to mark disabled people for death. tax burdens, dole bludgers, useless eaters, lumpenproletariat, underserving of life, lives are too sad to live. All of which leads to at best ramps to steep for wheelchairs and tainted biologically unsafe bath tub insulin. at worst we are exiled to die or deliberately killed.

i must repeat again: there is no ideology that cannot be twisted to bad faith ends

Full article here: https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukrainian-hospitals-have-been-repeatedly-targeted-by-russia-the-latest-attack-is-not-a-coincidence-1134?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZnWizqUhHBRudALVzeWkIPQsBgove3zFFDPbzV-20BLrnXHEEL41C3rwE_aem_xleeCAq_D56UukWHzqXIdw

This happens every day… they not only influence your election, but also make huge amounts of false comments and fakes, buy opinion leaders, politicians, and journalists.

Be very careful, they try to make all mankind their slaves. Putler is a KGB employee, this is a well-known fact that everyone constantly forgets, their goals have not changed, a war is being waged against humanity and freedom, primarily hunting for your brains.

Be very vigilant, they invested no less money in the information war than in weapons.

The Cold War didn't end, they just pretended to be dead to catch a breather and accumulate resources. Remember this.

Previously, they had agents in the West and useful idiots, acting as university lecturers, dishonest journalists, naive artists. Now they have the Internet and access to propaganda in every home, through the Internet and TV. The situation is critical.

They make hundreds of PSYOPs every day.
And they continue to kill Ukrainians and break them psychologically by various methods. Ukrainians are now the only ones who really oppose them, but this is the problem of all humanity, not only those who hear explosions and die every day.

Stand with Ukraine.

Stand with Freedom.

Don't let yourself bоe fooled.

This fucking show rules btw absolutely no one is getting a break it's 24/h approximately 7 days a week mild to intense psychological torture for every single character involved. Sometimes physical too. Like Conan got fucking shot in the abdomen and Heiji has a near death experience every single time he works on a case with him this is exactly what they mean by "throw your characters in a blender."

Oh and Conan gets to psychologically torture the suspects, so absolutely no one is escaping this.

Russia is that movie villain that gets criticised for being too unrealistic and too over-the-top for the movie.

Honestly at this point I'm very curious to meet these very curious to meet these very moderate 1-cm-away-from-conservatism leftists that Tumblr claims are being falsely accused of being tankies all the time.

Because a) most people I see using the term ARE leftists themselves and b) nearly every time I see someone complain that "the term tankie has lost all meaning every leftist is a tankie now uwu" I open their blog and it has takes like "poor baby Russia is only attacking because NATO expansion and nazis in Ukraine" "USSR did nothing wrong ever" "the Uighur genocide isn't happening it's all US propaganda" etc

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

KillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKill

There's a way to remove it~

Go into the power shell

then paste in:

reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" /t REG_DWORD /f /d 1

like this

Then restart.

Also here is how to turn off the awful search suggestions:

July 2024: Destroyed operating theatre and ruins and rescuers outside at Okhmatdyt paediatric hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine after being bombed by the russians.

Jul 10th: Cross Scout・Perplex/Indulgence has been released. This scout features 5* Ibara, 4* Kaoru and 3* Arashi.

Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

Dad loves you and feeds you. But he is also dumb and feeds you a wonderfully done wagyu steak. You are 3 days old.

Okay, but check out this video from mid-May 2022 of a Kestrel Dad who just kept piling up voles and mice beside his babies when the mom was injured/killed/mia’d by owls…but then watched one of his babies just swallow a lizard and went “OH. I can feed them small food!” and learned to tear it apart!

EDIT: There’s a not-zero percent chance that this could be the same dad???????? The source is the same–Robert E Fuller–but they could be different birds. 

UPDATE: Not only has Mister Kes learned to feed his chicks all on his own…

….the three chicks who were taken out of the nest for intensive care after the mom disappeared were put back in, and he just started feeding them, too.

He’s a single father of six who does not possess the instincts to feed even one of his offspring, but he learned and adopted that behavior without difficulty and is now hunting and providing for six kids all on his own. 

Happy father’s day to the Krestel single dad of 6 Who is doing a wonderful job

It’s Pride, and also the first anniversary of my uncle’s death, so I want to type up a story about him. (NB: my aunt, his wife, is equally cool, but she’d want this story to be about him too.) So here goes.

I skipped town when I was 16. Nothing interesting about that part; just standard queer kid in a conservative place in the 1990s stuff. I’d just gotten my driver’s license (this took a while; I’m good at other things), it was the beginning of summer break, and my parents had recently bought a new car and were planning to fix up their old one to sell. In the meantime, the old car (whom I’d named Harold Godwinson because one of his headlights kept exploding) was sitting all by himself in a corner of the driveway, and I thought he might be down for a little adventure. So, one night, I threw some stuff in my backpack (documents, journals, a few changes of clothes, my $235 in babysitting cash) and snuck out after everyone else in the house had gone to sleep.

Harold Godwinson and I hit the highway. The thing about him was that he started shaking violently at speeds over 57 mph, but in fairness so did I – I’d driven on the interstate in driver’s ed, but, like, twice, and for 5 minutes at a time instead of several consecutive hours – so we made a good pair. We were lucky enough (seriously: I cannot stress enough how lucky we were in this) to have a destination in mind, and we reached it just as the sun was coming up.

My uncle was in the kitchen making breakfast for my aunt, who’s not a morning person, and he did not look surprised at all to see me coming up the path with my luggage. He met me at the door and said, “Well, hey there babygirl, we were just thinking you might want to come and stay with us for a while, and I’m so glad you read our minds.” I ate my aunt’s breakfast and then faceplanted in the attic bedroom while he called my parents to tell them where I was and that I’d be staying. (I could hear the yelling even through the adrenaline crash; I think that’s the only time I ever heard my uncle yell and, believe me, I did a LOT of dumb shit in front of him over the years.)

The next week my uncle and I went out to run an errand. I’d thought we were just going to the hardware store – we were forever putting up shelves together – but instead we drove 45 minutes to the state’s only “alternative” (plausible-deniability term for “gay and lesbian”) bookstore. He walked me inside, poked his head into every room while I watched, confused, from the entrance hall, and then came back over. “Okay, babygirl. Here’s a twenty, you should, uhhhhhh, buy yourself some, uhhhhhh, alternative books. Back in one hour, I gotta go to the grocery.” At this point he looked around and realized that the cashier (who, I was about to learn, was permanently cosplaying Mo from Dykes to Watch Out For) and a nice middle-aged lesbian couple were trying very hard not to stare at him. He bowed slightly toward them, said “Ladies,” and then backed out the door in what might have been the most awkward little shuffle ever.

“Your dad is really sweet,” said the cashier. I didn’t bother correcting her.

Okay so tis the season to reblog this and I have a key addition to the story, which is:

We were all hanging out at my aunt’s house earlier this month to celebrate my uncle. We drank a toast – cheap scotch, his favorite – and after a while of telling stories about him I asked something that should’ve occurred to me a lot sooner: how did he find out about the queer bookstore? It was so obviously not his natural habitat.

My big cousin swallowed his scotch the wrong way and my aunt said, “Oh, you’re going to love this. He asked around at church.”

Back up for a second: most of my side of the family is Catholic, but through various plot twists in her life my aunt became a member of one of the earlier groups of women to be ordained in the Episcopal church. Not one of the Philadelphia Eleven or anything, but pretty early on. Of course, not everybody – particularly in more conservative parts of the US (like, say, the south) – was cool with women priests right away, and things could get a little hostile at times. My uncle never had much truck with any form of religion or philosophy whatsoever, but he did believe in my aunt, so he would periodically show up at whatever church she was assigned to and stare down anyone who was looking at my aunt in a funny way.

Fast forward again to just before I showed up at their house: my aunt and uncle figured they might ask me to come stay with them, and my uncle, in preparation for this, decided to find some places I might like to hang out. He didn’t find anything in the immediate neighborhood, so one Sunday he tagged along with my aunt, who was then working in a church about 45 minutes from their house. During the coffee hour he approached a group of random church ladies and this happened. (Bear in mind that these ladies saw my uncle only once a month or so, when he showed up for his periodic glaring at the conservatives.)

My uncle: Morning, ladies! What a nice service that was. [Pause while they all stare blankly at him.] We hope that our niece will be coming to stay with us soon. [More blank stares from the ladies. Uncomfortable pause.] She has always been a tomboy, and –

One of the ladies, who was about to become my friend Amelia: OHH!!! Okay. [Turning toward the coffee urn.] HEY! POLLY! WE NEED YOUR EXPERTISE AND GUIDANCE!

Polly – imagine the woman from “Ring of Keys” and you’ll have it – came right over and said: Oh, a tomboy? Okay, I’ve got you. Let me just get some paper.

Anyway, happy Father’s Day to those who celebrate.