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wilwheaton:

“The most dangerous movement in American politics today is not Trumpism. It is Christofascism. With the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the organized effort to impose the extreme religious views of a minority of Americans on the entire country, at the expense of many of our most basic freedoms, took a disturbing step forward. The Speaker of the House […] represents a movement that is actively seeking to institutionalize the religious beliefs of evangelical Christians into law. In fact, even as we see with chilling clarity how those with a similar motive have sought to infuse the law with their religious beliefs on the Supreme Court and in state capitals across the country, Johnson may be the most extreme example of a dangerously empowered religious fanatic in our recent history—and yes, I remember that Mike Pence was, not so long ago, the Vice President of the United States. The term Christofascism may seem inflammatory. It is not. It is intended to provide the most accurate possible definition of what Johnson and those in his movement wish to achieve. Like other fascists they seek to impose by whatever means necessary their views on the whole of society even if that means undoing established laws and eliminating accepted freedoms. Christofascists do so in the name of advancing their Christian ideology, asserting that all in society must be guided by their views and values whether they adhere to them or not.”

— Here’s Why Mike Johnson Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump

“When fascism comes to americas, it will be carrying a cross and draped in the American flag.”

(Source: thedailybeast.com, via tornado-rex)

zephyrswarm:

jheselbraum:

cipherface:

intercal:

the fact that we made it through the Cold War is nothing short of a miracle. I wish we talked about Mutual Assured Destruction more in schools

William Gibson once suggested that the days on which we almost destroyed the world with nuclear weapons should be recognized as international holidays, to raise awareness of how very precarious the situation has been at times.

If you would like to observe such a holiday, October 27th should be Vasili Arkhipov Day. During the Cuban missile crisis he was first officer on Soviet submarine B-59 off the coast of Cuba. When the destroyer USS Beale began to drop depth charges to force them to the surface, his captain decided that WW III must have started, and ordered his men to arm and fire a nuclear torpedo at a group of American ships. Due to a strange circumstance, the captain had to seek Arkhipov’s approval to fire the weapon, because while he was only second in command of the sub, he was in command of the flotilla of which the submarine was a part. Arkhipov, outnumbered three to one, steadfastly refused to give his approval.

Important context: Arkhipov had previously been involved with a nuclear incident aboard another sub, and cited the things he witnessed happening to the crew as one of the reasons he refused to give approval.

Happy Vasili Arkhipov day

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ruffboijuliaburnsides:

wastehound-voof:

What does a driver flashing their high beams at another driver mean?

Beware/slow down, there’s deer ahead.

Beware/slow down, there’s a cop ahead looking for customers.

Beware/slow down, there’s either deer or a cop ahead.

I don’t know what it means.

I’ve never heard of this nor seen this.

It’s a gang thing and you’re going to die.

Secret other thing.

Either “Your lights aren’t on, dude!” or “Your fucking high beams are on and you’re blinding all oncoming traffic including myself”

headspace-hotel:

gayseyjones:

dudes who say “I don’t like female characters because I’m Gay” are baffling to me wtf has happened to our queens. what happened to gay men being obsessed with barbie and bratz and miss piggy and the golden girls. Personally as a gay man I genuinely cannot enjoy a piece of media if there isn’t at least one girl character to obsess over and the men are just there to fuck for my entertainment

almost every lesbian mutual i have is obsessed with some man that is like the human version of a naked baby bird or a tiny white dog with the stains on its eyes or something found clogging a sink drain.

sailor-sappho:

azzandra:

grawly:

i wish i could see this picture for the first time again

Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her ‘prettier’, I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha).

That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic–too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women–this is foreign to them. This is unattractive. They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.

So now every time I see one such edit, I can’t help but think. My. What a coincidence you’ve made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.

You can’t just breeze over something like “the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha” without at least linking a 20 minute video breakdown of this man’s descent into madness.

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harta:

If you’re LGBT reblog and tag with your opinion on beer.

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genderpunks:

being cisgender is just not an option for a lot of intersex people.

i was never given the option to be cisgender anything. every part of me that deviated from what a girl or boy “should” look like spelled trouble. because i dressed and acted very masculine, before puberty, people called me a bulldyke, a butch lesbian, a “girl pretending to be a boy” and “not a real boy”. i was never “feminine enough” to be a woman.

after puberty hit, i started growing a beard, and my shoulders and chest got broader and more square. my body became more “masculine”, so suddenly, i was labeled as a “boy pretending to be a girl” and “not a real girl”. after I started testosterone, i haven’t stopped being called a faggot, a fairy, a sissy or a pansy because i’m not “masculine enough” to be a man despite being a bear.

there’s no winning in the eyes of a society that’s so focused on binary this-or-that choices. i had no hand in the matter, this all happened way before I started testosterone HRT. in fact, even when i was placed on estrogen HRT to try to “correct” my intersex traits and symptoms, i still wasn’t gendered or seen as a cis woman. i was still the same tranny bulldyke. no matter what i do, my intersex and transsexual traits will always be weaponized against me; whatever sounds the “worst” at the time, or whatever invalidates what i want.

in order to liberate trans people from this struggle, we must also liberate intersex people, for our struggles are virtually one in the same. our fight for body and identity autonomy is shared. it will always be impossible for me and other intersex people to be viewed as cis anything while white American society remains focused on pointing out the “differences” between men and women, instead of embracing the similarities we all can and do have.

intersex and trans people owe it to one another to disassemble these dangerous attitudes and shut them down when and where possible. it’s not only trans people who face this struggle- intersex people deal with never being able to pass or be clocked as their actual gender from birth a lot of the time. people MUST understand that women and men come in all types of bodies, shapes and sexes, whether or not they chose to look like that. and whether or not they chose doesn’t matter, they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, which means being gendered correctly despite how they look or sound.

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