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Peronist with Kicillofist characteristics
I'm 18 but still, don't be gross in my mentions.
My avatar is a pixel art bush with legs, tired eyes, and a rose on their head.
My banner is three girls from the anime Lucky Star talking.
Proud humanist.
All my posts have alt-text but some of my boosts don't, sorry!
(The edit to the Walking Bushie in my bio was done by @h@besties.house, check her out!)
HRT since: 9/1/2025 (or 1/9/2025 if you're from the US)
re: epstein files, harry potter
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@shio
Honestly even if those books WERE as good as people say they are it'd be worth finding other media.
Honestly even if those books WERE as good as people say they are it'd be worth finding other media.
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newsthump@mastodon.online'Melania' defies critics by winning FIFA Oscar for Best Movie
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I mean, here's the thing though, isn't being identifiable at a protest *the point*? It's a demonstration to show your community that their neighbors and friends and whoever else are against something enough to be loud about it.
Also how many people have gotten arrested for having been at a protest after the fact? Like obviously we've been seeing examples of people getting arrested and/or killed AT protests but a mask wouldn't have helped them. The police and ICE, if they want to, can kill and track you either way, all mandating masks does is make protests look scarier which makes those liberal aunts less likely to attend, and that's bad.
And finally, look at actually successful protest movements in places like Bangladesh a couple years ago or South America in the 80's, how many of those people are wearing masks? I can't help but feel it kind of strange that you folks think you know better than protestors in the global south when like, in Bangladesh and Uruguay they managed to topple their governments, and no protest movement in the US has done *anything* in the last century.
I mean, here's the thing though, isn't being identifiable at a protest *the point*? It's a demonstration to show your community that their neighbors and friends and whoever else are against something enough to be loud about it.
Also how many people have gotten arrested for having been at a protest after the fact? Like obviously we've been seeing examples of people getting arrested and/or killed AT protests but a mask wouldn't have helped them. The police and ICE, if they want to, can kill and track you either way, all mandating masks does is make protests look scarier which makes those liberal aunts less likely to attend, and that's bad.
And finally, look at actually successful protest movements in places like Bangladesh a couple years ago or South America in the 80's, how many of those people are wearing masks? I can't help but feel it kind of strange that you folks think you know better than protestors in the global south when like, in Bangladesh and Uruguay they managed to topple their governments, and no protest movement in the US has done *anything* in the last century.
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re: very USpol
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@eri
Jaj, fair enough ig, cointelpro runs deep.
Jaj, fair enough ig, cointelpro runs deep.
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@eri
What I am is a citizen of the global south. My mom's generation overthrew a US-backed dictatorship just by protesting, I've grown up around people who went to anti-fascist marches before they learned to walk, so it's deeply frustrating to see "principled leftists" in the US act like they know how to do mass action better than all the people in the third world that've been doing it for centuries.
What I am is a citizen of the global south. My mom's generation overthrew a US-backed dictatorship just by protesting, I've grown up around people who went to anti-fascist marches before they learned to walk, so it's deeply frustrating to see "principled leftists" in the US act like they know how to do mass action better than all the people in the third world that've been doing it for centuries.
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The way people in the US, leftists especially, interface with protests and marches is deeply stupid. They're not big larps where you get to dress up like the bad guys from a CoD game, they're not little private ingroup brunches only for the most ideologically pure, they're mass public events designed to show the strength of the people.
If someone's liberal aunt goes and starts taking selfies that's not a failure of the movement, in fact it being so wide reaching that even people like that wanna join in is a *massive* success. Get the fuck over yourselves and go outside.
If someone's liberal aunt goes and starts taking selfies that's not a failure of the movement, in fact it being so wide reaching that even people like that wanna join in is a *massive* success. Get the fuck over yourselves and go outside.
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@sterophonick
Martin Luther Bing? Yeah, I think he did.
Martin Luther Bing? Yeah, I think he did.
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a lot of the time when some tgirls hate all transmascs / ppl they call “theyfabs” that hatred is rooted deeply in incel culture , internalized transphobia & misogyny , and the patriarchal nature of the society we live in But if i keep talking They will have me gutted So i gotta stop here
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politics
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The fact that Epstein had his hands in the creation of /pol/ and gamergate and Steve Bannon's rise is making me go fucking insane. The international new-right, the entire funding network that props up
- Parisi/Kaiser in Chile
- Milei in Argentina
- Bolsonaro in Brazil
- Vox, the AFD, Fidesz, etc in Europe
- MAGA in the US
- hundreds more
was LITERALLY founded and financed by an elite cabal of ultra-wealthy North-American pedophiles to protect their own interests, I feel like a qanoner saying this but it's true! It's fucking true!
- Parisi/Kaiser in Chile
- Milei in Argentina
- Bolsonaro in Brazil
- Vox, the AFD, Fidesz, etc in Europe
- MAGA in the US
- hundreds more
was LITERALLY founded and financed by an elite cabal of ultra-wealthy North-American pedophiles to protect their own interests, I feel like a qanoner saying this but it's true! It's fucking true!
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I do feel that it's a bit weird to say that men aren't harmed in any way by patriarchy because at that point it's kind of making the patriarchs' argument for them, right? Like, if gender was a zero-sum game one could argue that misogynists are simply doing what is most logical given their shared interest, and that's dumb! Misogyny and patriarchy hurt everyone, they just hurt some people more than others.
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It's really cute how in Hollow Knight Loyal Ogrim (the dung beetle) and Kindly Isma (the plant) are in love. Because like, y'know, dung is used as fertilizer for plants and all.
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top 5 trans people
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Like in a row? Or do I get to take breaks?
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longpost, flag trivia
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Did you know that the flags of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua all use the same colors as the Argentine flag? That's not a coincidence! The "Belgrano colors", as they're sometimes known within anglophone vexillological circles, were first used on a flag by Argentine prócer Manuel Belgrano, inspired by those of Argentina's oldest national symbol, the escarapela or cockade.
The reason why the original escarapelas, light blue and white pins handed out to supporters of Argentine independence, bore those colors remains the subject of academic discussion. The folk tale I'm most partial to is that they represent the open sky, because that's the only thing the Spanish couldn't take from us¹.
Fast forward to the burgeoning Central American independence movement during the early 19th century. When these states, then united under the banner of the Federal Republic of Central America decided to seek independence, one of the few foreign corsarios, or privateers, that came to their aid was La Argentina, a ship commanded by Argentine naval hero Hipolito Bouchard. Bouchard, a fierce anti-monarchist liberal, has too many tall tales surrounding his name to recount here², but the important part is that in the process of helping the Central Americans fight back foreign aggression he planted within their territory a flag bearing the colors of the country that authorized his privateering, the Republic of Argentina. Inspired by this, and Argentina's then unbroken streak of military success, the Federal Republic adopted a flag bearing the same colors and a markedly similar composition.
When, after two successive civil wars, Central America splintered into the states we know today, all of them adopted designs based off of the FRCA's flag, itself based off of Argentina's, which is why so many of them bear blue and white tri-stripes to this day.
To answer some possible questions, the flag of Costa Rica seemingly doesn't follow this design because, in an attempt to seem more like France, they inserted a red stripe into the middle. Panama's flag has a different composition and colors because as a nation it doesn't trace its ancestry to the FRCA but rather to Colombia, which it was a part of before the US intervened to have it split off, which is why it bears colors strikingly similar to the stars and stripes.
¹This is very definitely untrue but it's also the explanation that feels the best.
²The most fun one is that he once landed on Hawai'i and made a deal with then ruling monarch Kamehameha I, which led to the Kingdom of Hawai'i being the "first country to recognize the Argentine state", this is disputed by historians but they're a bunch of nerds so who cares.
The reason why the original escarapelas, light blue and white pins handed out to supporters of Argentine independence, bore those colors remains the subject of academic discussion. The folk tale I'm most partial to is that they represent the open sky, because that's the only thing the Spanish couldn't take from us¹.
Fast forward to the burgeoning Central American independence movement during the early 19th century. When these states, then united under the banner of the Federal Republic of Central America decided to seek independence, one of the few foreign corsarios, or privateers, that came to their aid was La Argentina, a ship commanded by Argentine naval hero Hipolito Bouchard. Bouchard, a fierce anti-monarchist liberal, has too many tall tales surrounding his name to recount here², but the important part is that in the process of helping the Central Americans fight back foreign aggression he planted within their territory a flag bearing the colors of the country that authorized his privateering, the Republic of Argentina. Inspired by this, and Argentina's then unbroken streak of military success, the Federal Republic adopted a flag bearing the same colors and a markedly similar composition.
When, after two successive civil wars, Central America splintered into the states we know today, all of them adopted designs based off of the FRCA's flag, itself based off of Argentina's, which is why so many of them bear blue and white tri-stripes to this day.
To answer some possible questions, the flag of Costa Rica seemingly doesn't follow this design because, in an attempt to seem more like France, they inserted a red stripe into the middle. Panama's flag has a different composition and colors because as a nation it doesn't trace its ancestry to the FRCA but rather to Colombia, which it was a part of before the US intervened to have it split off, which is why it bears colors strikingly similar to the stars and stripes.
¹This is very definitely untrue but it's also the explanation that feels the best.
²The most fun one is that he once landed on Hawai'i and made a deal with then ruling monarch Kamehameha I, which led to the Kingdom of Hawai'i being the "first country to recognize the Argentine state", this is disputed by historians but they're a bunch of nerds so who cares.
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@inmemoryofeidolon
Don't really think I can pull off deep but if you think vaguely obscure vexillological trivia counts as smart:
Did you know that the flags of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua all use the same colors as the Argentine flag? That's not a coincidence! The "Belgrano colors", as they're sometimes known within anglophone vexillological circles, were first used on a flag by Argentine procér Manuel Belgrano, inspired by those of Argentina's oldest national symbol, the escarapela or cockade.
The reason why the original escarapelas, light blue and white pins handed out to supporters of Argentine independence, bore those colors remains the subject of academic discussion. The folk tale I'm most partial to is that they represent the open sky, because that's the only thing the Spanish couldn't take from us¹.
Fast forward to the burgeoning Central American independence movement during the early 19th century. When these states, then united under the banner of the Federal Republic of Central America decided to seek independence, one of the few foreign corsarios, or privateers, that came to their aid was La Argentina, a ship commanded by Argentine naval hero Hipolito Bouchard. Bouchard, a fierce anti-monarchist liberal, has too many tall tales surrounding his name to recount here², but the important part is that in the process of helping the Central Americans fight back foreign aggression he planted within their territory a flag bearing the colors of the country that authorized his privateering, the Republic of Argentina. Inspired by this, and Argentina's then unbroken streak of military success, the Federal Republic adopted a flag bearing the same colors and a markedly similar composition.
When, after two successive civil wars, Central America splintered into the states we know today, all of them adopted designs based off of the FRCA's flag, itself based off of Argentina's, which is why so many of them bear blue and white tri-stripes to this day.
To answer some possible questions, the flag of Costa Rica seemingly doesn't follow this design because, in an attempt to seem more like France, they inserted a red stripe into the middle. Panama's flag has a different composition and colors because as a nation it doesn't trace its ancestry to the FRCA but rather to Colombia, which it was a part of before the US intervened to have it split off, which is why it bears colors strikingly similar to the stars and stripes.
¹This is very definitely untrue but it also feels the best.
²The most fun one is that he once landed on Hawai'i and made a deal with then ruling monarch Kamehameha I, which led to the Kingdom of Hawai'i being the "first country to recognize the Argentine state", this is disputed by historians but they're a bunch of nerds so who cares.
Don't really think I can pull off deep but if you think vaguely obscure vexillological trivia counts as smart:
Did you know that the flags of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua all use the same colors as the Argentine flag? That's not a coincidence! The "Belgrano colors", as they're sometimes known within anglophone vexillological circles, were first used on a flag by Argentine procér Manuel Belgrano, inspired by those of Argentina's oldest national symbol, the escarapela or cockade.
The reason why the original escarapelas, light blue and white pins handed out to supporters of Argentine independence, bore those colors remains the subject of academic discussion. The folk tale I'm most partial to is that they represent the open sky, because that's the only thing the Spanish couldn't take from us¹.
Fast forward to the burgeoning Central American independence movement during the early 19th century. When these states, then united under the banner of the Federal Republic of Central America decided to seek independence, one of the few foreign corsarios, or privateers, that came to their aid was La Argentina, a ship commanded by Argentine naval hero Hipolito Bouchard. Bouchard, a fierce anti-monarchist liberal, has too many tall tales surrounding his name to recount here², but the important part is that in the process of helping the Central Americans fight back foreign aggression he planted within their territory a flag bearing the colors of the country that authorized his privateering, the Republic of Argentina. Inspired by this, and Argentina's then unbroken streak of military success, the Federal Republic adopted a flag bearing the same colors and a markedly similar composition.
When, after two successive civil wars, Central America splintered into the states we know today, all of them adopted designs based off of the FRCA's flag, itself based off of Argentina's, which is why so many of them bear blue and white tri-stripes to this day.
To answer some possible questions, the flag of Costa Rica seemingly doesn't follow this design because, in an attempt to seem more like France, they inserted a red stripe into the middle. Panama's flag has a different composition and colors because as a nation it doesn't trace its ancestry to the FRCA but rather to Colombia, which it was a part of before the US intervened to have it split off, which is why it bears colors strikingly similar to the stars and stripes.
¹This is very definitely untrue but it also feels the best.
²The most fun one is that he once landed on Hawai'i and made a deal with then ruling monarch Kamehameha I, which led to the Kingdom of Hawai'i being the "first country to recognize the Argentine state", this is disputed by historians but they're a bunch of nerds so who cares.
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