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People seem to always need to attribute evil to something immutably wrong with a person or at least to some powerful force within said person that can't be just a choice (no matter how influenced by the coercive forces of society and one's own history).

The widely spread Christian notion that people act in what society currently thought of as evil was that people were sinners or possessed by an evil spirit.

Now that spiritual explanations for evil are mostly not socially sanctioned outside of circles of people that accept such explanations, we've gone from attributing evil to spiritual pollution, to attributing evil to psychiatric pollution.

19th and most of the 20th century's hysteria, the psychopath of the later 20th century, the sociopath of the 00s, and now it's the narcissist.

Have you considered that, sometimes, people choose to do fucked up shit just because it's easier, or the results satisfy them better? They're not Possessed by the indomitable spirit of a disorder. Sometimes people choose to cause harm the same way anyone would choose between flavors of a drink due to no pathology and nothing INTRINSICALLY wrong with them.

Sometimes, people are just assholes, and when you see millions of people claiming their ex was afflicted with a pathology, it starts to seem like rather than a pathology those exes are participating in harmful but socially permitted and even encouraged behaviors, especially if they play right into the rulebooks of patriarchal relations. That's not pathology, that's normalized evil, systemic evil.

Men lowering the self-esteem of their girlfriends when they feel emasculated and treating them like shit behind closed doors, even tangibly violently, is awful and deeply traumatizing, I know by experience from the two relationships with men I got to have before accepting my lesbianism. But that's not a disorder, that's just... What our misogynistic, patriarchal culture teaches men and tells men is ok to do in order to reaffirm their control over their women, it's what the people around those men have historically allowed them to get away with.

Same with abusive parents with their children; much like women under patriarchy, children are seen as possessions belonging to their parents and extensions of their parents, even into adulthood. A parent doesn't need to meet the clinical criteria of NPD in order to horrendously traumatize their child and then feel that they were in their right to do so. Society already tells parents all the time that they're allowed to horrendously traumatize their children while still expecting loyalty and deference from them.

I'm antipsych but I'm not here to discuss the validity of personality disorder diagnoses. I'm actually ceding ground here and for the sake of this conversation just briefly accepting that framework of understanding of trauma survivors.

Ceding that ground; please stop calling every horrible person a narcissist, a sociopath, a psychopath, and so on. Evil doesn't lie in some intrinsic Brain Wired Wrong condition, that's such an apocalyptic and stigmatizing view of humanity, one that absolves many of the people who cause the kind of harm being addressed here. Evil and harm are choices.

it really is fucking insane how dissonant democrats are when it's other countries like if Palestinians don't want to be massacred they should simply overthrow Hamas and if Russians don't want to suffer due to US sanctions crashing their economy they should simply overthrow Putin but here at home the thought of anyone trying to overthrow our government causing our citizens to suffer is a naive pipe dream and our only choice is to cynically compromise any principles and integrity we may have and vote for the 99% Hitler candidate and be grateful for the freedom to do so

Turns out with the Affordable Connectivity Program, ISPs CAN NOT shut off your internet.

Seriously. If you’re living in the US, and you’re at or below poverty line, sign up for the affordable connectivity program. it gives you like $30+ a month off your current internet bill and it makes it so they can’t disconnect you if you don’t pay them.

the gangs pride flags

Palestinian youth confront the Israeli occupation in Betunia town. 28.11.23

مواجهات بين الشبان و قوات الاحتلال في بلدة بيتونيا

songs used to have a bridge and a third chorus

A fake "screenshot" of a strategy/puzzle visual novel game that I wish existed but doesn't. (it was mad for our hybrid comics workshop!)

I'm really proud of how this came out, I just channeled my love for the Disco Elysium and Hades styles haha.

Cavern of Dreams, my n64-style 3D platformer, is OUT NOW on Steam!! be a little dragon! gain cool powers! save your siblings and feed and take care of them! explore weird worlds!! help people out!! fly and swim and jump around!

check it out here!

Herbawi Textile Factory in Hebron. The last remaining Keffiyeh factory in Palestine. By Pirates and Plants on Flickr

tried cleaning up my aggretsuko oc

Every time this ugliass staff deletes a Black blogger or a trans woman or an antizionist...I hope they explode

A message from a brother in Gaza addressing all of us as we continue to live our lives as the genocide goes on:

"From your right upon us is that we feel joy for your happiness. From our right upon you, is that you don't forget us, even in your joy."

It's so sad that I am hearing of Bosnian genocide survivors talk about how they are triggered by the genocide denial happening around gaza. That the rhetoric that is being thrown around in the media and the rationalization for killing thousands and the talk of "let's be careful of what we call genocide. Let's wait before we call it that" is repetitive of what they were hearing when they were living through it

And Holocaust survivors who were protesting in DC and feeling the burden of having to come out and protest another genocide being done in their name except the media has completely sidelined them because it does not fit the narrative.

I have no other words except how terrible this is but it feels comforting in a weird way that genocide survivors are standing with Gaza. Who needs the acknowledgement of governments when you have them

The First Intifada Palestine 1987 1987 الانتفاضة الفلسطينية الأولى

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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

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Boycott Disney. Boycott McDonald's. Boycott Starbucks. "Oh but it won't work, it won't do anything" Yes it will. Boycotts have worked before and they will again. Think of the Montgomery bus boycotts. Think about American women boycotting imported British goods during the revolution.

Why do you think popular media is so quick to discount boycotts as ineffective? Could it possibly be because they work? Could it be because major corporations understand that they work and are scared? Could it be because boycotts have historically been utilized by marginalized groups to assert their views and fight for change within a conflict in which they have no power?

Do not have give in to the apathetic nihilism of "nothing I do matters, so why bother?" That is exactly what oppressors count on. Be critical of the media you consume. Ask questions. Look to history. Boycott.

representation in media is so worthless when it comes at the cost of perpetuating antiblackness in order to uplift other marginalized groups

‘israel is targeting hamas’

Israeli jets have targeted the family of the head of surgery in the Indonesian Hospital, Mohammad Al Rann, killing them all.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent Wael Dahdouh’s wife, son, daughter and infant grandson killed.

Israeli warplanes have killed journalist Dua' Sharf and her child in a strike on her house in Gaza.

While she was working, doctor Sana'a Nour was informed that an Israeli airstrike killed her brother.

A Residential block is completely destroyed after being heavily bombed by Israeli warplanes in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

A mother lost her 6 children by an Israeli air strike that bombed Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza.

Palestinian elderly woman stuck amidst the rubble of her house bombed by lsraeli warplanes.

"We were a family of eight, four of us were killed and the other four were injured."

this was not over days, or weeks. this was all within 24 hours.

There is still hope. Say it out loud. Palestine will be free. The Palestinian people will celebrate their culture and heritage with each other. We will love and be loved. Do not fall into the trap of despair.

MMMMMM WOW. On my end for days, Palestine/Gaza/etc has been trending, and now after tumblr put this “tag issue” message, those trending tags are gone…y’all it can’t be any clearer what this company is deliberately doing to suppress sharing about what’s happening

Ummm? My side blog @lil-bloomz is gone? Or I can’t see/access it from being logged in on mobile?

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Ummm? My side blog @lil-bloomz is gone? Or I can’t see/access it from being logged in on mobile?

mmmm I’ve been mainly reblogging posts about P@lestine on my side-blog, and now my side-blog is gone…this is not suspicious AT ALL

Ummm? My side blog @lil-bloomz is gone? Or I can’t see/access it from being logged in on mobile?