Like, the song isn't good, no one's arguing that. But taking a line about a child's internalized homophobia, clip it out of context, and make a joke as if it's the genuine perspective of an adult is failing at basic media literacy.
OP here neglects that the absurdity of homophobia is the point of the line.
He was pointing out that any behavior outside the narrow boundaries of acceptable masculinity (including things like art, cleanliness, etc.) got coded as "gay", was often punished, and that he had internalized this as a kid.
oh hell yeah. I just watched Repo Man last week and it looks *
stunning*
ooh, we gotta talk 4Ks.
He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason
from what I can see, the video shows a beating followed by an execution.
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.
They hate us so much but we love each other more
phenomenal record. I drove from mpls to omaha to seen Worriers a few years ago when they toured with Thin Lips in 2017. absolute magic
This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later. “They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.” Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.
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Caribbean cask is one of my all time favorites. Come on a Monday and I'll let it slide
America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
Brings me back to my days working at the Middlebury College Library!
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m
i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies
Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...
Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.
someone on here the other day said it feels like we’re watching a baseball game where one team decides every inning to not take their turn at bat
I'll start brainstorming titles! Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dawn of the Dead, maybe Slither?
I'm a huge fan/longtime volunteer at the Trylon and made the same joke! I'll put in a word with our programmer to do an Invisible Bridge series next year
really love it when my favorite podcasts do unexpected crossover episodes!
There are no photos of the event in progress, but a cursory search shows there are lots of detailed, haunting photos of the aftermath. Or if you wanted to use an illustration the local Museum has a beautiful mural of the events painted by an actual artist named Cliff Letty.
I'm sorry, why post AI if you have to admit in the alt-text that it's not historically accurate?
Why tell your followers an interesting piece of history (I assume that's the point of the post) and purposefully add some AI slop that will inevitably mislead them?
having goals gives you clarity. right now the dems' goal is "win more seats in the midterms" and that gives them clarity of purpose; unfortunately, it is actually extremely damaging to spend 2 years of spreading authoritarianism stepping out of the way because you think it'll help you next election
Memorial Blood Center in St Paul took me as a walk-in. New donor forms were simple and fast. I was done in 45 minutes
