Studied it in my ethics course:
it's called specism/specist narrative, where industries use semantics to create a distinction in your head between the animal and what you eat. This way you don't think about it nor feel guilty every time you eat meat.
(disgusting practice btw)
SNL's Colin Jost on Iran: "This attack might be a bad idea, I don't know. I'm not really an expert on Iran. So let's hear from someone who can explain why we might have done it."
An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇
"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.
Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.
So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.
Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.
A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."
The Crow (1994) soundtrack goes insanely hard. Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine, all wrapped in that rain-soaked, neon-goth mood.
Dear estranged parents, when your adult child finally tells you the truth about how they experienced their childhood and your first instinct is to call them a liar, you’ve just validated every reason they stopped talking to you.
The scariest part isn’t the stares and the touching. It’s how comfortable men are doing it to strangers like women’s bodies are public property. The entitlement is sickening.
German soccer referee Pascal Kaiser was assaulted by three men at his home, a week after his public marriage proposal.
The day before the assault, he received threats, and his address was leaked. He contacted the police, who told him there was no immediate danger.
Thank you Skins for giving working class kids a chance and platforming/producing dev patel, jack o’connell, daniel kaluuya, and nicholas hoult THE horror kings of the 21st century!!