“nazis got off relatively unpunished for the holocaust while palestinians ended up paying for it despite having nothing to do with it” is not antisemitic, it’s factual and obvious
My perhaps unpopular opinion is that if you’re willing to risk your outdoor cat being run over or eaten by a coyote then you also accept the risk that it’ll be picked up by someone who will take better care of it by keeping it indoors
Unpopular opinion, museums should not have to close bc lack of funding. My taxes should be going to them and not some foreign country to bomb civilians
I know we have a TON of things to focus on, but I just can’t wrap my head around why he’s doing this. It’s just destruction for destruction’s sake.
This hurts my heart. 💔
God, I hate this timeline we're in for hating people for the most normal things.
Holding a beer up because you're in the moment is actively less annoying than holding up your fuck ass phone and being a miserable bitch.
One woman’s wrong and suddenly it’s epidemic but for centuries we have been seeing barbarism of male violence and we are told “not all men”
This is language of MISOGYNY
someone once asked me why I cared so much about the environment.
I just said, “I live here.”
They looked at me like it had never occurred to them that I’m part of it too.
The most interesting concept in 1984 is newspeak.Newspeak is the official language created by the totalitarian state of Oceania.
Its purpose is to change how people speak, which in turn changes their ability to think. The easiest way to understand it is to imagine removing the word "freedom". If there is no word for freedom, it's much harder for people to express or even think about anti government ideas.
I think this is one of Orwell’s most valuable warning: that controlling language can ultimately become a way of controlling thought, and it feels like a particularly valuable warning for the future.
Hay que normalizar estar incómodos en la sociedad. A veces hay bebés llorando. A veces hay mayores ralentizando el embarque. A veces hay adolescentes liándola. Es lo que tiene estar vivos.
"why do i even need to know how to read?" the animals in animal farm do not know the seven commandments have been changed because they can't read. the animals do not have the ability to question even if they suspect something is off because they can't read. pick up a book.
as much as I laugh at the “can’t wait till HE dies” tweets, I can’t help but notice that it’s just another way people tie the evils of the american empire to one figure instead of a whole system. ultimately, him dying is meaningless because MAGA will live on
the woman who singlehandedly shrunk her hometown's highschool dropout rate by almost 30%, raised & donated millions for HIV/AIDS research, sent thousands of dollars to families affected by the tenesse wildfires etc. was not apolitical.