they just made a new law of robotics that all robots must be kissed and cuddled and loved
"reject modernity embrace tradition" isn't even a dogwhistle it's literally just saying regressive ideology directly. how does anyone not get this
am I missing something? is there a way to interpret this that isn't "progress is bad and we should reverse it to return to a mythical Past when things were better" or are otherwise well meaning internet people just so easily persuaded by nazi propaganda that they see a thing that means that and think "yeah sure that doesn't sound evil"
okay I guess I failed to account for how if you either ignore half the phrase or interpret both "reject modernity" and "embrace tradition" as meaning the opposite of what they mean then it no longer means what it sounds like it means. thanks everyone.
next it's gonna be "sure it sounds bad when nazis say it, but if you think about it 'my political opponents are genetically inferior and should not be allowed to reproduce' is a pretty reasonable thing for someone to say, and it can't be classified entirely as a strictly good or bad thing. also have you considered that it's just Ironic?"
apparently male spiders in many species have evolved a behavior to catapult away from females after sex to avoid getting eaten but then many of these spiders will go back to the same females as before and attempt to have sex with them again 😭
spiders are incredible it’s baffling to me that people hate them. like are you hearing this.
I feel bad for people who’ve never experienced a corn maze bc it’s not even fun but you just have to do it
I'd like to reblog this with some tags and comments bc I've really appreciated reading them
people who get what I mean:
people who have found a way to have fun in the corn maze but who I'm a little worried about:
person who we are going to put in the corn:
If the WHOLE COUNTRY'S economy cannot work without the labor that UPS workers provide, than their labor is worth their demands and more.
No other conclusion can be rationally made from this information.
I’m going to Constantinople, that shit better not be Istanbul
Real shit
You know I know I reblogged this already with a joke but—
Re the tags “transphobic parents visiting their out adult children,” it’s even MORE appropriate because we do actually know why Istanbul is no longer Constantinople. It’s because the name came from Constantine, a Roman emperor who converted to Christianity in the third century and immediately decided it was the state religion for the entire Holy Roman Empire—hence the name of that.
Thing is, he was a complete warmonger and also Türkiye hasn’t had a Christian majority in over five hundred years. The predominant religion in Türkiye is Islam—90% of voting-age people in Türkiye are Sunni Muslim—and in the third century when Constantine pulled his shit, most of the people there were pagans. Instanbul was renamed to remove the name of a force that was oppressive and no longer appropriate.
[image: Tumblr tag: #transphobic parents visiting their out adult children]
This young man you thought was your daughter
Has a new name (Sam; he’s named for your father)
So before you say ‘now where is my daughter?’
He’s the kid you recall, barely changed at all.
Trust me ma’am, you won’t want to bother
Saying ‘you’re no son,’ if so, you’re no mother
He’s afraid today, cause you’re coming over,
And he’s telling you what he’s done
Now, you wouldn’t call Aunt Peggy ‘Margeret’
We all know she hates that name.
Promise you, Sammy feels the same
So run that back: you don’t have a daughter,
Got a son named Sam, and you are his mother
If you can’t take that, then don’t even bother
And I’m sorry to say it but it’s true,
He’ll be who is without you.
And I’m sorry to
say it but it’s true, He’ll be
who is without you.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Anonymous asked:
I’ll be honest, the more spanish I’ve been learning, the more cultural history I’ve been going into regarding the background of Catalan. I was visiting an older friend in Madrid recently (in her 60’s) and she randomly went on about the Black Legend, and all the good they brought, and I had never HEARD of that before and I was horrified. I’m Native American and I was like HELLO? You don’t have a LITTLE bit of shame? But then I remembered how they treat their OWN people here, especially with Catalonia and it’s like eugh... makes me reconsider wanting to work abroad there (even my friend being from Barcelona, I was surprised to hear that view.) I’m not saying my country is better at all, not in the least, but I’ll never understand the anger and the hate towards a language and people. How can a language be ugly and bad when a mother uses it to talk to a child? Between friends and lovers? A language full of history and culture? Passed down from generation to generation and surviving because of love and identity despite repeated attempts to stamp it out. Some things never change I guess.
useless-catalanfacts answered:
I completely agree with you, every language is the language of love, what someone uses to joke with their friends, and the first words of a newborn child. Same way that every language can be used to shout insults in a fight or to speak nasty gossip. And every language is part of humanity’s richness and creative potential.
Yes, it’s disgusting how many people believe the Black Legend story. For readers who might not know what it is, it’s the belief that the Spanish Empire wasn’t that bad and the atrocities they committed were actually lies that the British Empire came up with to spread a bad image of Spain, since the UK and Spain were rival empires. It goes together with the people who claim things like “indigenous Americans were better thanks to Spain because Spain gave them a language, surnames and Christianity”. It’s good that you hadn’t heard of it before, sadly it still comes up every so often in Spain. I’m sorry you had to hear that.
The only thing I would specify is that many Spanish people (and certainly the case for Spanish nationalists and the type to believe the Black Legend) don’t consider Catalan people their own people. They are very clear that we are not and never will be able to be correctly Spanish, even if they also deny that we are Catalan and not Spanish. I’ve used this example before but I think it shows it well: look at football (soccer). When Piqué (Catalan player) was playing in the Spanish national team, people in the public used to shout/chant at him both “Piqué you’re a Spaniard” and “Piqué go back to your country”. If he was Spanish, then wouldn’t that be his country as well? I also saw the same when I went on Erasmus. We had a WhatsApp group chat and one day there was a football match between Barça and some Spanish club, I don’t remember which one. And when the other club scored a goal against Barça, the Spanish students were sending “VIVA ESPAÑA”, “GOL DE ESPAÑA” and such things on the group chat. An Italian answered “but aren’t both of the teams playing Spanish?” and one of the Spanish guys answered “well but Catalonia you know”. It’s the attitude, they don’t want to admit Catalans can be Catalans and not Spanish, but at the same time we’re always the “other”.
foone