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I haven’t been on tumblr for years, but the offer still stands.

Snap is nymphatix.

Twitter: nymphatix (political), casaulrevi (casual)

Don’t use kik anymore.

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Rowlet dressed as Decidueye

So the Smithsonian posted this an hour ago.  Just because.

The Smithsonian is pulling no punches.

“But the main way that the press defanged Hitler was by portraying him as something of a joke. He was a “nonsensical” screecher of “wild words” whose appearance, according to Newsweek, “suggests Charlie Chaplin.” His “countenance is a caricature.” He was as “voluble” as he was “insecure,” stated Cosmopolitan.

When Hitler’s party won influence in Parliament, and even after he was made chancellor of Germany in 1933 – about a year and a half before seizing dictatorial power – many American press outlets judged that he would either be outplayed by more traditional politicians or that he would have to become more moderate. Sure, he had a following, but his followers were “impressionable voters” duped by “radical doctrines and quack remedies,” claimed The Washington Post.

Now that Hitler actually had to operate within a government the “sober” politicians would “submerge” this movement, according to The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. A “keen sense of dramatic instinct” was not enough. When it came to time to govern, his lack of “gravity” and “profundity of thought” would be exposed.

In fact, The New York Times wrote after Hitler’s appointment to the chancellorship that success would only “let him expose to the German public his own futility.” Journalists wondered whether Hitler now regretted leaving the rally for the cabinet meeting, where he would have to assume some responsibility.”

We are literally. Repeating history.

WE ARE ACTUALLY REPEATING HISTORY. The parallels are terrifying and they are very, very real. 

Read “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larson. It’s a good 101-course in this complete and total clusterfuck.

Sigh.

Our entire lives we have normalized Nazi ideals and leadership, turning them into a joke and relic of the past. Now that we are seeing these parallels, so many people choose to ignore them, and see this movement just as ridiculous and comical as we have portrayed them in the media for the past 70 or so years. So many people say never forget the holocaust, but so many others have never stopped to think about what that means.

Gee, I wonder what in the world happened just prior to 1945 that would have led to this conclusion.

It is impossible for Nazis to peacefully protest.

Nazism is inherently and irrevocably violent. To be a Nazi, to preach Nazism, to wear Nazi Symbols, to make Nazi salutes, to shout Nazi slogans ARE acts of violence. 

neo-n*zis, fascists and white supremacists are getting organised, marching and arming themselves, with concrete plans to kill minorities and further infiltrate the police and governing bodies (and let’s be real, they’ve already succeeded) yet the ACLU and others are still clutching their pearls and handwringing about ~freedom of speech~

holy shit this post blew up lol but i have more ~thoughts about this

a lot of people seem to think the majority of the neo-n*zis marching are poor rural white people, and certainly, there’s a problem with racism in white working-class communities. however, this narrative isn’t supported by statistics and who actually shows up to their rallies, and i feel that some people just want violent racists to be poor and uneducated, because if they’re uneducated, then the solution is simple; educate people, and you will fix racism.

unfortunately, many of the highly organised white supremacists are actually college educated, in decent/well paying jobs; they’re the police, doctors, lawyers, they’re your neighbours, relatives and acquaintances. their leaders explicitly encourage them to go into law enforcement, and take up positions of power; it enables them to do maximum harm. they are not some ‘other’ - they exist everywhere, and they’re gaining numbers.

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Lana: in the land of gods and monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked hard

Me:

A Concept:

many people do not experience “romantic / sexual / platonic / sensual / aesthetic / whatever attraction” as being completely separate from one another, and creating a split attraction model that divides attraction into increasingly smaller sections and insisting that this model dictates who is oppressed and who is not, is ridiculous, unhelpful and doesn’t reflect how oppression works in a practical, material, tangible way.

and pretending society functions under this model is nothing short of a lazy fabrication 

I left New York for Rhode Island, the beach front town where my grandma resided. I went shopping at her favorite stores. I bought some stuff I needed then I bought some more.