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El Diablo es Puerco

@turtle-stack / turtle-stack.tumblr.com

I'm John, I'm 35, and these are musings about things I like and whatnot. Eurovision, Star Trek (esp Voyager), Star Wars, Medieval reenactment, Pokemon, Reptiles, Comic Books, Wonder Woman, Drag Queens, lots of gay shit.
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when I was a kid for some reason I thought Lola Bunny's last name was "Rabbit" and that she was actually Jessica and Roger's daughter. And the reason she wasn't in the original Loony Tunes is just that she wasn't born yet

I mean can you blame me. Look them and look at her. She's got a good blend of both of their features.

this is the only good head canon I've ever had tbh

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spiders have got to figure out contracting I need to be able to call my local spiders union and be like "hey can you send a guy out for a few days the fruit flies are back" and then pay it in spider currency. I'll learn the conversion rates. I'll be generous with my rounding. please.

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Of course you don’t. Free college might hinder the school-to-prison pipeline your  prison owning donors depend on

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welp;

Actual quote, in context:

“I believe that we should make community college free. We should have debt-free college if you got to a public college or university. You should not have to borrow a dime to pay tuition… I disagree with free college for everybody. I don’t think taxpayers should be paying to send Donald Trump’s kids to college.“ [video link]

Don’t spread misinformation just to fit a narrative, Clinton is advocating for there to be a cap on who gets free college so that the government doesn’t have to subsidize the education of people with enough disposable income to pay for it themselves. The plan she’s proposing would have a better chance of being passed, is more cost-effective, and still opens up higher education to low-income individuals who previously couldn’t afford it. 

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loseremo

the op lagonegirl literally ended up being a russian psyop im losing my mind

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justaphage

Reblogging this as an example of what the Russian interference here on tumblr was. I have seen some people in the past days casting doubts on Tumblr because the blogs that were banned had social justice content. 

But that was the point exactly. They posted some real things and a lot of half-truths that would appeal to the kind of politics on here and therefore spread disinformation to discourage us from participating in stopping Trump through the only option we had. I’m glad tumblr left these posts up so we could see for ourselves. 

I don’t know if it actually worked on anyone, I hope we all remember to check our sources before making our decisions, but life is short and maybe some people didn’t.  There are plenty of real social justice blogs available still, so I hope we will follow those instead.

Reblogging this now. Because some of you think that a leftist space can be trusted. They can’t. Lagonegirl posted content that had nothing to do with politics, it made her seem like a real person.

She was not. There were SO many posts by her that got big numbers and most of them were fine. That was an illusion so that when she posted things like this it might not click like it would if it were loudly pro- Trump.

You see a blog that is leftist but only critical of the more “safe bet” cookie cutter candidate and has very little to say about the obviously right wing, objectively worse for everything you stand for candidate?

Be on guard.

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A Hamas stan said the quiet part out loud last night at a fundraising event for Biden, and I’ve included some responses:

Anyway, the people like the one in the first tweet are functionally no different from Republicans. One of Trump’s main appeals has always been having him hurt groups who are considered the enemy. Cruelty is the point.

I swear these so-called "ActiviSTs" and protesters for Palestine are really making the case everyday and showing more examples of how these people really don't give a Fuck about the many different minorities and marginalized groups that will be deeply FUCKED Over and dead if Trump gets back into power again.

Especially the very people that they "claim" to be fighting for or "care" about! No they would much rather Fuck over a whole country and including the rest of the world simply out of petty spitefulness and thinking that America losing its full democracy , women and those with a uterus losing all reproductive rights & being forced to give birth against their will, Trans and LGBTQ folks losing their rights to exist and be openly themselves in public, Black and Brown people being targeted and in danger by White-Supremacists/ Neo-Nazis groups who are downbad for Trump racist vision of America, immigrants being put in detention camps, is totally all OKAY and Dandy for these people.

Because they won't be the ones deeply affected by it due to either them being super privileged or because of their whiteness.

Either way, I'm so damned sick of certain people just using this whole terrible war/conflict as just an excuse and cover to let out their deep-seeded hatred and vlieness run wild while pretending to give a shit about the Middle East or anything dealing with Palestinians or Gazans while also using this war as a front to let out their internalized antisemitism bullshit run completely loose.

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I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.

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apricops

Racisttown, named after the abolitionist Stopbeing Racist,

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flyfeline

That's nothing. Check THIS shit out

WHAT THE HELL

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duckily
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biglawbear

George Washington Hitler and his son Dr. Gay Hitler,

This is all a lot to process.

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Why? I’m from Australia so I don’t know anything about this stuff

Because there should be public transit and trains. It is a ridiculously short flight that is just polluting the world unnecessarily but a lot of people don’t have a better option. There’s so many major cities in that small area that they should have train lines between them all

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seiya234

okay so like, I live in Baltimore. Boston is 8 hours by car away. But! There’s a direct train that goes there so I should take it and-

the train is 8 hours. Okay no big deal at least I’m not driving I can relax and-

the train ticket will run me one way between 100-300 dollars depending on when I buy it from Amtrak.

However, I can get an 80 dollar plane ticket one way on southwest, so I do that instead.

anyway it is beyond frustrating to be in the most used part of the amtrak system and still have train tickets be so goddamn cost prohibitive. 

thats not a policy failure, its seven policy failures duct taped together

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turtle-stack

That's policy failure *by design*

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If you say shit like “Palestinians should die” or “Gaza should get wiped off the map” on my blog I will block you just as fast as if you had said “Jews should die” or “Israel should get wiped off the map”. This blog believes strongly in the safety and mutual respect of both peoples, regardless of the actions of their governments. If you think differently, I hope you find empathy. In the meantime, fuck off.

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i do think there is an issue on tumblr of caring about stuff in media when its ultimately irrelevant, minor, or not antisemitic at all while letting real dangerous antisemitism slide. like you see people getting worked up about idk goblins or witches and then a few weeks later will reblog a post that says jewish people use the holocaust to guilt trip people or recycles old rothschild conspiracy theories.

and it’s easy to see why this happens. this obsession with media purity has people looking for ways to deem media they don’t like as “problematic” and since so many aspects of european folklore have been used in an antisemitic way at some point it is quite easy to find SOMETHING that could be called antisemitic. and it really is not a hard thing to do. It carries 0 reputational risk, gives you an opportunity to dunk on fans of That Thing You Don’t like, and gets you allyship points. but when it comes to calling out antisemitism in your political movements, that’s less convenient. It takes effort and carries a risk of pissing people off, or getting you accused of “distracting from the real issues.”

this isn’t to say antisemitism in the media isn’t a problem because it is. But it’s much less of a pressing issue than antisemitism in our culture and politics. i’m sick of people getting credit for being allies only when there are no stakes. you have no right to get on your high horse about tolkien dwarves if you’re letting people get away with spouting talking points from the protocols of the elders of zion.

she was so right for this.

cause like. in the past year we went from claiming that harry potter viddygame was licherally killing jewish people to all but making antisemitism something that is imperative to be taken seriously as a leftist. and i have zero doubt that this cycle WILL repeat. make sure to take note of today’s antisemites because they will be tomorrow’s performative “allies” and we shant let that fool us we shant let them off off the hook.

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