this is probably above my pay grade but regarding neil gaiman it's so starkly clear how much class-based absue is entwined in this horrid situation. his victims were financially dependent on him, unable to even admit to themselves that what was happening was abuse because they had, in some cases, literally nowhere else to go. amanda palmer, self-proclaimed feminist, was complicit in a truly fucked mistreatment of a woman because she wanted to keep the babysitter that she didn't have to pay. gaiman was quoted literally saying that he's very wealthy to one of his victims. even the little mention of gaiman making decisions in his and palmer's marriage bc he's the one with the money is just. so telling when you know what to look for. they both took advantage of their social and financial priviledge over their victims and used it to abuse, manipulate, put down, and in the end try to silence them.

a lot of American leftists refuse to see members of the American military in the same light as other groups who commit atrocities because they have a personal connection to people who’ve been a part of it. But there’s no world where you can have a cohesive worldview and somehow see the US military (a completely voluntary military service) as unique and innocent in comparison to institutions like the police, border police, the IDF, etc. the lengths people will go to try and absolve these people of their actions is insane

We live in a time where the likelihood of any veteran you’ve ever met having been drafted is almost nothing, which most people are aware of hence the “they were too stupid to realize what they were doing/signing up for” defense. Essentially anyone you’ve ever met who has been in the military did that as a fully voluntary, and most likely not even financially necessary choice (you can easily look at military demographics to find out the idea of most people in the military being poor and uneducated is a myth). This isn’t to say you need to cull your family members tomorrow or whatever it is however to say if you somehow see a veteran as different than an ex cop or a member of any other imperialist military you are just straight up playing dumb on purpose

This article describes some really disturbing accounts of sexual assault in graphic detail so please keep that in mind if you want to read it yourself.

Full article under the Read More, for those who are running into a paywall:

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denji, whatever happens: don’t open the door

Admittedly I do not interact much with teenagers of any gender these days (praise be), and the closest connection I have to someone who does has a thoroughly unrepresentative sample (social worker helping teens who need the help to get jobs) but like - where exactly is all this 'today's teenage boys are uniquely reactionary misogynists' actually coming from, anyway?

Like my memories are by now foggy but I'm pretty sure the teenage boys of the late 2000s weren't exactly all intersectional feminists either.

i think the thing that's most annoying about tiktok honestly is literally just that it forces everything to be delivered in video format even when the visual element is like. a person greenscreened in front of an article talking about it. like that should be a text post unimpeachably and it really sucks the fun out of even being a hater im not going to sit through 3 minutes of this person's glitchy floating face for a paragraph of inflammatory lies i could have read and laughed at in 45 seconds flat. congratulations on coming up with the only media format more superfluous than the wikipedia research podcast complex

utena thing from 2day

gaslighting germans it’s always morally correct

Loved the follow up to this where the neighbor was confronting her about this video and she was gaslighting her neighbor again by askin if all viatnamese people look the same to them

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