argumate:

akaltynarchitectonica:

argumate:

priceofliberty:

priceofliberty:

Californians should not be permitted to speak on the state of the country; their experiences are not universal to literally the rest of Americans, despite what they believe. As far as I am concerned, they don’t even live in the U.S.

The same is true for:

• All of New Jersey
  
• Austin, Texas
  
• New York City, Manhattan, and Long Island
  
• Minnesota

Also in the running to be excluded:

• The entire southern half of Florida
  
• Portland, Oregon
  
• Seattle, Washington
  

frankly if you don’t live in Hawaii don’t even call yourself American

“Real America” TM is in fact a single square meter of forest in appalachia whose exact location is a closely guarded secret

nah they uprooted it and it’s stored in Area 51 for safe keeping, along with the Ark of the Covenant

What??? It’s a badly kept secret that the Ark of the Covenant is kept in the Manhattan state library.

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shieldmaiden19:

robogal328:

haletheheretic:

haletheheretic:

soloveitchik:

haletheheretic:

soloveitchik:

It’s my opinion that like if a white supremacist/Nazi is going to be reformed. They need to do so willingly. The only times I’ve heard of successful rehabilitation of fascists is when they made the conscious decision to no longer be one anymore and seek atonement. People who try to like hug and change fascists that don’t want to change are fucking morons

Correct. I was crypto-facist for a few years, and the people trying to hug me didnt change me because at that point I wouldnt have listened. It was only when I started to see the movement for what it was that I was finally able to listen.

I’m not derailing your addition but I’m horrified you’re only 18. When did you become a fasc?

Yeah trust me it *is* horrifying. I’m ashamed of who I was and I think my only atonement is to talk about how damn easy it is to become one when you’re young.

This is gonna be a long post.

For a little bit of background, I am a mixed race person, half brown and half white. I was raised in a Muslim family and am still closeted around them.

I started to have issues with Islam at around 12 or so, when I first started to get the idea that I might be gay. Now I never would have admitted that was my reason. If you had asked me I probably would have said “logic” or something. Because of that I went hard into atheism and atheist circles.

Now people hate to admit this but ex-Muslim spaces are predominantly right wing. Ex-Muslims often see the left as “too tolerant” towards a religion that hurt them. This was the only community I had though, and I read through everything. I was 13.

The other thing that people hate to admit is that, especially when you’re young, being mixed race is so damn hard. If I acted “too white”, following my mother’s German/Austrian traditions, I was accused of hiding my true nature. But if I acted “too brown” I was just another camel jockey. So I hid my “Indian” customs from others and tried passing as white. Especially online.

So I’m not saying this is all youtube’s fault or anything. I was raised to believe that the brown half of my family was lesser and stupid. And with my hatred of Islam, I believed it doubly.

Then came Anita Sarkeesian. I was watching pewdiepie and from there my recommendations were all set. If I’m remembering the pipeline it was pewdiepie - Philip Defranco - Chris Ray Gun (sp?) - Thunderfoot - Sargon - etc. But I was pretty much acquainted with all of the right wing youtube of the day.

Funnily enough, I found her through Thunderfoot. That got me into antifeminism, and more specifically, GamerGate.

I was primarily on the subreddits KIA (Kotaku In Action) and TIA (Tumblr In Action). Both made fun of the SJWs. I kid you not, I would gleefully wait for “Sanity Sunday”, where the people would talk about how feminism is disgusting, cultural appropriation is fake, the wage gap isnt real, etc. I would scroll through this tag for hours.

I got most of my youtube recommendations from those subreddits. This led me from GamerGate to more fascist lines of thinking, such as watching videos about why BLM is a terrorist organization, why all muslims were evil rapists, and why I was fundamentally right to reject my Indian heritage and follow my “correct” heritage.

From here I delved into “race realism”, and I believed it all. I had to. This was the only community I had felt safe in. One of the fash guys even offered to shack me up at his house if my parents kicked me out for being atheist. I was 15.

To say that again, I was 15 and believed that white was right, blue lives matter, “we wuz kangs”, etc. I never would have called myself a fascist or a Nazi. How could I? I used my brown skin as a token, so that people could point to me and say: “See, we aren’t misogynistic and racist! We have this brown girl right here.” But I believed in all the things the Nazis did. I’m not going to pretend I didn’t. I will never pretend I didn’t.

But then something happened. I admitted to myself, and to a few others, that I was gay. And suddenly, the homophobia that I had molded myself in, it didn’t fit right. I happened to, by accident, click on the reddit thread of GamerGhazi, the opposition to GamerGate. And after a long bout of introspection I found out that they were accepting of gay people, that the things I had been experiencing were common, that maybe, just maybe, we didn’t need a white ethnostate.

I don’t want to be dramatic but that accidental click saved my life.

From there it was a road of recovery. I deleted all my old accounts, made new ones, and started to read leftist theory. I found better friends, cut out old people. So now, just about two years later, I’m healing.

I think that’s everything. I probably got some times and dates wrong because I’ve been trying to move on from it. But if you need more info or anything like that, please let me know.

Life After Hate

Founded by former violent extremists, mostly from the far-right, we are committed to compassion, education and countering violent extremism.

Life After Hate

Reblogging for anyone who’s struggling with being an ex-fascist. Feel free to message me as well, I know how scary it can be.

Reblogging because, if this shows up often enough, maybe it will be someone else’s accidental click

^^This person was brave enough to share their struggle and their road. Honor that by reblogging.

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cryingbloodviolently:

tescosfinest:

i’m using Internet Explorer, i hope this posts quickly. happy new year 2011

its awesome because the longer this post circulates the funnier it will get

The longer it goes the stupider it gets. Internet explorer isn’t slow anymore. It’s as fast if not faster than any other internet browser.

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goodeye-cyborg:

daniellethehanyo:

squirrellygirlart:

jheselbraum:

feministism:

You don’t even have to be a lady, there are several

• My last name is culturally important to me
• His last name is something like Cox or Boner and it’s just not worth it
• I got a doctorate before I met him and don’t want to change it
• I don’t want to change my name on all my documents and have people assume I’m stealing my own identity in the early months of our marriage
• I would rather keep my own last name out of personal preference
• I would rather keep my own last name to make a political statement
• I want my husband to take MY name

It’s 2018 and people ARENT PROPERTY

My first name doesn’t sound good with a lot of last names. That’s not on this list but it is another reason I’d keep my last name.

My last name is 10000x cooler than any future spouse would have. I’m sorry that’s just the whole truth.

My preferences and possible future of marriage aside, I’m a trans woman and I chose my name. I’m not about to change it.

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drellvhen:

Artists, there’s a scam going around on Twitter at the minute, and you never know, someone might try it over here.

This guy is messaging commissioning artists and attempting to gain access to their PayPal by pretending to need a code to pay the bill.
Obviously we all know that’s bull, but if someone isn’t paying attention, is unfamiliar with PayPal commissions as a whole, or is just desperate enough for that commission money?  They might fall for it.
OP’s tweet here.

PayPal will not require a code for someone to complete payment.

It’s just not how it works, I know it, you know it, the scammer knows it.  But he’s gambling on the potential that someone (and that someone is mostly likely to be a young, new artist without much commission experience under their belt, let’s be honest) doesn’t know it.  Let’s make sure everyone does.
So if you’d be so kind, please boost the everliving hell out of this.  Don’t let anyone fall prey to this shady, shady individual, either here or on twitter or anywhere else.

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victoria-october:

sniperct:

I don’t care what anyone says the sabotage sequence in star trek beyond is a cinematic masterpiece

If you can have the climax of your film involve a starship surfing a wave of space bees while blasting the Beastie Boys, then you have zero excuse not to do that.

You can thank the director for that. He’d done fast and furious movies so he had his own vision.

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