Hi so yesterday on my birthday I accidentally set my apartment on fire because I left a candle burning before I went to work and everything is pretty much gone I mean all I have is my phone charger and my laptop and my childhood stuffed animals so far from my apartment so anything you could possibly spare would really help me right now
I’m completely broke now and I don’t have a penny to my name until I get paid Thursday. If I could just get gas money because I’m living out of my car that would help me more than anything.
if you as a normal tumblr user go around flagging posts for mature labels you are A Fucking Cop
“but what if i hate women so much i need to mark their existence as mature” if you’re this bothered by the sight of real life women you 1.) need to grow tf up and 2.) should just unfollow people instead of having a childish temper tantrum and flagging people’s blogs
local Twitter user comes to “terrifying” realization that someone’s physical appearance does not always indicate their political beliefs
politics as aesthetic is a reliably fascist-enabling mindset. That may seem like a crazy take and obviously nobody’s brainwashed for having a style or recognizing others with that style. but listen.
there is a reason why the right wing targets ‘diversity’ beyond just obvious racism, sexism, bigotry, control issues: the need to know someone else’s 'place’ ON-SIGHT is CRITICAL to a strict hierarchical society. This is also why they get mad at poor people having nice things, or art from marginalized minorities becoming influential.
The cruise control of seeing only people who look like you and act like you is critical to conservative’s emotional goals. At the extreme, a conservative ideal doesn’t even have to navigate other real people at all: just archetypes. Which is pretty handy if it’s agonizing to contact your real living conditions with your whole authentic self.
Conservative political movements are style over substance: the feelings they solicit from their base are promoted as more important than the actual decision-making that will occur at right-wing hands. Again, a handy tactic when the choices you want to make are abhorrent for everyone but the aristocracy.
Punk and metal scenes– genres that are famous for anti-authoritarianism– have to be active in barring fascists from participation. They can’t cruise control based on how people fit 'the style.’ Meanwhile, the signals that fascists use to identify one another often are aesthetic-based because to state their political beliefs out-loud is (or has been…) punishable.
The warm and fuzzy feelings of safety you get when everyone looks like you are very easily exploitable. I know that we live in an age where everything functions like an advertisement and aesthetics rule all, but by law of demographic sizes alone more queer people and queer allies are going to look like a random middle aged dude than you think. Especially as people born after the AIDS genocide actually make it that far.
