Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It’s warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.
Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.
Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???
If you’re gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.
There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.
One thing people don’t often appreciate is that the southern US states are along the same latitude as the Middle Eastern deserts, rather than northern Europe. We’re not competing with Texas, we’re competing with northern Canada. If Saskatoon can’t handle Mexican weather, London can’t handle Middle-Eastern weather. It’s not built for it at all.
Some of y’all think that holding hands and sharing a bed is immediately romantic, and this is why people cannot differentiate between romantic, platonic, and familial forms of love.
OK so people on the notes are dumb and can’t comprehend why we are not ok with this being presented as a Wholesome Moment i’ll take a turn explaining
conversion of hagia sophia into a mosque was an extremely controversial move by the far right sunni-turkish nationalist government in TR, it aimed to feed into nationalist and sunni supremacist sentiments, also to shift the public discourse from the economic crisis and government’s terrible pandemic response. it’s blatant and unapologetic glorification of ottoman imperialism and an attempt to further destroy the christian (and non-sunni muslim) history of the city. it’s a clear message to the already dwindling christian community in turkey that they are not welcome.
hagia sophia is a very old and fragile building. it requires constant maintenance and conservation efforts, i don’t even want to imagine the damage this decision has caused to it. not to mention the opening was organized at the height of the pandemic, with hundreds of people in the building. the pandemic data in turkey is very muddled but it was most likely a super spreader event.
conversion of hagia sophia represents nationalism, sunni supremacism, ethnic cleansing. it also represents the AKP regime’s disregard of human lives for the sake of consolidating more power. this is all public knowledge. anyone who goes to pray in hagia sophia is endorsing AKP’s politics, the fact that they have wholesome moments with their kids sometimes doesn’t change that.
not to mention, i think many people who dont see a problem with this dont realize that praying at the hagia sophia is a VERY deliberate decision. there are hundreds of mosques in istanbul and the Blue Mosque is a mere 4 minute walk (300 meters) away, there are also many other smaller mosques in the surrounding area. no one prays at the hagia sophia becase they have no other choice or because its more convenient than other mosques. most of the people who do pray there barely live in the area to begin with. it’s a deliberate act signaling pro AKP and nationalist views, the people who do this are very much clearly signaling to you that theyre sunni supremacists proud of the eradication of the non-muslim history of turkey.
the obsession with compartmentalization in new age online western lgbt culture is going to be the death of us btw especially as it continues to spread globally to gay and trans youth who’s first exposure to community is not a local one that will claim and understand them but instead a very usamericentric digital one detached and very unalike their own community which will often misunderstand or undermine their life experiences 🥱😪
i don’t know what other queer folks might need to hear this, but your sexual desire for someone doesn’t contaminate your love for them and it doesn’t mean you don’t respect them or see them as a complete person. and you wouldn’t be better or purer if you could love without wanting them in that way also. queer sexuality is not a contaminant that ruins queer love.
Did you know that if you’re bi and someone else is pan that’s fine? Or if you’re pan and someone else is bi that’s also fine?
They’re just words to describe shared experiences, not eternal immutable truths.
Using a slightly different word for very similar experiences in not a form of oppression.
Please worry about things that matter and stop trying to streamline the LGBT.
I think the pan discourse is less about labels and more about many people actively being biphobic inside the lgbt community. It’s not totally unreasonable to be upset when people deliberately ignore bisexual activism and history or spread biphobic misinformation.
Let’s switch out the “disabled people are just as capable” campaign with “disabled people are just as valuable.” We shouldn’t have to perform, achieve and produce on the same level as abled people to be considered worthy.
STOP! are you operating on an arbitrary set of terms and rules known only to you? have you created an ultimatum or specific if/then scenario for someone else without communicating it to them? have you considered making a decision and calculated all the consequences and potential reactions to those consequences and consequences for those reactions before you actually made the decision? it may be time to say some words out loud to another person!
Fascism is uniquely vulnerable in its larval stages to attempts at sabotage. The psychology of fascism demands of adherents and figureheads an image of invulnerable cohesion. That’s a difficult thing to get when you only have ten people at your meetups. One guy gets humiliated and you have to scrap the whole thing or disband entirely because you’re such a small group you all may as well be one guy. Once you attain a critical mass, though, one or two twigs sticking out of the main bundle is fine. As long as nobody goes after the leader, you can do whatever the hell you want.
Punch a commie, her comrades will rush to her aid and she’ll be back on the frontline as soon as she can get there. Doxx her and her friends will still stick up for her. Publish her nudes and she’ll b a martyr for the cause.
Punch a conservative or liberal, they’ll cry about civility. Their friends ‘across the aisle’ will stick up for them. Thinkpieces will be written. Teeth will be gnashed. In the end, Senator McFuckface will be back giving fiery impassioned speeches about tax breaks within the week.
If you publicly humiliate a fascist, he’s done for. He’s worthless. He can no longer live up to the promised potential of invulnerability. The fash these days call Spencer and Heimbach weaklings and cuckolds. They think it’s because they disagree with their ideas. It’s really because Spencer got punched and Heimbach had his dirty laundry aired for all to see and so now they can NEVER succeed again.
In order to circumvent this flaw in ‘ideology,’ fascists would have to embrace their flaws, truly embodying ‘me ne frego.’ You can’t humiliate that which has no shame. Luckily for us, fascism runs on deep and profound shame.
What I’m trying to say is: punch a fascist now so you don’t die later.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to simousltansly critique and consume media. You need to use discernment.
This is ultimately why propaganda is going to work on you. Because you never learned how to think for yourself and the actual ideology behind things. You simply rely on group think and the bare minimum explanations to tell you what’s good and bad.
So many people on this website with ‘TERFS DNI’ in their bios reblog radfem posts without recognizing that they’re essentially parroting TERF rhetoric because they don’t actually know what that rhetoric is, because they’ve never looked into it beyond ‘hating transgender people’.
Likewise eco-fascism has proliferated online in no small part because people don’t know how to recognize fascism when it’s not dressed up in a Nazi uniform.
If you don’t know the intricacies of why a thing is bad, you’re much less likely to recognize it when it puts on a different hat and introduces itself with a different name.
