People think this website is an invulnerable monstrosity with cockroach DNA, but if staff wanted to destroy it all they’d need to do would be adding blue checkmarks
Personally I think it would be something different but equally obnoxious, like little blue “t”s next to profile pictures. Like this
i think lots of americans have a hard time conceptualizing china as a place where people exist in because they don’t really compare chinese things to american things, like
“the chinese government vanishes you for saying the wrong thing!” the chinese government does indeed do things in a v extreme way, but even in america, there are lots of things you can say that will get you put on a list, that will get you investigated, visited by the secret service, maybe even arrested, etc. etc.
“chinese internet users are rabid and will harass anyone who speaks out against their country” that literally applies to americans too
“how can chinese people let themselves suffer horrible working conditions for so little pay?” that can be asked of americans too, and the answer comes down to: because the government doesn’t want to increase wages and shit
“how are chinese people content to live under such a regime?” the same could be asked of americans, but we all know the answer to that, cause here in america, protests get violently suppressed and activists get assassinated
like, when you really start to looking at the similarities, it really becomes startlingly clear that even if things are different there, the reality is that the life of an average american has more similarities to the life of an average chinese than to the american elite
its kind of insane how many people in the notes respond to a post that says “you should really be more sympathetic and consider chinese people humans instead of racist caricatures” with “no americans number one we have to get more racist” because the idea that people outside of the american borders are humans too is just too threatening to american exceptionalism
no wonder why americans struggle so hard with the whole stop asian hate thing; they barely see us as humans
so im trying to decipher this chart on wikipedia that has common vampire weaknesses in it and
a ‘green/yes’ is a weakness, a ‘red/no’ is something that isnt a weakness, and a ‘?’ is something that has never been addressed but fucking riddle me this
in what lore are vampires weak to getting soggy in milk
i scrolled over to check to see what this could possibly be and
places a hand on me cheek
happy halloween month time for my favourite post of all time
She/her. 21. If you were looking for some sort of post theme or anything like that, you're on the wrong blog buddy.... Thanks @nytewing for the wonderful profile picture!