i’m sick and tired of people pretending that burger isn’t delicious just to clown on americans. america deserves the ridicule, but why’s burger catching strays? burger did nothing wrong

I saw this on Twitter and it was equally divided between people who were very offended and people who thought it was the funniest thing ever

Lizzie Natividad, from Psychonauts 2.

"It's more than something. It's everything."

s8e11 "Life Time"

painted screenshot. cannot give a time estimate, i lost track long ago. still gouache brush, my beloved, with blur tools to fade edges and so on

i have to go to the zoo now and will be making the version with the clock later [i cannot express how long ive been battling with hawkeye's face, gamers]. background went very fast like i said it would lol

version 2 [as in, w/ clock] will probably be done later today, and i will edit this and add it when that happens [and prolly make a separate post too, for celebration purposes, and will link them]. i will also compile progress pics for that post. they are terrifying early on lmao

"A lot of very touching songs came outta that war" previous painting

"It was pink, and perfect, and I tossed it in the scrap bucket" previous painting

everyone say thank you to bj to being a perfect painting subject today he was very polite and he looks about how i wanted unlike SOME PEOPLE

that was me to my sibling last night, and i stayed up til 1:10ish and still didnt finish the final pass over hawkeye's eye. everything else took like 5ish minutes

also everyone say thank you to margaret and nurse kellye for also being perfect and lovely and pleasant to work with

photo used blatantly stolen from this post thank you again @remyfire i owe you my life

update edit;

clock back

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why is it that when we talk about the history of antisemitism in america we say things like “we used to not be allowed into country clubs” and not “in 1958 the oldest synagogue in atlanta was bombed”

I assume because goyim take things like shootings and bombings as a completely different kind of problem. They won’t see antisemitism they see gun control problems and mental illness (if the bomber is white. Which they probably are.)

The idea of being barred from somewhere based solely on ethnicity/religion is probably more real for them. Hard to dispute. Which is some topsy turvy bullshit thinking.

I think it might also have something to do with past vs. present. 

Like, if the history of antisemitism is “Jews weren’t allowed in country clubs”, well, now Jews ARE allowed in country clubs! Look at that! Guess the problem is solved, and we don’t need to talk about it- or better yet, we can dismiss antisemitism as criticism of Israel because hey, Jews in country clubs!

Meanwhile, Jews are still being bombed and shot. People are still threatening us with violence on a daily basis. And yet, we are excluded from the social movements that were created to help people like us- marginalized folks who deal with daily discrimination, oppression, and violence. IDK if I would call it intentionally malicious, this exemption of murder and threats of violence from the history of antisemitism. But I do know that it makes it a lot easier to dismiss Jews as “white now” and “privileged”, and it makes it a lot easier for people to swallow if they can believe that violence against Jews is just a result of “mental illness” and not a deep-seated and growing hatred of us. 

Yeah, I think it may have been the way for a lot of Jews to say “Our start here was bumpy, but things are okay now. We’re now fully American and completely accepted.” Of course now all of us who thought that are learning it was an illusion, but it worked for a while.

I’m also thinking about how this plays out in terms of our inclusion in social justice movements. If we frame our oppression in terms of “we were locked out of country clubs,” we’ll be laughed out of the room. The only thing people will glean is that we could have afforded country clubs if only we’d been allowed in.

I’m not trying to victim blame; I don’t think that leftist antisemitism is our fault. In fact I wonder if the way we frame things is because that’s how society has framed things and we’ve accepted that. Kind of like — “the Jews used to be discriminated against, but that’s over now, and even then it was only in ways that can’t materially hurt a person, and also they’re all rich.” Like, I wonder if that wasn’t itself antisemitism that we internalized and put in our own narrative?

Reblogging again to add: the way I put it, rather than country clubs, is that ‘we also weren’t allowed into a lot of buildings in the American South until a few decades ago.’ Sometimes the signs would say no Black people, no dogs, no Jews.

tbh I think it's because a lot of people just won't take bigotry seriously unless you can convince them that it is both A. widespread and B. intentional. Bombing a synagogue is bad, sure, but it's just the result of one crazy person. And the Tree of Life shooting was just one crazy person. And the DC shooting was just one crazy person. Referring to country clubs makes it clear that antisemitism was commonplace and systemic. Antisemitic violence is an aberration, they'll say. It doesn't happen often (it does) and when it does it's the result of other factors (it's not). Segregation is much more palatable to American social justice sensibilities

if I have to see one more AI image being purposefully reblogged on my dash because 'it's a meme' or 'it's funny' or 'well in THIS CASE it's okay!!!!' idc idcccccc what your reasons are I'm unfollowing you girl bye

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A friend of mine from around here who is Very Christian and has never had a Jewish friend before was asking me some stuff about antisemitism today, and it made me realize that the ways people talk about various types of bigotry and racism are so designed to stump people about the nature and purpose of systems of oppression. "Why do people hate the jews so much?" is such a common refrain and while there have been many books and articles written pulling apart all the important contextual and historical things that can help people understand antisemitism SPECIFICALLY, what I ended up saying to my friend was this:

"Something to understand about antisemitism is it isnt just ideological. The expulsion of jews from various countries was very often a method of "legally" seizing their wealth when the church needed money. It has been historically an incredibly convenient source of both a group of people to blame and also an easy way to just... Be able to steal from people, lmao. It has served very concrete material purposes for churches and governments throughout history. Sometimes you have to approach asking those questions from a different angle because it often isnt about the hatred so much as it is about ... Redirecting energy and attention, right, like upholding structures that benefit those in power. The hatred is convenient because it allows those in power to take actions that would not be tolerated if the group in question were not considered to be Exceptional in their inhumanity. Like the undocumented immigrants now, asking "why do they hate the immigrants so much" isnt always a productive avenue of thought because the hatred is usually just... Useful. Rather it is more helpful to ask "Who does it benefit for these people to be treated this way" -> "what do they need to make the general public believe about that group of people in order to justify this treatment". I think sometimes we are made to think hatred of jews is special and rooted in something different than other hatred... It's not. I mean all types of racism etc are unique. But it very much is about justifying actions that benefit a ruling class in all instances, imo."

And she like totally got it!!! She was like "OH I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT LIKE THAT BUT THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE THANK YOU" I am very proud of myself lol :')

"Who does it benefit for these people to be treated this way"

Ok everyone let’s think beautiful thoughts about masculine women today.

Girl you can walk like John Wayne on the promenade all you want

this...... may actually be the dumbest shit ive ever seen

i really shouldnt be so surprised that the bbc is so ridiculously stupid

stolen screenshot, but my mother was actually able to find the original article to prove its real despite bbc noticing their fuckup and deleting it

every fucking day goyim on my dashed board say "sorry yall. I fell for another antisemitic conspiracy theory again :/ welp! what can ya do :/"

genuinely sometimes it feels like non-Jews will just say things completely uncritically until a Jew comes along to tell them that it's antisemitic. like kids who will make faces behind their parent's back. then they apologize profusely but the second we turn our backs they roll their eyes and go right back to it. it's like herding cats. it's enough to drive you mad. can't leave y'all alone for 2 second before you start going "idk Richard Spencer has some good critiques of Israel" or whatever

this is exactly what I'm talking about. people will share the most egregious misinformation and then when they get called out they snap their fingers and go "aw dang, I did it again huh folks?" [audience laughter]. They don't care! They'll say anything if they think it'll advance their cause.

Like?? Look at this shit?!?? "I should fact check this post, but I won't because I want it to be true". Said it better than I ever could, honestly

It's Schrödinger's antisemitism - people will reblog the most terrible things, and when faced with facts they "uwu my bad".

Hmm, idk. That metaphor doesn't really do it for me. In Schrödinger's cat experiment the cat is both alive and dead until it's observed to be one or the other. This is just straight up antisemitism, not really "both-antisemitic-and-not". The problem is a lot of people on the left view spreading antisemitism as morally acceptable compared to spreading misinformation. As much as they're willing to step up to combat misinfo, they lack the conviction to confront their own Jew-hatred

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