Conservatives need a minority target to keep their followers focused/unified on hate. As the followers obsess on hate, their lives/emotions are much easier to manipulate.
Conservatives always vow to restore the country to some distant past that never existed.
this is the anti-defamation league’s hate symbol database. it’s massive and includes details about what symbols mean and where you might see them.
i’m a tattoo artist and use this all the time when i see a symbol i don’t recognize—better safe than sorry. it’s saved me from working with white supremacists a few times.
I’m glad to see the arrow cross (last one( there! It originates from Hungary and was used by the nazi party here, but it was banned after WWII. It barely shows up in guides/warnings like this and idk if they still use it but better safe than sorry.
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:
“Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak.”
This is an excellent rounding up of the issues of red states (the only kind of state I know) and it’s very excellent content EXCEPT for one glaring issue in the first tweet.
PLENTY of people are and have always been talking about these issues. They just are in red states, poor, people of color, queer, disabled, etc. so people in blue states who live lives wholly removed from their realities haven’t been listening.
This is all completely accurate, anyone who agrees with any of these political decisions is objectively the bad guy, and it’s also what the right wing has pushed for my entire life and beyond. Many of these states have been this way for 50+ years and only getting worse.
Most of the U.S. states that allow child marriage are also red. I think all but one?
…before leaving the house, take a photo of your stove and oven dials—or your thermostat, or your iron, or anything else you worry about accidentally leaving on. If your brain starts to play the “Did I really turn it off” game, you can simply tap your photo app and see for yourself
Reblogging to save a life
this is a good strategy
I can imagine this being incredibly helpful for some people with OCD, as well as folks like me with anxiety disorders combined with ADHD (so lack of executive function which leads to frequently forgetting things which leads to legitimizing the fears from the anxiety since a lot of the time I DID forget The Thing…)
This is probably a really good method for initial anxiety treatment, but I need to point out that it is not a good coping method for OCD.
This falls under “reassurance,” which hugely reinforces obsessions.
Ex: you go from anxiously worrying about whether or not you left the stove on to anxiously worrying about whether or not you saw the picture correctly, and wind up obsessively checking your phone every two minutes to “make sure” you saw it correctly with just as much anxiety and compulsivity as you would have otherwise.
You cannot beat OCD with logic or reason. 99% of the time, “fixing” an obsession/compulsion will only introduce a new one (or worse: several new ones).
Something I’ve learned about Tumblr is that the longer you’re here, the more likely it is that you’ll learn of a user who has, entirely unbeknownst to you, been nursing an overwhelmingly powerful grudge against you for several years.
