it fucking sucks how you can do all the therapy and self healing in the world and you still have to wake up living under a capitalist death cult that’s killed community and crushes your soul
congrats you want to live and be happy
bad news the world doesn’t want that for you
I’ll still love fully and crawl to hope until my body gives out anyway I guess
Coffman navigates over to the Wikipedia article about
one of the conspirators—Arthur Nebe, a high-ranking member of the SS.
Apart from his role in the plot, Nebe’s main claim to notability is that
he came up with the idea of turning vans into mobile gas chambers by
piping in exhaust fumes. The article acknowledges both of these facts,
along with the detail that Nebe tested his system on the mentally ill.
But it also says that he worked to “reduce the atrocities committed,”
going so far as to give his bloodthirsty superiors inflated death
totals.
Coffman will recall that she feels
“totally disoriented.” She cannot believe that an innovator in mass
murder would have tried to protect the Jews and other supposed subhumans his troops rounded up. She checks the footnotes. The claim is attributed to War of Extermination, a compendium of academic essays originally published in 1995.
Coffman
knows the book is legit, because she happens to have a copy on loan
from the library. When she goes to the cited page, she finds a paragraph
that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia article’s wild claims. But
then she reads the first sentence of the next paragraph: “This is, of
course, nonsense.”
The
level of bad faith is eye-opening for Coffman. She is “very appalled.”
She sees that her confidence in Wikipedia was “very much misplaced.” All
it takes to warp historical memory, she realizes, is something this
small, achievable for almost anyone with a keyboard. “So few people can
have so much impact, it’s a little scary,” she says. She begins to turn a
more critical eye to what she sees on Wikipedia. Especially the
footnotes.
[…]
Coffman finds her next target in the footnotes of the
article about the tank division. This one’s name is Franz Kurowski, and
he seems to pop up all over the place. Kurowski served in the Luftwaffe.
After the war, he tried his hand at all sorts of popular writing, often
with a pseudonym to match: Jason Meeker and Slade Cassidy for his crime
fiction and westerns, Johanna Schulz and Gloria Mellina for his chick
lit. But his accounts of the Second World War made him famous under his
own name. Kurowski’s stories weren’t subtle. As the German historian
Roman Töppel writes in a critical essay: “They depict war as a test of fate and partly as adventure. German war crimes are left out—much unlike allied war crimes.”
To understand this dubious chronicler better, Coffman goes to Google, where she comes upon a book called The Myth of the Eastern Front.
It describes how, in the immediate aftermath of the war, characters
like Kurowski worked to rehabilitate the image of the German army—to
argue that a few genocidal apples had spoiled the barrel. With a guy
like Hitler to pin the blame on, the rest was easy. The so-called “myth
of the clean Wehrmacht” took root on both sides of the Atlantic: German
society needed to believe that not everyone who wore a gray uniform was
evil, and the Americans were courting every anti-Communist ally they
could find. Then, in the mid-1990s, a museum exhibit
cataloging the crimes of the Nazi-era military traveled throughout
Germany. An odd situation emerged: Germans began to speak more honestly
about the Wehrmacht than non-Germans did.
When
Coffman reads this, something clicks. She is dealing with a poisonous
tree here. She shouldn’t be throwing out individual pieces of fruit. She
should be chopping it off at the trunk. She starts to pivot from
history (the facts themselves) to historiography (the way they’re
gathered). She begins to use Wikipedia to document the false historical
narrative, and its purveyors, and then make the fight about dubious
sources rather than specific articles.
i think that presenting cannibalism as a metaphor for intimacy was perhaps one of the greatest things we ever did as a society. Like you’re telling me you want to eat me, make me a part of you, consume me? that’s so romantic, tell me more, i love you
True love is referring to your partner as “the forbidden cronch”
If you don’t have the spoons to read the article (bold is the important takeaways):
1. The article says the biomarkers found ALL the people with CFS and none of the healthy people. It’s a small sample size, but that’s 100% accuracy/sensitivity.
2. They did this by testing how the cells respond to stress. People who had cells that weren’t able to handle the salt (literally-they were given salt) had CFS.
3. They’re also testing how the cells react when given different drugs!!! Basically, they add the drug, and then if the cell handles stress better that means the drug might be of therapeutic use.
I haven’t had enough coffee yet so my brain is still pretty foggy and I’m not sure how much sense my summary made, but y'all this is pretty cool.
wordle and bts may seem like they have nothing in common but both have been cited by redditors as the reason why their elderly relative quit watching fox news and started acting normal again
love wins i think
you can hate wordle or bts as much as you like, but in the time honored words of a long gone tumblr user: “shit dude whatever works I guess”
It’s almost like our elderly suffer from extreme loneliness and mental degradation and introducing them to a community based around something positive (music, a fun little game) rather than an endless pit of paranoia and giving them something to stimulate their brain and regrow neurons(you can repair your brain at any age as long as you give it stimulation, like music, or puzzles) will help them recover from what can only be described as a soul sucking addiction
My grandmother talks about how growing up in Belfast, Ireland, British soldiers would raid the local Irish people’s houses, steal from them, smash up their homes or burn them out, beat up or kill or imprison the men, rape the women, and then justify their actions by saying the local people were harbouring IRA terrorists and illegal weapons stores even though they weren’t. Any time the British committed an act of violence against the Irish it was the same excuse.
And every time Israel blows up a school, hospital, refugee camp killing hundreds of civilians in the process and justifies it by saying they were harbouring Hamas it makes me think of that. Colonialism never changes.
i say this with no exaggeration but seeing this in a childrens cartoon brought me to tears
I say this with no exaggeration, the only people who should not watch this are those who are avoiding spoilers because they will watch it.
Where Steven Universe explains ptsd, adverse childhood experiences, the mind body relationship regarding stress, and why you might not develop PTSD symptoms until way later. In under two minutes.
Hello !!! 💖 I'm a young satanist trying to figure out how to properly worship and live the lifestyle, but with all the Nazism and such that satanism is infected with, I'm a bit lost as to where to turn for good information that's not gonna accidentally get me on board with ideas that have nasty shit hidden in the shadows of them. Are there any good books/organizations I can look into or just some general tips? <3
We have a certain perspective on this, so bear that in mind.
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What is attractive about Satanism as a concept is not really the “might is right” ideology of Anton LaVey and its worship of social stratification, and it’s not The Satanic Temple’s pyramid-shaped classical liberalism / Gen X trolling.
Rather, it’s taking the idea that even if the story of Christian mythology were true, Satan is still the hero for looking at an omnipotent tyrant and that tyrant’s proposed immutable hierarchy for the universe but choosing to rebel and grant people agency over their own lives.
And it’s the idea that if the Christians say we are demonic or of the devil’s party for being queer or seeking the common good of all people, well, then we’re with the devil and down to party.
For that reason, anarchism is more central to Satanism than wearing black or lighting candles, even though the aesthetics are what distinguish it from other strains.
From that, Errico Malatesta is a good place to start because he wrote for a long time and focused on pamphlet-style works that could make sense to a typical person, rather than academics.
Malatesta is easy to read, and still relevant in lots of ways because he lived through so much and lived his ideals (famously, for example, refusing to talk to the cops after he was shot by a fellow anarchist over an ideological dispute).
You also can listen to that one as an audio book over at Audible Anarchist.
Note that both of those are straight white men, and the “mainstream” of anarchism has often had a problem of failing to recognize or live by principles of opposing all hierarchies, including white supremacy and cishetero-patriarchy. The fact that anarchist Becky Edelsohn “dated” Berkman when she was 16 and he 36 (and that this was supported by Berkman’s previous partner Emma Goldman) is one example of this. Mikhail Bakunin gave us one of the best quotes of all time regarding anarcho-satanism (“But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds”); Bakunin was also a racist.
Other people can give better advice and examples, but Indigenous Anarchism, Black Anarchism, Anarkata, Queer Anarchism, and Anarcha-Feminism are all areas that a person needs to put work into in order to undo the kyriarchy — the whole structure of interconnected systems of oppression we’re indoctrinated into and subjected to.
“But what does that have to do with Satanism?” Mainly it’s to help you spot when something you come across is engaging in the sort of hierarchical, fascistic, or even neo-Nazi ideas that LaVeyan Satanism and its offshoots have always had connected with them. They’re not always obvious, and having good principles established is the best immunization and antidote to being exposed to new ideas with euphemisms and shibboleths you can’t be expected to be prepared for.
You also can come up with your own rituals and ideas. For example, the Satanic Flame Ritual we have is not due to access to some secret knowledge but it helps externalize and objectivize an internal, subjective, emotional process. Things like candles and flames or altars are best seen in that light.
Anyway, hopefully that helps. It’s not that you should never read something like The Satanic Bible or other esoteric works to get ideas. It is that Satanism is the exact opposite of place to look for good ideology or consistency, so you want to start somewhere else for that (we say anarchism) and then look to Satanism and other Satanists for aesthetics and inspiration for rituals that you can modify and integrate into your life in ways that best serve you.
unfortunate that the united states has been very successful at controlling narratives around word war 2 and positioning itself as the polar opposite of nazism and the main force fighting fascism when america was complicit in the holocaust. not only did american press report positively about hitler and the nazi party up until the end of the 30′s, some publications cooperated with nazi germany, american companies had investments and connections to nazi germany that they maintained until american involvement in the war, and companies like ibm in particular gave nazis the technology necessary to make the holocaust possible in the first place. some company owners themselves had nazi sympathies like henry ford and others just saw it as a business opportunity. the us denied entry to european jewish refugees and deported jewish refugees back to germany, many senators and other government officials during the 1930s openly supported nazism and worked to prevent the us from taking a side in ww2, and during the 30s large pro nazi rallies were held across the us. american eugenics movement, american race laws and american genocide set the model for the holocaust and there shouldnt be any discussion of nazism and the holocaust without also discussing the extent of american complicity in it.
thinking about v for vendetta and how deeply trans coded it was. how the driving force behind the plot hinged on the justice for a murdered lesbian and the destruction of fascism. the outright condemnation of a corrupt police state and child predators. how the film was released just a few years post-9/11 and in the midst of DADT. how the graphic novel was published in the 80s during the AIDS crisis and the reagan administration and the UK’s thatcherism. the last lines from valerie’s letter: “I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”
i don’t know where i was going with this but I was just thinking about how our survival hinges on our ability to love and fight for each other
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