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  • So one the unique things about 月 is it contains several other character depending the context. In this case, 月 represents 肉 or flesh. My interpretation of the character is the bones that suspends flesh.

    Here’s more context specific transformations of 月 in other characters


  • The lady in ladybug is a reference to Mary. Before that, the middle English was, you guessed it, a reference to a cow, Godyscow. Also, in Polish, it’s God’s cow. Welsh gets short red cow. There’s also a archaic French term that’s God’s cow.

    The other animal that seems to show up is hen.








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    At least according to an anarchist like Graeber, the state is just a way to take power out of the hands of the people and put it into the hands of the few. It’s a way to ensure that only certain people have the right to speak, and that the state has the exclusive right to use violence. Calling the Athenian state the ‘origin’ of democracy is just a way to ignore the thousands of years humans spent successfully governing themselves without a specialized class of rulers.


  • I thought your real take away was that I care more about the perpetrator 's intent than their action. So addressed that. Now we’re back to headlines.

    You’re argument is, “People should read the report”. I previously said many if, not most people, read just the headlines. The editors know this. The headlines shape the narrative.

    You are focused on the individual reader’s moral obligation to read more than the headlines.

    Mine is focused on the editor’s social obligation to frame headlines in a way that accurately reflect the article. By neglecting this, they end up shaping the social narrative.

    I’ve said this previously. Have you spent any time with the fundamentals of how social narrative are created?


  • In the early 2000s, a young brown man across the country was severely beaten. His name happened to be the same as my brothers. Despite all this, I had uncles say stupid things like, “I’m Indian, not Arabic. This isn’t a problem for me.”

    This is a post about how media outlets fail to report the horrors of anti-islamic crimes and their participation in creating an anti-islamic atmosphere in a community about manufactured consent. I don’t know why you would infer that I would care less about the actual actions of the individual.




    1. A perpetrator targets a victim based on perceived religious markers, erroneously believing the victim belongs to a specific group (in this case, Muslim).
    2. The attack is fueled by specific anti-Muslim rhetoric and slurs, even though the victim is actually Sikh.
    3. Media coverage highlights the victim’s true identity (Sikh) but omits the perpetrator’s specific intent (Islamophobia).
    4. By focusing only on the victim’s identity, the report frames the event as an attack on a Sikh person rather than an act of Islamophobic violence.
    5. Omitting the perpetrator’s actual intent protects the specific hateful narrative from being challenged or held accountable in the public square.
    6. This obscures the reality that anyone perceived as “other” can become a target of the same specific anti-Muslim prejudice.
    7. The specific ideology motivating the crime is left out of the public record, preventing society from recognizing and addressing the root cause of the violence.
    8. By failing to link the violence to the rhetoric that inspired it, news outlets maintain a “plausible deniability” that allows them to continue using inflammatory language which may predictably, yet indirectly, trigger future attacks.
    9. Labeling the attack as generic “racism” rather than specific Islamophobia allows the public to dismiss the event as the isolated outburst of a “madman” instead of recognizing it as a logical, extreme extension of a widespread social phenomenon.


  • This is good, but it would have been nice if the symbols were more consistent. Like Volt gets a lightning bolt on her thigh… Cool. Ohm, while the sexiest in my opinion, gets an Ω on her shirt. So the under boob is great, but it’s really that smile. Finally, Amp. What going on here? Those ruddy cheeks are awesome. The rope is pretty cool too even if it’s not my thing. But where’s her symbol? I don’t particularly want to imagine a scarlet letter A.

    Honestly, the inconsistency was a bit turn off.

    Well… If you made it this far and think I’m missing the point, I hope you now realize I’m just taking the piss.


  • Hunger strikes for womens rights
    AIDS die-ins
    Occupying government official’s offices
    Creating semi-public spaces for them to gather, strategize, and comfort one another
    Creating zines and their own publishing houses
    Meetings, meetings, meetings where people would share their stories, understand the systemic nature of their oppression, and find ways to resist
    Developing alliances with other oppressed groups
    Infiltrating powerful social institutions and intimidating powerful members (removing homosexuality in the DSM)
    Creating allies with sympathetic members of said institutions
    Shifting cultural consensus through public displays of defiance (bra burnings and coming out)

    Politics is the final stage of toil after years of people working in the dark only to emerge and piss of most but win over some. Change doesn’t start with lobbying politicians or crafting laws, but standing up and saying together, “We exist and we matter”. If your movement’s first move is the political, you don’t understand how politics works. Turbulent flows shift mountains.