(8/🧵) I don't blame people for believing in the rapture, or for justifying it when it doesn't come to pass. I blame the systems that keep people feeling defeated and desperate for ANY way out, and the people who keep them oppressed by telling them that divine intervention is their only hope.
(7/🧵) For many, questioning the reality of the rapture can feel like questioning their faith wholesale, and thus questioning the only conceivable way out of their oppression. Justifying it by saying "Oh, we just got the date wrong, but it's STILL happening!" is an understandable salve for the wound.
(6/🧵) Living in that reality alone is soul crushing. But then to see your only perceived means of escape vanish, and have to question your God WHY? What did I do wrong? Why didn't you save me from this? Existential crisis doesn't even come CLOSE.
(5/🧵) People are suffering in VERY real ways; debt, medical issues, joblessness, homelessness, oppression. They're so mired in these oppressive systems, and so hopeless about their situation, they believe the only way out is divine intervention.
(4/🧵) But also, since the rapture didn't occur, many of the responses I've seen on TikTok have been heartbreaking. Many of the people excited for the rapture saw it as the only way out of their already crushing reality.
(3/🧵) Having come of age under the constant threat that the rapture could happen at any moment and at any time, and likely WOULD happen "VERY soon", I saw a LOT of people use it as a Sword of Damocles to maintain power and control over others, using the ever present immediacy as a pressure tactic.
(2/🧵) I'm not going to be one of the "mockers and scoffers". There are plenty of others making fun of these people already. I want to say how deeply my heart BREAKS for these people.
I spent most of my late teens and 20s in American evangelicalism. The series of recent rapture predictions is nothing new, they've been popping up for decades. But the vast reach of these "prophecies" on the internet is doing SOMETHING to people's brains. (1/)
Cash Patel and Pete Hegseth right now:
Cash Patel and Pete Hegseth right now:
Fuck AI slop. My art isn't perfect, but it's mine goddamnit. Support human artists.
Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people.
These bastards want us all dead.
This morning I dropped my phone into my bowl of cereal, if you were wondering how my day is going.
RFK Jr. out here trying to bring back eugenics while looking like Hoggle on meth.
Yesterday a friend called me the "human personification of a hot fudge sundae".
It is the greatest compliment I have ever received.
So when is trans day of INvisibility? Because invisibility doesn't break until you make an attack action; that's the day we get some shit DONE. 🏳️⚧️♥️🌈 #transdayofvisibility
Respectfully: fuck that.
@futurism.com
Between this and all the rockets exploding, I'm starting to believe that Tesla/ SpaceX is secretly the Acme Corporation.
Don't forget it, beloveds. 🌈♥️🏳️⚧️
JD Vance is a Teddy Ruxpin with a book on tape copy of The Turner Diaries struck in its belly.
Shocker that their huge-dollar-donor funded retreat came up with this idea!
Welcome to the public domain, HELL’S BELLS (1929). If you ❤️ THE SKELETON DANCE, you’ll 💕 this Silly Symphony’s animated underworld of musical devils & demons. 🎞️🎶🔥
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#PublicDomainDay #InternetArchive #Disney
Me: "Why does my back hurt all the time?"
Also me: *sits like a child dropped a hand puppet onto a chair*
Can confirm; see screenshots of my Google Workspace account and my Google personal account. Option for sex/ gender/ pronouns totally removed from Workspace.
So TRUE malicious compliance (which, again, IS BAD YOU GUYS, DON'T DO IT) would include crafting serious sounding emails that AI couldn't tell apart from spam, using varied and professional sounding language. Theoretically, hypothetically, that is.
(I didn't write the above email, btw, I found this online).
Also, it's a shame that no human will be reading these emails, as an AI filter will certainly be used to filter them.
Hey @propublica.org , you guys might want to check this out. Seems like someone on the White House official YouTube channel inserted the transcript from an internal meeting about "sensitivity labels"(?) into the closed captions of an unrelated video. Might be big.
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HuffPost reporting 1,000 protesters and growing at Stonewall! If you are in the area get down there!
