The Index-Journal, Greenwood, South Carolina, October 29, 1947
[image reads: “Eating liberal quantities of spinach will improve your looks,” says a dietician. Well, maybe so, but it hasn’t done much for Pop-Eye, the Sailor Man.]
βYou are allowed to be a fan of something and not love absolutely all of it. With increasing frequency, it seems the only two levels of acceptable fandom are complete, utter adoration and confused betrayal. Fandoms are not religions. They canβt, and shouldnβt, function as such.β
Even future US Presidents need to be PROUD of their Manhood.
DROP that DAMN TOWEL Kennedy!
Be PROUD to be a Man.
Be PROUD of your Man Muscle, Cock and Balls!
Be PROUD of your nude Manliness!
Train and fight!
Love your nude Manliness!
WarriorMale
I deadass thought warriormale had deleted because of all you weirdos sending him asks about Leninism or whatever, and then he reemerges on my dash with this post that is so powerful and raw it nearly obliterated me on sight.
βDrop the damn towel Kennedyβ may be the best sentence I ever read in my entire life and not even Dostoyevsky couldβve come up with a better one.
[image text: βI do a little role-playing with [my class],β Brunt tells Teen Vogue.Β β[I tell them,] Iβm the boss, youβre my workers, and you want to try to take me down. I have the money. I own the factory. I control the police. I control the military. I control the government. What do you guys have?β His students usually blink at him, he says, totally clueless. He insists that they actually have something huge, that he, as the boss, will never have:Β βItβs always just one student, whose hand shoots up and goes,Β βWe outnumber you!ββ Brunt says. He then introduces Marxβs distinction between the proletariat β the working class as a whole β and bourgeoisieΒ β the ruling class who controls the workers and profits from their labor. The tension between the proletariat and bourgeoisie make up the class conflict, or class struggle, he explains.]
[image: tweet by @ astroblob that reads, βa lesbian couple i know just had a son + redecorated accordinglyβ. a screenshot of a photo is below, captioned βnailed itβ by whoever posted it originally. the photo is a before and after of a wall garland. in the first photo, the garland says βno boys allowed.β in the second, the letters have been rearranged so it reads βson boy allowedβ.]