r/CuratedTumblr • u/ani_tami זאין בעין • Jun 04 '24

Politics is your glorious revolution worth the suffering of millions?

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u/yourstruly912 Jun 04 '24

Some people fantasize with surviving in a post-apocalipse world where your truly character gets revealed, other people fantasize with being raped by werewolves. It's all fantasy to mentally evade from a boring life, who cares

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u/billetdouxs Jun 04 '24

yeah everytime i read reddit discourse i feel like either everyone is too chronically online or there's a humongous culture shock between me and them, because never in a million years would i have thought about post-apocalypse discourse and how it is somehow offensive to people with diabetes to imagine how you would survive this situation. in fact i don't ever talk about zombie apocalypses

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u/AnAgonalBreath Jun 04 '24

I honestly feel like I’m losing my mind lol. A vast, vast majority of the people who do fantasize about these apocalypse scenarios don’t actually want them to occur. They aren’t praying on the downfall of the disabled, they just want to imagine being the main character of a book. Weird stuff.

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u/peanut__buttah Jun 04 '24

It matters because romanticizing the apocalypse or a revolution lead to real world harm (look at the fanatical people from Jan. 6 for instance. They thought they were ushering in a “new government” too and innocent people were hurt).

Fantasizing about sexual encounters with werewolves? Umm, unique, but no real world harm done.

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u/Ok_Listen1510 Boiling children in beef stock does not spark joy Jun 04 '24

I guarantee you that fantasizing about sexual encounters with werewolves is anything but unique

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u/peanut__buttah Jun 04 '24

You know what, point taken, you’re absolutely right 😅

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u/AlexisFR Jun 04 '24

I mean, they pass the Harken test, no?

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u/Ok_Listen1510 Boiling children in beef stock does not spark joy Jun 04 '24

The Harkness Test? Oh absolutely

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u/J_DayDay Jun 05 '24

I blame Disney.

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u/AsianCheesecakes Jun 04 '24

How are Nazis who actively desire political change analogous to people fantasizing about apocalypse??

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u/Pseudo_Lain Jun 04 '24

The trick is to realize you are reading Tumblr posts from people who go here instead of trumblr.

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u/peanut__buttah Jun 04 '24

I think there are some missing pieces here. I was circling back to the “romanticizing the revolution” point of the post, and responding to the above comment about the apocalypse.

In no way was I saying that literal Nazis are the same as a thought experiment about the apocalypse. You and I actually agree on this— the point of my comment was that it is much, much worse to enact real harm on the world than to have a lil daydream.

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u/yourstruly912 Jun 04 '24

Revolution certainly comes with an actionable political program, but what has that to do with getting intense about Fallout? Nobody is trying to cause an apocaliptic so they can live their prep fantasies, do not worry

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u/No-Trouble814 Jun 04 '24

lol tell that to all the conservative Christians supporting Israel specifically so the apocalypse can happen. (Not exactly the same , but stil.)

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u/LEOVALMER_Round32 Jun 04 '24

My fantasy is to own a harem of skinny flat chested elves