Tolkien agrees with you!
(as a (shockingly anticolonial) bit, but still!)
ComradeRat
joined 5 years ago
and the bubble's been getting bigger the whole 9 years
as someone who still masks, its beyond depressing to see half my family and friends written off even by communists as "acceptable losses."
like even, basically all the communists ime, online and offline, are antimaskers. They might say or think that they aren't but in practice, they are antimaskers. They refuse to wear masks; they go to restaurants (and invite others); they host superspreading home parties and go to concerts and to dance classes and clubs and bars and on and on with not a single thought for their own health, much less those with weaker immune systems--and if any of this is brought up they look offended, like it's YOUR fault there's a plague and YOURE in the wrong for not wanting to die or spread death to ur family.
Antimaskers won. 
damn to think that image has haunted my dreams for over four years now
an apple slice a week keeps the fall-wasps happy too
It exists in all children, regardless of location or culture.
Tho I think your issue is conflating teasing with bullying (the latter is more systematic, long term and doesn't tend to arise outside of totalising institutions like school, work, bourgeois family, etc).
Ahistoricism is not good theory. When you study cultures outside of state formations and burgher societies you find a much wider variety of behaviour, and a greater degree of acceptance of 'weirdness', both on an economic level (e.g. various anishinaabe families and even individuals having idiosyncratic ways of harvesting maple sugar, saying "do it properyl" isnt socially acceptable), an aesthetic one (see the vast varieties of clothing that natives chose to wear in the earlier phases of colonialism 1600-1800, for example), or personal or spiritual choices (e.g. some of the prophets of the Nuer in Sudan ate excrement or ashes, some spent hours arranging seashells into neat patterns). You'll also see variation in cosmologies, and people accepting random teenagers just saying "all the elders stories are wrong, I know how the world was actually created" with little more than an eyeroll. One of the best examples of the acceptence of difference (and why even outside of just being a decent person its important) is the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa (younger brother and main theorist and agitator behind Tecumseh's war). He was basically useless most of his life. He maimed himself early in life failing to shoot a bow properly. He spent the better part of a decade doing the Shawnee equivilant of couch-surfing and bumming food off everyone else while aquiring a drinking problem. He was still socially accepted, if not trusted with any particularly important tasks. Then, one day, he drank a fuck ton and had a vision and turned into an anti-colonial prophet/propagandist. In our society, people would go "lol drunk failure go away". In his society, people listened and he helped mobilise one of the biggest anticolonial wars against the US.
greeks set up colonies along the entirety of the mediterranean sea from the west shore to the east and from the north to the south. They were settler-colonising in this way from around the 400s or 500s BC until they got owned by the romans
i was excited (for more primary sources 
until i read
But he was expelled from the party the following year [1959] over his criticism of the Great Leap Forward, an industrialization program championed by Mao that led an estimated 30 million to 40 million people to die of starvation in three years. During his 20 years in exile, Li was imprisoned in a labor camp and spent eight years in solitary confinement.
He's not even there for the most interesting (and most in need of good contemporary primary sources!!!!!! Everyone and their mother has written about the civil war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) period who cares about this guy 
I do not think writing fiction for entertainment art is "falsifying history".
If the setting is "historical" or "realistic" it is imo, bc, as I said above, you have to present history reductively, as a compelling, coherent narrative and with the unknowns smoothed out or filled in by imagination. (And all that is assuming the writer has done research into the topic—most artists dont)
The history of knowledge of druids, witches, the middle ages, the middle east and more demonstrates how distorted views can become when the tendencies of capitalist media are allowed to run rampant. Anti-indigenous racism are more serious examples of how these distortions can be harmfulm.
More general fiction outside of "historical fiction" isnt what the post is about, so idk why youre bringing it up. If theres dragons, magic, etc and it doesnt take place in "real life" people are significantly less likely to confuse stuff in it for real facts about histories or cultures.
giving this entire entertainment sector to the capitalists to falsify history in the way they want it with literally no counter balance.
As I understand it, that's a large part of why the firewall exists isnt it? So that the western created ideological products dont become the cultural mainstream?
Very true! The german people are 100% to blame for causing the second interimperialist war! Interimperialism ofc means "a battle between the forces of good and evil"!!!! Material conditions and economic analysis of empire? Irrelevant!!!!Their intrinsic national cultural of prussian militarism means they cant be trusted. Wholesome beans france, belgium, netherlands, switzlerland, britain and yankland were wholsome defenders of wholesome democracy against the evil authoritarian krauts!! If not for the wursteaters there would have been no imperialist wars (imperialist particles flood the brain when you start to speak german (not not swissgerman or dutch!!)!!) Thats why wurstland should have been divided among these peaceloving, antiracist and antiimperialist powers who would certainly repopulate germany with peaceloving french and british blood!!!!!!!1!!!!11
/s in case it wasnt clear. Marx's warty ass how are 13 people upbearing this idealist bullshit