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Orcas have incredible social behaviors and trans generational culture. They have been subjected not only to hunting but kidnappings and the pollution of their environments and they know that humans are responsible.

This is not a startling new behavior, this is a revolution.

I mean this sincerely.

Edit: if you like this post, read Undrowned by Alexis Gumbs from AK press

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Orcas are trans? Hail science!

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Their culture is as complex as human culture. I would not be shocked if there’s trans Orcas. There’s just not really a way to know.

What’s cool though is that the portion of their brains associated with empathy is massive, so there’s this question of how Orcas think about their pods, whether they have bounded egos. This further complicates gender: what does gender mean when you’re just one component part of a multi sexed pod?

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We should decipher orca language, that would be pretty rad

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This post has been fact checked by real Na’Vi patriots and is Payakan approved.

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Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again!

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Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again!

I still can’t believe that the people who wrote a musical with almost good politics (only Little Shop of Horrors “a lot of folks deserve to die” and Sweeney Todd " those above will serve those below"have better politics ) also wrote one of THE most horrifying defenses of US liberalism and empire with “Miss Saigon.” The orientalism, the fucking apologia for US warcrimes in Vietnam, the show’s absolution of the soldiers… it’s really gross.

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Theater kids had their perfect chance to sing their favorite song and burn down the capitol and they passed on it. Not even a murmur. So disapointing.

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Xi I implore you arm these whales in their efforts against the western bourgeois

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