The regime tried to scare people and failed. That's good.

We're gonna beat these losers

As ever... the vast, vast majority of people don't want the hellscape the right is forcing on us. they really are the minority viewpoint. vocal? yes. powerful? unfortunately, yes. But there are so many more people who don't want to live in the world they're trying to make.

If the Supreme Court guts the ERA it means folks “listened to Black Women” right into making sure they never had to again. That’s not accidental. They were told what we needed and decided proving they didn’t have to and that these people were redeemable was more important than are rights

I’m willing to die in the hill that “media literacy” means nothing if it doesn’t go both ways And include empathy and context for the fact that people who fall for it have ti be discussed with in discussion of power

It made people who came from trauma feel like their trauma was the only marketable thing about them even if they wanted to move on from that, and it made people who were more or less well-adjusted feel like they had nothing to contribute to the arts.

You know that thing about how every accusation is a confession? I've just had a grim thought about Great Replacement Theory.

“Your feelings” No. No no no. You call my disagreement feelings because you have no intention of listening Just because you won’t explicitly say you have no desire to think of everything different and have the power to enforce that doesn’t make my observation “emotional”

our society got brainwashed into thinking innovation came from immense amounts of capital, making it okay for those without to be pushed further into the margins - or in some cases around the world today, genocide.

I have just deleted a series of posts which were unhelpful as I am not local. The point that mattered that you should retain is that you should find and follow people who are local, who then will not naturally be confused as outsiders. The other point that matters? if you're wrong, fucking own it.

The only reason to hold other humans in contempt, to dismiss most of humanity as stupid or weak-willed or weak or evil, is because you’re terrified of what being human means for you. And there will never be enough money or acclaim or power to silence that terror.

I try to be good, but honestly most days I fail more than I succeed, but that doesn't free me from the necessity of waking up the next day, accepting what I got wrong and then trying to be good once more. You have to want that and keep wanting it. Getting it wrong and trying again is part of it.

Good is the understanding that we all just kinda suck shit sometimes and that you need to accept feedback which tells you that and make changes so that you suck less shit next time. It is a mindset every bit as much as it is an action and it is neither easy nor materially rewarding (mostly).

Good isn't knowledge or a single decision; it is a continual rededication of self to the betterment of your fellow humans. No amount of education will give you that motivation unless it's already something you sincerely wish to develop.

I also think I get mad when folks place value judgements on human ass things like wanting safety, recognition and consistency , or acknowledging they can be influenced Like no shit it’s called teamwork when applied correctly . Ain’t it nice!

I really hate oh “the bad person must be NT) nah . They can also be racist , manipulative, problematic I don’t care . I care about power and what infrastructure you around holding it to account Because other people are practice dummies for others in equal societies

You cannot have "discourse" with people bent on your destruction.

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?! (Yeah yeah I did)

Luckily, computers aren't sentient. And they never will be. But the fact that people THINK they own sentient creatures and aren't troubled by that idea is... deeply worrying

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

God folks expose exactly how we got here and how terribly they treat marginalized people every day “ they didn’t mean it” “Their being pragmatic” “ No one could have seen this” Isn’t just random musings It’s a constant airing of your belief who it happened to before didn’t matter

People keep forgiving folks and believing they were playing 3D chess etc when the reality is … These people believed it was worth it and they are still operating as if they do .

The problem is people still believe that they aren’t sticking to their principles Anti Blackness , Anti Palestinian advocacy is a principle DEI Abandonment and extractive relationships has been the “principles” They just aren’t being rewarded The principles need to change

People are now calling everything discourse and “relevancy” to hide from the fact what they want is labor And they want it from people they’ve don’t want to pay or respect They want it to be as bad as possible so they don’t have to

Also…. *helmet on* Folks say community and are ignoring the primary harm and the most harm is done in community And bluntly a lot of community organizers have spent more time eliminating people from community and smear campaigning along the lines of power than anythinv

People are ashamed . Lord knows I am of somethings And they want to hide their shame in the fault of others. It’s not my fault !! You didn’t make me feel good so I get to destroy your life/ erase you And demand you work hard to not be

People talk about abuse dynamics/ mental health and abusers but not so much when it comes to The phenomenon of scapegoating and how people ( yes they are suffering AND ) will demand more from someone being attacked , try and control them And then claim “MH” ( SEE FUCKING GAMERGATE)

YES EXACTLY! and then being lauded for “fooling men” by going “im just a baby” but the person most often destroyed is another marginalized person

Non m’en often think “gossip “ is demonized because it fights patriarchy while ignoring how much harm it does to women

Like one of the things I feel alone in Is how much people who are marginalized via gender But NOT via access / class keep trying to present “gossip” as demonized by patriarchy with NO REFLECTION On how gossip / whisper/ smear campaigns are a tool of power AND PROPAGANDA

Fuck despair. Fascists should have to fight for every inch they get, on principle alone. The fight is over when the fascists are defeated, and not one minute earlier.

If nothing else Sisyphus probably had great quads

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The main reason I'm kinda relieved Naoki Urasawa's "Monster" hasn't yet been adapted as a live-action work is... I just KNOW that many people would misinterpret Johan Liebert as someone ASPIRATIONAL and cool, and dismiss Kenzo Tenma's moral integrity as effete weakness.

“Cringe” is a you problem.

This site is the digital equivalent of "The best way to have a good friend is to BE one."

"Some people really think life should just be about laboring." [email protected] Many people treat adulthood like The Onion essay "I'm Not One Of Those People Who Goes Around Having Fun". This clarifies it all into a single sentence, as the BEST description for drudgery that I've read.

i have a seethingly hot take buried in my heart about how white people in America, in general, are not equipped with a sense of dignity - we understand honor, and shame, we recognise opprobrium and other peoples' fear - but we were not taught a damn thing about our own inherent dignity as persons

"it's counterrevolutionary for you to tell me i have an obligation to act like an adult in polite society if i want to stand up for my own rights or accomplish anything meaningful" - what a LOT of you fuckers sound like

Everyone is saying what they don’t wanna hear What do you want to hear? And how much of it is dependent on making sure you ignore everything before it and “ protect your peace”

Refusing to learn from history is a form of erasing it .

Part of “DEI” is also Diversity of disciplines and expertise.

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If you keep sacrificing your nominal allies to the meat grinder in hopes that you will eventually once again get to be in charge of the meat grinder's operation, you'll one day look around and realize you're alone with the folks demanding ever more ground human.

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One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

These monsters openly say they want to destroy the social contract and abuse everyone. Effete protestations of "well, that's not nice!" do nothing to stop this evil, because A SOCIAL CONTRACT ONLY EXISTS WHEN ALL PARTIES HONOR IT. This fire must be fought with fire.

And by the way, you guys NEVER get mad when someone says "i told you so" about something you agreed with. It's only when you were wrong that "now's not the time!"