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i drew this while listening to Niamos Chandrila and wailing like a wet beast

I do not have completely “correct” morals in accordance with society. I don’t claim to be the best person ever or to hold any moral ground in terms of my inner character. I need anyone and everyone who sees my posts to be aware of that.

I have been a bad person. I have done bad things. I’ve hurt people I love and hurt people I don’t know. This blog isn’t telling you to do what I do.

When I make my posts, I’m trying to show you a few things.

1. To think for yourself and to develop your own values and opinions with thought and meaning behind them.

2. To care about the people and things that are forgotten about and abandoned more than anyone or anything else.

3. To understand that being kind and telling someone what they’ve done wrong is not always effective, and you need to break eggs to make omelettes.

4. To learn that society generally villifies and penalizes those who do not act within the limits it sets, and how to break out of those limits, no matter how deeply ingrained they are within you.

I’m not doing the work for you. You need to do that yourself. All I’m doing is talking about what’s truly meaningful and important underneath all the fake spoonfed slop that society constantly forcefeeds you, and the biggest issue has actually now become that you think you like that shit fed to you like you’re a big fucking baby.

Are there people who I hope go to prison? Yes. Am I thinking rationally about that? No. “What does that mean?” you ask.

I’m a prison abolitionist. That is to say, I’m anti-slavery. I’m also against capital punishment (the death penalty). It is absolutely wrong to just kill whoever you want. As someone who would definitely like to kill whoever I want, I will not be doing that because it is wrong, and it hurts people, and it creates more issues than it solves, but the same goes for when someone is put to death in prison. I don’t care what they did. They shouldn’t be killed. They also shouldn’t even have to go to prison. There are infinitely better ways to enact punishment onto someone that don’t involve literal slavery, torture and initiating a Stockholm syndrome-esque cycle of repeated offenders to keep the slave house stocked (specifically targeting black and brown people, for obvious reasons).

See, this is where you guys get values and opinions mixed up. My opinion is that certain people should be in prison. That’s not rational thought from me. It’s a vengeful and fearful thought. It’s a self-preserving thought. My value is that prisons should not exist, and that even the people who have hurt me the most should not face such mistreatment and suffering. My opinion comes from experience and personal feelings. My value comes from education and cognitive empathy.

I try to make sure both things align, but they often don’t, and that is called being alive and existing. Nuance is unavoidable. The important thing is that I don’t let my opinions override my values. People will often preach that they meant no harm or that they hold values that reflect the opposite of what they project in opinions. Racist Karens are a great example, often acting EXTREMELY overtly racist, yet clutch their pearls and gasp when someone actually calls them one. They will frequently deny it, perhaps saying “I’m not racist!” along with some variation of “I love [insert race]!” or “I have [insert race] friends!”

The truth is, I don’t think they do realize they are being racist as all hell. I think they are just focusing on themselves and their instinctual feelings of fear that society has so deeply instilled in them. I mean, half of everyone in general is constantly sensory overloaded because of the way society is built to begin with. A lot of people can’t catch a break. People become bitter and angry and jaded over it. And they might still internally hold the value that they care for others more than they care for themselves, which is very often not true in practice and behavior. That shit takes a lot of work and effort to both even start and to keep up with consistently.

My point is, try to make sure your opinions and values align to a majority. And if your opinions are irrational and go against your values, maybe don’t fucking express them outside of your own home to the people close to you who truly know your values, and won’t judge you for your opinions, but will correct you when you are doing something wrong.

Here’s my basic outline for my plans.

Finish the linguistics portion of the book (this is going to take months, if not an entire year longer)

Have my wife edit and proofread

Do the epilogue and the about the author

Do a special thanks page

Contact some local news stations and whatever news station(s) every Slavic person above the age of 40 watches in Brooklyn

Contact some universities

Contact some libraries

Hopefully do a book tour of some kind? Not a huge one, I’d just like to go to some different bookstores and talk a little about the research that went into this

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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Some dumbass bootlicker idiot who is one of these people: YOU COULD HAVE CHOSEN SOLIDARITY WITH US!!! YOURE AN ASSHOLE IM BLOCKING YOU

Some dumbass bootlicker idiot who is one of these people: YOU COULD HAVE CHOSEN SOLIDARITY WITH US!!! YOURE AN ASSHOLE IM BLOCKING YOU

FLY is a story about a boy who gets a second chance. Help his story take flight June 9th 11am EST on Kickstarter. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings I hope this story lifts the world to a brighter place.