Young Just Us

wolf 359 is like. what makes us who we are? at what point do we lose ourselves? how hard do we have to try to be noble in the face of oppression and torture? are we our memories? are we more? less? if you make it out but you can’t live with yourself, did you really make it out? what makes someone human? but it’s also like. *bwahh* *bwahh* *bwahh* “what the hell is happening?” “hera? sitrep!” *boop boop boop* *whoooshhhh* “uhhhhhhh” “wwwweeeeeellllll” *clickclackclackclack* “you’ll help me if you ever want to get off this tin can”

I’d die on the hill that “stranger danger” is a deeply unhelpful mentality to have. “Ooooh everyone is out to get me they’re all gonna perpetrate harm that’s actually more likely to come from someone I already know. I better never talk to anyone in my community who I don’t already know, just to be safe. I’m sure there are no other biases interwoven with this mentality” like oh my god human traffickers do not just randomly spawn in every parking lot. You don’t have to go solo hitchhiking across the country but you also don’t have to live in fear that every guy on the street is the knife man who’s gonna get you. Like have situational awareness, yeah. But most of the time the guy on the street is not knife man he’s actually just a guy on the street and he’s probably pretty chill, and you’re driving yourself crazy by living in a constant state of unnecessary fear.

Like always safety comes first, especially if you’re in a marginalized group more likely to be targeted by random people around you. But that’s different from stranger danger. I might even say that stranger danger is something that contributes to marginalized groups getting targeted by random people. Which strangers do you find distrust worthy? Why? Does vague distrust justify harmful actions in the name of self defense? Stranger danger draws everyone away from more important issues of safety (underlying bigotries, systemic injustices, abuse in the home, etc) and towards an amorphous boogeyman that has no solution, because it’s not the real cause or culprit.

obviously i dont give a fuck about Biden's son but i think in a better world we would get to see him beat the piss out of Trump Jr. in a cage match