Sasuke, my son

I don't wanna sound like mean or nuthin but a lot of y'all have been trapped in a vortex of suffering for so long that you've come to identify with the suffering as an aspect of your personality and ideology and thereby to covet suffering and to mistake debasement for enoblement and humiliation for virtue

The brief rush of moral superiority might be enough to sustain you for an hour or a day but in the long term it's a very very unhealthy coping mechanism and in the very long term it's where stuff like Christianity comes from

I absolutely adore dogs but I think dog haters are (usually) more justified than cat haters wrt their reasoning

i love declining birth rates 🥰 "what a horrible problem! society will collapse!" oopsie it looks like you're gonna have to make having children worth it 😊 teehee you're gonna have to improve society in order to fix this problem, or it will all collapse. oh noooooo. how horrible. :3c

Fascinating parallel here. This incapacity of the legal framework to protect groups who are at the intersection of two protected groups (trans women in this case, black women in the original) even while protecting both groups individually is Crenshaw's original reason for coining the word "intersectionality", which has since gone through the wringer.

the media literacy on this website may be piss poor but still when i see someone handwringing about media literacy ~70% of the time they're just complaining about the fact that other people disagree with them

tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"

you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.

Why are Zionazis or anyone for that matter trying to police Palestinians on the language they use towards their oppressors???

Really fascinated by the "read the banned books" concept us libraries are apparently doing because it's nearly always the books that aren't banned in the US, and even moreso it's always fucking Orwell. (I heard that he got some of his books banned at some point in usa history, it's doesn't matter because it's no longer the case and 1984 is in a school curriculum and it's so omnipresent in pop culture that it doesn't really matter. And all his other books are reiteration of the same). Doing the "banned books" earnestly kinda forces you to place shit like turners diaries there too, so maybe that's the reason

I saw a dude with an American flag tattoo on his arm (there were a LOT of boyfriends of bisexual women at this event) and I said "is that an American flag tattoo?" and he was like "yeah" and I was like "...why?" and he was like "I had 16 cousins die serving this country" lollll

my neighbor told me the war machine keeps eating his cousins so i asked how many cousins he has and he said he just goes to his uncles and gets a new cousin afterwards so i said it sounds like he's just feeding cousins to the war machine and then his daughter started crying