Who Even Knows Because I Sure Don't

Don't by shy to call your own Senate Democrats to complain about AES and let them know you're feeling Uncommitted toward Michigan, either. Tell them to pass your message along. The key is to be the loudest ones in the room.

Even for those of you who have phone anxiety, I deeply deeply encourage you to speak to a rep about this. Let them know how disgusted you are that the Democrats are stabbing us in the back for the DSA. Let them know how disgusted you are that they let that Nazi in Maine into the tent. Let them know how their actually loyal voters are feeling and tell them to pass it on to the Senate Democrats.

big contribution to this issue is the causal adding of “tard” to the end of words to make new insults, and people somehow think that’s socially acceptable even if they’re anti r-slur, which I’ve seen way too much of recently. all it does is desensitize people to saying the actual word, but we all know what that means and it’s still part of a slur. I’ve gotten into actual arguments on jumblr with grown adults about the r-slur use and it’s just mind-boggling. “well why can’t I call them that if that’s what they are? they probably call us worse!” is stuff I’ve actually been told. like way to miss the point there, bucko. there’s just no excuse for using slurs no matter what the slur is. at the end of the day, it just says a lot about your character, that’s for sure.

yes, and this is one of many reasons to reject 4chan language like that. this includes “-oid,” NPC, it’s all so degrading and numbs people to the effects of that cruelty and the impact it has on others. it’s unacceptable to respond, “well, they probably say terrible things about us,” that’s not a defense. if someone’s excuse is other people’s bad behavior, then they’re admitting that they’re fine with sinking to that level with them. we’re witnessing in real time the detriment of slurs and hatred weaponized against us and how it’s normalizing antisemitism. we’ve seen allies attacked with racist, homophobic, and ableist slurs as well. this actually is that serious, we have a responsibility to consider this and to not add to oppressive stereotypes and discrimination.

Do they....do not realize that BOTH parties have primaries and there's a winner of each and thats how who you vote for in the general is determined?

A concerning amount of y’all seem to think that being racist is a morally neutral position, instead of a prejudice that you are supposed to work on dismantling such as sexism, homophobia, and so on. I’d suggest watching kindergarten level cartoons to learn about treating others like human beings but some of y’all already do that and it’s not doing the trick.

I don’t know how to say this without sounding like a broken record. A lot of y’all talk about misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc but don’t wanna summon the same vim when racism is brought up. Using the excuse that this is a predominantly white space is the same line of thinking as “boys will be boys” when men do something sexist. A group of ppl being of a certain demographic that doesn’t experience a form of bigotry doesn’t excuse their perpetuating of it. If you think a guy should check his peers when they’re being misogynistic, then you should check your white peers when they’re similarly being racist. And similarly if you are disgusted when a guy tries to shrug off misogyny and say it’s not a big deal, and do the same exact thing when it comes to racism think for TWO SECONDS how that makes you look!

To neatly summarize, if you consider yourself a progressive person and combat bigotry where it appears but stop short when racism rears its head, it’s not a good look. If your compassion evaporates on the axis of racial discrimination, it will call into question your judgment on other bigotries as they’re tangled in a messy web of oppression. I’m not expecting you to be Malcom X up in here, but for the love of everything on this earth stop acting like it’s not a big deal.

Interesting how the transfeminine version got marked mature literally *as* I posted it, very clearly hitting some sort of automated filter, while the cis version was untouched by the filter even though it was otherwise identical

you know what i’m actually so sick of all the supposedly inclusive trans spaces where everyone tells people to just DIY their hormones as if DIYing testosterone isn’t a fucking felony

if you tell trans men to DIY their hormones you are literally advising them to do something that will almost definitely get them thrown into the prison system which we all know is super duper fucking safe for trans people right

Imagine not finding joy in being able to say “I just learned a new word!”

Hungarian voters were smart on an individual level, throwing their support behind Magyar over how they might have traditionally voted, but there was an institutional element to it as well: it took most of the other parties dropping out of contention in order to clear the decks and avoid vote-splitting, which was a brave and principled thing for them to do.

i have for a while been using stepping on somebody's toes as a metaphor for misgendering. and i genuinely think that it's kind of a good one.

if you give a grovelling begging apology after accidentally stepping on somebody's toes one time you're going to make the whole thing awkward, but not giving a quick "sorry" before moving on is still kind of rude.

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One thing I wish more gentiles understood is that modern Judaism is post-apocalyptic, and every Jew they've ever met is living after the apocalypse.

The damn apocalypses overlap

As a teen I had school end at 4 and I was told to start preparing for bed at 9pm. So like it very much felt like I had free time never

My brain is also a complete fuzzball between 3-8pm so like school was torture because I had no time to do anything except stare at homework I couldn’t focus on. So I would often have to secretly stay up late or wake up early to sneak… doing homework

“Remember all the free time you had as a kid?” No. I remember The Fucking Homework