Thoughts Become Things

“I realized the coalition I thought I was a part of does not exist. I had been trying to find common ground with the far left because I thought we could unite against fascism, but we can’t, because they refuse to work with liberals.”

“with the Angel Buck incident, I felt like ‘my own community hates me’, whereas now, this doesn’t feel like infighting anymore because whatever side these people are on is not the side I’m on.”

“the fact that leftists hate me is becoming, like, the defining fact of my life”

[of leftists throwing the 2024 election over Gaza] “this was another turning point for how I see the far/alt left. No longer just annoying or useless but as a force that’s actively making the world worse. And working on the Conspiracy video made me reflect on the last 10 years of left populist discourse … and I felt like I was finally seeing this for what it is: Slopulism, whose final destination was always going to be a politics that consists mostly in ranting and raving all day about how Zionists control the government and the media.”

“As millions of [Hasan Piker’s] braindead followers started calling me a Zio, and an Israeli shill, and a Mossad agent, and a genocide-monger—of course I’ve tried reasoning with these people, and when they’re willing to engage at all, they’ve made it clear they think it’s fair to call anyone pro-genocide who does not actively oppose the existence of an Israeli state. So it’s not enough to say that a genocide is happening and condemn it; you can do that and still be a lukewarm liberal Zionist, which they consider ‘pro-genocide’ because the very existence of ‘The Zionist Entity IsNotReal’ constitutes a genocide. So they think the only true ‘anti-genocide’ position is to advocate the expulsion of 7 million Jews from Israel”

The vast majority of parents who have trans kids are pure evil and i do not want it becoming the "woke leftist" position to deify the 1% of parents who actually care about their trans kids and don't want to biochemically force them on the path to suicide.

Like i wonder if AES just assumed all trans kids are like Hunter Schaefer or Kim Petras and "protect trans kids" means protecting cute rich little girls with saintly parents who big bad Government wants to turn into gross men in dresses.

Meanwhile in real life, the odds of being a trans kid whose parents actually want you to feel safe in your own body are almost nil. You are constantly on the defensive. They will come up with new and innovative ways to rob you of your bodily autonomy and disfigure your body for life, if the lack of puberty blockers doesn't already do that to you.

Phoenix has actually been trying to expand the light rail into the West Valley for years for exactly this reason.

Rich shithead NIMBYs from Scottsdale and PV and "I like to pretend I'm upper middle class when I am lower middle class AT BEST" NIMBYs keep shooting it down saying it'll bring criminals to their neighborhoods.

(I'm not joking, they are full mask off about this.)

In 2020 I worked a job collecting medical record for insurance companies. It was Covid and there were many, many medical offices that were grieving and angry. It wasn't a fun job most of the time.

But one day I called a hospital in Tennessee. I was supposed to collect records for a NICU patient and their mama. I got to records and the woman in charge of records said there must be a mistake. They never worked with insurance with maternity or neonatal patients because of Dolly.

I asked what she meant and she told me, "Well, Miss Dolly has us send her the bills for any new mothers and their babies, especially if they spend time in the NICU. She never has anyone apply or anything, she just has us send her any bill for those families and she pays them, no matter how big."

I was stunned. I clarified, "Dolly? Dolly Parton?"

"Yes, ma'am! Dolly's been paying those bills since at least 1999 and so we just don't work with insurance here. It's why there's a mural of her in the maternity ward."

I cried harder that day than any other day during the height if the pandemic. For the first time that year it wasn't grief fueling my tears, it was a hope so deep that it hurt to contain it. When Dolly gave a million dollars for vaccine development I just nodded. Made sense to me. That's simply who she was. She saw a need and, if it was in her power, she met it. She loved humanity in a way that didn't require anything back. It was never a question of whether or not it was her responsibility, she just stepped forward and did what needed doing.

I loved Dolly Parton in the same way I loved Mr Rogers. Steve Irwin. Bob Ross. She shaped who I am with her kindness and she was a core part of my world for my entire life.