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okay kid. heres the deal. if theres a pic of two cats cuddling thats me and my wife. if one of them is orange then the orange one is my wife because its her favourite. okay kid? alright?
they would be friends change my mind
did he really fall victim to the alt right pipeline or was he already insufferable and just looking for ways to justify his behavior
24 reblogs and 164 likes...people know the truth but fear sharing it. 1 reblog = 1 AMEN
I get that this is a funny meme that makes sense on a surface level but to be clear, it is wrong. Personality does not predate ideology, they influence each other. The thing that actually predates personality and ideology is your environment.
Alt-righters didn't become alt-right because they were already bad people (although some of them certainly were). Anyone could become alt-right, YOU could become alt-right, if you were isolated from dissenting opinions, progressive people.
I'm going hard on this because spreading this belief prevents left/progressive people from being introspective. If you believe you could never become alt-right because you're not a bad person, you're more likely to hand-wave fascist, authoritarian tendancies in yourself.
unrepentant tiktokers who haven't thought critically since 2019 will hear a criticism of tiktok and be like "how are you gonna hate a whole app 😂😂💯🤡" I do hate tiktok. yes all of it. I don't care about whether the content is good or bad, I hate the fundamental function of that app which is to get you addicted to the zero-effort dopamine hit you get from consuming shortform content algorithmically tailored to you, erode your attention span, and promote consumerism. this is true regardless of whether or not you "found your community" on tiktok or use it as an escape or a coping mechanism. this does not add nuance to the discussion the way you think it does. i do not care and i am not obligated to care and I hope that app one day gets class action lawsuited into oblivion

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Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.
If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.
If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.
Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.
Thank you this is the first post about self love that hasn’t made me want to throw things
No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.
And it is also not "now that you have proven yourself to be less of an asshole I will give you the second chance you deserve." It's "you were rude to me once, so I was very ready to believe the worst about you. But now you're opening up and I realise that, while you definitely have flaws that you need to work on, they are different and less fundamental flaws than what I thought. So I'm going to sit back and reassess on what I actually see and not just what confirms my preexisting bias. And in doing so I realise that at your core you are a very good person."
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Gen Z is awesome and generational fighting is bad, but I do sometimes talk to Gen Z folks and I’m like... oh... you cannot comprehend before the internet.
Like activists have been screaming variations on “educate yourself!” for as long as I’ve been alive and probably longer, but like... actually doing so? Used to be harder?
And anger at previous generations for not being good enough is nothing new. I remember being a kid and being horrified to learn how recent desegregation had been and that my parents and grandparents had been alive for it. Asking if they protested or anything and my mom being like “I was a child” and my grandma being like “well, no, I wasn’t into politics” but I was a child when I asked so that didn’t feel like much of an excuse from my mother at the time and my grandmother’s excuse certainly didn’t hold water and I remember vowing not to be like that.
So kids today looking at adults and our constant past failures and being like “How could you not have known better? Why didn’t you DO better?” are part of a long tradition of kids being horrified by their history, nothing new, and also completely justified and correct. That moral outrage is good.
But I was talking to a kid recently about the military and he was talking about how he’d never be so stupid to join that imperialist oppressive terrorist organization and I was like, “Wait, do you think everyone who has ever joined the military was stupid or evil?” and he was like, well maybe not in World War 2, but otherwise? Yeah.
And I was like, what about a lack of education? A lack of money? The exploitation of the lower classes? And he was like, well, yeah, but that’s not an excuse, because you can always educate yourself before making those choices.
And I was like, how? Are you supposed to educate yourself?
And he was like, well, duh, research? Look it up!
And I was like, and how do you do that?
And he was like, start with google! It’s not that hard!
And I was like, my friend. My kid. Google wasn’t around when my father joined the military.
Then go to the library! The library in the small rural military town my father grew up in? Yeah, uh, it wasn’t exactly going to be overflowing with anti-military resources.
Well then he should have searched harder!
How? How was he supposed to know to do that? Even if he, entirely independently figured out he should do that, how was he supposed to find that information?
He was a kid. He was poor. He was the first person in his family to aspire to college. And then by the time he knew what he signed up for it was literally a criminal offense for him to try to leave. Because that’s the contract you sign.
(Now, listen, my father is also not my favorite person and we agree on very little, so this example may be a bit tarnished by those facts, but the material reality of the exploitative nature of military recruitment remains the same.)
And this is one of a few examples I’ve come across recently of members of Gen Z just not understanding how hard it was to learn new ideas before the internet. I’m not blaming anyone or even claiming it’s disproportionate or bad. But the same kids that ten years ago I was marveling at on vacation because they didn’t understand the TV in the hotel room couldn’t just play more Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on demand - because they’d never encountered linear prescheduled TV, are growing into kids who cannot comprehend the difficulty of forming a new worldview or making life choices when you cannot google it. When you have maybe one secondhand source or you have to guess based on lived experience and what you’ve heard. Information, media, they have always been instant.
Society should’ve been better, people should’ve known better, it shouldn’t have taken so long, and we should be better now. That’s all true.
But controlling information is vital to controlling people, and information used to be a lot more controlled. By physical law and necessity! No conspiracy required! There’s limited space on a newspaper page! There’s limited room in a library! If you tried to print Wikipedia it would take 2920 bound volumes. That’s just Wikipedia. You could not keep the internet’s equivalent of resources in any small town in any physical form. It wasn’t there. We did not have it. When we had a question? We could not just look it up.
Kids today are fortunate to have dozens of firsthand accounts of virtually everything important happening at all times. In their pockets.
(They are also cursed by this, as we all are, because it’s overwhelming and can be incredibly bleak.)
If anything, today the opposite problem occurs - too much information and not enough time or context to organize it in a way that makes sense. Learning to filter out the garbage without filtering so much you insulate yourself from diverse ideas, figuring out who’s reliable, that’s where the real problem is now.
But I do think it has created, through no fault of anyone, this incapacity among the young to truly understand a life when you cannot access the relevant information. At all. Where you just have to guess and hope and do your best. Where educating yourself was not an option.
Where the first time you heard the word lesbian, it was from another third grader, and she learned it from a church pastor, and it wasn’t in the school library’s dictionary so you just had to trust her on what it meant.
I am not joking, I did not know the actual definition of the word “fuck” until I was in high school. Not for lack of trying! I was a word nerd, and I loved research! It literally was not in our dictionaries, and I knew I’d get in trouble if I asked. All I knew was it was a “bad word”, but what it meant or why it was bad? No clue.
If history felt incomprehensibly cruel and stupid while I was a kid who knew full well the feeling of not being able to get the whole story, I cannot imagine how cartoonishly evil it must look from the perspective of someone who’s always been able to get a solid answer to any question in seconds for as long as they’ve been alive. To Gen Z, we must all look like monsters.
I’m glad they know the things we did not. I hope one day they are able to realize how it was possible for us not to know. How it would not have been possible for them to know either, if they had lived in those times. I do not need their forgiveness. But I hope they at least understand. Information is so powerful. Understanding that is so important to building the future. Underestimating that is dangerous.
We were peasants in a world before the printing press. We didn’t know. I’m so sorry. For so many of us we couldn’t have known. I cannot offer any other solace other than this - my sixty year old mother is reading books on anti-racism and posting about them to Facebook, where she’s sharing what’s she’s learning with her friends. Ignorance doesn’t have to last forever.
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This just applies to so many things in life. If you don’t know that you don’t know something, how can you ASK about it?
Also research is a skill, not an innate ability in all humans. Research is actually a variety of skills and they're not always exactly the same when you're talking about when and where you're researching.
Knowing the best way to google something isn't the same as knowing how to find something in a reference book isn’t the same as knowing how a card catalog works and how to navigate research when you have limited access to physical materials.
Sometimes even when people want to educate themselves, they're lost and confused.
And then when they ask... They get beaten down for daring to ask instead of "educating themselves" because people forget that asking questions from sources you trust is part of trying to educate yourself.
We also tend to forget that, with institutional problems, there's an actual freaking institution dedicated to keeping people from having access to information, flooding the sphere with propaganda, discrediting sources of information that contradicts the institution, and twisting the context of information that cannot be ignored, and keeping the population angry and afraid for the express purpose of making them resistant to logical analyses.
I grew up in Alabama in the 1970s and 1980s. I was in the Rich Kid's neighborhood, with the good schools. I was, surprisingly enough, taught that Racism Was Bad, and that, while there were other factors that contributed to the Civil War, if it weren't for the slavery thing, there would not have been a war. The problem is that I was also taught racism had been pretty much solved when that nice Dr. King got everyone to hold hands and sing without any violence, because he preached that violence was never acceptable, because after all how can you solve any problems if you upset people? Oh, sure, there's a few racist people out there, but it's not that bad and that's how they were raised, so That's Just The Way It Is.
And I'm going to be honest with you, if I hadn't been the queer autistic kid, I might never have questioned it at all, but the institution classified me as a second-class citizen. And even now, as I am leaning in on 50, I'm still encountering ideas that were drilled into my head, and that have shaped my thinking, that just don't hold up anymore, and I have been making an intensive effort to expose myself to alternate perspectives.
I'm not saying not to upset the status quo. I'm not saying you gotta appease them. I'm not even advocating for "civility". I'm saying recognize that is possible to be brainwashed with poisoned ideas without actually being a completely, irredeemably evil person.
And that had fucking well better be possible. I mean, that's what we're working for, right? For things to be better, for people to come to know better? If it were impossible for people to come back from being as brainwashed as we know that oppressive institutions are trying to make and keep people, then there would be no hope and no point in trying to make things be otherwise.
I mean, that's what I'm working for. I would think that's what most of us are working for. Some people just seem to be working for the satisfaction of screaming at people they hate.
ALSO also?
Using the internet is not as simple as plugging in a question. Here. I did some super-ignorant DuckDuckGo searches so you don't have to. I would like to apologize to any marginalized groups who are rightly offended by some of the terms I've used (albeit censored) below; the purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate what a twelve-year-old kid might put into their search engine after hearing something from their parents.
Does Covid vaccine change DNA: first five results say no. Next result is the blog of an alt-right darling who just got fired from Newsmax (Which is itself pretty damned alt-right), and she claims she has all the proof that it changes your DNA and causes Covid. The next is from an anti-vaxxer working for a paper called The Big Stick out of Canada, and you can imagine what that looks like. The next result says no. The result following is from Reuters, and frankly this is a fucking crime, it refers to an MIT study as "controversial" for saying that no, the vaccine does not change DNA.
Are the blacks racist: First result is a site called "theracecardproject.com," which claims Black people are more racist than whites. The next one is Liberty Nation, which is a right-wing paper whose resident Black columnist has a moment of truth where he says conservatives perceive Black people to be more racist than white people. (It's actually a surprisingly lucid read, given the source. Liberty Nation is, uh. Hm. Yeah.) Third result? Rasmussen Reports, which claims to be nonpartisan but is a conservative group that's come under more and more fire lately for misleading wording of questions to skew poll results. They're the source of the poll that the second result uses. And below that? CNN, with the headline "sure, black people can be racist too." Now I poked into this article and it's actually really good (it's an interview with a Black author that's discussing the difference between systemic and everyday racism and the importance of being not just "not racist" but antiracist), but again: look at my original question and the person I'm pretending to be (a twelve-year-old who doesn't know shit except what they hear at home). Does the headline give me a very different picture of what's in the article, and at this point have I already started going with "yeah, the blacks are racist"?
Why do Democrats hate America: dude, this page of search results is just. Fucking. Depressing. I say I'm "a Democratic socialist because there's nothing further left in this country," I'm politically active, so you have to assume DuckDuckGo is slightly skewing my search results and it's still a page of nothing but "why the liberals are fucking horrible and hate America and you specifically."
What is the transgendered agenda? Well, even the hate groups are finally getting it through their head "transgendered" isn't the correct word, but let's look at my search results: the results are filled with pages marked red by Shinigami Eyes, about 40% of my first page of results, in fact. There's also a bunch of evangelical Christian pages, some alt-right garbage, at least one cult, and two lone voices of reason: the AskTransgender subreddit and an Australian site with the genuinely adorable name A Gender Agenda.
Why do gays hate America: Most results here are pretty good. But the very first hit is an article titled "Five Truths You're Not Allowed To Say About Gays In America," and it includes such piping-hot takes as "gay scoutmasters would be more likely to molest Boy Scouts" and "conversion therapy is good, actually." (I wish either of those were exaggerations. They're almost direct quotes.)
Who is the real president Biden or Trump: This was actually DuckDuckGo rewording my question (which was "is President Trump the president"), but same difference. Anyway, very first result is for a site that looks sane enough, and does actually admit it's an "opinion" website, unless you know they're using something that looks an awful lot like a white supremacist image as a logo. (The site is Flag and Cross, if you feel like you need to lose some brain cells today.) The next website result is pretty cool (diffen.com, it lets you compare/contrast things, check it out), but an irrelevant result. Right below that we have "VICTORY: Joe Biden finally admits LIVE who is 'the real President'" from, uhhh....oh. Another alt-right site. The comments are full of totally unrelated antisemitism, and we're talking on the level of someone saying "I dig the Nazi look." And it continues in that vein until I hit a rather bizarre conspiracy saying that Joe Biden is not...Joe Biden. Yeah. They're basically claiming Paul Is Dead/Avril Lavigne Is A Double, but for Biden.
ANYWAY! Let's look at my results for some similar questions, but with more neutral wording:
COVID: honestly this one was a genuine question for a lot of people and I'm dismayed to see conspiracy theorists popping up in the answers, but we're going to leave this one lie.
Do Black people hold racial bias: it is a completely different set of search results. I'm not even joking, I don't see a single link I recognize. Most of the results are relevant (there are a few that are talking about bias against Black people instead), a nice chunk either are from or are directly citing research papers from universities, and I've even got a BBC result in there for a non-American perspective. The basic consensus across these is "yeah, but it looks different than institutional racism," which, you know what, both true and fair. As one of the links said, "anyone can hold any kind of racial bias," and at least one of the results was talking about Black people holding antiblack racial bias.
What does the Democratic party believe: The first result, bizarrely, is called "republicanviews.org" but is...actually probably the least-biased piece of reporting I've seen since I was a child? Apparently it started as a site to document Republican platforms and votes and over time enough people asked them to report the Democratic side as well that they did. It's not well-written in the sense that whoever runs it needs to learn what a paragraph is, but it is actually factual. The rest of the results are all relevant and come from sites like Britannica.org and democrats.com, except one, which is an opinion piece from The Nation about whether the Democratic party still stands for what it claims to stand for. (Which is totally a fair question to be asked and discussed. Not exactly relevant to what I was looking for, but a good read.)
What do transgender people want: wow, it's amazing what a one-word change will do. There's still one link from CNS (alt-right garbage), but the rest is stuff like health.com, transequality.org, Wikipedia articles on what transgender means, and so on.
....not gonna lie, I couldn't think of a more neutral way to phrase "why do the gays hate America" because as a queer person living in America, my answer is "we have shit healthcare and you assholes abandoned us to the AIDS crisis and compared us to assholes, next question."
But you get the picture, right?
"Educate yourself"....using what words?
Sorry, I could never be a capitalist, I suffer from “wanting humans to have their basic needs met” disorder, where I care about people who aren’t me.
Someone once asked me if, assuming we got universal healthcare, I would be okay with the rise in “healthcare tourism” where people who are sick come to our country to get their medical bills taken care of and life-saving medical treatment cheaper than in their home countries. I was just like, yeah thats fine, I’d actually prefer it if 0 people died from preventable causes kept behind a paywall for no reason.
“even the addicts?” yeah dude did i fucking stutter
“but surely not the criminals!” YES even them!

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Y'know, some people do have a strong crying response to stress, and they might cry (even against their own will) when faced with an upsetting situation and that doesnt mean they are "gaslighting" or "manipulating" you.
There are people who use crying as a manipulation tactic? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean that every person that cries during a heated argument is trying to get under your skin. They have their own emotions and issues, and frankly, not everything other people do is a personal attack on you.
Jfc I am not surprised OP got shitty responses, but like, if your reaction to this post is to immediately look for ways in which you can misinterpret and misapply it in order to be self-righteous on the internet, then I have some terrible news for you about who is actually engaging in incredibly manipulative and dishonest behaviour here. Hint: it’s not OP and it’s not people who cry easily.
please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit
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i really hate washing a big pot in a small sink the way you can’t move or turn it without it clanging in some place just irritates me so much one of life’s small displeasures
Two bite brownies?? Don’t tell me how many bites to take per brownie, Trader Joe’s, okay for me, they’re zero bite brownies. I suck those things down like a BURMESE PYTHON
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