do i have to do this all over again?

"The liberal is so preoccupied with stopping confrontation that he usually finds himself defending and calling for law and order, the law and order of the oppressor. Confrontation would disrupt the smooth functioning of the society and so the politics of the liberal leads him into a position where he finds himself politically aligned with the oppressor rather than with the oppressed. The reason the liberal seeks to stop confrontation [...] is that his role, regardless of what he says, is really to maintain the status quo, rather than to change it. He enjoys economic stability from the status quo and if he fights for change he is risking his economic stability. What the liberal is really saying is that he hopes to bring about justice and economic stability for everyone through reform, that somehow the society will be able to keep expanding without redistributing the wealth."

Help Ahmad Get Treatment and Surgery to Repair Serious Complication!

Apr 17, 2026

Apr 28, 2026

I have again had to subtract from the amount donated for Ahmad's urgently needed medical treatment to reach the weekly bladder treatment goal. Please help as Saja and Ahmad have had difficulty raising enough money. Also Ahmad contacted me recently to say he needs a new wheelchair since the other one broke due to the damaged roads in Gaza.

i accept and deeply enjoy that bj is a nasty sicko man and kind of a shitty person sometimes and that people discuss this in depth (breath of fresh air coming from another fandom where my nasty sicko man is treated like gods perfect angel) but it does mean a lot to me that bj is, at his core, a very compassionate person, who is driven by an immense grief and rage at what has been taken from him and the people around him. and that anger often becomes selfish and hurtful but it also often becomes kindness. he's the man who gives his last 20 dollars to a patient scamming him and spends his nights between 11 hour shifts patching the roof and scrounging supplies and hunting down a missing soldier for a struggling korean family. who loses sleep for weeks and lashes out only because he's terrified he didn't do enough for a patient. who defies his own ethics to try to stop a family from suffering on christmas. who takes every chance to throw parties for his friends because he wants to see them smile, and doesn't hold their moments of fear or anger or cruelty against them. he is also violent! and jealous! and mean and nasty! but he really would have gone down that rope, yknow?

some of my faves from personal dr roberta bobby preservation efforts archive: