"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil

nobody says stuff like "youre cruising for a bruising" anymore. they just say other stuff now

the usa is absolutely on its way to a fully fascist state & whenever anyone says that, there's always a comment that says "america has always been fascist." imo you're willfully downplaying an authoritarian takeover in order to sound edgy. all it does is derail the conversation & diminish the significance of what's been happening over the last 8 months. nothing will distract from a useful conversation about resistance more than changing it to be about the last 250 years instead. it's insidious and honestly straight out of a handbook on how to disrupt organizing

Every single fucking time a latinoamerican country implements a progressive law/policy you people have to be all like "how fucked up are we that *country name* is being more progressive than the US" as if it's somehow inconceivable that a country you deemed as backwards and barbaric could possibly be making more right decisions than your imperialistic shit hole of a country.

the abuse and humiliation Greta Thunberg is going through at the hands of the Israelis needs to be put in context with the dehumanising torture Palestinian prisoners are put through on the daily: the fact that darling Greta can be blindfolded and forced to crawl and kiss the Israeli flags - despite her international popularity and the protection her own government should guarantee her - is only possible because Israelis are allowed to beat, humiliate, starve and rape Palestinians to literal death without anyone stopping them.