Some Dumb-Dumb

My most diagnosable take is that honestly. As much as people in social justicey spaces talk about exercising your empathy ... there's also value in being able to turn it off so you're not extremely susceptible to emotional manipulation. Sometimes you have to be able to recognize "oh, this is bullshit propaganda trying to tug at my heartstrings" and stop giving a fuck about like. Colonizer feelings or whatever. Vibes can't override your principles

Like idk being niceys is a good start but your politics can't begin and end with 🌈 kindness 🌈 or you're gonna get taken advantage of. The worst people on earth will be like "but what if........ I have a sob story about it 🥺" & you Need to be able to tell them to Fuck Completely Off

There's a certain strain of ... Everyone Is Valid 🌸 style pseudo leftism that ime invariably caters to whoever throws the biggest tantrum. And this is a Problem interpersonally & it's especially bad if you let these people dictate your opinions. Not everyone is valid some of you are racist

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

I don't think that someone using she/her on Ralsei is anywhere as bad as people using he/him on Kris. She/her Ralsei stems from an interpretation based on evidence given in the text, typically done by trans people seeing their experiences in the character. He/him Kris is the player's own unconscious biases seeping into how they view gender and them forcing Kris into a binary and further stripping them of their identity. One is giving respect and credence to a character's storyline. The other, intentionally or otherwise, is feeding into transphobic beliefs and goes against the character's storyline even further. This subtle nuance would kill most people

[setting up a handmade stall out of cardboard boxes, sticks, and paper with a sign labeled "I WILL REMOVE ANY MEMORY YOU WANT - $5"]

id lie right to willy wonkas face. “did you drink fizzy lifting drinks” of course not. And then id hit him

This is why you won't inherit the factory.

i dont want the factory. I want to see fear in his eyes