it ain't much thought, but it's honest thought

Scientists have found that if you get 8 hours of sleep and are still tired during the day it’s because your soul is cursed and your body doesn’t think you deserve happiness. There is no cure or treatment

really heavily reject this idea that just by virtue of being oppressed you understand everything about all types of oppression, and that reading theory is unnecessary or is something that unoppressed people do to make themselves feel good. do not fall for this trap. you need to be reading . you need to be learning. your own ideas are good but they can only carry you so far. learn from others.

idk i feel like there’s this big trend lately where people keep trying to “revolutionize” doing nothing. and it goes hand in hand with the way suddenly everyone needs to be a radical activist changemaker too. and sure, being visibly apart of an oppressed group, experiencing joy as a part of that group, etc, those are all things that can be revolutionary . don’t get me wrong. but if you consider yourself an activist (and you really don’t have to!) that can’t be your only act of activism. you cannot be a radical activist by just existing. you need to go out and engage with your community. you need to read theory and you need to learn and you need to help the people around you . existing is not enough. idk im tired

i think that’s why all those “rest is radical action” think pieces always felt off to me. because radical action is radical action. we can’t identity politics our way into believing watching the barbie movie is somehow a grand act of feminist praxis. or something along those lines

lukewarm take but i personally do not give a shit if poor people cheat a system that was designed to fail them anyways. i also coincidentally do not enjoy the taste of boot rubber

i don't care if you live in new york city get normal about drug addicts sometime soon or jump in front of the trains

i promise you that person on fent bent over + swaying in rags is having a worse couple hours than you've ever had in your entire life. i promise you that person begging for money on the subway is going throughs something 1000% worse than you having to avoid their eyes while going to a restaurant. i swear on my life that person talking to themselves in public isn't evil or the devil or going to kill you. i think you need to get the fuck over yourself and stop acting like you're suuuchhh an NYC native and being afraid of all drug-heavy areas and posting videos of people on the trains like "only in the city! lol!". i think you should learn how to either have some compassion or shut the fuck up

Remember: drug addiction is a form of desperate self medication, as is alcoholism. The wealthy use these things as an escape as well. People cannot be blamed for seeking any break they can get from PAIN, and the problem is whatever's causing that pain, not them for attempting to flee from it.