Social Justice Spellsword

The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“

Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.

having a baby just barely old enough to go out has shown me that most people are kinder than I'd have imagined ❤️

also I don't think parents "these days" are uniquely terrible, I just think neglect is showing up in new ways as technology progresses. today's ipad kid would've been wandering around in a ditch alone all day and night before. parents not wanting to have to deal with children is not a new phenomenon.

Also people have less children (so you can’t get the older ones to watch the younger ones and generally play together, and there are less potential playmates in general), in middle-class households women work as well, households are smaller (again, no communal watching / entertaining of children), in working class families (where women always worked) there are less opportunities to integrate children into household chores and general work life, and it’s just seen as less acceptable to have children participate in adult things at least tangentially. Plus, you know, no child labour at all, like it’s literally illegal.

economists really took the divine right of kings and turned it into billionaire CEOs

“it’s kinda fucked up to reject the business practices of jeff bezos when he rightfully earned his position under capitalism”

Unfortunately what stopped people from believing in the divine right of kings was, ultimately, capitalism. (Accumulation of wealth based on property outside of traditional feudal structures caused the people accumulating said wealth to question said feudal structures. The rise of the bourgeoisie and the fall of aristocracy are directly linked.) And the last time wide-spread ideological movements attempted to subvert both capitalism and feudalism, they were quickly completely bastardised into tyranny (Communism). And it cannot be denied that capitalism has been directly correlated with rising living standards all around the world. I’m dubious that it’s actually causally connected, or at least necessarily connected, but that is what makes it so hard to escape.

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

funny that he writes this in 1920 as the fall of Singapore to the Japanese still took the British by surprise

Forever fascinating that the people who complain about "government overreach" will also insist that, if the government is going to feed the hungry, then it should overreach all over those hungry people

turning point usa is kinda performance art like lets consider that the other founder died from covid in 2020.

Oh hey, you‘re at it again on my dashboard and yet you never replied to my long reblog from several days ago talking about the same stuff. Best case, you‘re wilfully ignorant, but I‘m leaning more towards you being just a troll.