shrek it in my butt

I’ve answered this before so we’re going to do this bullet points style

-If there are categories of people you don’t want to follow please assume I belong to all of them

-If you need my demographic info before you can decide if you agree with my opinion or not please disagree with my opinions

-Please assume I am up to no good - this is a good thing to assume with any blog on here - even blogs with faces may be no-faces in disguise

-All of the information you want has been posted here at one time or another if you want to know but I like having that threshold of difficulty in place - if you want to get your creep on I want you to have to work for it

-I am hoping the irony of your having sent this ask anonymously is not lost on you

Like, mandani filming himself walking to work and shaking people's hands is a form of propaganda... and youd know this if you replaced him with any other politician.

Julia James Davis in her 'War on Beauty' YouTube channel (Instagram as well) has a great video looking at the subject.

These so called 'revolutionaries' far from being a 'counter culture' want to make themselves the dominant culture.

Now I'm sure that there were plenty of plenty of the punks, goths, skinheads etc that surrounded my teens and twenties in the 80s and 90s that dreamed of 'revolution' as well.

But they were going counter to a culture that for the most part still valued and protected itself.

We didn't have to think that everything was perfect, in order to know where and how we were well off.

I'll give 80s and 90s sub/counter cultures credit for doing something valuable. They were very good at puncturing holes in the parts of society still given to stodgy pomposity.

And yes, there was still serious racism and homophobia that needed fighting. There was plenty of comedy around that encouraged us to laugh at people with such ridiculous bigotry.

But the counter culture stand against it served its purpose too.

Now those who see themselves as 'cool and counter cultural' are the very ones that The Powers That Be want to hold up as the ideal.

i have a different experience from someone who didn’t even realize they were trans until they were an adult, or from someone who knew but never came out to their family, or from someone who did medically transition young.

I graduated high school in 99.

There was a student at our school named Wayne.

Wayne was gay. It was obvious. He was unable to stay in the closet even if he wanted to. To make matters worse, he was also Black. From a bullying standpoint, that was not a great combo. Both Black and white students made fun of him relentlessly. He was ostracized from the only community that may have given him protection. Only us theater kids stuck up for him, but not to significant effect.

Wayne was bullied so much that at one point he finally snapped and attacked his bullies with a lunch tray. I was actually seated in perfect line of sight and just sat there chewing my soggy fries in stunned silence. It didn't even seem real as I was witnessing it. The image of him wailing on his main bully as the food on his tray flew off is permanently logged into my long term memory.

The bully he attacked had blood all over his face and went straight to the nurse. Other than superficial cuts, he was not injured.

Before the attack, Wayne went to teachers for help. He went to guidance counselors for help. He went to the principals for help.

He did all of the things you were supposed to do. No one helped him. They wagged a finger at the bullies and warned them to stop.

Wayne's lunch tray melee was the only thing that worked. His bullies stayed far away from him. But a week later Wayne was expelled and the bullies were given no punishment.

So... no.

No one in my school talked about being trans.

I went to a Christian high school in Arkansas, how the fuck do you think it would have gone down?

Even as a gay dude who went to school in the 2000s it was all I could do not to get beaten in the goddamn bathroom by the same 4 dudes every goddamn day and sexually assaulted by one dude in particular. I can't even fathom how a trans person would have been able to survive in the same damn school.

Hey @adamtheredbeard did you notice the image suspiciously cut off before the end of the tweet? I wonder if that softlib had anything else to say...

I see a lot of tags from Communists gloating in the reblogs, very confident that they know better than this guy...

But I'd wager that basically none of them do. It isn't just a matter of historical knowledge, either. For instance, "#mediocre white men" is part of a push for a form of scientific racism (based on "correct" race ratios that are just made up), and you didn't notice.