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I SCREAMED THIS WAS SO FUNNY

ok this is important to me. gaslighting is not a synonym for lying. it’s a type of lying. if someone says to you “the sky is green,” that’s a lie. if you say “the sky is blue” and they respond “no, it’s green, you’re wrong, your eyes are playing tricks on you” THAT’S gaslighting. the crucial requirement is that they try to convince you not only that you are wrong but that you shouldn’t trust your own senses. that you’re imagining something/hallucinating/dreaming. the abuser is trying to make themselves more of an authority on reality than your own mind, often with the goal of making you reliant on them to tell you “truth” from “fiction.”

it’s also used to describe abuse within some type of personal relationship, not something done by a random on the internet or by a politician

YES This is why I feel so uncomfortable when people say Donald Trump is gaslighting the American people. I mean, certainly some elements are there, but in traditional gaslighting it’s a relationship of dependence (parent/child, partner/partner, elder/caregiver, etc.). With Trump, for instance, saying “I never called John McCain a loser” EVEN THOUGH IT IS ON TAPE, there’s just not that element of total control. We have a whole free press that’s there, reassuring us he’s wrong. It’s not gaslighting; it’s just straight up lying.

self care is staring up at the moon and telling her u love her every night before bed

I could seriously use this money right now….

Please give me my refund of 400$ soon…

I feel obligated to reblog this every time it shows up in my dash

So I reblogged this exactly a week ago because I thought it was funny and uh lo and behold, a family friend wrote me a big ol’ check just to help me out of a tough financial spot AND my bank refunded me $32 for fees they’d originally taken out. SO UH YEAH. Reblogging this again in hopes that it brings equally good fortune to my followers.

Sure why not? Jobs bring in money and prosperity…

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Gimme some fucking money

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