*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving

Pride is a PROTEST. That's why amazon and Facebook are there

I think it's very distressing and insensitive when people online cheer for the "American Century of Humiliation." Why in the world would you want this monstrous regime to continue for another century in any form whatsoever? We should earnestly hope for the American Decade of Annihilation instead.

in the early 21st-century, the “small business” was a sort of small temple run by a local warlord. Patrons could purchase small trinkets and be granted absolution for the sins of their empire. This was called “ethical consumption.”

The OBSESSION with identity is so crazy like the view that when you do something it immediately becomes part of your identity and all the parts of you have to click together to become “person who wakes up early” or “person who reads” no you can literally just do something without restructuring your whole performance of personhood around it. I don’t know what to tell you except that you will never be able to have an entirely unfractured view of yourself or that you will be able to rationalize all the complex parts of yourself into the phrase “person who x” like you should just be doing things without performing them. Or aestheticizing them. Just try different things on and keep what works for you. Otherwise you will never learn and grow!

probably the most damning example of tumblrites not actually caring abt the wellbieng of children is how readily they leap at the opportunity to praise institutions like the catholic church for the most benign shit without a seconds thought to the millions of children who have been raped and/or murdered by said institutions. but yea, sure, that random girl online with a kind of icky kink is the real enemy whos the real danger to children lets all cheer for the pope.

every time a semi popular post gets a reblog from someone whose profile image is something with a pride flag background I tense up in anticipation of libbed up bullshit. I've been conditioned like one would avoid brightly colored mushrooms

You can tell that Star Trek is utopian fiction because when they ask the computer to do something it just does it instead of delivering some passive-aggressive lecture with emojis all over it.