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hi y'all we still have no internet so we're still doing Extremely Not Well. (i have to use a neighbor's phone for a hotspot to make these posts or make grocery orders but obviously we can't do so too often)

we need all the help we can get tbh. any help is extremely appreciated, especially since we're nearly out of food stamps bc my mom hasn't been able to get another phone so she hasn't been able to reapply for them

our paypal is here

i hate having to ask for so much help constantly but i really don't know what else to do

tysm y'all πŸ’•

gonna need help for food pretty soon + food for luci since she has once again decided she hates the cat food we have and won't eat it ($20 or so, i can't check rn)

any help is very appreciated!!!

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thettempest

hi y'all we still have no internet so we're still doing Extremely Not Well. (i have to use a neighbor's phone for a hotspot to make these posts or make grocery orders but obviously we can't do so too often)

we need all the help we can get tbh. any help is extremely appreciated, especially since we're nearly out of food stamps bc my mom hasn't been able to get another phone so she hasn't been able to reapply for them

our paypal is here

i hate having to ask for so much help constantly but i really don't know what else to do

tysm y'all πŸ’•

gonna need help for food pretty soon + food for luci since she has once again decided she hates the cat food we have and won't eat it ($20 or so, i can't check rn)

any help is very appreciated!!!

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thettempest

hi y'all we still have no internet so we're still doing Extremely Not Well. (i have to use a neighbor's phone for a hotspot to make these posts or make grocery orders but obviously we can't do so too often)

we need all the help we can get tbh. any help is extremely appreciated, especially since we're nearly out of food stamps bc my mom hasn't been able to get another phone so she hasn't been able to reapply for them

our paypal is here

i hate having to ask for so much help constantly but i really don't know what else to do

tysm y'all πŸ’•

gonna need help for food pretty soon + food for luci since she has once again decided she hates the cat food we have and won't eat it ($20 or so, i can't check rn)

any help is very appreciated!!!

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thettempest

hi y'all we still have no internet so we're still doing Extremely Not Well. (i have to use a neighbor's phone for a hotspot to make these posts or make grocery orders but obviously we can't do so too often)

we need all the help we can get tbh. any help is extremely appreciated, especially since we're nearly out of food stamps bc my mom hasn't been able to get another phone so she hasn't been able to reapply for them

our paypal is here

i hate having to ask for so much help constantly but i really don't know what else to do

tysm y'all πŸ’•

gonna need help for food pretty soon + food for luci since she has once again decided she hates the cat food we have and won't eat it ($20 or so, i can't check rn)

any help is very appreciated!!!

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that post about how its impossible to satirize masculinity without thousands of men earnestly idenitifying with it isn't wrong but ive also seen enough women cheer on the most rancid shit as long as its got a veneer of femininity to it so idk i think it might just be a human thing

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yaoist

equality win: men and women both bad at media comprehension !!

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alexisraine

for every Taxi Driver there's a Midsommar

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re: that last post, ive said it before and ill say it again: no one deserves to die (deserving is fake and death is bad) but some people need to be stopped and choose to make death the only way to stop them

I disagree. Pedophiles 100% deserve death.

you are moralizing and weaponizing your disgust in order to construct and justify a category of person you're allowed to murder

what do you think you deserve for this?

Sorry, no person deserves to die, thankfully child molesters and pedophiles aren't human, so this doesnt apply to them.

denying the humanity of people who do horrible things accomplishes exactly three things:

  1. give cover to people who haven't been caught yet by allowing them to use their humanity as "proof" of their innocence
  2. silence any criticism of societal structures and institutions that facilitate those horrible things by putting the focus on individuals who are assumed to be so uniquely monstrous that the ways it was made easy for them are irrelevant
  3. provide a shortcut to dehumanize anyone you feel like killing: simply accuse them of doing a horrible thing

3.a. if you've already established that only an inhuman monster could kill a child, then all you have to do to get people to burn down the jewish quarter is say that jews kidnap christian children to bathe in their blood

3.b. if you've already established that only an inhuman monster could commit rape, then all you have to do to get people to string up a black man you don't like is find a white woman who's willing to point at him while she cries and babbles

3.c. if you've already established that only an inhuman monster could molest a child, then all you have to do to get people to drag gay people behind their trucks is say that since gay people can't have babies, the only way they can make more gay people is by following a nefarious Agenda to "convert" children by molesting them

3.c.a. meanwhile if you try to address the rampant sexual assault of catholic altar boys, you're met with "don't be ridiculous, he's a priest!" (see #1) and with assertions that even if it does happen sometimes, those priests are just infiltrators who don't represent the church and there's no reason to make sure priests and altar boys are never alone together (see #2)

tl;dr: your disgust-based violent politics are not less reactionary than any run-of-the-mill homophobe or racist's disgust-based violent politics

I realized how bad of a take this was after I added my last bit, i apologize for the idiocy i portrayed in my half thought out statements. And I appreciate the way you rebutted this with reasonable statements rather than going hog wild because I said something you didnt agree with.

hey no worries. we've all been there, and anyone who says they havent is either 11 or afraid of their social circle

unlearning our kneejerk reactions is a process, and it's not a linear one. its good to practice thinking before we post, but sometimes thinking after we post just has to be good enough

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lilyblisslys

seeing people write β€œdog” messages in front of every animal/turtle in elden ring followed by finally finding a dog and seeing all the messages be β€œlikely turtle?” β€œUnknown beast” is actually the funniest moment I’ve ever experienced in a game

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There's a phase that small kids go through, when they've just learned how to talk enough to have something sembling an intelligent, intellectual argument. They like to practice this by wanting to disagree about anything - mainly general statements that were not 100% perfectly waterproof. If you tell a 4-year-old that bananas are green when they're raw, and they turn yellow when they're ripe, there's a good chance that they'll give you that "well that can't be right" frown, and start to argue. Surely not all bananas that are yellow are always ripe.

Unfortunately humouring them about these arguments is very important for their development and a great opportunity to teach them more about how the world works, so you'll sometimes end up arguing about things like these, and every single time when you explain that's not how something works, they'll come up with another argument starting with "but what if-", until you are forced to admit that yes, if someone did for some reason take one single green banana, spray-paint it yellow and then expertly textured it to look just like a ripe banana, and then break into a grocery store in the middle of the night to slip that one painted banana into the display of ripe, edible bananas, then that one specific yellow banana would not be ripe and ready to eat.

As far as the child is concerned, this means that your entire initial statement was false, and you were wrong and they were right. Their need to be correct about something has been satisfied. Fortunately, most children grow out of this phase eventually.

The ones that manage to survive into adulthood without growing out of it end up on Twitter.

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greelin

we are on like covid variant #100037 and rsv/flu/pneumonia cases are rising and people will show up unmasked and be like β€œyeah i’ve been sick for days :/” like. ok. Get the fuck away from me then? why are you out here breathing on everything. the very least you could be doing is masking. NOT hacking into open air every two seconds.

i feel genuinely insane for getting annoyed whenever people just cough into their hands and touch shit or directly cough into the air but it’s like. that’s bad. right. that is rude. that is not something you should be doing. above the age of three. can we acknowledge this. Hello

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