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and apprently this isn't the only time?

we have a confirmed third

rich people be losing theoretical money and making it our problem. like imagine anyone not wealthy being like "this is how much money I thought I would be making and since I'm not, I'm taking it from someone who needs it way more than me" and then we call it inflation or rising costs of living

‘We put lifesaving medication behind a physical paywall because capitalism and fuck you’

they’re free, the vending machine format helps with privacy, and they’re monitored for regular refills!

Oh! That’s actually lovely and i am cynical

do not. sell my husband to one direction.

it broke today that biden airdropped aid to gaza. other than the fact that this is an obvious pr move ahead of his re-election campaign, i think it's important to stress how ineffective this method is compared to just allowing humanitarian aid to come through. airdrops carry far less aid than truck convoys, for one, and require an airdrop zone with a lot of idealistic conditions that don't often coincide. this is a major reason why you hear a lot of airdrops being conducted at beaches--and why a lot of them have been blown to the sea. and what's even more dangerous about that is that a lot of these palestinians are malnourished, starving, in a delirious state of mind. many of them are so utterly hungry that they'd be willing to swim through just to get their hands on a sodden meal. but apparently this is the best thing the us, which literally funds israel's ongoing genocide, can do for palestinians at the moment.

i think the biggest reason i find this so insidious is because it implies the us has to play by israel's rules, even though it's basically already confirmed that there are us soldiers in palestine. the us is telling us that the best thing it can do is airdrop aid, rather than strongarm israel into allowing ground-delievred aid to come through. the us is acting like it has red tape it has to contend with.

but the us is the red tape. the us literally holds the power. it knows what it's doing. it's actually jarring watching the united states government try to infantilize itself.

why do I see people acting like Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation in protest is particularly disturbing? I know we have all seen nearly limitless physical violence inflicted on Gazan people's bodies and none of that at any point appeared to generate this level of absolute handwringing theatrics. This is not a good look for many people.

PhDs in missing the point here

some of you are so fucking stupid you reverse the very logic this man tried to demonstrate with his very sacrifice. "People only care because it's some white guy" show some goddamn respect. By "handwringing theatrics" I mean the backflips people are doing to tag his protest and slap it with 12 thousand "trigger warnings" and waxing about suicide. You are doing consent manufacturing suppression for the feds for free. You are feeding the chosen narrative of mental illness whether you want to or not, and you are doing it completely unpaid. "It's so horrific, don't watch" no please do. He was an extremely courageous young man. And the fact it particularly disturbs YOU is the point.

what's wrong with women being masculine and toxic? support women's choices. #woman

idk to me it’s just like,,,black people coined the phrases say her name and rest in power for a reason and im gonna focus specifically on say her name because it was black women who wanted to call attention to the systemic violences that we have faced that have resulted in the deaths of so many of us which were left unrecognized. it was specifically addressing an issue within the black community wherein black femicides (particularly at the hands of the police/intimate partners) were not given the same spotlight as the murders of black men. we are always forgotten in life and in death and that is part of why the violence against us has been permitted to continue to the point that we are at a significantly higher risk of homicide than any other race. and the statistics are even more grim for black transwomen and femmes. for every nonblack victim of transphobic violence that gets recognition in their horrific death, there are 10 black victims whose names we never know. like that is the whole point of the phrase this shit is life or death for us and we know that the moment race is decontextualized from the nature of the phrase then that is when we are once again forgotten. but yall are acting like we’re trying to start genz tiktok lingo/aave co-opting discourse.

what im essentially trying to say is that say her name isn’t aave or slang or “just something black people say” it was a very intentionally crafted call to action that was made with a specific purpose - that being to highlight black women as being disproportionately vulnerable to violence yet overwhelmingly overlooked. and i think the reason why a lot of yall are mad when we say to pick a diff phrase is bc yall think of it as internet slang and not an actual movement largely driven by social media a la #blacklivesmatter

and to reiterate the selection of “her” was done with the intention of calling attention to the state-sponsored (whether by law enforcement or deputized citizen) murder of Black women that would often go overlooked by even activists taking part in Black Lives Matter organizing points, protests and rallying cries. Her was also selected with the foresight that those who chose to ignore the state sponsored murders of Black women would continue to do so, no matter how overwhelming the evidence or organizing. The first co-opt and misuse of “Say Her Name” wasn’t even by nonblacks but by Black misogynoirist (or misinformed) actors using it for Black victims of state sponsored death in deviations of “say his name” or in gender neutral compiled lists of Black victims under “say their names”. This is why Black women and the few who ACTUALLY LISTENED have been tired of this convo, the conversation abt misogynoir has been predictably obfuscated by misogynoir.

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i gotta be honest with you it’s kind of fucking annoying as hell seeing transmascs watch all the insane recent transmisogyny and go “this is why we have to care about trans people, listen to trans siblings” no. this is about trans women. this is transmisogyny, plain and clear, and a big fucking reason why so many (cis and trans) tme people on this site still have such a transmisogyny problem is because they listen to other tme trans people about transmisogyny over trans women. a lot of people spreading these stupid callouts are transmasc and just not caring enough/looking close to see the transmisogyny! many of them are part of the problem in this way and we cant be afraid to recognize their bigotry just because they’re also trans, we have to stop excusing this behavior. stop getting defensive and generalizing this shit and start actually trying to seriously stand with the women in your community who are getting othered and socially murdered every other fucking day

I think you should legally disclose if something is ai just like how you legally have to disclose if something is an ad

I already said this in my tags but:

Hey, y'all in the notes: she wasn't asking you to call her beautiful or say she's adorable or "uwu she's so sweet i would die for her". She's asking you to interact with physically different creators regardless of if you think they're beautiful or not. Beauty standards are a farce and we need to stop implying that beautiful is the most important thing someone can be. Every person who says "oh she's so sweet I would die for her" or "anyone who calls her ugly is getting their kneecaps caved in": this is for you. You are being madly infantalising. It's like when you say to a fat person "oh you're not fat, you're cuddly" like, shut up! I thought we were past this by now. She is a PERSON and you are all scrambling to say just how beautiful you think she is, without even thinking about the message she is trying to send.

This isn't me saying she's ugly or whatever the fuck. I don't believe in ugly. This is me telling you all to stop being so fucking surface level with your beauty 'activism'. She knows what she looks like and she probably doesn't need hundreds of people infantalising her because they need to performatively show off how good they are and how much they don't care about traditional beauty standards. Grow up and interact with her like she's a person, not a fuckin three-legged puppy.

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poor southern small town Facebook is like…. 3 beautiful women feuding over the most fucked up looking jobless ne’er-do-well in the county, your friend from high school is having her 3rd baby at age 20 and naming it something horrendous, “this dog showed up in my yard, who’s fucking dog is this?”, “pray for my meemaw she broke her hip drunk last week and now has COVID”, meme about bass fishing (which was pretty funny from a townie), only other gay person in town making a milktoast liberal political post, thirst traps from someone who makes no one feel thirsty, details of a couple’s divorce online for everyone to see, ballpark fight between two moms, “this is on sale at the piggy wiggly so move your ass and go get some!”, “I love driving around in the woods drinking beer”, “it smells like something is burning, is a house on fire somewhere?”

In case it isn’t clear from the post, I went through the public school system in North Carolina.

I’m literally a Facebook user, please lower your grammatical expectations. I’m the guy John Denver wrote Thank God I'm a Country Boy about. I’m writing this post and milking a cow with the other hand.

You gonna have toast with that milk?

fuck you parder

remember that twospirit =/= nonbinary and native

there are native people whoe are trans, nonbinary, or otherwise lgbt+ or queer, but who arent twospirit

twospirit is an umbrella term for hundreds of precolonial genders, sexualities, and ways of being. not every ndn who is queer is twospirit, and thats fine. twospirit identities usually imply a certain role you play within your family or community as well. i am pursuing a specific kind of work because that is part of my role in my community as taught to me by my elders, because i am twospirit.

it’s been long enough i’m making an executive decision that we all need to go reread the tgi fridays infinite mozzarella sticks article

still just as good as i remember it

The link is broken nooooo

burning of the fucking library of alexandria right here. anyway everyone say thank you wayback machine

I don't regret "guilt tripping" any of you btw maybe it's what you need so you fucking listen. you are so used to black people suffering any instance of us mentioning that you don't care about it is worse than what is already happening to us because we hurt your white feelings.