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One of the most terrifying things about the past few years is realizing that a LOT of people are less kind than you want them to be, and will take any excuse to be cruel.

I sometimes feel very alone and sad, trying to understand why people choose to be this way. Because it is a choice.

going postal is excellent. i love the golem bits. another thing to adore about terry is that he treats activism with great care and loves activists; even the annoying and silly ones. he knows they matter and why.

Men are not trash. Perpetuating that narrative helps normalize rape culture by making it seem like it's just inherent to their nature. It's not.

Men are human beings. The social system of patriarchal masculinity is what's trash, and it hurts them too. We can change that.

no, it is not “on men” to dismantle the patriarchy. it’s on all of us.

I'm certainly in favor of other countries boycotting the upcoming World Cup, but I don't think it's likely. None boycotted Qatar despite the horrific labor conditions for, and deaths of literally thousands of, construction workers who built the stadiums. FIFA isn't exactly anti-authoritarian.

From the conclusion: "Reconciliation is concerned with questions of what will decolonization look like? What will happen after abolition What will be the consequences of decolonization for the settler?" ... "We want to say, first, that decolonization is not obliged to answer those questions"

There is rude, and then there is rude because politeness means noone gets to be clear or honest about anything that could be slightly uncomfortable.

I am sure this is not the former.

I don't care if it is the latter.

We should make the world Alice Wong wanted. We have to.

Likely common.

Because you can't hoard that much (and if you are a "meritocrat", believe yourself so uniquely and utterly deserving)

While we and you are part of a whole.

To get there, You must have dehumanised people into commodities, resources and other hateful or indifferent concepts.

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hi.
this reminds me strongly of what happened to someone close to me. She found one book very useful when the situation (and the person) got so unreasonable that it was hard to accept as real.
(After reading 7 or so other books on mental health and disorders without finding anything useful in them.)

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i can’t go to sleep because i can’t stop reading Arnulf Øverland’s «Du må ikke sove» and wishing that it was in any way possible for a translation to do it justice. a lot of people are talking about “the poem” (Niemöller) these days, and it’s a good poem, but…

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

When you say you hate all Americans, you are also talking about Keith Porter and Renee Good, about indigenous people being held in detention centers, about people who are fighting tooth and nail and blood against this regime, and probably don’t need discouragement.

I despise
With mine eyes
Diagonals
And other straight lines
That is how I can be sure to lose at chess
(I also can't handle knights)

(And as if that were not enough
No matter how loudly I tell myself to ask what the opponent is threatening, I have always forgotten completely by the time I lose.)

(but my wholly unqualified opinion regarding skill is that these are drawings show a lot of skill)

These are beautiful drawings. I can't judge skill, only what it is like to look at them.

I think this is such an important distinction & reminder

like I don't owe any allegiance to the systems and structures and the machinery of power, but there are fucking beautiful extraordinary amazing people in every corner of this country and to whatever degree I'm "patriotic" it's loyalty to them

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Nobody‘s likely to be listening, but tell them to eat shit anyway