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For the record, that gofundme isn't for me, it's for someone I know. And if you message me about it I'm going to assume you're a bot. Donate and/or share if you want, I'm sure the person that created it will be thankful as will I, but please don't dm me. I am only helping out an old classmate of mine by sharing it in as many places as I can.

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Sharing for someone I went to college with whose life has fallen apart, and just needs help getting back on her feet. If you can donate, great, if not, sharing helps too:

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#PBS teaches kindness and inclusion, which are threats to abusive paternalism.

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William sketch

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"God never gives you more than you can handle" is survivorship bias. People who got more than they could handle are dead.

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I am spoiling the live action Lilo & Stitch. And I am doing it up front and plainly.

Do not fucking see this movie. Do not waste your money on this. Period.

They made Nani give Lilo up to the American government. They made Nani LEAVE Hawaii and pursue being a marine biologist. They made a native Hawaiian character give up her sibling to pursue a dream that she originally did not have. This is imperialist propaganda at its FINEST.

The original fucking movie is about family staying together. It's about indigenous people being able to stay with each other and stay in their home and be together! That's the whole fucking point! Nani is Lilo's last living relative on her homeland—it is jarring, it is disgusting and disturbing that Nani would not only leave her last blood relative alone, give her up to the very government that is harming native Hawaiians TODAY, but also travel to the "mainland" for her dream!

Not to mention, Nani's actress isn't fucking Hawaiian. She's much paler in photos and real life. They fucking darkened her for this movie.

Don't even get me started on the transgender subtext of Pleakley's "human" disguise from the original movie being completely erased in favor of him being played by a regular ass white man. Jumba doesn't have his accent, they made him more villainous, and his "human" disguise is a non-fat white man—which part of his original joke, I know, is that he was bigger and was more clumsy in the movie because of his size, but to have the main shape of his character completely removed is also fucking weird.

This live action movie is a desecration to the original. I encourage you to not see it, please. Don't give Disney any of your money on this one. Just watch the original. Please just watch the original.

The new message in the live action movie is disturbing and gross.

This is one of the most disrespectful live actions I've seen and heard of. I implore you to not watch it.

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Let's not forget the biggest cult right now: it's dedicated to our current President.

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

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Someone who openly celebrated sexual abuse of children has been arrested for sexual abuse of children.

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First Felon is kidnapping and trafficking.

#LanguageMatters ✨️racism✨️💫

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#SouthAfrica

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The truth is that those of you in a place of relative privilege that are against this fascist madness, but who aren't making your voices heard? *You're cowards. All of you. You're cowards.*. I'm not saying this out of rage or desperation right now, I'm too emotionally drained to feel those things atm. I just mean this with every bit of my soul. You. Are. Cowards.

You're needed right now by the marginalized that many of you claimed to support before this happened, and where the fuck are you now? Sitting at home, with your tails between your legs out of fear you'll be made a target if you speak up. And maybe you will, but whether you speak up now or not, your children and grandchildren will suffer. You will suffer regardless. The choice isn't whether or not to suffer, it's whether to suffer more now so you'll suffer less later, or sit there in fear like the cowards you are and doom your descendants to far-worse suffering. So if you actually give a damn, now is the time to get LOUDER, not quieter.

Those of you that have kids and grandkids are supposed to want them to have better lives than you did. Instead you expect them to fight your battles for you. But this applies to those of you that are childless too, because I know most of you have neices and nephews, just like I do.

All those words of support for immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, the disabled, the autistic, etc, did they mean nothing? Were they just pretty words to make friends and look better in your social circle? You, the majority, yell words of support from the sidelines when things are good, and expect us marginalized to fight on our own once they get bad? That's not being an ally. It's performative horseshit and cowardice.

Like I said, I'm not saying this out of rage or desperation.

*I'm saying it out of sheer contempt.*

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I will NEVER forgive the Trumper christofascists who voted for him this time. Never.

I was a shitty person back in the day, but I was NEVER as cruel as you fucking cretins. I was apathetic, but I was NEVER so apathetic as you. I was hypocritical, but I was never as hypocritical as you xenophobic shitstains. I was stupid and ignorant, but I was never as resistant to admitting to being wrong as you. I was and am a coward, but I don't run from reality to the arms of fantasy like you do.

But it's not like I couldn't have become you. If the car accident hadn't happened, I would've been one of you fucks. And that terrifies me. But it also means I hate you more for it. You remind me what I might've become: an obnoxious, hateful, needlessly cruel, anti-intellectual coward, too afraid of my own reflection to see the imperfections.

But more than anything, I hate you for driving me to feel desperate enough to consider breaking long-held promises, the consideration alone of which reopen old wounds that were finally starting to scar over. I was finally starting to heal. I was finally starting to forgive myself, and learn to self-reflect without self-hate. I was finally starting to accept myself, past and present flaws alike, as well as my strengths, while continuing to improve myself. And now I have to break the skin of those scars, causing even more pain than before, so I can bleed out emotions I dammed up behind a wall of compensation I told myself about how the pain was worth it, because it led to who I am today.

This isn't a burning hate. It's a boiling, black, oozing one that drips out, like hot road tar. It is inherently corrosive, and every bit as toxic as the kind you spew out. Except unlike yours, you know it's justified.

You revel in cruelty, apathy and hate, and it's only just to expect the same in return. It's why you literal demons of hate double-down so much even now, after everything he's done. Because you know you can't take back the damage you caused and the bridges you burned, even if you do switch sides. I know, because the same is true of the damage I used to do when I didn't care and didn't want to know about my own flaws.

See, that's one of the things you start to get pretty damn good at when you self-reflect often enough. The ability to understand others, as you understand yourself more and more. I may not be good with social cues even now, but I understand how people can continue to lie to themselves, and I understand why they do it. I understand pain, I understand fear, and I understand lashing out so that you don't have to look inwards and confront your own beliefs and biases.

I understand all of those things better than most neurotypical people because I put in the work to gain the skills they take for granted. But you, you wastes of perfectly good DNA, you actively run from that self-reflection. It's not just cowardice, it's weakness. And you convince yourself it's strength while your ability to discern reality from fantasy grows ever dimmer.

You are cowards running from reality itself, and choosing to believe in a fantasy that makes you feel like you're superior to everyone else around you. The Anita Bryants of the world, the Segregationists, the Nazis, the anti-suffragists, the eugenicists and Lost Causers that inspired the Nazis, and every other hateful hateful group that preceded you were all cowards clinging to the fantasy that they were smarter, better, stronger, while proving themselves to be the opposite at every opportunity. And you are just the latest in that line of cowards. And like them, you too will lose in the end, no matter how many you kill before then.

Your irrationality, hate and cowardice is your undoing, and you will deserve every bit of the reckoning that is to come when the facade of your fascism crumbles, and you face consequences for the ethnic cleansing you enabled. Blood is on your hands already, and like Pilate you will not be able to wash it off.

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Well shit, the Republicans brought a certain anti-online porn bill back to the table.

The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act.

This should alarm you guys.