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Yeah that tracks

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kids these days are like “i need chat gpt to write an essay that would normally take 12 hours in 2” but back in my day i did that all the time by using a little technique called “writing some absolute bullshit.” and yet i still walked away with a better essay and more critical thinking skills than i would get if i used chatgpt. write a bad essay that you started on the day it was due, but write it yourself.

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thinking about Sammie as an old man saying he still has nightmares around once a week sixty years after the juke joint massacre is so...

like I had ptsd nightmares that frequently at one point, in my mid twenties, for years, and it completely destroyed my life. I couldn't work, my health tanked because I was literally too scared to sleep so I'd stay up until I passed out from exhaustion, and it destroyed the relationship I'd been in for half a decade

this isn't a sob story, I'm better now because I was insanely lucky and had a good, kind, competent therapist who was able to help me work through my shit. I'm only mentioning my experiences because I know intimately how this kind of thing can ruin you so easily

the fact that Sammie was able to estaish himself as a renowned blues musician and own his own business while fending off constant horrific nightmares is a testament to how strong he is emotionally

the horrors persist, but so does he

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I would imagine other people have noticed this already but at the end of the film, Sammie's dressed in blue, like Smoke. He's even wearing a similar style of cap. Looking at Sammie closely and listening to him in-person must have been like looking at a time capsule for Stack ('Yea ... I miss the real.')

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“women don’t have the capacity for misogyny” have you ever met a mother

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They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

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people really seem to struggle with the idea that you can think something is dickhead behaviour and still not want it to be illegal

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What books have you done this to?

Instagram / Shop

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I still get excited when my friends refer to me as their friend

"My friend said" "this is my friend" "they're my friend"

Im freaking out inside every time

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hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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shoutout to the horny freaks in fandom. this is a freaks please do interact zone

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A lot of non-Jewish leftists aren't ready to hear this but I couldn't give less of a shit:

Stop talking about how you "would have hidden Anne Frank."

Anne Frank was not special.

You know her name because Otto Frank put in a considerable amount of work to make sure his daughter wasn't forgotten.

She is not your martyr or your saint.

She was a teenager who wrote that she believed people were good at heart, and then she was murdered by people who absolutely weren't.

And honestly, I don't want to hear a word about her by people who don't even know her sister's name.

Read "People Love Dead Jews" and stop using our murdered family as rhetorical devices.

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like the fact that PrEP and PEP just kinda became a normal part of life one day without fanfare is something I think about a lot. Thousands of people died gruesome horrible deaths and now when I go on Reddit or ride the subway I see dinky little ads like "start this medication today so you don't contract/spread HIV! and if you get accidentally exposed there's a different medication for that to keep yourself from contracting!" and it's just an everyday thing. all those people who died fought for it to be this way.

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Ice cold takes from a Transgender Woman:

Men are not inherently Evil

Everyone has the capacity for evil

Transgender Men are men

Transgender Women are women

Excluding Cisgender Men from your spaces requires Transgender Men to out themselves if they want to engage (Same for Women)

Anyone can be Non-Binary, there is no "look" or requirement

Non-binary masculine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces, many are just treated as men and predators

Non-binary feminine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces without being seen as "Woman-Lite"

Edited the wording on the first point because too many terfs keep thinking I'm their friend.