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As if trust fund kids have $50k in federal student loans. 🙄 People trot this out as an excuse but really- the people that don’t need help won’t get help because they likely wouldn’t have qualified for the loans in the first place. Lord have mercy some people will do anything to perpetuate white supremacy and generational wealth.

Cancel student debt.

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One of the best parts of 2020 is the constant feeling that you’re being an over-reacting weirdo but also, impossibly, that at the same time you’re not taking it seriously enough, are taking too many risks, and that you might die or kill your family because of them.

THIS IS ALL GREAT FOR MENTAL HEALTH.

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for ahmaud arbery

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As an Indigenous person, there is nothing I’ve heard about GreedFall that doesn’t disgust me.

I’ve talked about this before, during early promotion, and everyone said I was over-reacting. Now the company is coming right out and acknowledging that this is indeed a colonizer fantasy roleplaying game, so like. You all owe me $5, my Ko-fi link is on my blog.

GreedFall is set in a fantasy world inspired by the 17th century colonization of the Americas by European powers. Rousseau said she chose the setting to emphasize exploration and politics.

No faction is a monolith, and player decisions affect which sub-faction will be ascendant. When working with Theleme, players can side with the Inquisitors, who take a hardline convert-or-die approach to the natives, or with the Missionaries, who believe that they will eventually win converts to their faith by living peacefully with the locals. Some native clans believe that they can profit from the riches and weapons the settlers brought with them, while others want to drive them back into the sea.

“There are no really good guys,” Rousseau said. “There are some good people amongst these factions, but it’s very difficult to say that a whole faction is good or bad. They are a mix of different things.”

They are literally trying to turn genocide into a morally grey question. They are literally profiting off of Indigenous pain.

Worst thing is there are going to be hundreds of white gays fawning over themselves because there are same-sex romances, as if that makes up for the utter grossness of the story.

No joke, anyone who plans on playing this game should get off my blog.

EDIT: Please feel free to reblog. In fact, I would appreciate the support.

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I’ll be honest, reading this was confusing to me at first, trying to figure out the identities mentioned above. And then I realized, I don’t necessarily need to figure it out because the point is that all of these identities exist and are valid because they belong to humans. So we can all do better and try harder to respect and understand differences. All differences, all the time. So now I’m going to put some time into researching communities i don’t know about in the lgbtqia+ world (which ps is my world too).

hm y'all need to be nicer to straight trans people

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This is so powerful

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Four years ago today, 18 year old Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson by police officer Darren Wilson. Charges were never filed.

We honor Brown’s memory by continuing the fight for police accountability nationwide.

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the thing about independence day is that you’re only celebrating the independence of american cis white straight men. women, disabled people, lgbt+ folks, black people and people of colour were still not independet or free to begin with

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Unpopular opinion: so what if Emma Gonzalez did tear up the Constitution? It was written by slaveowners, still allows slavery through incarceration, and we can do much better.

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#StephonClark #BlackLivesMatter

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If this isn’t proof that teachers are some of the most caring individuals, I don’t know what is.

That awkward moment when Hugh Jackman remembers he taught you at school [x]