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stupid..

stupid never changes.

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Now that we are all equally unemployed and underfunded, I think it’s finally time that humanities and STEM people set aside our differences and unite against the true enemy (business majors)

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okay Rook goes crazy for a non-binary name though

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say it with me:

we are fighting about the same stupid shit

that we have been fighting about for the past

4 generations

over and over again

bc MOST people do NOT actually want to move forwar as a species

how do i know?

bc we already have all we need to fix this. we've had it for the past two generations, at least.

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feeling that way again.

the same simmering feeling i got days before i lost my jobs.

and it's been more than a handful of times that's happened.

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a few days ago i almost got hit by a car, at speed.

i just held my arms wide open and looked the guy right in the eyes.

he wasn't looking at me.

but i know he saw me.

and i know he was more afraid of hitting me than i was of dying.

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it only bothered me later.

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what's HIS problem?

why did he try to hit me?

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he came within inches.

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how many times have i faced down other guys or situations much larger than myself

only to come out on top

or for them to fall apart when meeting me?

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but Life itself has tried to kill me enough, via random circumstances.

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perhaps Death just sort of hangs on me now.

after all: i've had near death experiences since i was very young.

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and there's very little for me in this world.

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there is only a handful of things I would personally die fighting for.

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and none of them are people i know.

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except me.

i would die fighting for me.

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but i am tired of fighting.

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but i cannot help getting angry.

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anger has saved my life a few times.

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the will to live sometimes comes out as anger.

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i have seen it.

and i am afraid.

because i am already ashamed of what i have done.

due to anger.

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yelling, destroying things, and my life.

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i haven't hit another person, yet.

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but i can feel it coming.

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am i a danger to myself and others?

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this is just self defence.

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oh well. let's see what happens.

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slightly related this makes me think of when i went to a pop up thrift and a white girl around my age touched my hair without asking (as if id let her even if she asked) and i was like what r u doing and she goes “its so beautiful” and i told her that doesnt give her the right to touch me or my fro and she, i kid you not, pointed to her blm pin on her bag and expected me to be like overjoyed and praise her for Liking Us but got nasty with me when i said “You don’t get to fucking touch me” there r millions of u performative allys walking around being weird to us trust me we know how to spot u, bc u feel entitled to us and expect praise for Liking Us but you never even actually Like Us

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mf keep acting like

being poor

experiencing oppression

being disabled

is a uniquely [insert demographic here]

problem, until it's THEM

then it is MUCH MORE important.

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then, the people who were more heavily oppressed, the ones who had been long suffering are almost entirely forgotten

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because now it's everyone's problem.

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then they continue to listen to popular voices. opps. people who have led the communities astray time and again.

instead of the most radical voices. instead of the most reasonable voices.

instead of the most real voices.

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the cycles continue.

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what use is becoming a matyr in a world where everyone is convinced one way or another about the goodness or badness of people?

instead of, at least first, trying to make sure everyone is safe, healthy, and free?

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we fall back on ostracizing, demonizing, and otherwise taking away the rights and dignities of those who would expose the truth - in all its ugliness and beauty.

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aaron bushnell set himself on fire.

luigi mangione shot a ceo.

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these systems, insitutions, and people have killed countless beings - human and nonhuman.

extinctions of species we will never know.

for paper. for profit. for personal gain.

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yet we still live in a wonderous and mysterious reality we are just beginning to understand.

and there have been people in power for generations playing both sides of these wars.

witholding and distorting information on any number of extremely important things.

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people far better with far more resources have dedicated their lives to uncovering the truth.

we still live in a world where there are many people with privileges i can only hope to have... who are not using their powers to their full extent.

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but i am to believe we are all equally trying our hardest and doing our best.

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i am a man. but i am more than that. as are you, more than a human.

surely, you are a spiritual being having a human existence.

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but perhaps you only believe in the material reality.

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i have to believe my experiences. my research. i have to keep my mind open for more information.

i have to keep growing as a person.

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my heroes are saints, demi-gods, and fictional characters.

jesus. buddha. joan of arc. to name a few.

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humans are capable of incredible good and evil. superhuman feats of physical and mental prowess.

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but that's not all that matters. after all: what use is power, if it's only used to destroy?

aren't you supposed to help people?

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so many we hold on pedestals. when was the last time you thought of a saint, a hero, or some such..

as an actual flesh and blood person?

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stem genius. olympic atheletes. creatives of masterpeices.

these characteristics we value for what they can produce in our society. for others.

how much do they mean in a world that doesn't care about Life? or diversity?

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at the end of the day, everything has a right to live, regardless of it qualities.

morality is something we attribute to human actions.

and by our own morals - humans fail.

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there are ideals, spiritualities, philosophies.

praxis is what matters.

acting with the knowledge in the proper way.

using power to help and to heal.

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but it's all become a way to get rich.

to prove that you're better than someone else.

another social commodity.

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not for the sake of it

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My gleeful vampire

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Can anyone help me out. Please?

PP: keigokairos

CA: $onepeaceman

GFM: https://gofund.me/0fc52e59

EDIT: specifically seeking help from other trans men of color atp. If anyone else helps, that is awesome but yeah. Thanks

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So incredibly liberating blocking every single queer person who tries to create false binaries ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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is this a safe space to say that the additions to the LGBT flag (“progress flag”) are well meaning but undermine the fact that the original colors symbolized vague concepts that could apply to anyone, rather than signifying specific types of human beings, which is, ironically, more “exclusionary” since it begs the question of why “X specific group of humans” aren’t being represented in the imagery now. the original flag completely avoided that conundrum. also it’s a little ugly. But don’t mind me lol.

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This is a reminder that mixed race people don't owe you what races they are nor are they lying about their race by looking more like one but identifing closer to the other :)

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Hey remember how I said that A: Khelif was being targeted by transmisogyny regardless of the presumptive "TME" label and B: insisting that she is intersex when she has denied being so was dangerous because I didn't trust anti-trans and anti-intersex governing bodies to not exclude or ban her on a technicality?

And then I got harassed for over a week about how pointing this out was in itself transmisogyny?

So very interesting about that...

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at this point i am 1 mil% convinced that most people are regressing on shit that we've already hashed out

about politics, race, gender etc

bc they don't want to grow up into a species that actually you know

deals with all this shit

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we have the solutions, the manpower, the resources, and the infrastructure

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yet somehow all the "good" "smart" people with the power - people with networks, money, etc - are NOT doing their part

either individually

or collectively

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like idk if ya'll know how crazy making it is to be on the BOTTOM RUNG of all this *gestures vaguely at the horrors*

to have much more privileged people tell me i need to

DO ALL THE SHIT THEY HAVE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED

so i can change the world

in supposedly the same way they want to??

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your leaders and faves are lying to you.

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there's enough people with power on "this side"

individually and collectively

that we should be able to basically flip a lightswitch

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mutual aid across class lines

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general strike

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shut down economy/restructuring of society around needs

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new government/land back etc

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or are we somehow still incapable of this, for some reason?

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"male loneliness epidemic" is misleading because it implies that men are suffering because they can't get girls when I feel like the actual problem is that pretty much any online content that's aimed specifically at men conceptualizes the masculine ideal as what I call the Buff Scammer. there are only two things in this world that matter, says the Buff Scammer: being jacked and making money. how you get to either of those things doesn't matter, you just need to be as rich and as buff as possible or you have failed as a man. Get into drop shipping. Eat nothing but raw meat. Rugpull a memecoin. Remove seasonings from your diet. Sell an online course. Go to the gym daily. Starve yourself so your body will achieve ketosis and start burning fat. Attend a seminar on real estate investing. Work 80 hours a week. Take steroids but don't let anyone know about that part. Flip a YouTube channel after 10xing the subs. Sell AI art on Etsy and AI audiobooks on Amazon. What's that? You're trying to do this to get girls? Why would you care about women? Women are all stupid whores who don't help you get richer or buffer. The only people you should be paying attention to are other rich, buff men. If you do hang out with women you should be pimping them out on Chaturbate so you can at least get an ROI off your time spent not thinking about men. Male friends? You don't have time for friends. You should be hustling and grinding 24/7 365. And if you absolutely do need to spend time around other men you should only be spending time with other buff scammers so you can collaborate on entrepreneurial ventures. Like Jesus Christ even writing this is exhausting I feel like trying to be this dude would be fucking miserable like not only did you turn yourself into a friendless, materialist, misogynistic asshole who can only conceptualize the world in terms of value extracted but you're NOT EVEN HAVING FUN DOING IT!!!!!!