#Idiots try to virtue signal

[simon-newman]

Okay.

After another dive into "For you" tab I am SICK AND TIRED of people virtue signaling by PRAISING Studio Trigger or the Dungeon Meshi author FOR MAKING FALIN CHUBBY.

I get that body positivity is all the hype those days especially in America but I don't think you're sending the right signal.

Being "Chubby" is a vague term but mostly associated with being slightly above the average weight - internet search often links to BMI above 25 - implying overweight.

Meanwhile what you call "chubby" and praise in the name of body positivity is... A COMPLETELY NORMAL AND HEALTHY BODY.

Falin is NOT overweight in the slightest.

JUST TAKE A FUCKING LOOK!

Manga:

Anime:

And if you fuckers think this is "fat" because she's leaning forward there's the other shot:

And there's also the OFFICIAL data that gives Falin's BMI at 24 which is within normal body weight. She's also active adventurer - even if she's a cleric her actual healthy range of BMI might be higher than the tables imply.

She looks slim in general. Just not as slim as the main elf girl. Because -you know - Marcille is an Elf and is built more slim in general with official BMI 20 she's closer to the lower end of the healthy range (at least for humans, IDK what healthy is for elves tho). Falin's face is also more round which doesn't really mean shit regarding body weight.

Y'all body positivity fuckers want to virtue signal but you have no fucking clue what healthy, non-overweight body looks like.

[bonefall]

I understand being upset by the moonpaw dog post but i dont think talking about some random teen publicly (on a pretty big fandom blog) as opposed to like, dming them about it, is a very nice thing to do? Would recommend keeping that kinda gossip in dms going forward personally.

??????? "That kinda gossip???"

Saying that it's fucked up that a publicly posted incest joke about how deformed she should look went to the top of the Warrior Cats and Moonpaw tags, is gossip???

TRENDING TAGS?? GOSSIP?

I'm not talking about "some random teen," I have not even dropped a username and been VERY clear I don't want harassment of anyone. During this discussion about wider ableism against Moonpaw, I've directly answered two anons about the contents of a post that was/IS extremely popular to the tune of nearly a thousand notes.

One of those two asks was an anon who only stumbled in to say that the post was funny in a display of SHOCKING tonedeafness, while I was talking about how shitty it is to compare people who are the products of incest to unethical dog breeds, especially in the context of WC. The other was an actual XX/XY chimera who expressed that the extremely popular post hurt their feelings, and when they tried to express discomfort to someone, got told they "probably killed their twin in the womb."

It's not just one rando weenie little blog the minute half of the Tumblr space is openly laughing at a joke about deformed incest kids and hoping Moonpaw dies because she's so "gross." Not nice?? Your feelings are hurt? OTHER people's feelings were ALREADY hurt.

NOTHING about this was "nice" to begin with!

Difference is, when YOU cry me a river, you can build me a bridge, and get right the fuck over it. A person who's the product of incest cries and has to go right back to every shitty banjo-hunchback-hapsburg joke they've heard before, just feeling more unsafe about a space that PRETENDS to care about the abuse they experienced. If you feel guilty about that, maybe you should!

If you were under the impression I was ever "nice" about bigotry, you were mistaken. I don't appreciate calls for ME to be more polite when I'm at a trend of fandom ableism and calling it fucked up. I've named NO names. Sounds like what you ACTUALLY want is for people like me who have a platform to shut up.

[shinosarna]

Harry Potter hot take

I do not actually give a shit if you like Harry Potter or if you have a Hogwarts house in your bio.

I don't care if you make a show of not liking Harry Potter anymore - that is quite literal definition of virtue signalling.

What IS important that you don't support official releases. Pirate all of it. If you buy Harry Potter lego, buy bootlegs. If you play Hogwarts Legacy, play the pirated version. If you play those mobile games, play the cracked APK without microtransactions.

Purity politics in this regard are idiotic - it's easy to tell someone to not read Harry Potter, but now that we know that Neil Gaiman is a serial rapist - are you gonna tell people to not read Sandman or Good Omens? And how far does it go? Of classic fantasy and sci-fi authors, significant chunk were racist or sexist. Like, are you gonna tell people to not watch Star Trek because Shatner became a MAGA chud?

Just like material conditions are important, so are material actions. Consuming media isn't that important as long as you approach it critically, but material support is.

If terrible people will be enriched by supporting official release of the material... don't buy it. Gaiman gets royalties for adaptations of his books and comics, so don't buy them. Don't buy Harry Potter licensed stuff, because so does JKR. If you really need something physical , buy it second hand or fan-made.

But Shatner gets basically nothing from supporting modern Star Trek material, or Notch gets nothing by you buying Minecraft... so it doesn't matter if you do or not.

"But Harry Potter is racist -" significant chunk of works out there are either sexist or racist or something-ist. Consuming only 'ideologically pure' fiction is a terrible idea that will leave you consuming only fanfics and children's media - and then writing long essays about why certain fanfics or cartoons are irredeemable trash. And we just saw in recent years where that leads, right?

"So what, does that mean I should read Mein Kampf?" People DO read Mein Kampf for historical analysis. The question is why do you want to do that, and second part is keeping a critical mind to notice when writer is trying to influence you. Reading 'bad books' will not magically make you a worse person, and you're much more likely to be influenced by propaganda that you DON'T already know is bad.

Instead, try to focus on caring and supporting groups that are harmed by these authors. Instead of making a big show of not reading Sandman, support women and victims of sexual violence. Instead of posturing about how you don't read Harry Potter, support trans people.

[oacest]

hi scholars, i'm sorry this is not a fun topic. the new r*ssell brand news got me thinking. apart from a few exceptions, why does noel have such horrible taste in male friends, and has it been always like this? since when he started hanging out with those creepy male comedians? is he friends with them because he’s just a poor judge of character or is there more to that? what do you think?

noel was also friends with johnny d*pp but i believe he was more like his (and meg's) bestie’s bf rather than his friend. i’m sure he doesn’t talk to brand anymore but it’s so baffling to me that they're the people he willingly associate(d) himself with. maybe i’m biased but noel doesn’t have the creepy vibes his mates have and looks out of place to me when he's with them. i've listened to one of the matt morgan podcast episodes where noel mentioned some of the comedians he liked and all of them turned out to be cancelled it’s not even funny. so i guess they have similar sense of humor and morals...even though I don’t like to pick sides, i think liam is 100% justified for slagging off his brother’s circle of friends.

i'm sorry to say that cancel culture is not a realistic way to engage with or make meaningful observations about human behaviour! unless you live in a deeply asocial manner (and even then...), it's not possible to get through life without knowing, befriending, or even loving and being intimate with a wide array of people who do terrible things. pretending otherwise isn't healthy or constructive. for better or worse, noel is a man (supposedly) who was born and enculturated in the 60s in a very particular socioeconomic circumstance, and then moved on to a very different socioeconomic circumstance, both of which are.. shall we say.. Known to be hotbeds of all kinds of wretched activities and ideologies. if anything, we should be astonished he's as conscientious as he is. by which i don't mean we should fall down in gratitude at his feet for sometimes being respectful of others lmao, only that we need to think holistically about how people's lived experiences inform them. by definition he understands the world differently than an online american 19yo in the year 2025. he's not choosing his friends or who he finds funny by applying the same metrics you might. the man (in)famously was delighted to hobknob with tony blair ffs lmao, be real.

otoh, while he maybe doesn't use the wording that people in leftist spaces these days like, to his credit he has repeatedly and consistently over the years been quite forthright in condemning misogyny and racism as he understands them, and seems generally to do his best to act in accordance with those beliefs.

but he's a famous rich white guy who hangs out with other famous rich white guys, and shares a lot of the same ideas and beliefs! odds are very good a high percentage of that demographic is going to end up being sketchy. (although for what it's worth he'd already distanced himself from russell brand years ago due to prior instances of shitty behaviour.) no one can accuse noel gallagher in particular of being performative about his opinions and choices lol, he's an idiot in a lot of ways, but this urge to make celebrities virtue signal harder than anyone else due to their "platform" is pointless at best, and i would say downright dangerous in general. i know you've sent this ask in perfectly good faith and im not trying to preach or wag my finger, but i can tell you that the instinct to hang your hopes and emotions on a celebrity you like behaving to your particular specifications is asking for disappointment at the very least. he can like whatever shitty comedians he likes, it's not our business or responsibility to approve or disapprove of that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(and for the record there is no world in which liam is LESS sexist than noel or somehow more "woke" lol, all his complaints about noel's friends are based on personal jealousies and agendas and have nothing to do with moral superiority.)

[vividfae]

On Annie

(This post is going to assume you have like 500 years worth of extremely specific stupid streamer context, so if you don't, I will have a list of places at the end of this post for you to check for the relevant context.)

A few days ago, Annie Gallagher of Guardian Acorn went on an extremely healthy and not at all bordering on psychotic posting spree in which she spent a couple days weaponizing the financial needs of a vulnerable trans person trying to escape TX as a bludgeon against Milena.

Her reason? Milena signal boosted the GoFundMe of Dusk, one of the former mods of Zena & Poppy's Foundation server, as well as the Ko-Fi of Spawn, Poppy's estranged adult child, who are both in need of financial support. Milena didn't donate to either of them this round of sharing (to my knowledge anyway, anon donations or donating privately are a possibility and would be impossible to know for sure), she simply signal boosted asking others to donate. This is a routine action that people do for GFM's. Except to Annie. See, Annie decided that this was proof of hypocrisy on Milena's part because of the fanfiction that Annie has written in her head about Milena's wealth, and so after donating herself, she instigated a 2 day campaign of using a person seeking financial support as a way to both jerk herself off for her good deed and attack Milena for doing something entirely unremarkable (and well within character as this is not the first time Milena has shared donation links for these two).

Pictured below, a healthy adult using social media:

Now, I'd better slow down before I give the impression that (regardless of what I write after this point, Annie, Zena, Poppy, & their circle will still say) I'm posting this as any kind of defense of Milena. I don't give a shit about Milena's part in this story, it's simply ✨context✨.

See, Annie made a mistake during this screed. Prior to all of this, I happened to see the links Milena shared & I, for full disclosure, decided to donate $200 to each, as I could afford to do so & these were the first GoFundMe's I'd seen on my TL in a while. Prior to this, Dusk & I had not spoken to each other since her split with the Foundation, & I have still not spoken to Spawn since the last time I saw them in person at Zena & Poppy's place two years ago. I have no interest in reaching out to them, nor do I expect either of them to reach out. I won't turn them away, but I simply wanted to help them out because they needed it, I have no desire to force reconcilation that is not wanted.

After making the donation to Dusk, I noticed that the prior donation on the page was from Poppy, and prior to that Annie. Curiosity got the better of me & I saw the posts of hers in looking into it all. Annie saw my donation and posted a screenshot of it. This screenshot contained my real life last name, a name that I do not use in these spaces for privacy reasons. I was not aware that the GoFundMe account I donated with had that as my display name, as I would have preferred to keep it to the name I go by publicly. Her post also contained a dig at my IRL job, saying that I am "working a job I hate."

Now, contrary to popular belief, I'm not a fucking idiot. I know how easy I am to doxx. I use my real first name online like a dumbass. That said, I intentionally don't use my last name on my channel social media for at least one layer of protection/separation.

In seeing all of this I was angry. Partially because of the name doxxing, partially because I am extremely careful to separate my job from my online presence, but mostly because of the cynical weaponizing a trans person's plight in a highschool drama esque bitching match.

I chose to respond (Tumblr is cockblocking me on adding images unfortunately):

Oh my god we're doing the virtue signal posting over donating to gfm's aren't we

Thank god I thought things were going to be normal for a day 🙄

Can we stop weaponizing trans people needing help as a cheap stab at The Bad People™️©️®️

I'm going to drop the vagueposting for one second & get into the shit just this once because I think it's important. All of this is unhealthy.

I'm glad Annie & Poppy gave money, but it really sours the act when you're trying to bludgeon another over the head when we all fucking know neither of you would've donated if you didn't see it bc Milena signal boosted first.

For all my critiques of Milena's actions, sharing someone's GFM without donating to it isn't on that list. Grow up. All of you.

A couple side notes: 1. Please don't post screenshots containing my full name. 2. I give money when I can & when I see GFM/Kofi's posted because it is something I can do, not as a power move or a virtue signal & I would appreciate not having this used in the game you think you're playing.

3. Please do not post about my job. Ever. I do like my job & I'm grateful for the opportunities it has given me despite stresses & occasional frustrations.

Annie decided this was worth going nuclear over.

Now, I know that you know Annie is a pathological liar, but I still feel it is prudent to show it, especially when she is so utterly stupid as to show this screenshot as "evidence."

First off, those who read my post about leaving the Foundation & my breakup with Zena & Poppy will know exactly what that post meant, because I said the exact thing in it:

You see, throughout the final stages of my relationships & associations with Zena, Poppy, & their server, I found myself feeling betrayed, abandoned, discarded, & frankly, mistreated. As one by one the people who only a month ago reached out to me to check in on my mental health & said they would forever care about me began to distance from me or block me, pressured by Poppy & Zena into some false test of loyalty (read: compliance), I felt an immense anger bubble inside of me. Rage began to fuel a desire to force the people I once considered my closest circle to see the pain & despair they had left me in, & more importantly, to ensure they knew exactly how I was made to feel.

I pretty plainly explained what I meant. I may not condone many of their actions, but I finally get it. I get the rage that led to this campaign, the desire to take back control over your life, story, and situation after feeling broken down from the manipulation & abuse. All it took Annie to do in order to not make this mistake was read something, but what a silly thing to expect from someone who makes a living off of writing, right?

Additionally, in that discord server, owned by streamer & professional Guy Who Makes Being the Least Liked Person in Every Room Part of His Personality Goddamnit Malcolm, if you literally scroll to the next fucking week, you will see me doing the exact opposite of what Annie says that I did.

But of course, Annie isn't satisfied with only this lie. Go big or go home right?

Two things, but I want to start with the first. The conversation she is referring to is an argument when the final split happened between me and the Foundation members that I had with Twisty in DMs.

As you can see, I never once used the word disgusted towards her. I expressed anxiety over what I felt was broken trust by someone who I had invited to my home IRL for dinner with my family due to Twisty helping me with a school project. I was highly emotional and in retrospect I wish I'd handled this conversation better but I stand by my sentiment because the lack of good faith being given to me by everyone because of Poppy demanding Twisty cut ties with me was extremely distressing.

Secondly, I want to address the suicidal ideations in the room. For months everyone in the Foundation took great care to cry crocodile tears about how so many on Milena's side of things were making fun of my suicide attempt or accusing me of faking suicide attempts or ideations for attention.

Remember this post from White Nervosa of White Forest? I do.

Now compare to the way Annie, someone who literally posted on her site criticizing this exact post

talks about me now:

Annie literally talks like reddit incels. Lovebombing you until you reject her in some way and then turning to making the most nasty, meanspirited comments that go against everything said before just as a petty way to get back at you.

Now, I don't wish to make this the point of the post, but unless I address it, this will be the only thing brought up in response.

I have never defended Hayleigh. I have always supported Poppy as a person coming forward with a claim of SA, & I continue to do so, because, regardless of your feelings on whether Hayleigh actually assaulted Poppy or whether rape via deception is a valid argument, I don't think those things matter as much because I know from being close to them that the pain and trauma that Poppy experienced is real.

You don't have to believe me, and if I'm being honest, I don't know my thoughts on it because of the messy nature of things, and I choose to stay out of the legal implications of Poppy's claim. But I don't doubt her experience, so I don't believe that what you call it is what matters.

And as for the rape accusations against Milena, my official word on that is that I choose to remain neutral until I've seen all side's cases. Annie lies so often that if she posted the sky was blue I'd still look out my window to verify first, and there are three sides to every fucked up story, so until I am informed, I choose to believe in Schrodinger's allegations. If it turns out they are valid, I will criticize those and demand accountability from Milena, but until I see that evidence and see the counter claims in full, I cannot in good conscience continue the cycle. The more reasonable people had the same reaction to my incident with Aztec, and I neither fault nor blame them for taking that stance, as I cannot prove it happened and have no desire to, especially because I wish to avoid Aztec taking any harassment for it. I wish to be believed, but I will settle for "I believe Saige's pain is real but cannot confirm the story happened, bad if it did tho," which is how I'm treating the Milena ones. Will that be good enough for Annie? Nothing ever is.

Finally, I want to address the implicit doxxing threat:

Threaten to doxx me and threaten my job one more time, Annie, and you will come to regret doing so. I know you made fun of me for telling you that I will explore my legal options (despite Poppy & Zena going $10k in debt hiring a defamation lawyer so bad at his job he couldn't even spell his client's names correctly in the demand letter he took months to send out, but I forgot, Poppy & Zena can do anything & it's justified), but I'm being serious. I am not threatening to doxx you, because doing so is immoral, especially under a Donald Trump presidency.

But I have a family that your actions would be harming, a partner & a best friend (that I know you say you will not go after, but forgive me for not trusting a single word you say), all that I love & care for very deeply that, should you choose to make them collateral, is crossing a line you cannot walk back from. And I have a job that I am very protective of and attached to that I in fact do enjoy, and if you begin to cause issues for me at work, I will respond in kind. That is not a threat. That is me telling you exactly what I will do, in plain English. I said it before, but I am not the person you want to do this with, and I guarantee you Poppy & Zena know that a lot better than you apparently do.

This is my final word on the subject. I don't know all of the shit surrounding Annie that she has been cancelled for in the past, and really I don't care, but I don't need it to know that she is an unhinged liar who is dangerous to any community she is in, especially when she is being used to shield Zena & Poppy from the responsibility of their actions.

Context list for people who don't have it:

My original post

My follow up

Zena & Poppy

Annie Gallagher

Milena

The Poppyandzena tumblr blog

Goddamnit Malcolm

[chaifootsteps]

Thinking about what other anon said about Stolas complaining at the party about how bad he thinks Blitzø is in bed. Because that would be a perfect way to show that he has completely become the Stella in this relationship. What is the ‘anti Blitzø’ party if not just a virtue signalling “Not Divorced Yet” party painting itself as group therapy.

The only way he makes sense to me as a character is an ‘abused becomes abuser’ story. Trying to get the power and control back he (believes) he lacked with Stella. But their ex partners are a great example of stolas and blitz double standards: “stolas was a complete innocent uwu victim” vs “Verosika was a victim with a heart of gold. Blitzø was a monster” And about the whole ‘but he went down on stolas that means he loves him!” Did these idiots forget it was a job, and Blitzøs line “I need this book. I will do anything”

I really, really wish I weren't picturing Blitzo obediently going down on Stolas, hating every second of it like he apparently canonically does now. Whatever momentary laughs came out of that scene weren't worth it

[emeraldspiral]

i wish antiship people realized by now that they are just being useful idiots to conservatives by equating the enjoyment of taboo fiction with moral judgments of one's character, it genuinely baffles how we have been seeing a rise of fascism and government censorship and yet people still cannot process that equating shit like idk rebecca sugar drawing ed edd and eddy yaoi to pedophilia is not only extremely stupid but more importantly downright dangerous to do in our current political climate where every action of a queer person, no matter how small, is scrutinized and used to justify pushing homophobic/transphobic laws under the guise of "protecting the kids". it just boggles my mind how someone can genuinely believe that calling queer people degenerates over weird drawings is somehow progressive, we are so cooked man.

In many cases these people are not genuine. When you dig deep the people who start this shit usually end up either having a personal, petty beef with a specific artist or ship or they're trying to virtue signal to make themselves look safe and trustworthy so no one will suspect their actually predatory behavior behind the scenes. The people who end up doing their bidding generally are looking for an excuse to act like bullies while pretending to have the moral high ground. They target fans and fanartists, especially marginalized communities with little to no power instead of the rich politicians, oligarchs, and celebrities actually doing horrible things and getting away with it because they know it can actually impact them and it makes them feel powerful.

[shroominalong]

honestly I feel kinda weird when specifically white people target Brian Jacques as a racist writer. if a person of color wants to express discomfort about the unconscious messaging in his works, fine. that's their space to express said discomfort and I'm not going to begrudge them it. however when other white people do it it feels deeply uncomfortable to me and more like virtue signaling. generally, I find POC, when expressing their discomfort, generally say things like "i can't outright say he was actively racist but I think there's a lot of at minimum unconscious racial prejudice in his works." whereas when white people talk about it they outright claim he was extremely racist and horrible and it feels extremely uncomfortable to me. if even the POC criticizing his work aren't saying it why are you so quick to speak up louder and more decisive in your opinions?

it's also. very weird to me that this is a point of discussion over a man that has been dead 14 years as of 2025. like. obviously. we shouldn't stop discussing writers and their impact, good or bad, just because they're dead. but it's kind of weird that he often pops up at the absolute forefront of discussion regularly. I think there was one animated series that didn't last long from the BBC and that was it. Redwall wasn't entirely a cultural phenomenon that claimed well known "Redwall kids" like Animorphs or Goosebumps or Warrior Cats or The Hunger Games. most people don't even know that he also wrote Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, or even know what that is. it's just... a bit strange to me that his works get widely criticized like this.

again. I'm perfectly fine with POC expressing discomfort with the themes. I'm not going to rush to say "no, he wrote it like that because he was focused on writing clear lines between good and evil for children and wasn't paying attention to whether or not it'd be put under a microscope in the future". do I honestly believe that? sure. but I also recognize that just bc someone had good intentions and wasn't actively trying to be malicious doesn't mean a blindspot might hurt someone else. the harm was done. if you accidentally bump into someone and knock them down, you should still say sorry, even if it was an accident. they still fell down. but... idk. it's just. a bit weird to me that 14 years after his death, the primary conversation revolving around his work is whether or not he was a raging racist in private. nothing else really gets mentioned and it's uncomfortable to me.

idk. I just feel like the white people virtue signaling is consistently circling back to this point and well meaning conversations are getting entirely drowned out and now bashing Jacques is basically just a means of getting brownie points online and absolutely nothing else about his work or impact or choice of themes is brought up.

I think we could use Jacques to bring up a really good conversation about tropes in fantasy and conversations about children's fantasy and how we can approach clearly defining good and evil in a way that's easy for kids to understand so they can continue the hand holding of themes they can grasp and move on from when they're old enough to get into more nuanced stories without relying on potentially harmful subliminal messaging writers may not have intended. I think it's just. low-key just become popular and an easy way to get clout online by bashing Jacques and an actual meaningful conversation is not allowed to happen.

it feels like a posthumous blackening and it's. really uncomfortable to watch.

I can't outright say Brian Jacques was a good person. I have zero evidence that points to him being a good or bad person. it feels more like he was just extremely private and died before it was easy for fans to have access to people's thoughts like now. maybe one day evidence will pop up that everyone was right and he was a terrible human being and I will look like an idiot for this post. but. I also know this was a man that delivered milk to a school for blind children and the stories he told to those children somehow turned into a beloved children's series. he didn't even write the initial story himself. it was just recorded by a teacher who loved his volunteer, spontaneous storytime sessions with the kids. that's. about all I know. so I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. but other people are perfectly entitled to their suspicions. I just... am not sure those suspicions are justification to fully claim a dead man was a raging bigot in his private life.

[wyrmguardsecrets]

As someone who does ERP with a very few people and who like very slow burn romance, and has no mention of it in their trp, you know what I discovered lately?

That a lot of people put "no erp" in their profile, and then try to erp really really quickly. As in "we rp'd for 1 or 2 hours, time to turn the sexy vibe on!"

And they are usually more annoyed than the clear ERP profile when I don't want to. They also insist a lot more.

I hate it; it makes their "no erp" mention feel like a virtue signaling, and makes it that people that truly don't erp might have issue being taken seriously because of these idiots.

.

[villainessbian]

Why do you interact with the human pet guy/genq (I'm not trying to be rude im just bad at wording I'm sorry)

I'm virtue signalling by showing my opposition to a known negative element of society. Also I like to have the last word in, to dunk on idiots, and to remind everyone I successfully got his account offed just by playing him like a fiddle once, and I'm sort of hoping to get a repeat performance

[chibistarlyte]

my mom is a boomer and she talks to me so much about how people in her age group suck

she has a hard time finding friends because a lot of people in her demograohic are bible-thumping maga idiots and she's one of the few boomers i know who is extremely liberal, not blindly religious, respects and advocates for indigenous people, has essentially adopted all my queer and trans friends who have shitty/unaccepting families, and is literally the kindest and most compassionate person i know

she told me about how she's made friends with her neighbors (a black lesbian couple) and how heartbreaking it is that they tell her they get judged more for being black than being gay. she's angry on their behalf and she calls other people out on their racist behavior, most notably other boomers. she especially calls out some of our family members who complain about latinx folks for no reason other than they're racist and closed-minded to other peoples' experiences

and like idk. i'm not trying to virtue signal my mom or anything. i guess i just want to tell you all that there *are* boomers who are fighting the good fight with us. there may be less of them than us, but they're *there* and we shouldn't feel discouraged by all the louder conservative boomers who refuse to see reason

get out there and vote and stand alongside those in the older generations who need our help and numbers to speak out and make change

[wlwocprincess]

The thing about this year’s election is that there’s the same rhetoric there was when Biden was running about voting and my issue with it is consistent fearmongering of “Are you willing to accept fascism?” Without taking a step to acknowledge where we are if we are currently ina struggle between Fascism and Not Fascism. Why are we living in a country where all it would take is a few votes for the country to descend into fascism? Why are we not talking more about how someone as stupid and idiotic as Trump being ALLOWED to run for President? People looking to not vote and vote third party are often framed as morally righteous who are trying to seem morally superior but the reality is Morality Shaming is a tactic employed by both sides of this debate. The reality is also that people are scared and instead of approaching other scared people with empathy, they are either “fools” or “virtue signaling” and it’s become a fight when nothing looks reassuring. I’m sorry but personally seeing Kamala actively search for the Republican vote and reaffirm over and over her support for Israel, SAYING she wants a ceasefire but the person she’s VP to continues to send money and weapons to Israel, ESPECIALLY after what’s happened with Iran? I’m not feeling great and it does annoy that pointing this out is often seen as the virtue signaling and moral righteousness when it also coexists with “Kamala is BRAT”, singing WAP at campaigns, when people have very valid concerns and just want our politicians to fucking act.

[morethananhour]

seeing SO many fucking idiots in these notes going "can we focus on SYSTEMIC racism here?? im not racist because i dont listen to a genre!!!" as if refusing to even try to engage with a black-dominated genre or really black culture in general with sincerity isnt a result of that very fucking thing. also the virtue signaling is crazy you people dont care about solving any of the problems youre yapping about youre just making excuses for your ignorance. shut the hell up and unpack yourself

[mysteriesofmilo]

Phineas and Ferb fans!

I understand that some people have been trying to hijack Platypus Day for reasons of supporting Islamic terrorism.

Please know that that is unacceptable. If you don't want to celebrate Perry, that is fine, you do you, whatever. But remember that virtue signaling is hollow and transparent, and if you have your facts wrong, it also makes you look like an idiot.

[clueless1995]

some cunt telling me im virtue signaling for commenting on a post about the referendum how upset i was. and he also said “talk to them and help them” which i interpreted as being about the no voters i was talking about. so obviously i was like ???? idk what you want me to do Now. and the cunt said “you missed my point completely” and then clarified he was talking about Indigenous Australians as if it was obvious and i was an idiot for reading it wrong. like no My bad i didn’t word that well or even a “oh i think you misinterpreted” just “you missed my point” fucking rude bad faith interpretation. i’m trying to be as diplomatic as i can but this guy is just assuming the worst of me at every turn and it Is making me murderous and i know that just typing it out like this makes it seem stupid but i don’t want to out my reddit account so i can’t post screenshots

[blackmagelazuli]

I’d like to quickly give my two cents on this. 1) Please take this from a grain of salt but do know that supposedly Planned Parenthood is quite abusive and shit. I am uncertain for sure if those rumours are true or not so I recommend if you wish to do similar as Alex that you donate to your local abortion funds and whatnot. That said, please do your own research and come to your own conclusion if that is right or not.

2) I wish not to contribute to a dying horse but I think this serves as an important lesson here. Spideygirl made an assumption, did not put in the time to prove that assumption (because yes, donating the same amount on the same site is gonna look very similar no matter how many times you do it and the tumblr crop of a twitter crop does not help), assumed the worst out of Alex, and then doubled down on that negative assessment. And the thing is, it’s okay to be skeptical even if the person seemingly is trying to be/do something nice.

What is not okay is to without any real substance to back it up just assume your guess is right and that label the person as a virtue-signalling attention-seeking smug bastard. We have all done it, so I am not gonna dunk hard on her. But it is worth saying that doubting Alex wasn’t the problem, it was what she had to say.

3) That said, it’s not worth being a dick. It’s not worth trying to ping spideygirl and being like “you got owned you stinky idiot!” or whatever. And it’s not worth painting a villain narrative on her for that. For example, she deactivated her blog in 2022, in part due to how her blog became so political in nature and both witnessing and engaging in the politics on the sight. That is a common thing, but many assumed it had to be because of getting “owned” by Alex. At that point you’re making a similar mistake to what she did. And that’s cringe ngl.

4) Alex is a good guy and I love Gravity Falls. Very epic children’s cartoon.

holy fuck.