#twitter is the worst

[ofmd-ann]

How can anyone hate Stede Bonnet? What the fuck.

[troythecatfish]

[acsalvafanart]

Twitter twats bullying Georgia Tennant out of the platform for no reason whatsoever and the celebrating it like they have actually managed something that would make a positive impact in the world is the most infuriating thing and I hope GT doesn't go back to that hell hole. I also hope she is ok.

[toastglitched]

JJK twitter is so funny to me cuz why are Satosugu fans arguing about who’s butt fucking who?? like is the manga really so boring we gotta argue over fictional gay sex😭???

[sad-daddy-long-legs]

So I went to the Hozier concert on Friday, and it was lovely for all the reasons I wanted it to be of course, but at the end, Andrew spoke about the US voting against the ceasefire in Palestine. You can find a clip someone posted here. He said, truthfully, that the only reason Ireland knows peace is because of the intervention of the international community.

Some people on Twitter and tik tok have decided that his decision to mention and condemn the Hamas attack on October 7th in conjunction unnecessarily “muddles” and “softens” his otherwise pretty clear anti-colonial and pro-Palestine stance and I am over it. This is not actually coming from a place of stan culture and defending Hozier on the internet. It is coming from a deep disgust with the way my fellow white leftists consume war as if it’s a sporting event and ever acknowledging the humanity and pain of the “other side” makes you suspect and disloyal.

What took place on October 7th was horrific. It was terrifying. It was an act of unspeakable cruelty inflicted on the vulnerable. The collective punishment and war crimes perpetuated by the Israeli government in retaliation are inexcusable. To do so in the name of victims, many of whom have family members speaking out against the war crimes of the state, is awful. The Palestinian children, women, and men who have died as a result of Israeli war crimes over the previous decades and in the past few weeks deserve to be grieved with the same rage and lament as the Israeli victims of Hamas. All of these things are true.

That is basic humanity. It is not a sudden condoning of the actions of the Israeli state to acknowledge this. To pretend like Andrew, or anyone else, expressing similar sentiments was condoning or softening the violence of the Israeli state is the purity testing nonsense that continues to damage and divide leftists spaces. It is also deeply decontextualized.

Most Americans—again, especially white Americans— do not know what it is like to live with the the threat of violence and war daily. We do not even have a memory of domestic war on our land. Domestic war in 1998 in Ireland. People remember this violence. It’s not hypothetical. A desire and a call to action and a call for peace is fucking bold. A call for a cease fire is a call on the behalf of the Palestinians people. It’s realistic, though we may not want to believe it, but we must remain hopeful. Hope is a discipline.

I don’t know man. I’m so tired of Twitter fingers screaming for blood they’ll never shed, never bury, never know, and condemning people for grieving for lives that were truly lost. War is not sport teams with unfailing loyalty and anything that insists on dehumanizing a side to “win,” means we’ve already lost. I desire to see freedom and justice for Palestine, and I will not apologize for this. I will grieve for every brother and sister and child who is robbed of their life at the hands of violence, and I will not apologize for this either. I will continue to call my representatives and ask that the United States vote for the ceasefire and supply humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people. I will continue to donate and march.

We may all have opinions about the different methodologies that will be used for our own liberation and the liberation of oppressed people throughout the world, but if your methods require you to close off the part of yourself that is able to recognize the humanity of your neighbor, of a child on either side of the Gaza Strip, then you will only ever reinvent violence to inflict on those who were not able to preform loyalty the way you wanted.

[fancylala4]

Remember guys. Mocking black people with an awful accent and making a rap about how aggressive black women are ok. If you think otherwise, you hate them for no reason. At least according to this fucking idiot.

It would be so great if nonblacks would shut the fuck up and not tell us how to treat people who are mocking us like this untalented twit.

[randaleah]

A few days ago, i quit the twitter woso bubble (aka i deleted the twitter app) and switched full on to tumblr and what should i say: it is way less toxic and the people seem to be a lot more kind and calm. I appreciate that a lot, so thank you <3

(generally speaking: it was a great idea to delete the app, tbh.)

[marrbeear]

So called """feminists""" seeing women wear slighlty revealing clothes (every woman must appareantly always cover up or it's grooming):

[mydeardoxy]

Black/Racial Coding Doesn't Equal Racial Stereotypes

I can not believe we live in a society that genuinely believes racial coding = 'stereotypes but woke'...

Y'all, racial stereotypes are overexaggerated and meant to generalize a group as a whole....

Yes, racial stereotypes are technically coding, but that doesn't mean racial coding itself is based on stereotypes. [Think square = rectangle but rectangle =/= square.]

If it was all the same, you can not create any characters with a race because anything can be a stereotype by their POV.

Gave your white oc straight hair? "Racist. Not all white people have straight hair."

Gave your black oc dark skin? "Racist. Not all black people have darker skin."

Your character comes from a place with a language other than English, and they dare speak in that language? "Racist. Not every person knows their home language."

All of these rebuttals in isolation are correct, but context is extremely important. Yes, if someone claims an entire group of people have to look like XYZ to be a certain race, that's stereotyping. Making characters who happen to have very common traits among certain races, specifically the one they're meant to represent, is not.

You can literally spin anything into being racist if you view characters with this amount of malicious intent.

Getting so butthurt over someone simply calling a character X-coded (especially when it's confirmed and extremely obvious) is so incredibly dumb.

Getting mad at people critical of an X-coded character because there's no traits for people to actually connect the dots (without reading an outside source) is also extremely dumb.

TLDR: Racial coding is simply giving characters traits to represent a certain race. Racial stereotypes are still coding, but that doesn't mean racial coding itself is inherently stereotypical. Otherwise, every depiction of race is a stereotype and/or racist.

[luckthebard]

I have never blocked more people on twitter than in the comments of CR's incredibly transparent announcements of their entirely reasonable and in fact incredibly permissive fandom IP content policies...

[troythecatfish]

[folkloremay]

honestly one of the many reasons why i left st twt is the way they talk about noah and i don't even wanna know what it looks like over there now

[chipswsalsa]

elon turning twitter into “x” is single-handedly ruining my day do you know how confusing it was for me to wake up and want to check twitter but seeing it NO WHERE ON MY PHONE BC NOW IT’S FUCKING CALLED X????

[mushphoria]

soooo since twitter isnt working anymore, im looking for new mutuals!! specifically from the #qsmp fandom! eng/pt/esp !!

[fancylala4]

Every time I’m on twitter, there is always a tweet from an idiot that says “people hate on this guy for no reason” and that said guy did some antiblack stuff or something similar.

I’ve seen it with LMM when he made a broadway show about slave owners, said the n word and help endorse a bill that is screwing over an island. Now I’m see it with untalented twit they call awakafina when she has a black accent and made a racist rap line about black women.

I guess the reason for that is that these idiots don’t care about antiblackness and will forgive any racist celebrity who does it.

[clinically-not-straight]

If you've been on twitter recently and recognise this image I feel bad for you. I've watched both sides of this thing go at it and they're both fucking weird.

You've got OP that initially wrote a comic about self-destruction in relationships but had the other person walk out whilst being a bit of a cunt about it. They then fixed it by making the other person not be a cunt and just saying "yeah I can't handle this, sorry. I have tried to communicate but this isn't working, I can't stick round like this" and it was fine really.

And then Mental Health Twitter on the other side just saying "WRONG. I FIX NOW" and acting like the OP was a terrible person whilst not acknowledging that the OP has in fact said that you can also communicate and continue and be gentle about it.

Point is, they both make a valid-ish point and mental health twitter blew up on some cunt for no reason.

So nothing new really... why did I bring this up?

Here's the post that that picture is from, it's really not that bad

Like sure, it can seem shitty to not want to continue because of another persons baggage but at the same time you need to watch for yourself.