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so much of the french revolution is just various people going "surely committing THIS act of violence/murder will end all the suffering and bloodshed and usher in peace!" followed by a summary of how everything immediately escalated and got even worse afterward. and somehow this website's takeaway is "clearly acts of violence and murder are the only way to end suffering and usher in peace!"

I don't know guys I think we might actually have to actually put in effort and not conflate working toward a better society with seeking personal catharsis.

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I honestly, sincerely do not think there was a more obviously counterproductive, dog shit stupid political cohort than those who used every waking moment trying to get Biden, then Harris, to lose because they thought Trump would be better about the Middle East.

Well, let's be honest, they weren't really thinking about what would actually happen in the Middle East if Trump got elected; they were simply high on owning da libssssss

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Ah yes…the perennial joy of wondering if I’m actually asexual or not, but then remembering that in truth I’m just a GenXer exhausted by life and my entirely undiagnosed neurodivergence’s.

And then that’s combined with all the trauma and ptsd from past relationships and living an occasionally stressful and dangerous life.

I’m gonna die alone…and that’s probably for the best if we’re being honest.

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Perfect ferns.

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The Legend of Saint George: The Rescue by Maximilian Liebenwein

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If then he falls on the back, so trap him with a leg, with the other one on an arm and work with the sword or dagger. Hereby, he surrenders.

Peter Falkner, Kunste Zu Ritterlicher Were (MS KK5012)

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Misty mountain

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sorry i can’t go out tonight i’m at home sitting down

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Hey I just wanna remind you that you're not always gonna agree with other leftists and you can still work with them. When I was... cough cough... reading about the No Kings protests, I was thinking about the variety of opinions in those crowds. Some of them are Democrats. Some are anti-MAGA Republicans. At least where I live, almost none of them are leftists. But we they still accomplished something by banding together for a specific cause.

This to say, nothing is ever gonna be perfect, but you can join your local groups anyway, you can get newsletters from sources you only agree with on the big stuff, you can start a chapter of an organization in a town where only Democrats are going to join. You might be the only leftist in the room, but the people you're feeding/teaching/housing/caring for don't particularly care about your stance on the ethics of eating meat. They care about your willingness to stand up for them and be in community with them. When you find a cause you care about, adding dividers between you and the people doing the work only slows the work being done.

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Belly rubs

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i hate the idea that being pro-palestine must mean you’re anti-israel and vice versa

like? i am more pro-palestinian than most people who claim they’re pro-palestine. i listen to palestinian peace activists, i want a longstanding ceasefire and for palestinians to have a state.

so many pro-palestine folks are more anti-israel than anything to the point where they treat palestinian arab peace activists like they’re traitors falling in with “the zionist cause” or whatever. i am fucking pro-palestinian, i just also believe that israel shouldn’t be razed to the ground, that it should exist as a safe haven for jews.

antisemites shouldn’t get to dictate what/who is and isn’t pro-palestine

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10th century church door with Norse ironwork at St. Helen’s Church in Stillingfleet, England

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I saw a post that described the sentiment a very long time ago at this point, but it gives me hope.

I love humans. I love that it is built into our DNA to pattern-recognize faces. We are such social creatures that we look at a tree and find a face, we find a face in everything. We just actively look for others to love and be and celebrate life with. We need the community.

And like! We saw big vicious predator animals (cats and dogs) and went "fluffy! I am gonna keep you" and gave them food and, because they're also social creatures, they were like "yeah, okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

We look to the stars for more friends! For adventure, for hope.

Our brain is also so wired for pattern recognition that sometimes, among the white noise, it fills in voices, or music. Not necessarily in a psychosis way, but some people's brains hear silence and just fills it with music! We have such a tenancy for patterns that we just make something out of nothing.

Things are really scary all over the world rn. But sometimes I feel a bit better thinking about how much love still exists in the world. People are not born cruel. We can fix things. We will get better.

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