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Is there anything else you can offer besides tits?

i wouldn't even offer you my tits

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forever and ever and ever

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And I hate how people will act like only stuff like heroin and cocaine actually count as drugs. Weed is a drug, nicotine is a drug, alcohol is a drug! Fucking caffeine is a drug! No I'm not saying you'll face the stigma of addiction for drinking too much coffee, but you are in fact ingesting an addictive substance that alters your mental and physical state just like most people do at some point whether it's a daily or occasional occurrence. Drug use is a normal part of the human experience in so many ways. It's not some atypical misstep only a few morally broken people succumb to it's been a consistent part of our history from the fucking start

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Demon Hunters through generations 🎶 K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025)

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Is it all about yaoi for you

Yes.

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the thing is, if your younger self was a bigot or an abuser, u can't make people forgive you. but you still gotta forgive yourself, like that's non-negotiable, dude. that happens before u can even ask the question of earning forgiveness from anyone lese

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"Do not be afraid"

ARE YA KIDDIN ME

Oooh this is a Space Jesus episode. Mystery alien, can’t remember his past, he heals people, Crusher feels like she’s got a spiritual relationship with him, he’s serene and kind…

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Oh he's literally space Jesus lol. "He corrupted our society, disturbed the natural way of things! Others like him were criminals too! He needs to die!"

Oooh this is a Space Jesus episode. Mystery alien, can’t remember his past, he heals people, Crusher feels like she’s got a spiritual relationship with him, he’s serene and kind…

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Lololol yeah the sickbay costume is not flattering. He also kinda has elf ears though, and some nice forehead ridges. And cute curly hair. Overall, not bad.

Oooh this is a Space Jesus episode. Mystery alien, can’t remember his past, he heals people, Crusher feels like she’s got a spiritual relationship with him, he’s serene and kind…

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i haven’t heard the word “cyberstalking” in a long time but it used to be a recognizably bad thing to stalk someone online, to try to dig up everything you can on them, follow their every move online, obsessively post about them, barrage them with messages, block evade, etc - but now it’s just normalized and seen as something totally “ok” to do if the person in question is “problematic” in some way - like the same people who say “if your partner does this run” will turn around and do the same thing to a stranger online they dont even know and they don’t even think twice - it’s abuse, it’s harassment… just stop it

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Oooh this is a Space Jesus episode. Mystery alien, can’t remember his past, he heals people, Crusher feels like she’s got a spiritual relationship with him, he’s serene and kind…

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🪽 white fit day

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is antisemitism watered down and meaningless or is it, perhaps, that antisemitism is far more pervasive than you realized and you are very bad at recognizing it

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so I used to do outreach for a reproductive rights organization for a few years and have talked to literally hundreds of people about abortion as a result. a lot of anti-choice people really only focus on the argument that a fetus is equal to grown, born humans in terms of life and rights. and they really, really don't know how to deal with it if you accept that premise and still argue in favor of abortion.

one of the most fascinating points I've seen made was by an older fellow in a dinky little town outside Atlanta. he believed fetuses are human beings and that abortion is murder, but was still in favor of abortion rights. his reasoning? "A guy tried stealing my El Camino (a car) and I shot him, and nobody had a problem with that." he still had the car and showed me the bullet holes.

and that was actually a really good argument. there's the whole thought experiment about "can the government force you to donate a kidney?" and that is a great argument. but it doesn't address the extremists who dismiss it as "refusing to do something isn't murder."

like we do have situations where we both morally and legally justify murder, such as self-defense or against home invaders and thieves. very few conservatives in the US will argue against having the right to shoot someone for trying to steal their El Camino, a literal object, or for breaking into their home or for mugging them.

the conversation fascinated me so much because, despite doing outreach in several states over the course of a couple years, I'd never thought about how we take for granted the right to protect property, inhuman objects, for granted while women are barred from protecting their actual bodies, their physical being, from pregnancy, which causes permanent bodily changes in most cases (if you don't believe me, talk to p much any woman who has been pregnant or given birth) and actual death in some. In the time since talking to this man, I've brought it up to anti-choice people and never gotten a real response as to why we can kill over an El Camino but not over our physical and mental safety and health.

we have fewer rights to protect our bodies than an old man in georgia has to protect his old, junked out car.