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  • If this man were to voice any sentiments short of full-throated Trump endorsement, would it make him more likely to see his wife again?

    He could be terminally stupid, or this could just be the MAGA version of respectability politics. Pretending you're still one of the good ones so the leopards stay away from your face long enough for you and your loved ones to escape.

  • Except that they probably don't think that.

    However, they might think that a professor exposing himself to his students is an abuse of power and sexual harassment, due to the local cultural consensus around what that specific action means, and the unequal relationship between teacher and student.

  • Good! In a culture that worships cops and "thought leaders", this is two steps up from meekly accepting whatever powerful people say.

    Now it's time for:
    (3) Acting on your ethical convictions towards specific goals, and learning to work with people who share them, even when their motivations or values are different.

    P.S. As others here have stated, (1) and (2) are not contradictory. If morality is constructed, then we all construct our own. Unless you actually WANT to be an amoral bastard.

  • consider: train🚆
    train: go zoom 🚄
    train: fit many catgirls 😽 n all my transmasc homies too 🤠 don't forget the enbies dummy 💁
    train: run on electricity ⚡ give a hoot! 📣

    🚆tra(i)ns 🏳️‍⚧️

  • sizzling hot take: all political parties end up as tools for elites to capture power

    truly a bold and newfangled idea, surely only a few radical extremists could buy into it. surely parliamentary socialists in Meiji-era Japan, for instance, would never derive this dangerous concept from first principles

  • consider: train🚆
    train: go zoom 🚄
    train: fit many catgirls 😽 n all my transmasc homies too 🤠 don't forget the enbies dummy 💁
    train: run on electricity ⚡ give a hoot! 📣

    🚆tra(i)ns 🏳️‍⚧️

  • I wonder - what is the actual audience for approval rating polls?

    The folks most affected by high prices or mass layoffs are probably struggling too much to have the time or inclination. Around 30% of the country didn't even show up for the election, they probably won't show up for these.

    Who does that leave us with? Can we really assume that '47% approval' translates to '47% of all Americans approve'?

  • HELL YES COMRADE, FIGHT THE POWER

    fr though, this is such a badass way to get banned. don't even reply to them - just keep doing the thing, post, and watch as every pathetic attempt at intimidation gets hundreds of defiant upvotes here.

  • rule

    Jump
  • You know, I spent a lot of time today obsessing over how bad the world is getting, and wondering what the point of it all is.

    This. It's this. I stick around for the weird motherfuckers who'll do shit like this, and share it on the internet.

    If I must live through yet another apocaplyse, I want to do it with you.

  • Just like my history with my mental illness affects a small populace. Why should the world have to bend to my problems?

    Because you matter, and your problems matter >:3

    I know it can be hard to feel that way, but the way I see it is - after everything they've taken from us, we can't let them take our self-worth! Most cis people and most abled people I know aren't ashamed to expect the world to work for them; we don't get points for expecting nothing for ourselves.

    I would never expect the intolerable, ignorant, racist, or cruel people to bend their beliefs for me. Its a waste of my energy to want that.

    I don't expect them to do that. I don't need them to do that either. I need them to shut up and fuck off. You know, the exact same thing they want the people they oppress to do >:3

    As for it being a waste of your energy... that's your call, but personally, I wouldn't be able to keep going if I couldn't imagine a world where the bigots consistently lose. I haven't yet "found my tribe" with people who understand and accept me, and it's not likely to happen in the near future; so the hope that a better world is possible, and that I could help build it, is basically all I have left - and yet, it's been enough to get me this far. Who knows, maybe it'll do something for you.

  • Especially because you shouldn’t give a fuck about how people perceive you. You should be whoever you are and not care about labels.

    Unfortunately we are social creatures with a need for acceptance and belonging. We can survive without those things, but it isn't really living. Take it from someone who spent most of their life living like a hermit.

    Having someone recognize your gender is one of the most basic kinds of acceptance. Social interactions tend to feel pretty hollow and superficial when you know that the other person doesn't know/care who you really are. (Again, ask me how I know 🙂)