this system that enables these people who either do or look the other way while others do these horrible things to be in power. Maybe we need to actually demand better from the people who represent our interests than rape and genocide and imprisonment. Y'all are no better than Megyn Kelly.

oh good I am not the only one who is noticing the homophobia is causing attention to stick to the wrong things.

lots of things to learn from USSR and China, but holy fucking shit the excuses about their blatant expansionist and imperialist actions make me so fucking mad.

Even today, as a US citizen, I don't believe in a US communist movement. We need to think smaller, and it's because of this shit.

I am so sorry

there's plenty of punctuation and proper speech issues with that "beautiful wording". the point was clear though.

Language is fake my guy. These are literally hieroglyphs we give meaning, and if meaning is properly derived, then it doesn't fucking matter. Your behavior is the issue.

Rocking the boat is worse than putting a hole in it.

The civility problem, the "these people are always causing problems" issue, the "meangirls" issue. It's coming from inside the house. You're making villains of the people who dare to challenge you for putting holes in the boat.

you're the asshole for saying something, because you are the one who escalated it beyond "just a joke."

And this goes for anything. Legitimately, it's the same for the stupid powerscaling debate as it is for the life and death of trans people or migrants or palestinians.

offending piece and makes you, the offended party, wrong for escalating.

The ironic detachment makes this even worse, where they'll separate from the thing they said even. "It's just a joke" that I say all the time, and I know is offensive, but no one else was wiling to challenge me on it, and now

If a stranger on the internet and I, who share a space regularly and can't simply ignore one another forever, have a disagreement, it always becomes a fight. Not because I or they are deranged, but because the pressure of online spaces to be "civil" creates an easy out. It lets them say the

Everyone is always "ironically detached" or too willing to just move on to actually be challenged on anything.

If my wife says something I disagree with, I can calmly and cleanly explain that disagreement, and we'll start a dialogue that usually ends with both of us understanding one another.

all of the expressions in that piece were peak.