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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I think if you’d expressed yourself a bit more reasonably you’d probably be fine expressing the general sentiment that some segment of the queer community is overly focused on performative actions and calling out people who aren’t toeing the line of ideological purity over real world gains in rights and acceptance. You can express criticism in a measured way or you can try to use it as a means to insult and inflict insecurity and hurt. Those are very different things.

    It’s the difference between “hey idiot, I ordered this without ketchup, make it again” and “hi, sorry, this wasn’t supposed to have ketchup on it”. One is abusive and unreasonable, the other is a polite way of getting your point across. Dr House is funny to watch on TV, but he’s not a model for effective communication in the real world. If you focus on being as angry and unpleasant as humanly possible at every turn, people will ignore you and shut you out regardless of whether you would be making a good point.

    It costs you nothing to find a slightly diplomatic way to make your point, but being overly harsh about it may cost you everything.









  • Literally none of that changes the self-destructive stupidity of letting Trump get into office.

    It isn’t about whether the Democrats are exemplary or even decent. It’s about the actual result of your actions. Are the Democrats to blame for failing to act, for failing to prevent a second term, and for all the other mistakes and capitulations they’re guilty of? Absolutely. Does that absolve voters of responsibility? Not even a little bit.

    At the end of the day, voters still decided that they were willing to let others suffer. They decided that Palestinians don’t matter, that health care doesn’t matter, that trans rights don’t matter, that immigrants don’t matter, that the environment doesn’t matter, that access to food and housing doesn’t matter, that reproductive rights don’t matter, and on and on and on, because it’s more important to send a message that they don’t approve of the Democrats.

    Everyone who spread the narrative that they’re no different is complicit in everything Trump does, because this is what you chose. This is the supposed lack of difference. This is what you said doesn’t matter and isn’t important.

    Nothing you say about the Democrats will wash the blood from your hands.


  • Literally. This is the result of the level of discourse on the internet and of petty one-upsmanship with a complete disconnect from reality. All that matters is being ‘right’ not what actually happens in the world. Therefore it’s a race to the bottom while doing everything possible to shatter any political power that might have resulted in a coalition with any chance of saving anything.

    So we get the worst because people are too busy shitting on anyone they can point a finger at for not being their idea of perfect.

    We are apparently incapable of learning how to get along with one another on the left and are utterly susceptible to atomization, while the right is capable of banding together with absolute moral bankruptcy to light the planet on fire, commit genocide, and destroy every social service we ever had.

    Fucking infuriating that this feckless performative bullshit is the best we can muster. That we literally are too divided by pointing out everything wrong with everyone else to ever get together and accomplish anything.

    The stupid thing is, the people directing the bot farms that started this? They fucked themselves too. The right fucked themselves, the center fucked themselves, the left who couldn’t get it together to work with anyone lacking ideological ‘purity’ fucked themselves.

    Humans are too stupid to exist. Fucking checkmate. We all lose.