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me, eating a pile of nuts, cheese, and apple: mmmm tasty

the medieval peasant in my head watching me eat: thou knowst what would MAKETH this meal? dried fruits.

me, getting out the raisins: god damn, etheldred, you are SO right

the medieval peasant in my head: yet thou art still not heeding mine words regarding the blasphemy

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So many people live in such fear of being called a bigot they literally refuse to have opinions or state harsh truths even if it’s at the expense of peoples lives. Some claims of bigotry are not true and will be used as a deflection it’s not the end of the world if someone wields this against you if you genuinely believe it not to be true you can say that. Put your big boy pants on and stop living in terror of having a Yourfaveisproblematic wiki page because you denounced genocide

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I simply do not care about his politics. Let's not pretend a leftist was going to 3d print a gun and write a manifesto, that's pure righty behavior and frankly that's why the left and right need eachother in order to prevail in the class war

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Aight, so a suspect has been caught. In the next couple of days we’re going to be bombarded with a cavalcade of information about Luigi Mangione. As we start this period I want everyone to remember:

The killer--whether he is Mangione or another man--is a living, breathing, human being. He has followed people you don’t like, held beliefs you disagree with, and possibly voting for politicians you think suck.

He still shot a man with the blood of millions on his hands. He still caused an outpouring of rage that caused BCBS to roll back its ghoulish anesthesia policy.

Carve that into your fucking minds. Mass media is about to do its damnedest to remind us to hate each other, not the top .001%. Do not let them do this. Y’all understand what I’m saying? Here, lemme spell it out more clearly:

DO NOT FUCKING PURITY TEST THIS GUY, ASSHOLES!!

And if you see people fixating on his purity over the message he sent, call them out on it.

We have lost again and again and again on healthcare because we keep letting the rich divide us. Remember: the people united will never be defeated.

Edit: A couple of people have asked me to not convict Mangione in my post, and they're right. Mangione has been arrested on gun charges, not for the murder, and regardless of the charge he obviously hasn't been convicted yet. It's too soon to lay Brian Thompson on his head. I've modified the post to reflect that.

That said, what I've said here applies to whoever the killer is. As the media circus plays out, a lot of talking heads will be pulling out all stops to remind us to hate each other, not the insurance CEOs. Do not fall for their tricks!

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I think the hardest piece for me to internalize (despite the fact that I encountered the information over and over and over again) is that men know exactly how much they benefit from a binaristic hierarchy and will do everything in their power to defend it. what I didn’t realize until far later is that a lot of the time this will look like men freezing, shutting up, and descending into passivity when they have an opportunity to do literally anything to disrupt the hierarchy. they know that if they just go limp and play dead the moment will pass them by and they can keep reaping the benefits of their station.

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…psychiatry assumes that society does not cause distress in biologically normal people, who are considered biologically normal at least in part because they are economically productive. This assumption permits the conclusion that if a person is distressed to the point of unproductivity, it is because that person—not society—is abnormal. Thus, psychiatry’s commitment to biological essentialism not only masks the role of the constructed sociopolitical environment in creating distress but depoliticizes it by characterizing that allegedly irrational distress as induced by biological abnormality.

– Kiera Lyons, “The Neurodiversity Paradigm and Abolition of Psychiatric Incarceration” (2023)

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the reality of giving southern English people a chance and not judging them on their accent and general vibes is bonding with two girls with posh accents at the wicked showing and offering to take pictures of them with their wicked tops and cups– and then a 'born in (blank), made in the Royal navy' advert comes on with someone from the deprived, Northern town I'm literally from in it and they immediately loudly mock the accent and say 'where the fuck is (name of place)?' and laugh with each other, and then do it AGAIN when the actor says the phrase again. like yeah. it's hilarious that someone might not have a southern English accent. best joke I've ever heard. Hahaha. fuck off.

no, it's not the biggest deal and it doesnt make those two girls terrible people. but it's definitely the speediest of speed runs of how every chance I've ever given southerners has gone. I hate brushing a group of people with the same stroke and clearly it doesnt effect how I treat people out the gate but sucks that the bitter little voice in my head is continuously proven fucking right.

like I'm sorry-- obviously you're not all stuck up, delusional poshos who cant see further than your mile long fucking driveways– I'm just saying I've never met a posh southerner who didn't eventually show their hand as a total twat who hates poor people without even realising that they're actively hating poor people and contributing to fucking british imperialist hegemony on the daily. just saying.

like. we're in fucking Scotland. how haven't you learned not to mock non-southern-English British accents yet. grow up. it's not that hard to shut the fuck up.

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this blog hates donald trump

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hi its nice to meet you :) (uses my ability to implant memories of us being childhood friends into your subconscious so you already like me) i mean hey its been so long howve you been hows your mom (remembers your mom died when you were very young and i had implanted memories of comforting you at the funeral) uhhh i mean your other mom (implants memories of your dad transitioning)

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stannis smiles a grand total of 3 times and laughs once in a song of ice and fire. one smile is when he makes jon snow explain why everyone hates him and thinks hes a warg, one smile is saying he would not have come (to the wall) if not for davos, one smile is at the memory of cutting off davos' fingers, and his singular laugh is when telling melisandre that HIS onion knight would ALWAYS tell him the truth after they had clearly been arguing about it. all outwardly expressed pleasure from stannis consists of 3/4ths davos 1/4th schadenfreude

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I DONT WANNA PAY BILLS I WANNA USE MY MONEY FOR FOOD AND LIL GIFTS FOR MYSELF AND MY LOVED ONES

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it would've been cooler if those animals they sent into space came back with superpowers

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oh come on man youre just being paranoid no ones ever died from anything

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Frank Paino, "Rapture"