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i know it's hard. but i so firmly believe the strongest antidote to loneliness is reaching out first. and continuing to reach out. again and again and again. excise any scrap of shame you hold about being the person who texts first or pitches the plan or asks to get lunch. everyone is tired and busy and struggling. and afraid of feeling unwanted and unimportant. don't let the people you love feel that way. reach out first. don't be a ghost in your own life.

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what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

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"Be yourself" is horrible advice.

Many people have never had a chance to be themselves. Children are forced to obey adults and pretend to be interested in whatever their parents decide for them. Autistic people are regularly berated for talking about their special interests and are considered rude because of their natural facial expressions. "Be yourself" often requires undoing the trauma inflicted by the very people saying to "be yourself".

Also, it takes time to figure out what being yourself even means. And for people who were bullied, many are in their thirties still figuring out what being yourself means. Before you know what it means to be yourself, you often have to take wild guesses at what to do and see what feels good. This often involves copying what you see others do, copying what you see on TV, or doing what someone dares you to do. People who do that are usually the ones most told to "be yourself", even though, ironically, that's exactly what they're trying to do.

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Vetalamierda

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Remember earlier this year when Boeing very clearly had a whistleblower executed? And law enforcement didn't even look for anyone or release any info about it or anything?

People keep comparing Luigi Mangione's case to the subway murderer who got off because of systemic eugenics, but I think there's something more apt about the fact that a CEO had someone executed in recent memory, with zero attempts to find a culprit, while they spared no expense at all to find (and probably frame, it's beginning to look like) someone who shot a CEO. It's always fine to slaughter if you're rich, but if you kill the rich, they will hunt you down.

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luigi mangione, the SUSPECTED (innocent until proven guilty) united healthcare shooter, has been charged with terrorism. that’s right. a man who supposedly shot ONE SINGLE PERSON is being charged with terrorism. because in america, billionaires lives matter enough that a SINGLE rich man’s death is considered a terrorist act against this country. think about that.

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Dudes shouldn't have to prove themselves by having spartan greyscale homes with dollar store rubber shower curtains and a mattress on the floor. Do you know what life is like with linen

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The people who police your gender will police your gender even if you're cis.

Eat them.

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once i beat the depression and the burnout and the anxiety and the loneliness and the exhaustion and the guilt and the awkwardness and the apathy and the low income and the chronic illness and the impatience and the vulnerability and the creative block and the capitalism and the cruelty THEN you'll see

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My life is a constant cycle between "I need to rest before I burn out" and "I'm wasting my potential, I should work harder"

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This woman was arrested for WORDS.

We should rally for her as much as the guy who actually shot someone. Push back.

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NYT has been discouraging reporters from sharing photos of luigi mangione - not due to concerns for his safety but to dissuade sympathy - and refuses to post his alleged manifesto in full. and today, they published an opinion by bret stephens about how brian thompson is the "real working class hero" of this story.

reddit deleted luigi's account, which was completely innocuous and consisted mostly of him giving out advice in health subreddits. they're also deleting any post that includes his alleged manifesto and banning users for sharing it.

luigi yelled that this was "an insult to the intelligence of the american people" while he was being dragged by police and news pundits are framing it as a deranged and violent outburst. news media are picking apart details of his life to paint him as a cold-blooded and mentally ill individual. even something as innocent as playing "among us" with friends is being framed as some insidious look into an assassin's disturbed psyche, ffs.

news media are also capitalizing on luigi's supposed "bizarre and impossible to understand" politics as an obvious way to paint him as a scary individual when the guy is... a centrist, at most. whose views are similar to those of your average college-educated white guy.

multiple news media also keep harping on about how luigi comes from a rich family. an obvious attempt to break the class solidarity that's been formed around this case by continuously trying to tell us "oh he's not like you guys" while ignoring the now pretty well-documented accounts of his multiple health struggles throughout the years.

and all this, and he hasn't even been found guilty of the crime he's allegedly committed. luigi is, as of right now, still innocent until proven guilty. and the news are trying to tear him apart because they obviously fear the symbol he's becoming for low and middle class america.

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Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018), dir. Arwen Curry

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Hey by the way next time that some normal person is murdered and the cops "aren't able to find out who did it" remember that they've spent over a week and unfathomable resources relentlessly conducting a nation-wide search for someone who murdered a CEO, and it APPEARS that they've got him (IF it's even him) --- so next time they tell you that they Just Don't Know Who Killed That Civilian And They Can't Find Out, And Don't Have The Resources To Try Harder, know that it's total and absolute bullshit. It's just that a regular civilian is less important than a CEO. Finding the guy who murdered a vicious parasite is more important in maintaining the status quo than finding someone who murdered your loved one, or that person you know, or the guy who runs the corner store, or the stranger who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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left and right politics literally do not matter in a class issue. I will hold hands with conservative freaks if they are on the same page as me against the upper class and are willing to work with me. everyone says it's the top constantly making us fight each other instead of them, but then we finally find common ground that can unite us and suddenly some of y'all clutching pearls at the idea of collaborating for the greater good.

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just thinking about things