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we are not reviving the r slur. if you hear someone say it tell them to cut that shit out. it’s not funny or edgy and we need to make people embarrassed and uncomfortable saying it

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in all seriousness i am not in favor of murdering even evil people, in the sense that I wouldn't do it myself, but this guy was in charge of a deeply corrupt and evil company condemning countless thousands of people to suffer in agony and die in indignity. To the mysterious assassin, this CEO might well have been the man who slowly and painfully killed their wife, their child, their brother or parent...

The nature of power is that if you utterly crush people to the point where they have nothing left to lose and nowhere worse to go, you ironically become completely powerless, because your victims now have no reason to fear you and no reason not to turn on you.

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"cis men dni" are you ready to come out of your "no boys allowed" treehouse yet. its time for lunch.

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hey you know those big campaigns in the 2010s that were like STOP appropriating mental illness language! stop saying you're ocd when you mean you're organized! don't say panic attack when you mean startled!

yeah we need that so much more now than we did then

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Can you imagine finding out your coworker posted this about you

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I think the problem with correcting common understandings of China is that some people course correct so far they believe crazy conspiracy theories about how actually everything you've ever heard about China is a lie and they don't do anything wrong ever, actually

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forcing every character into romance or found family ruins character discussion imo

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The average tumblr user’s attempt at smug condescension doesn’t even work because they’re so profoundly stupid and unaware of literally anything in the world

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I think it's important to remember that every single religion can be twisted for violence and oppression and abuse and control. Yes, including the one that you think can't be. But quickly, before anti-theists start saying that religion is an inherently evil violence accelerant, remember that this is true for any ideology, including anti-theism. Violence and oppression and abuse and control happens wherever there are people who think that those things will help them get what they want.

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Or like, to put it in terms that the "read what you like, who cares if you exclusively read kids' stuff" crowd are at a reading level to understand:

In the book "Green Eggs and Ham," the main character insists that he will only eat things he likes, and refuses under all circumstances when presented with an opportunity to try something new. At the end of the novel [spoiler alert] he agrees to Sam-I-Am's request and tries them, and he realizes that he was depriving himself of a favorite food for years, just out of fear of disliking something he ate. He learns a lesson, moving forward, that if he tries new things outside his comfort zone, that he may dislike some of them, but will enjoy many of them, and if he doesn't try new things outside his comfort zone, he will not like anything but the one thing he already eats.

Can you think of any situations in your own life where Sam-I-Am's teachings might be applicable?

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Self diagnosed autistic people running into diagnosed autistic people and calling them weird and not liking them is so crazy to me.

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once you start saying shit like "yayy" "yippee" and "hehe" theres no going back

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writers will spend 3 hours naming a character that shows up for 2 seconds

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You can be on here and say like "This character got their house burned down as a consequence of leaving the stove on" and the fandom masses will descend on you like "We really shouldn't glorify house-burning-down as a consequence against characters. It's really problematic. It's really problematic to say house-burning-down is something people deserve. The narrative shouldn't have done that."

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Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

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tfw "popular" fanon becomes so embedded in a fandom & discussions within fandom spaces that people just start treating it as the default and all interactions with others are coloured by this interpretation. have you considered that I actually don't subscribe to this take, which is nowhere in the source material? wait nvm, clearly not.