#“how dare you say we piss on the poor” fucking website

[kingzombear]

maybe we can find better anti ai posts that don’t cite God’s Intention as the reason to favor art by real artists? aren’t creativity and environmental concerns enough

anon I promise you I'm the furthest thing from Christian and "as god intended" is a turn of phrase not Literal Divinity, you've gotta be fucking kidding me rn 💀

[casiavium]

[clubpenguist]

friendly reminder that even if youre open about something on your blog, even if you think its so obviously right in your about/description/pinned/whatever, most of the people who will interact with you are not even looking that far at your blog. they dont know your name or your pronouns or your disabilities or your interests or your credentials or whatever you think is just *so obvious* that they *must* be intentionally ignoring it just to hurt you. ESPECIALLY not if theyre a random stranger who youve never interacted with once before, has never interacted with you once before either, and has absolutely zero reason to care about you. its not a personal attack, its just a fact. this is literally the internet

[madaras-tits]

Getting off of Tumblr has been a horrible experience. You're telling me not everyone on Reddit and TikTok is a Marxist leninist?

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Actually, I think this does link in with a wider conversation that I have been thinking for a while Tumblr maybe needs to hear.

There's a common meme on this site now that no one here has any reading comprehension skills. The best one is, of course, the original "No offense but reading comprehension on this site is piss poor/How dare you say we piss on the poor" post, which gave rise to the nickname "pissing-on-the-poor website". There's also the "I like pancakes/How dare you say waffles are terrible" one. Both of these are great, because they're silly jokey ways to show two closely related phenomena that are probably the commonest ways to fail a reading comprehension check.

The first is someone reading certain catchphrases or buzzwords in the post, and based on their own biases or prior experiences or whatever else, their brain simply fills in what it reckons the poster is saying on the topic. Instead of reading the rest of the sentence and digesting it, the reader then just uses their assumption as the interpretation, and reacts to that.

The second is closely related, because it also uses biases and prior experiences to to interpret the post, but rather than ignoring what the OP is actually saying, it instead performs a series of gymnastic leaps to construct a whole new assertion on the OP's behalf that simply isn't there.

There's also a third, of course; that one is people being so eager to feel smug and superior over someone they perceive as Bad that they wilfully assume the OP is stupid or being serious when they're actually joking. And if the reader hadn't been so blinded by their desire to get to look down on someone, they'd have seen the very obvious tells, sometimes even including sentences like "Obviously this is a joke." (I think we have all seen examples of these. Also, in a bid to avoid as many reading comprehension fails here as possible, this does not include misunderstandings borne entirely of neurodiverse struggles to parse intentions; but, neurodiverse people are just as likely as neurotypicals to have ego play a part in their misinterpretation of others, and that is what this point is about.)

And the thing is... actually, we are all capable of any of these. I imagine a sizable chunk of people reading until this point were probably thinking "Lol, yeah, people are so stupid," but na, nage, I'm not having that. Literally everyone does these sometimes. And it becomes a particular risk when the topic under discussion is something that might brush against an issue that is a pressure point for you, like a social justice talking point that you are forever having to argue with internet strangers about, for example. Your brain holds schemas! And sometimes it likes to pattern match things before it deigns to tell you about its findings! And that can hit you right in the emotions, which if they are strong enough, really can shut down all rational thought.

But. This brings me to the real point of the post.

Because the thing is, we have all saddled up and gone to war under these conditions, or at the very least been strongly tempted to. And a vital skill that literally everyone has to learn, sooner or later, is:

Before you hit 'reply', double check the post to make sure you fucking understood it.

And that does not mean "simply re-read, confirm your bias, carry on." It means, "Is it possible to read this post from the point of view of someone who doesn't intend it the way I've taken it? If I put myself in the shoes of an innocent, could they still have written these words? Is there another interpretation for these phrases?"

And you do have to do this step. You simply do have to. Because if your desire is to 'clap back' and call someone a gargling knobskin made of garbage, fuck me sideways but you must see that it is imperative that you check if they actually deserve that kind of treatment first. You cannot spend your time claiming that we must all choose to be kind and then not bother doing your due diligence before screaming a person's various and assorted bigotries at them. If you misread it, and they were innocent - you are the raging aggressive cunt in this situation.

It does not matter that you reacted from an emotional place of normally having to defend yourself either, by the way. Sure, that makes the quality of your human soul better than that of the average Redditor who just enjoys anonymously hurting people, I guess? But it's also irrelevant. If you messaged someone and called them a misogynist because you performed several mental somersaults and landed on your own sore spot when they meant no such thing, you are the attacker. You owe them an apology. And yeah, sure, you can explain your over-reaction as the product of your normal experiences if you like, but that is only an explanation, not an excuse. You are still the asshole here. You still need to apologise and mean it.

And you could have avoided it if you'd done that due diligence, as you should have. If you're going to take a swing, make sure it's the right target. This was once described to me as donkey people - they don't think, they just kick. This is admittedly a little unkind to donkeys, who always do their due diligence, but I feel it's an apt metaphor.

TL;DR: If you feel moved to angrily reply to something, first make sure you've interpreted it right. Don't be a donkey person. And if you ask for clarification, people are innocent until proven guilty. Ask nicely. If they are a bigot, you can then smelt them for parts.

[neroushalvaus]

Tumblr in the 60s

☮ monkeewholock follow

🎉🎉CONGRATULATIONS UNITED KINGDOM 🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉BYE BYE GROSS INDECENCY!!!!🌈🌈🌈 62 countries have now legalized sexual activities between men🌈🌈🌈

🐞 homophilespock follow

SPIRK CAN FINALLY FUCK

🚀 starrfleet follow

They are American, not British... But I'm pretty sure spirk has always been able to fuck since the show is set in the future.

📻 lesbianbobdylan follow

Christ, this is not about your cutesy uwu yaoi otp, go outside and smoke some grass

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🌻 flowerpower follow

Politicians are not your friends but damn Kennedy is fine, I look at one (1) picture of him and my head literally explodes

🌻 flowerpower follow

...i just woke up, why is my askbox full

🌻 flowerpower follow

WHY IS HE TRENDING I'M SCARED

🌻 flowerpower follow

guys stop reblogging this it's been like five years i've changed

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🎹 nixonsafascist follow

do you think they call him little richard because he has a little. Richard

🎹 nixonsafascist follow

easy website

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🇻🇳 shirellesofficial follow

Being the only lesbian in your friend group sucks so bad. "beatles or stones??" i will kill you

🗣 lavendermenaceisreal-deactivated72537262

Disrespecting female social groups for male validation? Typical lesbian behaviour.

🇻🇳 shirellesofficial follow

Mike Jacker isnt gonna fuck you

🇻🇳 shirellesofficial follow

Oh no I think she couldn't handle that

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✌ draftdodgerdyke

DM me for the addresses of my Swedish and Canadian friends. Do not put your personal information in the reblogs.

🙍‍♀️ silvermilk follow

You should be ashamed of yourself.

✌ draftdodgerdyke

huh??

🙍‍♀️ silvermilk follow

I said, you should be ashamed of yourself. You disgust me. I assure you, when the commies attack us, you will not find your silly little post "groovy" anymore.

✌ draftdodgerdyke

Jesus, don't flip your wig

🙍‍♀️ silvermilk follow

My father fought in ww2 for you ungrateful degenerate.

✌ draftdodgerdyke

Don't see what your daddy's unsexiness has to do with me and my lads taking a sexy sexy trip to Sweden.

#anyway only hot guys dodge the draft

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🪕 prostitutesandlesbians follow

in every interview i watch of the beatles they are so DONE and trolling everybody, these fucking annoying BITCHES, i need them inside me so badly

🪕 prostitutesandlesbians follow

#this but not john lennon #i just can't forget the heinous things he said about jesus

idk I actually think it was very sexy of him, stop trying to cancel john in my post

✝️ jesusrevolution follow

The reading comprehension on this website is piss poor. John literally didn't mean he was greater than Jesus or better than Jesus, he was just trying to make a point about the world becoming more secular. Cancel culture has gone too far.

🚷 to-hell-with-the-beatles follow

How dare you say we piss on the poor?? Jesus died for Mr Lennon's sins and it's not "cancelling" to send him a few respectably worded death threats to remind him of that. He cancelled our Lord first!

✝️ jesusrevolution follow

Girl Jesus literally said it's cool, I dropped acid yesterday and saw Him and He told me.

🪕 prostitutesandlesbians follow

help the girls (christians) are fighting in my beatles thirst post

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🛼 donovandyke follow

I will be glued to the tv today. If you don't want to hear about it, just blacklist #moonlanding !!

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🗣 claudeberger4ever-deactivated98975287

Hi I'm new to the Hair musical fandom so I'm not super invested in the whole discourse, but I just felt like this needed to be said: Friendly reminder that not being against the war in Vietnam does not make you a bad person!

🥁 ringoforpresident follow

it literally does tho

✌ draftdodgerdyke

Another win for us hot guys

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[taylorranhome]

tumblr users learn the difference between profit and income challenge

[apothecarywormcrud]

sorry to potentially further open up this can of worms, but. after reading some of the tags i feel like it should be brought up. i think a large part of the issue is the use of selfship as a coping mechanism. this isn't a bad thing in and of itself, and i certainly understand why it happens, but. here's the thing: if a coping mechanism's functionality is contingent on the fact that nobody else is allowed to do it, then it is a bad coping mechanism, because you've now made your emotional well-being entirely dependant on the behaviors of other people. (people, on the internet, on tumblr.)

if you're in a position where the mere AWARENESS of someone else shipping with the same character makes you distressed? that's something you need to confront. it's only going to make you more miserable in the long run, and, worst-case scenario, alienate the people around you because you decided someone else kissing blorbo from your fucking shows was worth ruining a real-life friendship over (if i sound pressed, it's because i've seen this happen MULTIPLE TIMES, and every single time it is a bunch of immature pointless bullshit, usually from someone in their mid-goddamn-twenties who should fucking know better).

will working through this suck? absolutely. it's gonna be fucking dogshit. and if you really don't have the energy to do that work right now? then don't. but bare minimum, i'm asking you to sit down and really think about why this sort of thing upsets you so badly, and whether or not it's worth it to keep engaging with selfship in the same way.

also. genuinely. with the utmost affection: get another hobby. needles and yarn are like 5 bucks at the goodwill and youtube school is free and maybe if you spend 25 hours knitting yourself a very shitty scarfhat you'll feel better. usually works for me.

A bit worried this opinion is about to get me nuked but does anyone else feel like that, in self ship, it should be up to the individual to block the tags and blogs of people who share their f/o, and ppl shouldn't push their comfort to being someone else's (especially a STRANGER'S) responsibility

[vivi-mire]

why is everyone on this website so fucking mean about x readers??? like i thought cringe culture was supposed to be dead but ya'll are just the most vicious hateful bullies just because some people like a fic format that you don't personally enjoy???

How dare I say we should piss on the poor

[somehwere-between]

john donovan for the ask meme😛 (this is beth btw<3)

HIII BETH !! For anyone who is unaware, mafia 3 is a game I talk about incessantly over on my mostly-fandom blog, @rottingmanifesto . But I’m lazy so I’m answering this here. Yay.

How I feel about this character

Morally-gray 1960s CIA agent driven to make America fair for all Americans, while causing some chaos recreationally (because it’s the 60s and he’s in the CIA). Not necessarily a good person, but definitely a good character. I’m VERY selective about my interpretations of him. But when done correctly, he’s a fantastic character to analyze and funny to boot. Also, his sarcasm is fantastic. It’s the Reddit bros that ruin him the most.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Alcoholics Anonymous. Lincoln and John are cute, John and Aldridge are horrible for each other but balance out well, etc. This man just needs to get out of the closet. It’s see-through glass.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

He isolates himself from others a lot of the time, but I really do like his bond with Lincoln. Romantic, friendship, mutual trust (even if Lincoln doesn’t think he’s kind of insane), what-have-you. FJ is such a hater and John just does not give a fuck outside of FJ being a religious figure. It’s fun. Marshall and John are begrudgingly pleasant (former) coworkers.

My unpopular opinion about this character

Allow fictional characters to have faults and time-accurate views, please. I have major beef with both Reddit bros AND Tumblr users who try to characterize John as wholly good or wholly bad. He’s 1: a CIA agent in the 60s, no shit, but also 2: a registered Democrat who adored JFK and vocally advocated for the promotion of a mixed race man in the US Army, and actively abhors white supremacist groups. He’s not always morally upstanding, yeah, and that’s fine because he’s not fucking real.

Also no, liking a fictional CIA agent character doesn’t make someone an imperialist. It’s a video game. Y’all (here and Reddit) need reading comprehension + media analysis skills. I mean this is the “how dare you say we piss on the poor” website so I can’t wait to see this be misconstrued 🩵

One thing I wish happened with this character in canon

Stones Unturned as a DLC sucked I can’t lie— I like Aldridge fine enough even though he’s really bland to me, Marshall is interesting I guess, but there was literally no reason for it to occur and was so tonally unconnected to the game itself— but a John-and-Linc DLC done right would’ve been great. I’ll write something someday. Probably.

[stardivinefinale-moved]

I know this is the "how dare you say we piss on the poor" website but it's so fucking infuriating to see people go ballistic when someone makes a post about how hobies laces mean copkiller because "oh the code is regional >:((( stop spreading misinformation" like damn I wonder what regional code the British character uses. and what the blue stands for in Britain. what a stretch to think that the punk character would have copkiller shoelaces.

[sanguinaryrot]

people will make stupid comments, willfully misinterpret your posts in bad faith, make comments acting like they know your character, even if the post is not about you on any way, insult you “playfully” even though you don’t know them and don’t want to play, and your notification tab becomes overrun, which is annoying in and of itself but that can also make the app malfunction

sometimes I’m like this post was a banger. Why is no one reblogging it >:T and then I remember what happens when posts on this website get popular and then I say thank u for keeping me humble my friends

[the-real-rain-world-confessions]

i can’t believe the “how dare you say we piss on the poor” website constantly takes shit in the worst faith possible. like some of the confessions on here are just people straight up not understanding what the fuck “fanon” and “headcanons” mean. why do people defend artists’ rights to draw slugcats with fur/iterators not like muppets, but then turn around and whine about “fanon arti” and shit. makes no damn sense, just follow better blogs if you don’t like the headcanons you’re seeing right now!

personally i love everyone’s different takes. they’re your blorbos, fuck anyone else who seethes over how you portray them. you’re having fun and they’re making themselves miserable by focusing on stuff they hate. keep creating your fanon content please!!! i’m cheering you on!!!

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[oarfishing]

the way some random person will post "lol lets toss terfs on their own seperate island" and it somehow summons every terf on the website to come in with reblogs like "oh? so you want women to be put on an island where they are vulnerable and cant escape if a ship of Men arrives? hmm interesting! #tra receipts" is so fucking funny. how-dare-you-say-we-piss-on-the-poor thinking ass

[witnessprotectionprogramurl]

[when i have something to say on a post]

angel on my shoulder: yes!! this is good!! you are saying things!! just remember to be nice :)

devil on my shoulder: they're gonna fucking kill you for that. they're gonna crucify you. they're gonna skin you alive. peel you like a banana. don't say anything.

jaded unemployed former angel on my shoulder: obviously no one's gonna do that. but just. you never know what's gonna happen, be careful kid.

angel manager on my shoulder: I know we fired him but he has a point. are we sure the thing you want to say won't get callouts written or anything?

serious less dramatic devil on my shoulder: you have less than a hundred followers and you only ever say stuff in the tags, it's fine. no one who would make a callout will see it.

[silence]

serious less dramatic devil on my shoulder: but maybe...

angel manager on my shoulder, concerned: maybe what?

serious less dramatic devil on my shoulder: maybe someone's gonna screenshot your tags and post them with the caption "reading comprehension website"

angel on my shoulder: but they read the post seven times to make sure they understand it and didn't misread anything.

serious less dramatic devil on my shoulder, ominously: reading comprehension website. the exact type of person the post is talking about. that's the exact opposite of what the post says. how dare you say we piss on the poor. th-

me: OKAY I WONT SAY ANYTHING

elias bouchard on my shoulder: hello, jon. apologies for the de

[thedreadvampy]

if there's one thing I've learnt from the fucking 86k male gaze/death of the author post it's uhhhhhh this truly is the how dare you say we piss on the poor website

also unrelatedly here's a non-exhaustive list of things that are, apparently, ideal examples of media that is ~free from the male gaze~ (nothing is free from the male gaze that's the point it's baked into our entire visual language):

Sucker Punch

Bayonetta

Batman 2022

Yuri anime in general