#I'm so fucking tired of being isolated

[alren-ki]

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[vergess]

Me: Don't call other Jews "Nazis" please, this is a very basic ask.

Everyone on jumblr: Shut the fuck up you fucking Nazi! Enjoy being blocked.

[2pen2wildfire]

Honestly? Be kinder to gross people. Be kind to people who pick their nose or their scabs and pimples, who fart a lot or have difficulty with hygiene, who cough loud and obnoxiously. Nose-picking is an incredibly difficult habit to break, same with skin-picking. People with gastrointestinal issues don't deserve your bullying just because you don't like the smell. People who have trouble showering don't deserve it either. People who are sick or have some sort of throat or sinus condition don't deserve to be mocked for the sounds they make. Your discomfort with someone else being gross is not their problem and it won't kill you to shut your mouth about it. Obviously people who are contagious should mask up and people picking their noses should wash their hands before touching stuff, that's not the point. The point is I'm sick of seeing "grossness" be constantly tied to morality. Humans are gross sometimes, get over it.

[ghostofasecretary]

it's been a while since i've cried hard enough to have a headache but. sure got there today, babes!

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

If you've never heard an LRAD go off in person, I *genuinely* do not want to hear your opinion about methods of resistance in the US.

[aromanticannibal]

ppl really b acting as if there's only one specific ship that has weird shippers that will complain about ppl not shipping their otp. it's literally always the case you either get fucked over for liking a gay ship or for liking a straight ship or for liking a toxic ship or people just start going "oh there's nothing wrong with the ship but the shippers💀" and you don't fucking know what they're talking about. like can we all just chill. the weird shippers r everywhere it's called some ppl are assholes sometimes. it's not fandom specific

[apocalypticdemon]

hhhhhhhhhh being annoyed with someone and knowing you're in the wrong about it is the fucking worst

[that-ineffable-devil]

Other Autistic Friend: "You just HAVE to mask in the real world and in your job, you can't just be autistic all time time."

Me: OK first of all, I AM autistic all the time so let's start there. Second of all, why?

OAF: "Because you just can't. It puts people off. I mean, it's not fair, but that's just how it is."

Me: OK, but why?

OAF: "Because you can't expect people to deal with you being weird all the time."

Me: OK but I'm expected to deal with them being the way they are all the time? Me and all of us NDs?

OAF: "Well...yeah."

Me: But why?

OAF: "Because that's just how it works, I don't know!"

Me: Sounds to me like that's just the way it works because they say so, and that's a stupid reason to keep doing it. I'm too fucken old and have too many chronic problems to fucken play pretend all day for a bunch of people who can't handle someone who doesn't fake it for them. *shrugs*

[swamp-world]

like i think that we really really really need to actually gain the social literacy and compassion to understand that. not tipping your server isn’t praxis, but the fact that it’s expected that the customer pay the wage of the server also doesn’t mean that the customer (often also stiffed and a victim of wage theft) isn’t obligated to do so, and that while this is within our own economic system a great injustice and act of violence that needs to be rectified, it is in fact not the greatest injustice in the world and seeing people comparing getting screamed at for war crimes to not being tipped demonstrates a drastic lack of any sense of proportion. this is me speaking as both a service worker and someone engaged in organizing. let me be absolutely clear that I am not saying that not tipping your server is praxis. if you are able to tip i think that you should. i also think that “it’s the social contract in america to tip your server��� needs to be read as “the structure has been built so that resisting it is tantamount to being a class traitor, and there are no winners in this situation”. i make less than 1k a month. tipping at 15% is straight up not viable all of the time if i want to pay rent. that’s not praxis, that’s me trying to keep a roof over my head, same as the service worker who i can’t always tip. so much analysis of this matter on social media tends to boil down to brute utilitarianism that causes further fragementation among the working class, and not for unjust reasons.

but just as not tipping my server isn’t praxis, tipping my server also isn’t praxis. not because it doesn’t help the individual (it does) but because it functionally validates the extant system in which the customer directly pays the wages. especially in the digital age: whereas cash tips are often considered nontaxable income, digital tips are administered as directly taxable income by the employer. when tips are paid out as wages i think it’s a little unfair to consider them to be “gratuities”.

again: not tipping isn’t praxis, but i wonder often about how many people who parrot this point are engaged in labour organizing or support in any way other than tipping. everyone deserves to be paid for their labour. but likewise, putting the onus on the working class customer to do so doesn’t actually help anyone except for the employer.

if you’re getting pissed at other working-class people for not tipping high numbers, especially impoverished and/or marginalized people, i hope that you are also engaged in literally any form at all, no matter how intense or dedicated, to any kind of action or organization that supports increasing minimum wage and shifting this responsibility from the customer to the employer (i.e. working class to owning class).

[united-under-skyfall]

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[thistlekiss]

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[blujayonthewing]

I feel like. I need to actually Talk To Someone about the effects the last three years have had on my psyche, but the current prevailing attitude toward covid has reached the point that I'm afraid even a mental health professional would approach my current issues as solely a function of my pre-existing anxiety rather than acknowledge their completely valid and rational connection to the global trauma event we literally all fucking went through

[sapsolais]

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[a-skeleton-of-something-m0re]

Now would be a great time for me to be normal or step the fuck up, but as always I'll just cower in my corner and let a once in a lifetime opportunity pass me by...

[elvenking42]

Man I fuckin hate this family why can't my dad do the simplest of simple tasks (wear a mask without taking it off for the duration of a game in a crowded arena) without acting like it's some impossible task (that he literally didn't even do anyways) and have the audacity to be mad at me for having to twist his arm into doing it (I'm the only person in the household who works and has a schedule that would be impacted by getting covid) when I'm trying to protect this family from a viral outbreak (I don't know why no one else cares about being at higher risks for compounding issues when my sister can't eat certain foods anymore and my dad has a heart condition and tinnitus) it's literally like they WANT to get sick

[bells-of-black-sunday]

Once I'm not busy as fuck it's over for y'all, I've reached the stage of self healing where I am thoroughly enjoying taking up space and my own writing again. :catnod: