#and yall just.... dont see the cognitive dissonance???

[snekdood]

listen, all im sayin is its pretty funny to me when the same person whos all like "my uwu baby!!!" toward a serial killer in some show also apparently lacks empathy when people who've done far less shit just simply exist and they dont want them to

how do you fail to extend empathy to actual humans but its so easy for you to do with this guy that if he was real would be entirely irredeemable in every capacity?

[comradecowplant]

I believe Kamala- despite every word she has ever spoken on the matters- is actually deeply pro-Palestine, pro-trans & overall a progressive hero, because I understand that when democrats say repugnant reactionary things while campaigning they are actually lying! which is good & normal for so-called democratic elections!!!!! if you listen to the gnomes who live inside my walls you'll understand her real values, which she'll totally pinky promise act upon once you reward her lies & elect her! you dumb third party voters would understand this if u payed attention in civics class 💅💅💅

[actiwitch]

If I see one more person hijacking a conversation about veganism to start complaining about vegans I am going to LOSE IT.

Disrespectfully, shut the fuck up.

How a person advocates for a cause doesn't fucking change the cause. Stop complaining about people advocating to stop animal abuse and instead consider why you're continuing to avoid and avoid and avoid actually confronting your own actions.

I don't care if a vegan fucking killed your whole family like some of yall act like. oh my god just fucking shut up about vegans annoying you. I dont care. It doesn't matter.

Veganism is not about fighting for Vegan rights, its about fighting for Animal rights.

When you continue to complain about how you personally feel about some activists rather than the activism, all you're doing is showing you're either A. Extremely ignorant and confused, or B. Overflowing with cognitive dissonance you refuse to contront. Do better.

[uselessheretic]

i feel like once a month i go "i dont understand liking calico jack but i hope yall are having fun" and then my izzy oomfs are like "fair but in my brain there is an intricate map of connections and lore that acts as proof that this is how jackedhands can still happen" and im like "im glad yall are having fun good luck with your porn!" and thats the end of it

so its just kinda funny to see izzy haters unable to cope with the idea of liking jack and acknowledging that hes just as bad if not worse than izzy and having to figure out a way of bridging that cognitive dissonance for themselves and towards each other bc theres really nothing you can say that izzy did that jack didnt also do

dude i do NOT understand people who hate izzy and spend a significant amount of their time on here pressed that people are not interacting with his character in the way they think is correct but then?? go to bat for calico jack like dumb hard????? i dont get it at least the izzy stans are like "yeah cj probs had it rough but also he sucks and also i want him to break izzys cervix with his battering ram dick." i dont understand the impulse to devote actual time and words explaining why cj is a working class icon but that izzy is not and that they shouldnt be categorized together bc i guess we r supposed to assume that somehow izzy is worse than the guy who killed karl 😭

[falllpoutboy]

one thing i've always noticed with the difference between twitter/everyone else versus tumblr is that everyone on the twitter/everyone else side LOOOOOOOOOOOVES tony like they are tony's hype squad and also a lot of people of color love him as well but as soon as you go to tumblr, the tony antis are such a loud minority that spout random shit and make it seem like poc HATE tony when thats not the case at all LMAO (hopefully this made sense hehe & this is in relation to that anon abt s*nf*rt*ne)

YES YES you’re absolutely right listen i’ve been on both sites for a while now and like. tony antis have been one of the loudest minority/subfadom of the marvel fandom for like 4 years now and im just. so tired. nobody cares about your fake woke ‘we should eat the rich’ analysis of a fictional character who has no real life ramifications other than inspiring and entertaining the masses. a lot of irl people love mcu and comic tony and they’re just still mad about aou or civil war or a certain character or ship for some reason. sorry to yall who literally cant have fun. sorry to yall who have misinterpreted his decade long story of redemption, continual evolution and sacrifice but i’m different. 

[fairycosmos]

ppl on here be complaining about poverty thru their iphones 4000 and mac laptops while sipping matcha iced coffee and using their earpods or whatever the fuck and wonder why the rest of us living in the third world using stolen or free wifi with our shitty androids and no water to shower and eating once a day cant take them seriously. girl ya'll are privileged too in your so called poverty and yall dont see that shit cos you love bein victims lmao

ok i mean i don't understand why you're coming at me specifically with this aggression because i literally agree with you and have not stated otherwise. it's one of the things about capitalism that disgusts me the most, the cognitive dissonance, which i fully acknowledge i experience myself. you're right, most of don't realize how lucky we are and we get stuck on everything we don't have rather than realizing that a lot of people don't even have access to basic amenities. we've grown accustomed to having food, clean water, internet etc and i don't blame you for finding that ridiculous when you have been denied those things. so i would never compare first world poverty to third world poverty especially bc the latter is a direct result of the first world. and i don't deny my own privilege when it comes to being from the uk either. if i ever post about my financial struggles i am talking about them in an isolated way i.e not comparing them to people who obviously have it way worse. i am literally just venting my issues like. in no way am i saying they deserve to be prioritized over mass poverty and destitution.

[babybabymerrychristmas]

To be clear with yall, I love men. I love my brothers and sisters all equally.

I don't say things like most men are rapists to hurt men, but rather because I believe that the only way we can move forward in social justice is by healing the wounds that the patriarchy has inflicted on us. I don't believe rape is a biologically determined factor, because I don't believe humans evolved to rape. Rape in nature usually has a reproductive purpose but in social species, it's not really needed as a tactic because well.... you can just get consent from someone instead.

Like, most mating processes require consent from both parties and especially in our species, with our advanced cognition we are able to recognize the importance of bodily autonomy. We are able to evolve as a species because we understand bodily autonomy to such a degree, we are able to encourage cooperation as a survival tactic instead of aggression or dominance.

I believe that for most of our history, we have looked to other animals to determine what's natural but I think that's a huge mistake. Not only is deferring to science 100% of the time inherently white supremacist thinking, but our unique control over our biology puts us in a position where we don't need to defer to science all the time.

Like, for example, body modification. Yes, there are conversations to be had about societal pressures etc (the conclusion of those conversations is not to get rid of the option all together but rather to limit and heavily regulate marketing practices to use the central approach instead of the peripheral approach to persuasion because we know the cause of these things is capitalism) but as humans, if we can safely allow body modification.... why shouldn't we?

Take your God out of it, don't talk to me about the purity of the human body. What scientific evidence do you have that body modification is a "sin"? This is what the transphobic rhetoric in society comes down to really. It comes down to a central belief that you are mutilating a sacred vessel somehow, and riding it of its "purity." You believe that "half tit, half penis" bodies are somehow "freaks" or "unnatural" but why? Why do you believe that? What evidence do you have to suggest that type of body shouldn't exist?

Is it biology? Hermaphrodite species exist all over the globe, so it can't be. Is it our human specific biology? No, we have plenty of intersex individuals in our biology.

You see, if you dont understand the basics of human psychology, you won't be able to answer why you believe that type of body is "unnatural" and therefore, why intervention is necessary to stop those types of bodies from existing?

I'm sorry to my trans friends who have to see me use this type of language, but I hope you stick around to see why I have to use this language to deconstruct the belief surrounding this type of language. I'm so sorry if my words are hurtful, I do not mean them to hurt you and I personally do not believe them at all. I love you.

Anyways, if you do take a basic psychology course however, you understand that the reason someone might come to view that type of body as unnatural is because they are relying on social categorization and heuristics to inform their view of the world. If a person believes that the human form can only come in 2 ways based on anecdotal evidence of "I've only ever seen these 2 ways expressed before" well then of course they will believe that anything outside of that is "unnatural." They are experiencing cognitive dissonance when they encounter that type of body they've never seen before, so their best resolution without evidence is "well it must be an exception to the rule." Mix that in with cultural ideas of gender and boom transphobia exists.

The reason I say this is because the same reasoning for a lot of transphobia relies on these same types of heuristics and social categorization, but in a more skewed manner. For example, women who are transphobic will try and justify their discomfort at seeing a trans body as natural because well "males are an inherent threat to women." Not only do they subtly dehumanize the person by referring to them as "male," something that I've literally never understood why people justify doing because you never say just the fucking sex. It's male humans you morons anyways. Anyways I digress.

What I'm getting at here is that social categorization and heuristics are distorting the logic here as well. By claiming that being born with a penis makes you an inherent threat of rape, you are saying there is something in the genetic expression to make a penis rape is encoded in there as well. And this is just not based in any scientific fact whatsoever. Like, male humans are not encoded to rape female humans. Our entire history proves otherwise, our classification as a social species proves otherwise.

But by associating the cis men's culturally programmed desire to rape with a biologically programmed desire to rape, they are then able to justify classifying the penis as a threat to them. This is where the cognitive dissonance is taking place. They are unable to identify the cultural factors that come into a cis man's desire to rape, and thus they are able to identify another factor (the penis) as the cause of rape.

But by claiming that the penis is an inherent threat to women, you are actually encouraging rape culture to thrive. Rape culture thrives on the assumption that men are biologically predisposed to rape. They just can't fucking help it is the reason why people give to explain away deciding to rape someone (minor rapists are very interesting for a different reason maybe I'll make a post on my thoughts on that later) as an adult. They want to escape accountability so they claim its biological.

But by endorsing this excuse, you are putting some of the responsibility on the victim because if there is a biological factor to rape, then we do have to take that into account when raising the gender that gets raped. If male penises were programmed to rape, then we would have a responsibility as a culture to minimize triggering that response to rape as much as possible. Like, that's why "what was she wearing" and "was she drinking" are used as excuses. Because all of rape culture relies on the assumption that male humans are biologically programmed to rape and to want to rape female humans.

That's why this all feeds into each other, because if we don't identify that rape is a correctable behavior, we enable not just patriarchy, transphobia, white supremacy blah blah but also the prison industrial complex as well. Like, much of the pushback against abolishing prisons in the US is "you want rapists on the street!?!?!"

Which like no, not if they haven't gotten serious therapy first. But, it's designed to stop conversations about what prison abolition is and what it would look like in a perfect society. Like, if you say rapists can be rehabilitated, many people take offense to that as being pro rapist? Like, people will actively label this narrative that I've presented as being "pro-rape" or "pro-rapist." And like, sure, since I'm advocating for the humanity of rapists, I guess you could classify it as being pro-rapist but why do you have such a visceral reaction to the suggestion that rapists can change?

That rape is a correctable behavior, that you can teach a rapist not to be a rapist but it requires engaging with the concept and legacy of white patriarchy in a way that our institutions do not want us to engage with. You cannot come to the conclusion that rape is learned without understanding African tribes being shocked at the concept of war rape, without understanding how being a man equates to being a rapist in white culture, you cannot understand these things without understanding how gender was constructed in Africa to be so oppressive and how Islam is a cultural response to Christianity and white supremacy at its core. You cannot understand how your view of men is reductive and simplistic and contributes to the very thing you wish to abolish without understanding how other cultures defined manhood in nonproblematic ways.

You cannot come to this conclusion without years of research into sociology and that is why Republicans are attacking public education so heavily at the moment. They wish to get rid of the most basic tool against fascism we have: education.

[zigsexual]

It's so funny that the group that wants a ~block list~ and think you're evil go on about 'minions' and yet... you get 10x more hate than I've ever seen them get. 🤔

right…… i dont understand the cognitive dissonance going on there like i have genuinely never seen them get actual hate. and the shit i get like i dont even post 80% of it i just block the IP address so i mean yall dont even see the worst shit lmao….. these fools have the audacity to talk mad shit on me but ive never sent anyone hate in my life and i can rest easy knowing that!

[qu33rr1t4bl3]

yall are. annoying about this. i have never in my life guilt tripped anyone over being vegan. most vegans dont do that, its a fabricated stereotype. it literally is you folks who feel guilt because im sitting there eating chips or whatever, holy shit. yall get a guilty conscience just by seeing vegans being alive, and that has nothing to do with vegans and 100% to do with your own cognitive dissonance

[poetiiicnjustus]

There is understanding, overstanding and Innerstanding. Believe, know , become... When I say i dont adhere to a specific religion that does not mean I hate religious people or even that i want to convert them that's not why I seek and share knowledge. We all religiously brush our teeth but have been given flouride in book form. All the spookism associated w our divine human experience as spirits is to our detriment.Spirituality science and physics is all connected. Isimply ask that you seek edification beyond your belief which I'll explain more about in my first book. Im writing this Book to connect those with their divine selves regardless of different beliefs. Believing is cool but once that happens you must KnowThySelf to access your potential. Believe, know, then become. Belief is fickle. Your truth is not mine. If someone believe God told them to sacrafise their first born to him or some crazy shit like that I don't have time to argue about who they talking to in they head or if god really said that shit. This person and I have conflicting beliefs either way my DNA and psyche embedded in me that killing is wrong. I can go on but I wont. U get my point. If i had to label my spirituality then id say Metaphysics is my religion and love is my intent.Some of y'all claim to be Christians but don't know what Christconsciousness is and how to actually access the messages intent because the esoteric teachings about said topics have been dismissed as evil.once new info is presented many still use cognitive dissonance so they can go to 'heaven' which is a level or state of consciousness. Actually moreso to avoid hell which is where we are. Go to YouTube and watch a video called "The exact location of hell" and youll see why im so passionate about my peoples misguidance in the name of anything outside ya self. Yall tripping I'm just pickin ppl up. Y'all seen me on this shit for how long now. I got youngins out here in Suitland getting out of jail like dam. Bruh all that u was speaking was real. We need A unite. Yeah I know negus but before then heal. #alchemy #ALLISMIND #saveyourself #christconsciousness #transmutationofinnerg #POETIIICBELIKE #BELIEVEKNOWBECOME #love