#except trump supporters

[genderfluid-goblin]

everyone deserves to be happy!!!!

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

[genericpuff]

Remembrance Day doesn't hit so well a week after half the U.S. voted in a literal Nazi.

[torahtot]

you can always tell when someone doesn't have maga men in their life and god it makes me angry.. "if you're nice and compassionate you can be the one woman that makes them realize women aren't mean!" my mom bent over backwards for my dad for 25 fucking years he has plenty of other women kissing his ass and it never changed anything. do you really think that before being radicalized they never knew a single kind woman? they were never friends with a nice girl? alt-right men's problem with women isn't just that they've experienced too many mean women and they need to be shown that women can be nice, it's that they think women are inferior and don't deserve rights and don't understand anything so you can do what you want with them. and it takes a lot more than being nice to show someone that you aren't inferior. this isn't a case of being nice even when it's hard for the sake of deradicalization, it's about spending every fucking interaction with someone trying to get them to see you as a human being with value and a functioning intellect while they just laugh and show you that's never going to happen.

i cannot stress this enough: random women are not just going out and Being Mean to men. ur average guy interacts with plenty of women throughout his life- close women amongst their friends and family, casual interactions etc. most people don't start out being shunned by women, they start out being treated as NORMAL. & when they show their disrespect in normal society, it isn't tolerated, but when they go to alt-right spaces (which they're pushed towards online) they're told they're allowed to be as horrible as they want with no consequences because they're entitled to everything. it isn't "women aren't welcoming and the alt-right is so friendly so i'll become alt-right," it's "women don't let me disrespect them and the alt-right tells me fuck them, do whatever you want, you're entitled to it all" and why would you choose the group where you have to be a normal accountable person when there's a group that will reward you for being a shithead who gives no fucks?

the alt-right can afford to be more friendly and welcoming because they can allow bigotry. this can't work the same way for progressive spaces because we can be as kind & welcoming as possible but at the end of the day we have lines where we have to say "this behavior/speech isn't allowed in this space," and for certain people, that just can't win against a space where you can be as nasty as you want. these posts always end with a disclaimer saying "of course being kind doesnt mean you need to tolerate their bigotries" but what they don't realize and what drives me crazy is that women not tolerating bigotry IS the "women are mean" that radicalized them in the first place. they perceive you pushing back on any bigotry or bullshit as you being a meanie and treating them like they're ontologically evil. the 'kindness' they need to be deradicalized is you letting them walk all over you.

idk what the answer is to deradicalizing them and im sure relationships are part of it but you can be as kind as you want and all it will do is destroy you ime. i cant stand to see people (who have never even successfully deradicalized any man by being nice btw they always speak in hypotheticals and not from experience) double down on telling women to do things that will see no results and only hurt them, especially when any woman who has tried can tell you exactly how it went

[rotteneldritchhorror]

I do love... that the most celebrated assassination attempt (on trump) and THE most celebrated SUCCESSFUL assassination (of the uhc ceo) all were done by people who's social media presence were found immediately and all discovered to have fucking incoherent political stances lol

[flying-cat]

I can't imagine being anywhere near as insane as Trump supporters because my dad told me that he, earlier, drove past a guy putting a "Harris Walz 2024" sign outside his house and decided to yell out at him "TRUMP 2024 YOU COCKSUCKER" and flip him off. And he laughed when he told me because he thinks that yelling at a man (emphasized man because he thinks men should be "better" than women, and "better" would be voting for Trump in this case) who is voting for a "whore who slept her way to the top" (his exact words) is funny. And expected me to laugh with him. And got angry when I didn't and just stared at him in disbelief. Even though he already knows that I don't like Donald Trump. These people fully expect others to find their weird ass derogatory words and behavior FUNNY. Donald Trump is leading a cult of old people who he brainwashed into being delusional with him.

[nappingpaperclip]

Even assuming every third party voter had voted for Kamala (not that they would have) she still would have lost by over 3 million votes….

[lucyswr1t1ng]

[fagbearentertainment]

Can’t stand my family during voting season wish they’d shut up about Trump

[shandidellamorte]

Not throwing away my W.A.S.P. stuff, but I'm putting it out of sight.

I'm so fucking disappointed rn..

[interpolationz]

my dad talked several times leading up to voting about how he didn't know if he could bring himself to vote for trump....i had actually become hopeful that he would abstain, or go third party at least

[hellhouse]

worlds 2024 crowd

so we went to worlds! i never make posts but i needed to talk about this. i might make a post about the rest of the event somewhere else but i NEED to vent about the thing that pissed me off the most of the whole event - which wasn't even anything to do with the skating!

i've seen a million people talking about how amazing the crowd was and like. i don't know where they were or what their experiences were but mine was largely miserable.

i was in a fantastic seat (even tho it was not the seat we originally bought) but the section was full of, largely, the worst people i've ever had the misfortune to share an audience with. people distracting skaters, talking to them on the ice, disrespecting other people's spaces, talking loudly about irrelevant things during programs, WALKING BACK TO THEIR SEAT DURING A PROGRAM, saying blatantly racist shit about asian skaters, kicking people out of their seats during a program, calling security on people for seat hopping (without even trying to talk to the person first), threatening security for someone taking pictures... you name it, we had to deal with it.

like i generally avoid most fs fan spaces because people online are annoying as hell and i'm picky with who i follow/check for news. but the real life crowd? is so much fucking worse. it was just disheartening to feel like no one really respected the skaters on the ice.

i don't really have a point with this, but like... it was just so frustrating and such a bummer on the whole experience to have to put up with people who i felt weren't there to enjoy or support skating, but instead to be entitled pricks or catty assholes that made the vibes horrendous

[misha-69innit]

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[hykwrld]

my thoughts are with those within america, my inbox is always open if anyone needs to talk 🤍

please look after yourselves and stay safe. remember you are so loved <3

[notetaeker]

For people who are saying that what’s so different about Biden all other ‘presidents were complicit in genocide too’ the difference is that despite these offensives taking place every few years, for the first time ever there is actual fair reporting on the situation due to social media of actual Palestinians. You’re not just getting Israel’s PR report and having news agencies read that to everyone. For every single person to know the details of what Israel is doing and to be against it and for the Congress and Biden to still openly support Israel shows their blatant disregard for the people who elected them into office and the fact that they believe that they can do anything they want without consequences because people will re-elect them anyways to avoid Republicans. This is NOT the time to be playing ‘lesser than two evils’ like we always have. This is NOT about ‘finding an ideal candidate’ it’s about showing democrats that they cannot win if they continue to commit genocide.

Would you have re-elected hitler? Many people who supported hitler later said ‘I had no idea what he was going to do’ as their excuse but you have seen limb by limb body by body what US is helping Israel do. After seeing all that can you bear to still re-elect Biden who shows unconditional support of it all?

You all want to change the system so bad but how is the system going to change if you vote FOR a genocider just like they want. You change the system by showing you have voting power and that candidates need to NOT be a open genocider to earn my vote is that too much to freaking ask.

[frenreyhlvrai]

dude why does Aaron Fetcher have to suck

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

The U.S. gymnastics teams this year hold my whole heart🥹