#nobody and nothing can make me either

[averysmolkirbo]

Just a klapolly reminder that despite me knowing nothing about relationships or rizz id like to say that Klav is like the definition and entire meaning of rizz.

Apollo goes to a park to investigate a murder not expecting any kind of romantic interaction. Literally just investigating.

He gets there and cant get into the park and just tries to talk to one of the people there to get access so he can just do his job and investigate.

He does not know the person he's talking to.

Never met him.

Doesnt know what his job is exactly or why he's there too.

Doesnt even know his name. First time speaking to this person.

And this person, this man, takes ONE look at Apollo, this person he's never meet or seen before, who is like a full 5 inches shorter than him and (insert bias warning here) and who is practically *objectively* less physically attractive* than him (i mean hes not like ugly but hes also not like a 10/10 either) and not famous (he's literally just a random smol lil guy he met in the park)

.... and just INSTANTLY decides that this random person in a park who he doesnt know is the first person he's ever seen to make him so lovestruck to question his own sexuality.

And then has the balls, the confidence, THE RIZZ, to outright TELL HIM, IMMEDIATELY.

AND AS THE VERY FIRST WORDS HE'S EVER SAID TO HIM BEFORE NO LESS!! I JUST AKSJFHJROAJFKSL HOW ARE THEY NOT CANON MY HEARTTRJSKOFKSL

If that isnt just the definition of sheer charm and infinite rizz, i dont know what IS.

[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

[blueberry-beanie]

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[puppppppppy]

footnotes arent enough I need you to talk to me like im fucking Amelia Bedelia

[aberooski]

If I get yelled at for sitting down or have to keep doing everybody's fucking jobs with no respect and just keep getting nothing but flack or get patronized by another fucking old person one more fucking time I stg I'm gonna quit.

[kushamisaru]

Been seeing way less people talk about shit republicans are doing in their quest to demonize democrats (shut up for five minutes, this post ain't about them and I already know why you're mad at them, I am too). And I don't think people are taking the fact that republicans will have majority in EVERY branch of government seriously come January 2025. Anything that gets passed has to go through them, whether democrats help or not. So maybe try remembering you have two feet to step on two necks. Just some food for thought.

[aethersflames]

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[uiruu]

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re very young and aren’t deliberating spreading misinformation about how the US branches of government work. The president does not have ANY say in Supreme Court decisions. The president belongs to the executive branch of government. The Supreme Court belongs to the judicial branch. The only influence the executive branch has on the Supreme Court is if/when the president gets the opportunity to appoint a new justice, which only occurs when a current justice dies or steps down. Those appointments from the president’s office need Senate approval before a justice can be confirmed to the court.

The US currently has a conservative majority on the court: there are nine justices total with six being conservative — three of them were appointed by Trump due to vacancies that occurred during his administration* (technically one vacancy occurred under Obama, but the conservative-majority Senate at that time blocked his nominees until he left office, meaning Trump was in a position to fill that vacancy. Hm, almost as though voting does in fact matter because of how our branches of government are designed, and Democratic presidents alone can’t achieve unilateral change!).

I understand the frustration with the state of the country right now, but acting like Biden is a king with unprecedented power over the judicial and legislative branches is dangerously out of touch with the reality of how this country works. Although ironically, Trump and his allies plan to redistribute power into the executive branch when he takes office by minimizing the power of the legislative and judicial branches (see Project 2025). If Project 2025 comes to fruition, the executive branch WOULD have king-like power, which is what The US Constitution was written to avoid. I recommend learning about the limits and parameters of presidential power before you “voting is useless” your way into handing absolute power to Trump.

im not gonna respond to very much of this, except to say that i'm almost certainly older than you, and also it's funny for you to be like "Biden isnt a king and doesnt have absolute power, there's nothing he can do about the supreme court. but Trump will have absolute power". which one is it? is the president important or not? also, you people all say that the democrats will be better than the republicans. where's the proof of that? what have they done for anyone? commit genocide?

[mars-ipan]

i do love my family very dearly but the internalized ableism the men in here struggle with is. so much

[littlepetbee]

i think one of my biggest accomplishments of 2023 is when my therapist asked me to list one thing i like about myself and one thing i dislike about myself and i came up with the thing i like immediately and struggled sooo hard to think of anything i dislike. yeah, mr. therapist sir, let me school you on how someone can be a fucking Mess but have shockingly good self-esteem/self-worth all at the same time lmao

[bedforddanes75]

I HATE THIS HOUSE

[godgavemenoname]

as a younger alter i relate to claudia iwtv x_x'

[marklikely]

the results of that "is fanfic a book" poll have shown me one thing and its that this site never graduated past that absolutely insufferable phase in 2013 where everyone acted like every book is the single most sacred thing on earth

[possibly-eli]

im going to fistfight whoever the fuck came up with the "there is no try, you do or you dont" thing because Fuck you 1 million times

[nostalgia-tblr]

If I could do Fics With A Plot I'd probably attempt An AU Where Lauffey Dies And Odin Goes "Oh Hey, Frost Dudes, I Had Your Heir All Along :D He's Urs Now :D" Except Because This Is A Shit Plan It Does Not Go At All Well. Because it does bother me. Because I worry too much about fictional monarchies having the 'wrong' rules. D:

[dolokhoded]

if i see people excusing one more white american influencer not speaking out about the literal genocide going on right now because "they're under so much pressure" "they're reacting under crisis" im gonna start screaming i swear to god