#sit with yourself on that leftist

[sereniv]

i literally witnessed years ago Someone talking about amazonian(?) indigenous people, acting like they care, saying veganism hurts native ppl

and a literal person who was of that heritage, so native, spoke up- and got told to shut up

and i have seen this multiple times, not just native ppl but all types of marginalized identities. you know how much that fucking hurts to see? like physically?

to see people act like they care about these people, and when you correct them suddenly they tell you to shut up, or "they arent reading all that " or they block you?

because they refuse to update the information theyve been taught and change the perception they've grown

because they DONT care about native ppl they DONT care about black people they DONT care about autistic people THEY DONT CARE

Or else they would be happy to find that their rant about slave quinoa children is actually false. they would feel happy. but they don't

they seem disappointed

they

are disappointed

time and time again

when proven that there are no slaves

that there is no abuse

or they justify abuse when it comes to slaughterhouse workers

If this was from right wingers it wouldnt hurt as bad bc you expect it

but these are from leftists and not just new leftists- abolishionists- people who are far left who otherwise would be on board with what actual veganism is

people you trust to fight and stand beside marginalized communities because they are part of them

and then they act like right wingers and its so fucking exhausting

Ive told someone "Veganism is literally, simply, doing what you personally can do, within your self identified limits, to avoid all forms of unnecessary animal exploitation."

and they still got mad.

and that is loud and clear in my eyes

"do your best" and you get angry? ok

Anti-vegans are cowards.

They post in the vegan tag on a public website and then when they are called out for their dipshit takes, they cry and scream and block instead of “owning” those criticizing them despite claiming vegans are “too stupid” to do so.

They are especially cowardly little shits when the marginalized groups they were putting on a pedestal to use against veganism and animal rights (or other social justice issues like climate change, human rights, the environment, politics, etc.) come out of the woodwork to educate and/or criticize them.

They then proceed to ignore, argue with, block, berate, or *accuse those people of not being part of the groups that they are*. Because it’s so much easier to sweep them under the rug then to have hard and nuanced conversations or takes.

These people have fake morals, fake ethics, and are fake leftists.

We see you. We see your bullshit. It isn’t edgy, or cute, or funny. It’s misinformation just like that of right-wing conservatives. It makes y’all sellouts and grifters.

[snekdood]

bitches be like. i hate vegans so much that i’ve decided i like killing animals and its fine and i dont feel bad and animals dont have feelings and its fine and im cool subversive and different and edgy and like to post fucked up stuff to make vegans uncomfortable bc im just so cool

[anotherpapercut]

fucking hate it when (nonfiction) podcasters don't advertise any way to contact them. if you're going to say incorrect and mean spirited shit that's just punching down you should have a way for people to hold you accountable

[qqueenofhades]

i registered to vote for the first time ( i feel old) now that im an adult but my state has closed primary elections which i was wondering if you have an opinion about. my initial thought was that its bad because i had to register democrat (rather than my states green party which represents my beliefs more) just so i could vote between democrat candidates, which feels like being pressured into supporting the weird pseudo two party system we have. but then i looked it up and apparently a reason for this is so that people from opposing parties wont purposefully mess up the votes just so that their preferred candidates have an easier time winning, and i think that makes sense too. but is that actually the reason theyve closed it or is it just to force us dem/republican?? cause it feels strange

Okay, look. I respect the fact that you're a young person, and I appreciate that you have not only registered to vote, but plan to vote in the primaries, so I don't want to lecture you too much. That said: I am taking you out for coffee, I am sitting you down, I am looking into your eyes, and I am urgently telling you the following:

The Green Party is a scam. It is a scam. It has existed for decades in American politics as an empty shell corporation weaponizing the good intentions of young people like yourself, because all it theoretically stands for "it's good to save the planet maybe." Which is not something that any non-insane person seriously disagrees with, but there is no world in which that cause is actually furthered by registering/voting Green (you mentioned that you did vote for Democrats, which -- good, but listen to me here, youngun, okay?) It ran Jill Stein in 2016 to siphon more votes from HRC, and this election it plans to run Cornel West, a pro-Russian tankie who positively equated Bernie and Trump, as another spoiler candidate. It does not stand for "protecting the planet" or America in any real way. It has never elected a single senator or congressman, let alone a president. It stands for empty performance/grievance political theater by those people who feel too morally superior to vote for/affiliate with Democrats, often because the internet has told them that it's not Cool or Hip or Progressive enough.

If your main priority is climate/the environment, you're doing the right thing by registering as a Democrat and voting for Democrats. (Also: the adjectival form is Democratic. It is the Democratic party and Democratic candidates, otherwise you sound like the Fox News host who wrote a book literally entitled "The Democrat Party Hates America.") They are the only major party who has in fact passed major climate legislation and have made environmental justice a central tenet of their platform. As opposed to the Republicans, whose Project 2025, along with the rest of its nightmare fascist prescriptions, openly pledges to completely wreck existing climate protections and forbid any new ones, just because we weren't all dying fast enough under their death-cult rule already. That's the main logical fallacy I don't get among both the Online Leftists and the American electorate in general: "the Democrats aren't doing quite enough as I'd like, so I'll enable the active wrecking ball insane lunatics to get in power and ruin even the progress we HAVE managed to make!" Like. How does that even make sense?

On a federal level, the Greens have contributed nothing whatsoever of tangible value to American or international climate policy/legislation, environmental justice, or anything else, because as noted, they don't have any elected candidates and mostly focus on drawing voters away from Democrats. There might be plenty of good candidates on the local or city level, which -- great! Vote away for Greens if they're available, or the only other option is a Republican! But on the federal/primary level, please understand: once again, they are a scam. There is no point in affiliating yourself with them. You're welcome to register Green and vote Democratic, if that makes you feel better or if you prefer having another label next to your name, but once again, I'm telling you in my position as a salty Tumblr elder that they have done nothing but harm to the causes they claim to care about, because "environment" is such a nebulous priority and has demonstrably been hijacked to stop the American government entity, i.e. the Democrats, that is actually working to improve on it.

As for your question: nobody is "forcing" or "pressuring" you to vote in primaries. By your own admission, you made a conscious choice to register as a Democrat in order to vote for Democratic candidates. If you were just a regular registered voter of whatever party affiliation, you would vote in the general election for whatever candidate the primary process produced. But if you are sufficiently vested and committed to that process that you would like to have a say in who is running under that party label, it is not unreasonable that you would register as a member of that party. Nobody has twisted your arm behind your back and made you do so; you are taking a considerable level of initiative on your own. Likewise, open primaries can be both a good and bad thing. This falls under the "the political system we have is flawed, but we can't magically pretend it doesn't exist and act according to our own fantasyland versions of reality" thing that I keep saying over and over. So yes, if you want a role in shaping the Democratic candidates who emerge from a Democratic primary process, you will usually register as a Democrat, and nobody has forced you to do that. It's that simple.

Likewise as a general programming note: I'm trying to cut back on politics a bit right now, because I don't have the spoons/bandwidth/mental health to deal with it. I apologize. So if you've sent me a politics-related ask recently and haven't received a response, I'm not deliberately or maliciously ignoring you; I just am not able to handle it as much as usual and will have to put it on pause. However, I feel as if this is important enough to be worth saying, so, yeah.

[skankhunt44]

Okay. Dog trainer here, that trained dogs to attack people for protection and I trained police dogs.

There is no blood in this video. You see her hands multiple times, which she uses to defend herself. They are not injured or even bloody from her other injuries?

Dogs teeth will tear flesh whey they are trained to, so the first bite, especially in the face would cause a lot of bleeding.

I was trying to rehab a dog and it bit me leaving me needing serious surgery in my arm, where he bit down fully, only once until my colleague dragged him off of me.

This video is staged to look like it does. Why is the footage of the dog entering the room not shown? Where are the other dogs? Why is there literally not a drop of blood anywhere but she was severely injured? Also there is no soldier handler? There is no audio? That dog was not on top of her yet against all human instincts she remains lying down flat. This is proof of nothing.

Bull shit. Bull fucking shit.

You do realize that Al jeezera is a terrorist (jihad) organizations controlled media network, right? If you had one brain cell you'd see that this is not a reliable source of anything.

And most literally ironic part is that most of you live on stolen land yourselves in NA and Australia, New Zealand , and so much more.

There is literally more human suffering in other places, civilian death count is the lowest of any modern war. I wish you all actually would educate yourselves instead of spreading shit.

Also actual footage that is not altered would have a running time, especially because it's a dog.

Share‼️ In footage published by Al-Jazeera, recorded from a camera mounted on an Israeli forces’ dog, shows Israeli occupation forces releasing the dog inside a residential house in Jabalia refugee camp Northern Gaza Strip ‼️‼️

The dog attacked an elderly Palestinian woman while she was sleeping, severely injuring her. Via @in.visualart

من كاميرا مركبة على كلب بوليسي للاحتلال تُظهر اعتداء الكلب على سيدة مسنة داخل بيتها في جباليا شمال قطاع غزة

[wiisagi-maiingan]

People need to do some goddamn research on how sexual assault accusations are leveraged against marginalized communities, particularly black men and queer people, and how often people are sentenced to detah over crimes they didn't commit.

Grown adults CANNOT be sitting here talking about how a new death penalty policy is good because it's only against people who rape children and those people deserve to die. Like are you hearing yourselves right now? Are you fucking serious? Are you so blinded by your emotional responses and revenge fantasies that you can't comprehend how horrific these sorts of policies really are and how they're used as weapons to kill the people the state doesn't want to exist?

I'm legit seeing people saying that there's no way those sorts of laws would be used against trans people and I just. You cannot be this naive. You CAN'T. You cannot seriously be so ignorant of the realities of the death penalty to serously sit here and defend it while still calling yourself a leftist. I am going to claw my own skin off.

[spectral-central]

that "i'm not coming out i'm just going to act gayer and gayer until people have the audacity to call me out on it" post but it's me @ my sister

[aristotels]

There’s no way that stardew post is serious, none of it is that serious 😭

games/shows/movies/books/stories in general exist as a mirror of our own world. they have to say something and exist within some ideological praxis.

like this is why media analysis exists and in the notes of that post you can see that people dont actually understand what capitalism entails. a lot of "leftists" on this site want capitalism to stay, but in the way it suits them. running "small business" is seen as sooo anti-capitalist here when its rly not. its an intracapitalist fight in the interest of petit-burgeoise.

the point isnt that youre evil for playing stardew valley and should be chained in the basement and sit in the corner and count scratches on the wall for next 10,000 years, but that the game rests on escapist fantasy of you becoming the petit burgeoise landlord. this doesnt even mean you should stop enjoying or playing it or that you should hate yourself, you can be a normal person and enjoy reactionary things while realizing what the point of them is and why they feel good. its a game and its not real and its just fantasy but it operates within a certain ideological framework. the issue isnt you spending 2 hours playing it or whatever, the problem is when it starts bleeding into reality and people start propagating that opinion as anti-capitalist and setting it as their life goal or ideal dream or whatever

(which is a lot of people on this site actually)

[germiyahu]

That "racism of low expectations" point can be applied to more than Westerners patting their little Jihad Meow Meows on the head by the way. I think it also applies to American Jews, usually assimilated, acting like Israel is this Entity and not a country made up of mostly Middle Eastern Jews, people. When they do acknowledge that Israelis are people who aren't just acting in the interests of an all powerful governmental animus, they act like all Israelis are bloodthirsty frat bro soldiers wreaking havoc in Gaza because they think it's fun.

Because what is this? This tweet was in response to the chaotic backlash against Jonathan Glazer, who espoused a nearly identical sentiment. That sentiment being: Israel is using our Jewishness for some nefarious political purpose. It's not fair! We didn't sign off on GENOCIDE! How dare they use us to do this!

Israeli Jews are seen too unenlightened, too religious, too much of an embarrassment, to much of Diaspora Jewry. And yet at the same time their Jewishness is not even considered to be part of the political calculus of Israel at all? These not in my name types truly think Israel is a shadowy cabal of like 20 old white men (ironic) getting off on destroying lives and using as shields these poor innocent Americans and Brits, famously two peoples who've never twisted or corrupted the legacy of the Holocaust before.

They obviously have very hurt feelings that Israeli Jews dare to be Jews, to invoke their own Jewishness, Jewish values, to justify military action. They're not even really doing that? They want the hostages back. That is the primary concern if you poll Israeli citizens right now. And that's been the case pretty much every day since the pogrom. That's it. That's why they're saying Never Again. If that offends you as a Jewish person really let that steep. Really sit with your emotional reaction to Jews having a trauma reaction to traumatizing events and relating other events of Jewish trauma throughout history to that event. Ask yourself if it's appropriate to insinuate that they're using their Jewishness, sorry just YOUR Jewishness apparently, to make you look bad?

Israeli politicians have invoked the Holocaust outright, as a comparison. Because clearly the country whose "white" population is mostly made up of the descendants of Holocaust refugees has no business doing that? That's an affront to your name and your values?Again, why do you think everything is about you? Why do you think everything Israel does is even in your name in the first place? Is it American Brainrot Disease again?

You think Israeli Jews are so incapable of rationality and of yearning for social justice (they just want their family members back) that you erase them from the conversation. Israeli leftists are not real and are not working with Palestinians as we speak, and certainly aren't advocating for a ceasefire more successfully than anyone on this continent! Israeli politicians who speak to their constituents and use the shared cultural language of being Jews are trying to brainwash and influence Americans, because they have no constituents. Israel is just a bunch of racist politicians and a mercenary army that's trained to kill children specifically.

Like this is getting so annoying. It's clear they wish they could just excommunicate all Israelis, because they're Bad Jews. They want to take away their Jewish card, because that's not what Real Judaism stands for! And then they get offended when non secular Jews around the world dare question their Jewish identities in response to this behavior. Which I'm not condoning for the record, but how about you practice what you preach for once?

[hussyknee]

Whites and their liberal bootlickers are an infection. The settler is the colonizer is the genocider. Rejecting the most brutal form of direct violence means nothing when you refuse to divest from the structures created to accommodate it.

A settler's very existence is violent because they cannot exist without the colonial power that protects them. The only way to make it NOT violent is by dismantling the colonial power. Until then, your job is to work on educating yourself, amplifying the voices of the colonized, and accepting that armed resistance is a consequence of your existence. Holding placards over your head and yelling a lot at the people propagating and safeguarding the status quo that you benefit from doesn't merit you extra cookies anymore than accepting the softest punishment from a carceral system designed to torture the colonized to the point of death.

And if that makes you ask yourself "But...but I'm a settler! I have settler privilege! Does that mean MY existence is inherently violent to—" yes. It is. Take your unthreatened, unterrorized self to your whole and unbombed house with power and water and heat and food and your intact family, sit your ass down with the tub of ice cream you can afford and cry into it.

“There is no middle ground anymore. There is no way of supporting the liberal occupier, the progressive ethnic cleanser and the leftist genocider.”

—Ilan Pappé

[krsnaradhika]

90% of you bhakts can’t even tell how many shlokas there are in Gita. All you know is Modi Modi. Hopefully you’re run off this site

Dunno what sort of people you're surrounding yourself with because my circle of Sanātanīs and I know there are 18 chapters and 700 verses in the Shrīmad Bhagavad Gītā. The sermon was heard by Sanjaya and Shrī Ānjaneya apart from Pārtha Arjuna. The Mahābhārata is also called the Jaya Samhitā and the fifth Veda. 108 Upanishads are best known (although there are only 10 main ones) along with 4 Vedas, namely - Rigveda, Yajurveda, Sāmaveda and Atharvaveda— Rigveda being the primal text. There are several Vedāngas and 18 Purānas. Itihāsas are a different category altogether. There are 8 (or sometimes 7) Chiranjeevis or immortals, 10 main avatars of Shrī Vishnu (apart from Bhagwān Krishna Dwaipāyana Veda Vyāsa, Devī Mohinī and so on). There are 12 Ādityas, 11 Rudras, 8 Vasus and 2 Ashwinī Kumāras which make up to 33 koti of gods. Don't project lmfao. Touch some grass. We proud bhakts do not sit on Instagram 24/7, we sit with books and we possess maryādā which you seem to lack.

And by that logic all of you leftists are like Barkha Dutt who disclosed the locations of Indian soldiers on live tv to terrorists during the 26/11 attack? All of you are like Rahul Gandhi who mocks India on a foreign soil? All of you are like Manmohan Singh who invited the terrorist Yasin Malik and greeted him cordially? Do you support terrorists and bootlick the Congress who did not bat an eye on the agony of Chitpawan Brahmins of Pune and the Hindus of Kashmir? Be for real.

You'd know what a bhakt is if you had met a true bhakt (which you use as a slur/ demeaning term. Very liberal of you by the way. And then we bhakts are the ones who are problematic). Shoo away from my blog.

[smegmafactory4ever]

I forgot… why do you hate the Kleins? Also I’m praying that you get money soon. Xoxo

Ethan is a self-hating fat guy and a coomer. He has no swag and no sense of humor at all. He used to pretend to be vaguely right-wing adjacent for views and then started pretending to be a vague leftist for views. The whole time he's a basic American Democrat with no real convictions aside from what makes him the most money at any given moment. Actually that's a true he has only one consistent belief, Zionism. Ironically enough he hated living in Israel. Genuinely hateful misogynistic and homophobic but he votes blue so that doesn't matter. Somehow always the victim in every situation even tho he started every single beef he was involved in. Also always just so happens to beef with less popular creators who also just so happen to be mentally unstable but you can't accuse him of having bias there bcs he has mild anxiety and depression. Also started Ozempic as a 40yo married man with kids which is sooooo corny like damn go play with your kids instead of giving yourself violent diarrhea just so you can look better (but not great) on camera.

As for his wife, literally served in the IDF at a desk job which she found "boring" so she 100% volunteerly tagged along on combat missions. That in and of itself is crazy behavior. On top of that, as uncharismatic and unfunny as Ethan is, at least he enjoys being on camera and can talk. Hila just sits there looking like a hostage being held at gun point to awkwardly laugh at her husband's racist jokes. Decided she wanted more money so she, woman with literally no previous interest in fashion and negative swag, started her own overpriced clothing company. Their whole thing is how it's "ethical" streetwear but it's literally sweatshop quality with stolen designs but overpriced as hell. In addition to that basically all reviews for the company on glass door say she's a horrible boss and doesn't actually know anything about how the fashion industry works. Though I would hesitate to call that fashion since only H3tards buy it and it's obviously just overpriced YouTuber merch.

Anyways the parasocial attachments people form with the grossest most-swagless couple on earth are crazy to me since most of their fans would hugely benefit from forming a real life physical bond with a bar of soap.

[problemnyatic]

maybe internet leftism would be more effective if so much of it wasn't framed in this sneering, shame-on-you language that seems mote intent on guilting people for not being leftist enough than actually extending an understanding hand to people who people who, believe it or not, do actually realize that something is deeply wrong with society despite not being Properly Enlightened And Educated on All Of Leftist Theory as to why.

Yeah, we all post the You Are Not Immune To Propaganda jpeg, but do you still have an internal threshold of propaganda exposure by which others stop being human to you? Do you write off anyone who doesn't already understand the things you do as stupid? Do you understand that to create a genuinely far-reaching movement, you need to be willing to reach people that are substantially different than you and meet them on their level?

Yeah you believe everyone deserves human rights, but do you actually respect the differences in life experince you'll face when engaging with people outside your circle of theory-reading leftists?

And just to be excruciatingly clear: none of these are rhetorical questions. None of these are accusations, and if your response to these questions is to get defensive rather than to self-reflect on whether your practices reflect your principles, I urge you to then ask yourself if your desire to create effective change is being impeded by your apparent need to feel like a "good leftist".

I really, really get feeling frustrated with the world, with how fucking many people seem content to just buy propaganda, with how frustrating and exhausting it is to walk people through the baby steps of what feels like having a very basic grasp of reality. Your outrage is justified and your feelings are very real and deserve to be respected. I'm not here to tone police people expressing their very real anger and grief at the horrible ways global imperialism is hurting us all.

My point here is that, when your goal is to actually inspire others to seek further education on leftist matters, to actually increase the total amount of leftism in the world, you need to be asking yourself if the methods you are using are actually effective. It can feel excruciating to be patient when the world is already so on fire, but you can't just shame people into not needing to be met on their level. It demonstrably does not work, and will work against all of us if the impression you're giving others is that leftism is the mean, scary option even to people who genuinely mean well and want to do better.

I see so many posts rightfully trashing on the widespread culture in the US and beyond of teachers and authority figures simply punishishing people who don't know what they're expected to yet, instead of actually teaching them. I see so many posts on here about how it's okay to need to learn life skills you were never taught. Why does this seem to evaporate when it comes to teaching others leftist theory? That's not rhetorical either, please, really, genuinely ask yourself this question, let it sit with you for a long time.

I know how urgent it is to get people to come around. I'm panicking too. I'm angry, and I'm frustrated, and I'm dumbfounded at how long its taking so many folks to get a fucking grip on what's so broken about society. But I understand that the assertion that the answers should be obvious does nothing to change the fact that, to so many people, to enough people, it isn't. That we need to meet them on their level, with kindness, if we're to get them on our side. Leftism starts at home. It starts with your personal relationships, how you treat others when it's inconvenient and difficult.

Leftism starts with kindness.

[shego1142]

At this point and up until the elections are over and the results are announced

I think that we should just call a spade a spade.

Anyone and everyone who is neigh-saying Kamala?

They're a Trump supporter.

Anyone and everyone who is a centrist, a "let's see both sides of things right now" type of person?

Trump supporter.

Anyone calling for people to "vote third party" right now?

Trump supporters.

Anyone calling for people to "just not vote" ?

Those are Trump supporters.

Because there are two really hard to swallow facts you need to hear:

#1.) This is, without a doubt, going to be the most important and instrumental election in American history.

#2.) Like it or not, the American Political System is a two party race. It wasn't supposed to be, sure.

But for right now it is. There's no ifs and or buts about it. The system is set up so that a third party candidate cannot win.

Every single vote that isn't counted for Kamala is a vote for Trump.

I don't care how leftist, or how progressive you think you are, if you're not willing to vote for Kamala then you're a Trump supporter.

If you are not loudly rallying behind and supporting Kamala, who is very likely our one and only chance of hope and progress, then you should either be quiet about it or else you are a Trump supporter.

If you're not willing to be an active participant in our society with how it works right now, then sit down and shut up and don't complain about anything.

If you think that they’re both equally bad then you must be privileged enough to feel safe in Trump’s America.

It’s a privilege for you to even consider voting third party or to consider throwing your vote away and not using it. It’s entitlement.

You feel safe saying that they’re the same.

But for us poor people, us queer and trans people, us disabled people, and for people of colour, for Palestinians and Ukrainians, and so so many more people, Trump’s America would not be safe.

Kamala could be our only chance at preserving our democracy and if you're not supporting her just for the sake of your own selfish performative white knighting about your "morals" trying to make yourself look good?

Then the only person you're benefiting is Trump.

So you're a Trump supporter.

If being called that doesn't feel good to you then maybe analyse why that is.

If being called a Trump supporter makes you upset, stop doing things that support him.

[satanfemme]

personally I'm not particularly upset, not because I'm happy with this outcome but because I'd already accepted this kind of thing as inevitable. I'm by no means a political expert, but between my reading + keeping up with everything, I felt the signs were there. as the commies have been saying all year: an election was never going to be able to save you from what the united states was built to be. the purpose of a system is what it does, and what the united states has always done has been imperialism, genocide, and oppression in the name of capital. this is the natural progression of this purpose.

but even if you place theory to the side, you can just look at the vote numbers and sit with how many people endorse and encourage trump's brand of outright fascism. if it wasn't this election, it would've been the next election. the dem party could've been the most righteous and pure-hearted politicians in the world (which to be clear, was already an impossibility under this system), and they still would not be able to win every election every 4 years for the rest of time. another "trump win" (whether literally trump, or an equivalent republican) was inevitable.

the take away here should be that you live in a fascist state, whose purpose is what it does and what it always has done. now, self identified leftist, ask yourself what you plan to do about it.

[intheholler]

hello! i’m new to this side of tumblr and i’m just starting to connect with this type of content since it is how i grew up and reminds me of home. i was wondering what the core of this kind of content is, like what beliefs are associated with it because i grew up more conservative and am just starting to find my own values and i need a little help, plus i don’t want to use this side of tumblr for the wrong reasons because i feel like someone would cancel me

hi there <3

if by 'this side of tumblr' you mean appalachian-based blogs, then it's good to know that we, as appalachian folks, are inherently leftist by nature.

i think it's important to do what you're doing and to explore what your own values are independent of your upbringing, and even independent of blogs like mine to arrive at your own ideas. proud of u for starting this journey.

but if you do choose to look around, scrolling my content will give you a good idea of the general sentiment of the leftist appalachian:

we are for labor rights, queer liberation, anti-racism, conservation of nature and, generally speaking, the liberty to independently live and let live without interference, to put it vaguely.

you may find some things that surprise you if you look through appalachian leftist spaces, such as how many of us are pro-(responsible) gun ownership, for example. the conservative/right wing layer that sits on top of our mountains--what so many of us grew up around, and had to form our own beliefs through, and what so much of the country insists we are--is not the heart of the hills like the loud ones would suggest.

this blog actually first began as a way for me to work through the things i'd been taught growing up, especially in terms of religion, and to help me break out of it. i didn't grow up in a conservative household, but i grew up in a conservative christian community, so a lot of it subconsciously rubbed off on me. i had to do a lot of uncomfortable but necessary self work.

and it's work that i think every appalachian and southerner has to do at some point once we realize our hearts do not align with what we've been taught all our lives, so ur in familiar company, family. be easy on yourself as you move through it and come into your own beliefs.

my DMs and inbox are always open if you need someone to get your thoughts out to! take it easy <3