#unless.... no... i shan't make him worse...

[sankttealeaf]

anyway i think modern au ruetash should have an age difference because i think thats funny. rue 100% pulls the "youre just like every other old man out there preying on younger girls!" card when they fall out. he takes 10d8 psychic damage at being called an "old man" (40s)

they break up for the 7th time that tenday and rue is tweeting abt how "its always the rich old men who take advantage of the pretty girls" and he replies with "stop calling me old"

rue "youre old enough to be my father" (he isnt) lastname vs enver "how do you do fellow kids" gortash

she buys him happy 50th balloons for his birthday and he cries inside (hes only in his 40s please stop that rue)

rue "when i was 18 you were in you were basically in your 30s haha how weird is that you cradle robber" (shes ~10 years younger)

it gives them a better dynamic with savvy social media user vs man who thinks people actually read emails.

[quinloki]

I wasn't going to say anything about Taz, but I feel like I need to.

I don't know all the details - I won't, unless it gets worse, but what I've been able to gather is that he made a donation, made a statement, it was taken poorly (and likely worded poorly), and he made an apology of sorts, and now people are scrutinizing everything about him.

Rule #1 - Never assume malice when ignorance will do.

No one knows everything. Not even the things you think they should know as well as you do. There's a famous comic about "lucky 10,000" by xkcd that I suggest you look up.

What I've seen suggests he isn't sure what he did wrong, and responded in a way that reflected that, and then deleted it because... well, who knows? He might've just panicked.

I didn't say or speak on anything about Gaza for weeks because I knew Nothing, and didn't want to assume anything. It took me a long time to form a stance and then take action based on that. It's a complicated issue. (that had been going on for WAY longer than I even realized.)

Rule #2 - "It's simple -" is the worst way to start ANY statement regarding humans, ESPECIALLY human conflicts.

Taz made a donation based on what he knew, and that he wanted to help. There's innocent people on all sides of this conflict just trying to live, and it's not their fault they were born into a shitty-ass government.

What scares me, honestly, is that for MONTHS y'all lifted him up onto a pedestal like some god, and no human is perfect. It's impossible. The second there was a flash of a flaw you collectively sought to nail this man to a tree, and then started screaming for the blood of the entire cast.

The 180 knee-jerk reaction isn't healthy.

Never assume malice when ignorance will suffice, and you can't combat ignorance if you scare people away the second they make a mistake.

I lived 30+ years before I learned a term the Polish side of my family used endearingly was a slur.

It does not matter your situation, you're not born knowing it all, and the internet doesn't mean that the knowledge falls into your head with all the need nuances automatically either.

Now, all that said, if he continues to do worse, and doesn't learn, and just doubles down over and over Like A Certain Fantasy Author Who Shan't Be Named, then sure

But until then... maybe give the bitch a minute to breathe and learn?

And honestly, please don't determine MY worth based on my government. I don't like them either. (I say as an USAian.)