twentyonefirstmates

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sometimes the tragedy of distance is very simple. i want to get groceries with you

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streaming saturday is not enough, i need to dye my hair pink and be forced by the bishops to perform this song on the submarine until one of them betrays the others and helps me escape using the power of psychokinesis and breaking the glass with a little help of trash the dragon who's obviously very dead-

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the secret to life is always having something to look forward to

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Also, because I follow a lot of Jewish blogs I've seen the kind of shit they get (and I already know there's gonna be tumblr antisemites trying to imply shit about those blogs, so I'm just gonna say 1. fuck you and 2. you're literally doing the thing I'm talking about in this post) there's a thing that's worth pointing out

The whole "I smell a Zionist! Prove! Prove, prove, prove you're not a Zionist!" routine is already fucking antisemitic on its own (for the same reasons that, say, accosting random Muslims to demand that they denounce ISIS is fucking islamophobic, or accosting random Chinese people for their opinion on the CCP's human rights abuses would be fucking sinophobic) but also as a litmus test it's fucking rigged

Because if a Jew who's asked that question decides to actually answer, the possible outcomes are:

They interpret it as "do you want all Palestinians dead" and say "no"... and the asker then finds evidence of them saying something like "there should be a Jewish state" or "I hate Netanyahu but comparing him to Hitler is antisemitic" or even "Israeli NGOs that work to help Palestinians are worth supporting" and uses that as proof that 1. the Jew is a Zionist, 2. they lied about it, and 3. they do want all Palestinians dead

They interpret it as literally anything else and say some variation of "yes, because [reason specific to the way they interpreted the term]"... in which case the asker just uses that as proof that they do in fact want all Palestinians dead and any indication to the contrary is just the Jew in question lying

They interpret it as literally anything else but still say "no" and the asker claims they didn't deny it hard enough and also still looks for evidence of them saying something like "there should be a Jewish state" or "I hate Netanyahu but comparing him to Hitler is antisemitic" or even "Israeli NGOs that work to help Palestinians are worth supporting" and uses that as proof that the Jew in question is a lying Zionist who wants all Palestinians dead

Meanwhile, if a Jewish person gets asked that question and refuses to answer, that refusal is treated as an admission of guilt in and of itself

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did it?

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you cant ever let yourself forget what it felt like to be 15. how adults treated you. being treated without a shred of respect because people think youre too young to have thoughts and feelings of your own. the lack of autonomy. you cant ever forget that because if you do you might become the kind of adult who treats kids like theyre not people

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On god the funniest possible response to this post

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me when someone complains about something that's been genuinely bothering me too but i just brushed it off because i was worried that i was just bitchy/callous/sensitive but now I feel Vindicated

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this is so them

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straight up loving it , and by 'it "? lets jusrt say MY FRIENDS !!

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sorry for picking up your online speech patterns. I liked them.

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It's finally dawning on me that a lot of hard leftists actually do think the US presidency is already a dictatorship.

Like they think that the reason the Biden administration didn't cancel college debt on the grand scale they pictured, is that he just didn't want to. They have no comprehension just how much Republicans were working against him to stop literally anything he could do to make things in this country less dogshit. (BTW, this is why we need to vote blue all the way down the ticket.)

And then they think they can elect some third party rando with no actual allies in the senate or congress or anywhere, and people will just have to do what they say, and won't try to sabotage them even harder because they're even further left. (The aforementioned efforts to sabotage Biden? It would be even worse for an actual leftist president.)

Like no, sorry, the US presidency is not actually a dictatorship.

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Flashback Friday: Originally posted June 3rd, 2020

I get easily overwhelmed from my sense of touch. Some days just feeling my clothes and hair are enough to have me on the verge of over-stimulation so just having someone touch me is enough to send me into a meltdown.

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i've been reading a lot of books about urban naturalism recently, and the one big thing they all talk about is how you HAVE to stop seeing nature as something that happens somewhere else. nature is not just charismatic megafauna and state parks and mountain ranges. nature is that abandoned lot that's growing native milkweed in it. nature is the murder of crows that lives in your block. nature is the moss growing on your roof and the dandelions growing in the sidewalk cracks and the song birds at your neighbor's birdfeeder. and you should care about it! you should notice it! that's YOUR nature!

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big fan of characters who think jon's whole situation is just not that big of a deal. yeah you're a monster but have you considered going to the club. thinking of daisy "you need to stop swanning around being all sad" and helen distortion's "do try to lighten up". listen I know you think you shouldn't be alive but can you at least be whismical with it

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shorts and bra voted number one most masculine look for men this summer