hello everyone it’s June 29 which means it’s my birthday, I am 18
I’ve been using tumblr since 2010, as a person I’ve drastically changed several times, I’ve said some things here I still stand by, some things I’m painfully ashamed of, but one thing that remained constant is how familiar I am with this website …over-familiar, and I’ve decided I need to leave
I won’t be deleting this blog. at least not yet, something about it feels important to preserve for me, at most I’ll remake, but even then, I’d need to make sure that I don’t follow anyone, the ultimate solution to my problem is to purge myself of a dashboard, I can’t ignore how much my addiction to the internet and social media has taken it’s toll on my productivity, I can’t count how many hours or how many days I would spend slacking off on my creative output to browse my feed or scroll through my notes, I’ve had times browsing where I was internally pleading myself to stop, it’s the only right thing for me to revoke my internet time so I don’t further jeopardize my mental health. however..
I still consider this site an ultimately positive experience for me, I had the huge fortune of knowing and befriending so many insightful LGBT people, most notably trans women, (happy pride) who, very passionately, pushed me to develop my own social conscience, which helped mold my personal moral values today, I’ve become very questioning and thoughtful over what I believe in thanks to this website, which is exactly the thing I needed to get me out of my insecure, racist, facebook/4chan ridden childhood, another thing this site helped me mold is my sense of humor, since a lot of the comedy here is so unique and specific, text post humor and character blogs have sincerely developed into one of my favorite styles of comedy, and in turn I’ve grown an inspired love of smaller creative internet circles, which I hope to continue
as I leave, I hope to focus more on my own work, something to return to all the time I’ve spent here, and hopefully something to return to all of you.
hello everyone it’s June 29 which means it’s my birthday, I am 18
I’ve been using tumblr since 2010, as a person I’ve drastically changed several times, I’ve said some things here I still stand by, some things I’m painfully ashamed of, but one thing that remained constant is how familiar I am with this website ...over-familiar, and I’ve decided I need to leave
I won’t be deleting this blog. at least not yet, something about it feels important to preserve for me, at most I’ll remake, but even then, I’d need to make sure that I don’t follow anyone, the ultimate solution to my problem is to purge myself of a dashboard, I can’t ignore how much my addiction to the internet and social media has taken it’s toll on my productivity, I can’t count how many hours or how many days I would spend slacking off on my creative output to browse my feed or scroll through my notes, I've had times browsing where I was internally pleading myself to stop, it’s the only right thing for me to revoke my internet time so I don’t further jeopardize my mental health. however..
I still consider this site an ultimately positive experience for me, I had the huge fortune of knowing and befriending so many insightful LGBT people, most notably trans women, (happy pride) who, very passionately, pushed me to develop my own social conscience, which helped mold my personal moral values today, I’ve become very questioning and thoughtful over what I believe in thanks to this website, which is exactly the thing I needed to get me out of my insecure, racist, facebook/4chan ridden childhood, another thing this site helped me mold is my sense of humor, since a lot of the comedy here is so unique and specific, text post humor and character blogs have sincerely developed into one of my favorite styles of comedy, and in turn I’ve grown an inspired love of smaller creative internet circles, which I hope to continue
as I leave, I hope to focus more on my own work, something to return to all the time I’ve spent here, and hopefully something to return to all of you.
Just a reminder that the following is a SMALL sample of the actual real things that have happened in just a few days of a Trump presidency:
Trump’s administration removed all language about race, sex, the lgbt community and climate change from whitehouse.gov with no prepared replacements but were sure to plug Melania’s jewelry brand.
Trump either chose to distract the public by making his people argue on government time about his crowd size, or the president elect is genuinely that offendable and that bent on fighting with the general public over his grandiose image.
Scientific institutions as big as NASA have been handed gag orders on reporting science to the public, and have allegedly created new “rogue” twitters to defy the president.
A protester was shot in Seattle by an alt rightist and is in critical condition.
Shia Labeouf, a Jewish man, has been arrested for shoving a neo-nazi who said “Hitler did nothing wrong”
Trump is actually trying to move forward with his “giant wall around Mexico” plan and attempted to meet with its president, who just cancelled.
Trump used an executive order to reinstate the Dakota access pipeline.
In a jaw-dropping move almost ripped straight from Nazi Germany, Trump has now ordered a weekly published list of crimes committed by “aliens” in order to keep the public (mis)informed about the (imagined) inherent threat posed by outsiders.
This post could be so much longer but even half of these things already justify the absolute worst fears and criticisms anybody had of this administration. Well before anybody even had a chance to “wait and see.”
You notice how Trump demolished the food safety laws and now, in the past month, we haven’t been able to eat lettuce, eggs, Tyson chicken, and watermelon because there are huge bacteria outbreaks?
Oftentimes in leftist circles you can hear folks decrying liberals and liberalism. If you ask them why they hate liberalism, most of them will point you in the direction of Mao’s Combat Liberalism to better understand them, but this is a mistake. Combat Liberalism is effectively an internal memo, warning other communists of the need to avoid liberalism lest it be detrimental to their work. It details results of that ideology, but not causes. To that end, I’ve compiled a brief description of what liberalism is and why it’s bad.
The ideology of liberalism is denoted by three tenets:
Free-market capitalism. Liberals believe that capitalism is good, or at least “the best we have”. While liberals may argue over how much intervention in the market is necessary, they all agree on the fundamental goodness of capitalism, and that it should be tweaked rather than replaced.
The state and representative “democracy”. Liberals believe that the state is good, and that representative democracy is an effective means of creating social change and an acceptable level of participation. They reject any aims outside of the state, and try to co-opt movements towards state action (e.g. electing Democrats).
Nonviolence: The liberal insistence on “nonviolent” protest (usually invoking a whitewashed history of Dr. King) is largely derived from state-worship. They see the state as the only legitimate user of force, and all others as violent looters and rioters; because of that, they refuse to even consider violence as a method of protest or direct action (e.g. antifascism).
Indirect action and representative problem-solving: Linked to the lionization of representative democracy, liberals care little for direct action, even as indirect as blocking a street for a few hours. They believe that the power to change things is vested solely in those representatives, and that the common person shouldn’t bother; direct action, to them, is illegitimate for the same reason as violence.
A focus on individual rather than class politics. Liberals see all social issues as issues primarily affecting individuals, rather than groups. In other words, they lack a class analysis; they see racism, for example, as the result of individual prejudices and “meanness” and something to be fixed at that level, rather than a system of structural violence against non-white peoples aimed at dividing the working class.
Liberalism, as an ideology, is dangerous. These three tenets combine to form an analysis that is insufficient to encompass the whole of the enemy, and more importantly a praxis that is ineffective at combating it. It infects activists and ordinary workers alike, and railroads them into believing that they cannot change a society that benefits only those at the top. It railroads them into believing that the burdens they bear cannot be thrown off, and stands in the way of our collective liberation. It must be combated, for it is at the root of the struggle.
Remember when like 6 Americans had ebola and it was an international emergency, and Obama flew out to meet survivors?
Here is a list of things the United States government did in response:
-Increasing the number of Ebola testing labs throughout the U.S. that can quickly and safely screen a potential Ebola specimen -Educating more than 150,000 health care workers on how to identify, isolate, diagnose, and care for patients under investigation for Ebola -Developing countermeasures — including the first Ebola vaccine to progress to Phase 2 testing — to prevent and treat Ebola -Converting at least 10 of the Ebola Treatment Centers into long-term Regional Ebola and Pandemic Treatment Centers for long-term readiness for years to come -Helping state and local public health systems accelerate and improve their operational readiness and preparedness for Ebola or other infectious diseases
Source: https://whitehouse.gov/ebola-response
When the Reagan administration was faced with tens of thousands of gay men dying, they did nothing. They made jokes. They laughed. They caused an epidemic that killed 40 million people, because they hated gay men and thought we deserved to die.
There is so much more to it. There is a myth perpetuated by Reaganites that he was an historically significant President, in some positive sense. If you are old enough to have voted in 1980, you probably know differently. If you were born after 1980 you have been raised on this myth. He sold Americans a fable about a Hollywood movie-like exceptional past and destiny, and led ordinary people around with portrayals of that mirage while his reactionary robber-baron friends set about dismantling 50 years of progressive advancements for working men and women, on their way to returning themselves to the position of unfettered economic domination they held between the Civil War and the Great Depression. He was a union buster. He gave us Scalia – need I say more? He tried to give us Robert Bork (does anyone under 30 even know who he is?). He lied about Iran/Contra. He avoided dealing with AIDS. He sealed the political sham-show between right wing capitalist kings and the evangelical thought-control snake-oil salesmen. Americans don’t want to hear that they are ordinary citizens of the world, and they don’t want to hear that the aren’t anointed by some deity to lead the world to salvation. They lapped it up, and they continue to do so.
I have to wonder how the response of a more competent presidency to the AIDS crisis might have changed even the global impact of the disease. Where might we be today? How many millions of people would be alive and not suffering? Yes, Reagan was historically significant—for fucking things up in a globally devastating way.
His campaign was funded by Christian radicals, whose entire goal was to dismantle Roe vs. Wade and see American women relegated once more to back alleys and dirty knives. He opened the door to religion in politics in a way the postwar McCarthyists never dreamed possible. Now, 36 years after his election, maybe a third of American medical schools offer proper access to even first-trimester abortion training (in an era where that should mean a pill or vaginal suppository), and there are currently fewer doctors trained to perform late stage abortions for the entire US than there were pre-RvW (when such operations were only performed as a heroic measure).
And no one has even touched on his legacy of racial
hatred, deliberate destruction of black communities and establishing of COONTELPRO to destroy the lives of black panthers and black activists, his actual murder of black activists and more. He was actually a demon.
If you want to know how many lives could have been saved if the Reagan government had just fucking BUDGETED for AIDS research instead of telling AIDS researchers that they had to beg, borrow or steal any money for AIDS from other programs–then read And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts. And be prepared to have your heart broken at the unadulterated and wildly irresponsible waste.of time and human lives.
Other shitty things Reagan did:
1) He almost tripled the National Debt. And you need to see the difference with zeroes:
When Reagan took office in 1980: $909,100,000 owed.(909.1 billion)
When Reagan left office in 1988: $2,601,300,000,000 owed. (2.6 trillion)
2) He raised taxes on the middle class and the poor ELEVEN TIMES while in office.
3) Unemployment soared after Reagan passed his tax cuts for the rich, and it took decades to get back down again.
4) He turned the U.S. into an illegal weapons dealer.
5) He funded terrorists, helping create the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. From NewsOne:
After Ronald Reagan was elected in 1981, U.S. funding of the mujahideen increased significantly and CIA Paramilitary Officers played a big role in training, arming and sometimes even leading mujahideen forces.
The CIA trained the mujahideen in many of the tactics Al Qaeda is known for today, such as car bombs, assassinations and other acts that would be considered terrorism today.
6) When his economic policies began wreaking havoc on the government, Reagan stole from Social Security–to the tune of 2.5 TRILLION–treating it for eight years as the private slush fund of himself and his rich friends.
7) [T]he Reagan administration demonized opponents of apartheid, most notably the African National Congress, as dangerous and pro-communist. Reagan even vetoed a bill to impose sanctions on South Africa, only to be overruled by Congress.
They called him the Teflon president for a reason. All this shit–and none of it stuck to him. He got away clean every single time.
Reading up on Nelson Mandela I caught wind of that fact a few years back. The standing President of the US was more than a little ok with not condemning Apartheid even as a symbolic gesture.
That coupled with all of this and it speaks to an impossibly gross legacy. Of course the Neocons of the Republican set look at him as some sort of Conservative Jesus, so none of this would get actual traction with them.But email scandals are beyond the pale…
OH HELLS YES ANTI-REAGAN MASTERPOST Also let’s not forget about how he created and/or dramatically enhanced the homeless problem in America by closing the California state psychiatric hospitals (except for the ones for the criminally insane) and tossing all the residents out into the street.
My great grandma literally wrote about she wished she could have assassinated reagan as she was laying on her death bed and had a copy of that letter sent to every member of our family.
Not to mention that because he drastically expanded the drug war, setting the stage for zero tolerance. Mass incarcerations increased from 50,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 in 1997. These policies also blocked syringe programs, which actually made HIV/AIDS much, much worse.
His deregulation of the S&L industry meant they no longer had to rely on residential mortgages for funding. Commercial real estate speculation ensued (sound familiar???) which eventually led to corruption, collapse of hundreds of thrift institutions and, you guessed it, a hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayer bailout.
Under his administration, nothing was done about racial discrimination in lending. Blatant redlining continued, and even though it was at this point illegal, nothing was done to prosecute or sanction banks.
Can we talk about how he started and perpetuated the myth of the welfare queen–the indolent black woman with an entitlement problem–which still affects the program and how people view it today. He used this rhetoric to get elected and used it to justify drastic cuts to urban funding, affecting everything from urban infastructure, to salaries, to urban schools and hospitals and clinics.
His cuts to low-income housing subsidies raised homeless from 600,000 to over 1.2 million in one year. Even the idea that homelessness is a choice stems from him.
But you know, he told Gorbechev to tear down this wall, so he’s a hero, right?
The deification of Reagan is one of the most damaging things the GOP has ever done. In a just world, he would be remembered as one of the worst Presidents, as one of the worst humans who ever ascended to the Presidency, ever. His record on AIDS alone should be enough to damn him, but it, and all of this, apparently isn’t. He should be remembered alongside Nixon. Instead he usually gets lumped in with Kennedy. I cannot overstate how furious that makes me.
In ‘83, the US government sprayed a very large crop of marijuana in Mexico with paraquat. Paraquat is a known poison that, even in the 80s, scientists and environmentalists knew was bad for even the plants it was sprayed on, but the government did so with the explanation it was a herbicide meant to kill weeds, especially “Weed” itself. Now, studies linked to the government claim there’s no evidence that this paraquat caused any negative developments but a separate medical study had this to say on the topic:
Human paraquat poisoning from accidental or intentional ingestion is very often fatal. According to the amount of paraquat involved, death can occur within hours or weeks following ingestion. The inefficacy of the various treatments undertaken have led to determine prognostic factors based upon the evolution of plasma and urine paraquat concentrations or of usual biochemical parameters. We report one case of acute poisoning which, although the ingested dose of paraquat was not massive (< 50 mg/kg-1) and the severity indices were in favour of a delayed fatal outcome, has ended in an early death.
I can’t actually find any statistics on how many people died from this (or went blind, as there’s also anecdotal evidence of but nothing concrete). It’s not talked about or studied. It’s very often ignored even when discussing the “War on Drugs.”
This was after the Nixon administration had already done the exact same thing. My father knew someone, all the way up here in Michigan, who was standing at “smoker’s corner” and suddenly collapse - it caused somewhat severe brain damage in this case - thousands of (mostly teenage) people were smoking this marijuana (both in the 70s and 80s). Even the most trace amounts had effects that the governmental studies simply didn’t look for (they all claimed no cases of lung or throat cancer showed up… if the smallest traces causes brain damage and just a bit more can mean death, I don’t imagine many lived long enough to develop said cancers).
It genuinely horrifies me that this man is not considered a monster by the masses. I’ve never lived in America, so I mostly learned about Reagan from my own research and a few mentions in my history textbooks. This man was a monster. One of many who have somehow managed to escape being made to face what they’ve done.
My father, on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, passed a car with the iron cross on its side and a “White Power” flag. This is the second time within the span of a week or so that he or I have had to contend with literal Nazis.
Trump is a lightning rod for what’s already been building.
The KKK and other white supremacist groups really started recruiting hard after Obama was elected. In real life, I heard stories from friends in undergrad about how their brothers and cousins were invited on fishing trips and other outings by new friends only to find out they were Klan recruiting trips. Online, Stormfront has pushed its Swarmfront program, using places like reddit and 4chan to sway people to their side.
The online component has taken many forms. Some have been overt, like the “white genocide/anti-racism is anti-white” copypasta and attempts at distinguishing white supremacy from white nationalism (and softening the image of the latter). Some have been a little more subtle–handwringing about black pride vs. white pride, questioning Black History Month, pushing false-but-common ideas about affirmative action programs, maligning Black Lives Matter, talking about “black culture” vs. “black people,” using intentionally misleading statistics in debates, etc. And some have been sneaky as hell–like white supremacists posing as business owners or workers seeking advice on consistent problems with black patrons, white supremacists posing as black people to make black people look worse or spread ideas within more manipulable segments of the black radical community that support white supremacist viewpoints but look on the surface like pro-black concepts, and so on.
This works well because we’re at a cultural period that is fertile soil for fascism. There are many reasons for this, but one thing that highlights it better than any list of points could is comparing our current cultural state to Huxley’s Point Counter Point. The book was written between the World Wars, and it was published in 1928–two years before the Nazis really started gaining power in Germany. It’s set in a London that feels eerily identical to 2016 New York. Until a character gets a telegram late in the book, it could be set in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side two weeks ago and barely a word would need to change.
In the book, there’s a character called Everard Webley, who is a fascist. Throughout, he states his views, and what’s striking is how identical they are to those of libertarians, Men’s Rights Activists, and, yes, Donald Trump. He speaks in a prospering country with a generation of youth feeling disenchanted and lost about the weak being powerful over the strong, women having power and advantage over men, and the nation no longer being great for these and other related reasons. He speaks of the leadership of the mighty and the subordination of the weak, of social Darwinism, of all these ideas that sound familiar today because of how much of a grip they’ve taken over a not-insignificant portion of our generation and those a bit older in the last few years.
Ron Paul was a sign of this wave starting. And like Trump, Ron Paul had the endorsement of David Duke and many, many white supremacist groups. But Ron Paul was not a candidate who could capture the average person who was primed and ready to accept this sort of candidate. A thin, hunching old man in wrinkled, ill-fitting suits with a high-pitched, quiet speaking voice, and who (for all his many faults) tended to choose speaking on his views above personal insults toward his opponents, was not the type of leader this portion of the electorate could really gather behind. But Trump is.
And what’s worse is that we have a generation of boys who entered this world because they started off trying to annoy people on the internet, who learned that saying bigoted things could get a rise out of people, who found their enemies in people who stood against bigotry, and who from there found themselves being convinced of bigoted ideas in earnest by those around them. The boys of our generation have been easy prey, and the boys of the next generation are even easier prey, and we thus stand on a dangerous precipice.
I don’t think people really understand how dangerous of times we really live in. Not bodily, not of property, but of our culture and society. The progress we’ve made is in danger, and I worry about how much we can really do about it.
The adventure stories of Karl May set in the American Southwest have charmed millions of Germans, but especially Hitler, who patterned Nazi policies on their plots.
In 1893, at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, historian Frederick Jackson Turner of the University of Wisconsin famously lectured on settlers killing Indians across the United States as they extended an ever-westward American frontier and how that frontier was coming to an end. He was in touch with Friedrich Ratzel, the German historian who coined the terms Biogeographie (biological geography) and Lebensraum (a large, conquered space for an otherwise constricted German life). This was to be continental expansion and ethnic cleansing of “lesser” peoples.
Lebensraum was explicitly Turner’s idea of an American-defining Western frontier transposed to a German-defining East in Poland and Russia. For both Turner and Ratzel, this was transcontinental, settler colonialism, not some distant empire across the seas. Ratzel was a founder of the Pan-German League, which had unhappily seen German immigrants settle in the Wild West, and imagined Germans surging eastward in conquest during World War I like 13th century Teutonic knights invading Poland. As Turner reciprocally put it, “American colonization [of the West] has become the mother of German colonial policy.”
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As Fuehrer, Hitler kept the whole collection of May’s works in his bedroom, and they inspired his ideas about the frontier. To Hitler, Lebensraum meant settlement and bread: “For a man of the soil, the finest country is the one that yields the finest crops. In twenty years’ time, European emigration will no longer be directed towards America, but eastwards.”
Of Ukrainians, Hitler insisted, “There’s only one duty: to Germanize this country by the immigration of Germans, and to look upon the natives as Redskins.”
Astonishingly, Hitler’s idea of settling the eastern European frontier even came decked out in the clichés of Western conquest: “We’ll supply the Ukranians with scarves, glass beads, and everything that colonial peoples like.”
In Ukraine, Nazi allies led by Stefan Bandera (whose statue still looms in Kiev) murdered some 184,000 out of 187,000 Jews. The Nazis exported the killing of Jews to the “Wild East.”
To justify the slaughter of Poles, Hitler conjured North America: “I don’t see why a German who eats a piece of bread should torment himself with the idea that the soil that produces this bread has been won by the sword. When we eat wheat from Canada, we don’t think about the despoiled Indians.”
German novels by Clara Viebig in the early 20th century made Poles “blacks” because of their dark hair, Polish women “seductresses.”As opposed to “blond” Aryans, the latter were even imagined as “vampires.” Two leading genocidal impulses in America, toward Indians and blacks, became one in German racism.
When Nazi troops were losing to the Soviet resistance, Hitler sent 300,000 copies of Karl May novels to the officers, who may have shaken their heads in disbelief. That was Hitler’s leading strategic thought: “The struggle we are waging there against the [Soviet] Partisans resembles very much the struggle in North America against the Red Indians. Victory will go to the strong, and strength is on our side.”
Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, proclaimed, “The East is a plantation of pure Germanic blood, the melting pot of all German and Germanic tribes.” Hitler’s idea was to kill 30 or 40 million Russians, confine the rest on reservations, and settle Aryan farmers on the soil. Some 20 million Russians died in the Nazi onslaught. Heinrich Boll, a wounded soldier and later Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dreamed of “a colonial existence here in the East after a victorious war.” Nazis commissioned books to “acquaint small children with the ideas behind the settlement plan and transfer the cowboys-and-Indians romanticism of the ‘American West’ to eastern Europe.”
Jews, said Hitler’s Governor General for Poland, Hans Frank, were “flatfooted Indians,” and in 1939, Hitler forced 90,000 Jews into the Lublin-Reservat[reservation/camp] in Poland—a maneuver modeled on Kit Carson’s 1863 driving of the Navajos to the inarable Bosque Redondo.
Does anybody else remember a time, long long ago, when you could just enjoy things?
You could watch a movie and just appreciate it instead of over analyzing every single scene to make sure there’s nothing remotely offensive about it.
You could have a favorite character and just like them and appreciate how great they were written and portrayed, without being told you’re terrible because they’re a villain. Even though they’re FICTIONAL and most likely were deliberately written to be likable. (Even if they were written as an evil character, I still think you have a right to like them, but maybe that’s just me)
You could love and be a fan of the actors without having to go full on FBI agent, looking into their backgrounds to make sure they are 100% perfect and had never made a mistake ever.
You could post about said actor without some busybody little fandom cop, slithering into your inbox to tell you(all too happily) that your fave is “problematic” (god, I fucking hate that word), and you’re disgusting if you still like them.
I’m in my 30’s so I remember those good ole days and it’s kind of sad to know, that most of you will never truly know how great that was. That’s a time long since forgotten. Bummer.
How one of my friends was always awkwardly quiet after the rest of his friends group laughed at a ‘no homo’ set up joke. How he never laughed along when someone used ‘gay’ to describe something. I remember telling people who didn’t laugh that “it’s a joke, what’s wrong with you?”
I also remember, almost a decade after, crying happily as he married the love of his life who happened to be a man.
I remember laughing at a racist joke in a movie with my cousins, and her one black friend, her best friend, up and leaving because of it. I remember nodding along as she said “ugh, she can never take a joke”.
I remember asking my cousin about her years later and learning they never spoke after that. Ten years of friendship lost that night.
I remember sitting in a room filled with guy friends, making sexist jokes and being told I was so cool for not being as uptight as “other girls”. I remember that slowly losing its shine, and wondering why I felt more and more uncomfortable hearing that.
And then I remember who I was back then, and how I am so glad I am no longer that person.
I remember the first time I apologized to my gay friends for the jokes I used to make. I remember the first time I didn’t try to defend how I “didn’t mean to be racist”. I remember the first time I asked a guy just what is wrong with “other girls”, and how I lost some friends that day who I realized were never really my friends.
You know what changed? I changed. Through listening and understanding and admitting my privileges and faults, I changed. Now even if I try, I can’t just enjoy something that jokes at the expense of others. I cant watch someone who is unapologetically problematic in media.
I can’t enjoy these things because I realize now that their very existence hurts. That the very existence of this type of media perpetuates behaviors and ideologies that can lead to people being abused, harassed, and murdered.
And you know what? That’s a good thing. Because the more people who refuse to ingest this type of media, the less audience it has, and the stronger the message becomes that these things - racism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, etc. - are not things to be waved off. You’re not edgy or cool for ignoring them. You’re not “uptight” by being upset by them. These are real things with very real social impact.
The reality is, there was never a time when everyone could just enjoy things. To be able to say you had that time is to admit the privilege you had at not having to think about problematic behavior because it didn’t negatively affect your life.
I don’t remember a time where I could “just enjoy things”. What I remember is a time where I was able to enjoy something by throwing everyone who could be hurt by or suffer from it under the bus.
I remember those times in MY life. And I am so fucking grateful they are in the past.
sometimes I remember people watch stories for the action and visuals on a surface-level without thinking about the moral of the story and that scares me
I think finding out that Hitler was inspired by how throughly Andrew Jackson committed genocide against the Natives would shatter or at least destabilize the ethos of the Founding Fathers & America for a lot of people
also the american eugenics movement which started in the late 1800′s was a huge inspiration for Hitler, and was even where the idea of blonde hair blue eyed superiority came from, and the idea of a “gas chamber” to take care of “undesirables”. In the early part of the third reich, the american eugenics movement saw it as the logical conclusion of their ““research”” and republished lots and lots of nazi propaganda
Hitler praised American immigration restrictions in Mein Kampf. When the nazis wrote the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime, they specifically modelled them after the Jim Crow Laws, the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law of the United States.
Big chunks of the American legal system and history inspired the nazi’s in their organisation of the Holocaust.
So I don’t have any money whatsoever and I can’t start working again until I get my license and my mother can’t work for four months due to medical reasons and this summer we have to take care of my niece and younger cousin so if you can please donate to my paypal so I can get more groceries to feed us I would be so thankful thanks in advance to anyone who can donate
hi it’s me lily! i’m 19 and i want to move out of my parents’ and go to college before i turn 24 and forget how to read
SOME BACKGROUND
if you’ve been following me for a while you might remember when i went to Olympia, WA about 6 months ago to look at schools and visit my best friend. recently me and her got an offer for a room we could rent together, so if all goes according to plan i’ll be moving in with her sometime in september.
i need to get there in the fall bc it takes a year to establish state residency for tuition purposes and it’s really important to me that i get to school as soon as possible, i;ve been waiting for what feels like forever for a educational situation that works for me and i really believe i have found the best possible fit.
my parents CANNOT take out loans for me or spare more than a few hundred dollars a year for school, and i was not awarded any grants last time i filed my fafsa when looking at my in-state schools. there is no other workable way to pay for college other than moving and establishing state residency in a state where instate tuition is cheaper. i am a 19 year old 10th grade high school dropout, my options are extremely limited and washington residency is not only the best possible one, it’s the only one i’ve come up with in over a year of researching which lets me go to college before i turn 24. not only can i not attend school in new jersey, there’s no way for me to even move out, the rent here is insanely expensive and i cannot afford that without a job i’d need a degree for.
almost more importantly, i also want to move out because the last few years of homebound-ness have really taken a toll psychologically. my parents aren’t abusive or anything but this environment is mentally and emotionally exhausting and stifling. my parents are constantly fighting and living here has really put a damper on my social life as most of my friends are moving away for college and it’s nearly impossible to make new friends as an adult offline if you live with your parents. i really want a new start and the ability to live among friends and be independent. i need to like, start my adult life for real. this is really important to me.
I have a job right now, and if i keep getting the hours i’ve been getting i will have roughly enough to last me a couple months after i move, and cover the plane ticket. but nothing is certain, and it’d be really helpful to have a little peace of mind and some extra cash for any unexpected costs. it’d also be nice to eat some like, fruit every once in a while and not kraftmac all day.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
if you can spare it, send me some cash on paypal: paypal.me/lilyrose8 (or cash.me if you prefer (cash.me/$lilyroses)
if you don’t have any money, i have some app referral links that will help me
sign up for cash.me with my link and we’ll both get $5: https://cash.me/app/KCNLTPC
sign up for uber or lyft with my link and we’ll both get free rides:
uber: https://www.uber.com/invite/lilyr2183ue
lyft: https://www.lyft.com/invite/HELPLILYMOVEOUT
uber/lyft is rly important bc it helps me save my money by not having to pay for transportation to/from work, my family’s car broke down recently and i can’t get rides from them or anyone else.
thank you for reading All Of That and sincerest thanks to anyone who chooses to help me out <3 <3 xoxo
hi, when i first posted this i was really blown away by the support. it felt really good for people to recognize that i had a legitimate problem and a good plan and that i deserved help with it, sooo many people have been telling me that i should just “go in state” or get a better job (somehow lol) and find a way to pay the 2000 rent in jersey and it was really nice to find out that more people support me in this
ANYHOO, the donations basically stopped the day i posted this. don’t get me wrong, i’m grateful, but i think it’s possible that there are still people who would have donated or shared but didn’t see the post, so i’m trying to circulate it again.
any little bit helps, just $2.55 gets me to work and is that much less i’m set back. it adds up, plus there are ways to help for free, uber/lyft would be esp helpful right now so i dont have to walk to the bus stop in the 90 degree heat 5 days a week. you can send me $10 for free on cash.me by using my link above. if u send me $5 it’ll give me an extra $5 on top of that and refund your $5
again, thank you for reading, i’ve made some real progress on this and the support means a lot <3
