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29 year old TMA princess

nonepronounwithleftboy

Happy birthday Julia! ^-^

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Thank you ^_^ [My birthday is in October]

rockergiirl

OMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY I DIDNT KNOW :DDD

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Thank you <3 [you are about 7 months early]

clairestrogen

OMG??? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

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^_^ [still not my birthday]

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

if we keep this going long enough we'll eventually be right

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You want to keep this bit going for 7 months?

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

i'm just pointing out that we could

robotgirldisc

happy birthday!!!!

deorum-voluntatem

Happy birthday

smalldumbpigeon

shit and piss brothers

i like painting suits and a new blorbo means a new guy to put in a suit. two of them even

hormonebutch

girlcock tip peeking out over panties. you agree.

beardedmrbean

theconstitutionisgayculture

People really don't get that Hitler wanted to kill all non-Aryans eventually. Like, his goal was to eradicate all impure races and that very much included Germans whose blood wasn't up to his standards of "purity". Modern ideas about race didn't exist back then. The racist German who hated the Jews and the Africans hated the Poles just as much, if not more, because after WW1 Poland was carved out of Eastern Germany and the Germans hated that the "impure" poles were living on German land and ruling over ethnic German people.

No one would have been better off if Hitler won. Not even the Germans. Not even the Nazis. Because, remember, he had Nazis killed when they questioned him or refused to carry out his atrocities, too. And yes, there were Nazis who refused to carry out Hitler's atrocities. Parts of the German army actually hated the SS and what they were doing. The problem is, the officers who complained complained...to Hitler, thinking this was going on without his knowledge or approval. Which tended not to work out very well for them.

beardedmrbean

I'd ask about lgbt and disabled people too, but I feel like I know what apolitical's answer would be

deorum-voluntatem

As a german i know peoples disabled grandparents ended in camps

I dont know if it makes me apolitical

depsidase

runcibility

[waving] Hi, hello, it's me, the old gen-x'er on your dash! How's it going kids? [bad, it's going bad, I know, sorry for asking]. Let me tell you a personal story of how I watched exactly this play out in my social circles.

Anecdotally, my fellow cohort of gen-x'ers were convinced this was going to be the solution, the ticket, the fucking way. Inevitably, all we had to do was outlive these old mayonnaise white devils, because that's where the racism was societally stored - like a big racism appendix that would get removed someday.

We thought we knew what was up because we were cool white kids who listened to Public Enemy. And because we thought we were largely inoculated against racism, it was just a long cool slide into the Clinton years and we'd be set.

So we didn't question shit like South Park. We didn't question shitheads like 'ironic' (at the time) racists like Weev in our IRC channel. We had zero fucking awareness of how racism shifted, because the only examples of racism we were ever taught either wore a white robe & burned crosses, or sig-heil'd and lived in misery. We shamefully thought racism = southern*, and since we were alt-goth kids living on the west coast, we were fucking sorted out and safe.

It wasn't on our radar. We weren't ready. We hadn't listened to anyone, because we thought we'd learned enough to not be a problem, and wasn't that enough?

We didn't clock or understand the way racist language shifted into a new economic handwringing. We fell into stupid rhetorical traps that snuck racism into concerns about unhoused people and substance abuse. We refused to recognize and realize our own inherent racist attitudes because of the sunk cost fallacy of wanting to believe we really didn't have to do anything other than be cool and wait it out.

I watched some people absolutely lose their shit when called out on this and flounce directly into the arms of right wing philosophy (always some variation on "left wing politics has gone too far!" when it's pointed out how they're upholding inequality with a cherished attitude or anecdote they've leaned on for years to prop up the mythology of their self-worth).

No one was ready to realize they weren't good just by being alternative. And some of them cracked apart.

Racism has a full time advertising budget ready to repackage and rebadge it minute to minute, and you always have to do the work. It never ever fucking stops. And making sure you're always doing the work has the very valuable side-benefit of keeping you in touch with yourself and what you're about.

You gotta do the work. It never stops.

*-this fucking haunts me so much.