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What no one seems to talk about is how all these Youtubes and "social media influencers" harm followers. They want sympathy explaining that "they had to cover (this) up for their followers" but WHY?! Their platforms are supposed to be about honest portrayal of life. Creating COMPLETELY curated and filtered lives online and gaining fame off of your ability to do so is WRONG AND HARMFUL to followers who are now growing up comparing themselves to these fake lives?

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i don’t necessarily resent people with money. i don’t resent them if they’ve earned and deserve it. but i do resent children who grow up with money. i can’t help it. i don’t try to discriminate or judge but i would be lying if i said i didn’t resent them. they just will NEVER know what it’s like not to have that MASSIVE privilege. they will have more opportunities, more connections, more chances at genuinely LIVING, all from what they were born into. it’s unfair. i can’t help but resent that unearned ease.

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The way Western tragedies and Eastern tragedies are talked about are so different. The emphasis on condemnation and defense is so different. The "devil's advocate" is so different. The analysis is so different. In so many ways, it degrades the tragedies going on in the majority of the world (which would be the East). Because to have sympathy is necessary but to have no anger at the cause is passive. And that's how Eastern tragedies are discussed, unlike Western.

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This world disgusts me. I have no hope and it is so hard

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Can someone tell me these sources / if they know this infographic is accurate? If it is, I fucking love how much it emphasizes the disgustingness of wealth gap. But it's so on point that I want to make sure it's correct before I throw it out there. I'll probably do my own research later.

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Demisexuality isn't real. It's a way for middle class white girls to pretend to be LGBT while still dating boys - it only reduces the real issues in the Asexual Community such as erasure (which they cause), confusion with celibacy and corrective rape. - my unpopular opinion

Yeah, I agree. To be honest, it's really hard for me to take all those way too specific sub-labels of sexuality seriously. Like, it's so specific, why even label it? That's just your personal sexuality, whatever. They just want to have a "group" of their own, too.

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It's insane how contradictory the "activism" on this website is. Fighting for social justice issues and then reinforcing money as the only thing that matters in life, above people and relationships, is completely counterproductive. Not to mention the majority of the people who are so intense on issues that REQUIRE sympathy and compassion, oppressors to oppressed included, also continue a front of absolute apathy towards everyone else in a selfish, aggressive way.

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The other day I got into an argument with someone who was preaching #alllivesmatter and saying how #blacklivesmatter was limiting. I told him that yes, all lives do matter, but it wasn't the focus, and not because of privilege. That change works in steps and bringing attention to #blacklivesmatter is a movement to bring awareness to the unfair repression of society and somewhat the system on black people. That police brutality happens to white people, too, and that #blacklivematter brings attention to police brutality in general and not JUST fix police brutality against one demographic BUT that the point was that police brutality was hitting one demographic more than another. That white people can be subject to that same problem, but the argument is that AT LEAST white people have a better chance at going to court in retaliation and receiving justice than black people. And once that is made fair, then the argument for all lives in respect for police brutality can work together against that cause. But first, in the natural process of real progress, problems need to be solved one by one and we need to establish the equality that #blacklivesmatter roots in before we start trying to fix a problem that has a foundation that's not ready to support. I think most of Tumblr and liberals would agree with me. However, when I say my opinion on gender, they contradict themselves. Because I believe the same applies for gender: since the BEGINNING OF LIFE, two PHYSICAL genders have appeared. Men and women. If thousands of years have passed with these two genders very established and there is still massive inequality between them, how the hell can someone expect that modifications to gender are going to be respected? That has nothing to do with MY opinion or respect; it is LOGICALLY an answer to the gender problems that people may face. The population has been roughly 50% / 50% men and women and men are STILL respected more than women, with nothing like minority having to do with it. You cannot stan for the respect of minority gender identification when majority gender identification hasn't even harnessed respect. When the world struggles to respect, like I said, 50% of the population, you can't start expecting them to build upon an unfounded a relationship. It's just not reality to expect it to all come at once. Of course, everyone and their decisions and identity should be respected, but that's not how things work. As a feminist, I'm not being exclusive; I will advocate for the rights and equality of others, of course. I'm just saying that in order for me to long-term make an impact that is lasting and important, I think there are steps on a ladder that need to be taken first before you reach the top.

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#stan4obama #banivorytrade #banfracking #banrepublicans #endhashtagactivism #searchthemeaningofirony #destroytherich

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I feel weird about how reserved I am sexually compared to Tumblr. Not as a judgment on them or myself, but I'm just more shy and not as aggressive I guess, haha. Like I don't really feel the overpowering desire to "give mind-blowing head" or "suck dick real hard" or sext or anything. I feel sexual urges and stuff but not at the demanding level I see it on here. Idk.

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Hating white people is not going to do ONE THING about the fact that unstable, undeveloped governments are cultivating the indoctrination of populations and senseless murder in places like, just to name a relevant few, Nigeria and Islamic countries of the Middle East. Be objective, for one second in your life. Realize that these crimes are using religion as a method to madness. Realize it’s not okay and something must be done. Realize that the goal is to STOP them and not find someone ELSE to blame.

Talk about “Western mindset”… yet the majority of Tumblr is so concerned with tearing it down and glorifying culture that they completely ignore the massive faults and abuse happening in other places…

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The fact of the fucking matter is that this world doesn't even have equality for two genders. It's so unrealistic, unhelpful, and idealist to start campaigning for gender equality even more liberal when we still haven't solved the bare minimum standards of equality.

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When is this website gunna start condemning the fact that religion is not separated in lots of poverty-stricken countries and it needs to be? When is the battle of 'Westerners don't get involved! But let's obsess on the Western reactions!' gunna trigger an epiphany that none of that anger is working for a solution? When is it everyone going to realize that you can't solve a situation when you're so subjective that you can't identify the variables of the problem? When will those defending Islam actually start wanting to DEFEND ISLAM and stop the way it is being abused by a population without foundation to turn to?

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I will never understand how people who view themselves as "aware" allow injustice and inequality because they cloak it under preserving "culture". No culture excuses violation of human rights.

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Tumblr makes me furious. WHO FUCKING CARES ABOUT WHAT "MAINSTREAM MEDIA" WANTS TO SAY OR WHAT THE INEVITABLY IGNORANT PEOPLE ARE DOING IN REACTION? IF YOURE SO FUCKING GOOD AT CRITIQUING THINGS, USE YOUR TALENT WISELY THERES SO MUCH SHIT GOING ON AND NO SOLUTIONS ARE DISCUSSED SLAMMING ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE USA AND EUROPE IS NOT GOING TO STOP THE FACT THAT A GROWING POPULATION OF EXTREMISTS ARE ABUSING THE RELIGION IN MANY ISLAMIC COUNTRIES RIGHT NOW. POINTING OUT A WHITE MAN'S OFFENSE TO COMPARE ISN'T GOING TO ESTABLISH A FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION IN THESE NONSECULAR GOVERNMENTS. STOP DWELLING IF YOURE NOT USING THAT DWELLING TO IMPLEMENT ACTION!!! THIS STUFF THAT EVERYONE IS DISGUSTED BY IS GOING TO KEEP HAPPENING AS LONG AS NO STEP TOWARDS PROGRESS IS MADE, AS LONG AS IT'S ALLOWED TO HAPPEN, AS LONG AS NO SOLUTION IS PUSHED

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I have the realest depression but I'm not apathetic. I don't hate myself. I don't blame myself. I don't "lose myself". And tbh I think that's why my depression is a lot worse than those I see, because I've always been able to objectively see the problem of depression within a person psyche (aka when they're hurting themselves bc of what a boy did, when they think they're too ugly, ect, which is all things that are majority in their head and what the depression feeds on), but mine isn't your typical case. Treatment doesn't help because depression is not in my head. It is in the world. My depression does not come from things in my head or things I exaggerate. It is external. There is no way of eliminating it. And it's terrible.