Simply Me: @justanotherstrangemind - Tumblr Blog

Lotta people on tumblr are progressive until you bring up drugs. Then they turn into authoritarian fucking nightmares who Ronald Reagan would adore.

If your progressive values disappear the second a human being does drugs, you aren't as progressive as you fucking think.

hermoonlit-world

To be held, to be comforted, and melt into another’s presence, not to be said it will be okay but to hear someone say “even if it isn’t I’m not going anywhere”

camcron

just so we are all clear on my position

utopians

criminal profiling is just astrology for cops

utopians

taking a forensics class and watching the professor explain one by one how criminal profiling, hair microscopy, and bite mark analysis are all pseudoscience responsible for ruining innocent lives, and how on top of that, fingerprint analysis, despite being significantly more reliable, is subjective and prone to contextual bias. and also bullet striation analysis has the same issues. and also bullet lead analysis doesn’t work. and also handwriting analysis has an error rate high enough to render it useless

telltaletypist

damn i'm almost starting to think the entire criminal justice system only exists to provide the illusion of protection while justifying state violence idk

detectivehole

some of you are miserable because you're mean. like you're just mean to people and things

detectivehole

"why don't i have any friends" because you are mean

detectivehole

this can be fixed at least in part very easily though! just stop being mean. i believe in all of you 👍

roach-works

‘but i’m not mean’ ok, cool! do you:

point out people’s mistakes and failures to them? in front of others?

belittle their accomplishments and successes? in front of others?

make fun of people and laugh at them? in front of others?

do all this secretly to your ‘friends’ because friendship means being able to ‘joke around with’ each other, or ‘be brutally honest’ with each other?

bring up past grievances with people over and over until they’ve apologized ‘enough’, or just to shut down arguments with them, or get out of conversations you don’t want to have?

refuse to do favors for people? like when you feel they haven’t ‘earned’ your time or effort? or at all because you don’t want to be ‘taken advantage’ of?

try to get out of paying your share of bills, doing your share of chores? spend time figuring out exactly how little you can contribute to groups in terms of time, effort, and money, without anyone noticing or getting too mad at you?

get angry and jealous when people are happy about things that don’t concern you? get angry and jealous when people pay attention to each other and not you?

spend any amount of time ‘getting even’ with people?

THIS BEHAVIOR IS MEAN.

you might feel like you’re a perfectly nice person who cares a lot about people but also speak your mind and take no shit! but if you do any of this stuff, people won’t like you anymore, because it fucking sucks to be around you. you suck to interact with. no one fucking likes being mocked, criticized, picked on, upstaged, pushed around, mooched off, or revenged upon. they will, if they have any self-respect at all, avoid you.

the worst case scenario actually isn’t that you end up alone. it’s that you end up with other people who are just as mean as you are, and you all mutually tear each other to pieces on your way to drug addictions, losing all your money and property and kids, and jail time. this happens a lot, i have seen it go down, and it’s not fun even for bystanders. please consider putting the time and effort in to be nice, instead.

tlbodine

A lot of people need to hear this.

sickened-things

you know i don’t think we often talk about how difficult it actually is to suddenly realize that a belief you thought was good and moral and correct was actually really fucking toxic. how you have to look at something and go ‘oh shit, oh i fucked up. oh this is going to take probably years at minimum to deprogram from my brain because of all the little ways this shit pervaded the rest of my beliefs’

so. to all the people picking up all the pieces of a recently shattered world-view and trying to figure out what is safe to keep and what has to be thrown away and started over

to all the people having to relearn how to even listen to other people

to all the people putting in the work to do better while struggling with the guilt that comes from finding out you were the asshole

i’m proud of y’all.

it’s hard to admit being wrong and even harder to change in the aftermath. just keep doing the best you can and just know that the effort is appreciated. everyone can change. everyone can do better. keep fighting.

#i just hope they do this #at some point #they really need a few moments like this #i miss my friends #i just wish for something better #for them both