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jamaican + mi'kmaw = whitebread canadian my Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog site

[semislutera-deactivated20230303]

[beaft]

the phrase "but i didn't mean to!" in the context of causing harm is kind of redundant to me, because almost nobody means to cause harm. most of us just want to do the right thing. and i don't mean that in a wishy-washy "oh, we're all good deep down" way, i mean that even people who regularly do the most heinous shit imaginable will have a way of justifying it to themselves. the world is not populated by hollywood sadists and psychopaths.

[beaft]

actually i have been thinking about this some more and i want to add on to it:

abuse in caregiving professions (like teaching or nursing) is not solely a result of power dynamics. it's also because people who go into those professions often have a idea of themselves as Good People, and are consequently incapable of recognising or acknowledging when they've hurt someone else. instead, they mentally put 'people who have inconvenienced me' into the Bad People box so they can freely abuse them while maintaining their moral high ground.

i read ross greene a lot when i was working with "difficult" or "behaviourally challenged" children. his refrain is "kids do well if they can" - meaning, in short, that most kids act out only when the demands of a situation exceed their capabilities. punishing them for this is not only cruel but also completely pointless, because they also don't want to be doing what they are doing.

a teacher who believes that there are two categories of people - Good People who Mean Well, and Bad People who Cause Problems on Purpose - is not going to see it that way. they're gonna put themselves in the first category, and the misbehaving kid in the second category. and once they have effectively depersoned the child and placed themselves on a pedestal, the world becomes simple again. because abuse is something that only Bad People do.

[amygdalae]

[depsidase]

[sforzzz]

it's totally ok to dislike things. right?

[sforzzz]

i have to go delete some posts

[thoughtsroamguy]

Updated sprites for Katrina.

[yiddishfisting]

my problematic trait is that i like watching dr pimple popper

[tartrazeen]

i think the earwax cleaning guys and the hoof GP

[sailatina3]

Keep in mind, 6/10 is a good score. It means "this was more good than bad". My hill that I will die on is that we must vanquish the evil forces of IGN and embrace honest scores that make sense instead of giving every single thing you dont hate a 7/10.

6/10 is objectively a good score in terms of quantity and balance!

[iicor]

when a moot changes their pfp i feel like a baby whose dad shaved his beard

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

one of the things i did this past year was i ended up watching the majority of one piece in relatively short order and i gotta say it is a trip watching nearly 30 years of animation in the span of months. the stylistic differences alone from start to finish are wild

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

the sexism and transmisogyny was very very grating but it is a breath of fresh air to watch an anime that explicitly rejects racism and has racial equality as a core part of a lot of its plotlines

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

We've all gotten just a bit too comfortable being jerks to strangers on the internet I think

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

So I've hidden this reply, both because it's obnoxious and because I don't want the person who wrote it being harassed for it, but I need you to understand: I don't know you. We are not friends. This is not fun or cute, we are not sharing a charming joke together. You are just being an asshole.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

literally that is what the post is about, I am saying people should be less eager to jump on any chance to be snarky and rude to total strangers on the internet

[sidedere]

DID THE JOURNAL FACTORY FUCKING EXPLODE???

you said it yourself: you're looking to vent it LITERALLY ANYWHERE

so vent it somewhere private. or at least not literally aimed AT another person, a total stranger at that

Like, this reblogger sounds so insanely self centered in their reblog. notice how both options focus on how being rude would affect THEM. "B has no consequences for me so it's perfectly fine to do"

(the only reason I didn't show their username in the screenshot is because, given how self victimizing they sound in their reblog, I believe that, if I did show their username, suddenly online stuff wouldn't seem so inconsequential to them and they'd accuse me of sending harrassment their way and putting them in danger)

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

You said it better than I could. Of all the inane and ridiculous things I've seen in my notes because of this post, "I NEED to say fuck you to strangers or I will literally die" is certainly one of them

[arloize]

Testing out the new procreate brushes :]

[ redbubble ]

[yiddishfisting]

incredible to get a "you're not allowed to critique someone getting off to incest because that's the same as accusing them of being real life perpetrators/supports of incest" comment right as i was listening to this popaganda podcast episode talking about white people thinking antebellum balls are just teehee innocent play pretend

[yiddishfisting]

has anybody told the ppl who dress up like plantation owners that if they make it a sex thing it's not racist anymore

[yiddishfisting]

even if you have the greatest faith in those people that they don't support in real life slavery they're still playacting at being slaveowners which is like you know. bad and worthy of criticism

[jthqp]

[bewbin]

nasa trying to eat the moon

[xtremecaffeine-deactivated20181]

Operation Pac Man is a go

[cetitan]

[cowboyhatesithere]

250 years and most native tribal groups continue to not be federally recognized. Embarrassing!

[cowboyhatesithere]

Hey so a small thing that literally everyone who sees this is capable of is correcting any “used to” statements about native people in this country.

“Native people used to live in this National Park” No. They still do.

“Native people used to tell these stories-” No. They still do.

“Native people used to use this plant as a natural remedy-” No. They still do.

Better yet, familiarize yourself with the tribes local to you. Odds are, they do not yet have federal recognition. You can still read the stories they have to share, you can share their ongoing battle for recognition with others, you can sign petitions and spread the word to others to do so as well. But do something.

[the-quasar-hero]

It's everyone's favorite Pique Island resident: Jun the Omeg!

[tartrazeen]

I cannot believe Katrina walked her ass over there to call Jun lazy to her face, and Jun was still kind enough to even dignify the question with a "lmao"

Less of a rock, more of a throne 💅🏽