tornadoes fuck off 🔰 @[email protected]

ever think about how many """weird""" behaviors are demonized by suggesting they're inherently sexual in nature

you ever not realize how fucked up you still are about something until someone mentions someone who shares a name with the person who caused it

just got asked my pronouns at a trucker-ass gas station by a dude in a ford truck baseball cap

it's the future yall

Threats are statements designed to make someone fear for consequences if they do not act as the threatener instructs them to.

Verbal abuse is the directing of insults, accusations, and/or criticism at someone in order to display hostility towards them and make them feel like they are bad people.

Harassment is a large volume of unwelcome (e.g. abusive, threatening, or even just mundanely hostile) messages being directed at someone to overwhelm them.

All three are frequently motivated by a desire to silence or expel a person by ruining their life, as opposed to - say - deplatforming them for their toxic ideology. Deplatforming happens when activists persuade a platform to work with them. Silencing is something else.

In any case, I bring all this up because I've noticed a pattern among people who want to be accepted in social-justice-y spaces while also threatening, abusing, or harassing people in those spaces: they don't call what they did by any of those names. They call it something else. They may admit that they are trying to silence someone and explain why their target deserves to be silenced, but they'll invent some other description of the harassment, abuse, or threats they employed to do it.

I think we should be mistrustful of people who hit someone with a shovel and say, "I did nothing wrong - a spade is a suit of cards and I had good reasons to play it." I think it's rare circumstances that hitting people with a piece of metal at the end of a stick is an ethical act, and I'm suspicious of people who feel the need to call such an object a piece of cardboard when they're defending that act.

@garbados Apparently the idea of Indigenous people trading pelts for squash or whatever is something Adam Smith just full-on made up

There have been a lot of anthropologists that have studied gift economies (likely the dominant system before colonialism, not barter) and have written things like "they give each other gifts on the assumption that they'll be owed a gift back sometime in the future," and then give absolutely no evidence for that. Whereas the ones who actually ask the people doing it are often told "nah, I gave him that because he's my bro and that's just what we do." The tit-for-tat relationship is just imposed on it to maintain the idea that capitalism is natural (whether intentionally on the anthropologists' part or not)

nonbinary people want revolution

People helping eachother out is the most whip ass thing on this earth. Do it whenever possible. But also never feel bad if you do not currently have the means to. Just wanting to do it means u whip ass too.

i am always extremely wary of trans people who call themselves male or female because they tend to be ver gender essential-y

XR: "We plan to cause civil disobedience"

Cops: "B-b-b-b-b-ut that's illegal!"

Masculine enbies are valid