I wish the left (the real left, not corporate Democrats) were half as good at strategy as conservatives are. It’s a shame such brilliance is wasted on the worst people on the planet.

yup. we have to raise hell ourselves, because even the non-queers who nominally support us won’t always fight for us.

one kind of dumbass will also be another kind of dumbass. worth knowing, but not especially surprising

i mean, lemmygrad is a tankie hellhole

Probably due to my own childhood experiences, it makes me very upset to see an individual or group persecuted because they are doing something or are something that is not harmful in any way whatsoever but have been arbitrarily categorized as unacceptable.

Holy shit, MOOD. I cannot stand people insisting that harmless things are bad just because they’re weird/they’re gross/they make them feel bad somehow. Especially from leftists like myself. They should know that that feeling is exactly the same feeling that drives conservatives to hate queer and kinky people.

When I see banal evil, or wrongdoing committed out of apathy and selfishness, I want to shake them and explain to them that they are deteriorating the social fabric and ultimately creating problems for themselves through sheer stupidity.

Right? Even if you don’t care about anyone but yourself, YOU ALSO BENEFIT FROM THE WORLD BEING A BETTER PLACE. And you can actively contribute to that!

I haven’t been affected by the shortages myself, as apparently Vyvanse is unaffected, but I’m with you on this one. Fuck the DEA. They made it harder for my mom with chronic pain to get her meds during the crackdown on opiates.

The way to reduce medication abuse isn’t by punishing people with legitimate need for the medication. It’s by a) making society suck less so that people feel less compelled to abuse drugs, and b) providing support for addicts. Granted, I suppose the DEA doesn’t have much power to do either of those things, but still. They could at least leave us alone.

if MODERATORS are landed gentry, what the fuck does that make rich bastards like him?

there are things you can do to start building a better world today, but it never feels like enough

yeah, but if all the kids starve to death at least the drag queens can’t groom them (by existing and sometimes reading stories aloud)

as a woke leftist, i hate tankies because y’all aren’t leftists in any meaningful sense. the only difference between you and libs is which countries whose atrocities you justify.

i’ve read marx. at precisely no point does he say anything justifying the various atrocities state capitalist countries have committed. i think he’s wrong about some stuff, but even if you accept that his word is gospel, tankies are still just people who took leftist principles as an excuse for the imposing the kind of brutal authoritarianism that leftists are supposed to be against.

Exactly. Blaming individuals for systemic problems never gets you anywhere. If you can reduce your car dependency, sure, do that, but don’t beat yourself up if you can’t.

why? so the police can get there and stand around staring at the punisher logos on their phones?

i’m not against this, i guess, but it’s just… less than the bare minimum.

But wait. I have a NSFW subreddit, and reddit doesn’t allow you to upload pictures directly to reddit if you’re on an NSFW subreddit. Right? So how can it be the primary host?

just don’t get married then. christ. we need an /r/arethestraightsokay.

If not, huge missed opportunity.

The burden of proof nevertheless lies with you.

I’d request you cite your sources. I might even click on them.

How many people actually click on the cited sources on reddit and Twitter?

How many people who are horrified by this get their news through reddit or Twitter? Getting news via social media isn’t weird.