digital, riots, activism

"y'all might want to consider like a 10 min delay on your live feeds so that cops dont use your stream for intelligence and live planning"

mental health, socializing, boundaries, vulnerability

"the only people who get upset about you setting boundaries are the ones who were benefiting from you having none"

{art by marloes de vries}

kindness, socializing

"dont let the world fool you: consistent kindness is the most quietly powerful thing

if you ever want to engage in villainy and undermine the social order: be especially kind to the people society has rejected. care about the ones the world would convince you dont 'deserve' your kindness.

i genuinely mean this when i say to you: the ultimate act of rebellion is insisting in compassion and grace in a compassionless world"

emotions, self love, mental health, boundaries

"i wanna share something my therapist said about anger that blew my mind:

"your anger is the part of you that knows your mistreatment and abuse are unacceptable. your anger knows you deserve to be treated well, and with kindness. your anger is a part of you that LOVES you" "

acab, self love

"you might think you're a piece of shit but at least you're not a fucking cop"

mental health, socializing

"first rule of mental health:

learn to distinguish who deserves an explanation, who deserves only one answer, and who deserves absolutely nothing"

antifascism, free speech, discrimination

"think about why it's illegal to hire a hit man. all you're really doing is speaking and giving someone money.
it is legal to speak
it is legal to give someone money
even if they actually complete the job, you're not the one who committed the murder
so why is it illegal to hire a hit man?
could it be because inciting violence is not protected under free speech?
and if that's the case, why should free speech protect nazis advocating on genocide?"

activism

"If you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete it will ruin the concrete and make it unable to set properly which is good to know if you wanna resist something being built, French anarchists used this to resist prison construction in the 80s"

arguments, socializing, fascism, digital

"i feel like counter-trolling is an essential skill that kids online aren’t learning and it's kinda worrying

like back in my day, the day of online forums, learning how to trick someone in to getting themselves banned was an essential skill. if you could tell someone was a chud, you would ask them short, leading questions and watch them get frustrated and post longer and longer rants until they said something that would catch a mod'’s attention and get them banned and/or at least publicly humiliated.

and guess what? that's the exact same tactics the alt-right use now. these people are exclusively acting in bad faith. every interaction these people post online is done with the intention of getting someone to respond to them so they can screenshot the massive paragraphs of text and laugh

so, what's the solution?
dare ‘em to post dick pics.

don’t acknowledge the content of the stuff they post. if you see someone trying to engage you in bad faith just dare them to post pictures of their penis until they either get frustrated and leave or get frustrated and do it. either way they lose.

this is the tactic used by the fans of a podcast (that i haven't listened to) called the Chapo Trap House, and 4chan'’s /pol/ users fucking HATE them. they hate Chapo Trap House and think they're crazy because Chapo Trap House fans refuse to engage in meaningful debate and repeatedly demand dick pics. they get frustrated and leave. it works.

Some of you never used your position as a mod on an a series of unfortunate events forum to
get a racist troll to post evidence of their tax
fraud and it shows

..that second comment is oddly specific and I'm a little scared
"

socializing, calling names, language, fight club, fragile masculinity

"when people call you a snowflake just remember they're quoting fight club, a satire written by a gay man about how male fragility causes men to destroy themselves, resent society, and become radicalized, and that tyler durden isnt the hero but a personification of the main character's mental illness, and that his "snowflake" speech is a dig at how fascists use dehumanizing language to breed loyalty from insecure people"

housing, activism, fake bees / wasps / hornets

"if anyone has a shut off notice"

arguing, socializing, boundaries

"meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.

you take a step toward him. he takes a step back.

meet me in the middle, says the unjust man."

self defense

"you cant truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of great violence

if you're not capable of violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless

important distinction"

self compassion

"you dont have to be grateful that it isnt worse
[...]
somebody, somewhere, always has it worse than you. there is one person on this planet that has it the worst of all, and that person is NOT the only person allowed to be unhappy with their lot"

guilt, self compassion, trauma, past

"forgive yourself.
you did the best with who you were at the time."

resources, lgbt, binding

"make your own binder"

socializing, invisible problems

"the worst thing you can do to a person with an invisible illness is make them feel like they need to prove how sick they are"

society, self compassion, mental health

"just a quick reminder that a society exists to serve the people within it. there's no such thing as a person being "useless" to a society, only a society that is useless to a person"

consent, language, rape

“Consensual sex” is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as “non consensual sex”, which there isn't. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You wouldn’t say “breathing swimming” and “non breathing swimming”, you say swimming and drowning."