It’s my opinion that like if a white supremacist/Nazi is going to be reformed. They need to do so willingly. The only times I’ve heard of successful rehabilitation of fascists is when they made the conscious decision to no longer be one anymore and seek atonement. People who try to like hug and change fascists that don’t want to change are fucking morons
Correct. I was crypto-facist for a few years, and the people trying to hug me didnt change me because at that point I wouldnt have listened. It was only when I started to see the movement for what it was that I was finally able to listen.
I’m not derailing your addition but I’m horrified you’re only 18. When did you become a fasc?
Yeah trust me it *is* horrifying. I’m ashamed of who I was and I think my only atonement is to talk about how damn easy it is to become one when you’re young.
This is gonna be a long post.
For a little bit of background, I am a mixed race person, half brown and half white. I was raised in a Muslim family and am still closeted around them.
I started to have issues with Islam at around 12 or so, when I first started to get the idea that I might be gay. Now I never would have admitted that was my reason. If you had asked me I probably would have said “logic” or something. Because of that I went hard into atheism and atheist circles.
Now people hate to admit this but ex-Muslim spaces are predominantly right wing. Ex-Muslims often see the left as “too tolerant” towards a religion that hurt them. This was the only community I had though, and I read through everything. I was 13.
The other thing that people hate to admit is that, especially when you’re young, being mixed race is so damn hard. If I acted “too white”, following my mother’s German/Austrian traditions, I was accused of hiding my true nature. But if I acted “too brown” I was just another camel jockey. So I hid my “Indian” customs from others and tried passing as white. Especially online.
So I’m not saying this is all youtube’s fault or anything. I was raised to believe that the brown half of my family was lesser and stupid. And with my hatred of Islam, I believed it doubly.
Then came Anita Sarkeesian. I was watching pewdiepie and from there my recommendations were all set. If I’m remembering the pipeline it was pewdiepie - Philip Defranco - Chris Ray Gun (sp?) - Thunderfoot - Sargon - etc. But I was pretty much acquainted with all of the right wing youtube of the day.
Funnily enough, I found her through Thunderfoot. That got me into antifeminism, and more specifically, GamerGate.
I was primarily on the subreddits KIA (Kotaku In Action) and TIA (Tumblr In Action). Both made fun of the SJWs. I kid you not, I would gleefully wait for “Sanity Sunday”, where the people would talk about how feminism is disgusting, cultural appropriation is fake, the wage gap isnt real, etc. I would scroll through this tag for hours.
I got most of my youtube recommendations from those subreddits. This led me from GamerGate to more fascist lines of thinking, such as watching videos about why BLM is a terrorist organization, why all muslims were evil rapists, and why I was fundamentally right to reject my Indian heritage and follow my “correct” heritage.
From here I delved into “race realism”, and I believed it all. I had to. This was the only community I had felt safe in. One of the fash guys even offered to shack me up at his house if my parents kicked me out for being atheist. I was 15.
To say that again, I was 15 and believed that white was right, blue lives matter, “we wuz kangs”, etc. I never would have called myself a fascist or a Nazi. How could I? I used my brown skin as a token, so that people could point to me and say: “See, we aren’t misogynistic and racist! We have this brown girl right here.” But I believed in all the things the Nazis did. I’m not going to pretend I didn’t. I will never pretend I didn’t.
But then something happened. I admitted to myself, and to a few others, that I was gay. And suddenly, the homophobia that I had molded myself in, it didn’t fit right. I happened to, by accident, click on the reddit thread of GamerGhazi, the opposition to GamerGate. And after a long bout of introspection I found out that they were accepting of gay people, that the things I had been experiencing were common, that maybe, just maybe, we didn’t need a white ethnostate.
I don’t want to be dramatic but that accidental click saved my life.
From there it was a road of recovery. I deleted all my old accounts, made new ones, and started to read leftist theory. I found better friends, cut out old people. So now, just about two years later, I’m healing.
I think that’s everything. I probably got some times and dates wrong because I’ve been trying to move on from it. But if you need more info or anything like that, please let me know.
I mean not to espouse baby boomer rhetoric that shits on millennials and minimizes our real problems but social media really can contribute to general unhappiness and exacerbate mental illnesses, among other things. Social media can be very good for connecting people and learning about new things and perspectives but its negative effects and aspects should also be a point of discussion among milennials and genZ more imo
One notable way this has affected a lot of young people is in a way of body dysmorphia. Last year, plastic surgeons reported an increase of what they call “Snapchat dysmorphia” where people want to get surgery to look like their faces with Snapchat filters on. Among this, it can also aggravate eating disorders for people.
There’s also the instant gratification that our generation has increasingly become used to which worsens our dependence on our various social media platforms and can greatly increase dissatisfaction when we don’t get new notifications or interactions with a post we make. Which may have a negative effect on people’s self esteem when their posts don’t get enough likes or desired attention.
Another thing I think that social media has done is that it has normalized a lot of otherwise alarming and rare things. For example, images of gore or videos of death are just not out of the ordinary anymore. I’m not saying it’s everywhere you turn but it’s just not exactly as shocking anymore because of how common it has become.
Additionally, I think that social media has also normalized advertisements. Advertisements used to be confined in very limited spaces: billboards, television, magazines and newspapers, and radios. But now they’ve become more pervasive and we’re increasingly desensitized to it. I mean look at Instagram, half your friends are trying to. Convince you to buy things under the guise of being an “influencer.” Your favorite youtubers are constantly selling you things and we’ve accepted this as just fairly normal. But imagine what people trying to sell you things looked like pre-social media? It was the Avon lady your mom avoided at supermarkets or the telemarketer you hung up on; it was less invasive and we could opt out.
And don’t even get me started on our data being harvested and used to finetune our advertisements. And this is getting increasingly accurate hence why there are times that you were just thinking about something and bam, you see an ad for it and it feels like they’re reading your mind. Nah fam, their profile on you is just so precise that it can almost predict what you’re thinking and it’s only going to get more precise.
Am I saying social media is flat out bad? No, I mean I’m posting this on a social media website, hoping to reach and interact with people on this matter. But what I am saying is that I feel like as people more directly affected by social media then previous generations, we should really start having more conversations about how it’s potentially negatively shaping our generation’s society and subsequent ones before it’s too late to change things
I love that you’ve brought this up and I really want this to be a big topic of discussion. People who write software and create systems like this are so concerned about what they can do and don’t necessarily think of how that impacts people. The systems work great— exactly as they are designed— and yet the impacts on the brain don’t matter as long as the software gets what it wants: attention.
I have no idea what relationship people will have with social media when they grew up with it surrounding them, to a degree we’ve never seen before. And I wish there were some guidelines to establishing healthy habits, because limiting time on the screen isn’t going to stop people from banking all of their emotions on that screen time. They need to learn how to see social media in a healthy way, and I don’t even know if I do that myself.
I think healthy usage starts with limiting the amount of platforms you’re active on as well as some greater self awareness and reflection or your usage of these platforms.
“Lie close,” Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?”
A wolf goes for a walk in the woods and meets a dog for the first time
The older I get the more fiercely protective I get of younger girls. I was heading into work yesterday and I saw that 12 year old (I mentioned her before, the one who wore makeup) talking to this older man. She’s normally really bubbly but she looked a little more subdued talking to him so I go over and loudly say “Hey sweetheart, who’s this?” And the guys just glares at me and she says “oh um his name is Justin.” And I’m like “Hi Justin, how do you know her?” And he gets nervous and is like “I just saw her jogging and thought I’d give her pointers.” So I just kinda tilted my head and looked at him for a minute. He literally asked me “are you a cop or something? I haven’t done anything wrong.” So I took her to the McDonald’s near by, bought her something and had a talk about not talking to strangers. Low key I’m debating the next time I see her parents (they drop her off at the gym and leave her there for hours) to maybe have a talk with them or something. Idk if it’s my place tho
Just to add because some messaged me saying that I was being a nosey bitch: so a woman who used to go to my gym (and my same university. Like I used to see her at my job and on campus) actually went missing not far from my intersection (literally a 5 min walk away from the major intersection) on may 10 and they found her body literally last week (June 19). Everyone has been on high alert lately so when I saw this random dude talking to this little girl, my brain immediately went into defence panic mode. So yeah call me nosey if you want
This world could use more nosey b*tches.
I’ll stop being a nosey bitch when males stop being predators
Always be a nosy bitch where young girls are concerned. Always be a nosy bitch where creepy old men are concerned
His first reaction was to go on the defensive and ask if she was a cop. HE WAS UP TO NO GOOD AND KNEW IT. That girl he was talking to was 12. TWELVE.
When I was in high school, I dated a guy who had been born without legs. He used a wheelchair to get around (actually he used a skateboard inside the school building, it was easier). He was awesome. He had a great, humorous manner of dealing with people who were uncomfortable with him. And sometimes just to be snarky.
He’s now a motivational speaker, and he once appeared on Penn Jillette’s podcast. I’m not really in active contact with him (we’re FB friends in that way you are with people from the past you’re not really in touch with) but I listened to the episode after seeing him post about it on FB, just to hear what he had to say.
The thing that struck me the most was to hear him talk about how perception of his disability has changed. In the past decade or so, he gets a lot more people who assume he’s a veteran. He travels a lot so he’s constantly in highly visible situations like airports. So a lot of people will approach him, wanting to address him with the assumption that he lost his legs in combat.
This has forced him to develop ways to deal with this. The first time it happened, he had to decide - if someone thanks him for his service, does he just let it go? Let the person go on their merry way, feeling good that they’d thanked an injured veteran? That would certainly be more expedient. But ultimately he decided that he wasn’t willing to accept credit for service he never rendered. So now, when someone thanks him for his service, he politely corrects them and informs them that he was born without legs. What happens next is what surprised him.
Often? The person gets angry with him.
He said he can sometimes see it coming. He sees the person glancing at him, fidgeting, working up their courage, wondering if they should Do The Thing. But they’re very much enamored of this opportunity to thank a veteran, to be a good patriot, so they muster their guts and approach him.
But when he informs them that he’s not a veteran? He’s just robbed them of their feel-good moment. All that nerve-building was for naught. He isn’t a veteran who lost his legs to an IED, he’s just a normal person who’s lived with the difficulty and stigma of his disability his entire life. It’s an awkward position to be in, both for him and the person who approached him.
I don’t know what made me think about that this morning.
yes, swallow that sweet sanitized mainstream content major corporations can safely put their ads on instead of supporting independent content creators
Awfully fast for 1mil. I wonder how many are bots because this really does seem suspect.
jack black being puppeteered by a reptilian: how do you do fellow children?
y'all: yasssss queen.
ARE YALL LIKE??????????? OKAY???????????????? DO YOU NEED HELP IS THIS A CRY FOR HELP
jack black: *is a well known, likeable person who makes good music and has fun and people love him for it, makes a gaming channel so he can have fun with his son*
y’all dumbass motherfuckers: it’s bots and he’s also a lizard man and subscribing to him instead of pewdiepie is feeding into corporations
Jack Black is also a Jewish man and the fact that people are calling him a lizard man is very thinly veiled antisemitism, especially when the same people who are hating on him are people who support pewdiepie, a man known for making racist, antisemitic jokes.
But y'know making racist and anti-Semitic jokes don’t faze his fans enough for them to stop trying consistently defend and deflect away from this man’s problematic shit.
the people who said the anti-semitic conspiracy shit: you are actually vile
yes, swallow that sweet sanitized mainstream content major corporations can safely put their ads on instead of supporting independent content creators
Awfully fast for 1mil. I wonder how many are bots because this really does seem suspect.
jack black being puppeteered by a reptilian: how do you do fellow children?
y'all: yasssss queen.
ARE YALL LIKE??????????? OKAY???????????????? DO YOU NEED HELP IS THIS A CRY FOR HELP
jack black: *is a well known, likeable person who makes good music and has fun and people love him for it, makes a gaming channel so he can have fun with his son*
y’all dumbass motherfuckers: it’s bots and he’s also a lizard man and subscribing to him instead of pewdiepie is feeding into corporations
Jack Black is also a Jewish man and the fact that people are calling him a lizard man is very thinly veiled antisemitism, especially when the same people who are hating on him are people who support pewdiepie, a man known for making racist, antisemitic jokes.
But y'know making racist and anti-Semitic jokes don’t faze his fans enough for them to stop trying consistently defend and deflect away from this man’s problematic shit.
i was playing pokemon blue on stream earlier at 350% speed and i got to thinking
what if the reason nobody in the pokemon world has any good teams is because its considered a dick move to have a proper team comp
like culturally everyone is like “haha pick the pokemon you want! if you’re happy with three geodudes, thats you and your life!” and then you’re supposed to just have a friendly battle with any other pokemon trainers and whatever pokemon they just happen to have
like the average trainer is probably just walking around with a growlithe because that’s their pet, or a hiker has three geodudes because the geodudes help him with hiking. and if this pet owner and geodude hiker meet, you’re supposed to have a friendly battle but nothing too serious
now imagine the 10 year old kid that has six pokeballs on their belt comes up. you’re like “haha, we’ll have a friendly battle!” and you throw out your geodude
and they throw out a fucking gyarados, and it one-shots your geodude
and then you throw out your pidgey you have because the pidgey helps you navigate mountains because you’re a hiker
and then electricity crackles around the gyarados and a thunderbolt flies off of this giant dragon and evaporates your pidgey
so you’re down to your last pokemon. you tell them you’re gonna send out your bulbasaur. the ten year old is like “oh okay in that case i’m gonna pull out my vulpix.” like not only is this kid walking around with an amped-up super dragon, but theyve also got multiple pokemon specifically for making type advantage counter-picks?
this kid’s a fucking asshole! really, kid? what are you trying to prove here? this is a friendly match between strangers for fun! why are you composing real-ass competitive teams? what a fucker!
Well maybe that ‘when two trainers’ eyes meet, a Pokemon battle must follow’ rule was a STUPID RULE, dude, did you ever think of that? Listen, I’m trying to beat the most skilled and powerful Pokemon trainers in this whole country, I don’t want to fight you and your pet Growlithe. I’m just minding my business hiking this trail and you guys keep going “HEY LET’S HAVE A BATTLE” and here I’m going “Hey, listen, no, I’m training for competition, you don’t want this, please, let’s just pretend we never saw each other, I won’t tell anyone if you don’t, please don’t make me send you on a mad rush to the nearest Pokemon center” but you’re already pulling out your Pokeballs and going “hahaha whee battle” and just…
We are all trapped in a really dumb system, okay? I don’t want to do this. Please don’t make me do this. I am literally begging you. My Pokemon get hurt in these stupid street fights too and then I have to heal them, and that sucks, but the worst part is watching your face crumple because you thought we were having fun and I am LITERALLY NOT ALLOWED TO PASS YOU UNTIL I’VE STOMPED YOU INTO THE GROUND. I have places to be. I have other competition trainers to fight. I have this rival wandering around and THAT’S a whole thing. I have maybe 50 coins in my pocket and no, I don’t want to take your coins, okay? You spend that on food for your Pokemon or a cute hat or something.
im just a gay, trans n poly lil spec a' dust in the universe, who's a big nerd with very many 'big ideas' im trying to make true, in my own spoony day-at-a-time pace
goofs, gags, arts, sj n memes are what you'll mostly c on this blog tho.
also:
terfs, white supremacists, antisemites, lgbtphobes, sexists, ableists and all you other kinds of bigots can fuck right off
don't int - just get fucked
also, sometimes I get kinda depressed but I always tag it as #negative - although i have and am doing lots of progress, and am trying to stay positive - and what better way than through solidarity, memes and nature 👍
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also just so ya'll know, for some fuckin reason i can't change my tumbeler theme. i can't even view how it looks. so please don't judge the dunghole that it might be.
i've been unable to view it for more than a year now. supremely tunglr hell-y for sure
