I can top-down define my own lines and limits, I can’t top-down define someone’s subjective internality So step one is always to believe them And step two is I don’t care
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @mssilverstein and
In practice, in the real world, this generally results in a third option (you will notice most of my personal-experience examples fall under “then avoid me responsibly, coward” and/or “that’s not how people having substance use disorders works”),
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @mssilverstein and
because the people alleging conflicts of interest based on harm are wrong about how the world fundamentally functions as a system of systems that even exists
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @mssilverstein and
But if someone tries to make me responsible for “your very existence means my life is on the line”, I can’t skip acquiring the backstop that is “I hear that. Iff so, die expediently” as an option before arriving/in order to arrive at “That’s not even true”, it’s not what I do.
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @mssilverstein and
Yes I am royally fucking sick of the people who *do* "belong", who matter, who sit in the center shooting bullets outward at the margins, saying "Prove to me you're not an existential threat to me, that we can coexist" Why don't YOU prove to ME that we can coexist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
Sick of centuries of scraping and begging and cajoling and persuading saying "No, my existence is of benefit to you, master, it's rational for you to let me in, killing me will only harm yourself" How about getting some actual fucking power and being the one holding the gun
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
My bitterness is that white straight Christians have NEVER had to persuade anyone else to let them live, to let them stay on the boat, because they can make themselves useful They're always the customers, never the employees They walk through life knowing they matter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
If the immigrant narrative is such a positive thing, like Amy Chua says, if having to "earn your place on the boat" makes you the best version of yourself, then why not avail them of that blessing Why shouldn't they live in fear and have to prove their usefulness for once
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
This is why it's very hard for me to give two shits about white Americans' "despair" in the face of globalization "What if the Chinese take over the world and they decide we're useless and they don't need us and they leave us to rot" That's just chickens coming home to roost
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
It reaches into all corners too - there's a pithy, simplified but still funny saying: "Homophobia is the fear that gay men will treat you [straight men] the way you treat women"
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Rod Dreher freaking the fuck out about women joking that cishet men are no longer "necessary" for reproduction thanks to modern medical technology Because he's spent his whole life deciding queer and trans people can be discarded for being "unnecessary"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RiffChick and
What's kind of remarkable with so many right-wing Christian groups in the Untied States, is that it feels like they have spent zero time, or somehow less, thinking about the actual meaning of life.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Because clearly, he landed on the almost Darwinistic "be born, reproduce, die"
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