Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

@KitRedgrave Thank you. <3

@KitRedgrave This is why it's important to fight the conditioning. It's difficult, it's fucking difficult, but it's important to try, try, and keep trying.

"But what about the bad actors?"

These are very persistent thoughts that easily breach our defenses, and it's important to remember that we'd be trying to address the conditions that produce bad actors, not work towards punishing them.

@KitRedgrave A few days ago, because of someone who we thought was a close friend betraying our trust and abandoning us, Valerie ended up spiraling into thoughts of being betrayed and abandoned by close friends, and ended up fracturing. I didn't take it well, and had a meltdown, also in part because I wasn't ready to become the system host so suddenly.

Unfortunately, the result of this is that we're making a decision to be a lot more careful and selective about who Val can give her trust to, because repeated betrayals like that is just not sustainable.

@KitRedgrave This is why we always at least try to reach out to people, even if it may not likely work out.

Honestly, this world is just wrong, we live in a world where our trust is broken right from the crib, betrayal is considered a part of life, and we end up hardening our hearts so that it doesn't happen to us.

Yet I can't help but think we've lost much more of ourselves than we can imagine living like this.

Seriously, I've lost count of how many leftists in general end up becoming persecutors because in their fight against fascism, they've neglected to kill the police living in their heads.

Give no quarter to genocide, that means;

• Deplatform fascists, racists and bigots.
• Defund and prosecute the police.
• Boycott their products made by the above parties.
• Attack the funding of fascists and fascist enablers.
• Also boycott any products and services by those who support genocidal states, or fascist movements.
• Obliterating monuments to colonialism and fascism.
• Supporting the people targeted by fascism and genocide materially.
• Protecting the cultural affects, monuments and artifacts of those targeted.
• Abolishing the carceral state, and all associated entities.
• Pushing for social services that help the underprivileged, disabled and marginalized survive and thrive.
• Redirecting funds from the military into said services.
• Pushing for legal aid and protections for the marginalized.
• Listening to the voices of the marginalized over the egoist in your head
• Refusing to double down when called out.
• Calling out people who make any suggestions towards social darwinism, or otherwise rhetorics supporting eugenics.
• Calling out nationalism, especially palingenetic ultranationalism.
• Calling out any rhetoric othering people for their immutable qualities.
• Calling out any victim-blaming mentality.
• Killing the police living inside your head.
• ESPECIALLY killing the police inside your head, and refocusing your ideas of justice around corrective, restorative and, if possible, rehabilitative justice.

Also, anyone using the events of Israel and Palestine as an excuse to be racist to, or otherwise antagonize the people of either parties when they are victims and/or have nothing to do the situation will earn and instant block from me.

Seriously, if you do this, fuck you. Try stepping back and consider yourself in the boots of those suffering, instead of your own pseudo-intellectual masturbation for once.

It should be pointed out that Netanyahu is a shitty politician that can't even do his job as prime minister right, and does not represents the interests of Israeli folks.

It should also be pointed out that Netanyahu is a genocidal psychopath, and should not be praised. And neither should the state be by anyone, nor the people who support the state be supported or even acknowledged.

Y'all being cavalier about the state of China genociding the people of East Turkestan and boycotting Mulan over what one of the actresses said about the Hong Kong protests, while waxing poetic about compartmentalizing the opinions of Hollywood actors out of their roles from their acting roles is really making me side-eye you a lot. JFC

@Jaded_maple905 @glitter on the other hand, I think it's irresponsible to engage in specific pieces of media if you know that some of them is complicit in genocide.

By consuming that media, it's still giving indirect support to those behind it and what they stand for.

@KitRedgrave I wouldn't even say that I am, considering the meltdown I have a few days ago