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oh yeah, please feel free to slap me repeatedly in the face and then be all sanctimonious about how being slapped is the alternative to being repeatedly kicked in the crotch, and why am I so upset about being slapped when it's my only alternative to being kicked in the crotch?
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Y'all cared about "me too" right up until you had a sexual harasser who wasn't the progressive.
Y'all cared about diversity in 2016 when you told me the Jewish guy was white and that you had this woman who wasn't the progressive. Now of course to make sure you didn't get a progressive who was also a woman, you first badmouthed Sanders and then you badmouthed Warren with old fashioned misogyny.
This isn't about any of the noble shit you were peddling, this is about the convenience of blocking someone who actually proposes something sustainable for a goddamn change. And then you have the gall to say that if we don't buy into your system and vote for your homophobic conservative, we're the problem, not the myriad other reasons this coming election is rigged for a Trump victory.
Fucking assholes.
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@Thaminga This hits so many personal buttons. This is so much of my childhood, where all the RIGHT choices were carefully picked out for me, and clearly wanting something else was morally wrong and to be enforced by both shaming and guilting me. I have no clue if other people are having *their* issues stomped on as well, but this is incredibly difficult for me.
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@Leucrotta Yeah, I've had... a very similar experience myself, even if it came with less explicit shame and guilt and more "fuck you we're doing this anyway and you're gonna like it".
The eventual impact in the face of *gestures* all this shit however, is obviously pretty much identical.
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@Thaminga It doesn't help that I have my personal baggage from the accident, but my childhood - and I figure this has to be really widespread - was all about "you WILL stay in one place, you CAN'T go anywhere else or focus on what YOU wish, because we want you focused on this material which WE consider vitally important." The adult world has already made its decisions and selected its favorite students; it's the child or teenager who has to live with consequences of those decisions.
I figure the very conditions in which this is playing out (and I'm all in favor of quarantine lasting, just it's emotionally difficult for me and I assume a whole batch of people), mean we're all on edge and we're a lot more likely to be upset.
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@Leucrotta @Thaminga
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wow.
I don't have much to add to this, apparently having an idyllic childhood by comparison.. but /wow/. *nuzzles you both* 
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@Leucrotta Thank you for perfectly writing out my feelings on this bullshit. x.x