“Parents say it takes a village but they never want to listen to the villagers.”
– some whiny meme
By definition, the entire village raises the children. If you’re not taking equal part, you’re just a stranger with an opinion.
Spare me your hero fapping
Patriarchy-brainwashed men will do anything, up to and often including decades of jail time, to avoid the long, slow, hard work of solidarity. Of standing arm-in-arm and building a movement with their most marginalized peers. Especially if putting in the work means making soup and watching kids instead of doing something flashy and satisfying in the spotlight. Especially if it involves taking direction. Especially if putting in the work means they have to do something hard every single day instead of just one time.
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antithought
Today’s shower thought:
What if everything we assumed about the axiomatic virtue of a free and open marketplace of ideas only held true before the advent of antithought?
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7 billion earthquakes
Yup, and that is literally the entire game of growing up. Understanding that everyone around you also has those feelings. They really are that big for other people too. And when grown men don’t get over the need to force others to feel their feelings as loudly as they do, you get presidents threatening to nuke entire civilizations.
Tell me I’m not gonna make it, because only spite is gonna keep me going now
