It really shouldn’t be like this and I think it did permanent damage to me, I’m like a skittish indoor cat now. Been trying to enjoy the outside more but I don’t think I’ll ever be at that level. My parents made me so anxious and nervous with their paranoia and worries.

Yup, my gen x dad wouldn’t even let me take a walk on our street just to get some exercise and fresh air, because he thought I would be kidnapped and SA’d. Kidnapping has never even happened in our town before.

Meanwhile, teachers, cops, and even the fire chief were caught messing with minors or having CSAM on their computer. But I was “safe” at school! And “safe” at home with my abusive step mother. Gen x chud dads are really something else.

Glad I’m not the only one who thinks this way. It seems to be so common to not have physical descriptions, that I was wondering if this was normal and I was the weird one for being so visual. There are some people with aphantasia, after all. I can see if they want you to use your imagination, but then you can’t just suddenly mention something half way through the book that totally messes up my mental image! Ugh. Books are basically mental movies playing in my brain while I read. It’s jarring to have to recast suddenly in the middle of the movie.

Late-stage capitalism really has this neo-feudalistic feel, where the Kings and Lords (Musk etc) have a bunch of concubines with bastard children who have claims to the throne or whatever. Fuckin weird timeline.

Joe Biden has succeeded in creating more wealth for the rich than any of his predecessors has ever managed, and this is why he, not Trump, will have the full backing of the bourgeois class.

So this is basically like, petit bourgeois (Trump) vs. mega bourgeois (Biden) right? Do you think Trump might actually go to jail for that reason? Because the mega bougies are more powerful? (or are they?)

For a garbage station, that looks very clean! They must have a good system for it.

Sigh, my government could never…

Capitalist fascist USA with its so-called “threat” from communist China and nukes… are we literally in the Fallout timeline?

feetsies :3 :3

So was the laptop thing real? I assumed it wasn’t because I only ever heard QAnon types screaming about it. But that was when I was still in lib land.

My friends are teachers and they constantly rant about how atrocious their student’s behavior is and they blame millenial “gentle parenting” which always rubs me the wrong way but idk what to say to them about it. Well, it’s rather that they’re saying people are trying to do gentle parenting but getting it wrong and doing “permissive parenting” instead. But like, I’m pretty sure their behavior is a result of deteriorating economic/social conditions, not because they’re “iPad kids”. But they’re the ones with direct experience so I don’t feel right arguing about it with them. I don’t spend time with kids all day and talk to their parents.

Also I have a lot of school trauma from being undiagnosed neurodivergent so I never know if it’s just me being triggered by their teacher-like behavior or if it’s a legit annoyance with the way they talk about children.

“NO LIVES MATTER/764 – IDIOLIZES DEATH EXALTING IT WITH GODLIKE ESSENCE THAT CARRIES OUT THE PURIFICATION OF ALL MANKIND THROUGH THE NIGHTMARE OF ENDLESS ATTACKS”

This reads like a real life cult of Bhaal worshippers wtf… it’s hard to wrap my head around that something like this exists.

Me too, I got one for Christmas and it’s as easy as plugging the USB charger into your PC and just copy paste your epubs and PDFs. I love it.

At least some of the comments have some sense.

Wow that’s freaky and beautiful. Reminds me of biblical angels.

Ah yeah the ND double-bind lol. I once wrote off a male friend because I thought he was being “creepy”, but it turns out he’s ND too and just impulsively says weird shit to be funny. He’s actually quite hilarious. We’re like best friends now that I understand him better.

The way I go about it is I always give benefit of the doubt at first, then communicate boundaries clearly, and if the person crosses it again knowingly after I communicated very clearly, that’s how you know for sure they’re a creep. Like for that guy I would have said something like “I get shoes are your special interest and all, and that’s great, but now that I know you have a feet kink, and you want pictures of me wearing shoes… it’s a bit weird, you know? I don’t wanna do that”

And if they say oh I get it and then stop, then it’s fine. But if they keep pushing then you know they’re being a sex pest and you can tell them to fuck off.

Lmao that literally gave me anxiety until I read the spoiler. I have a problem…

Ik it’s a joke but when stuff like that actually happens it triggers my rejection sensitivity sooo bad and it made me into such a lurker lol. I like, never post online.

I used to be like that for a while and the only thing that gave me the final push was things that debunk all the anticommunist lies/propaganda, and also debunking capitalist realism (the “human nature” thing). For me it started when I read real history instead of the shit they teach you in school. For an American radlib, “Lies My Teacher Told Me” is an excellent start. Zinn’s history of the US is also extremely revealing. You have to get to the point where it’s like, “Wow, everything I know about the world/history is apparently the opposite of what actually happened.” That’s when I got genuinely curious about reading theory, then realizing it makes soooo much more sense than the liberal capitalist realist mythology that everybody is taught and just accepts.

It’s also important to note that it’s hard to shove books in somebody’s face and hope they read, given everybody’s attention span these days. This person has to be genuinely motivated and curious to hear you out. Emotionally I was in a state of deep despair over the bleak liberal reality that I was living in. The contradictions were undeniable but I literally could not see a way out other than total oblivion for all, since that’s the logical conclusion to that ideology. With my way of thinking, it was impossible to continue that way. Something had to change. Sorry to say, but that’s what it took for me to finally make the leap. Now with what I know, I’m embarrassed it took me this long. So when you’re trying to reach these people, make sure they’re actually willing to change their mind in some way. For an American this can be emotionally difficult stuff, so if they have a big fragile ego you might not get very far.