Magician [he/him, they/them]
I hate how Colbert introduces this nightmare. And then the video of course references trump.
“trump is using hitler’s language”
Like it’s a warning? It’s not meant to be funny - just another thing for libs to remember shitty talking points that barely held to in 2020.
I also feel this anxiety in other parts of my life too.
I try to reply to everyone and I’m afraid it makes me come off as intense or competitive (like I need to get in the last word) when I’m really just trying to say I heard and read what you said. Or I try to make it clear I’m not upset with something or ignoring them on purpose.
My parents didn’t pay much attention to me growing up, and I think that’s something that affects the way I interact with people. I don’t want people to feel like I’m ignoring them or that I don’t care, so I try to reply when I can.
On the other hand, that’s overwhelming, and honestly untenable. Otherwise, I would reply to my texts, emails, etc.
I don’t think many people are built for all the ways we communicate these days.
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”
If you can’t leverage an action to get something, what good is that action? How valuable is it if you gain nothing from withholding it?
If the president won’t change to get votes, then why bother voting for them at all?
Why engage with the electoral system if your only viable choice is to vote one party?
How is this system any good if a single election can destroy democracy forever? And finally, why would anybody say that this is a good system worth defending?
I think the weirdness comes from putting a value on it. Like saying one is objectively better than the other.
I like guys who are more often cast as extras or thugs/goons. I like something about average, like it lets me appreciate the unique features because I’m not using a rubric based on society. They’re invisible to the eye of sauron, you know?
Che was hot though. I don’t care - imagining that charisma and ambition focused on you is such a fantasy. Like
