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    3 hours ago, Herzeleid said:

    I need to get around to deleting facebook as well.  Twitter is probably the best social media platform out there. It's simple, not bogged with so many features, the new stories thing was controversial but I actually do enjoy it.

     

    ugh the stories thing really annoyed me. but i really appreciate the fact-checking feature *cough* cuz trump *cough*, it has its flaws, but it's better than any other social media i can think of. the biggest issue for me is the people who use it, but you cant really do anything abt that.

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    16 minutes ago, June Gloom said:

    it's so weird to me how they basically have erased "Party Like It's Your Birthday" from their catalog, hopefully they can someday put out a second record cuz their first one is still so good

     

    yes!!! i thought i was going crazy. i just wonder why? i cant say i miss it tho, it was cute but it got old ngl :coffee: hoping for more songs like eros & apollo or jenny from them in the future

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    “Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”

     

    from the robber bride by margaret atwood. i've never read the book, but this quote lives rent-free in my mind :rollin:

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    2 hours ago, naachoboy said:

     

     

     

     

    the song is not my thing but i am for sure interested in seeing what they release in the future!! also a little sad at the fact that im older than all of them

     

    2 hours ago, KeybladeMeister said:

    CL delayed her album til 'Early 2021.'

     

    My hype has now died...

     

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    we've been waiting long enough :crying5:

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  18. Posted

    3 hours ago, Fat Mike said:

    I don't even know what "cisgender" means. Maybe you can hang around for another minute and explain that to me. You guys all brought up references to gender and identity issues. You use some kind of new language that older people are supposed to totally get. Men are supposed to have more than one category now, too. And that's normal, right? Next you'll tell me that todlers are supposed to choose their own gender identity, and it's my problem if I don't get that. You're right if you think I don't completely understand this new world of identity issues and catagories.  

     

    I'm not saying anyone should reach out to Trump supporters or accept bigots. A lot of them don't want you reaching out to them anyway. They think you're Satan. And you think they're Nazis. I don't know how we can go on as a country if both sides continue to dehumanize each other. And what if you weren't all really Satan, and they weren't all really Nazis? What if there's a lot of gray area and human nature involved? 

     

     

    heres the definition of cisgender. i guess i'm just confused now. do you want people reaching out to each other or not? and i understand that there are "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" types of people out there. theres a lot of gray, that's just human nature. i just think in all cases, peoples' civil rights take precedence over the economy. i get that both/all parties prioritize freedom, equality, and order differently. which is why bipartisanship is not working in this country.

     

    on another note, the "proud boys" are rioting in dc. where are the rubber bullets and tear gas? or is that only for peaceful blm protestors?

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  19. Posted

    4 hours ago, Fat Mike said:

    Beyond forgivness, you could just accept that other people exist, and that they might have different opinions than you do -- even if they stood for the legal deportations of others, etc. You think of all the stuff the Republicans do -- by the letter of the law -- and the only way to challenge everything is by being rational.

     

    I'm sorry your father said that to you. You can choose not to believe him. Sometimes it's more healthy for people to not get along with certain family members. I can understand that. But in a broader sense, forgiveness/acceptance of others is important. If you can't forgive somebody, can you accept them as being a valid human being, even though they may have been under pressure to go along with things that you disagree with? They went along with somebody else's ideas. 

     

    just going to respond to this part bc what i wanna say has already been said by @Mer Boy and @titanicearth (thanks yall)

     

    i think where i'm having difficulty agreeing with you is that i don't have the mental capacity to lecture others on why i should have the same rights as cisgender heterosexual people. it's exhausting trying to reason with those people, who suffer from extreme cognitive dissonance (as well as the dunning-kruger effect) and it takes a toll on you. i could be wrong about what you're trying to imply here, but i just think it's unfair to expect every person, especially if theyre in a marginalized community, to possess the necessary amount of patience and strength it takes to educate bigoted trump supporters. i do not have either of those things. so i can understand why some people do not want to continue to have relationships with friends and/or family who voted for trump. it is not a marginalized person's job to educate people if they choose not to. i appreciate the resources we have today with the internet, but i think we've taken it to an extreme in expecting every person to educate other people on current issues. i just want to exist.

     

    all in all, i agree, the only way to improve our country is to reach out to people and educate, but not everyone is capable of doing so. the article you linked to (idk, i didnt read the entire thing) is probably an example of folks like me, who just do not have the time, or effort, or emotional capability to hang around these people and explain basic human decency.

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  20. Posted

    7 hours ago, Fat Mike said:

    This person refuses to forgive her own family members for their political beliefs. IMHO we have to forgive.

     

    sorry, but wanting to deny somebody human rights is not a political belief. we can disagree about budgeting and the debt ceiling or whatever, but i have zero obligation to forgive anyone -- including some of my own family members -- for voting for a person who does not believe in protecting the rights of marginalized people and refuses to denounce violence and hate.

     

    it takes an amazing amount of privilege to tell others to "forgive" people who actively vote someone into office who seeks to strip you of your rights and encourage bigotry. after my father told me he sees nothing but "disaster and ruin" for my brother and i, his two queer kids, simply because we are queer, and then voted for donald trump, a man who would love nothing more than to see those very words come to fruition, i think i'm allowed to pass on the whole forgiveness thing.

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  23. Posted

    23 minutes ago, Mer Boy said:

    The Biden Campaign has said the first order of business is “escorting Trump out of the White House, if he refuses to concede”. 

     

    imagine being ur first order of business as president being having to evict a sore loser from ur own house..... trump is such a joke. and peoples' unwillingness to see this whole "stop the count" bs (and basically everything else trump has done in his presidency) as fascist is terrifying.

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