@aventiost I never saw them as only precious memories (they can be), but more like pivotal moments that empower their user and I consider moments of ascension as one of them. There's also a bunch of LCs that I wouldn't consider precious memories like these.
This is their lie of trying to present themselves as some "reasonable rational intellectual who responds to logic" because they're tryhard redditards born in le wrong generation, when they're really pure impulsive emotion and can't even read a book.
"If the loony left simply respectfully told me a better argument, I'd change my beliefs" - someone who has never and will never change their opinions because of an argument
The conservative parent both believes that their children are their property, and also that it's the child's responsibility to "keep the family together" lest they run away.
This. You could never cancel me out of a position I've thought through and believe in via negative twitter response. If you followed me for one slice of the cake and dislike the rest, you should have turned the cake around and baught a different one, not my problem
there's people shitting on me when I make literally any take at all criticizing either side, since I have a diverse and huge amount of followers and do not waste energy thinking I can "curate" who decides to click a button. who gives a fuck what strangers think
there's people shitting on me when I make literally any take at all criticizing either side, since I have a diverse and huge amount of followers and do not waste energy thinking I can "curate" who decides to click a button. who gives a fuck what strangers think
sometimes if you’re queer you end up being so laser-focused on being successful that at some point it integer-overflows your family’s doubts and makes them go “okay well now I guess we *have* to respect you”
vaguely recall seeing some university spending significantly more on union-busting, policing, etc... than it would have cost to meet the demands of organizing graduate workers because the issue is never the money; it's the power. they'll happily take this deal; AI won't organize.
With increase in traffic/popularity in alt spaces (despite none of the increased traffic being alt people) comes an incentive for further commercialization, which was obviously aimed at this large influx of people which caused a spiral reducing everything emo, goth etc into merch
Things were already on the decline obviously when it happened but the Scott Pilgrim movie releasing was 9/11 for alt subcultures. Genuinely overnight every alt space was infested in guys with khaki shorts and zelda shirts looking for 'their' Ramona Flowers. It was the death blow.
@MinModulation Whenever I see that fuckass "Raiden" skin for Rainbow Six I feel like a spiritual injury has been done to me. A psychic crime that has chipped off part of my soul.