Also very grateful that I’m so 1000000% sure that I want to be with my husband for the whole rest of my life, if I believed in the lord I would say she was good to me
The romanticization of downies is very weird to me.
“Oh they’re so happy!” Yeah because they have an IQ of 34.
People see little clips of the higher-functioning minority being cute online and then feel entitled to massively underestimate the amount of mental, social, financial, and medical resources it takes to raise them.
This isn’t helped by the fact that the parents of profoundly disabled kids often try and offset the (very valid) guilt, disappointment, and burnout they feel by frantically pretending like their lives are great because farming praise for being “good people” and righteously dunking on parents who don’t want that for themselves are the only coping mechanisms they have.
A profoundly disabled child is not a houseplant or kitten, and it isn’t a responsibility that ever ends. The vast majority of downies are not capable of obtaining even a mild degree of independence.
You will be taking care of them until the day you die (and spend the last moments of your life worrying about who will take care of them when you’re gone).
Imagine being 80 years old and still having to heat up nuggets for your 45 year old child, remind them to wash, tell them when to go to bed, etc…
Imagine not being able to do literally anything without having to consider whether or not your downie labubu can join.
Imagine never having grandchildren, or never being able to see your child go to college or get married. Fundamental experiences many look forward to, gone.
It’s not like the cute little clips in the vast majority of cases.
And this is all especially true if you have a male downie because once they hit puberty and adulthood, you now have all of the urges of a horny man trapped in the mind and body of someone with a no impulse control and superhuman retard strength.
It’s all fun and games until your 300 pound adult son who has the intellectual capacity of a turnip whips his junk out in a Walmart and starts rubbing it on the My Little Pony display (I witnessed this once, absolutely horrifying scenes).
All I’m saying is… If you want to be a downie parent - awesome. I wish you the best. I am sure there are plenty of profoundly disabled kids waiting to be adopted and you can put your money where your mouth is anytime.
But I do not blame anyone who does not want that life for themselves and, crucially, recognizes they would not be good parents in that situation.
At the very least, I respect the fact that they’re being honest, which seems to be something most people can’t do when it comes to the disabled.
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Stay in your fucking lane.
We are the LGB...nothing more, nothing less.
A cold, hard line drawn in immutable biology:
same-sex attraction. Lesbians who want women. Gay men who want men. Bisexuals who navigate both without rewriting reality to accommodate ideology.
The rest? They can take their expansionist agenda and get the hell out of our spaces.
We built this on shared, material truth...not on subjective internal sense of self, not on compelled speech, not on the endless demand that everyone else erase their own boundaries to affirm someone else's beliefs.
Decades of real blood, real arrests, real AIDS graves, real bar raids, real suicides from being told our orientation was a sin...all that sacrifice, only for gender ideology activists to colonize the acronym, turn "homosexual" into a slur in our own house, and brand lesbians bigots for refusing male anatomy no matter how it's hormonally or surgically repackaged.
This isn't alliance.
This is appropriation.
It's textbook exploitation: hijack the empathy and moral framework of a historically oppressed group, then shame and guilt them into submission when they refuse to serve as validation props for an ideological agenda.
The gaslighting is relentless...frame refusal as violence, frame boundaries as hate, frame basic sexual dimorphism as erasure.
No.
We owe you nothing.
Our orientation is not a social construct to be deconstructed at your convenience.
It is evolutionary wiring, limbic truth, hard limits etched in flesh and neurons.
You do not get to demonize our "no" because it inconveniences your narrative.
Men are not women.
Women are not men.
Hormones, surgery, pronouns, and tears do not rewrite chromosomes, skeletal structure, or the visceral revulsion most lesbians feel toward male anatomy...no matter how artfully repackaged or how viciously you shame us for stating the obvious.
Stay. In. Your. Fucking. Lane.
The sane among us...the ones who still remember what actual same-sex love looks like without ideological asterisks...are done playing nice.
Done pretending this expansion is progress instead of erasure.
Done letting our flag be used as camouflage for an agenda that sterilizes gay kids, invades women's spaces, and demands we applaud our own obsolescence.
We want nothing to do with your ideological quicksand.
Cut the cord.
Drop the letters.
Take your dogma, your coercion, and your endless demands for affirmation and get the fuck out of our lane.
We built this road.
We bled for it.
And we will defend it...with ferocity, with precision, with zero apology.
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You know what I’ve learned about living the dream? It always comes with conditions. Nobody, no matter how good it looks, is living The Dream without those conditions.
All those people that you see, in their big houses on their fancy vacations. There’s always some bad with it.
My husband leaves for work at 430am. Yesterday he called me at 11 and I was still in bed watching a movie with the girls. He genuinely was happy for me. That’s crazy. If the tables were turned, idk man, I might be a little grumpy. Even though I know that the kids are hard work.
There is so much disturbing evil shit going on, as it always has through time. I suppose I’m naive to assume history doesn’t have to repeat itself. But it’s so grim to live through this. As a species we are so advanced, the technology we’ve created is so impressive, the resources we have are staggering. But to see this power used to protect those who are actively committing genocide and who’ve perpetrated the rape of countless children. It’s so inhuman. It’s so dark. It’s so devoid of any of the beautiful qualities that so many human being do possess. I have never understood this and i never will.
I can’t think of a better analogy for America than the Epstein files.
Mountains of evidence about powerful men raping children.
And the only person in prison is a woman.
I flew to Mexico yesterday with my family & it was the easiest flight I’ve ever been on. I have never met flight attendants so sweet and calm and patient. They were lovely to our kids. Extra seats, snacks, attention. Thank you @WestJet , tell your ladies on ws2606 that they rock
@ronkiewski@WestJet Woah lil buddy, you seem a little agitated for someone who commented on MY post…. Maybe I would or maybe I’d just be grateful I was lucky enough to afford to be in an airport? Hahaha, how bout you shut your fucking Yap, you ungrateful little shit.
We’re being desensitized.
Don’t lose your empathy.
Watching people die on your phone isn’t normal.
Remember to take breaks, take care of yourselves, your loved ones and your community.
@ronkiewski@WestJet I made a rare nice post about a company that always gets shit on but consistently serves me well. Get your negativity outta here, make your own!
I’ve been up since 330am and now it’s 12:44am and I’m suddenly really fascinated by quantum physic? Reality at tiny scales is probabilistic, not deterministic. The universe is inherently uncertain at its most fundamental level. WHAT.