just thinking about the time in fifth grade I contemplated fighting this girl because she made fun of my graphic tee that said “hot diggity dog” on it <3
You wanna know why the right is so angry?
Because they control the government and not only have things *not* gotten better, everything is *worse*.
Pretending the left is responsible for politically violent rhetoric is easier than accountability, sooooooo…
Everyone is so anti- being uncomfortable and it’s why we’ll never progress as a society bc no one wants to face what’s wrong with themselves or with the world. Great literature is supposed to make you reflect and feel things you’ve been repressing. That instigates change.
thinking about how growing up we were repeatedly taught how to decipher credible sources online and now people just cite the google ai summary that may or may not be true for everything.
People today use the phrase "its inevitable" to claim "so its ok to discard ethics." I will not. AI is not inevitable. War is not inevitable. Genocide is not inevitable. Climate catastrophe is not inevitable. These are all HUMAN choices. YOU have agency don't pretend otherwise.
this isn’t like a fun celebrity gossip case that people are using to distract from the news this is a serial rapist who just got acquitted and if you think that’s unrelated to what’s happening in the white house you’re a moron
a lot of the things people say “they don’t teach you in history class” was stuff i learned in my illinois public school education. while the quality of education varies greatly across the country i really do think in some cases people just weren’t paying attention