remember back when people said bernie shouldn’t be president because he raised his voice when he spoke
I don’t remember that, would you like to explain?
election season produced some takes that are reminding me a lot of this situation, wherein something completely innocuous/outright good (being openly indignant about systemic oppression, displaying a user’s preferred pronouns) is smeared by liberals who are trying to associate said good things with bad people, thus drawing a connection that anyone who supports these good things is actually a bad person
they got it with bernie because he yelled, and abusive men also yell, therefore anyone supporting bernie is supporting abuse. the angle taken here is that hexbear users have pronoun tags, and hexbear users are bad, therefore you should be suspicious of anyone who has pronoun tags. they’re just dipping into casual transphobia as a very limp attempt at an own
I hate that they made me feel that way …
And on that day, no personal responsibility was taken.
Blahaj Blast
I play my post in attack mode and end my turn
When you post so hard you make a common and routine part of speech fry someone’s entire limbic system.
no more half measures walter
Personally a big fan of the three-quarters measure myself.
my measures start at 1.5 and that’s why I’m like this
God damn, go touch some grass if you “tighten up” at the sight of pronouns.
Someone find that tweet where someone complained about Bernie Sanders because he reminded her of when her father got angry
I had a similar childhood, but this is a ridiculous take. If you’re projecting your trauma onto strangers, you might want to switch your focus into therapy and not politics, that’s just not healthy
Thatcher’s “there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families” worked for killing unions so why not stretch it to justifying imperialism?
Look, I grew up in a seriously abusive household which caused me constant psychological distress and I can relate to hearing the key in the front door being the “Oh shit, here it comes… I wonder what shit is going to come down on me today” feeling.
What I cannot tolerate is the idea that this is in any way close to what the US and its shitbag allies inflicted upon Afghanistan.
Does this person seriously believe that the counterinsurgency work, the rampant human rights abuses, the kidnapping and literal torture, the fucking war for God’s sake, etc. inflicted by the NATO axis upon Afghanistan is in any way comparable to an abusive household?
Do they think that the issues of domestic violence didn’t occur in Afghanistan during the war and the occupation, like they were somehow put on pause, rather than the war and occupation compounding the trauma that abused children in Afghanistan faced and continue to face today as a consequence of the war?
Have they no idea how domestic violence rates increase as a direct result from war and occupation? Or do they just have no compassion for other victims of abuse?
Did their psychologically abusive father happen to use depleted uranium weapons on them, for fuck’s sake?
This is just gross and a classic case of a victim not only appropriating the trauma of other survivors but using that appropriation to silence the very victims whose trauma they are appropriating and they should be disgusted in themselves for doing this, if they had any capacity for humility or shame.
To steelman what you’re replying to, I can understand finding it difficult to care about another tragedy, even one as large and affecting as many people as that, when you have your own personal tragedy to deal with on a daily basis.
