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tumblr rediscovering this post in 2025:

sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA

Ooooh.

Okay, so.

I'm not quite sure what Josie means here. I get the vibe, I think but.

I think that kindness, and goodness, are not attributes people have but endeavours people undertake.

No person is Good or Kind; rather people consistently practice kindness and goodness. Moment to moment, day to day, one has to choose to do the good thing, the kind thing, even when one is tired and angry and miserable.

And the thing is, sometimes you will fail.

Sometimes you will do the cruel thing instead of the kind thing, because you were tired and angry and miserable, and the challenge of turning the other cheek, of offering your hand, of holding your tongue, was simply too fucking great for you to meet that day.

Because you are not a Kind Person. Nobody is. That's not how this works. You are, I hope, a person who tries to do kind things, and good things, and if you are both diligent and fortunate, then perhaps you succeed most of the time. And people will think of you as being kind and good, because that is how you behave.

But that doesn't make you kind like it's a trait like being short or thin or bald, it just makes you a person who does kind things more often than not.

sort of?

the main thing i was thinking is that capitalism thrives on the working class being isolated. capitalism doesn’t want us to have third spaces because they don’t want us to have community because community leads to solidarity and solidarity empowers the dissenting.

capitalism wants kindness to be performative because it should be just enough to maintain the social contracts of a well functioning society but shallow enough that community cannot form.

think about the relationships that people have with their neighbors in an apartment complex. those aren’t communities.

think about the relationships that people have with the corporate co-workers. corporations thrive on trying to force third spaces in work environments through things like having happy hours and promoting “company culture”.

capitalism doesn’t want you to have any kind of community if you can’t afford it.

real community requires genuine kindness and that’s why capitalism doesn’t want us to be genuinely kind.

As far as I know, she is the first woman arrested bc of this law. The law requires that the trans person be warned to leave the bathroom by a state official, and then if they stay they are guilty of trespassing after a warning.

So like, me, my gf, others just piss and nobody asks or tells, but this young woman sent a statement about the law to over 100 FL lawmakers so they would know she was coming, the cops were ready for her, she brought a reporter and went in anyway and spent the night in a men's jail. She is out on bail, and is hoping this will inspire change of the law. But if found guilty, and the law is upheld as constitutional, then she could spend up to 60 days in a mens county jail.