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My journey thru my kid’s Paw Patrol phase via posts from my Bluesky account.

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I have never in my life watched a millisecond of the hit 2010 medical drama House, but the general impression I’m getting of Dr House himself is he’s like if your transition doctor was great in getting you meds and guiding you through surgery but called you unimaginable slurs the entire time

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it's called the Switch 2 because you Switch 2 a cheaper hobby

the fact that the switch 2 tech demo tutorial 'game' costs money and is digital only is insane. remember when every wii came with wii sports for free? do you remember that? i am going to hunt down the nintendo execs for sport

There is not a single game on planet earth worth 70 dollars

I thought it was fairly normal to feel empathy for bad people.

I thought it was common, even.

But after my Elon/Grimes post... now I'm wondering if I was mistaken about that.

I wrote a post about Trump being traumatized after his assassination attempt and a post about his poor adaptation to aging. I expressed sympathy for him in both cases. But I still maintain my white hot hatred of him and wish for him to face consequences.

Elon was abused by his father. Some of the stories are incredibly tragic. Hearing those stories triggers an involuntary response in my emotional systems that I can't stop no matter how much I despise present-day Elon. I also wonder if that abuse never occurred maybe we wouldn't be dealing with this current clusterfuck.

I have never held so much anger towards a single person as I do my brother. But I also see him as a victim of abuse. I know he was once a really good person and he was slowly corrupted. I feel sorry for him. I mourn the amazing person he used to be. And I still love him.

But that doesn't make me any less angry.

I honestly think it's incredibly important for us to understand the people who are bastards who seek to ruin lives. Hitler as a kid wanted to care for his mom who was dying of cancer. Understanding that pain and even relating to it is important for us to not lose the value that they are human. Making them into monsters puts to much space between reality. And he deserved what he got, if not more.

They can be an enemy you want to see destroyed. That you do not want any positivity towards. I think what happens here is that sometimes understanding the tragedies an absolutely right bastard has experienced; threatens their "righteousness of anger." I, personally, do not think because I have context around another person's life it invalidates my own hatred of them. For some though that flexibility is difficult to come to terms with so they lash out.

if you have any empathy for these people ur literally compliant in what they’re doing. i don’t care that they had a “shitty home life” and they just need a hug from their dad to feel all better. they’re sick horrible people who are willing to DESTROY AND END the lives of thousands to add another dollar to their billions

I want to start by saying this was incredibly hurtful.

I really think you need to read what I wrote again because you grossly misunderstood it. Especially the "hatred" and "consequences" part. I can tell you for certain I am still wishing that bullet didn't just graze Trump's ear.

The absolute gall to tell people they aren't allowed to have emotional responses. How do I stop an involuntary emotion? What magic technique do you have because I'd love to end my depression and anxiety right now.

Errol Musk raised a stepdaughter, then impregnated her, and then married her. He literally drove his current wife to preschool and she called him "Dad".

Here is a recent quote from him.

Imagine being raised by that.

This awful person created another awful person. It's tragic. It's sad. And it makes me feel bad.

Understanding the reason someone turned into a monster is useful. This tells me we need to do a better job of protecting children or else we are going to keep making new Elons.

it’s useful, and it’s good to understand, but it’s also important not to humanize these people when they won’t hesitate a single moment to destroy thousands of lives

I think most of us can agree that evil is born from trauma and the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But the reason we call it evil is that at no moment and in no way it should be justified by our society and collective conscious as

And as cruel as that sounds, there are important reasons for this. It because evil won’t hesitate to dismantle said society, conscious and it’s values from within

This is also called the tolerance paradox. It’s an important observation that was born from the aftermath of WW2

Some things should be dehumanized and given no tolerance, to keep them from spreading

It's possible we are working off different definitions of "humanize" but I think there is nothing more human than stupidity, ignorance, and hurting others. Elon is just a human. He is fueled by trauma and ketamine abuse and is lashing out at the world. He desperately wanted people to like him but wasn't willing to put in the work to be remotely likable. Plenty of people overcome their trauma and make the effort to defy their poor upbringing. Elon made a different choice. And he is responsible for that choice. No awful childhood can justify his actions.

I see the lack of humanization as a much larger problem for conservatives. They have taken away Elon and Trump's status as human beings and elevated them to gods. Elon is an infallible Tech Jesus capable of bending all machines to his will. And Trump is the Grand Business Genius who thinks 90 steps ahead and is playing 8D chess to save our country from immigrants and people with pronouns.

I wish people from that side would humanize them more and see they are flawed, pathetic, and despicable. They are squishy sacks of meat like the rest of us.

I will never excuse their actions or decisions. I consider them well beyond redemption. And I wish every day they never existed.

This is probably a semantic debate. I think we are all on the same page that these people suck and need to go right fucking now.

I actually don't think this is a semantic debate, I think that Frogman is right and "it's important not to humanize people who won't hesitate to (effectively) kill people" is, no shit, protofascist ideology.

No matter how awful, how violent, how genocidal, how "evil" someone is, you have to remember that people are human. You have to treat them as humans, as rational actors who are doing things that they believe will achieve their goals, that their goals are founded in a desire to see *their* version of a better world and not out of some abstract demonic drive to be evil.

The second to last poster is fundamentally understanding the paradox of tolerance in a way that would almost be funny if it wasn't so fucking dangerous. One of the attitudes that you absolutely cannot tolerate if you want the world to be a better place is the dehumanizing of you enemies.

You can't do this because it's saying "there is a version of the world in which it is correct to treat some people as other-than-human, and the rules that apply to humans (the right to a fair trial, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, etc.) do not apply to those people."

And that means you're saying there are conditions in which people *can* lose those rights and that's where the whole thing starts. "People who hurt children don't deserve rights/kill all pedophiles > the LGBTQIAs are trying to recruit your kids > queers are all pedophiles because they want to recruit and destroy your kids > trans people don't deserve rights." "Terrorists don't deserve rights > all Arabs are terrorists > you can't do war crimes against a population with no civilians > gazans as young as 4 are hamas > it's not a war crime to bomb a hospital it's a legitimate attack against a terrorist stronghold." "Criminals have violated the law and don't deserve the same rights as the rest of us > crossing the border without permission from our government is a crime > all undocumented migrants are criminals > it's okay to separate criminals from their families and put them in cages and offshore prisons"

Elon Musk is a shitty, shitty person but by dehumanizing him, by refusing to recognize that he is just as human (with dreams, hopes, trauma, longing, love, fear, and family) as you are, you are trying to differentiate him from you. You are trying to say "that's not human. That's not like me, I'm not like that, that's a monster and monsters don't deserve to be treated like people."

And people who think that way are very good at finding monsters. Maybe the monsters who don't deserve rights are all the Republicans in congress. Maybe the monsters are all the pardoned J6ers. Maybe the monsters are all republicans generally. Maybe it's everyone who *tolerates* republicans so it's everyone in red states. And that's how you get people saying "they fucking deserved it" after the Texas freeze the same way people are saying "they fucking deserved it" after the LA fires. "Suck it up, that's what happens when you vote for [my political opponents], you deserve what's coming to you because you're all monsters."

The worst person you can think of, the most genocidal dictator, the most vile racist supporter of apartheid, the most prolific murderer - these are all humans, they are not special, they are not unique, and you would do well to remember it because you're not special either. It's imperishable to recognize the humanity of those people because to do so is to recognize that NOT being like that is a choice. YOU could become like them. YOU could do some great harm in the name of your best vision of the future.

Look around at the world right now. Look at the online crackdowns on queer expression, on trans joy. Do you know how we got to a place where it's easy to ban and hide and silence trans women in the name of "content violations"? It's because of a bill meant to protect children from being sexually abused. "Of course I support SESTA/FOSTA, I'm not a monster like those pervert freaks, nobody has to tolerate sex on their platforms" - one of the major, major tools that is being used to silence, isolate, and harass queer people online was voted in by Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris.

We have to recognize the humanity of the people who do awful things because it is a vital reminder that we, humans, maybe even good people, can easily do awful things ourselves.

Anyway. Absolutely bugfuck insane that "it's important not to humanize bad people" is a take that people will say out loud in 2025.

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Yeah I took a class on the Holocaust taught by a European while I was studying in Europe. The number one thing that he wanted us to understand was that Nazis were real human people who made choices. Not because he wanted us to make the same choices, but because he wanted us to understand that the choices that make Nazis are available to all of us, all the time, and it’s up to us to recognize them and choose not to make them.

That’s the kernel of fighting fascism: Understanding the twists of mind that make a category of people acceptable to torture and kill, and choosing something else. You need to defend those who are being persecuted by fascists not because the fascists are inhuman and acceptable receptacles of violence but because their VICTIMS ARE HUMAN. It is more important to defend humanity than to kill monsters. I’m not a pacifist, but violence—both physical and rhetorical—needs to be a single tool that’s taken up with consideration, and not the thing you’re constantly searching for an excuse to deploy.

Ever since taking that class I’ve been extremely against the sort of pulpy entertainment that portrays Nazis as mindless monsters that it’s morally correct to mow down. It feels righteous. They’re not even human! They’re zombie ghost chittering gremlin things! But that’s exactly what keeps us from seeing and responding to real-world fascism. Nazis are very human monsters. That’s part of the horror of it. If we don’t acknowledge that, it’s harder to remain grounded in the principles that fight fascism.

And I’ll say this: Love for the oppressed will carry you much further than hate for the oppressors. I won’t tell you not to hate, because I think that’s a complicated thing to ask of someone, and means very different things to different people. But don’t let the hate swallow the love.

"it's important not to humanize people who won't hesitate to (effectively) kill people" is, no shit, protofascist ideology.

The whole thing about how dehumanizing people is bad? THAT GOES FOR YOU TOO. YOU. YOU DEHUMANIZING OTHER PEOPLE IS BAD. No matter what they've done. They are human and that's the worst fucking part. They are human and they could've chosen not to be like that. You are human and you could've chosen to actively be like that.

Like, you are not as different from them as you think. You are not an inherently good person while they are inherently bad. We're all making choices. You can make choices that are fundamentally bad while still wanting to do good. They can sometimes make choices that are good while wanting to hurt people.

And just because they dehumanize people they don't like doesn't make it okay for you to dehumanize them back. Dehumanization is always a bad thing. Do not do it.

I can wish that Elon had never experienced abuse without justifying any of the horrible things he's done. I just think it's horrible that ANYONE experiences abuse. Doesn't mean any of them get a pass for hurting other people.

Anyway if you want to hear someone talk about the bastards of the world being sympathetic to the bullshit and trauma they experienced while also not letting them off for a MOMENT about their bastardness, you should listen to Behind the Bastards. It's a podcast about the worst people in the world and history and what they've done and never once have I felt like they were dehumanized and never once have I felt like they were being given a pass. If you can't imagine talking about these kinds of people without dehumanizing them, listen to how Robert Evans talks about these people. Maybe then you'll get it.

If we teach that understanding something is equivalent to condoning it - that studying a thing is equivalent to practicing it - we are teaching people they must not understand the very problems they are trying to solve.

There is no such thing as good people and evil people. There are good actions, evil actions, good choices, and profoundly bad choices. And there are the results of those actions and choices. There are consequences - there very much need to be consequences, or we don't learn to make better choices.

But focusing on the idea of evil people, trying to sift good and evil by bodies instead of behaviors is where the problems start, not where they end.

Willfully choosing not to understand something doesn't make your actions innocent.

Evil starts when you treat people as things. Terry Pratchett said as much in the Discworld. The last few books practically scream it, as loud and as hard as they can-at the heavens, at the readers, at anyone who will listen. He’s right. I know some people-a lot of people, personally, who are awful, awful people. They chose to be that way. Frankly, I don’t like acknowledging their humanity. The things they chose to do to me, and to those I love, are heinous, and dreadful, and unthinkable, and brutal, and have scarred my soul until-or even past-the day I die. But I can’t treat them, or even think of them, as things. Even when I really want (and, gods, so often I WANT, with every fiber of my severely disabled and literally traumatized soul) to do that. Because that’s the first step to becoming like them. And becoming like them-someone who genuinely views another human being as nothing more than my plaything, or target practice, or living doll-is what I will NEVER do. But I have to make that choice. Every. Single. Day. Every minute, sometimes. Evil starts when you treat people as things. And each one of us gets to choose. It’s as simple—and as hard—as that.

lovely character. i need him to finally break down sobbing clutching his chest like it'll stop the pain crumpling to the floor begging God to either help him or let him die

attention joann's shoppers. there is a freak in the yarn aisle buildinf a nest

let me be

Y'all check on your law school friends. The bar is soon they are not okay

Evidence: my husband forgot what day it was last week and I received a text that said "why the fuck did no one tell me it was Friday?"

T minus 6 days until the bar and my husband just walked in a circle around the house for 15 minutes yesterday saying "I do not know the things" and 'stop. Stop dying. Wills are too confusing everyone stop dying"

Update : " everyone just fucking stop owning things. property is stupid and no one understands it. just stop. move to the woods. be free. "

Oh dang y'all blew this up.

For those asking for updates on how the the bar has taken a toll on my husband yesterday a v minor inconvenience happened (he left the keys inside) and he stated "I demand to speak to an attorney"

And then like 20 minutes later he whispered very quietly to the point where I don't think he meant to say it out loud "aw dang I am attorney"

This post always comes round around this time and I want to wish all the baby law students taking the bar in February good luck! You got this!

It's that time of year again where this has started circulating! Good luck baby lawyers!

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.