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Arbutus draped in Spanish moss
IF 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 WOMAN 👏🏼 LIKES 👏🏼 BEING 👏🏼 CHOKED 👏🏼 DURING 👏🏼 SEX 👏🏼 YOU'RE 👏🏼 SUPPOSED 👏🏼 TO 👏🏼 SQUEEZE 👏🏼 THE 👏🏼 SIDES 👏🏼 OF 👏🏼 HER 👏🏼 NECK 👏🏼 WITH 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 FINGERS 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 CRUSH 👏🏼 HER 👏🏼 WINDPIPE 👏🏼 WITH 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 PALM 👏🏼 YOU 👏🏼 IDIOT 👏🏼
At night I dream of public transportation networks so efficient they make cars obsolete
One of the many perils of engaging with Internet Discourse is that sometimes you realize after the fact that the person you were responding to is a literal child who has mistaken their first big feeling about a wildly complex adult topic for an informed opinion, at which point you have to just stare wearily into the middle distance like: ah, yes, this is my cosmic punishment for having once also been fourteen and convinced I knew everything.
Like. I'm not saying teens shouldn't have access to these conversations or that they should be forced to identify themselves by age, because the negatives in both instances profoundly outweigh the positives. But I do think that, regardless of age, we should collectively start reintroducing a cultural respect for the idea that some people know more than you; that having feelings about something is not the same as understanding it; and that, while engaging in debate can be a good way to improve your grasp of a topic, this doesn't apply if your starting position is a baseline level of hostility towards anything that doesn't line up with the little you already think you know. There's no shame in being less knowledgeable about something than others - by definition, everyone starts out with Baby's First Opinion! - but you do need to understand that it is Baby's First Opinion. You have to want to learn, and you simply can't do that if you've mistaken knowing that a given issue exists for properly comprehending it.
We are coming. Fascists beware.
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ah the thought of my beloved knight with their hair all messy, armour and entire body drenched in blood... which smears on my face when they grab it roughly to kiss me...
not being able to borrow an ebook because someone else has it on loan is stupid as hell. like babe this is Document. these are pixels.
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