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Anime character: *a strong, musclebound character who got their skills through years of training that loves their friends and is dedicated to justice throughout the universe*
Person who uses it as their avatar online: *rejected from the local planet fitness due to their obsessive sniffing of women's towels*

people who go to movies early to watch the previews are perverts who love advertising

tired: seattle is too rainy and dark
wired: seattle is not rainy & dark enough

- dense housing is an environmental issue (greenfield development is bad)
- the talking point "empty house count exceeds homeless population" and its alleged solutions "repossess the houses and give them to the homeless" would uproot people from their community and move them out to the middle of nowhere where they have no access to services and the structures need repairs
- public housing has been underfunded since reagan at the federal level, so we need to enact local solutions as a patch.

Thank you god

I never learned a word of Hawaiian in school, spend years homeless in Hawaii as a Native Hawaiian under imperial US capitalism working as a social worker/teacher paid starvation wages

But the Kanaka Maoli are taking our country back. Our *successful* prevention of a 1.4 billion dollar desecration (TMT) for 150 days has ignited, protests, strikes, shutdowns from Hawaiian airlines to the hotel industry, with Hawaiian flags, language spoken proudly one again

most of the time, the most productive way to deal with a 'rude' interaction is to assume the other person was doing what they thought was appropriate and move on.

when we, as white people, feel like a person of color is addressing racism 'rudely'? we need to deal with that perception on our own. anti-racism *is* disruptive, because racism — which benefits white people! — *is* the norm. to disrupt the normal state of affairs is good when the normal state is bad. a conflict discussed out in the open is a strict improvement on a conflict we, as white people empowered by racism, can ignore; and just because white people can ignore a situation doesn't make that situation 'peaceful' or 'civil'.

just handle the emotion you're having, and take the criticism. don't let your kneejerk feeling of 'that's rude!' stop you from *listening,* because that kneejerk rejection is there in order to keep you from listening, to keep you invested in the racist norms.

politeness norms differ from place to place. one example I see discussed a lot is that in New York City, the polite way to interact with strangers is to take up as little of their time as possible. if you come from a politeness culture that sees chit-chat as a way of affirming a stranger's humanity, that can make your visit to New York City rather upsetting; everyone seems so 'rude,' which is to say, short-spoken and directly to the point.

most 'rudeness' is like that encoutnter between a New Yorker and a tourist: two people, being polite as they understand politeness, but because their politeness norms mismatch they both walk away thinking "how rude."

most politeness norms are okay, by themselves. there is nothing wrong with most politeness norms; there's just some context where following that norm will make you seem rude.

however, the white people 'politeness' norm where people of color aren't allowed to make us uncomfortable in any way? sucks. we need to be made uncomfortable.

i would rather die in real life than hear another doo wop christmas song

me: ah a cute ghost pokemon let's check out the pokedex entry
pokedex: its cute look comes from the face of a child who was killed in their sleep by this pokemon. if it senses a moment of innocence and calm in someone, it will pursue them in their nightmares until they die of a heart attack. according to folk legend, if you hear this pokemon's cry past midnight, you will die in seven days.
me: ah

@wintgenstein after seeing this, i agree with Richard Dawkins that there is no god

Hey, yo, people! If someone tells you to use a given set of pronouns for them, USE THE GOD DAMNED PRONOUNS. I don't care what your opinions on the pronouns or the person who wants them are, use the fucking pronouns they want you to use.

@avi meow