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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Exactly. You must treat them collectively as a threat, but treat those around you based on the things you know about them.

    Like my uncle is a conservative and racist. I don’t give him space for either, but I do know that he’s only like that because he 1, likes to feel clever, 2, he’s kinda dumb, and 3, he gets his info from fox and his rich, asshole friends. So he’s mindlessly parroting things he’s heard others say so that he can feel like he gets it, whatever “it” is. That doesn’t magically make him safe, though. He will act based on his shitty thoughts, and that makes him dangerous.


  • …I think you missed the part where Palps was the leader of both sides. Neither side was good, it was literally pointless conflict for the purpose of giving Palps power and the strongest army in the galaxy.

    The Separatists are greedy capitalists that were brought together after the Trade Federation’s attempted “blockade an entire planet and kidnap their queen, forcing her to give us what we want scheme” failed. Yes, the republic wasn’t great, but the banality of status quo politics is a far cry from totalitarian dipshits who only care about their profits. A lesson that the current world is demonstrating quite nicely.









  • Black people’s lives are treated with less sanctity and respect than white people’s. Images of violence done to black bodies is normalized and spread to justify further violence and spread fear. I’m not “trying to look away”, I’m trying to denormalize the murder of a black child.

    If this was a white child, their face would be blurred. This moment of fear and evil would be kept away from the public out of respect for the family. Their family wouldn’t need to fear stumbling across the photo of their last moment just so the public can learn about their dark society.

    Yes, we need to confront our dirty secrets, but that doesn’t conflict with the desire to respect the victims of brutality.