• quetzaldilla@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    At the last protest, I embraced a crying queer young adult for over an hour, because they were completely beside themselves.

    They had a mental breakdown because they didn’t even realize they were living with so much stress and fear these past few months.

    And when they finally summoned the courage to show up to their very first protest in their young life, they SO relieved that so many people CARED about that happened to them that it completely overwhelmed them.

    So please and kindly, shut the fuck up.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      A lot of folks forget that peaceful protests are a great way to get people together and doing something, even if that something is initially just catharsis. Even if things escalate to… let’s say spray painting JD Vance oompa loompa graffiti everywhere… forming up at protests is how you can make that happen.

      Thanks for being there. We need more people like you.

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        2 days ago

        And I’ll do it again, and again if I have to.

        They looked about ready to hang themselves, I’m just so glad they managed to hang on for so long.

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      And if we were able to actually EFFECTUATE CHANGE they’d never have to feel that way again. So YOU can kindly shut the fuck up and see about making things happen rather feeling better about the shit going down. Because when they come for you, or your friend, or whoever, you know that hat they’ll say? Fuck your feelings. And by then it’ll either be WAAAAAAAYYYY harder to fix, or completely impossible. I’m more of “stitch in time saves nine” person, not a “oh shit everything has gone to hell just like we’d been warned for a long, long time so now let’s see if they’ll listen to us as we address them reasonably (even though that approach has been ridiculed, mocked, and shown 100% ineffective against these clowns and the Nazis that came before them)” person.

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            2 days ago

            Talk talk talk. Go start a gang then. Make the next Black Panthers. You won’t celebrate little wins for potential allies because your wrath pushes you to demand more. That’s the same productivity squeezing mentality of a Walmart middle manager.

            That is, assuming you aren’t a plant trawling around for dissidents to investigate.

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              1 day ago

              Wow, with this level of hate I’ll just sit back and watch them come for you. Fuck everyone who is just sitting here watching things happen - I HOPE you find out how pointless what you’re doing is!

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                13 hours ago

                I’ll just sit back and watch them come for you.

                I mean, I had no faith to begin with that you would do anything but sit back. That’s why my advice was to get active instead of talk.

                Fuck everyone who is just sitting here watching things happen

                I’m used to reading, “go f*** yourself.” but this may be the first time I have read “go f*** myself.” Grabbed this for you to help you watch 🪞 (* >ω<)

                I hope you eventually find joy by not obsessing over other people. Lead, don’t dictate. (-ε- )

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                With all due respect (none), you’re literally worse than useless. Maybe you can collect a check from the CIA, since you’re doing what they normally do (actively harming discourse in politically left leaning spaces) for free.

                Additionally, if that is what you classify as hate, then maybe your skin isn’t thick enough to actually do the hard work of fixing shit, of taking the power back. You’re probably better suited to activities that are far more subservient, things like boot taste testing, or nazi apologia.

                Your reactionary bullshit isn’t helping anyone.

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                  13 hours ago

                  Nah. Guy moderates three places here (at least on that account). At least posting and commenting on Lemmy can make him part of useage statistics. I’ll take the growth and laugh at the absurdidty.

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                  1 day ago

                  And your “do nothing” attitude is also of no help. So sounds like you and I are the same.

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                    21 hours ago

                    What “do nothing” attitude? That’s your attitude, not his. Stop projecting and do something useful for once in your life.

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            2 days ago

            I ain’t scared, but it looks like you are.

            That’s what they want, so that you will not even try.