A lot of people are radicalised by suffering, which is a valid and sadly all-too-common experience. But you wanna know what really radicalised me? Softness. Joy. Freedom. I spent so much of my adolescence deeply sad and uncomfortable in spaces that weren’t right for me, navigating a body that didn’t feel like home. Despite many many privileges, and lots of moments of genuine happiness, I often didn’t overall enjoy my life. But then I got gender-affirming surgery. I moved into my own modern, clean, comfortable flat in a friendly, walkable city full of nature and beautiful buildings. I started being able to take care of myself. I keyed into robust local social networks of people who shared my interests in nature, creativity and ameliorating the world. And I am deeply, thoroughly content. It has been incredibly radicalising to realise that, contrary to what I thought for so long, it is very easy for human beings to be happy if their material and emotional needs are fulfilled. So alongside my joy there’s this constant simmering rage. I deserve all the good things I have now, sure. But not any more or less than anyone else. The children being bombed deserve this too. So do the homeless people being moved on by police outside my local supermarket. So do the people starving in famines, imprisoned by immigration systems, brutalised by their employers, their families, the state. All I can do is fight for a world where everyone has these things. It’s a choice not to share them equitably.
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good luck, babe!
happy lesbian day to ms edison, pls get ur shit together girl
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me telling people about my favourite shows: it's so terrible guys. truly one of the worst things ever. it changed my life and I love it more than I love my family. everyone is so evil and awful and horrible. this is my dearest beloved scrunkly he's the worst of all of them. he's so mentally ill and gay (trust). please don't watch it.
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middle is a reference to that one hilson post but i couldn’t find it
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minecraft abed be like: coal. coal coal coal.
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https://frances-931.szhdyy.com.cn/jx/J5vyCLw
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Guys PLEASE stop asking gay couples who’s in the dreamatorium running the simulations and who invents dance pants in 2019 he’s supposed to discover it on his own
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Fascinated by when Jeff describes Britta as "pro-anti". Like that's just two prefixes shoved together with no base! Would be utterly bizarre and paradoxical without context, but we know exactly what he means in reference to Britta! The eternal wonders of morphology!
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*watching 30 year old movie* ah yes, like that community episode
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