#sometimes i report ppl over it too if they're shitty in other ways too

[yardsards]

hot take but you all NEED to stop telling people to kill themselves.

yes, even *those* people. i don't care if you're talking to some monster who puts live puppies into a wood chipper for fun, don't say that shit.

because mx. puppychipper isn't gonna be affected by your words.

but you know who might be affected? some innocent third party reading the words you said on a public website.

because telling people to kill themselves says "suicide is a punishment for being a bad person. bad people, upon realizing they're bad, should simply commit suicide instead of working to atone for their actions."

and that is NOT a message you wanna be normalizing to anyone, but ESPECIALLY people with depression (who, let's be real, make up a higher than average chunk of this site's userbase). whose mental illness is already telling them that 1: they're an inherently terrible worthless person no matter what they do 2: death is an appealing option.

is reading "kill yourself" once or twice gonna make them do it? nah, probably not. but reading it multiple times a day every day is gonna make their mental health worse. it's probably not good for your mental health to be saying that kind of thing, either.

just knock that shit off. the world is already so hostile to people with mental illness, and managing mental illness and unlearning unhealthy thought patterns is already so difficult. you don't need to be out here making it worse.

#eliot posts #suicide mention #animal abuse mention #i guess #ive said similar before and i just said this in the tags of another post but it deserves its own post #i am fucking TIRED of reading this shit so often #i frequently block people for saying it #sometimes i report ppl over it too if they're shitty in other ways too #i luckily don't have the ''i'm a worthless piece of shit and deserve the death penalty'' flavour of depression #but i do have the ''life is endless suffering and i want to euthanize myself'' variety of depression (or. technically bipolar.) #and reading the phrase kys Feels Bad Man w my mental illness #and i have froends w the first type and i worry about them #and one of em has told me it does affect them quite negatively to read kys #so yeah! fucking stop it!

[beardedmrbean]

Sorry i hope u don't mind if I rant to u for a second and this isn't directed at you I just feel like you'd be very non-judgmental ab it

I'm just really tired of seeing shitty takes ab abortion coming from libertarians and ancaps n righties always like "u just wanna kill babies" when actually I just want the choice to not have my body be used for something I can't provide for!!! It's not fair for me to bring a kid into the world if I can properly care for them!!! I dont want strangers raising my kids either!!! Everyone acts like people don't care ab the potential life being inside them when most ppl who get abortions feel bad ab it!! Sometimes they grieve for the life they had to lose!!! I hate people who think like everyone just loves abortions! I hope they stun their toes every day for the rest of their lives!

I'm sorry and I hope ur having a good day!! Thank u for posting content that makes me smile a lot!

You're good on my end, may or may not have noticed I'm conspicuous staying out of most of it, publicly at least had some good private conversations don't say anything that locks in a position people could pin on me publicly always ends in a fight.

Both sides of the issue are deeply entrenched with their beliefs primary ones being

'that's a human child you're talking about murdering' and

'no it's not even if it's viable it's still only a fetus until it takes it's first breath, my body my choice'

tons of variations on those, riff on them however you like

Not really any wiggle room in either of those arguments either, good lord this would be so much easier if there was.

And like you said there's people that are just torn up inside because they got one, not something they wanted but they couldn't see any way out (be where those crisis pregnancy centers come into play, yes I know some of them are downright dishonest but you got ones like the one in portland that got trashed that's run by a left wing pro choice advocate who take in people that exercised their choice and that choice was to give birth, jane's revenge only will support you if you choose the choice they want you too.) - end tangent

I know a couple of then, one I imagine is just in tears with joy over roe being overturned, other I couldn't say.

You're going to get assholes on both sides of this, I'm sure you know this, tuning them out isn't easy either but the assholes are similar in scale to a lot of the different activist groups out there they don't represent the community at large.

Not likely to have a pro life person drive you to the clinic and sit and wait while the procedure is done, it does happen though, but you will find most of them if you're experiencing grief over your choice will gladly give you a shoulder to cry on.

Do the 180 on the odds of a pro choice person taking you to one of the pregnancy centers, I'd actually think that has a higher chance of happening than the other, and when it's all over and the kid is out you're likely to find the bulk of people will be happy babysit and such.

Same as everything else in the news media though, the people yelling the loudest get the most attention and they tend to be assholes too.

Stay away from social media and even news reporting about it, you'll start to notice there's a great big stretch between the people on either side that land on the news.

Hopefully this makes sense.

Good people outnumber the bad ones, by a very wide margin. They just come off as hard to find because by the very nature of being a good person they're not advertising themselves, so you've gotta kinds find them too

#anonymous