this really gets to why I have zero fucking patience with people shrieking like uneutered cats about how we’re intellectual cowards for not staying at a party where everyone is shitting on the floor and demanding I look at them while they do
Imagine showing up to a party and bringing your friend the screaming floor shitting guy and then complaining about why you aren't invited to parties anymore.
Exactly. I'm open to guideance and suggestions and ideas - from people who are invested in helping others grow towards more inclusive, just and empathetic communities online and in person. Go ahead and help me find better words to use! New concepts! Hope! But, take your hate and go fuck yourself.
Absofuckinglutely this.
You really know how to paint a word picture, Faine, good lord 😂
Not to mention the argument for staying is to counter the ideas but those without them are often basically filtered from the main convo
I don't owe bad actors anything
They can consider me a coward. That’s fine, doesn’t affect me none. I’m a smellcoward for spraying freshener and going to another room when my cats take mad shits. They can keep bravely sniffing each other’s shit for hours and hours until they wonder where everyone went and why.
Wanna see what she gets up to when she’s not in an “echo chamber”? And can we update whatever TERF block list we’re all using? x.com/jemimajoanna...
I recall checking in with myself whether I’m in a bubble (or echo chamber) over the UK riots. And yes, I’ve chosen to not be around certain people but I’m not unaware of different viewpoints? I just don’t accept I should listen to any fucker who questions another’s humanity bsky.app/profile/elsi...
And now you understand why I left Portland.