new reaction meme just dropped

top five worst ways to be found:

5. out

4. guilty

3. wanting

2. lacking

1. by this email

It has come to my attention that I forgot about dead

top five worst ways to be found:

5. out

4. guilty

3. wanting

2. lacking

1. by this email

It has come to my attention that I forgot about dead

ok maybe now is a good time to remind everyone that you need to court military members for your anti-war activism for it to mean any amount of a good goddamn. like. that was a really, really, indispensably important aspect of the anti-war movement during the Vietnam war. That's how you get mutinies to happen. Do not be stupid about this.

Benefits of allying military members: potential to disrupt function, chance to foment mutiny, ability to attain crucial information needed to attain our goals, ability for friendly connections within the force to propagate ideology and give good optics, exciting potential of saboteurs, just having some kind of in with the guys who will be asked to kill you during states of unrest, long-established historic precedent of successful revolutionaries utilizing connections within the armed forces, you might stop the guys from doing the war stuff you don't like

Benefits of ostracizing military members: asserts morally upright character

you don't even get to have a morally upright character to be clear. you get to feel morally superior to another person. that is all you are accomplishing when you do that.

They should invent a falling asleep that is easy

invent a staying asleep that is also easy

they should also invent a waking up that is easy

"at least venezuela lost a dictator" "the good thing about trump's invasion" "maduro deserved it" oh my god some of you are dangerously susceptible to fascist propaganda.

unfriendly and honestly hostile reminder that trump isn't invading venezuela because maduro is a dictator, or because of drug cartels. he's doing it only and exclusively because they have desirable oil reserves and no other reason. reminder that venezuela is a comparatively poor country that will never financially recover from this. reminder that venezuelans are suffering with the bombing and the air strikes. reminder that trump did it to steal from them and no one did anything. reminder that this sets a dangerous precedent and now all trump has to do to invade another country is claim they're in a dictatorship. reminder that trump is a fascist dictator.

this will only be bad, for venezuelans and for all of latin america (and possibly the whole world) in the long run. trump did this not to help the venezuelans or their country, but to steal their petrol and get away with it. and he will. because that's what dictators do.

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For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better. 

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there. 

You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face, until I realized they totally would, and they will eat your face, too!” warns defector from the leopards-eating-faces party

don’t hide this in the tags….

#really important actually#like. it’s so important that we allow people to STOP voting for leopards eating faces#because if you attack anyone leaving the leopards eating faces party when they realize it’s bad#the only support system they’ll have is the people who want them to come back to it#you have to make it possible for people escape instead of considering them forever tainted and impure and inherently evil

The #1 trait of anti-vaxxers is not “they’re stupid” or “they fell for propaganda” but “they don’t know who’s safe to trust.”

The movement is pushed by women, especially suburban moms, because they know damn well you cannot trust doctors. You cannot trust the medical industry, the billion-dollar corporate zone of “you should lose some weight and maybe the pain will stop.” Cannot trust the ones who keep changing diet advice - is it no sugar? No carbs? No fats? Is it dangerous to let kids eat things in wild colors? Food pyramid: good or bad? They cannot trust the BMI chart that says they should lose 75 lbs to be “healthy.” (Whether or not they “should” lose 75 lbs, they know damn well that “healthy” does not describe any part of the journey to getting there.) Cannot trust the ones who keep giving them incomplete and sometimes incorrect information about contraception. The ones who said “that’s false labor; you have two weeks more” 12 hours before they gave birth. And so on.

So they have their kids, and they want so much for their kids to be safe, and the doctors and nurses say: Get them vaccinated.

So they ask: What about if there’s complications? An allergic reaction? Side effects?

And the doctors and nurses say: Get them vaccinated.

This is… not reassuring.

And they ask, My sister-in-law’s cousin had a really bad reaction to the MMR shot and I want to know how I can tell it’s safe for my kids.

And the doctors and nurses say: Get them vaccinated.

Throw in the right-wing/libertarian faction yelling YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO and the insurance companies saying “hey um you need a specific type of coverage for that; we probably cover those vaccinations but you’ll need this special paperwork to be sure” - and then you have the actual anti-vax propagandists yelling some combination of cherry-picked statistics and outright lies, and you get a whole lot of moms willing to say BUGGRE ALL THIS FOR A LARKE.

There is no amount of facts that can fix this. They’re swamped with facts from 300 directions. What they need to fix this is empathy and the kind of connections that lead to trust.

They need to trust that, even as the medical industry dismisses a whole lot of womens’ concerns, in this particular area, they’re right.

Add in the consequences of having a significant portion of your social support network tied up in a particular worldview, leaving it, much less openly condemning it, is really hard and means losing your community support. In a world where the system can’t be trusted to pick up that slack, Moms can’t afford to risk the change - until the cost of staying clearly outweighs the coat of pushing back, not just in general, but for their kids.

Kindness doesn’t just matter because it’s more ethical - it'salso a more effective strategy.

Ice cold takes from a Transgender Woman:

Edited the wording on the first point because too many terfs keep thinking I'm their friend.

This post has given me 80k notes and a blocklist longer than my follower+following count.

Happy 80k to what should be basic common sense/knowledge but is instead divisive because people are either transphobic, hate men, or both.

I think one of the goals of society should be that someone who requires expensive medicine and a lot of care can live an amazing life, the longest life they possibly can, with dignity, even if they have no friends or family or anyone who cares enough about them to help. the goals of a society should be to make life better than if we are alone, society should want life to be as good as possible for as many people as possible, and those goals should account for people not having social support networks.

social life aside, the most hated or ignored person in town should be able to live as good and fair and just of a life as the most loved person in town. survival needs to stop being a popularity contest.

i wish having "any pronouns" worked the way we all think it works

expectation: ppl will get creative and experimental with it

reality: people see it as a goahead to use the pronouns associated w ur agab all the time with maybe a pity-they/them on occasion

why is it sooo hard to conclude essays. I said all that because fuck you thats why

here’s to all the things you survived quietly and privately this year

here’s to all the things you survived loudly, to the dead horses you beat to death, to the shit that makes you scream

the term “feminine hygiene” being used so universally in stores makes me incredibly sad and it shocks me that more people don’t find it frustrating. why can’t we just say menstrual products??? it’s more straightforward! what does “feminine hygiene” even mean??? “menstrual products” doesn’t imply that menstruation is “unhygienic”, it doesn’t imply that you have to be “feminine” to need them… it’s a better term in every way. so WHY is “feminine hygiene” the one companies are obsessed with using!! fuck!

the term “feminine hygiene” stems from a time when menstrual products and similar were classed as illegal, “obscene” products in the US. why are we still using a term invented in 1873. I should not be seeing this term in every supermarket I enter. I’m going to turn evil

this post is for transgender people. I don’t want anyone nasty about people like me touching this post please. if you’re trans exclusionary you can block me and go on with your life. if you’re trans I’m giving you a juicy piece of fruit and I love you