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guerrillatech:

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ruisa-faa:

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I know people like these probably mean well, but this shit is so condescending. The support for gay marraige in Japan (and LGBT+ rights in general!) is the highest in all of North Pacific, higher than Taiwan, a country that its loyalists would have you believe is the only country in the region with “gay marriage” (It does not provide the same amount of benefits as hetero marriage). I’m not even going to get into how the USA is about to have gay marriage and sex illegalized in much of its territory and get right to the point in the paragraph below.

Gay marriage isn’t even legal in Japan because of the West, specifically the United States, and its continued occupation of Japan, as well as the CIA’s funding of Japanese reactionary parties in the 1950s - 60s (a fact that the CIA openly admitted to in the 90s). Japanese government headed by the LDP that rules against the wishes of anywhere between 55% - 80% of the population’s wants and needs, depending on the issue, is a product of Western stranglehold on the Japanese archipelago and a product of resulting gerrymandering that’s made it hard for the Japanese populace to get politically active. If you want to talk about how gay marriage “isn’t even legal in Japan,” agitate to get the USA out of Japan, because the USA and its puppet government is the force holding back LGBT+ rights, continued reconciliation with Japan and victims of Japanese Imperialism, wealth distribution, and much more in Japan.

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soaringsparrows:

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what-even-is-thiss:

queenwhiskey:

Twitter users will not survive the winter

What do they mean it’s impossible to have conversations there’s at least three different ways to do so here

“It’s impossible to have conversations there” -person coming from a website where DM'ing is now paywalled behind Twitter Blue.

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raginrayguns:

either you’ve been getting good sized raises every year, or youve been getting poorer. That’s what inflation is.

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depsidase:

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stewy:

huge fan of reading and learning, but also an even bigger fan of sleeping and being unconscious.

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thefusspot:

traycakes:

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I want to make this absolutely clear to kids: children didn’t used to be stuck inside the house like you are today. There used to be public places you could hang out. It used to be fairly safe to walk around because trucks weren’t designed to kill children. You didn’t need a car to go anywhere so kids without a license weren’t trapped. There weren’t 24/7 cable news networks constantly scaring parents with anecdotes even as crime was at all time lows and the biggest danger comes from adults kids know not strangers.

It’s easy to ignore old people talking about “the good ol’ days” because a lot of the people saying that shit are racist assholes, but the way society treats kids today really is objectively worse than how kids used to be treated. You deserve better, and you should know that better things are possible. We just need to kill the suburbs and for-profit news.

Parents: “WHY DON’T YOU GO OUTSIDE”

Outside:

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chaumas-deactivated20230115:

chaumas-deactivated20230115:

what would be the funniest genre of music to get weird and revisionist about instead of punk rock

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cicadas:

jellyfishprototype:

[Screaming, gargling]

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