btw if u don't wanna be a girl u can just not be a girl. if u don't wanna be a boy u can just not be a boy. likewise for being a woman or a man or any gender that has ever existed.
there's no test you need to pass or license u need to hold to trans your gender - you can just decide one day that u feel like doing something different. if ur waiting for permission, i'm giving u permission. go be happy.
For my transition, the idea "I would be happier living my life as a man" was far more helpful to my journey than the question "am I truly a man in my very soul" or whatever. It doesn't have to be that deep. Your body is yours. Do with it what you want. Be who you want to be. Less pressure on "who you were made to be" as if that is some kind of immutable force. If you think that way you'll never stop questioning yourself.
I hate that as Indigenous people, we have to slowly explain the concept of LandBack to basically every colonizer.
Like no we're not going to just throw you out, or put you in camps, or any of that shit. We just want to be able to take care of our ancestral land and be the ones in charge of protecting it.
Like I know these people were raised with a colonial mindset but after a while I just start to lose sympathy.
Like oh you're worried about having your home violently ripped out from under you?? What a fucking tragedy.
I wasn't gonna add to this, but like, no, I wanna add to this.
What will change for you, Whitey McWhiterson, if LandBack takes place?
Not a whole fucking lot.
You might be incentivized to switch to less-polluting modes of transportation, such as biking. Gas might be discouraged.
The environment might be prioritized.
You might become a citizen of, say, Mi'kma'ki instead of the USA.
Your kids might be taught an Indigenous language in schools.
History class would be a lot more up front.
But your day to day life? Very little will change. You're not gonna be kicked out if your house. You're not gonna be rounded up and put into a camp. You might be required to have the minimum basic decency towards the environment. It will be the Sovreign Peoples running the show.
But you, Joe Shmoe, will be left alone to live your life.
Which is more than we can say your people did for us.
Even if I was to look at it in a completely self centered way and set aside all the numerous correct moral arguments for Land Back: as a settler who isn't rich or powerful, what do we even have to lose? I don't own anything! I don't own land or a house, am I really going to get bent out of shape about trying to get the land back to its people —who, btw, stewarded it a thousand times better than the ghouls in charge now? Like I already have nothing under the current system, why wouldn't I fight for a better world when it's not like I have a stake in this one? If you, as a white prole, are worried about Land Back, it's entirely the white supremacy talking, much like people who defend capitalism without owning capital.
Yeah you've got a really good point here. The colonizer mindset is poisonous. Poor people of all non-Native races and classes - have absorbed the idea of Land Back as a threat through cultural osmosis.
And I won't deny there are those of us who are angry. I'M angry. Some days I'm so furious about the injustices still being done and people blaming us for our own genocide that it's all I can do to keep moving. There are those of us who would wish the comeuppance upon those who have oppressed us for generations - who would want them gone. Honestly? I can't blame them. That anger and resentment is fully justified and valid.
But we, mostly, know how it felt. We know that a lot of modern people also aren't here by choice. We have enough empathy to understand that pain and not want it to be inflicted on others, even if the thought of eye for an eye might give us temporary catharsis, even if people as individuals still treat us like shit to this day.
Our cultures are built on empathy and understanding, for better or worse.
Poor people, even whites, should be the greatest ally. Y'all have nothing to lose but your chains. It's the capitalists - the money-hungry resource pigs who want to bleed the Earth for all she's worth until there's nothing left - that we want gone, so we can nurture her again.
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How is bnha anime of the decade…… they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969………
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
